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import React from "react";
import { BotState } from "../interfaces";
import { Diagnosis, DiagnosisProps } from "./diagnosis";
import { ConnectivityRow, StatusRowProps } from "./connectivity_row";
import { Row, Col } from "../../ui";
import { ConnectivityDiagram } from "./diagram";
import {
  ChipTemperatureDisplay, WiFiStrengthDisplay, VoltageDisplay,
  reformatFwVersion, reformatFbosVersion, LocalIpAddress, MacAddress, isWifi,
} from "../../settings/fbos_settings/fbos_details";
import { t } from "../../i18next_wrapper";
import { QosPanel } from "./qos_panel";
import { PingDictionary } from "./qos";
import { refresh } from "../../api/crud";
import { TaggedDevice, Alert, FirmwareHardware } from "farmbot";
import { FirmwareAlerts } from "../../messages/alerts";
import { TimeSettings } from "../../interfaces";
import { getKitName } from "../../settings/firmware/firmware_hardware_support";

export interface ConnectivityProps {
  bot: BotState;
  rowData: StatusRowProps[];
  flags: DiagnosisProps;
  pings: PingDictionary;
  dispatch: Function;
  device: TaggedDevice;
  alerts: Alert[];
  apiFirmwareValue: FirmwareHardware | undefined;
  timeSettings: TimeSettings;
}

interface ConnectivityState {
  hoveredConnection: string | undefined;
}

export class Connectivity
  extends React.Component<ConnectivityProps, ConnectivityState> {
  state: ConnectivityState = { hoveredConnection: undefined };

  componentDidMount = () => this.props.dispatch(refresh(this.props.device));

  hover = (connectionName: string) =>
    () => this.setState({ hoveredConnection: connectionName });

  render() {
    const { informational_settings } = this.props.bot.hardware;
    const {
      soc_temp, wifi_level, throttled, wifi_level_percent, controller_version,
      firmware_version, private_ip, node_name, target,
    } = informational_settings;
    const { id, fbos_version } = this.props.device.body;
    return

      <Row>
        <Col md={12} lg={4}>
          <ConnectivityDiagram
            rowData={this.props.rowData}
            hover={this.hover}
            hoveredConnection={this.state.hoveredConnection} />

            {t("FarmBot Info")}

{t("Device ID")}: {id}

            {controller_version
              ?
{t("Version")}: {
                reformatFbosVersion(controller_version)}

              :
{t("Version last seen")}: {
                reformatFbosVersion(fbos_version)}
}

{t("Model")}: {getKitName(this.props.apiFirmwareValue)}

{t("Firmware")}: {reformatFwVersion(firmware_version)}

            <ChipTemperatureDisplay temperature={soc_temp} />
            <WiFiStrengthDisplay wifiStrength={wifi_level}
              wifiStrengthPercent={wifi_level_percent} />
            <MacAddress nodeName={node_name} target={target}
              wifi={isWifi(wifi_level, wifi_level_percent)} />
            <LocalIpAddress address={private_ip} />
            <VoltageDisplay throttleData={throttled} />

          <QosPanel pings={this.props.pings} />
        </Col>
        <Col md={12} lg={8}>
          <ConnectivityRow from={t("from")} to={t("to")} header={true} />
          {this.props.rowData
            .map((statusRowProps, index) =>
              <ConnectivityRow {...statusRowProps} key={index}
                hover={this.hover}
                hoveredConnection={this.state.hoveredConnection} />)}

          <Diagnosis {...this.props.flags} />
        </Col>
      </Row>
      <Row>
        <FirmwareAlerts
          alerts={this.props.alerts}
          dispatch={this.props.dispatch}
          apiFirmwareValue={this.props.apiFirmwareValue}
          timeSettings={this.props.timeSettings} />
      </Row>

;
  }
}

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Embedding videos on your help files is one of the easiest ways to connect with your audience brilliantly. Videos are absolutely helpful especially when your goal is to explain how a product works or how to use a specific feature or for a product demo. Plain texts might be a long process of delivering your message. But when you have texts supported with how-to videos, you'll end up with an online documentation that is rich in information and design. With a help authoring tool like HelpNDoc, you can rapidly import media elements into your documentations.
The old adage that a picture is worth more than a thousand words is still absolutely relevant in technical writing. If your images, illustrations and/or info-graphics are self-explanatory enough, users may not even bother to read your texts to get a full grasp of whatever they are seeking.
Your online documentations shouldn't pop up like a sore thumb on your website. Rather, it should blend in with other visual elements on your site including font type, font size, and colors. Users shouldn't feel as if they are on a different website whenever they have to use your documentation.
Odds are some of your product users might have visual challenges. So make sure there's a clear cut contrast between your website background and font size. Also, make sure your font size is large enough to make it easier for everyone to read.
A poor user experience can make your help file a complete turn off and make users abandon it before even trying to use it. One of the easiest methods of enhancing user experience is to leave enough white space on your documentations, rather than having a congested documentation.
This is the point where you have to apply the principle of keeping it simple and sweet. While you may want your product descriptions to be well detailed, keep it short, simple and straightforward because readers won't have time for long readings. So keep your content crisp and clear.
Make sure your online documentation is compatible with various devices - mobiles, tablets, laptops, etc. It's hard to predict what device users will use to access your online help files. So your best bet is to have a responsive online documentation that users can access easily. Here's a quick guide about publishing your documentations in the right format.
By embedding the right visual elements into your online documentation, creating an impressive first impression becomes easier. Having all these elements in your documentations is absolutely easy if you're working with the right tool. With a help authoring software like HelpNDoc, you can focus only on your content and let the software do all the hard work for you. The best part? HelpNDoc is free for personal use and evaluation purpose.


A new pilot project aims to identify and treat early symptoms of anxiety with the aid of smart watches and a custom app.
For the thousands of adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual and developmental disorders in Ontario, mental-health conditions such as anxiety and depression can be isolating.
Now an Ontario-based group of entrepreneurs, researchers, and support providers is developing a new resource by piloting a project, funded by the Ontario Brain Institute, that aims to help people living with ASD — and other developmental disorders — manage anxiety symptoms before they escalate.
Since March 20, four participants from Community Living Windsor, a not-for-profit organization that provides supports for adults living with developmental disorders, have been using wearable technology to monitor, track, and treat anxiety.
The technology brings together the Anxiety Meter, an app created by Holland Bloorview scientist Azadeh Kushki, and Reveal Stories, a free care-coordination app created by startup Awake Labs. The combined app, developed in partnership with You X Ventures, is downloaded on a smart watch — the Anxiety Meter's algorithm measures a user's baseline heart rate and detects changes that could indicate anxiety, while Reveal Stories allows users to keep track of a range of psychological and physical symptoms.
Palmer says that the pilot will last for as long as the participants are willing to wear the app. She hopes it will be at least a month or two, so that they can work on improving the app's accuracy and efficacy, but she'd be happy to extend the collaboration.
Correction: An earlier version of this article indicated that the pilot program involved adults with autism. In fact, it involves adults with a range of intellectual and developmental disabilities. TVO.org regrets the error.
Veronica Zaretski is a journalist who writes about the arts, culture, and technology.


Slice the roots off of the garlic bulbs and rub them with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Place them on a baking pan.
In a medium bowl, combine the cherry tomatoes, zucchini and onions. Toss with remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, lemon zest and salt.
Spread the vegetables on the baking pan with the garlic. Roast for 40 minutes.
To serve, squeeze the garlic from the peels and toss with the vegetables and olives. Serve immediately.


At Paris Descartes, most of our courses are taught in French, but a few are taught entirely in English.
Our Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Nanotechnologies applied to health.
This curriculum gathers 4 European Universities: Paris Descartes University (coordinator), University of Angers, France, Patras University, Greece, and Pavia University, Italy.
Nanomed is an original training 24-months Master's course in English (4 semesters) in the field of nanomedicine applied to health through the delivery and vectorization of active molecules, offering a high quality and multidisciplinary education, this Master's program aiming to develop the students' competences in various fields (chemistry, biotechnology, physico-chemistry, biology, pharmacotechnology, pharmaceutical development …).
The BME PARIS master's program is designed to provide a 2-year education program in the field of bioengineering, at the crossroad of biomedical and engineering sciences. It results from a partnership between Université Paris Descartes, Arts et Métiers ParisTech and Université PSL.
In M1, there is one single track, with individualized choices of courses according to students' backgrounds.
The master's program will provide students with a broad knowledge in the field of neuroscience ranging from molecular and cellular to integrative neuroscience.
Skills in project management, experimental design, data analysis, and scientific communication.
A master's degree for motivated students willing to pursue a career in the field of neuroscience, in both public and private sectors. An access to different PhD schools in France and abroad.
This Master's program is supported by high-level research laboratories with international reputation and network.
After completing the Master's Degree, students can either look for a position in the industry as a junior executive or get into a PhD program. The main areas of economic activity targeted by the graduate students concerns the areas of chemistry (cosmetics, health, textiles, …), energy (photovolatics, fuel cells,…), environment (non-polluting materials, remediation,…), aeronautics (composites, surface treatments, …), vehicles (batteries, supercondensators, …) and buildings (thermally insulating coatings, …). Our Master's program can also lead to positions and jobs not directly related to research such as consulting, patenting, scientific edition, and commercialization.
The Master's program aims at providing strong professional skills while developing student's creativity and innovation ability.


No time to read? Listen to our discussion on Episode 29 of The Redirect Podcast, beginning at 22:33.
Brands have been noticing a drop in organic reach on Facebook over time, and we have long seen the writing on the wall. In Episode 22, Adrienne mentioned testing in other countries, in which brand and publisher content was relegated to a separate "Explore" tab, rather than showing up on people's news feeds as usual. At the time, officials said there were no current plans to roll this out on a global scale, but of course we didn't believe that.
Well, it was announced by Facebook yesterday that over the next few months, they will be making updates to their ranking system that will result in more "meaningful" interaction. As a consequence, this will have a negative impact on what Mark Zuckerberg referred to as "public content": posts from businesses, brands, and media.
Adam Mosseri, Facebook's VP of News Feed, explained this update is not the same as the recent tests involving the Explore tab. "Public content" from Pages will still appear in users' news feed, though much less often. These posts will be demoted in favor of showing posts from users' friends and family near the top of the feed.
To understand where this is coming from, let's back up and explain how Facebook "decides" what shows up on a news feed. Likes, comments, and shares are ranking signals and help the platform determine what content a user might be interested in seeing. As the video in Facebook's announcement explains, posts you are likely to interact with are ranked higher in your news feed. Now, person-to-person interaction will be valued more than person-to-Page interaction to determine how posts rank.
To be clear, organic Page content is NOT being eliminated from the news feed (at least for now). So there is still potential for brands to have organic reach, but we suggest you don't hang your hat solely on that chance.
They also say they will continue to demote "engagement-bait," as it is not considered to create meaningful interaction.
This is where we point out that paid Facebook ads will be an even more important piece of your social media strategy going forward. Larry Kim wrote about this development for Inc., noting that these changes don't directly impact ads on the platform. (This was confirmed by Mosseri in a CNN interview.) However, there will be an indirect impact: Since organic posts will have less reach, this will raise the demand for advertising, and thereby increase the cost of ads. Though this will change the landscape of what has long been a very affordable advertising platform, the investment will be worth it.
For this reason, we suggest that if you're aren't already using paid advertising on Facebook, now is a great time to give it a shot. As organic Page content will not be as prevalent, it will be easier to cut through the clutter and catch your target audience's attention now.
Will other marketers start paying more to promote junk content? Probably. But perhaps a poor user experience awaits on the other side of their polished clickbait. If you're doing things right, their loss could be your gain in the long run.
Remember, a brand's content can still be shared organically. Are you creating content that people will find worth sharing? Your strategy should include the quality of what you're promoting – paid or organically.
On that note, take advantage of "social currency" to get your content shared organically on Facebook. Now, much like on LinkedIn, more value can come from individuals sharing with their networks, vs. a smaller brand page broadcasting to their narrower audience. Identify those influencers, micro-influencers, and connections who can boost your content into their networks.
So, in light of "organic-ageddon" (don't think that'll catch on…), are you going to chase the Facebook algorithm? Or are you going to improve the way you create, share, and promote content to appeal to consumers who are, after all, human?


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Q: How to use a loop to display more than one error message I have a simple registration form on my site. There are various validation rules regarding empty fields, incorrect characters etc.
I have a variable called $error, which is initally set to 0 but if there is a validation error it sets to 1 and another variable $error_message displays the error message itself. Below is an example:
if (strlen($firstName) == 0) {
    $error = 1;
    $error_message = "
 First name is required";
}

if (!preg_match($expName, $firstName)) {
    $error = 1;
    $error_message = 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
';
}

if (strlen($lastName) == 0) {
    $error = 1;
    $error_message = "
Last name is required";
}

if (!preg_match($expName, $lastName)) {
    $error = 1;
    $error_message = 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.
';
}

Whenever there is an error, the registration fails and the user is notified of what error it is, no last name, incorrect characters on first name, etc etc.
The problem that I have is that only one error message displays, even if the user has had multiple validation errors in their form.
My specific question is: How do I display multiple error messages, if there are indeed multiple error messages?
I have thought about setting $error = ()array; and using a while loop to possibly loop through and display each error message but I am unsure if I can keep the 0 and 1 for error flagging, if that makes sense.
Is this possible?
I have looked through a few answers on this topic but they seem to relate to displaying multiple rows from a database, which I am not doing on this particular page.
Below is the container/column which the error message should be displayed (PHP generated).

Error with registration:

$error_message

<a href = 'register.php' <button type = 'Submit' name = 'Submit'>Try Again</button>

Thanks for your time and any advice you can share!

A: Store your errors in the $error_message array then simply use empty to test whether or not there are any errors. No need to set a separate flag.
$error_message[] = 'Last name is required';

Then, to display them:
<?php
if (!empty($error_message)) {
    echo '
Error with registration:
';
    foreach ($error_message as $error) {
        echo '
' . $error . '
';
    }
}
?>

A: just a small example:
<?php

$errors = [];
$someVar = '';

if (empty($someVar)) {
    $errors[] = 'need input';
}

if (!false) {
    $errors[] = 'another error';
}

$errorsOccured = count($errors) > 0;
foreach ($errors as $error) {
    echo $error . PHP_EOL;
}

If you use an array, you can check at the end if errors occured. (if there were no errors, the array would be empty.)
The running code can be found here:

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Anaphylaxis is a major allergic reaction with the potential to kill. It should always be taken seriously. Anaphylaxis can be caused by any substance, but the commonest reactions follow ingestion of foods, stings from wasps and bees and exposures to chemicals. It is not uncommon to see anaphylactic reactions with exercise and up to 50% of these are associated with foods.
Itchy skin, flushed skin, blotchy skin, a raised red itchy rash. Swelling of the mouth, tickling, tingling or itching of the throat, mouth and lips. Stomach ache.
Firstly take a dose of antihistamines – any one will do. Crunch it up in the mouth and swallow. Apply cold water or ice packs to the affected area – sometimes this is sufficient to stop the reaction.
If the symptoms do not settle, consider taking an ampoule of adrenaline and using it in your nebuliser, or empty this into the mouth and gargle and inhale this way.
If the above symptoms progress, or if there is any hint of further reactions, do not waste time. Use injected adrenaline or EpiPen.
Marked swelling of lips or tongue. Difficulty in swallowing, wheeze or difficulty in breathing, change in voice or inability to speak, drowsiness, blue lips, feeling faint, loss of consciousness. Pulse – the pulse may be going fast, or conversely might be going very slow. Blood pressure may fall.
If in doubt whether or not to use EpiPen or adrenaline by injection, use it. No-one has ever died following an intramuscular injection of adrenaline given early in an anaphylactic attack. The injection needs to be into the muscle.
Some people need a second injection of EpiPen, so make sure you always have two to hand. Should you ever require one injection of EpiPen, then you need to be seen and assessed by a doctor as soon as reasonably possible. If you need Epipen, also take prednisolone 30mgs (6 tablets) or hydrocortisone 100mgs. These take up to 6 hours to work but they help prevent a second attack.
Pull off the grey safety cap. Place the black tip onto the side of the thigh at right angles to the leg. Press hard into the thigh until you hear the pen click (the injection can be given through clothing). Hold in place for ten seconds. Remove EpiPen - note what time it is.
Do click on this link!
Adrenaline has a short lifespan, so do check the dates on your ampoules and EpiPen regularly. I like all my patients to have three EpiPens – one for the house, one for the car and one for the handbag (or manbag!)!
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Sounds like a wonderful vacation…And like you said, the best part is just packing the car and going without much planning!!


Here is a must have for any collector. One of the rarest and most high end Knox rookie cards that will ever be made, the silver refractor insert from the new prizm set, so high end. Even better it's graded bgs 9.5 gem mint, so few in this condition.


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India vs England 5th Test Squads, Venue Updates, TV guide, Session timings
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India vs England 5th Test: Both of the team has landed to the Chennai for their next and last game. After this game, the England players will return to their homelands for the Christmas celebration. Then they will back to the India for their three One Day International matches against the team India. Due to the Cyclone Vardah, there is no network and Wi-Fi in Chennai today on December 14. The BCCI official twitter page has posted the image that shows the Indian Cricket players were playing FIFA in their room. Also, the page has updated the look of MA Chidambaram Stadium. Check the Images here below.
India vs England 5th Test Squads
The team India had the same squad of third and fourth test match against England. Now, it continues with the fifth test match. The opponent of India, the team England had the same team squad for all the five matches.
India: Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Karun Nair, Amit Mishra, Hardik Pandya.
England: Alastair Cook(c), Moeen Ali, Zafar Ansari, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Gary Ballance, Gareth Batty, Stuart Broad, Jos Buttler, Ben Duckett, Steven Finn, Haseeb Hameed, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, James Anderson, Keaton Jennings, Liam Dawson.
5th Test: India vs England schedule
The match will start as per the schedule from Friday to Tuesday, December 16 to December 20. The fifth and the final test match between India and England will conduct at the Indian spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin's home ground, Chennai. MA Chidambaram Stadium is the Venue of the 5th test. As like the previous games, the match will start at 9.30am IST, 4am GMT, 11pm (previous day) ET.
IND v ENG fifth test Session timings (Indian times):
First session: 9.30am to 11.30am.
Lunch: 11.30am to 12.10pm.
Second session: 12.10pm to 2.10pm.
Tea: 2.10pm to 2.30pm.
Third session: 2.30pm to 4.30pm.
The team India boys are all up for a game of FIFA due to the network and internet issues in Chennai.
Ravichandran Ashwin, Lokesh Rahul, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, and Karun Nair are playing FIFA game due to the issues with network and internet at Chennai.
India vs England 5th test TV guide & Online
The Indian Cricket fans and the people can watch the fifth IND vs ENG test cricket on following TV channels. Star Sports 1, Star Sports 3, Star Sports HD1 and Star Sports HD3 are the lists, which broadcasting the Live match. People can also watch this match on Hotstar Live Streaming.
The United Kingdom (UK) cricket fans can switch on the Sports TV channel of Sky Sports 2. Also, the online live streaming is providing by the Sky Sports on the following list. Watch Sky Sports and Sky Go are the official UK sports website to watch the fifth test cricket of England vs India.
Sky Sports is the official broadcast channel for the people of New Zealand. Fans can watch this match on live streaming online with the help of Sky Go NZ.
The United States and Canada Cricket fans and the people of the states can watch this match by using the Willow TV and its online live streaming on Willow TV Online.
The South Africa's brand sports channel had the rights to broadcast the game of India vs England Test series. Watch it on SuperSport 2 TV channel and SuperSport Live Video.
Foxtel is the official online live streaming website in the Australia. People can watch this 4th test match between India vs England on Fox Sports. Also, check the OSN Sports Cricket TV channel and online Live Streaming of OSN Cricket Live in the Middle east countries.
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This article is about the current B944 in Buckhaven.
For the original in East Fife, see B944 (Anstruther - Brownhills).
The B944 is a short link road through the centre of the Fife town of Buckhaven. The road was originally unclassified. Its short length means that it is not known for certain when the road first got its number, although it had definitely acquired it by 1951.
The road forms an L-shape through the town, linking the B931 to itself. At the eastern end it starts at a mini-roundabout on the B931 Wellesley Road and heads south along College Street, which starts off residential but soon becomes lined with a few shops and public buildings.
It's not long before we pass a small park on the left, after which the road bends 90 degrees to the right to follow the traffic-calmed Church Street (the church is on the corner) and becomes residential once more. The road then bends slightly to the right and descends – clearly a diversion from the road's original route. That this is Station Road provides a clue: there was originally a level crossing by the station here but the road was later diverted under the line. Now the line has been closed and the bridge removed but of course the road retains its course. We pass a park on the right before rejoining the old road immediately before the end of the B944 at a roundabout back on the B931, which keeps the name Station Road ahead.
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SpaceX Dragon docks with International Space Station
The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship approaches the International Space Station over the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday morning. Photo courtesy NASA
Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft containing 5,700 pounds of cargo arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday morning.
The spacecraft, which is SpaceX's 19th delivery to the ISS, was captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm operated by astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan at 5:05 a.m. At 7:47 a.m., it was installed in the ISS, according to NASA.
Aboard were genetically enhanced "mighty mice," 36,000 worms and a new version of the CIMON rocket to interact with astronauts. The worms will reproduce 3 million ones in an incubator and be brought back to Earth in a frozen state, Space.com reported.
The mice will help scientists understand how to limit muscle and bone loss in humans in space, CNN reported.
RELATED Checkerboard of unharvested corn in snowy North Dakota seen in NASA image
Experiments also will study malting barley in microgravity and the spread of fire
Also delivered were a high-tech toolbox to be mounted outside the station and a new hyperspectral Earth imaging system developed by the Japanese government for use in oil exploration among other things.
The spacecraft was launched aboard the Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The liftoff was delayed from Wednesday because of strong high-altitude winds.
RELATED NASA helps India find Vikram Lander lunar crash site
The capsule is scheduled to leave the space station and re-enter Earth's atmosphere in January, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California with 3,600 pounds of return cargo.
Early Monday morning, a second resupply spacecraft is scheduled to arrive: the Russian Progress 74 that launched Friday morning. NASA TV will provide live coverage of Progress rendezvous and docking at 4:45 a.m.
RELATED Spacewalkers back inside ISS after completing work to repair particle detector
Science News // 23 hours ago
Scientists film chemical bond making, breaking
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Everything depends on chemical bonds. Without chemical bonds, everything would fall apart. And yet, scientists don't entirely understand how chemical bonding works.
Science News // 1 day ago
Scientists pinpoint release of energy that powered series of solar flares
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Scientists have precisely pinpointed the explosive release of energy that powered a series of solar flares -- a first.
Acoustic communication first emerged nearly 200 million years ago
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- For the first time, scientists took acoustic communication back to its evolutionary roots. Researchers followed acoustic communication's phylogenic path back some 200 million years through evolutionary history.
Neanderthals had the teeth to eat hard plants
Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Neanderthals were capable of chomping on hard plants, according to a new study.
SpaceX test Sunday could be final one before firm carries people
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- SpaceX plans a final test launch of its Crew Dragon capsule in Florida on Sunday to prove it can carry astronauts to safety in an emergency -- a fiery demonstration that will destroy a Falcon 9 rocket.
Volcanism didn't play a role in demise of dinosaurs
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- New research suggests the volcanic activity in question occurred well before, and was unrelated to, the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.
Science News // 2 days ago
Wolf puppies unexpectedly play fetch with researchers
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- To the surprise of scientists, wolf puppies learned to play fetch in response to verbal cues from a human researcher. Dogs are thought to be unique in their propensity to interpret and respond to human cues.
Giant squid's genome sequenced for the first time
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced and annotated the genome of the giant squid -- the real-life inspiration for the Kraken, the sea monster mythologized for dragging shipping vessels to the bottom
Tool-making Neanderthals dove for the perfect clam shell
Jan. 16 (UPI) -- New research suggests Neanderthals held their breath and dove underwater to retrieve the perfect clam shells for tool-making.
2019 was second warmest year on record, NASA, NOAA confirm
Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Last year was the second warmest in recorded history, according to scientists as NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


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Would the legalisation of recreational cannabis fill a budget black hole?
By Jonathan Jackson. Published at Apr 3, 2020, in The 420 Report
Federal or State governments could consider legalising recreational cannabis to fill the budget black holes they will face post the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is unlikely that Australian governments will consider such action, however it would be foolhardy to scoff at any suggestion that helps to replace the billions, perhaps trillions of dollars spent to prop up the economy.
There are certain states in the US, now considering this measure.
Oklahoma lawmaker Scott Fetgatter has stated COVID-19 job losses and low oil prices have left the state more than $220 million in the red. This will be exacerbated by a further $250 million debt next year.
"With the current situation with oil prices being down, COVID-19, the economic impacts from those things, I just am wondering if it wouldn't be a good idea to have a discussion in the legislature about a full access program adult use over 21 alongside our medical program," Fetgatter said.
This type of program is already successful in Colorado, where medical and recreational marijuana sales hit a record $1.75 billion in sales last year.
"Colorado brought in $300 million in tax revenue and license fees last year in the state coffers," Fetgatter said. "In the first year we legitimately could see $100 million a year in increases rendered to the state of Oklahoma."
"It's very early in the conversation," Fetgatter told the Tulsa World this week. "What's important to me is to make sure we have a program that functions. A lot of people didn't like medical marijuana, and they may not like marijuana, period. I understand that. But it is here and is not going anywhere."
One Senator who doesn't like it is Senator Ron Sharp of Shawnee who believes legalisation may actually lead to a surplus of pot and an increase in black market sales.
"When you have farmers overproducing, they're going to want to sell that. When you have a dispensary that has too much marijuana they're going to try to slip it out the backdoor," Sharp said. "It's just not a very feasible idea."
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has also rejected the idea, saying recreational marijuana will not be part of the state budget this year.
The state of New York has a $15 billion budget gap, caused by the fallout from the coronavirus.
"It's not likely," he said. "Too much, too little time."
That sentiment was backed by Liz Krueger, the Senate Finance Committee Chair, who is also the prime sponsor of a bill to legalize cannabis. She told public television's "New York Now" that the provision is on hold.
"I do not believe that marijuana is going to be negotiated in this budget in the next few days," Kruger said. "I just don't see it as realistic."
Kruger believes the governor and Legislature could not negotiate a complicated measure in the budget to set up a legal marijuana system in New York, with all of the distractions caused by the coronavirus crisis.
Drug Policy Alliance's Melissa Moore was disappointed in the decision but said it was understandable.
"I don't think anyone could have foreseen the circumstances that we would be operating within as we are in the final days of closing the budget here in New York," said Moore, who added COVID-19 is "rightfully" demanding so much of the lawmakers' attention.
"Not moving to legalize cannabis through the budget process right now ... it makes sense," she said pointing to the fact that at times like these Drug Policy Alliance is more focused on "on day-to-day, life-or-death scenarios".
Moore said she hopes lawmakers will return to the Capitol later this year and legalise cannabis.
Certainly, in these uncertain times, the legalisation of recreational cannabis could have a positive impact on the economy.
Yet, there is much to consider. From how the legal system would work in this sector, to restrictions and how any revenues feed into the tax system.
It is clear that no government will take this path while they are struggling to keep their respective countries afloat, but it may be worth considering down the track when the true nature of the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic is known.
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The Vizio VMB070 (pictured) has a seven-inch LED backlit screen with 800 x 480 resolution and 250 nits of brightness power. Its sleek design contains no obvious buttons, but the touch-sensitive controls light up when it senses the user's hand approaching. It also has a flush antenna that can be propped up for better reception, an auxiliary audio and video inputs for use with a DVD player, and a headphone jack for a more private listening. Battery life can last for up to three hours.
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The budget passed by the House, however, is not satisfied with $2 billion more in revenue expected in the upcoming budget cycle. It turns to increasing taxes, mainly on businesses, by almost $1 billion more in order to increase state spending by 10%. The bulk of these tax increases – $534 million – come from the Business & Occupation tax on service businesses. A temporary rate increase was passed in 2010, but despite assurances at the time that the surcharge would not be made permanent, that is precisely what is proposed now.
The B&O tax is especially unjust, since it is a fixed portion of gross sales, not profits. The same tax is collected whether the business makes a profit or loses money. The businesses affected by this B&O tax are not rich mega-corporations, they are 144,000 mostly small businesses providing a wide variety of services. This group includes not just your doctor, lawyer and accountant, but your child care center, the beauty salon, the dry cleaner, technical/trade schools and a host of other personal care services. These are businesses already suffering in the recession, working hard to survive. Making permanent a 20% increase in B&O taxes is just another hit to the bottom line that they can ill afford right now.
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COCHRANE, Ont. – Powassan Voodoos goaltender Joe Vrbetic turned in a stellar 55-save performance to back stop his side to a late 3-2 road victory over the Cochrane Crunch in a contest featuring a pair of Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League East Division powers Friday at Tim Horton Events Centre.
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Is permission needed to retweet hot news?
Copyright law doesn't cover facts or ideas... except when they are "hot news …
Nate Anderson - Apr 6, 2010 2:36 am UTC
When an aggregator like Google News publishes newspaper headlines, is the company treading on thin ice? What about aggregators that publish headlines and a one-line excerpt? What about those that simply rewrite the facts contained in the story and publish a new account in their own words?
Newspapers have long objected to these practices, arguing that they dilute the value of their own work. Case in point: last month, Laura Malone of the Associated Press appeared at a Federal Trade Commission conference on the future of news and told the assembled audience (read the transcript PDF):
What we're talking about is news-aggregation sites where they take headline and lead, which can be, if it's a well-written lead and a well-written headline, the way they teach in "J" schools and the way most news organizations teach their reporters, that's the heart of the story, and the way people consume their news is to look at the top two or three things, read real quickly, move on to the next article. They're not... clicking through to the original source to read the entire detailed 'graph 4, 'graph 5, 'graph 6. They've got what they need in the headline and the lead, which can be one or two 'graphs. And that is supplanting what's happening out there with people not going to "The New York Times" because they're reading it on Google News or they're not going to "The Washington Post" 'cause they're reading it aggregated somewhere else.
And I think that there is a problem with that. We do need to be able to say that we, the content owners, we, the copyright owners, get to set the parameters by which people can republish our stuff. If people want to build sites based on the news that is published by any of the news organizations, that's great. We'll give them a license. Licenses are not difficult to get, and they're not terribly expensive.
The argument here is about copyright law, since the sites in questions are reproducing verbatim headlines and leads. The key defense would be "fair use," though it's not clear exactly where its limits would be.
But think about our third question above, the one involving rewrites. These don't implicate copyright law, since nothing is being copied excepts the facts from the original article—and copyright law famously does not extend to facts and ideas.
Yet it's easy to see what might happen. One company might sit back, read AP stories, and simply rewrite them and market the new stories as its own, all without doing the work of actual reporting. This famously happened during World War I, and it lead to the Supreme Court's finding of a "hot news" right for journalists. In essence, the right does protect facts and ideas for a limited time in order to prevent rampant freeloading in breaking news stories.
My news is hotter than yours
We've written extensively about "hot news" in the past. The doctrine has never gone away, though it has always been quite limited (New York state is one of the few places it is regularly recognized by the courts). It sounds like something archaic, but think for a moment how it might apply to bloggers, aggregators, Facebook posters, and even Twitter users today. If you think this stuff doesn't matter to the news business, then you haven't been paying attention. This isn't about copyright; it's about control of the facts.
Laura Malone again:
[Hot news] protects people. It protects the news organizations who are sending their reporters out at a cost, and that cost is not just dollars and cents, that cost is also lives, that there are people who are sitting in their homes at their computers, reading what the AP has reported, at a cost, and retyping it, sending it, and reselling it, so there's the free writing that happens. There are direct competitors—the Associated Press losing its customers because they were able to purchase it at a lower cost from the person who sat in his living room and retyped the stories and stripped the Associated Press' credit off it... We're gonna put fewer reporters out in the field. We're gonna have fewer people and fewer bureaus out there. We're gonna have fewer people to read those three Chilean reports, those three Chilean reports that were gotten by people who were there on the site doing original sourcing and doing original reporting. So, I don't think it's just a footnote, though I do put it in my copyright-infringement letters, as well. I rely very heavily on hot news misappropriation.
This is a fascinating response. Malone is reacting to a comment from Harvard prof Yochai Benkler, who pointed out that having any sort of right over the facts, even for limited times, posed problems for everyone.
"This beguiling idea of permissions everywhere—permissions for whom?" he said. "When a New York Times reporter who knows Spanish reads three newspapers from Chile and puts together insight about what is going on in the earthquake and how people think—permissions? When any reporter sits, combines what they hear with seven other reports they've listened to—permissions? You want to live in a permissions system that facts are permitted? It is—that is exactly the point about the fact-expression dichotomy. We exist in a world where facts are, as Justice Brandeis put it, in the same case.... Facts, as Louis Brandeis said, should be free as the air to common use. We do not have a permissions system for breathing."
In defending her organization's right to control facts, Malone argued that "original reporting" would dry up without a "hot news" right. But she then gives an example of such "original" reporting a newspaper who sends a reporter to Chile to read Spanish-language newspapers... which is exactly Benkler's point. The AP wouldn't be allowed to rewrite those original accounts without permission or without waiting some indefinite time period; the "hot news" right it wants could also extend to those Chilean papers.
James Boyle, a Duke prof who has written extensively on the public domain, was also on the FTC panel, and he argued against any new federal hot news right, despite current talk about writing one into US law. Two weeks later, he took to the pages of the Financial Times to sum up his argument more cogently, in a piece well worth clicking through to read.
So the new right would have no effect on the real problem newspapers face. And it would give them almost no protection that they do not already have either through law or technology. What would it do? It would cast a pall of fear over free speech. Is my blog or twitter feed allowed to say that there has been an earthquake or that some political scandal has erupted? Or must I buy a license to say so? After all, in the new world bloggers are "competitors" as news sources.
In fact, the right would produce all kinds of effects the newspapers have not thought about. They are assuming that this new right will only be wielded by them. Not so. Think of political activists who break a story—for example the young conservative filmmakers who produced devastating information on the operation of the organization ACORN. They are a news source. They might think it was a great idea selectively to decide which news organizations got to report that story, at least as long as it was "hot." Does that sound attractive? I think not. And then think of the difficulties of proof, the possibility of chilling of speech by wrongly claiming to be its source. Implementation would be a nightmare.
These are tricky and fascinating questions, but in Boyle's view, hot news is the "next bad thing." Enforcement of existing rights is the way to go, and news organizations can opt out of most reputable aggregation sites by some simple changes to robots.txt. Why layer a new right on top of that, one which turns facts into a permission-based system?
Keep an eye on the "hot news" debate. As pressure continues to mount on the news business, expect the drumbeat for additional rights to grow louder in DC.
Nate Anderson Nate is the deputy editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees long-form feature content and writes about technology law and policy. He is the author of The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed.
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0bliv!on Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
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skyywise wrote:
So, I like the idea of public domain, but what are we going to do about the quality of reporting? Should we have the federal government subsidize the news like the BBC in the UK? Would people prefer that the Chamber of Commerce or Greenpeace sponsor news broadcasts? I think, that to maintain the professional and (ideally) neutral tenor of the news, some concession to "old media" might be necessary. I don't like the idea of crowd-sourcing the news, I'd rather trust people who are paid to be neutral and who hold the honor of honest journalism close to their hearts.
Anyone have ideas?
If there is a value to professional reporting, then people will pay for it. As has been definitively shown by iTMS, you absolutely can compete with free, as long as you're providing something people are willing to pay for.
Not quite; you're using classical economics, and runs into the equally classical economics problem of the common good: something that isn't scarce, and from which you can't exclude people. Basically, the persons incurring the cost doesn't correlate perfectly with the persons deriving the benefit: in this case, while everyone benefits from the news reporters, only those paying for their news is incurring a cost. In the usual example of pollution, everyone incurs the cost but only the polluter derives the benefit. Depending on market forces to achieve the most efficient outcome fails in these situations. Can't say I have the solution either, but market forces ain't it.
gorehound Ars Scholae Palatinae
the riaa wants to control all music on the internet if they could.
the mpaa wants all your video
and news companies think they own all the news
wake up to the corporate owned world
newsme Seniorius Lurkius
Nagumo wrote:
fuxxx wrote:
It's just more dinosaurs trying to prop up failing business models instead of adapting with the times. Like it or not, you might not be able to maintain the same profit margins now that digital distribution has eliminated scarcity from many old business models. Instead of adapt, they want legislation.
Maybe we should all adopt the new google model: Wait for someone else to invent it then steal it and offer it for free. Better yet, have everyone finance this effort.
It's not just the news industry. Google's entire portfolio of offerings is nothing more than stolen ideas from successful businesses which they then offer for "free". We all run to grab our free apps helping them maintain top traffic rank as if they did this for us, and no one cares about the jobs which are lost by the small businesses who spent their fortunes on R&D only to be copied by google and offered for free.
Maybe it's legal, I don't really know. But when do ethics enter into this new business model? And by the way, the news industry has helped create this monster.
Go ahead. Flame away.
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I sympathize with her perspective. It sucks to bust your butt on an article or something, post it, then have some other site aggregate or link to it. Folks end up going to the aggregation site, which, if like Google, has it's own banner ads and ad revenue generation, which it's generating off of folks coming to it as an aggregation of stuff rather than going straight to your place to check out the article (and click on ads and generate ad revenue for you).
I also agree that news should move away from ad revenues and be more pay-for investigative reporting. Instead of paying journalists up-front and then say "go find some stories", instead say "you bring us some good stories, and we'll pay you so we can post them up for the world to see".
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Tundro Walker wrote:
All Google and the other aggregation sites do is put "your" headlines and teasers in the same place as "their" headlines and teasers. Just like looking at all the racks of newspapers at the newsstand. People will look at "your" headlines and teasers and if they get enough of the story to satisfy their curiosity they won't read anymore. Or, they'll decide they want to read "your" article because it interested them. Or, they'll decide they want to read "their" article because it sounded better then "yours".
If you insist that "your" stuff has to be behind any kind of cover then people won't bother with it at all and will just stick with reading "their" stuff.
The problem is they are still writing articles for newspapers.... cram it all into the first paragraph because space is scarce and editors will start cutting from the bottom. They need to write articles for the web. It doesn't cost anything to put out 1 page, or 2 pages, or however much you need to tell a compelling story. Give the reader the pertinent facts and a hint at how your article is worth my time to click on and read. Even then I won't click on very many of "your" articles simply because my interest in most things probably doesn't extend much beyond getting a few facts down and moving on to something else.
Rechar Seniorius Lurkius
Copyright and Common sense, what started out as a wonderful marriage now involves the pair of them completely ignoring each other like an old couple after too many years together.
Utterly idiotic.
giggity Ars Tribunus Militum
Meh, after years of reading all this bullshit, as far as I'm concerned, copyrights and patents don't exist anymore.
Fuck them all.
Matt L Seniorius Lurkius
0bliv!on wrote:
I disagree. While the news isn't scarce I would argue that what is scarce is reputation. As someone pointed out earlier people still turn to the NYTimes, WSJ, etc for coverage of natural disasters, wars and other such events. Why? Why not just read about it on Joe's blog? Many of the "old media" still have a reputation for accurate and well written news stories. That's why people still turn to them for news. If they are going to compete with Joe's blog and Mike's twitter feed they need to maintain their reputation for solid, reliable reporting.
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Oh wait, you want google to index your blog _and_ pay you for doing it? Nonsense. Your bits belong to everyone once you make them available over HTTP.
skyywise Ars Scholae Palatinae
How many reporters do we need being paid to take pictures and report on the "news" from the red carpet at pick-your-award-ceremony? How many people do we need to provide advice columns in the paper? How many people do we need generating "the top ten things your man wants you to do naked" lists?
The reps from the news industry always talk about coverage of wars, natural disasters, national governments, etc. But I don't think that's the problem; I think that's the news people still turn to the NYT (WSJ, Tribune, etc) for. But the print news industry as a whole currently publishes a lot of content that really can be provided just as easily (or better!) by bloggers and the proverbial "man on the street."
I agree with this sentiment, but my understanding is that the entertainment-type news was the low-cost-high-profit-margin which helped the professional news organs subsidize the substantive news that people trust the NTY et al. to provide. Here, I think professional media needs to rethink the business plan, because the fluff news can probably be done better by crowd-sourcing.
JerseyJoe wrote:
[...]Reporters go to Journalism school to learn how to concisely summarize and deliver substantive news from a neutral point of view. [...]
This may be why they go to school, but it doesn't survive contact with a real-world publishing house. Stories are anything but neutral. At the very least, stories are slanted to evoke emotion, because emotion is what keeps you going back for more, right? Do people really imagine the reporters are so stupid that they think that giving percentage increases give more information that giving concrete numbers and reference? The answer is "no", they aren't that stupid. They give percentages because saying a "100% increase in chance of cancer" generates more emotion than saying "chance of cancer increased from 1 in a million to 2 in a million".
Then add politics on top of that initial slanting and really, neutral?
Evoking emotion is different than taking a political position, although its easy to blur the line between the two. Watch The News Hour on PBS and you'll get neutral analysis - it's production values are bland and the information dense, but it's neutral and in-depth coverage.
We're going to do what we always do (eventually), we're going to let the market decide. If the market decides that they want to pay more for "old media"-style reporting, then people will buy subscriptions to the New York Times/whatever and keep those businesses, well, in business.
If people decide that they'd rather pay nothing and put up with "LOLZ EARTHQUAKE"... well then that's what we get. My guess is that it will be a mix.
My fear is that the majority of people aren't motivated enough to ask for better than "LOLZ EARTHQUATE". Democracy only "works" if you have an educated populace, and competent news is the way people stay educated. If we let standards slide too far, people will end up believing what they're told to believe because they aren't being educated and aren't being made to think. (See e.g., Fox News)
Re-read what you wrote there, "paid to be neutral" and think about that a bit. Is the person being paid to be neutral able to be neutral to the desires of the entity that is paying them? Are the people paying the reporters neutral? Don't they want to stay in business, at the very least? Is there a standards body and/or a review process in place to assess reporting quality (from a neutrality/completeness perspective)?
In my opinion, you're asking us to prop up something that isn't at all what you imagine it to be.
I don't imagine that media is neutral the way things are, but that it still should be the aspiration of media. Profit should not be the primary motivation behind news & education; the incentives of profit in these industries work against the public good.
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I own the patent on "Foreign Earthquakes". Not only is Mexico in direct violation of my intellectual property, the AP continues to knowingly promote and expand the infringements worldwide without prior consent. They are diluting the massive technological investment I have made in filing my patents! And, Linux and Unix both infringe as well, even though I haven't got proof yet that they even mention Earthquakes but I have at least one corporate entity who is EXTREMELY interested in my technologies.
big tuna Ars Praetorian
What are the alternatives? Google headlines that say: "The New York Times has a juicy new news story" without any other details. Yeah, that'll grab people. Or the NYT could opt out of Google news all together.
Shmak Ars Scholae Palatinae
I don't think anyone is surprised at the News industry's current crisis, or its reactions to the criticisms. Its easy to sit back and say "adapt", but we all know that there are plenty of people out there who get the NYT delivered. The facts show that coming up with a new model is easier than actually TRANSITIONING to that model. Many newspapers are failing at the former, so how much faith can you have in them on the latter? Whats easy is the kicking and screaming, and sometimes mommy listens.
As for the negative effect of losing these paternal giants of the industry; it is obviously out-weighed by the desire of the general populace to have more choice. The idea that quality journalism will disappear is completely unfounded. How can this possibly be true when, every day, it becomes easier for people to write, to get involved in the news industry, to be recognized? All this thanks to to the very thing that is "destroying" News as we know it.
...competent news is the way people stay educated. If we let standards slide too far, people will end up believing what they're told to believe because they aren't being educated and aren't being made to think.
How can you believe this? While news is somewhat educational, it is by no means "the way people stay educated". A philosophy class makes one think. Math equations make people think. Most people just absorb news stories as fact and move on. There is precious little thinking involved. I would argue that the dissolution of these "standard" entities would make people have to think about their news far more than any time before in history, because nothing would be presented from such a pompous authoritarian perspective. Really, there are no "News Standards", you are simply defending an entity that has become the defacto standard; these are not the same thing.
pan.sapiens Ars Scholae Palatinae
The "problem" here has nothing to do with news aggregation (if it did then robots.txt provides a ready made solution). The "problem" is that per reader advertising revenue is much smaller for an online newspaper reader than for a hard-copy reader, so that as readers switch to the web advertising revenue declines. This leaves newspapers flailing about for new sources of revenue -and misusing I.P. law to extort licence fees from google et al is one such potential new revenue source.
UncleBoxy Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Another example of an business model being obsolesced by technology. This is Blockbuster for print.
PandaCheese Ars Praefectus
So how does everyone purpose newspapers should make money? Charging for fact-telling may not be the right way it seems, and ad sales are dying due to diminishing circulation. Who should pay for actual journalistic work?
snsr Ars Centurion
Taking a step back from the ridiculous concept of "Hot News," I think copyright in general is unconstitutional. I'd happily add false monopolies of all variety to that bonfire, too.
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They need to right-size their expenses to match revenue, not force a change in the law in order to artificially inflate their earnings. If they can't do that, they need to go away. There will always be someone to take their place. Journalism is an important part of a free society. It's just going to change.
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Education != Being in a classroom. Besides, I was using the word in the sense of, "how do people stay abreast or educated about current events."
Also, your assertion that most people just absorb news stories as fact is exactly the problem that I'm concerned about. If we don't have professional (or even competent) journalists, then incorrect information will be disseminated and believed as true. News organs are supposed to provide summaries of events; it's just another aspect of modern society allowing for specialization-thus-greater-efficiency. Who has the time to read and distill crowd-sourced information into a coherent record? I would guess those who are paid to do so, i.e. professional news organizations. Moreover, people aren't going to think about the quality and reliability behind the news, they're generally too busy going to work, so people should be entitled to trust that the news is accurate and reliable.
I disagree that there are no standards, although I think news standards have sunk tremendously over the past decade or so. Nor do I think having an ideal standard for news is a defense of the underlying corporations and news organs; having a standard for news is simply a necessity for educated discourse on current events.
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Nate, hi, this is Tom Sydnor from the Progress & Freedom Foundation
This is a really good piece--perhaps the best short summary of the hot-news issue that I have seen. I thus wanted to pass along one point that might be worth noting in the future.
The logic behind the hot-news doctrine is classic sweat-of-the-brow analysis--the source that does the work that generates breaking news deserves a reward more than those who merely re-report its work. I see the point, but I also suspect that the Supreme Court's decision to reject sweat-of-the-brow copyright protection in its famous phone-book case, Feist, raises questions about the continued validity of a judicially created federal hot-news doctrine.
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Great_Scott Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
I'm still trying to understand why we should care. News will happen regardless of whether these companies survive. Quality will surely be lacking... but what is "quality" in the context of news, anyway?
Your argument appears to be a garden-variety false dilemma.
Noted. In this sense I agree.
However, I do feel that people who are educated about current events never rely on one source as "correct", just as a quality journalist will never rely on only one source for the whole story. It seems logical to me then, that the more sources available, the easier it is for one to become educated about a particular event. Therefore, it seems absurd to have some kind of "protection" for the first paper to get a particular story to press.
Polama Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
I've read two pages of comments here, and seen a cogent, in depth debate of this question with both sides presented. I did not read a single instance of 'LOLZ NEWSPAPERS DYING'. Journalism does not have a monopoly on intelligent people capable of writing. The unwashed Internet masses have created Wikipedia: we are capable of research, writing and editing.
Creating monopolies on facts will not promote the general education of the population. When you're locking content exclusively behind a paywall you're locking people out. NYT is the first to break some government bribery scandal: I don't happen to subscribe to NYT so I don't get to learn about this? Or have to piece together the facts from the comments by friends who have friends who read the article? This sounds like an opportunity to bury information, not promote general news literacy.
People who experience an earthquake will write about it, aggregators will point us to the poignant, the interesting, and the worthwhile. The one thing we do risk losing is the investigative reporting: not just writing from a war zone (there are always people in war zones to give accounts), but that detective work some reporters do to uncover hidden corruption. But the internet is trying: I'll point you to Wikileaks which is demonstrating itself as at least as capable as the old guards in obtaining information the powerful don't want disseminated.
Yes, something valuable is being lost. But if the choice is between fewer professional journalists or the loss of independent discussion on the issues of the day, between a business model and free speech, I don't see it as a very difficult decision.


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By Matt Ross on	 24th July 2015 New Project, Roofing Materials & Technologies
Birdair has been selected as the specialty contractor for the roof pillow system and façade solution for the new Atlanta stadium. The new state-of-the-art facility, set to open in 2017, will be home to the NFL's Atlanta Falcons and MLS Atlanta, and will host concerts, conventions and other marquee sports and entertainment events.
The stadium's retractable roof consists of triple-layered ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) roof pillows on eight petals that retract, similar to a camera lens. Additionally, the façade will feature a single ETFE skin supported by a cable net system. The design requires approximately 135,000ft² of triple-layered ETFE pillows and air inflation system and approximately 165,000ft² of vertical single-layered ETFE film and cable net. The roof will create an outdoor feel, allowing natural sunlight in when the weather is pleasant, and protecting players and fans during inclement weather.
The project team selected Birdair because of the company's tensile architecture expertise, construction skill and unique ETFE film.
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ETFE can be used in either single or multiple-layered applications. The new Atlanta stadium project utilizes a three-layer application, known as a cushion system, where a pneumatic system maintains air between the layers of film that are attached in aluminum extrusions. The stadium also makes use of a single-layer application reinforced with a cable net for the façade.
Since 1975, Birdair has installed fabric retractable roof systems for ten NFL stadiums. The University of Phoenix Stadium, the recent host of Super Bowl XLIX and home to the Arizona Cardinals, features a retractable Birdair PTFE fiberglass membrane roof.
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HE WAS suspended from school for having a tattoo.
To return, all the 16-year-old had to do was laser off the tattoo.
But that is not something the boy is willing to do. And his mother is standing by him - even if it meant moving to another school.
After approaching seven schools on her own and another three with the school's help, she finally found one that agreed to take him in - but he must keep his tattoos hidden.
All this because of the boy's refusal to remove the tattoos.
Both mother and son claim they were not aware of the school's 'no tattoo' rule.
They feel they have been denied 'the right to basic education just because he has a tattoo'.
We are not identifying the boy and his school, situated in the south, at the request of his mother.
The boy has five tattoos, including a dragon head, on the right side of his chest.
His mother, who wanted to be known only as Madam Yip, 50, is divorced.
She claims she learnt about the first of his five tattoos only after he had it done. He was in Secondary 2 then.
It is not known how he got the money to pay for the tattoos, which can cost thousands of dollars, depending on the intricacy of the design.
But she is reluctant to make him remove the tattoos.
The school's student handbook states that the school does not allow students to have tattoos and, should a student be caught with one, he or she can return only after starting laser treatment to remove it.
But the boy is adamant that he has done nothing wrong.
The Education Ministry has no rule against tattoos in schools, preferring to leave it to the schools' discretion.
And it is true, there is no minimum age for getting a tattoo in Singapore.
Responding to queries from The New Paper, the school's principal said: 'If a pupil is found with a tattoo, his parents will be brought in and the pupil will be suspended temporarily from school until they have seen a doctor regarding the removal of the tattoo.
The boy, who was in the Normal Academic stream, was repeating Sec 3 before he was suspended.
He had exposed a tattoo of a dragon head on his chest when he removed his T-shirt while playing basketball in school one afternoon.
Why not agree to remove the tattoo?
But the boy claims he is afraid of laser removal because of what his friend went through.
Said Madam Yip: 'He came back and told me that he was very scared and that his friend's parents had forced him to go through the first laser session.
Her son also told her that his friend had returned to school after fulfilling the condition of going through the first laser treatment.
But the situation remained deadlocked. And Madam Yip began looking for another school that would take in her son.
The school said it would help her son transfer to another school if he refused to remove the tattoo, Madam Yip said.
After waiting, she approached the Ministry of Education for help.
'I wrote the school a note of apology for the trouble my son had caused and informed them that I had approached the authorities for help,' said Madam Yip.
The teenager has not attended classes for the last two months.
His mother claimed she approached seven schools on her own in the two months, but they declined to accept her son.
'The seven schools I called up said they could not take my son in because it's in the middle of a school term,' said Madam Yip.
The boy's former school later helped to refer the boy to three schools.
One school was too far away from her home and the other asked for the tattoo to be removed.
The third school agreed to accept the boy on condition that his tattoo is not exposed to other students.
He will join that school after the mid-year holidays later this month.
Madam Yip told The New Paper that her son will try to catch up on his schoolwork.


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Within the next month or so, the Christie administration is expected to unveil a long-term steady source of funding for New Jersey's 39 state parks.
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Bob Martin, although not offering details, yesterday told the Assembly Budget Committee the state cannot rely on general funds to support its parks, which typically needs $39 million in appropriations to remain open.
A long-term, sustainable financing plan would avoid the annual threat of a system-wide shutdown, a crisis that has occurred repeatedly in recent years as New Jersey's fiscal problems have worsened.
"We must consider new ways of doing things and develop a new mode to make our parks self-sustaining," Martin said in written remarks not orally delivered in his annual appearance before the budget panel.
For years, conservationists and environmentalists have pressed various administrations to create a stable source of funding for the state's parks, which have a backlog of more than $400 million in capital projects. Martin said some state assets and parks are literally falling apart because of a lack of funding.
The devil, however, is in the details. Some environmentalists fear the administration will privatize the state parks, a step Martin denied the state is contemplating.
"We have no intention of privatizing the state park system" he said after the hearing ended, although he added the state is looking at adding sponsorships from nonprofit groups and corporations to increase revenues.
As part of that effort, the state also is looking to increase revenue from food concessions, boat and canoe rentals, and other areas, according to Martin. Some state park systems outside of New Jersey, he noted, are making money.
Of the 39 parks in New Jersey, only Island Beach State Park is making money, Martin said. The state's efforts to set up a long-term source of funding, he said, is part of a plan to reduce the park's reliance on general funding.
"I am personally committed to developing a strategy that will protect our parks and their operations for the long term," Martin said in his written statement. "I look forward to working with the legislature to make this a reality."
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Martin replied that the state does not have the money to complete the park, but the chairman of the committee, Assemblyman Louis Greenwald (D-Camden), agreed, saying the state has failed to show the respect to the capitol city it should have.


The result of such a strategy would be to entrench a two tier system in our state schools. The 'good' schools will select on 'academic ability'. We have of course been here before in the old system of Grammar and Secondary Modern Schools. Some might argue that it is as good idea because it ensures a good education for the brightest pupils. It will condemn those deemed less academically gifted to second rate schools.
You will note that the policy as stated doesn't say 'we will ensure that ALL pupils have the opportunity for education at the highest standards. It simply wants to restore the old system. It does say that selection ages will be flexible. But does anyone doubt that most selection will take place at 11? Of course it will, because that is the age at which most pupils move to secondary education.
It is extraordinarily silly to take a day in the life of a child at aged 11 and on that date determine their 'aptitude'. Children develop at different rates not just in intellectual ability and understanding but in maturity. That is what was so wrong-headed about selection at 11.
New statistics released by Buckinghamshire Grammar Schools, the body which represents the county's 13 selective schools is very instructive. It shows that only 16% of children from Aylesbury Vale – Bucks' poorest district – passed the test, compared to 37% in the Chilterns – the county's richest. There was a 64% pass rate for children in private education and only 4% for children on free school meals. Do we really think this reflects their true learning potential? Or do we suppose it reflects a pre-existing social and economic advantage? I know which of these is likely to be the answer.
To push for Grammar Schools and selection on grounds of 'ability' will simply entrench inequality of opportunities. It entrenches unfairness which affects the life chances of a generation.
So whose policy does this article give. You might assume it gives the Conservative Party policy. It doesn't. It gives UKIPs policy on secondary education.
UKIP will entrench the unfairness that exists in educational opportunities for our children and thus their life chances.