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RANDALL "RONNIE" MC KINNON
Randall (Ronnie) Mc Kinnon 71, of Caledonia, Minn., died Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. He was born October 27, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan to Early and Kathryn (Webb) Mc Kinnon. He married Janet Johnson on Feb. 4, 1967. Ronnie was a diesel mechanic prior to his retirement. He had a love for fishing and hunting. Ronnie also enjoyed spending time with his family, loved to watch his grandkids play in all their school sports an also loved watching professional football on television. He devoted much of his time and energy as a caregiver to family members, including his wife who passed away four years ago. He now can be reunited with the love of his life Janet. Their love leaves an everlasting imprint in our memories. Survivors include his 3 children, Linda (Dan) Sheehan, Caledonia; Denver (Kim), Farmington; and Robert (Pam) La Crescent; six grandchildren, Ally and Shane Sheehan, Renee and Helen and Dillon and Paige Mc Kinnon; 1 brother and 1 sister and many nieces and nephews. Ron was preceded in death by his wife, a brother and his parents. A short prayer service will be at 12 pm on Saturday November 12 at the Calvary Cemetery in Caledonia MN. McCormick Funeral Home is assisting the family and online condolences may be given below or may be mailed to P.O. Box Number 84 Caledonia, MN. 55921.
Randall (Ronnie) Mc Kinnon 71, of Caledonia, Minn., died Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. He was born October 27, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan to Early and Kathryn (Webb) Mc Kinnon. He married Janet Johnson on Feb. 4, 1967. Ronnie was a diesel mechanic... View Obituary & Service Information
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Born again Horch back from dead
Posted by Bill Buys | Sep 28, 2018 | Bill Buys, News & Advice | 0 |
FEW people today will know what a Horch is, but in the 1930s it was one of Europe's most respected marques – and in a case of history repeating itself, it could well be back by 2020/21.
Now Audi is reportedly planning to resurrect Horch as a super-luxury challenger to Maybach, Bentley and Rolls-Royce.
Prussian-born August Horch worked for Carl Benz from 1896 before setting up his own company in Zwickau three years later.
His first cars emerged in 1901 and in 1910 he had a legal stoush with his former partners in Horch Automobil which precluded him from using his own name.
Determined to keep at least a semblance of his name, old August chose Audi – a Latinised version of Horch.
In 1932 Horch and Audi kissed and made up, and with fellow German brands DKW and Wanderer, set up the Auto Union motoring giant, which, in 1964, was acquired by the Volkswagen Group.
Among the group's many pre-war achievements were the Silver Arrow racing cars, developed by Ferdinand Porsche and Robert Eberan von Eberhorst, and driven by the stars of the 1930s, among them Bernd Rosemeyer, Hans Stuck, Tazio Nuvolari and Ernst von Delius.
The Horch brand was regarded as one of Germany's finest.
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel owned a rather special one: a stunning 951 cabriolet with body by Erdmann and Rossi.
Talk at the moment is that a range-topping A8 with a Horch badge will be introduced when the Audi flagship sedan gets a mid-cycle update in the next two or three years.
Like the Maybach S-Class, the Horch A8 will have individual touches like unique wheels and a Horch badge on the C-pillars and it might be powered by a 6.0-litre twin-turbo W-12 sourced from fellow VW Group brand, Bentley.
Audi, well aware of Daimler's disastrous experience when it tried to present Maybach as a stand-alone brand, will probably take a more cautious line with Horch.
People with long memories will likely look forward to its launch, since Horch was a revered name in its day.
It produced Germany's first eight-cylinder car in 1926, then dropped its four-cylinder line and went on to concentrate entirely on large, distinguished eight-cylinder models, which soon became synonymous with elegance, luxury and technology. By 1932, Horch had 44per cent of the over 4.2litre German car market.
Its big cars has straight-eight engines of up to 5.0litres and the more compact ones had 3.5litre V8 power.
From 1927 until 1940, about 40,000 eight-cylinder cars were built.
How many survive is not known, but it seems likely the brand will do a phoenix and come back to take its place in the elite circles before long.
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Paul's Heart for Service
The first year anniversary for the ADRA Op Shop in Chinchilla has been bitter-sweet.
As the Op Shop volunteers celebrated one year of offering help to the local community on 26 June 2019, they were missing a very important volunteer who has been instrumental in the start-up and success of the ADRA Op Shop – Paul Anderson. Sadly, ADRA and the community in Chinchilla lost Paul to an ongoing illness just a few days before on June 22.
The Chinchilla Op Shop is one of many legacies that Paul has left behind. Together with his wife, Yvonne, they have invested hours to ensure the Op Shop is making the most meaningful impact in the local community. With a wealth of experience from working in op shops previously, Yvonne and Paul were eager to help the manager, Dom Chiappalone, start up the Chinchilla Op Shop.
"They are just absolutely fabulous," says Dom. "Paul would take home a box of shabby brassware and he'd bring it back the next day and it would be shining and beautiful."
Left to right: Paul, Yvonne, and Dom
With his experience working for op shops previously and a knack for advertising, Paul became Dom's go-to 'right-hand man'. "Paul handled all the social media and did up all of our flyers for sales," Dom says. And, three days before he went to hospital, he pitched an article to Chinchilla News to celebrate the Op Shop's first year of business.
In his article, which was published posthumously, Paul's reflections on the Op Shop's first year give a glimpse into his heart for service: "During this time we have been fortunate enough to help many members of our community through troubled times. We have been well accepted within this community, for which we are most grateful. We look forward to continuing to serve the district for years to come."
Paul (far right) invested hours of volunteer time into the Op Shop
Paul's passion for the community and his terrific sense of humour will be greatly missed by all who visit the Chinchilla Op Shop, but especially by those he volunteered with.
"He was a very energetic man," says Christine Salmond, a fellow volunteer. "He was very much into helping out here."
"Paul was dedicated," says Dom. "He was just a good honest person who liked helping the community. He saw a golden opportunity here."
On June 30, the big end-of-first-year sale that Paul helped to organise and promote, was a huge success.
Paul's memorial service was held on Friday June 28. Yvonne is still serving her community by volunteering at the Op Shop every day.
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Q: Can HDD Caddy reduce drives speed? I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop, running dmesg states that:
dmesg | grep SATA
[    6.785571] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 6 ports 6 Gbps 0x5 impl SATA mode
[    7.161172] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf261c000 port 0xf261c100 irq 26
[    7.212366] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf261c000 port 0xf261c200 irq 26
[    7.627191] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[    7.627209] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)

And both my HDD and SSD are capable of working at SATA 3.
However doesn't matter which one I put in caddy instead of my optical disk, both will work at SATA 2 and my system's load average goes up weirdly.
So my question is that, is it possible for a HDD caddy causing this problem?
Optical bay [SATA3] = -|
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Hard Disk   [SATA3] = -|

As I know Caddy is just like a bridge and doesn't know or do anything about SATA2/SATA3, so why when I put something in optical bay it works at SATA 2 and not 3?

A: No, the caddy is not lowering your data transfer speeds.
The issue you are having is actually very common and is by design.  Some laptops, especially in older ones, suffer from this.  Manufacturers often use a different SATA controller for the optical drive.  Since, optical drives cannot transfer at SATA3 speeds, they save money and use a SATA1 or SATA2 controller for that port.

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Jackie Tempo and the Emperor's Seal
by Suzanne Litrel
Jackie Tempo and the House of Wisdom
Suzanne Litrel
Jackie Tempo and the Ghost of Zumbi
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." With these words, the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu might as well have been thinking on the adventures Jackie Tempo, who is on an unusual quest to find her parents.
Jackie Tempo is a lonely teen who lives in a remote New England town. She mourns her parents who died in a car crash when she was young. In the mansion she shares with her eccentric Aunt Isobel, Jackie discovers a mysterious text, which transports her back in time to Ming China. Jackie is stunned to find herself on a Portuguese caravel-and the ship's doctor is her father, David! The year is 1521. Thus begins Jackie's journey through time and space, at turns an exciting and harrowing adventure.
Along the way, Jackie encounters a Buddhist monk, a strong-willed concubine, and a runaway girl who has been falsely accused of stealing the Emperor's seal. Together, she and Jackie forge a bond in their unusual quest to find their way home. However, they quickly discover that a darker force is at work here. It is up to Jackie and her allies to prevent a serious disruption in the time-space continuum.
Suzanne Litrel is an award-winning World History and Economics educator. In the classroom and through her writing, Suzanne brings global history to life through her extensive research and personal experiences. She grew up in Singapore, Brazil,Taiwan, Italy and China; she currently resides on Long Island, NY with her family.


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Dating Again – Embracing a New Social Environment
The Associated Contributors
Many people say that it's a couple's world and indeed, it may seem that way when you have been widowed or divorced. For those who are newly single the perception of a "couple's world" is especially daunting. Baby boomers who are choosing to date have to learn to embrace a new identity and navigate a new social environment.
After spending decades as a couple, many people face overwhelming feelings of isolation and loneliness when they find themselves suddenly single. People who are now 50 and older most likely met their spouses organically, at work, school, or a social event. When boomers were in college, computers took up entire rooms w and electronic socializing and dating were the stuff of science fiction. Needless to say, dating has changed. Social media and online dating services have made people more accessible to one and other which may be a good thing for people are ready for a new, healthy relationship. But to be ready, it is important to do the work of mourning the loss of your prior relationship and becoming comfortable with yourself and your identity in your "new normal." Skipping this step and moving too quickly into dating can make you more vulnerable to being exploited or manipulated.
New Dating App Shows What Baltimore Daters Hate the Most
Bad parking jobs are the second-most hated thing among Baltimore Hater app users. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
The Hater app defies a common convention of online matchmaking tools by asking not what users like, but rather what they loathe the most. Here in Baltimore, the company finds the most common things users can't stand are misplaced keys, bad parking jobs and that gut-wrenching "Two Girls, One Cup" video from 10 years ago.
Baltimore Is the Best City for Single Men
With 125 single women for every 100 single men, Baltimore is the U.S. city where (heterosexual) guys have the best odds, according to NerdWallet.
Baltimore Is Great… For Single Men
Map via Jonathan Soma
Whenever Baltimore made it onto one of those "best cities for singles" lists, I felt confused. Those rankings did not jibe with my personal experience–but hey, maybe I was just unlucky. But a new Forbes article has cleared up some of my confusion: It turns out that Baltimore is great if you're single… and a heterosexual man.
Over the Threshold: The Mystery of My Dad's Missing Love
Holly Morse-Ellington
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Baltimore writer Holly Morse-Ellington believes her newly divorced father has a super serious girlfriend–unfortunately, thanks to her dad's close-lipped nature, her best information source is a tiny barking dog.
My parents' divorce has been a long road for me. Maybe it's not my road to travel. But that's the thing about family. No matter how carsick their problems make you, you're stuck in the backseat. Hands tugging at the child safety locks activated on the doors. Head hanging out the window and panting, "Are we there yet?"
The Worst Dates Were Probably All My Fault
Jeff Dugan
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Writer/television producer Jeff Dugan's been on some great dates, but he learned more from the bad ones.
Everyone has few good horror stories of dates that went awry. As I look back on mine, I have to admit the problems seemed to stem from some oafish action or oversight on my part. Here are my top 10 worst dates, in chronological order. Please, learn from them.
Weirded Out: He Objects to Friend Dating Ex
Al Whitaker
Hey Whit:
I hope you can help me on this one. Last week I was hanging out with friends, and I started talking to a girl, Haley, who used to date a friend of mine (he wasn't there at the time), a good friend named Tyler. Haley is friends with guys who I know and she sometimes socializes with them, so talking to her was pretty normal, at least not unusual.
I didn't know her very well when she was going out with my friend, but I thought that she was good-looking, and she seemed like a fun girl. Anyway, after talking to her for a little while, I felt that we had sort of a connection, and I wanted to go out with her on a date.
Just to make sure, I talked to my friend who used to date her, and he was pretty weird about it. I was really kind of shocked that he couldn't figure out why I would want to date her since she was "somebody who was the ex-girlfriend of a friend of yours—a good friend." Why would he even care? Am I missing something here?
Missing Something
Dear Missing:
"Why would he even care?" My reaction exactly. So let's consider what you might be missing here and why he would care.
Maybe Tyler treated her in a way that would embarrass him if you knew about it. Maybe Haley treated him in a way that would embarrass him if you knew about it. Maybe something happened between them that Tyler doesn't want you to find out. You can use your imagination, but let me give it a jump-start.
Depending how long they were together, Tyler could have become bored with her; perhaps he reached the point at which Haley felt under-loved or under-appreciated. If they had dated for a long enough time that he started taking her for granted, Tyler could have become cold and unfeeling and checked out. If he thinks that such behavior might be unflattering to him, Tyler might not want you to know about it.
Contest Update: Love at the Cat's Eye Pub
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Just one more day to submit your love story for the chance to win dinner for two at Pazo and a bottle of Roederer Estate "Special Cuvée" Brut NV from Bin 604 in our "How I Met My Honey" contest! Read the moving story, below, about a courageous cancer survivor finding true love when she least expected it.
Love at the Cat's Eye Pub
I had a better chance of being struck by lightning or being attacked by terrorists than I did of meeting a guy in 2010. I was a divorced, middle-aged woman who was bald and missing a body part that made my sweaters look decidedly uneven. Thank you, mastectomy and chemo.
I was also puffy. My oncologist even admonished me about the weight gain. But it was a side effect of my job, not the drugs. I have to eat a lot as the food editor for Baltimore magazine.
But, amazingly, I did connect with someone that year in a most unlikely place—a Fells Point dive bar. My friends convinced me that listening to the afternoon blues bands on Saturdays at the Cat's Eye Pub would lift my spirits. It was worth a try.
It did help distract me until that summer when I went through another surgery for reconstruction. Trust me. We're not talking body beautiful. We're talking just feeling whole again.
Soon, I was back at the Cat's Eye. This time, looking like a deranged poodle as my hair grew out in a weird corkscrew style. People were polite about it. I tried to ignore my new look.
That was when I met the bass player for the band Nothin' But Trouble. He was from Delaware. I used to live in Delaware.
We soon became Greg from Magnolia and Suzanne, formerly from Old New Castle. It was a greeting we shared with a smile during the band's once-a-month gigs. But we were ships passing in the night. He had someone in his life. I was still trying to recover.
One evening, much later, fate intervened. We ended up sitting next to each other at the bar before the band played. The reporter in me kicked in: "So what's your story?" I asked.
And he told me. He wasn't just a musician. He was a special-ed teacher, a dad, a son, a brother, and a really fascinating guy. And he was unattached.
Baltimore Dating for Dummies
Marion Winik
Now that over fifty percent of U.S. marriages end in divorce, there are more single people in their thirties, forties and fifties than ever before. What does this mean? Where will it lead? Is this a problem to be solved, or a phase in the development of a new social order? I have no answer to these questions but I do know this — there are only two single men in Baltimore and they both have girlfriends.
Let me explain. In 2009, when I arrived in town newly separated, helpful friends pointed out two fellows I'll call Monty and Elliot. Monty was a dashing silver-haired photographer known for his elegant cocktail parties, Elliot a clever bartender in horn-rimmed glasses who was also a sportswriter. I cast my gaze in both directions but didn't end up dating either one of them.
Five years went by. Many more marriages ended. Numbered among the most recent crop of emerging singles is my fetching friend Strawberry Shortcake, a wide-eyed Girl Scout type fifteen years younger than I, hence not as scarred by the dissolution and depravity of the 1970s and 80s. This past Saturday I had the honor of taking Strawberry on her first night on the town as a single woman.
I am sad to report that it started with Monty and ended with Elliot and both Strawberry and I were home in bed by 11.
Plans for the evening were conceived when I received an invitation to one of Monty's famous soirees, an event I assumed would be teeming with romantic possibility. When I asked Strawberry to come along, she readily accepted. In fact, another friend had already suggested she go. Five and half years later, Monty remains one of Baltimore's leading men-about-town.
I suited myself up in black leather pants and boots; Strawberry appeared in one of her usual Little House on the Prairie ensembles, many of which feature gingham and shawls, yet have a weirdly sexy effect. The party was congenial enough, but Monty had a girlfriend in the kitchen. There was at least one other eligible man there, though even from a distance he appeared gloomy and tormented; it turned out he was the "Hot Neighbor" of Lauraville whose very recent marital breakup had already gone out over the wires. I realized this early in our conversation and exclaimed, "Oh, I know who you are! You're the Hot Neighbor!"
He looked confused. When I explained, he brightened for a moment before sinking back into his bitter malaise. "Well, maybe I will be soon," he said.
With the possibilities chez Monty so quickly disposed of, I suggested to Strawberry that we hit the bars and see what might be available. Having recently attempted a similar reconnaissance mission with another cute young divorcee, Rainbow Bright, I decided to skip Hampden and Station North.
Just a few weeks prior, Rainbow Bright and I had hoofed it through 13.5 Wine Bar, the Hon, Fraser's, Holy Frijoles, Joe Squared, Metro Gallery, The Depot, Club Charles, and several no-name spots on Howard Street. We turned up dozens of hipsters barely over their acne, two drag queens named Ellen Degenerate and Miss Construed, a bunch of my students from the University of Baltimore, and, briefly, John Waters, but even the open-minded and dauntless Rainbow Bright could find nothing of concupiscent consequence. At 1:20 a.m. we finished the last of our vodka-sodas and called it a night.
Baltimore is Either Great or Terrible for Single Women
Readers, I'm confused. Last year, Kiplinger's rated Baltimore one of the best cities in the nation for singles. Hooray! And then today we learned that Cosmo has deemed Baltimore the nation's fourth-worst city for single women. Boooo. So what gives?
I have a couple of theories to explain the disparity:


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Proportional counter studies of electron capture to positron emission ratios in light isotopes
Campbell, John L. (1967) Proportional counter studies of electron capture to positron emission ratios in light isotopes. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
PDF (scanned version of the original print thesis. Edited version, 3rd party copyright removed)
The Introductory chapter of this thesis comprises a brief review of the theory of nuclear beta decay, with emphasis on electron capture to positron emission ratios in allowed transitions. Reasons for interest in the ratio of K capture to positron emission are discussed, and the techniques which have been employed to measure this quantity are outlined. A summary is given of the available experimental data for Isotopes of low atomic number. There have been few measurements of K/β+ ratios In Fermi decays, and few in decays where recent calculations have suggested t.hat Inclusion of atomic matrix elements In the amount. The need for such measurements, and also for measurements at very low atomic number where, as yet, there is little accurate theoretical informatlon, is emphasised. The proportional counter techniques used by the author to Investigate gaseous electron capture sources of low atomic number are described in the second chapter. Different types of continuous flow counters designed to minimise the "wall effect" are discussed, and methods of overcoming the difficulties arising from the short half-lives and weak electron capture Intensities of the Isotopes of Interest are outlined. Two chapters are devoted to a study of the response of proportional counters at very low energy, undertaken to provide the Information necessary for the analysis of pulse height distributions produced by electron capture sources. The distribution produced by monochromatic x-rays of energies below 3 kev were Investigated and found to approximate closely to the Poisson function a further experiment determined the contribution to the width of such distributions from statistical variations In the gas multiplication process. A measurement of the K/β+ ratio In the 21 minute decay of carbon 11 is described; the special plastic anticoincidence counter used was designed earlier by Drever for carbon dating work, but was well suited to the present appllcation, where propane. irradiated by the x-ray beam of the Glasgow synchrotron was flowed through it. The result was consistent with the available theory. Finally, the development of a new technique for application to very short-lived sources Is described; this method,in which a proportional counter Is exposed directly to the activating x-ray beam to produce the isotope of interest, was suggested for use In conjunction with the high Intensity beam of the new Glasgow linear accelerator. A preliminary experiment, using the synchrotron to Irradiate a neon-filled counter, gave a result for the K/β+ ratio of neon 19 in agreement with theory, and indicated that the technique would be well suited to half-lives of the order of a second. The results on K/β+ ratios obtained here do not indicate any serious failure or omission in the available theory, while the study of proportional counter response helps to consolidate the role of the instrument as a reliable detector of soft x-rays and ultra-violet radiation.
Drever, Dr. R.W.P.
Ms Anikó Szilágyi
glathesis:1967-82353
Thesis DOI:
10.5525/gla.thesis.82353
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/82353
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View all the upcoming events in Lanarkshire on the 25 March 2019 below, or use the calendar to find events taking place on a specific month or date.
Anipals is an inclusive youth club aimed at ages 11 years + for those who have an interest in animals and wildlife!
East Renfrewshire Communities Together are holding a workshop at Clarkston Halls on March 25th where they want to hear your views on places, spaces and transport options in and around the area!


Scotgold says it is currently looking at finance options as it looks to put its Cononish gold and silver mine into development later this year.
The Cononish development, within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, secured planning approval last year on appeal after being refused planning permission in 2010.
Estimates from tests at the Cononish site break down to 163,000 ounces of gold and 596,000 ounces of silver, based on a 3.5 gram of gold per tonne cut-off, Scotgold said.
The revenues generated will be used to fund further developments.
In first-half results posted today, Scotgold reported losses of £723,203, up from £566,026 a year earlier, despite a fall in exploration expenditure, which was £659,407 against £903,721 at the same point last year.
However there was a huge surge in Scotgold's share capital value, rising from AUSD 15.8 million listed at December 31, 2011 to AUSD 193.8 million by June 30, 2012.
Scotgold recently announced tests from its Sron Garbh exploration programme, five kilometres from Cononish, has potential for an extensive mineral system, having shown positive results for gold, platinum, copper, zinc and cobalt.
Tests showed similar mineralisation readings to major deposit finds in Aguablanca in Spain and certain parts of the Sudbury mines in Ontario, Canada.Scotgold said in its half-year results it expects a project development study for the site, being compiled by mining consultancy AMC, should be complete within the next month.
The mining firm said it was also looking at other development opportunities at the Beinn Udlaidh and Auch project areas.


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By Jayabhuvaneshwari B
Malavika Mohanan all set to reveal her boyfriend?
Who is the mystery man?
In a recent video, Malavika Mohanan has created quite the mystery stir, as she has accepted a challenge, to reveal her boyfriend/mystery man soon. In a paid promotion video for a Men's grooming product, she tells the videographer that she has bought a gift for her Valentine from the grooming brand.
The person behind the camera then mocks at her saying, "He surely has a beard then," and insists that she reveals the name of her valentine. After this, she agrees to reveal her mystery man, if the video that she has posted reaches 1 million views. Now, on the one hand, fans are excited to know who the guy is. The fact that the mystery man has a beard, is a pretty huge clue. However, on the other hand, many are also dismissing this as a gimmick and just a part of the product promotion.
Now, the reel has already crossed 1 million views. We have to wait to know who the gift is really for.
The actor recently travelled to Maldives, and shared wanderlust photos of what seemed to be a very fun trip. Fans loved her photos, and she seemed to have vacationed in the place for almost a 1 week. On the work front, Malavika, who was last seen in Master, is awaiting the release of Maaran, and also filming for another film, Yudhra.


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Ten's good news night
Ten had a good night with Hamish and Andy's US sojourn paying off, especially in Melbourne where it averaged a very tasty 500,000.
The Winners: Seven News was tops with 1.402 million. It was downhill from then for the Network for the rest of the night. Rove Presents: Hamish and Andy's American Caravan of Courage on Ten at 7.30pm averaged 1.307 million and Today Tonight was next with 1.297. 4th was Nine's 20 to 1 episode at 8.30pm with 1.198 million and Home and Away averaged 1.160 million (and won the 7pm slot). Rush at 8.30pm averaged 1.136 million for Ten and 7th was the 7pm repeat of Two and a Half Men with 1.126 million. Ten's second episode of Rush at 9.30pm averaged 1.107 million. Nine's Getaway at 7.30pm averaged 1.088 million and A Current Affair was 9th with 1.080 million. The 7pm ABC News averaged 1.041 million in 11th, just in front of Nine News, which was on a weak 1.032 million. The Footy Shows averaged 940,000. The Pedigree Dog doco at 8.30pm on the ABC, 826,000. Q&A on the ABC at 9.30pm, 488,000.
The Losers: Seven from 7.30pm: Gary Unmarried, 753,000: Gary Unfunny might be better. The Amazing Race, still going, 841,000. How I Met Your Mother in Sydney and Brisbane at 8pm, 381,000. Double Take at 10pm, 441,000. TV Burp at 9.30pm, 596,000.
News & CA: Seven News again won nationally and in every market as did Today Tonight, which was sharper last night with the Cold Chisel set up reunion story. It's all part of promotion for Seven's telecast of the controversial V8 super car race in Sydney later in the year. The 7pm ABC News had more viewers in Sydney than Nine News, and in Melbourne. The 7pm ABC News also had more viewers in Sydney than ACA which remains weak in the market. The 7.30 Report averaged 790,000. Lateline, 312,000, Lateline Business, 157,000. SBS News at 6.30pm, 205,000, the 9.30pm edition, 162,000. 7am Sunrise, 364,000, 7am Today, 301,000.
The Stats: Nine won with a share of 29.8% (33.1% last week ) from Ten with 25.4% (21.0%), Seven with 23.1% (24.4%), the ABC on 16.9% (16.8%) and SBS on an unchanged 4.7%. Nine won all five metro markets. Seven leads the week 28.4% to 27.7% for Nine. In regional areas a win for WIN/NBN with 28.6%, Southern Cross (Ten) was second with 23.7% and Prime/7Qld was on 23.2%. the ABC was on 18.1% and SBS, 6.3%.
Glenn Dyer's comments: Ten had a good night, winning the major demos, 16 to 39, 18 to 49s and 25 to 54s.
Hamish and Andy's US sojourn paid off for Ten, especially in Melbourne where it averaged a very tasty 500,000. Easily the biggest audience anywhere last night.
Q&A was again just OK. It all depends on the guests. They were OK, but a couple of very earnest members of the panel slowed things down. But it wasn't the NRL Footy Show, thankfully.
Digitally: A dead heat; Nine's Go averaged 1.40% and its main channel, 28.40%, Ten's ONE averaged 1.40% and the main channel, 24.10% and ABC 2 averaged 1.40% and the main channel 15.50%. SBS Two averaged 0.40% and SBS One, 4.40. Seven was on 23.10%.
TONIGHT: NRL finals start with one game tonight, from Melbourne which will mean a low start for Nine to its broadcasts. Seven has the Brisbane playing the Doggies tonight in the AFL: a big win for Seven. The ABC has George Gently for all of those who don't like sport. Better Homes And Gardens at 7.30pm on Seven should have a broader appeal than the AFL, or the NRL. Ten has that golden oldie, The Full Monty at 8.30 pm and The 7pm Project.
SATURDAY: AFL, NRL on Ten and Nine. Nothing on Seven. SBS has the 4th one day cricket game between Australia and England.
SUNDAY: NRL and AFL. Sunday Night resumes on Seven at 6.30pm, Border Security and The Force return from 7.30pm. A movie at 8.30pm, it's like we are back in the 1990s or earlier. The ABC has Midsomer Murders and Stephen Fry to chose from. Nine has 60 Minutes and Rescue Special Ops. Ten has Rove. Dateline on SBS at 8.30pm.
Source: OzTAM, TV Networks reports
Hamish and Andy
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Glenn I noticed last night that Channel One had UFC (ultimate fighting) on at the same time as the Footy Shows. Obviously a spoiler tactic from Ten as I would imagine the sort of person who wants to watch meatheads beating the hell out of each other probably enjoys ultimate fighting as well. Is it working?
Heathdon McGregor
Did you happen to catch FM or Beached Eh? on ABC2? Very Funny.


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I was pondering about the difference between "inspiration" and "motivation" and realized that the posts I was calling Inspiration Sundays, while hopefully inspiring, were more motivating. Motivation is often external (though there is self-motivation), while inspiration is internal. I read someone added that motivation comes from both positive and negative experiences, while inspiration comes from joy... but if you look at art, there are plenty of moving pieces that were inspired by "negative" events. The point being that I cannot inspire anyone directly, at best I can share things that are inspirational to me and hope that you find them to be inspirational as well.
So the change I want to make is this. On Inspiration Sundays, I am going to share 10 things that inspired me this week. They can be anything from songs, photos, pictures I took, quotes, art supplies, found objects, thoughts, etc. Who knows, maybe they'll spark a light within you? The posts I have been doing and calling Inspiration Sundays will be moved to Monday, because I like the way Motivational Mondays sounds. In addition to all this, I would like to also add Felting Fridays to the mix. If I come up with any more creative tautograms or alliterations (would that be an alliteration?) that work for the other days of the week and have enough material to post fairly consistently, I'll do that too! Yes, I know Inspiration Sundays doesn't fit that naming system, but maybe if we go by the word Intichu from the Quechua language, it would. Inspiration Intichu. Anyway, I think three posts a week to start is a doable for me from what I have been doing, even if it seems all piled up on the weekends at the moment.
I first kept reapplying the cling wrap to cover the page, then after doing another page, used the cling wrap from that on top of this one. It really makes that red POP!
(1) This post on "Squish Paintings" by Alisa Burke. Though I have to say, when I tried it with my daughter, she was NOT too keen on it. When she heard the word "painting" she thought we were going to paint in the traditional sense of the word: getting the palettes out, brushes, filling up the water cups, and sitting together at the kitchen table while we worked on our individual art. She flipped out when she saw what I was doing. I, however, LOVED IT, and filled quite a few art journal pages with colorful backgrounds. I did a bit of a spin on it though and reused the cling wrap over and over to completely cover the page, even using the cling wrap from a different page/colors to put paint on top of another "squish painting." Thinking back, I can understand why she wouldn't like it... it makes it "unpredictable" and she is a perfectionist. Which I think has a lot of benefits to it and don't mean that in a negative way at all, but sometimes the best art comes from happy accidents :) We're working on it.
(2) This picture shared by the Old Moss Woman's Secret Garden page (from Bob Brown's page). I LOVE mushrooms, and the secret garden page in general since I'm often coming across real things from nature that I would've never imagined to be real. Seriously, look at the color of those!! Hm... maybe I'll make a series of unique needle felted mushrooms.
(3) Pearl-Ex Powdered Pigments by Jacquard (affiliate link disclosure). I've had my eye on these for a LONG time, after seeing them used on a polymer clay tutorial, and I finally ordered them. OMG these are SO FUN! I used them on the art journal page for tomorrow's Motivational Monday post, as well as another few pages, and right now I'm thinking of how I could apply it to felt. I definitely think I could use it on sculptural pieces (I wouldn't do it on toys) and 2D art, just dust a bit to accent certain areas and really add a nice sparkle to them. I need to think of something to give it a try. It wouldn't really be anything new, since I know some artists have used eye-shadow on their felt dolls.
(4) "Targeted" Playlist by Spotify. (I really hope embedding this works!) Spotify is my favorite way of listening to and finding music, and I'll often switch between different genres depending on my mood. Most often, I enjoy peaceful tunes, because music with too much "noise" is sometimes distracting and then uninspiring. Especially loud music. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy all kinds of genres (except maybe "screamo"), but they're not all suited for focusing on my art.
(5) Sue Spargo. I recently joined a group on Facebook for wool applique, which involves making applique quilts, blocks and crafts using wool, and one of the posts mentioned the name Sue Spargo as a source of some really great blocks, patterns, kits, etc.... just look at the cover of that book! I had fun browsing through her shop, looking at all the pretty threads, the BOM (Block of the month) patterns, and I am thinking of ways where I can do something similar with felt and embroidery.
(6) Hanna Dovhan's Felt Food Friends. Someone linked to this post in one of the needle felting groups I belong to on Facebook, and aren't these adorable?! Not only was the idea wonderfully executed, but she's got some skills! Look how perfectly smooth and flat she got her surfaces, and I can only imagine the painstaking work that went into making sure the egg and avocado fit together just right.
(7) This post on the lost art of custom illustrated books. Also known as extra-illustrated or grangerized, apparently this was a popular thing in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, though it was also highly frowned upon by the Book Lover's Almanac. I'll leave you to read the post, but my opinion: to each their own. Once you own the book, it's your copy. You can personalize it however you like (and what better way than with beautiful illustrations?). I wonder if they also frowned upon annotating books? And how about the books that were then passed down to the next generations? I would think it would make that book all the more special.
(8) Ales the Woodcarver's whimsical houses. I was looking for some whimsical house inspiration (for one of my upcoming needle felted tutorials) and found this treasure through a google images search. These are amazing! Ales is incredibly talented, and it appears as though he takes requests for commissions, though he does have a few things (not houses) on his etsy page. I have played around a little with wood carving, tried to make a relief, but nothing even close to anything like this. My grandfather did wood carving (he was also an artisan woodworker), and after retiring he made religious figures and reliefs which he donated to the local church, so I've always had an appreciation of what people can make from wood!
(9) Whimsy! Who doesn't love things that make them feel twinkly? For me, those are whimsical things. Whimsy art, whimsy decor, whimsy houses and trees and colors and everything! Which is why I'm going to make the first series of needle felting tutorials 2D whimsical art. We live not too far from this wonderful little (I'd even say whimsical) place called Peddler's Village, and on the rare few times we go - which I'm really hoping we'll be headed over one day this month to see all the scarecrows - there is this whimsical store full of colorful, whimsical art and just wonderful things in general. I always feel so inspired when I go, and this time I think I'll bring my camera! Until then, I'll continue to goggle at online photos.
(10) Chelsea Fitch of KnitFitch. One thing I think is incredibly important when starting your own business is to learn from the people who are making it happen. Two I enjoy following are Alisa Burke and Tamara Laporte (of Willowing Arts), but yesterday I learned about Chelsea through a comment on one of Gary Vaynerchuk's videos. I love collecting names of successful entrepreneurs and going way back to when they started. If they have a blog, I'll go as far back as it goes and start at the beginning and watch them grow. Everyone starts at the beginning. Everyone goes through growing pains and learning lessons through experience, and there are gems hidden in their content that can be uncovered if you just know what to look for. I'm excited about having a new person to follow and learn from.
Motivation Mondays "Be Daring, Be Different, Be Impractical"


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Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month: Republican Virginia House Of Delegates Member Wren Williams
Williams is concerned about what Virginia children are taught in schools, so he introduced House Bill No 781, "relating to public elementary and secondary schools; student citizenship skills; certain instructional policies prohibited, parental rights; disclosures; penalties; other remedies."
Among the provisions offered by the patriotic Virginian is approval of public schools teaching "the founding documents," including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, excerpts from the Federalist Papers, the writings of the Founding Fathers and Alexis de Tocqueville's"Democracy in America" and "the first debate between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass."
You know, the guy standing next to Abe here:
Wait: are you sure you have the right Douglass/ Douglas, Wren? Might it be this Douglas…
Authentic Frontier Gibberish Of The Year (So Far): Kamala Harris
Normally, I would be confident that a stunner like this would be a guaranteed winner, but, 1) this is Kamala Harris, and she frequently talks like English is a foreign languge and 2) her two most high-ranking Democrat colleagues, President Biden and Nancy Pelosi, are also likely to make no sense for extended periods, though in their cases…well, let's just leave it at that.
On the Today show, Craig Melvin asked the eminently qualified Vice President—she's "of color,",female, and has a pulse—- whether it is time for the White House to try a new strategy to deal with the pandemic. This was Harris's verbatim answer:
It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.
Now who can argue with that? Melvin, since he works for NBC and has no Continue reading →
It's Only January 11, And Yet This Might Already Be The Ethics Story Of The Year: The Nazi-Loving Police Chief
This story made my head explode, and for once, it was worth it. I LOVE this story! It touches on so much…idiocy,incompetence, dead ethics alarms, unions, a soupçon of "The Producers," incredible excuses and more—I don't want to give away the one detail that made me laugh out loud yet. And perhaps best of all, it comes out of Washington state, one of the epicenters of The Great Stupid.
I am going to try to relate the tale without giggling, and then I'll have some observations at the end. Alert: my telling may contain a bit of sarcasm here and there. I'm sorry. I can't resist.
In Kent, Washington, a King County suburb of Seattle, Mayor Dana Ralph (D) apologized profusely to her city in a 30 minute video. Why? Well, she admitted that her administration badly mis-estimated what the public's reaction would be to the town's decision not to fire Assistant Chief Derek Kammerzell, and to instead suspend him for two weeks while allowing him to treat the time off as a vacation, meaning that he was paid. You can understand why the mayor and her staff would be blindsided by the outrage; after all, all Kammerzell did was show every sign of being a Nazi.
All right, that may be a little bit of an exaggeration, but not much. An investigation that began in September of 2020 after a complaint lodged by a member of the police force determined that Kammerzell, a 27-year Kent police veteran, Continue reading →
Morning Ethics Warm-Up, Remember January 6 Edition…
Well, we all know by now why this date is important: On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse's telegraph system was demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. Morse's invention revolutionized long-distance communication, and also was a catalyst for other important inventions. In ethics history, January 6, 1994 marked the nadir of bad sportsmanship in U.S. sports.
Skater Tonya Harding conspired with her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, to eliminate rival skater Nancy Kerrigan from the competition for the U.S. ice skating championship. Through contacts, Gillooly persuaded Shane Stant to injure Kerrigan for a fee. Stant stalked to Massachusetts and Detroit, where he hit the skater in the leg with a club and fled. Kerrigan was unable to skate, so Harding won the championship and a place at on the 1994 Olympics women's skating team. Then the plot fell apart, and the FBI got the whole story from Stant. Gillooly was charged with conspiracy to assault Kerrigan, and made a deal in which he implicated Harding. She claimed she had learned of Gillooly's role in the attack after the U.S. championships but did not inform authorities. It took a lawsuit to stop the United States Olympic Committee from removing Harding from the team, but Tonya choked and finished 8th, and Kerrigan won a silver medal. Eventually Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hinder the prosecution of Kerrigan's attackers, but her role in initiating the plot was never proved. Gillooly, a real prince of a guy, cashed in by selling graphic photos of the couple having sex to tabloids. There's more seedy stuff to this story, but that's enough.
Yecchh.
1. I see the Pope has nothing better to do than to attack dog and cat owners as being "selfish" for preferring to have pets to bestow their love on than children. Having children is indeed a generous act, provided it is done intentionally and responsibly by people with the sense, resources and values to discharge that immense challenge ethically. I know quite a few childless pet owners who seem to have concluded that a dog or cat was all they could handle, and in mots of these cases, I'd say they made the right call. I also know some families with kids that I wouldn't trust to care for a kitten. Or a guppy.
During a general audience at the Vatican, Pope Francis said,
"Today … we see a form of selfishness. We see that some people do not want to have a child. Sometimes they have one, and that's it, but they have dogs and cats that take the place of children. This may make people laugh but it is a reality…a denial of fatherhood and motherhood and diminishes us, takes away our humanity… civilization grows old without humanity because we lose the richness of fatherhood and motherhood, and it is the country that suffers…Having a child is always a risk, but there is more risk in not having a child."
If there is one thing a Pope, a bishop or a Catholic priest isn't qualified to talk about, it is having children. Pius XII had a pet goldfinch though, and Pope Leo XIII kept a herd of gazelles, among other animals.
2. Regarding that other Jan.6 event…as part of its Capitol riot spin today, the Times enlisted Linda Qiu, a former "fact-checker" for PolitiFact, the infamously left-biased fact-checking service of the Tampa Bay Times, to debunk "falsehoods" regarding the attack. She performed as expected. Trump said on Fox News that there were "no guns" carried by the mob. There have been three gun charges brought against rioters, Qiu says. She also says that "over 75 defendants have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon," meaning clubs, sticks and bear spray, none of which relates to Trump's gun claim. She also calls a "falsehood" the statement that there were no fatalities during the riot except for Ashlii Babbitt, the unarmed rioter who was shot by a Capitol police officers. Seven fatalities were "tied" to the assault, she says. What does "tied" mean? Other than Babbitt, two protesters died of heart attacks, one of an accidental overdose, Officer Sicknick died of multiple strokes a day after the attack (and was falsely reported by the times as dying from injuries sustained in the riot, a falsehood repeated multiple times by President Biden). Two other officers killed themselves in the days after the riot, which does not establish causation or a provable "tie," and two other officers died by suicide six months later.
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Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month: Indiana State Sen. Aaron Freeman (R) [Updated]
We end up with bad laws and disrespect for law enforcement because the public keeps electing officials who need mittens with a string attaching them through their sleeves.
Freeman, a Republican state lawmaker from Indianapolis, has submitted a bill to eliminate state penalties for failing to use turn signals before turning or changing lanes. Senate Bill 124 would allow drivers not to have to use turn signals 200 feet before changing lanes or turning, nor would they have to use turn signals 300 feet before changing lanes in a 50-mph zone. I think that's what it says. In addition to being mind-numbingly irresponsible, the bill is also confusing. Freeman claims that his bill was intended to end confusion about turn signal requirements. Here's a rule of thumb: when your bill to eliminate confusion causes confusion, it's not a good bill.
And you're an incompetent idiot.
What is confusing about turn signals? You turn one on when you are about to make a turn or change lanes. Not as you have already started to turn the vehicle—before. Long enough before that other drivers can react. This isn't hard, even though it seems to be for an astounding number of drivers on the roads.
Ethics Resuscitation,12/23/21: Lift, Spirits, LIFT!
December 23, 2021 December 24, 2021 / Jack Marshall	/ 3 Comments
Boy, has today ever been a rotten prelude to Christmas! There's nothing like feeling like Bob Cratchit and Scrooge at the same time….Hit it, Judy!
Yeah, easy for YOU to say…
1. Admittedly, it's hard to be unusually unethical on a phony show like "Paranormal Experiences," but I was fascinated to see how actual news footage of a dog rescue would be tied into the show's theme. A dog was viewed by a crowd at New York's East River as it desperately dog-paddled for land, then panicked and began swimming in circles. A police officer dived into the freezing (and filthy) water and grabbed the dog by the collar, getting bitten in the face and hand in the process, to tow the canine to safety as the crowd cheered him on. How was this "paranormal"?
As one onlooker explained it, the officer was a water rescue specialist, and the crowd had gathered for a ceremony honoring him. It couldn't be a mere coincidence that a drowning dog just happened to turn up during that ceremony for that officer, could it? No, something supernatural was afoot! Such a coincidence can't happen by itself!
Yes, it can, and does, every day, many, many times, you moron. A TV episode like this makes the public stupid and superstitious, which makes them easy to manipulate and con. Given enough time and random events, anything that can happen will happen, and the proclivity to see portents and miracles in standard chaos-driven events undermines life competence.
Where do you think the term "lucky dog" came from?
Ethics Pot Meet Ethics Kettle I: Rep. Boebert (R-Co.) vs. Rep. Omar
November 30, 2021 / Jack Marshall	/ 14 Comments
It's like one of those monster vs. monster movies, such as "Godzilla vs. King Kong": who do you root for? In the case of extreme right-wing, irresponsible and uncivil GOP fire-breather Lauren Boebert battling extreme leftist House Democrat Illhan Omar, the only ethical position is to hope they fight each other right out of Congress, where they both do immeasurable harm.
Omar is, I hope I do not have to explain in much detail, horrible. She would be the worst of "The Squad," but, incredibly, the other members are so irredeemably awful that this is a tough call. Her background is full of scandals that would guarantee the end of the career of any non-black, non-Muslim representative in a sane party, which the Democratic Party is no longer. She repeatedly makes anti-Semitic, anti-Israel comments. Her infamous characterization of 9-11 (a comment barely reported by the mainstream media) was that "some people did something." She has advocated defunding the police in Minnesota.
None of this justifies any member of Congress attacking her with ad hominem rhetoric, but Colorado's Lauren Boebert is special, even by far right Republican standards. She has used Omar's religion against her, calling her part of a "Jihad Squad" and told an audience before Thanksgiving that a Capitol Police officer was concerned about Omar boarding an elevator until Boebert reassured him by saying, "Well, she doesn't have a backpack. We should be fine."
Why Do We Let People Like This Idiot Into Congress?
November 8, 2021 / Jack Marshall	/ 5 Comments
Somehow, this story seems related to the previous post.
Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tweeted out an altered anime video that attacks illegal immigrants (not that there's anything wrong with that) and shows someone with two swords attacking a giant Joe Bden head. The video in his tweet used clips from popular Japanese anime "Attack on Titan," and opens with Gosar's name under Japanese text, which reads "attack of immigrants" (if you can read Japanese) before it continues to show real clips of Gosar and Border Patrol agents spliced alongside scenes from the anime show's opening credits.
Several news outlets say the video shows Gosar killing killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If it does, I missed it, but then I could barely stand watching the thing. If that's really in the video, I'd say it's unprofessional, uncivil and unethical. All of it is inexcusable, though.
What's the matter with this guy? Is he 12? This isn't the kind of video a member of Congress should be having made, or put on social media. It's an embarrassment to Congress, his party, his state, and his country. By what bizarre concept of public service and the House ethics rules could anyone conclude that such an assaultive, offensive, infantile piece of agitprop belongs in the public square?
If the rumored 2022 "red wave" doesn't accomplish anything better than to put more jerks like Gosar in the House, it's not worth the effort.
Virginia House of Delegates Member Chris Hurst (D) Hits The Ethics Alarms Trifecta!
That would be "Ethics Dunce," "Incompetent Elected Official of the Week" and "Unethical Quote of the Month." If I had an official "Asshole of the Month" designation, he'd have that wrapped up too.
The day before the Virginia elections, Democratic Virginia House of Delegates Member Chris Hurst and his girlfriend, Emily Frentress, were pulled over by a deputy who spotted them tampering with campaign signs at a polling location. (The 12th District incumbent was also cited for or driving with a suspended license and given a "driving while suspended notification.") Here is his exchange with the officer as recorded by the officer's bodycam:
Officer: "I think what you need to do after I deal with you here is go back and fix those signs. What do you think? You try to resort to doing this? Instead of doing a fair election? Chris, quit playing. Quit playing. Y'all are up there turning over signs at the polling area and you're sitting here acting like you don't know what's going on?"
Hurst: "…Here's what I would say. I would think that something that was a little hijinks and steam blowing off is exactly what everybody over on the other side of the mountain does and people all over this district do."
Officer: "So you're going to resort to that and represent us?"
Hurst: "I need you to just do your job here tonight and I'll do mine. I have nothing more to say to you, officer. I'm sorry for actions that I may have done or my partner may have done, but I think you're getting a little emotional here."
Officer: "I'm not getting emotional at all, you're supposed to be representing us. You're supposed to be out here representing us and not out here acting like a school kid. How am I supposed to vote for you if you're out here doing this?"
Hurst: "Were you planning on voting for me?"
Officer: "Well, that's all up in the air now."
Hurst: "I'm sorry if I lost your support, sir."
Ethics Observations On Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.)'s Mask While On The House Floor
1 This isn't funny, ethical, brave or helpful. He should be sanctioned, but House Democrats wouldn't dare. They know what their members got away with.
2. If Duncan wants to say "Fuck Joe Biden" on the House floor, then let him come out and say it and accept the consequences. At least I can have a measure of respect for that, though not much. Adults snickering at the "Let's Go Brandon" game remind me of those camp songs like "Shaving cream" or "Helen had a Steamboat" where it was supposed to be hilarious that you never actually said the naughty word that rhymed. The game was just barely tolerable among ten-year-olds, and we have members of Congress who act like this? Be proud, America.
3. The Ethics Alarms position (which cost it about 40% of its readers since 2017) that the office of the President must be accorded a basic level of respect and fairness by the public must apply regardless of who is in the White House, or our republic does not work. One reason I was so critical of the despicable treatment of President Trump across the culture was precisely for this reason: I knew Republicans and conservatives wouldn't be able resist treating Biden as unethically as Trump was treated, and, if possible, worse.


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Boeing Executives Acknowledges "Mistakes" Involving 737-Max 8 Jets
posted by R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter - Jun 17, 2019
Boeing's chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg said on Sunday that the company made a "mistake" in handling an issue with a cockpit warning light on its 737 Max 8 jets after two planes crashed within six months of each other, killing 346 people.
On Monday, Boeing's head of commercial aircraft, Kevin McAllister, went even further, apologizing for the passenger deaths at a press conference at the Paris Air Show.
"We are very sorry for the loss of lives as a result of the tragic accidents," McAllister said, referring to the October 2018 crash of a Lion Air Max in the Java Sea and the March 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Air 737 Max. "Our priority is doing everything to get this plane safely returned to service. It is a pivotal moment for all of us."
McAllister also apologized to the airlines who purchased the 737 Max 8 jets, until they were grounded worldwide following the two crashes.
"I'm sorry for the disruption," McAllister said on Monday.
The main issue appears to be flight control software used by the newest model of Boeing's 737 narrow body jet. The 737 Max 8 was redesigned to use more efficient engines, set in a different position that previous generations. That created a difference in how the 737 flew. But instead of re-qualifying the newly designed airplane with the FAA, Boeing sold the aircraft as an updated model of the 737, despite the differences in how the planes flew.
To address the problem, Boeing designed a new system known as Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), which acts as an anti-stall feature to counteract the 737 Max's tendency to pitch up while in flight. However, bad data from the jet's sensors could activate the anti-stall feature, which is what is believed to have caused the two recent plane crashes.
A cockpit warning light designed to alert pilots to the MCAS activating, was not installed on the Lion Air or Ethiopian Air flights. Software would trigger the MCAS when it detected the plane was flying at an angle that increased the likelihood of a stall. However, the light, which was supposed to be standard on all jets, only worked for airlines who purchased the safety feature at an additioanl cost.
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines say they won't fly the 737 MAX 8 until at least early September. Both airlines previously announced they would resume flights in August, however that does not appear to be the case any longer. American had to remove about 115 flights from its schedule, with Southwest removing about 100 daily flights from its schedule.


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EU Pirate purgatory after copyright clampdown
Ben Kersey - Apr 20, 2012, 8:50 am CDT
Looks like the copyright police are starting to hit back at the internet in a big bad way. A German court ruled today that YouTube is entirely responsible for the content found on its service, and must actively filter music videos belonging to the GEMA, a music royalty group. Not only that, but the European Court of Justice has said that there are no EU rules in place that prevent an ISP from handing over customers information, which could be the deciding factor in a pending court case.
The German ruling is bad news for Google. While YouTube argued that it had no legal responsibility for any copyrighted content posted to the service, they did remove material on request. The German court said that this wasn't enough, and that YouTube needs to implement filters to catch infringing material belonging to GEMA. That could lead to delayed videos as uploads are inspected for copyrighted songs.
Meanwhile, the European Court of Justice declared that there were no EU protections in place that prevent ISPs from handing over customer details to copyright enforcers. The ISP in question, ePhone, tried to resist handing over a customer's details after he was accused of hosting 2000 audio books on his server. The case went from the Court of Appeals to the Swedish Supreme Court, eventually landing at the European Court of Justice.
Kristina Ahlinder, president of the Publishers' Association, said in a statement: "We feel very satisfied with this judgment. It is extremely important that we have received this message." The case will make its way back to the Swedish Supreme Court, where they will decide if ePhone has to hand over the customer's data.
[via BBC/Torrentfreak]
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Data's Influence And Contactless Vending, In Style At Fashion Week
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This week, New York celebrated its 75th fall Fashion Week, with all the pomp, glamour, celebrity and hype that defines the event. The city was the home of the first-ever Fashion Week on Earth – and its original purpose was more practical than glamourous.
In 1943, the fashion capital of the world at the time, Paris, was at war and under siege. World War II prevented fashion industry buyers from travelling to France to see fashion's cutting edge. Thus, New York Fashion Week was born.
Even after the war came to an end, the idea stuck.
By 1945, Fashion Week had expanded beyond New York to include other European capitals – Paris, Milan and London – but they all had the same express purpose: to be the place where the hip and cutting-edge looked to find out what is "in" and what is "out."
But, just like fashion ebbs and flows, Fashion Week has evolved over the last 75 years. And the event that just wrapped in New York looks very different than the Fashion Weeks of the past – even compared to those held as recently as a decade ago.
The question that remains as the celebration of style is winding down: In the age of Instagram and lifestyle blogging, does the world still really need Fashion Week at all?
An Evolving Concept
The fact that Fashion Week is an evolving concept is not evidence alone that it is has gone out of style, so to speak. In fact, New York's event has been an evolving work in progress for much of the seven-and-a-half decades it's been going on. For the first few decades of its existence, Fashion Week shows were very insular events that didn't net a lot of public attention outside the industry.
Longtime industry veteran Lucinda Chambers, former fashion director for U.K. Vogue, noted in an interview with Vestoj that for its first few decades, Fashion Week was mostly about creating a space where designers and buyers from elite stores and fashion editors could meet. Those editors and buyers, she said, would take what they saw, and slowly and methodically reveal their "considered vision of trends to readers and customers" a few months down the line.
It wasn't until the late 80s and early 90s that Fashion Week became a magnet for musicians, actors and others who certainly had fashion adjacent jobs, but were not themselves formally part of the industry. In the era of the internet, Fashion Week became a full-blown media extravaganza that was live-streamed all over the world.
As the 2000s wore on and turned into the 2010s, that larger digital audience of fashion bloggers and social media stars started moving into the tent – and, in some cases, into front row seats alongside those celebrities and fashion editors.
And the evolution of who had access to Fashion Week in turn changed how brands started thinking about letting consumers access the goods they'd seen on display. Instead of the months-long wait that has been the standard, in the last two or three years an increasing number of brands have adopted some form of "see now, buy now" functionality in an attempt to close that gap. And big names – in some cases, high-ticket brands like Tom Ford, Tommy Hilfiger, Madewell, Ralph Lauren, Rebecca Minkoff and Burberry – have experimented with some variation on the concept since 2016.
In fact, "see now, buy now" experiments were underway at Fashion Week New York this year, care of a partnership with Visa that brought tap-to-pay with contactless cards and devices to Fashion's big show this year. Those payments came into play with the series of contactless-enabled vending machines available at the event, featuring items by designers like Venessa Arizaga, Neely & Chloe and Rebecca Minkoff.
Those vending machines offered "buy one, get two," meaning that "every tap is an opportunity to pay it forward to friends who inspire them," Visa noted in its announcement.
The Democratized and Data-Driven World of Fashion
There is a particularly funny scene in the 2006 movie "The Devil Wears Prada" that offers in two delightfully cruel minutes a full explanation of how Fashion Week and the choices made there have a major effect on how consumers dress – even if the consumer herself is not all that aware of the event.
For those who haven't, watch the scene. Then watch the whole movie – it's a classic.
But if you can't get to it right now, the evil character played by Meryl Streep succinctly explains how the color of the "lumpy blue sweater" her long-suffering intern is wearing comes as the result of two Fashion Week runway shows and a team of fashion editors who promoted the use of the color. Their recommendation pushed it into mass-market brands, where the questionably dressed intern "probably fished it out of some clearance bin."
The moral of the story: You may not think you care about Fashion Week, but it (and the industry behind it) will make most of your decisions about what you wear. It's a devastatingly funny scene – "give me a full ballerina skirt and a hint of saloon and I'm on board" is the best style assessment ever committed to film, and also a fairly accurate statement of the power of the fashion design houses and editors in the pre-mass mobile world of 2006.
These days, however, it is hard to make the case for that statement's accuracy, as Instagrammers, fashion bloggers and style vloggers are increasingly occupying the space once taken up by the editors at Vogue – and doing their job.
"The evolution of technology and social media has allowed all consumers to have a voice," Professor Frances Corner, head of the London College of Fashion, noted in an interview. "There is no one bible, and there is a marked shift in the way we consume fashion: The sources of our inspiration are increasingly fragmented and tailored to more specific audiences."
And the platforms that host this up-and-coming generation of fashion influencers are offering up more tools to make it more desirable for big brands to develop commercial relationships with those highly followed and trend-setting members. Instagram, for example, recently announced it was bulking up its commerce features by expanding on-site shopping beyond its feed to the much more popular (and influencer-dominated) Instagram Stories.
"From Adidas and Aritzia to Louis Vuitton, people have been able to shop from their favorite brands around the world, and now you can shop these businesses in Instagram Stories," the social network said in the release. "Shoppers on Instagram are savvy. They visit Instagram looking for the latest trends and styles. With 300 million using Instagram Stories every day, people are increasingly finding new products from brands they love."
And because consumers can focus on the brands they love – and the influencers they trust, like Alexa Chung, The Fashion Guitar (Charlotte) and Danielle Bernstein – they are less likely to look to the insular world of fashion professionals, Professor Corner noted, because they have a better and more accessible option.
"I follow numerous Instagrammers and bloggers who appeal to my personal aesthetic, and there are many niche magazines challenging the status quo of traditional fashion publishing and setting a different agenda for diverse audiences," noted Corner.
And fashion editors and heads of design houses don't just have to deal with an emerging class of bloggers. They also have to fight the rising tide of online apparel merchants that are much less interested in looking at what a designer or editor says consumers will love, and are much more interested in looking at their data analytics and figuring out what their customers actually love.
From Everlane to Boohoo's to La Ligne to countless other retailers PYMNTS has interviewed over the last several years, the trends they are most interested in forecasting aren't the ones coming out of New York, Paris, Milan or London a few times a year. In the era of fast fashion and instant gratification, they noted, they will go out of business trying to run their companies with sporadic readings of tea leaves.
The trends they want to see are in their data – and they want to see them in real time, so they can adjust as needed and put the right products on the shelf.
So Is Fashion Week Out of Style?
It seems perhaps a bit drastic to say that Fashion Week is "out" or "irrelevant" despite the various think pieces to the contrary that have been springing up on the internet over the last few days. The sheer amount of press coverage that Rihanna's combination fashion show/performance art piece to launch her new lingerie line (Savage X Fenty) indicates that Fashion Week is still more than able to generate quite a lot of buzz.
But what does seem to be the case is that Fashion Week may be hard-pressed to remain relevant if its only hook is showing off clothes for a season that is a full six months away. Last week's show was all about spring 2019, just in time for most of us to put away our spring and summer gear and get out the heavier clothing.
What may drive the buzz, celebrities, supermodels and anything-goes-fashion shows may not always drive the register. For that, fashionistas taking pictures or being photographed wearing on-trend, see-it-now, wear-it-now clothes that show up on Instagram or your favorite fashion blog may be more the ticket.
Unless you happen to be standing in front of a vending machine that offers a digital way to pay for the latest designer outfit. And that isn't really a joke – Visa's experiment this week indicates that the vending machine is a place where fashion can live. It's not a totally foreign concept – jewelry designer Marla Aaron has been selling her high-end offerings through a vending machine for some time – and people are willing to make a four-figure vending purchase.
"I look at the vending machine as principally an exceptional vehicle for branding and storytelling," she said in a recent PYMNTS interview. "[It's] maybe the best thing we've ever done [for storytelling]."
Fashion, after all, is about telling a story with clothes. Fashion Week seems to perhaps be a bit caught in an older story. Perhaps the pressure is finally high enough to prompt another update.
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Lamborghini Terzo Millennio - an all-electric car - Lamborghini has revealed the concept of Terzo Millennio
The Terzo Millennio, which means third millennium, is totally electric, with engines on the wheels that provide power and the ability to control the amount of torque that each wheel has. However, Lamborghini has not specified how much torque the engines produce.
Two main approaches are present: next-generation energy storage systems and future innovative materials. Lamborghini worked with two separate MIT laboratories on both, financing the projects themselves. The first is worked by the Dinca Research Lab, named and directed by the chemistry professor Mircea Dinca, while the second is treated by the Mechanosynthesis Group, with the mechanical engineering professor Anastasios John Hart directing the department. recovery of kinetic energy to give extra power
A kinetic energy recovery system is also used to give extra power to the light supercar, and a supercapacitor is foreseen for the model, although the brand admits that the battery technology is not currently where it should be. Its objective is to develop a supercapacitor to give a jump in the power density. MIT is not working on this element, however. The structural components are duplicated like the car's battery
The structural components are duplicated as the automobile battery to lose weight, another area where Lamborghini alleges that current technology is not up to par. The rest of the car is made of carbon fiber, although the sensors allow the car to monitor the structural integrity of its own body, detecting damage and cracks in the body. The car can then "self-calibrate", thanks to chamicals in the micro-channels of the carbon fiber body. Lamborghini's work with MIT seeks to develop new and alternative methods to produce carbon fiber. The body of the car can adapt to aerodynamics
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Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Siris Cask Festival
Sat April 22, 2017 at 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sat April 22, 2017
Cat & Fiddle Pub, Vancouver Sports Bar
1979 Brown St.
http://www.whatsbrewing.ca/event/siris-cask-festival/
Celebrating the Women of Craft Beer, Celebrating the Craft Beer of Women
The Tri-Cities Cask Festival Association is proud to announce The Siris Cask Festival, a Craft Cask event featuring 25+ beers brewed exclusively by women.
The goal of the festival is to provide a venue to showcase the amazing skill of our female brewers, reaching back to a time when the important duty of brewing beer was exclusively the role of women in society. Siris was the original goddess of beer in pre-Sumerian mythology.
The other goal for the festival is to provide a bursary for Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Brewing Studies program. The bursary will be available to female students, with the intention of helping achieve gender parity in the brewing industry.
Siris is helmed by three Associate Directors: Claire Wilson, Brewmaster of Dogwood Brewing, Ashley Brooks, Brewmaster of Big Ridge, and Julia Hanlon, Brewmaster of Steamworks. In addition to addressing the festival, all of them will be supplying casks. MC for the event is Nancy More, the first female Brewmaster in North America and instructor at KPU.
From Julia Hanlon: ". . . this small club . . . needs more members, so that in the future nobody will feel compelled to ask the question about what it means to be a "female" brewer. The Siris Cask Festival and bursary is one step towards this and I am very honoured and proud to be part of this event to help more female brewers join this amazing community!"
In keeping with spirit of the festival, the first hour will be open only to women. After that hour, the ticketed public will be allowed in.
Some quick answers to your questions:
When, Where, How: April 22nd 2017, at the Cat and Fiddle Pub, 11 am to 5 pm (1st hour open only to women).
Who are the brewers?
There are only three craft breweries in BC that have women designated as head brewers, but there are dozens of women working at every craft brewery. We approached almost all of BC's craft brewers to have their female staff produce casks for Siris. The response was immediate and enthusiastic.
Breweries that didn't have a woman as an active member of their fermentation staff almost all had women working for them with brewing skills—either attending brewing school or as home brewers, or from working with other breweries in the past—who stepped in and brewed, again with enthusiasm.
For breweries without the benefit of female brewers in-house, we were able to connect them with female brewers from inside the industry: cicerones, inside staff, account managers, and others who had the skill and love of brewing. In the end, it all came together.
For an updated list of all the breweries and a short bio of each brewer, please visit www.tricitiescaskfestival.com/siris-brewers.php


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Getting more kids on bikes
Did you ride a bike when you were a kid? Do you remember the freedom and fun? I remember learning to ride a bike at my grandmother's house in Whanganui. I set myself the goal of riding around the house 50 times. I got a growling for making a rut in the lawn, but it was worth it. Sadly, many New Zealand children miss out on biking. They lose the opportunity to develop fitness, independence, risk management and social skills. They miss out on the fun of exploring their neighbourhood under their own steam. The Ministry of Transport says that the number of secondary school students cycling to school fell from 19 percent in 1989 to just 3 percent by 2015. For primary students the number fell to 2 percent. I reckon that's a disgrace, but we can fix it. Cycling Action Network says getting kids biking to school is a top priority. How will we achieve this? ...
Nominate your favourite place to ride!
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Government must move faster to avoid more cyclists dying under trucks
Government must move faster to avoid more cyclists dying under trucksNews release from Cycling Action NetworkThe Government is not moving fast enough to protect New Zealanders say advocates, following a third fatal crash involving a truck and a cyclist in a month.Five of the last 7 cyclist fatalities involved a truck.'It's been two and half years since the Cycling Safety Panel recommended 15 high priority actions to make our roads safer,' says Patrick Morgan, spokesman for Cycling Action Network (CAN). 'Action has been too slow. It is clear how to make our roads safer, so why are we waiting? How many more people will die?'The Cycling Safety Panel recommended, among other things:Investigate the costs and benefits of introducing mandatory truck side-under-run protection and other vehicle safety features (such as...
Cycling advocates call for action on making Hawkes Bay roads safer
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