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The Reader's Eye on Television
By Ollie , Dec. 29, 2005
Remote Control King
"All right, everyone quiet down. Let's pick a movie. How do I do that?" "You have to go to the On Demand screen, then..."
"Where the hell is that?"
"It's back two things. You have to push that."
"Do I push it here on the remote or is it a menu item on the...wait, what just happened?"
"You're on the wrong channel."
"Can't I push this yellow triangle and go through the 'Browse By' menu?"
"No. You have to...here, give me the remote."
"No. I'm doing it."
"You're doing it wrong. Now, give me the remote."
"No, wait. I got it. Get your hands off."
"Give me that damn..."
"Listen. Wait. Let go. I've got it! Look!"
"No, you did it wrong. Isn't this your job? Aren't you 'The TV Guy'?"
"I know how to do this. It's easy."
"You've got your head up your ass."
"Give that back. I had it. Now you're ruining it. Let's give in and go to Blockbuster. This ordering-movies-from-the-TV thing is stupid."
"Shut up. See? I've got it. Those are the movies we can watch."
"Just those ten?"
"No, retard. Those are 'The Top Ten.' There are others. How the hell do you write about TV when it's obviously over your head?"
"All right. See? I got it to work. I want to watch Batman ."
"No, you didn't get it to work, and I want to watch Mad Hot Ballroom. "
"I'll tell you right now. There's no damn way we're watching a movie about little kids dancing. I will throw that remote control out the window before we..."
"Hey! Give that back! Oh, good job, mo-mo. Now it's broken."
"It's not broken. The battery fell out. I can put it back in."
"That wire goes back in there and then the battery. You are incompetent, aren't you?"
"Let's drive down to the movie store and rent a DVD. I fail to see what's wrong with the old-fashioned way."
"You fail to see what's wrong with that? The movie store's closed. It's Christmas. Now, fix the damn remote and..."
"Shhh... Batman 's starting."
"You mother..."
"Merry Christmas."
What I will and won't watch this week
Geraldo at Large KUSI 8:30 p.m. My ex-girlfriend had a monster mustache -- way thicker than mine. I've never been able to get out of the "My First Mustache by Hasbro!" stage. I grow that teenage patch of dirt above my lip. But, Donna. Donna could rock a Geraldo if she didn't stick to a strict waxing, bleaching, and plucking schedule.
FAM 8:00 p.m. A story of a man who dies and comes back to life as a snowman. Included in the cast is Henry Rollins, who now, ironically, has a show on Sundance in which he lambastes "bad" movies. Also of note is the soundtrack to Jack Frost . If you turn your volume WAY up during the quiet scenes you can hear the dump truck that's hauling away Michael Keaton's career.
Friday, December 30 Carols by Candlelight
CA4SD 8:30 p.m. What the hell? Christmas was last week. This is like that family in your neighborhood that leaves all the plastic reindeer and light-up Santa and electric snowflakes and Day-Glo candy canes and crap all over their front lawn for three months after the New Year. You'd tell them their yard looks REALLY tacky, but if they don't even want to pick up the mounds of dog turds, then you're certainly not going to talk any sense into them.
Saturday, December 31 Lion King Special
ABC 7:00 p.m. The Lion King came out in 1994, and Disney is still cramming Simba up our wazoos. Oh, yes, the Lion King play is amazing. Your daughter has a beautiful Lion King backpack, all purple and lemon-colored. After your aunt's huffed Lion King oven cleaner through a Lion King paper towel roll she'll show you her battery-operated "surrogate boyfriend" that's shaped like that toucan from the movie. The inundation is enough to make me want to chew on the barrel of my Timon and Pumba revolver.
Snow Dogs (2002)
ABC 8:00 p.m. A black dentist from Miami becomes a dogsled racer in Alaska: starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Sisqo, and Michael Bolton. The alternate title to this movie is The First of Seven Seals that Must be Breached in Order to Touch Off the Start of the Apocalypse .
Sunday, January 1 Brian Boitano Skating Spectacular
NBC 1:00 p.m. No wonder Europe hates us.
Monday, January 2 Extreme Surgery
TLC 6:00 p.m. You wanted a program about PUSHING THE LIMITS of surgery! Well, now you've got it, mister! First, we get you in a hospital gown and pop you up on a trampoline and when you've reached a nominal height of 12 feet, rock-and-roll legend Ted Nugent is going to open you up with a 12-gauge shotgun blast to the abdomen. Then it's INTO THE SHARK TANK!
Tuesday, January 3 How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
AMC 8:00 p.m. How Stella got some young ding-a-ling. The sequel should be about how Taye Diggs gets his citizenship by marrying Angela Bassett. Surprisingly, after he relocates to the States he shows no interest in her at all and instead buys a small lap dog and opens a flower shop. You know. They're "married." Wink!
Wednesday, January 4 My Date With the President's Daughter (1998)
DISN 8:00 p.m. One of my fantasies involves marrying Chelsea Clinton and encouraging her to make her first million while I cook and clean our cozy and tasteful mid-century ranch house in the Hollywood Hills. On the weekends I'd sit on the porch with Bill and smoke cigars and bitch about Hillary. Another fantasy involves breathing underwater and a mermaid, but that's a story for another time.
Thursday, January 5 The O'Reilly Factor
FNC 8:00 p.m. The opening in a barrel where a tap is inserted is called the "bung hole." I'm sure you can make the connection here. No need for me to explain.
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What You Need to Know About Drug List Prices and DTC Ads
Posted on: May 10, 2019 in News | Life Science News | Pharmaceutical Marketing News
By: Candice Tang, MSc.
Consumers, healthcare providers and health insurance organizations should brace themselves for what's to come: drug companies might soon have to include drug prices in their TV ads. Feedback from the public leave the CMS - who proposed this rule - with a lot to think about.
Update (May 10, 2019): This week, the Trump administration officially announced that list prices will be required on all direct-to-consumer (DTC) television ads for prescription drugs and biological products. Since the White House unveiled its four-part plan to reduce drug prices last year, tensions have been rising between pharma companies, insurers, middlemen and government officials. Pharma companies generally believe the price tag will confuse consumers and drive down their own profits while HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CMS Administrator Seema Verma say the list price will empower consumers to make informed choices about their healthcare. Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly are among the early adopters of this rule, adding pricing information to their ads at the start of 2019. The Federal Register published the final rule today, set to take effect on July 9, 2019.
Originally published on January 7, 2019:
In 2018, US pharmaceutical companies spent over $3.7 billion on television advertisements. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads for pharmaceuticals, aimed at promoting a particular medication to a patient, are permitted only in the US and New Zealand. AbbVie is one American pharmaceutical company which boasts a slew of TV commercials behind Humira (adalimumab), used to treat conditions like psoriatic arthritis and Crohn's disease. Here is a commercial for Humira which aired in 2018:
A man feels he is "missing out" on his life due to recurring symptoms of Crohn's disease, but after learning about Humira, he might have a chance to feel like himself again. After a long list of possible side effects, the commercial concludes with the Humira logo and slogan, with tiny text reading "Pay as little as $5 a month" – the only indication of the drug's price through the entire 60-second ad.
A person with excellent healthcare insurance might pay $5, but for many Americans, the price tag could be much higher. In fact, the average list price for Humira is nearly $5,500, according to GoodRx. To the majority of Americans, pharmaceutical drug pricing is about as clear as mud.
New Rule Proposal: List Drug Prices in Your Ad
The effort to improve drug pricing transparency has been in full swing since late-August 2018. That is when US Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill saw their amendment to add drug prices to pharmaceutical ads pass unanimously in the Senate. Shortly after, the amendment was called off.
However, the rule was revived by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar in October 2018.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), operating under HHS, proposes that drug manufacturers should list the Wholesale Acquisition Cost (WAC) or list price in ads for drugs covered by Medicaid and Medicare. The CMS' proposed rule asks companies to list drug prices over a typical course of a treatment or per month if the therapy is used to treat a chronic disease. If the drug costs less than $35, its price will not have to be displayed in TV ads.
According to Azar, this rule aligns with the Trump Administration's priority to lower drug prices.
"This historic proposal is an important way to create new incentives for drug companies to start lowering their list prices, rather than raising them," he said. "President Trump's drug-pricing blueprint called for HHS to consider how to accomplish this goal, and now we are following through on this measure to better inform patients, help them lower their drug costs, and reduce unreasonable spending in Medicare and Medicaid."
The rule intends to help inform consumers of what their potential out-of-pocket costs are and should hopefully drive competition between drug companies. More competition should lower prices and result in happier customers. Upon its announcement, the rule appeared to have support from both political parties.
The day after the HHS announcement, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), a voluntary, non-profit association that represents pharma research and biotech companies, announced its own plan to increase drug pricing transparency. Notably, their new guidelines require member organizations to "include direction as to where patients can find information about the cost of the medicine, such as a company-developed website, including the list price and average, estimated or typical patient out-of-pocket costs, or other context…"
The HHS did not seem too happy about PhRMA's attempt to "meet them halfway." Indeed, they feel a website link on an ad is not transparent enough.
It's no coincidence that the industry announced a new initiative *today* that will help make cost information more accessible. But placing information on a website is not the same as putting it in an ad, and it's taken them five months since the @POTUS's blueprint to make a move.
— Secretary Alex Azar (@SecAzar) October 15, 2018
Mixed Feelings About Drug Price Inclusion
Clearly, there were some mixed feelings about the proposed rule among these stakeholders. The CMS invited feedback from the public until late December, and the following is what some big pharma companies have to say.
PhRMA wastes no time in expressing its disdain of the newly proposed rule, reiterating that all its member companies have already voluntarily agreed to its renewed guidelines for drug pricing transparency, set to take effect in April 2019. One of its biggest qualms with the new rule is what they perceive to be misleading drug prices, giving "Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries the false impression that they are required to pay the full price, rather than a copay or coinsurance."
Members of PhRMA, including Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Sanofi Pasteur, echo PhRMA sentiments. All three companies feel that list price disclosure is simply not enough to illustrate the complex drug pricing system. For example, Johnson & Johnson stated that customers might want to know what support systems are available to them that can make the drug more affordable.
Sanofi suggests including a disclaimer which could read, "If you have health insurance that covers drugs, your cost may be different." To provide sufficient context to a consumer in a 60-120 second TV ad is also impractical, they add.
Being misled by prices can snowball into other problems. High list prices can deter patients from taking their much-needed medicine, resulting is worse outcomes and ultimately increasing costs incurred by Medicare and Medicaid. Sanofi points out that the rule appears to contradict the meaning of value-based care, where the cost-effectiveness of a drug might be evaluated along its clinical efficacy, effectiveness compared to standard of care, economic value of the drug, and contributions of the drug to quality of life. In other words, people might just choose one drug over the other because it's cheaper without considering which is better for their health.
Proponents of the CMS rule agree that it isn't perfect. In a joint statement, Senators Durbin and Grassley suggest that pharmaceutical companies should clearly state drug prices in ads in an audible statement, as well as indicate when prices expire and how they fluctuate over time.
Another strong supporter of the CMS rule is the health insurance company, Cigna. They believe the new rule will provide useful information for the consumer, and will not lead to medication non-adherence. They also support the expansion of this rule to apply to other forms of media including print, digital and radio advertising.
Taking these comments together, the CMS must decide how to roll out changes if the rule is made official. However, pharmaceutical advertising and drug pricing are inherently complex issues, further complicated by political agendas.
What are your thoughts on pharmaceutical advertising and drug pricing? Share them below in the comments.
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Wheelchair helps those without mobility hunt
All-terrain wheelchair operates on tracks
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by Leah Linscheid
MADISON, Wis. — A new piece of hardware is helping those with limited disability take part in Wisconsin's hunting tradition.
More than 300,000 people in the state have mobility issues and can't easily maneuver through the rough terrain encountered during a hunt. Access Ability Wisconsin is offering a solution to that problem — an all-terrain wheelchair, purchased this month.
The enhanced wheelchair will be located in Dane County and can help people with handicaps access the state's outdoor activities, like hunting. It runs on tracks and can quietly maneuver through any type of terrain.
Monica Kamal, a co-founder of Access Ability, took the wheelchair out Saturday.
"In a regular wheelchair, or if I had a cane or walker, being able to go around a terrain like this is very difficult," Kamal says.
Kamal is an avid hunter, despite a skiing accident 14 years ago that left her without motion.
"My skis hit the slope, it drug me down, I hit a tree, broke my back and paralyzed myself," she says. "I'm basically paralyzed from mid-waist to my toes."
Taking part in the hunt has been difficult for Kamal, as she was limited to a regular wheelchair. That wasn't the case Saturday.
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Kamal hunted for white tail Saturday side by side with her boyfriend, Steve – something they haven't been able to do before the all-terrain equipment.
"The independence, the freedom and the not being dependent on someone, were really important," she says. "
They didn't harvest any deer, or even see any Saturday, but Kamal says she'll be out time and time again this week, thanks to the new wheelchair.


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CERN 'human sacrifice' act riles Indiahttps://indianexpress.com/article/blogs/cern-lord-shiva-human-sacrifice-act-riles-india-3000071/
CERN 'human sacrifice' act riles India
A video shot outside a CERN building in Geneva, Switzerland showing a fake human sacrifice has triggered an investigation after it has circulated online.
Written by Pallava Bagla | New Delhi | Published: August 28, 2016 9:17:57 am
Screengrab of the alleged sacrifice posted by The Guardian.
Human sacrifice, Lord Shiva's statue, nuclear institute, God Particle, European laboratory in a cavern, mini black holes all makes for a heady mysterious mix.
When a creepy grainy video emerges from inside a haloed scientific institution showing a so-called 'human sacrifice' being committed at that global temple of learning where more than 100 nations are co-operating in Geneva called the European Organization for Nuclear Research or CERN, it spooked many.
CERN has launched an internal investigation to get to the truth of the matter while confirming the veracity of the video as having been shot within its highly secure premises, but called it a 'fictional' depiction. This act has riled many scientists especially in India since the 'human sacrifice' is shown being conducted with the backdrop of giant statue of Lord Shiva in his Nataraja pose performing the 'tandava' or the cosmic dance.
The over 5-m-tall statue was gifted by the Indian government to the Geneva-based atomic research centre about a decade ago.
Also read | Fake human sacrifice to Lord Shiva conducted at CERN, investigation on
CERN is not alone to these acts of irrational behaviour by scientists it is quite common place in many countries. In USAengineers at NASA's planetary missions control room invariably eat peanuts when a satellite is being manoeuvred into the Martian orbit since they believe it brings a good omen they believe.
The top brass of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) visit in their 'private time' the temple of Lord Balaji in Tirupati to seek his blessings before a rocket launch and made a habit of placing mini models of the rocket and satellite to the gods.
The fear of the unknown drives many of these irrational behaviours by otherwise highly scientifically oriented people. But, what happened at CERN is most bizarre.
Against the backdrop of a statue showing the cosmic dance of Lord Shiva a video possibly shot on a mobile phone shows about 6-7 people wearing black satanic cloaks gather in the dead of the night, then another person possibly a lady is seen lying down on a sacrificial bench in front of the Shiva statue, one of the cloaked figures draws a glistening dagger and is shown stabbing the woman.
The video is shot as if the eavesdropper was taken by surprise by the happenings they chanced upon and the clip ends with expletives. Whether the video is fictional or real is still a matter of investigation but undoubtedly it was meticulously planned and possibly rehearsed.
Clarifying the position, the spokesperson for CERN said, "This video is a work of fiction showing a contrived scene. CERN and its on-site accommodation fills up with scientists from across the world coming to CERN as part of their work. Work at CERN can take place 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with shift work and data analysis. Persons that are authorised to access the CERN site sometimes let their sense of humour go too far, and that is what has happened on this occasion. The video was filmed from an office building; strict safety systems are in place to prevent any unauthorised access to technical and experimental facilities. CERN does not condone this kind of spoof, which breaches CERN's professional guidelines, and is currently carrying out an internal investigation."
Jokes apart, work at CERN conjures up many horrifying images, in 2008 when the world's largest atom smasher was being started up there was an uncalled for global scare that the Large Hadron Collider would generate black holes that could gobble up the earth.
It was a global scare but in India it peaked when a 16 year old girl from Madhya Pradesh got so scarred that she allegedly committed seeing the news reports. Obviously, the world did not die but reason did since CERN at that time failed to communicate effectively that its experimentation would not end in a doomsday scenario.
Later CERN did make an attempt to bust such myths, but today social media is ablaze with hyped accounts of non-scientific happenings inside the 27-km circular tunnel embedded deep inside the earth and straddling both Switzerland and France which houses the world's human largest experiment.
It was here that the so called 'God Particle' or the Higgs Boson was discovered in 2013. The mere nick naming of the particle as 'God Particle' makes people believe CERN is trying to prove that god exists.
Even though CERN asserts "that it exists to understand the mystery of nature for the benefit of humankind." That India did not erupt on what could be termed as a 'desecration' of venerated iconic Indian god gifted with love by Indian people and placed on an alien soil, only showed that rationality prevailed among the vast Indian masses so prone to being swayed by emotions of religion.
Indian atomic scientists involved with the gifting of the giant Chola Bronze statue were flabbergasted that such indiscretion and insensitivity could have happened within the highly secure premises where entry and exit is both highly controlled. It seems irrationality knows no national boundaries.
CERN 'human sacrifice' act riles India
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2. Peel, slice and boil potatoes until soft (about 20 minutes). Mash with sautéed onions and eggs. Add finely chopped parsley and dill, spices, salt, and pepper. Mix well.
3. Roll out the dough from step 1 as thin as possible. Then, lift, stretch, and pull, until the dough is as thin as tissue paper. Carefully transfer the dough to the floured board. Brush the dough with oil. Place a row of potato filling along the longer edge of the dough. Roll up and place seam side down onto the greased baking sheet. Brush the roll with sunflower oil. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Pre slice 1/4 way before baking. Preheat oven and bake at 350 degrees until golden brown.


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4. Undue stress needs to not be positioned at the edge of the table, this is often the wrist joint should no longer rest at the brink of the table.
5. Ensure the highest fringe of your computer screen is in step along with your eye level.
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Whilst dressing will deal with these items to stay removed from the neck and backache.
1. Prevent from unsupported and/or slouched alignment at a constant time as dressing your lower limbs.
2. Prevent from unsupported slumping once choosing up shoes and reaching into low drawers.
1. Whereas dressing at a constant time as standing, prop back against a counter or wall to stay removed from a number of the compression and pressure of bending over. Try and bend your legs up to step into pants or skirt.
2. If you would like to induce dressed while sitting, sit down in an exceeding chair with a corporation seat; just in case you sit on the edge of the pad, increase it and firm it; up by victimization sitting on the pillow. To put for your footwear and socks, preserve your once more directly, bring your add together to you and cross your legs or locality your heel on the brink of the seat.
3. Just in case you positioned your footwear and socks on in standing. Bring your add together onto a chair bench or the pad associate degreed take weight via an arm.
4. At some purpose of additional acute episodes, bending over to induce dressed can also while not a doubt irritate your low backache; if this is often the case, try part dressing your lower limbs while lying in your once more.
5. If you would like to bend over, bend at the hips, therefore, the lower back remains astonishingly directly associate degreed take weight through an arm.
Sleeping on your back is that the nice role to let your whole backbone relaxation effortlessly. If you prefer to sleep on your face or for your abdomen, make sure your pillow isn't too excessive spherical four to 6 inches thick. This will stop your head and neck from turning by artificial means to each facet.
Sit down simply in your geographic point chair within the front of your computer and shut your eyes. While you open them, your gaze got to be forthwith within the middle of your portable computer show. If it is not continuously, use books or totally different gadgets to change the visual display unit height.
Do no longer allow your head to glide ahead over your shoulders. And remember to require frequent breaks- rise and pass around as a minimum each time unit.
1. Terrible lifting strategies- Just in case you are doing any work at paintings, your neck is at the probability for hurt nearly as heaps as your back.
2. Retentive your head ahead to scan a portable computer display; studies indicate that merely the usage of a portable computer for a protracted amount of your time will cause or worsen neck ache.
3. Repetitive movements of your fingers and prime frame.


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With the few exceptions, there is no law that requires all capitals and/or bold, for a disclaimer, disclosure or privacy policy. However, there is a collection of cases, FTC regulations, U.C.C. rules and California State laws that cause lawyers to advise their clients to use all caps and specific fonts.
Basically, each time an attorney gives advice to the client, that attorney is somewhere in his mind worried about being sued for malpractice. For that reason, most attorneys are risk-adverse and will, when unsure, go with the safest answer.
As to the current state of the law, the following applies to almost all Federal and State laws concerning disclaimers, disclosures and privacy policies. That wording is "clear and conspicuous," without defining exactly what that is. However, the general definition given by most federal and state regulatory agencies is that the language in the body of a form is "conspicuous" if it is in larger or other contrasting type or color." At a minimum, it should be at least the same size font as the surrounding text.
Click Here to see California Business and Professions Code 225575 requirements for posting website privacy policies. These requirements apply to most website owners no matter what state they live in.
Going back to the obvious question at hand, must you bold and cap the language to be "clear and conspicuous"? No. But it is a good idea. Now if your lawyer has been practicing for some time, he is probably thinking of how things were prior to American General Finance, v. Bassett, 285 F.3d 882 (9th Cir., 2002). Note that this is a 9th cir. case which covers California and all its quirkiness.
The Court said it better than I could: "Lawyers who think their caps lock keys are instant make conspicuous buttons are deluded."
They went on to say, "In determining whether a term is conspicuous, we look at more than formatting. A term that appears in capitals can still be inconspicuous if it is hidden on the back of a contract in small type. See, e.g., Sierra Diesel, 890 F.2d at 114. Terms that are in capitals but also appear in hard-to-read type may flunk the conspicuousness test. See, e.g., id.; Lupa v. Jocks, 131 Misc.2d 536, 500 N.Y.S.2d 962, 965 (N.Y.City Ct.1986).
A sentence in capitals, buried deep within a long paragraph in capitals will probably not be deemed conspicuous. Formatting does matter, but conspicuousness ultimately turns on the likelihood that a reasonable person would actually see a term in an agreement. Thus, it is entirely possible for text to be conspicuous without being in capitals" (The bold and underlining is mine).
So all of the above can be distilled down to this: Certain key provisions, such as disclaimers and privacy policies must be clear and conspicuous, (as do warranties and liquidated damage's clauses). One way to do that is to make it all caps and in certain fonts, but that isn't always necessary.
Conversely, if the contract or policy drafter is hoping to pull one over on the signer or website customer, then even doing it in flashing neon is not going to cover you, because the courts have unanimously indicated that they will not enforce unconscionable or overly onerous terms.
If you are "trying to pull a fast one" on someone, the courts won't help you. However, if you are trying to make a sound business decision or disclosure that allows you to identify your risk and adequately protect against it, through an open exchange of agreement and consent with the other party, it will most likely be okay.
Let's examine the word "disclaimer" itself. We all know what to "claim" something is; without pulling out Webster's, to claim something means to take responsibility for. And dis is simply the disjunctive form of it, as in not to claim, or not to take responsibility for. In a nutshell, a disclaimer does exactly that, it transfers the responsibility for something from one party to another: it is someone saying, "hey you; this is not going to be my problem; it is going to be yours."
In analyzing disclaimers, there are two fundamental rules:
1) Disclaimers have to be clear and conspicuous, because,
2) They do something really significant – transfer responsibility from one party to the other.
As shown in the Bassett case above, a website operator should not attempt to use disclaimers to try to sneak something past a visitor. For example, advertising a site as a free dating website, that requires credit card numbers only to verify age, and then on the disclaimer stating that the website visitor agrees to sign up for free credit score monitoring, will not fly.
But, if that same website operator wants to ensure that it does not get sued by someone who gets raped by someone they met through the dating site, that is perfectly acceptable and fair use of disclaimers. In practice, that would look like a disclaimer stating the website operator does not run background checks, and the visitor should make their own assessment of risk from any dating candidates, etc.
Let's look at the dating website example above. By sneaking in a fee, the website operator is using the disclaimer portion of the agreement not to transfer risk, but instead as a CYA (Cover Your A#@) for doing something sneaky-not proper disclaimer usage. Conversely, in the example of the person being raped, the disclaimer took a foreseeable event and transferred the risk from the website operator to the website user.
Foreseeability simply means: is this something that is contemplated by the disclaimer? A disclaimer stating that "you won't sue us if you get hurt by using our dating site" does not protect the website operator if his site is hacked and the visitors' credit card numbers are compromised. Why? Because that transfer of risk was not contemplated by the disclaimer. It certainly could have been foreseeable, but unless the disclaimer was drafted such that it was identified and then disclaimed, the website operator would be in a world of difficulties.
Of course, that leads to the next natural question that any website operator should be asking: why not just have a disclaimer that disclaims all responsibility for anything ever.
Well, that has been tried. In fact, a number of jurisdictions have tackled the issue of online "throw in everything" disclaimers (disavowing of any responsibility for even gross negligence) and not a single one has been found to be valid.
Instead, website operators should look for a carefully crafted and properly researched disclaimer that protects the website operator against reasonably foreseeable risks and still remains enforceable.
This approach was taken in Virginia Legal Ethics Opinion 1842 (Sept. 30, 2008), which states that one way to avoid an inference that information submitted to a website will be kept confidential is to include a disclaimer on the website warning against disclosure of confidential or sensitive information and also warning the site has no duty to maintain the confidentiality of any submitted information.
"It would be prudent to avoid any misunderstanding," states the ethics committee, "by warning visitors that information provided is general and should not be relied on as legal advice, and by explaining that legal advice cannot be given without full consideration of all relevant information relating to the visitor's individual situation."
The language in a potential disclaimer must be chosen with the utmost care. It should accomplish the goal of avoiding misunderstandings of who bears the risk, and encompass as many potential contingencies as possible.
Website operators are playing Russian roulette when receiving visitors on their websites without the appropriate disclaimer(s). Disclaimers that are worded correctly will encompass as many contingencies as possible, so as to be interpreted in favor of the website operator.
This is not something that should be overlooked in taking a website "live," nor should it be drafted by an individual without proper expertise in the area of disclaimers, specifically disclaimers for websites or blogs.
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Norwegian Reaches the 3M Passenger Mark in the U.S.
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Three million passengers in three years shows solid demand for and success of low-cost, long-haul flights.
Norwegian Plans to Fly Airbus, Orders 30 New Airbus 321LR
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Norwegian's subsidiary, Arctic Aviation Assets Ltd (AAA), has placed a new order of 30 Airbus 321LongRange aircraft.
Norwegian Signs First Ever U.S. Charter Agreements
Norwegian signs charter contracts with Apple Vacations and Funjet Vacations to operate routes from the United States to the Caribbean and Mexico.
Norwegian Named 'World's Best Low-Cost Long-Haul Airline' and 'Best Low-Cost Airline in Europe'
Norwegian named the 'World's Best Low-Cost Long-Haul Airline' for the second consecutive year and 'Best Low-Cost Airline in Europe' for the fourth year in a row at the renowned Skytrax World Airline Awards.
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Norwegian CEO Bjørn Kjos gave a speech to The Aviation Club in London yesterday and outlined the airline's plans for continued growth in the UK and its views on emerging industry issues.
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Norwegian has agreed to join Airlines for Europe (A4E), Europe's new airline association.
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PHNOM PENH – Garment workers in Cambodia were last year afforded almost 20 per cent more money than the year prior when on maternity leave, the country's National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has announced.
In 2019, female workers were paid an estimated US$7.6 million in total whilst on maternity leave, with almost 77,500 workers benefitting from the extra income.
The Cambodian government is also said to provide a bonus of US$100 to a worker which has one baby, US$200 for those which have twins and US$300 for those with triplets. Prime Minister Hun Sen says the policy has encouraged more workers to have children without fear they'll struggle financially.
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Stripe backs Irish-founded fintech Imprint in $38m funding round
by Vish Gain
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Daragh Murphy, co-founder and CEO of Imprint, said he 'wouldn't rule out' opening an office in Dublin.
Imprint, a branded payments start-up headquartered in New York, has raised $38m in Series A funding led by VC firm Kleiner Perkins. It also received backing from Stripe and chat show host James Corden, among others.
Founded last year by Irishman Daragh Murphy and Gaurav Ahuja, Imprint aims to make it easier for consumers to shop with the brands they love and receive rewards. The Imprint branded rewards card lets customers make payments to brands without credit checks, interest or fees.
Murphy graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) more than a decade ago and headed to Duke University in the US for a master's in law. In 2018, he went on to become the VP of operations and strategy at workspace provider WeWork, before founding Imprint in 2020.
"The branded-payment space has not changed since co-branded credit cards were introduced in the '90s and no longer meets the needs of modern brands and modern customers," said Murphy, who is based in New York and serves as the CEO of Imprint.
He said that this provides an opportunity to provide a new kind of branded payment service that benefits both brands and customers. Consumers get 5pc back every time they shop with their favourite brands and 1pc back on products and services from other companies.
"We're seeing a generational shift away from credit cards, and we've built an inclusive product that offers almost 100pc of customers access to great rewards and customised experiences at their favourite brands," Murphy added.
'Shifting the payments paradigm'
The latest financing round brings the total funding raised by Imprint to $53m. Some of its other backers include Thrive Capital, Affirm, Allen & Co, Goldman Sachs chair Lloyd Blankfein, and the CEOs of a number of consumer brands.
Essentially, Imprint helps brands cut out actors in the middle by redirecting profits traditionally captured by legacy banks back to brands and their customers. This can boost customer loyalty, according to Imprint co-founder and chair Ahuja, who is also a partner at Thrive Capital.
"Payments and credit cards generally have been a zero-sum game for brands and customers alike. Imprint is focused on shifting the payments paradigm to positive-sum for brands and their customers," he added.
Chris Sperandio, corporate development lead at Stripe, said that Imprint offers a "great product experience" for commerce platforms. "As consumers' purchasing behaviour continues to evolve, it makes sense to offer them merchant-specific cards that are tailored to their environment."
Dublin and international plans
Murphy told the Irish Times that Imprint is scalable and that an international expansion, including in Ireland, cannot be ruled out. "Our goal right now is on delivering well in the US market, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't look further afield in the future," he said.
"I certainly wouldn't rule out opening an office in Dublin given the amazing engineers based there and the talent emerging from universities."
Discussing the strength of the fintech space in Ireland, Murphy referred to Stripe's decision to create hundreds of jobs in Dublin and German bank N26 considering the establishment a base in the city.
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The historical growth paths of developed and developing countries reveal the challenges that developing countries face in traveling the road from poverty to prosperity. Based on economic development literature, economic theory, and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression method, this research considers whether or not, and to what extent globalization characteristics, foreign direct investment levels (FDI), secondary school enrollment rates, information communication technology (ICT) as a percentage of trade imports, and happiness levels of 103 developing and developed countries, impact their GDP per capita levels. This paper will also take a look at alternative ways of viewing and measuring economic success.
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Head and Facial Pain, Part 2: Migraine and Other Primary Headache Syndromes
By Annie Stuart, Contributing Writer
Interviewing Kathleen B. Digre, MD, Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH, and Benjamin M. Frishberg, MD
Painful and disabling, primary headache syndromes affect people of all ages and races and are among the most common disorders of the nervous system. Not only do chronic primary headache syndromes directly impair quality of life but they may also be accompanied by comorbidities such as depression, which is three times more common in those with severe chronic headaches.1
Because they may attribute their pain to eye problems or have visual symptoms along with head pain, many patients initially seek help from an ophthalmologist. The clinician's critical first task is to rule out ocular or orbital pathology and life-threatening neurological conditions, as discussed last month in Part 1, "." Beyond that, ophthalmologists can play an important role in identifying and appropriately referring patients with primary headaches.
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Horner syndrome may occur in primary headache disorders, especially the trigeminal autonomic cephalgias.
Migraine Headaches
Often experienced as pain in, around, and behind the eye, migraine is the most common primary headache disorder seen in physicians' offices, said Benjamin M. Frishberg, MD, at the Neurology Center of Southern California.
These patients often have ophthalmic complaints, such as blurred vision or unilateral dilated pupil, said Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH, at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In addition, visual auras, often lasting five to 20 minutes—but sometimes up to an hour—may precede, accompany, or follow the headache.2
Migraine diagnosis and misdiagnosis. "You need to be circumspect about diagnosing migraine, however, especially when the headache is severe and new," said Dr. Frishberg. "When ophthalmologists don't find an eye problem, I've noticed that they tend to jump to migraine too quickly."
But, on the other hand, many migraine patients are missed because their condition is mistaken for tension or sinus headaches, said Kathleen B. Digre, MD, at the University of Utah. Light sensitivity, disability from the pain, and nausea are hallmarks of migraine, she said. If these patients' headaches last four to 72 hours and they've had them before, added Dr. Frishberg, by definition, that's migraine.
Dr. Frishberg said that a diagnosis of migraine is likely if a patient experiences two or more of the following pain symptoms:
Unilateral pain
Throbbing or pulsating quality
Moderate or severe in intensity
Increasing pain with movement or exertion
Plus one or more of the following:
Sensitivity to light and sound
Who gets migraine? Migraine is often triggered by alterations in homeostasis, said Dr. Frishberg, such as changes in stress, sleep, time zones, or altitude. Anyone, including children, can get migraines, but they are three times more common in women than in men, said Dr. Friedman. About 80 percent of people with migraine have a family history of headaches. "Adults with migraine often also have a history of motion sickness and unexplained vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, or vertigo in childhood," she said.
Migraine mechanisms. Migraine is a neurovascular disorder causing vasoconstriction of meningeal blood vessels, said Dr. Frishberg. But the mechanism of migraine is complex, involving local sterile inflammation, the interaction of multiple neurotransmitters, and cortical spreading depression via trigeminovascular pathways.2
"The speed at which this cortical spreading depression marches across the cortex correlates perfectly with the speed of the most characteristic visual aura as it spreads across the visual field," said Dr. Friedman.
Ophthalmic contributors. To confirm any contributors to migraine, listen carefully to the patient's complaint, said Dr. Digre. First, rule out eye diseases that can cause secondary headache, such as herpes zoster or angle-closure glaucoma. Then consider ophthalmic issues that may initiate or exacerbate headaches in people who are genetically predisposed to chronic migraine, she said, including:
Improper refraction. Eyestrain can result when people fight their refraction, which can worsen headache.
Dryness. The cornea has a high density of trigeminal nerve endings that project straight into the trigeminal nuclei—which are thought to be involved in the pain processing of headaches, she said. A poorly lubricated cornea can make matters worse.
Subtle diplopia. For most people, a little convergence or divergence insufficiency causes no problem. "But for people predisposed to headache, double vision can add discomfort, and then they're off to the races with more migraine," said Dr. Digre.
History of eye injury. A corneal scar or even a scleral buckle used to treat retinal detachment can contribute to migraine—again, due to trigeminal input from the cornea and the eye.
Classic auras. Most people who have migraines have no aura, said Dr. Frishberg, but when they do, 9 in 10 patients have visual auras, which are usually binocular and appear either centrally or in one visual field. "Patients often interpret the disturbance as being monocular when it occurs peripherally," he said.
The classic visual aura produces a zigzag scintillating scotoma, usually with a shimmering quality at the edges, said Dr. Friedman. Sometimes it is silver and white, sometimes in color. "It gradually expands and takes on a C shape, marching across the visual field, getting larger, and then breaking up within 15 to 30 minutes."
Other types of auras. More unusual variations include spots or sparkles, tunnel vision, kaleidoscopic vision, loss of color, "heat waves," and Alicein-Wonderland syndrome, in which objects appear too big or too small. "Patients may also have episodes of transient monocular visual loss, often occurring in midlife," said Dr. Friedman. "These are clinically impossible to distinguish from a transient ischemic attack [TIA], so they need to be worked up, even if the patient has a history of migraine."
As migraine sufferers age, they sometimes lose the headache but continue—or even start—to have auras, said Dr. Digre. There are many causes of aura without headache, so this, too, may warrant a workup. However, she emphasized, the tip-off for an embolic phenomenon is abrupt onset, whereas with migraine auras, the progression is gradual.
Rarely, patients experience nonvisual auras, such as tingling in the face and hands, weakness, or trouble with speech, said Dr. Frishberg. As with transient monocular visual loss, these symptoms may look like a TIA, "in which case the patient would need to be seen immediately by a neurologist or go to the emergency room," he said.
Mimics of migraine. Another possible masquerader of migraine is arteriovenous malformation, which can cause episodic headaches with aura, said Dr. Frishberg. In addition, said Dr. Friedman, intermittent angle-closure glaucoma can mimic a migraine headache without an aura.
Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalgias
The trigeminal autonomic cephalgias (TACs) are another, less common, group of primary headaches ophthalmologists may see. Although primary TACs cause no complications, there are many secondary causes of TACs, so all require imaging, added Dr. Frishberg.
Common themes. TACs share common characteristics, said Dr. Friedman: pain in or around the eyes, associated with autonomic symptoms. "The headache is one sided and side locked—always occurring on the same side—and is generally severe and episodic," she said. Autonomic symptoms, which occur on the same side as the headache, may include tearing, conjunctival injection, ptosis, eyelid swelling, miosis, and stuffy or runny nose.
TACs vary in their intensity, duration, and frequency (see "TACS at a Glance"). For example, the pain of cluster headache is intense, lasting 15 minutes to a couple of hours, and usually occurs a few times a day. However, short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headaches with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) last only for seconds to minutes, but they cause very intense pain that can strike dozens or even hundreds of times a day, said Dr. Frishberg.
Cluster headache. The most common type of TAC, cluster headache is diagnosed two to four times more frequently in men than in women. However, they may be underdiagnosed in women, said Dr. Friedman. "If a patient walks in and says, 'These headaches are so bad I want to kill myself when they happen,' it's probably cluster."
Cluster headaches typically start in the third or fourth decade of life and often occur at the same time every year, said Dr. Frishberg. As well as this circannual rhythm, there is typically a circadian pattern, and patients may get these headaches at the same time of day, often two or three hours after falling asleep.
Hemicrania continua. This rare type of TAC may be missed by ophthalmologists, said Dr. Friedman. "Every time I lecture about this, someone tells me they think they've seen several of these patients and didn't know what it was. The other TACs are more obvious due to their dramatic features."
This headache is just what its name suggests: a constant headache that is present on one side of the head. It may be localized around the eyes or at the back of the head, said Dr. Friedman. Although fluctuating in intensity, the pain persists and is accompanied by autonomic features when the intensity increases.
"You can be a real hero or heroine by considering indomethacin for these patients," said Dr. Digre. In fact, one of the diagnostic pointers for hemicrania continua is its response to treatment with indomethacin, said Dr. Friedman, adding that the medication is like magic for these patients. "You will probably need to enlist an internist or neurologist to prescribe it, however—it's a tough drug to take because of gastrointestinal side effects," she added.
Primary stabbing headache. "This one scares patients," said Dr. Friedman. "It's a benign headache disorder, but the pain is so severe—out of the blue—that they think something is horribly wrong with them. Patients may say, 'It's like a bolt of lightning or an ice pick stabbed me in the head.'"
Lasting seconds or minutes, the pain is very focal and localized, occurring anywhere in the head, but it sometimes feels as if it's in the eyes, Dr. Friedman said. "I think many of these people get misdiagnosed with dry eye." Like hemicrania continua, these episodic, stabbing headaches are also responsive to indomethacin.
Other TACS. A discussion of all the TACS is beyond the scope of this article; see "TACS at a Glance" for the major characteristics of other types.
Tension Headaches
Even though tension headaches are extremely common, with a lifetime prevalence of up to 90 percent, people rarely see a doctor for these headaches, said Dr. Frishberg. They are usually mild and respond to over-the-counter medication. They tend to cause diffuse, bilateral, mild to moderate pressure-like pain, and sometimes light or sound sensitivity.
When severe, tension headaches may also cause throbbing and pain in or behind the eyes, said Dr. Friedman, which may suggest migraine. "The thing that separates them best from migraine is that tension headaches don't worsen with activity, but migraines do."
1 World Health Organization. Headache disorders. October 2012. www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs277/en/. Accessed May 9, 2013.
2 El-Dairi MA, Bhatti MT. Focal Points. 2011;29(7):118.
Kathleen B. Digre, MD, is professor of neurology and ophthalmology at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. Financial disclosure: None.
Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH, is professor of neurology and neurotherapeutics and ophthalmology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Financial disclosure: Is a speaker for Allergan; is on MAP Pharmaceuticals advisory board and Neurology Reviews' editorial board; and has received grant support from GammaCore, Merck, and the National Eye Institute.
Benjamin M. Frishberg, MD, is in practice at the Neurology Center of Southern California in Encinitas. Financial disclosure: Is on the speakers bureau for Allergan.


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The history and theology of the Christian Church in Late Antiquity and in the Byzantine Empire; modern Eastern Orthodox theology
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Born Louth, Lincolnshire. After schooling at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and Waterloo Grammar School, Liverpool, studied at the universities of Cambridge (mathematics; theology) and Edinburgh (MTh thesis on Karl Barth). Taught at the universities of Oxford (1970-1985), Goldsmiths, University of London (1985-1995), Durham (1996-2010), and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, as Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Theology (2010-2014); presently, Professor Emeritus, Durham University, and Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Also priest of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) from 2003 (archpriest from 2014), serving the parish in Durham. Author of ten books, and many articles, in theology and the history of the Christian Church, especially in patristics, and modern Orthodox theology.
Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Theology
Sep 2015 -
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Theology
Sep 2010 - Sep 2014
Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology 2013
The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: from Plato to Denys 1981, ed.2: 2007
St John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology 2002
Greek East and Latin West: the Church, AD 681–1071 2007
Denys the Areopagite 1983
Modern Orthodox Thinkers: from the Philokalia to the present 2015
What is Byzantine studies?
Professor Andrew Louth FBA explains the history of the Byzantine Empire and the importance of understanding its history and culture.
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The first big announcement last week came with the Oracle In Memory processing option delilvered by Ellison at the kick off speech. Later Oracle announced they added 10 new enterprise products and services to the Oracle Cloud. The newest additions include Compute Cloud; Object Storage Cloud; Database Cloud; Java Cloud; Business Intelligence Cloud; Documents Cloud; Mobile Cloud; Database Backup Cloud; Billing and Revenue Management Cloud; and Cloud Marketplace.
Oracle Cloud previously offered a range of integrated services running in what the company describes as a secure, enterprise, standards-based cloud platform Relevant Products/Services. With the new SaaS options Oracle now offers one of the most extensive collections of cloud-based enterprise applications.
The 10 new cloud services are all available on a subscription basis. Some of the key new offerings include human capital management, customer experience (CX) management, and enterprise resource management (ERP), with built-in business intelligence (BI), social and mobile Relevant Products/Services capabilities.
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There's so much of us in this small book. And so many of these books in this small box.
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I love country music. It's in my veins- some of my oldest blood cells are steeped in G chords and over rosined fiddles.
My grandpa had a really great mustache. He was fit and tanned like a brown leather belt. He seldom wore a shirt. He had tattoos from the war- the faded green kind that men his age seem to have. There was "mother", his signature, a pair of dice and probably an eagle somewhere.
Grandpa used to call me "fang wang" because of my two lonely front teeth as a toddler. He built me my first "guitar" when I was little and he'd say things like "fang wang, go git yur gitty, gitty guitar!"
*with Kitty*
My Grandma has wild, wavy hair. She was clawed by a bear as a young girl and has a hand that is still a bit twisted 70 some years later. She's fiercely devout. As kids we could crack open a Bible and read a random verse to have her spout off the exact location while casually going about her business. They had 9 kids, the third one was my mom.
Mom and I would drive up from our house every Monday to visit with the family. We'd listen to music with the windows down, drinking chocolate malt milkshakes and waving our hands to our favorite lines as we zipped across the country. My knees were always skinned, my face freckly and my curiosity endless.
There was always fried chicken, jo-jo's, heaps of macaroni salad, coleslaw and cold can's of pop in the fridge. The country music was always so loud that it was hard to talk. When Grandpa would go to the can, someone would turn it down until another favorite came on.
Don't think twice about it, he liked the good stuff.
Merle, Johnny, Willie, Kris, Hank, Patsy, Waylon.
Tonight I was listening to 'Funny How Time Slips Away' by Willie Nelson (LISTEN HERE) and was sucked into a time portal by that opening, organ-melting pedal steel. The first time I heard a deep wash of pedal steel dripping in reverb, I nearly dropped my jo-jo straight into my kool-aid. I can remember being overwhelmed by it even as a little one.
I don't think I could play pedal steel. Every time I would set the steel bar on the strings and pick a chord, I'd jump up and hoot like a barred owl at the moon.
We all have an abundance of musical triggers from throughout our lives. I could write a book about the little things that have caused me to spill coffee, drive on the rumble strip, trip up stairs, etc. Maybe it's the way Bob Dylan sharply spits the words "TO" in the Royal Albert Hall rendition of Tambourine Man or when BB King crushes Eric Clapton in their guitar battle on Three O' Clock Blues with his first note. Maybe it's when Ray Charles quotes 'Mama's Little Baby' in his saxophone battle with Billy Mitchell on Soul Brothers or when Ralph Stanley squeezes out that high harmony above his target note to slide back into it throughout 'White Dove'.
Or the way Jimmy Page kicks off Since I've Been Loving You at The Song Remains the Same concert (especially that little squeak that pops off his pick on the kick off, ohhhh buddy). Or when the snare drum kicks into full crack mode at the end of I Can't Dance. Or the way Jimmy Smith comes out of playing in double time on The Preacher off of Live at Club Baby Grand. Or how Tim Eriksen always lets the B rest against the C on his bajo sexto throughout Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming. Or Edgar Meyer's last four notes on Chris Thile's You Deserve Flowers. Or how Henryk Szeryng nearly grinds his bow on the opening of Bach's Sonata #1 while everyone else eases into it like a goose into a thawed pond.
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Principal Architect Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ)
Professor and formER Head at MIT Architecture Department
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Resisting Sprawl
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In his presentation professor Yun Ho Chang will discuss about the effects of rapid urbanization processes in China, as one of the main factors towards resilient cities and urban development. Urbanization in China in recent decades may be understood as urban sprawl with Chinese characteristics.
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Chang is Principal Architect of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ), Professor and former Head at MIT Architecture Department and Professor of Tongji University.
He has received numerous awards, including the 2016 China Architecture Media Practical Achievement Award, the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts and the First Place in the Shinkenchiku Design Competition in 1987.
Since 2011, he is one of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury member. In 2012 he got the Kenzo Tange professorship at Harvard University.
He has published a collection of his essays entitled Yung Ho Chang Writes and other books and monographs. He held solo exhibitions, most recently at UCCA in Beijing in 2012, and has also participated in numerous international art and architecture exhibitions and biennials, including six times in the Venice Biennale since 2000.


The first widely used TV remote control had four buttons (power, volume, channel up, channel down) but no batteries; press a button, and a tiny hammer inside the remote would strike an aluminum rod, transmitting an ultrahigh-frequency tone to control the set. The Space Command ruled the living room for more than 25 years before being replaced by remotes using infrared technology. And thus a nation of couch potatoes was born. For more information, see Zenith's remote control history page. Photo courtesy of Zenith.
A wristwatch with no springs, gears, or hands? In 1970, when venerable U.S. timepiece maker Hamilton announced the Pulsar, the first solid-state watch, the concept was so revolutionary that nobody seemed to care that its LED screen actually displayed the time only when you pressed a button. The first Pulsars were $2100, solid-gold jobs, but a steel model was eventually available for a thriftier $275; everyone from Gerald Ford to Roger Moore was a fan. Check out this dedicated site for more information on Hamilton's breakthrough and its gaggle of imitators. Photo courtesy of Hamilton Watches International.
The marvel of this $15.95 camera was its easy loading system. Kodak wanted to eliminate amateur errors and make photography foolproof. To do this, the company put the film for this camera--and its successors--into a plastic cartridge. The user could pop the cartridge in and out, and not worry about exposing the film to light or misaligning it so that it wouldn't advance. To illuminate the subject, you placed a flashbulb in a little compartment on the camera's top that popped open. The camera was hugely popular: It is estimated that tens of millions of Instamatic-type cameras were sold. Photo courtesy of The George Eastman House.
It sported blinking lights and toggle switches, and you assembled it yourself from a $397 kit sold by an Albuquerque mail-order company that had formerly been in the model rocket business. The Altair was, in other words, a gadget, but it was also the first popular home computer. Not very useful at first, it soon inspired an entire industry of upgrades, peripherals, and software--and prompted computer geeks Bill Gates and Paul Allen to form a company to sell a version of the BASIC programming language. (They called their startup Micro-soft, later ditching the hyphen.) Also present at the creation: MITS documentation manager David Bunnell, who went on to found a bevy of successful computer magazines, including PC World. The Computer Science Club at the University of California at Davis has more information, including a photo of the MITS.
In the early 1980s, when people talked about "portable computers" they meant luggable monstrosities like the 24-pound Osborne I. Then Radio Shack introduced the Model 100, the first popular notebook. Starting at $799, this 4.25-pound featherweight boasted built-in word processing and other apps, and its internal modem let road warriors get online at a zippy 300 bits per second. More than 20 years later, the full-travel keyboard on the TRS-80 is still pretty impressive. Like all other TRS-80s, the Model 100 is lovingly documented at Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived, and at this fan site. Photo by Ira Goldklang.
In the old days, kids couldn't wait till they were old enough to get their first two-wheeler. Now they yearn for their first Game Boy. The original handheld, as shown at CyberiaPC.com, featured a black-and-green LCD and a slot for matchbook-size game cartridges. Later versions became smaller and more powerful but maintained backward compatibility with the original, so you could take your favorite games with you as you grew. The Game Boy's lock on the handheld game market remained virtually unchallenged--at least until the Sony PlayStation Portable arrived this year. Photo courtesy of Nintendo.
The best selling computer of all time still appears to be the Commodore 64: Estimates of this PC's sales range from 15 million to 22 million units. The first C64 cost $595 and came with 64KB of RAM, a 6510 processor, 20KB of ROM with Microsoft BASIC, 16-color graphics, and a 40-column screen. (How times have changed!) It also was the first PC with an integrated sound synthesizer chip, according to Ian Matthews of Commodore.ca. Photo courtesy of the Computer History Museum.
The Newton PDA had the dubious distinction of being lampooned in Doonesbury, thanks to its less-than-spectacular handwriting recognition. At nearly 1 pound and costing $700, it was too big and pricey for most users, but it paved the way for smaller, simpler devices like the PalmPilot and the iPod. At the time, there was no cooler gadget to be found. For more, see this description and photo of the Newton.
Few gadgets have had a bigger impact than the first stand-alone video cassette recorder. Shortly after the Betamax appeared, Sony was sued by the movie studios; in 1984 the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Sony's favor, finding that beneficial uses of the new technology (time-shifting TV programs) outweighed potential harms (video piracy). (The version pictured here is the SL-6300 from 1975, in a high-end wooden case.) The Betamax changed our lives and helped spawn the $20 billion video rental industry, but it couldn't compete with JVC's cheaper VHS devices and eventually disappeared. Those who love and honor all things Beta, however, have a place to gather. Photo courtesy of Sony Electronics.
Sanyo was the first to bring a camera phone stateside, although it wasn't the first to introduce such a device to the world--that credit goes to Sharp, which released the J-SH04 in Japan in 2000. Sanyo's SCP-5300 took 640-by-480-resolution snapshots, and according to PC World's first look, the clamshell phone was easy to use. But the quality of the photos was mediocre, and the only ways to get images off the phone were to send it to another person's cell phone or e-mail address or to upload them to Sprint PCS's Web site (the handset was available exclusively to Sprint customers). But, hey, it's almost impossible to find a cell phone without a camera these days. That's saying something. Photo by Marc Simon.


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Ceannairí Nua: investing in New Leaders
What we doPolicy and RepresentationCeannairí Nua New Leaders Programme
The Ceannairí Nua New Leaders programme is a community development initiative by Irish in Britain, it is provided free as part of Irish in Britain's investment in the future of our community's organisations. It is a tailored course providing essential skills, tools and information for those considering trustee and governance roles; and who have the passion and commitment to make a positive difference in the lives of Irish people in Britain.
It is a pathway for those interested in driving change, innovation and sustainability in our rich and diverse network.
Seminars, in person and virtual, run every month over the course of ten months and participants learn about the roles, responsibilities, and value of effective voluntary sector stewardship including:
An introduction to the history of the sector
A range of speakers in specialist and related fields
Interactive learning on governance of voluntary and community sector organisations
Tailored networking to understand the operational and strategic needs of the sector
The opportunity to explore and model governance solutions through group learning
Brokered introductions and placement opportunities with member organisations on completion
Criteria for selection to take part in the programme include:
The ability to commit to the programme
An interest in strengthening the voluntary/community sector
An interest in promotion of Irish culture and welfare in Britain
A commitment to volunteering for governance roles
Brian Dalton, CEO of Irish in Britain said:
"We are delighted to play our part in developing and investing in the Trustees of tomorrow. We recognise that there is a strong desire to get involved and to build successful and effective organisations.
"We know from our work nationally that there is a rich diversity of talent and experience in our community, and we welcome applications from all who want to make a difference at an important time for us.
"This is an invitation to develop your skills and to be part of a network that has kept communities healthy and connected during the most difficult of times. We look forward to working together with you in 2022."
Irish in Britain has announced that it has added additional places for the 2022 programme, read more about the course HERE.
The deadline for these final additional applications for the 2022 programme is 5pm 9 November
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