Raise the Hammer has been warning for some time that the long term prospects for natural gas production in North America are poor.
Canada's natural gas exports to the United States will fall by nearly two-thirds by 2020 as new unconventional sources fail to offset declining production in Alberta and rising domestic demand, a new study from Natural Resources Canada suggests.
The article notes that politicians are completely ignoring the natural gas crisis staring down at us.
The report represents a stark contrast to the message of bullish federal and provincial politicians and oil industry officials who have assured consumers in the United States that they can rely on Canada to help meet their growing energy needs.
It also points out that the burden of Canada's oil production is going to shift 80 percent to Alberta's tar sands, which also depend on natural gas to operate.
Canadian natural gas production is not going to peak until 2010 or 2011, but because United States production is already in decline, exports are going to swallow a growing share of Canada's production.
If Canadians think Canada can simply cut its exports to the US to maintain enough supply for domestic needs, they're in for a nasty surprise. Kurt Cobb at Resource Insights suggested in August that once Canadian natural gas production goes into decline, the NAFTA provision that requires Canada to maintain its gas exports to the US is going to lead to some irate Canadian gas consumers.
Under the NRCan scenario, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions would climb to 828 megatonnes in 2010 - 253 megatonnes above the country's Kyoto commitments - and would rise to 897 megatonnes in 2020. Nearly 60 per cent of that increase is expected to occur in the oil sector, primarily from producing and refining the bitumen from the oil sands.
Not surprisingly, the Federal government, which is based in Alberta and gets much of its corporate support from the energy sector, is unwilling to prevent this from happening.
The Conservative government has indicated it will introduce regulations to limit the growth in such emissions, although not at the expense of reining in oil sands production.
North American natural gas consumers lucked out last winter, which was unseasonably mild. Climate change notwithstanding, we cannot expect that luck to hold out indefinitely. Sooner or later, North America will have to face the fact that our main source of residential heating and a major source of electricity generation, not to mention a key component of Canada's oil industry, is on a sharp and permanent decline.
The longer our government denies the challenges we face, the less prepared we will be when the other shoe finally drops.
NAFTA Agreements and Kyoto Treaties are things signed on days of blue skies and singing birds. When push comes to shove, Canada can burn all that paper and save themselves. I can see the headline - US goes to war with Canada because Canada decided to protect it's citizens rather than sell all their gas to the US. Or even worse - Canada decides to keep millions of people alive rather than abide by Kyoto pollution agreements. Who would ever blame them? Congrats Canada for being a country whom can still take care of themselves.
I Agree totally with David. It dosen't take much to sign an emissions treaty or an enviromental stipulation document when its an ideal summer day with white sand beaces and dream temperatures. The real issue is taking into account how much energy is needed to keep a country as large as Canada afloat. Sure it would be nice to cut down on emissions and save a little ozone but so would driving a Mclearen F1 to work everyday. It looks great on paper but in a real world ordeal, you need to do whats going to benefit your citizens quality of life, and keep your economy alive. Congrats to Canada for being able to maintain their country nearly independantly , and having the ability to provide an economy to its people with such promise.
Its great to say " Go Economy!" when the Earth is ok right now. Try to explain the importacne of an "economy" to our chldren in 50 years when their homes are swallowed by rising sea levels, and the ozone is just about all depleated.


There are so many feelings I have about the loss of Columbia, that I don't know where to begin. So I'll begin with the personal.
In 1985, my father decided to apply to the journalist-in-space program. We knew he'd have no chance of being accepted, but the fact that he could apply to be an astronaut was just too good to pass up. So he filled out the paperwork, got a bunch of recommendation letters (including one from Isaac Asimov), and sent it in.
Finally, he received a postcard in the mail telling him that his application was complete and that they would begin processing it. The date he received that was January 28, 1986. The day of the Challenger tragedy.
On January 21, 2003, I discovered that NASA was restarting their educator astronaut program. Being a teacher, I decided to apply. The only sticking point is that although I have two Physics degrees and have been teaching for many years, I don't have a state license, which NASA requires. So on Friday, January 31, I discovered that I could get a provisional license if I pass two exams. Problem: the deadline to register for those exams was 5 PM Friday January 31st.
That afternoon, in a fit of rushing, I registered on-line, downloaded a PDF, and signed and faxed a form so I could take those tests this month, in time to get a license for my application to NASA. Like my father, I have no serious belief that I would be selected, but I felt the need to apply. Why? As Nomi put it, "Because it's cool."
And then, this morning, as we were enjoying shabbat, one friend called and another stopped by to tell us of the tragedy. I'm a news junkie, and even on shabbat I want this information. So I'm glad they thought of telling us.
But the news was horrible. I've been following the story of Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, with great affection and interest, down to the Torah scroll he carried with him from a Holocaust survivor. And now he is gone, along with six fellow crewmembers.


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When Michelle Lee came into #KickWeight and began to understand that sugar and foods with high carbohydrate content were her problem, things began to change.
She began reading our blog posts back in January 2016. When she learned about the free course #KickSugar, she decided why not? In one of the first sessions she came upon the Sugar Addiction Quiz.
It's the reason Michelle decided to come back into #KickWeight this session. She knows the keys taught will keep her going forward.
#KickWeight is a coaching class, like a college-level class, run from a closed, private Facebook group. There are study guides and action steps for each of the 13 teaching videos which come out every two weeks. On the opposite weeks, class members can ask me questions which I answer on a Q&A video on the opposite weeks. There are also challenges to keep the class moving in the right direction.
The class is all about finding the issues that are holding us back from going full out on the journey we already know God is calling us to. It's about changing from the inside out.1 It's about surrendering our selfish desires2 to God and allowing Him to lead us. I'm just the facilitator. God is the leader of #KickWeight for sure.
We've re-opened doors for this session. The introduction video has already been posted so hurry and get in. We've made a spot for you, but doors will be permanently closed at midnight May 30 so those in the group can go through the six-month program together. The first teaching video will be posted May 31. It's time for you to make a decision.
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Ways To Give To WUNC
St. Augustine's University Finds Fundraising Success
By Leoneda Inge • Jan 17, 2019
Leoneda Inge / WUNC
Leoneda Inge reports on efforts at Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh raising a record amount of money for the school at the end of 2018.
Saint Augustine's University in Raleigh reports raising a record amount of money for the school at the end of 2018. University officials say much of the support had to do with the effort by the small, historically black institution to regain full accreditation. But the news comes at a time when another HBCU in the state is struggling to meet fundraising goals.
Women Who Arm Wrestle
By Anita Rao & Frank Stasio • Oct 12, 2016
Courtesy of Perfecta Visuals
What happens when women get up on stage dressed to the nines and are judged not for their beauty, but for their strength? Groups of women around the country have been exploring just that with competitive arm wrestling leagues. Two of these leagues are based in North Carolina, the League of Upper Extremity Wrestling Women in Durham (LUEWWD) and the Greensboro Arm Wrestling League (GRAWL).

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Pro vs. Con: Bakken Oil Pipeline
February 16, 2015 8:00 am·
By Bob Eschliman
Since it was proposed last year, Dallas, TX, based Energy Transfer Partners' 30-inch diameter pipeline that would cross diagonally through Iowa has been met with stiff opposition.
The proposed 1,134-mile pipeline would carry up to nearly 24 million gallons of crude oil daily. The oil would come from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota.
Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement and the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter have been most vocal about their opposition. They say the risk of a leak – no matter how small – is not worth the potential benefits, which they also say are negligible.
ETP says that's not true.
Iowa will see $630 million in direct spending. Of that, there will be at least $50 million in sales and income taxes paid during construction, and another $189 million in estimated temporary and permanent right-of-way and easement compensation.
During construction, which is expected to take about two years, there will be a need for about 4,000 construction and service jobs. That's $390 million in salaries and $14.6 million in state individual income tax paid.
This map shows the locations of all the liquid and natural gas pipelines that crisscross Iowa. Click to see it in full size.
Ongoing, the 17 counties and school districts will receive approximately $27.4 million in property taxes – at current rates – each year. There will be 15 permanent jobs with a payroll of approximately $1.7 million per year.
The project would add approximately $1 billion to the U.S. economy. All mainline pumps will be assembled and packaged in the United States, 57 percent of the pipe itself will be manufactured in the U.S. and the majority of the remaining major materials will be purchased, manufactured or assembled in the U.S.
The safety record of Iowa's pipelines have been called "spotty" by some media outlets, but you can see for yourself by clicking here to see an interactive map of all the "significant incidents" in Iowa since 1986. A "significant incident" is one in which $50,000 in damage is caused, or at least one serious injury/fatality, or at least 2,100 gallons were released.
Although there has been 133 "significant incidents" in the past 30 years, the facts are clear: there has never been a catastrophic incident involving any of the more than 51 pipeline operators in the state. There are already 41,410 miles of hazardous liquid and natural gas pipeline in the ground in Iowa.


(1988-92 LH 2.4, 2.4.1 & 2.4.2) Read the following procedure carefully before turning ignition on. On 900 models, use a switched jumper lead No. 8393886 to ground No. 3 pin in the three-pin test connector located on the right side of engine compartment. On 9000 models, use a switched jumper lead to ground the single pin socket on the test box located on the left side of engine compartment. On all models, turn ignition on. The check engine will come on. Turn the jumper lead switch on (grounding ECU pin 16). The check engine light will now go out. Watch the check engine light carefully. After approximately 2.5 seconds, the check engine light will flash briefly, signifying that the first diagnostic trouble code will be displayed. Immediately turn the jumper lead switch off as soon as the check engine light has flashed. The first error DTC's will now be displayed by a series of short flashes of the check engine light. The error DTC starts and ends with a long flash of the light. These long flashes are not part of the DTC, but indicate the beginning and end of the DTC. If the test is run with the engine off, DTC 12231 (no RPM signal) will be the first DTC displayed. As soon as this DTC is displayed, turn the ignition key to the Start position and hold it there until the ECU acknowledges by flashing the check engine light. The signal is being generated. At this point, let the ignition key return to the Run position so the next DTC can be displayed. With the jumper lead switch set to off, the same DTC will flash repeatedly. Any additional DTC's cannot be displayed until the jumper lead switch has been operated as follows: Turn the jumper lead switch on. After a short flash of the check engine light, turn the jumper lead switch off. The next DTC (if any) will then be displayed. Repeat this procedure to display a third stored DTC, if any. If a third fault has not been detected, or all faults have been corrected, the system will indicate this by a continuous series of long flashes of the check engine light, or by displaying DTC 12444. 9. To display the DTC's again, starting from the first DTC, proceed as follows: Turn the jumper lead switch on. After two short flashes of the check engine light, immediately turn the jumper lead switch off. The DTC for the first fault will now be displayed.
( 1985-92 2.2 LH & 1988-92 2.4 LH) Prior to connecting tester, clean battery terminals to ensure that the power supply lead clips make a satisfactory contact. Always connect power supply lead to the tester first and battery last. 1. Remove cover on left hand side over space behind false bulkhead panel. 2. On models equipped with anti-lock brake system (ABS), remove ABS ECU and bracket. 3. On all models, connect test lead between vehicle ECU and wiring harness. Use a couple of suitable ties to hold ECU and test connector together. Connect power supply lead to tester and to prevent it from being pinched, run it between door and body where there is a break in the seal. Connect tester leads to battery, negative terminal first, then the positive terminal. Select "TEST MODE" feature on LH system tester and read any diagnostic trouble codes stored in ECU memory.
(1990-93 LH 2.4 & 2.4.3,1993-95 MOTRIONIC ENGINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, 1994-95 MOTRONIC2.8.1 & 2.10-2, DI/APC & EZK IGNITION SYSTEMS) Connect SAAB ISAT tester, or equivalent, to the diagnostic connector located under the right hand rear seat on 900 models, or under right hand front seat on 9000 models, per manufacturers' instructions. Never unplug connector from ECU or disconnect either of the battery leads before faults have been transferred to tester.
Turn the jumper lead switch on.
After three short flashes of the check engine light, turn the jumper lead switch off.
The check engine light will now either flash in a continuous series of long flashes or display DTC 12444, indicating that the contents of the system's memory has been erased. After diagnostic trouble codes have been transferred from ECU memory to the LH system tester, DTC's will be cleared from ECU memory.
To clear DTC's when using SAAB ISAT tester, or equivalent, follow tool manufacturer's instructions.


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Q: Nesting tests in a single Nightwatch test suite to use multiple befores I have a set of tests in a suite that I want to run across many page objects. I tried building a test object like below, except it only runs the first one.
module.exports = {
  'test1': {
    before: function() { console.log('before1'); },
    'test 1a': function() { console.log('test1a'); }
  },
  'test2': {
    before: function() { console.log('before2'); },
    'test 1a': function() { console.log('test2a'); }
  }
};

Is it possible to do this kind of nesting in one test suite? The actual use case I want to achieve is like this:
['page1', 'page2'].forEach(page => {
  this[`Do something on ${page}`] = {
    before: client => {
        client.page[page].navigate();
    },
    'it does something': client => {
        client.page[page]().expect.section('@element').visible;
    }
 }

where I want to build dynamic test suites that run the same tests on many "page" objects.
UPDATE: I really want to continue using the Nightwatch runner instead of using another runner like Mocha that indeed does have this functionality.

A: To achieve this you need to change the nightwatch.json config to use other test runner in this case mocha to have more flexibility:
"test_runner" : {
 "type" : "mocha",
 "options" : {
  "ui" : "bdd",
  "reporter" : "spec"
 }
}

and then you can write your tests like this:
describe('describe', function() {

  before(function(cl, done) {
    ng = ng({client: cl, screen: 'rounding'});
    client = cl;

    console.log('before1')

    done();
  });

  after(function(client, done) {
    if (client.sessionId) {

        client
        .pause(1999)
        .end(function() {
            done();
        });
    } else {
        done();
    }
  });

  afterEach(function(client, done) {
    done();
  });

  beforeEach(function(client, done) {
    done();
  });

  describe('describe nested', function () {
    before(function (client, done) {
        console.log('before before!')
        done();
    });

    it('expectation', function (client) {
      goToRoundingPage(client);
      client.pause(111);
    });
  });
});

As you can see with this testrunner you can nest the tests the times you want and support nested befores/after etc

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Albert and David Maysles
The Annotated "Rock Docs" Radio Special
by Rick Ouellette
Last month, I was honored to be interviewed by DJ Bob Dubrow of WMBR-FM 88.1 in Cambridge, Mass. to talk about my book Rock Docs: A Fifty-Year Cinematic Journey. Why honored, you ask? Because Bob is not just your average guy blabbing with some local scribbler with a book to peddle. He interviews (on a regular basis) many of your favorite musicians from the Sixties and Seventies, which is the focal point of the "Lost and Found" show which airs on "the Big 88" every weekday from noon-2PM (Bob is usually in the Tuesday slot). Your humble blogger and indie author was preceded the previous week by Bob Cowsill of the famous singing family and was followed by Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) and Paul Rodgers (Free/Bad Company) the next two Tuesdays.
You can click the link below to hear the whole two-hour show or, if you're pressed for time like most people, I will break it down into sections so you can jump ahead to certain interview segments or songs. Please note, however, that you can't rewind on this slider. Also, check out Bob's many great past interviews by visiting his MixCloud page at https://www.mixcloud.com/bob-dubrow/
For about the first four minutes, I get to talk a little bit about myself and how I came to write the book, while you become acclimated to my velvety radio voice 😉. Bob arranged the show to revolve around the work of various directors who have made the filming of rock music subjects a facet of their careers. I thought this was a good idea as it shows that from the beginning of the books timeline (1964) there were serious filmmakers recording performances and depicting real-life events of musical artists that were shaping a major cultural shift of the 20th century.
David (left) and Albert Maysles filming Mick Jagger during the making of Gimme Shelter.
First up, we discuss David and Albert Maysles (at the 5:00 mark) who were hired to film The Beatles First U.S. Visit only a couple of hours before the group's plane landed in New York in February of 1964. The notion of rock mass-media was so new that the Maysles were giving full-access, sight unseen, by the Beatles management, giving us an up close look at this now-legendary event, which today would have a virtual army of handlers attached to it. The other two parts of rock's great triumvirate (the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan) were also committed to non-fiction celluloid before 1964 was out: the Stones on The T.A.M.I. Show and Dylan at the Newport Folk Fest. Director Murray Lerner in fact, filmed at Newport for several years and compiled his highlights in the 1967 doc Festival!
At 14:10, Bob plays Dylan's very plugged-in version of Maggie's Farm from Newport 1965 that has gone down in legend (and is seen in the Festival! film). So many rumors have surrounded this watershed Dylan-goes-electric moment—did Pete Seeger try to cut the cord with an axe, was Bobby booed off stage—that Mr. Dubrow's anecdote he learned from an interview with Newport participant producer Joe Boyd gives an fascinating spin on this famous tale.
Discussion of the work of Murray Lerner continues with his film Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (at 28:45), his outstanding doc of that 1970 event attended by 600,000 people but, because of funding issues, not released until 1997. Bob plays a song not seen in the original film, Leonard Cohen's "That's No Way to Say Goodbye" preceded by some typically esoteric stage banter from the bard of Montreal.
Leonard Cohen at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival
The crucial role of documentary makers in preserving the counterculture experience for posterity—the good, the bad an the ugly—is discussed (at 28:45) in the section about the Maysles Brothers' Gimme Shelter, about the Stone's 1969 US tour that ended in the calamitous Altamont festival. At 32:15, Bob cues up the disheveled version of "Under My Thumb" during which the Hell's Angels murdered a gun-brandishing audience member.
A discussion of the venerable American documentarian D.A. Pennebaker starts at 38:35. Pennebaker (like the Maysles) was an adherent of the new Direct Cinema and their fly-on-the-wall methods often yielded startling results, like D.A.'s bracing classic Don't Look Back. At 38:35, Dylan's defiant version of "Like a Rolling Stone" from his 1966 UK tour (also controversial with the folkie purists).
At 47:30, we discuss another Pennebaker film (and my all-time favorite rockumentary) Monterey Pop and after that Bob Plays a couple of songs from that beatific Summer of Love event, one at 51:27 from Buffalo Springfield (from a DVD extra) and one from the legendary set by Otis Redding (at 54:20). Also, he plays a song from a later Pennebaker film shot in 1973, the title song from the David Bowie concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Among the legendary performances captured by Pennebaker at Monterey Pop, the Who's "smashing" version "My Generation" ranks near the top.
At 1:03:25 the name Peter Whitehead comes up. Though not a household name in the States, Whitehead produced several music videos for the Rolling Stones (as well as the first film about them 1965's Charlie is MY Darling)
His most lasting effort is probably the free-form Swinging London opus "Tonite Let's All Make Love in London From that film's soundtrack we hear the part of a wild live-in-studio jam on "Interstellar Overdrive" by the original Pink Floyd (founder Syd Barrett was a friend of Whitehead).
Another British director, Tony Palmer, met John Lennon when the Beatles visited Cambridge University where he was a student. (Starting at 1:10:30) He ended up at the BBC where he used his Beatle connection to be introduced to many of the rock stars that would appear in his musical-sociological study All My Loving. He would film the final show of one of the bands featured. From Cream: The Farewell Concert Bob plays a great version of their hit "Sunshine of Your Love."
The next filmmaker on the docket (at 1:27:30) is Michael Lindsay-Hogg, known for capturing England's two most prominent bands at the end of the Sixties. From the Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus we get the one-night-only supergroup The Dirty Macs (with Lennon, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards) doing "Yer Blues" (at 1:29:50) and from the Beatles swan-song doc Let it Be Bob plays "I've Got a Feeling" from the rooftop concert.
The Beatles in "Let it Be." Though the film depicts the fraying of the group's unity that would lead to their breakup, the film is redeemed by the rooftop concert. From the book: Like a pack of squabbling brothers who find themselves in better temper after obeying a parent's order to "go out and get some fresh air," the mood of the film brightens as soon as the band emerges from the stairwell onto the rooftop. It may have been a chilly, overcast London afternoon but as soon as they launch into the remonstrative rocker "Get Back" the Beatles seem warmed up to the idea that they are out there to prove themselves. A month's worth of studio work was not in vain.
Of course, no discussion about classic rock docs can be complete without Woodstock, which made Warner Bros. a ton of money while also being good enough to take the Oscar for Documentary Feature in 1970. It's true, as Bob points: what hasn't been said about this iconic film. But I hope, we added a few new insights here and there about these films in general. Hopefully, the time and care I put into making this book more of "journey" through fifty years of music and lives, transcending the (still useful and user-friendly) anthology format. So if interested, click on the book cover above, or the link below, to see the index and the first 20+ pages of the text.
You can check out the excerpt at http://booklocker.com/books/8905.html or by clicking on the book cover image above. If interested in purchasing, you can contact me directly for a special offer and free shipping! Thanks, Rick.
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Posted in Rock Docs book sampler, Rock on Film and tagged Albert and David Maysles, Beatles Documentary, Bob Dubrow, Murray Lerner, Rock Docs: A Fifty-Year Cinematic Journey, rockumentary history, the Beatles: The First U.S. Visit, WMBR Lost and Found on September 6, 2018 by Rick Ouellette. 2 Comments
Documentary Spotlight: Albert Maysle's "In Transit"
On Labor Day weekend, at the end of a summer season that was among the most divisive in modern American history, I slipped into the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square for a well-attended screening of Albert Maysles' final film, In Transit. The nominal subject is Amtrak's popular Empire Builder route between Chicago and Seattle. But it's more about the human connections made possible by the relaxed close proximity of passengers and staff on a train moving over great distances. I came out of it more hopeful about the future than I probably had the right to be, considering the rise of racial extremism, political putrefaction and the torturous first months in office of a president whose every waking hour seems dedicated to narcissism and ill will.
Albert Maysles, who died at age 88 in March of 2015, will always be remembered for the great documentaries of the Sixties and Seventies he made with his brother David, who passed away in 1987. Chief among these, of course, was Salesman, Grey Gardens and Gimme Shelter. The brothers were also instrumental in the advent of the rock film when they were the first to film the Beatles on their First U.S. Visit (as it was later known on DVD). To find out more on this story, see the review in the excerpt of my book ROCK DOCS, by clicking on the cover image in the right hand column.
The Maysles were known for being in the right place at the right time and this is also the case with Albert's last work, made with co-directors Lynn True, David Usul, Nelson Walker III and Benjamin Wu. Trump may not have president yet when the film was produced (it debuted in 2015 and is only in limited release even now) but America's deep socio-political fault lines were already a much covered subject by then. In Transit is a compact (only 76 minutes long) and very welcome update on the idea that the cause of human diplomacy, and the betterment of the human condition, is best achieved when conditions are optimal.
A great fatherly pronouncement: "There's part of the human spirit that will not be snuffed out."
So it is here. As opposed to the isolation of car trips, or the increasingly frustrating and cramped nature of air travel, unhurried long-distance train rides lend themselves to both contemplation aided by passing scenery and social mingling by passengers free to roam the aisles. And this is what happens, in a style that could be called enhanced cinema verite. The subjects know they are being filmed but Maysles' trademark unobtrusive style keeps them at their ease. A look at the trailer below will give you a good idea of the film's thoughtful tone. People are trying to find themselves or lose themselves, others are coming from or going to meet-ups with relatives, friends and potential partners with various degrees of optimism or apprehension. Some are living out old-fashioned notions of romantic travel while still others are looking for better employment opportunities, in this case mostly in the North Dakota oil fields. Everybody is "in transit" in more ways than one.
What you don't get in this exceptionally serene film is any sense of the distressing breakdown of civility that has been exacerbated by the anonymity and callousness that so often defines our frazzled online age. The fleeting friendship between an older white ex-soldier with PTSD and a young and very pregnant black woman fleeing a bad relationship to deliver her baby near her family in Minneapolis is one of several touching encounters that. It unpretentiously shows the value of empathetic conversation and self-reflection that otherwise may have turned to fodder for the free-ranging resentments of social media's darker forces. The Empire Builder may start and end in the blue states of Illinois and the Pacific Northwest while travelling thru several very red states, but here at least the rips in the social fabric seem to have the potential to be sewn back together a bit by nothing so revolutionary as a face-to-face coming to terms, both with your fellow citizen-passengers and the face that's reflected back to you when looking out at the wide open spaces of the world we inhabit. What a wonderful parting gift from Mr. Maysles
Posted in Documentary Spotlight and tagged Albert and David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Amtrak on film, Ben Wu, David Usul, In Transit documentary, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, US social divisions on September 7, 2017 by Rick Ouellette. 4 Comments
The Beatles meet the Maysles, 7 Feb 1964
The review below taken From "Documentary 101: A Viewer's Guide to Non-Fiction Film"
Now on sale: http://booklocker.com/books/6965.html (This author page has an extended book excerpt. Also available from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com)
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
Albert and David Maysles—1964/1991—83 minutes
It was only ten weeks after the assassination of President John Kennedy. With the pall of national tragedy still in the air that winter, the filmmaking team of Albert and David Maysles got a call from Granada Television in England saying a musical group named the Beatles were arriving in New York in a couple of hours and would they mind heading down and maybe getting some footage? Albert was a bit nonplussed but younger brother David was more hip to the current pop scene and sensed the opportunity. After negotiating a deal right there on the phone, the light-traveling duo were on their way to recently renamed John F. Kennedy Airport, getting there just in time for the famous moment when John, Paul, George, and Ringo hesitated a moment at the top of the steps while leaving the plane, realizing that the hordes of people lining the balcony of the terminal were there for them and not some head of state as they first thought. And just like that the Maysles brothers found themselves in the middle of one of the twentieth century's defining cultural moments. The First U.S. Visit is a 1991 re-edit of the original '64 film (called "What's Happening: The Beatles in the U.S.A.") that adds more music and excises some interview material. But both versions pull the viewer right into the middle of the tumultuous birth of 1960s youth culture. It also features the Beatles performing thirteen unedited songs, from both a Washington, D.C., concert and the epochal Ed Sullivan Show TV appearances.
Twisting by the pool in Miami Beach, 1964
The Beatles were poised for big things and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (their first widely distributed single in the U.S.) had hit #1 two weeks previous. Early segments show famed DJ Murray the K in his studio hyping them up but establishment media were often belittling in their opinions and their long-term prospects in America were uncertain. At the airport press conference they quickly charm the jaded New York press corps with their contagious high spirits and sharp wit, then are whisked off to Manhattan and to a rock 'n' roll superstardom never to be equaled. Although a few hours before they had hardly heard of the Fab Four, the filmmakers found themselves squished into the back of a limo with the confident but still nonplussed band members. Arriving at the Plaza Hotel, we get the first dose of Beatlemania up close with fans pounding on the window, the boys dashing from the car to the lobby door, and the scenes of police struggling to keep back the hordes, all soon to become iconic images of the decade. Two nights later, on February 9, 1964, the band would make television history with 73 million people tuning in to Sullivan's Sunday-night showcase. The Maysles brothers would tag along for the next five days with unfettered access and whether it's the boys goofing around in hotel rooms, dancing at the Peppermint Lounge, or getting photographed in Central Park, the camera never seems more than a few feet away from the action.
When it's time to head south for the D.C. concert, the whole entourage takes the train like it is no big deal and the band jovially mingles with the other passengers. The group here is shown at a giddy apex of fame just before becoming imprisoned by their own celebrity. And although the performances on Sullivan's show seem as fresh and buoyant as ever, the gig at the old Washington Coliseum may be the musical highlight here. Playing from a makeshift stage in the middle of the arena, the group is surrounded by the deafening din of screaming girls but cut through the pandemonium with a manic energy unseen on the tube. "I Saw Her Standing There" rocks with an almost punkish jolt and Ringo gets a rare concert lead vocal during a likewise frenetic "I Wanna Be Your Man." The sight of the four of them having to turn around their own amps and rotate the drum riser to play to a different part of the house couldn't be quainter—roadies weren't even invented yet!
The Beatles raise the roof on the Washington Coliseum, Feb. 11th, 1964
Ed Sullivan is waiting down in Miami Beach, ready to introduce these "fine youngsters" for the second of the three consecutive weeks on his show. Although the Maysles brothers' time with the Beatles ended down there, also included is their return appearance (taped earlier) at the regular New York location for week three on Sullivan (with a farewell rave-up of "Twist and Shout" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand") and a bit of their departure and triumphal airport reception back in London.
The filmmakers' methods seem to point the way to one of rock's most celebrated films, "A Hard Day's Night", which started filming a month after the group's return. That movie's director, Richard Lester, carefully crafted a pseudo-documentary feel and a few notable scenes, like the mob-besieged Beatles running to their catch their train before being eaten alive, were not staged but done spontaneously, a bit of cinematic verisimilitude not appreciated by the band. "What's Happening!" (as it was still known) was a great feather in the cap for the Maysles brothers. With an eerie symmetry, these Johnny-on-the-spot filmmakers would close out the 1960s with "Gimme Shelter", unwittingly filming the dark flip side of the scene the Beatles created while following a late 1969 tour by the Rolling Stones.
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Oregon's New Office of Outdoor Recreation Finally Has a Leader. What Will He Do First?
Cailin O'Brien Feeney will have to balance feedback from all sorts of outdoor enthusiasts, from environmental activists to ATV lovers.
By Sydney Dauphinais 6/26/2018 at 11:28am
Meet Cailin O'Brien Feeney, the brand-new leader of Oregon's also brand-new Office of Outdoor Recreation
Image: Cailin O'Brien Feeney
Since August 2017—when Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed HB 3350 to create the state's first Office of Outdoor Recreation—the hiring process for the department head has been, well, exactly that: a process. Finally, on June 8, the Oregon Park and Recreation Department announced its pick, effectively ending the 10-month search.
As of June 28, the brand-new agency will officially have a leader (managing an office of, um, one). Meet Cailin O'Brien Feeney: skier, cyclist, climber, surfer, one-time river guide, and, for a few more days, the state and local policy manager for the Denver-based Outdoor Industry Association.
"It's part of my soon-to-be-previous role to work with outdoor industry brands and nonprofit partners and state officials, so I'm very much plugged into this world," O'Brien Feeney says. "Although I haven't lived in Oregon in the past decade, it is where I fell in love with the outdoors."
That love stems from work leading outdoor excursions and tours while pursuing his bachelor's degree from Lewis & Clark College. After college, O'Brien Feeney was a river guide in Oregon and Idaho and, later, a fellow with the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2015, he landed his job with OIA, coordinating policy and working with locals and other conservation groups.
O'Brien Feeney concedes his new job won't be easy; he'll have to trailblaze the office's operations while balancing potentially conflicting—and impassioned—feedback from a range of interest groups. The ultimate goal? To boost outdoor recreation participation within Oregon over time.
"There are conflicts between certain kinds of recreation," O'Brien Feeney says. "Mediation will be a part of it, no doubt, but I take a more optimistic view. I see this position as convening and removing barriers, and figuring out what laws, policies, and partnerships we can use."
Granted, O'Brien Feeney steps into this role without a guide, so his exact duties remain a bit speculative. In the spirit of mediating all those competing future demands, we asked three local stakeholders what they think should be O'Brien Feeney's first priority:
Adam Baylor, Stewardship and Advocacy Manager, Mazamas:
Whether it's overcrowding, or trash, or erosion, or parking, there are major issues right now associated with outdoor recreation activities. But I think the no. 1 thing we [want to collaborate on] is trail maintenance and trail development throughout the entire state. I think this office has a really good opportunity to jumpstart that. What we've got in place already is a solid foundation. A couple years back, Travel Oregon made this framework for an outdoor recreation initiative. [So] in a way, the ship has been built—we just need a captain. I hope this director can really navigate some of these problems and deal with competing interests.
Brooke Sandahl, Vice President, Metolius Climbing:
I think he's going to want to identify what the recreation opportunities are, go through them numerically, and see what each one of those is generating; identify the winners and put together a comprehensive plan to enhance them. He should do what's best economically for the state, but also be very careful to look at the indigenous people's rights, look at private property rights, and basically define what the state has to offer—I don't know if that's been done super thoroughly yet.
Sean Stevens, Executive Director, Oregon Wild:
We work a lot on public lands protection. It's a place where the state's voice is especially important right now in the federal landscape. We have to make sure we're doing a good job to protect them, and it's important that this office act as a voice to push back against federal policies that would undermine protections for public lands. We've recently had a disinvestment in environmental infrastructure at the state and federal level, and that's going to continually be a challenge. We'll be looking to inform—from our perspective and priorities as a coalition—what the office might pursue. Cailin is familiar with a lot of the players in our coalition so I think there will be a natural working relationship from the start.
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One plus one free: India's telecom firms are selling connectivity like soap – and paying the price
Treating mobile connections like fast moving consumer goods is destroying the sector, say experts.
Sriram Iyer, qz.com
Jan 20, 2018 · 01:30 pm
An Indian man walking past a shop with an advertisement for mobile service provider Airtel and Idea in Mumbai. | Indranil Mukherjee/AFP
"Buy one, get one free." "Buy two, get three free." These may be good for fast-moving consumer goods like soaps, shampoos, and shirts. But that strategy, when applied to telecom – "Buy data plans, get voice calls and messages free" – is destroying the sector.
"There was no telecom professional bred in this country. The bulk of the people hired by the telecom sector more than 10 years ago were either from Unilever, Pepsico, Coke, or Xerox," Sanjay Kapoor, former CEO of India's biggest telecom firm, Airtel, told Quartz. And those strategies seem to have run their course, he added. Kapoor himself was from Xerox's India venture, which was in partnership with the ModiCorp, later known as the Spice Group.
In a market where 90 out of 100 people in a given area (tele-density) already have at least one telephone connection, the challenge is to retain customers and build brand loyalty for pricing power. Who knows to work that better than the former FMCG honchos, right? Wrong.
"FMCG theories were applied when the telecom biz was all about voice. It isn't anymore," Kapoor said. "Advertising about the touchy-feely stuff is not going to work. Yes, you need the emotional connect, but what sustains over time is the customer experience. If you cut and paste FMCG strategies, it may or may not work."
Oh, that appetite
Most Indians may be first-time phone users, but there are nearly 650 million in all and over 300 million of them have smartphones. And they are now consuming data by the gallon.
Indians use upto 1.5 billion gigabytes of mobile data every month, the most in the world. This has a lot to do with the tariff war triggered by Reliance Jio, the latest entrant to the world's second-largest telecom market.
However, the hyper competition in pricing has led to an insufferable quality of services. Call drops are a menace and data connectivity patchy, so much so that the government has had to crack the whip repeatedly.
Consumers, too, have begun demanding better user experience. A whole lot of them, at least higher in the pyramid, would even be willing to pay for improved services.
"They [consumers] are now used to cheap tariffs. But they are also paying for Hotstar, Netflix, and things like that. People know where value is, and seem willing to pay for it," Mahesh Uppal, telecom analyst and director at consultancy ComFirst, told Quartz.
The wrong people
Do the top telecom executives then recognise the real opportunities? Or are they missing the woods for the trees?
"Given the setbacks the sector has had in recent months, it would seem that the leadership had a limited appreciation of regulation, notwithstanding their acumen in sales and marketing," Uppal said.
If what Indian telecom needs today is improved user experience with better connectivity and an add-on services ecosystem, there's another question: Where is the money for that?
Reliance Jio's entry in 2016, with never-before tariffs, has led to a calamitous fight for dominance over the last 18 months. It dragged down Airtel's profit by a staggering 90% in the June-September 2017 quarter while Idea swung to a loss of over Rs 1,100 crore, 11 times worse than a year earlier. British telecom major Vodafone had to write down the value of its India business by a mind-boggling 5 billion euros, even as it worked a merger with Idea to take on its competitors.
"You have built a market that expects you to give 35 GB of data for a monthly price of Rs 400 [$6.25] per month. How will you make money?," Kapoor said. "In the US today, you won't get more than 3-4 GB data for $100 a month. Wireless networks are not built to give you 35 GB of data a month"
Meanwhile, regulatory changes like the cut in inter-connect usage charges and international termination charges will further dent the earnings of Indian operators, excluding Jio, analysts said.
Indian telecom has been a hyper-competitive space for over a decade now. A few years ago, there were nearly 15 players fighting for a fraction of the pie that exists today. The smaller players have fallen by the wayside, but the margins have not improved for the survivors.
That is why the game and strategies must change – from thinking like FMCG to thinking like a service provider, unlike selling soaps and shampoos to more like selling salon services.
This article first appeared on Quartz.
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Patriots è il decimo album di Franco Battiato, pubblicato dall'etichetta EMI Italiana nell'ottobre 1980.

Descrizione
Patriots è il primo tiepido successo commerciale di Franco Battiato dai tempi dell'album Pollution. In classifica si piazza al trentesimo posto e rimane fra i primi cinquanta per quattro mesi. Inizialmente si sarebbe dovuto intitolare "I telegrafi del martedì grasso". I brani Up Patriots to Arms e Prospettiva Nevski (ispirato all'omonima strada di San Pietroburgo) diverranno col tempo suoi grandi classici.

Il testo della canzone Le aquile è tratto dal volume Statue d'acqua di Fleur Jaeggy. Arabian Song è il primo brano della sua carriera nel quale il cantautore siciliano si cimenta nel canto in lingua araba. Numerose anche le citazioni letterarie che si riferiscono a poeti italiani (fra cui Leopardi, Pascoli e Carducci) nel brano Frammenti.

In Passaggi a livello, tra la seconda e la terza strofa, è presente una citazione in francese tratta dal volume III dell'opera Alla ricerca del tempo perduto di Marcel Proust: "La musique, bien différente en cela de la société d'Albertine, m'aidait à descendre en moi-même, à y découvrir du nouveau: la variété que j'avais en vain cherchée dans la vie, dans le voyage [...]".

All'inizio di Up Patriots to Arms si ascolta un breve parlato in arabo, di fonte incerta, il cui significato è traducibile con: "Ogni giorno guardiamo le cose insignificanti, guardo tutto e tutto il mondo che vive di speranza, e non vivo". La musica utilizzata in questo passaggio è un frammento dell'ouverture del Tannhäuser di Richard Wagner.

Nel 2010 è uscita un'edizione per commemorare il trentesimo anniversario dell'album, con l'aggiunta del videoclip di Up Patriots to Arms e quattro tracce bonus. La base strumentale di Up Patriots to Arms, qui pubblicata, corrisponde a quella delle versioni in inglese e spagnolo della canzone, uscite originariamente su Echoes of Sufi Dances ed Ecos de Danzas Sufi.

Dieci anni dopo è stata pubblicata un'edizione commemorativa per il quarantennale, che conferma le tracce bonus della 30th Anniversary Edition, a eccezione della base strumentale di Up Patriots to Arms e del suo videoclip. La copertina è stata rivisitata da Francesco Messina che ha tolto il piccolo Battiato in spalla a Battiato e il ritaglio sullo sfondo di Battiato e Giusto Pio seduti, che è stato spostato sul retro dell'album.

Accoglienza

Un dizionario di album pop e rock assegna a Patriots un voto pari a tre stelle su cinque e dichiara che è "breve, ma intenso".

Tracce
Testi di Franco Battiato, eccetto dove indicato; musiche e arrangiamenti di Franco Battiato e Giusto Pio.

Lato A

Lato B

30th Anniversary Edition

Formazione
 Franco Battiato – voce, sintetizzatore
 Giusto Pio – violino
 Eugenio Spanò – voce recitante
 Filippo Destrieri – sintetizzatore, tastiera, ARP, organo Hammond
 Antonio Ballista – pianoforte
 Gianfranco D'Adda – percussioni
 Gigi Cappellotto – basso
 Flaviano Cuffari – batteria
 Alberto Radius – chitarra

Cover
 Nel 1985 Alice ha interpretato una sua versione dei brani Prospettiva Nevski e Le aquile nell'album Gioielli rubati.
 Nel 1994 i Disciplinatha hanno realizzato una cover di Up Patriots to Arms nel loro album Un mondo nuovo.
 Nel 1996 i Bluvertigo hanno realizzato una cover di Prospettiva Nevski nell'album Battiato non Battiato
 Nel 2009 Luca Carboni ha realizzato una cover di Up Patriots to Arms nel suo album Musiche ribelli.
 Nel 2009 i Negrita hanno realizzato una cover di Up Patriots to Arms nel loro album Greatest Hits 1994-2009.
 Nel 2011 i Subsonica aggiungono una cover di Up Patriots to Arms al riediting del loro album Eden. La traccia vanta la collaborazione dello stesso Battiato.

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Mind of the Speaker - How Do You Feel About Your First Presentation?
The first time we do anything, we're terrified. Asking out that first date, submitting that first patch, reviewing someone else's code for the first time. Surprisingly, how we feel about it (e.g. "OH MY GOD I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING") has very little to do with how well we actually do at it; sometimes we're right and we end up doing terribly, and other times we're wrong and it ends up going well. It's different for each person.
What is the most important thing for a speaker to remember while they are on stage?
What was your first conference-level presentation about, and how did it go?
NOTE: A couple speakers couldn't remember their first conference presentation, so instead I asked them about a particularly memorable one.
This blog post gathers the answers I got to the third question: What was your first conference-level presentation about, and how did it go? The answers I got varied mightily, both in how well they thought the presentation went, and how well they thought it was going to go.
Let's get the worst out of the way: sometimes you do so bad at your first conference presentation, the conference doesn't want to have you back. Ever.
Kathleen Dollard (.NET coach and Director of Engineering, ROI Code): "Oh, terrible. It was some terribly-named thing like 'Data in the Dog House' or something stupid like that. I absolutely bombed. I was so bad. I won't tell you what conference it was, but it was a conference that [told me], 'yeah, don't bother to apply again.' But [my colleagues] told me, 'you shouldn't quit,' and I said, 'oh, ok, I'll try again.' It was terrible, absolutely terrible."
The bane of any tech speaker's existence is technical issues, especially ones they can't control and are powerless to change.
Dan Wahlin (consultant, author, founder of Wahlin Consulting): "I think one of the more memorable ones would have been a TechEd one I did. We had some serious technical issues. In that case, I'll have to admit, I don't think I was [prepared], because I just assumed that you show up and everything works; that you're just there to speak. So being prepared for the things that don't go so well, goes a long way."
John Papa (Pluralsight author, speaker): "One of [my presentations] that was not so great, because they're more fun to talk about, was when I was on stage and talking about a topic (I think it was ADO and RDS, one of my earliest talks), and we had some technical difficulties again. The slides didn't work at all. So I had to do an hour-long presentation without slides. Part of the [problem] was, within a minute, I realized it just wasn't going to work. Nothing was working. So I was like, "well, now I've got to teach for the next 59 minutes about this topic without any computer. [But I can say] that it was a good experience, in the sense that I realized that I didn't need the visuals to do it. It was also good to realize [what] Dan mentioned: have backups, be prepared. It was humbling, because I know it didn't go as well as it should have."
Sometimes, though, the technical issues are caused by your own worst enemy: yourself.
Javier Lozano (Owner of LozanoTek): "[It] was many, many years ago on WCF. It went surprisingly well, [and] the reason why I say [surprisingly] that is that I did something very stupid. WCF was in beta, and I upgraded to the latest beta bits. Just the bits, but not my code, and my code wouldn't work. So I'm freaking out thirty minutes before [my talk], trying to undo all that, and it was very, very painful. Out of all of the demos, I was able to get four of them working, rather than the eight that I had to show. It was one of those [things where] I apologised to everybody, because it was a stupid mistake [to] upgrade all of the stuff. That was a lesson that I never, ever repeated."
Phil Japikse (Consultant, speaker, author, blogger (skimedic.com)): "My very first conference-level presentation was about the data access blocks in .NET, and it went terrible (sic). I do a lot of instruction [and] classroom-style teaching for customers, and I'd been doing that for years. A buddy of mine was running a show, and he knew I was teaching. He had an open slot, and he says 'will you come give a talk on the data access blocks?' I said, 'sure! I use them all the time.' So I built a classroom-style presentation for a code camp, and realized pretty quick that that's not the right format. I was trying to teach like [I would] in a classroom, as opposed to just step back and get people excited about it and move on. So I learned pretty quick to adjust my style."
One speaker had what seemed to me to be a rather unique experience: she was presenting someone else's content!
Julie Lerman (Consultant, Vermonter, blogger at The Data Farm): "It might have been at a Microsoft community event in Boston, oh, a thousand years ago. Microsoft tech [had] developer evangelists at the time, although that's not what they were called. It was people from the community doing [the] speaking, and it was a really big deal, and they gave you the content to do, so it was really hard. My talk was [something] like 60 slides, and I had a half an hour to talk, or something like that. It wasn't my content; I had to do somebody else's talk! The first time I did [that talk], it went so badly. It was so bad; I couldn't even believe that I could be so bad. And then we did a new iteration; we did that whole thing again with the same people, [about] a week later, and I totally nailed it!"
Mark Miller (Chief scientist at DevExpress, expert in great design): "I think my first one was pretty crazy. I substituted for another speaker that couldn't make it because his wife was having a baby. I was kind of irreverent and nobody had ever seen anything like that before; they were used to a professional setting. I had three different talks at that conference, and by the last talk I had people following me and trying to get in to my sessions (because everybody was like 'who's this guy?'). I remember getting into my last session, and there was just a crowd of people trying to get into it. I was trying to get by them, and somebody was like 'who's this guy?' and some other guy [says] 'some hotshot speaker!'"
James Ashley (Freelance HoloLens developer at Imaginative Universal, Microsoft MVP - Emerging Experiences): "I can't remember my first [conference presentation], but I'll tell you about one that I remember really well. I'd picked a new technology topic and was feeling sick, so I showed up thinking I would get some small corner room somewhere (this was a conference in Tennessee). Instead I got a thousand people in the room. I totally bombed it. Lost my place, got overwhelmed, barely dragged my way to the end. Yeah, that was great experience."
My head is still spinning from that one.
I firmly believe the best way to give a stellar presentation is to practice the hell out of it, and a few of the speakers agreed with me.
Robert Green (Developer Evangelist and speaker, Microsoft): "[Laughs] Oh boy. I might wind up dating myself. I believe my first [presentation] was on doing client-server development in FoxPro. It went fine, because I knew a lot more about it than the people in the room. I go to a talk to learn. I don't necessarily go to a talk to hear the world's foremost expert on something. If I can, that's great, but I go to a talk to learn. So I think people learned a lot in that talk, and so I think it went pretty well. If you want to be a speaker, of course you need to know your subjects, but you don't have to be the world's foremost expert to teach people thing."
Tim Huckaby (CEO of InterKnowlogy, software guy): "I worked on a server produce team at Microsoft in '98. I was just a lowly dev on an architecture team, but all the business people, all the [project managers], were busy. Back then Microsoft had this conference called TechEd. [It was] an enormous conference. And they said, 'well, Huckaby has a personality, let him do the presentation,' since none of them wanted to do it. So I did, and it went amazingly well. I prepared the hell out of it, I studied the hell out of it, I knew the product like the back of my hand, because I'd worked on the product. I just had all this insight that I'd gathered up from the team and my experience. It was the highest rated presentation in the conference. And it was the first time I'd ever done it! They're like 'oh my God, you were awesome,' and I'm like 'really? I though I was horrible.' Because we're all our own worst critics."
Because presenters do tend to be their own worst critics, sometimes speakers are just surprised anyone showed up at all.
Jes Borland (Senior SQL Server Engineer, Concurrency): "My was in 2011. I presented at a SQL Saturday, and my topic was completely not technical. It was 'Make Your Voice Heard,' and how to further your career through using forums and blogging and Twitter and LinkedIn. It was great! People had so many questions. They wanted to know how I had gotten started with those things. They wanted to know what my tips for success were. They genuinely looked up to me. Being able to do that was awesome."
Erin Stellato (Principal Consultant, SQLSkills): "My first conference-level presentation was in 2011, and it was specific to capturing baselines in SQL server. I was on the last day of the conference in the last timeslot, and was of course concerned that no one would show up. Lo and behold, people did show up, and I had questions and I had good feedback from that, and it ended up being a great experience."
One speaker credited his first talk going so well to a person who'd inspired him to do it in the first place.
Pete Brown (Music app and Internet of Things developer, Microsoft): "I was just thinking about this the other day, because I owe a lot of that to a guy who was a vice president at the last company I worked at; his name was Tom O'Connell. He got me in to speak at an event called Explorer 99, and I was talking about a Visual Basic library we wrote to make it really simple to build forms-over-data applications, where all the entities and everything inside the VB app and all the rules [and so forth] were generated from UML models. I thought it went pretty well."
Burke Holland (Developer Advocate, Progress Software): "My first conference presentation was on HTML5 when [that] was a new concept. I was sent to TechDays in Canada, and I had the first session after the keynote in the keynote room. The keynote was by Scott Hanselman, who I did not know and had never seen a keynote from before. So as a speaker, I had to get up there on stage, after [Scott], and be like, 'well, I hope you enjoyed that, and now... this.' And it went great! It was a great experience, but it was absolutely terrifying."
As you can see, many speakers did well, and many did terribly. But, considering the fact that I got to interview them at all, their experiences with their first conference-level presentation didn't stop them from doing more.
Have you done presentations of any kind, not just at conferences? If so, do you remember your first one, and how did it go? Share in the comments!


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Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar with Stanislav Stanskikh and Daria Trenina. They will discuss mechanisms of political repression in Russia, Russian refugees abroad, and refugees in Russia. We encourage you to read their articles on asylum, expulsion, and extradition cases in Russia and the former Soviet Union, granting Russian refugees humanitarian protection, and the recent U.S. Department of State Report on Human Rights Practices in Russia. The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Lunch will be served. Click here to register.
Daria Trenina is a high-profile human rights lawyer in Russia. She is a licensed attorney at a well-known law firm Musaev and Associates, Moscow, Russia. She is a specialist in the field of asylum, expulsion, and extradition cases in the former Soviet Union with a strong track record of successful cases at the European Court of Human Rights including those of precedential value. She graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) with an LL.M degree in 2006 and a bachelor's degree in law in 2004; participated in Venice Academy on Human Rights, UN Human Rights Orientation Program, American University Washington College of Law course on Introduction to U.S. Immigration Law. Since 2016, she is a councilor at the "Right to Asylum" project, jointly conducted by a prominent Russian NGO Institute of Human Rights and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. From 2006 to 2021, she was a teaching fellow and lecturer at MGIMO University (criminal law and procedure, European Law, European human rights protection system) and a co-author of dozens of re-training programs for legal professionals. Since 2016, she is a Council of Europe expert and a tutor at the Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals project's programs.
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Brandizzi is still a few years from being able to commercialize her research but said this is a better route than just publishing a paper on her findings. Being able to sell the technology would generate money for more research, she said.
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This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.
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The Slovenian art commune now known as Metelkova was once a military barracks, but you would never know it by its state today, covered in a psychedelic cacophony of naive art, graffiti, and punk rock visuals.
Originally built in 1911 by the Austro-Hungarian Army, the site consists of seven barracks buildings sitting on a little over three acres of land. The military used the little walled neighborhood until 1991 when the army abandoned the site as Slovenia attained independence from Yugoslavia. Once the site was vacated, it wasn't long before groups of squatters began moving in, and making the old buildings their own. In 1993, the Slovenian government tried to demolish the old barracks, but nearly 200 activists, artists, and protesters took over the site and saved it from destruction, for a time.
The government never gave up trying to tear down the site, but the squatters and protesters that continued to hold the never gave up their fight. One of the buildings, known as the "Old School" was successfully taken down in 1997, and another building, known as the "Small School" was also demolished in 2006. However the remainder of the space remains as a rebellious artistic community space that is still in some amount of contention with the government.
These days most of the buildings have been covered in graffiti, folk art, found tile mosaics, weird sculptures, and punk rock statements of purpose. It now also houses a bar, a nightclub and a hostel, as well as the free-living squatter population. A museum called Galerija Alkatraz is now located in Metelkova.
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Drake is back with some new solo music after going on a short hiatus from dropping his own material. In his latest single "Started From The Bottom", Drake speaks on how he built his empire from the ground up. Mike Zombie, the newest member of the OVO team produced the track, and it will be the first single off of Drake's forthcoming album. Below is a letter that Drake released to his fans about the track. Read what the artist had to say, and don't hesitate to hit that play button.
"My good friends, It has truly been too long. I assume you're all keeping well and making the most of this year that has been given to us. Today is the day to begin sharing my newest work with you. This is the first single off of my upcoming album. I feel sometimes that people don't have enough information about my beginnings and therefore they make up a life story for me that isn't consistent with actual events. My family and my second family (consisting of the best friends anybody could ever have) all struggled and worked extremely hard to make all this happen. I did not buy my way into this spot and it was the furthest thing from easy to achieve. I am proud of every part of my past and I'm excited for this song to find a place in your life as well. I didn't feel I needed any interviews or radio or press to launch this song. It felt right to come back to the site that I started on and release it to the people that started here with me. Judging by this post, the tour that we've been planning, the conversations about new songs and album artwork…I think it's safe to say we're back together again. Looking forward to seeing you all soon."


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This commission from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an aerial exhibition depicting the IFC's commitment to reducing its global waste impact. Designed and produced by a team of students from the Corcoran College of Art+Design, our exhibition consisted of four 14x17ft sculptures constructed of fabric, paper, and metal illustrating the idea that every action, no matter how small, ripples out and affects the world. While I was involved in nearly every aspect of this project, I supplied CAD conceptual renderings for the client and detailed construction documents for the riggers.
This commission from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an aerial exhibition depicting the IFC's commitment to reducing its global waste impact. Designed and produced by a team of students from the Corcoran College of Art+Design, our exhibition consisted of four 14x17ft sculptures constructed of fabric, paper, and metal illustrating the idea that every action, no matter how small, ripples out and affects the world.


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SEATTLE, Feb. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Zillow® introduces video walkthroughs on for-sale listings, providing home buyers with a new and more immersive way to envision themselves in a home. Video walkthroughs are short videos that will give buyers more information about a home's key features and special attributes than photos alone can provide.
Video walkthroughs are designed to fit into the browsing behavior of homebuyers, who are increasingly searching for homes on their smart phone. Two-thirds of Zillow's traffic comes from a mobile device, on weekends it's more than 70 percent. With a time limit of two minutes and no sound, video walkthroughs give buyers a new way to explore the real estate market and narrow down the homes they want to tour. The format is the same for every listing, giving buyers a consistent viewing experience and allowing them to more easily compare homes.
"With home buying season starting to ramp up, we wanted to give buyers another tool to help them in their home search process," said Jeremy Wacksman, Zillow chief marketing officer. "Video walkthroughs give buyers a quick glimpse into home features that are hard to capture in photos, like how a home is laid out or how much natural light there is in the kitchen. For agents and sellers, video walkthroughs are a great new way to make their listings stand out to the millions of home buyers who visit Zillow each month."
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Recommendations to improve communication of people with stuttering when using masks
Dr. Carlo stated that this scenario is especially problematic in an emergency situation (health or safety need), which can have serious consequences.
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SAN JUAN – With the purpose of promoting effective communication in the community with stuttering in Puerto Rico and in the face of the challenges they face due to the use of the mask by Covid-19, the Health Clinics of the School of Health Professions (CLISEC) of the Speech-Language Pathology Program of the Medical Sciences Campus (RCM) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), provide a series of recommendations to improve communication.
"The forced use of masks can make it even more difficult for people with stuttering to communicate. People who stutter often experience blocks and repetitions in their speech. Face covering contributes to misunderstandings, especially when the only cue the listener has is seeing the speaker's face. Disruptions in speech can be misinterpreted, lead to the person being ignored or even their behavior considered offensive ", explained this Tuesday Dr. Edna Carlo, Director of the RCM Speech-Language Pathology Program.
Dr. Carlo stated that this scenario is especially problematic in an emergency situation (health or safety need), which can have serious consequences. "We must all be aware of these circumstances, but it is especially relevant to teachers, medical and emergency management personnel, and security personnel," he noted in written statements.
In light of the current and long-term public health need for mask use, the RCM PHL Program offers the following tips to promote effective communication in children and adults who stutter.
If you stutter
Tell others. The person who stutters can choose to verbally indicate this at the beginning of a conversation or to show an identification card like the one published by the American Stuttering Foundation. This will let people know that you need more time to speak and can reduce pressure a bit by anticipating speech difficulties.
Practicing at home or with people close to you can give you more confidence in challenging situations, such as an emergency call or participation in virtual classes.
Get advice on the accommodations and modifications available for academic and employment contexts so that you can continue to do your regular job and duties.
You can use a clear mask. By doing this, others can more easily see that you are experiencing a blockage.
Consult your speech-language pathologist.
Participate in support networks and learn from other people with stuttering about the strategies that have helped them in these circumstances. There are many available on social media.
In turn, it is possible to help people who stutter by following the following recommendations:
Be patient. Give the person a chance to speak and don't try to finish what you say or speak for them.
Be kind. Recognize that we are all experiencing stressful times.
Try to remain understanding of those who require the extra effort to speak.
If you don't understand, ask for clarification. Consider accepting another form of communication, such as reading a written message. An alternative is to communicate using a text-to-speech application, which is free of charge and is available for all types of smart phones.
Consider reviewing your service policies, such as allowing a chaperone to communicate key information.
For more information, you can contact the Speech-Language Pathology Program by writing to: [email protected] [email protected] or by calling 787-758-2525, Ext. 4401 (Tuesday and Thursday).
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Premier League Set Liverpool Kickoff Times Through March
The revisions are in and the Reds know when they will expect to play their league games through the next two months.
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Liverpool's schedule through the next two months firmed up a little today with the Premier League releasing their revised fixture dates through to the March international break and shifting a number of the Reds' matches to account for other competitions.
Games against West Ham United and Brigton & Hove Albion will remain Saturday kickoffs, but with the home match against the Hammers on March 5th moved to a late 5:30PM GMT kickoff and the Brighton match set for the early 12:30PM slot on the 12th.
Their final league game of March, against Manchester United, has been moved to Sunday the 20th with a 4:30PM GMT kickoff, though if the Reds remain in the FA Cup at that point the weekend's headlining match could be moved again to account for it.
The second leg of the Champions League Round of 16 tie with Inter Milan will take place amongst the four confirmed March fixtures and is set for a standard 8PM kickoff from Anfield on Tuesday the 8th, between the West Ham and Brighton matches.
As yet, a new date for Liverpool's late February league game against Arsenal that had been scheduled for the weekend of the 26th has not been set with Liverpool now scheduled to face Chelsea in the League Cup final at Wembley on Sunday the 27th.


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A comparative study of estrogen receptors a and b in the female reproductive tract
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Estrogens have a pronounced influence on the function of the female reproductive system. The regulation of biological processes by estrogens is mediated via specific intracellular receptors (ERs), ERalpha and ERbeta, which function as regulators of transcriptional activity. In order to further understand the role and action of estrogens in general and the relative importance of each ER subtype in particular, a study on the role of ERbeta and its relationship to ERalpha in the reproductive system has been performed. A specific aim was to study ERbeta in the process of cervical ripening in humans. This study has a comparative design, using rats and cynomolgus macaques as animal models for comparison to humans. Distinct expression pattems were evident for the two ERs in different compartments of the female reproductive tract of the rat. ERalpha was the dominating subtype in uterus, oviduct, and cervix/vagina, with the distribution varying in stroma and epithelium during the estrous cycle. Low levels ERalpha mRNA and protein were observed in ovarian stroma cells, while ERbeta was strongly expressed in the granulosa cells. ERbeta mRNA and protein were present in the different compartments of the uterus and cervix/vagina, but only sparsely expressed in the oviduct. Administration of progesterone (P4) for 24 hours to ovariectomized (OVX) rats was associated with a reduction of ERalpha levels in the luminal epithelium of the endometrium, but not in the glands, which suggests that functional responses to P4 in relation to ERalpha are different between luminal and glandular epithelium. E2 or P4 treatment did not affect the expression of ERbeta in the endometrium. Long-term treatment (35 months) of OVX cynomolgus macaques with estrogen and/or progestin, or tamoxifen, resulted in a modulation of ERalpha protein levels in the endometrium, more pronounced in the superficial than in the basal layer. Treatment with progestin alone or combined with estrogen down-regulated ERalpha in the superficial glands, whereas both ERalpha and ERbeta were increased after progestin treatment in the superficial stroma. Tamoxifen administration increased the levels of ERalpha, which may be one reason behind the formation of endometrial hyperplasia, a common side-effect from tamoxifen treatment. The ratio of ERalpha/ERbeta after different treatments might determine the estrogen response and indicate the rate of proliferation. ERbeta mRNA and protein levels were low in the cervix from non-pregnant women, but increased at term pregnancy. After parturition ERbeta expression decreased again to the levels seen in non-pregnant women. In contrast to ERbeta, ERalpha expression was high in the cervix from, nonpregnant and term pregnant women, but significantly decreased after parturition. This suggests that a switch from ERalpha to ERbeta dominance occurs in the cervix at term pregnancy, possibly to block the activity of labor-associated genes. The distribution of ERbeta in neutrophils and endothelial cells of blood vessels and the co-localization of ERbeta and leukocyte markers CD45 and CD68 suggest a possible direct effect of estrogens on leukocytes via ERbeta. In conclusion, short-term steroid treatment of OVX rats and long-term treatment of OVX monkeys influences ERalpha expression more than ERbeta in the uterus/endometrium. The upregulation of ERbeta in cervical stroma at term pregnancy indicates a role of this ER subtype at parturition. Estrogens might affect cervical ripening also via ERbeta present in the invading leukocytes. The results from this study demonstrate that the multifunctional activities of estrogens and progestins are mediated by a complex regulation of ERalpha and ERbeta in the female reproductive tract.
I. Wang H, Eriksson H, Sahlin L (2000). "Estrogen receptors alpha and beta in the female reproductive tract of the rat during the estrous cycle. " Biol Reprod 63(5): 1331-40
II. Wang H, Masironi B, Eriksson H, Sahlin L (1999). "A comparative study of estrogen receptors alpha and beta in the rat uterus. " Biol Reprod 61(4): 955-64
III. Wang H, Isaksson E, von Schoultz B, Cline JM, Sahlin L (2001). "The effect of long-term treatment with steroid hormones or tamoxifen on estrogen receptors (alha and beta) and insulin-like factor-I (IGF-I) in the endometrium of ovariectomized cynomolgus macaques." (Manuscript)
IV. Wang H, Stjernholm Y, Ekman G, Eriksson H, Sahlin L (2001). "Different regulation of oestrogen receptors alpha and beta in the human cervix at term pregnancy. " Mol Hum Reprod 7(3): 293-300
V. Stygar D, Wang H, Vladic YS, Ekman G, Eriksson H, Sahlin L (2001). "Co-localization of oestrogen receptor beta and leukocyte markers in the human cervix. " Mol Hum Reprod 7(9): 881-6
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Construction on the C.E.X stadium in Coffs Harbour has begun, the new developments being made to the stadium will include two new grandstands as well as an annex building. This project is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Glenn Haig and Partners have completed design and documentation of the hydraulic and fire services for Lipman constructions; including, sanitary drainage, trade waste drainage, storm water drainage, water services, and, fire services. While completing the design the existing grandstand had to be taken into account, as it had to remain in its current location during construction.
For more Information on this development visit, https://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/its-ready-set-upgrade-as-first-sod-turned-at-stadi/3374128/.