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Column: Unethical jouralism practices ruin lives
By: Liam McGurl @Liiiammm1996
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Journalism: it's about delivering the facts. Well, the facts the public ought to know, that is.
Unfortunately for Lilly Wachowski, formerly Andy Wachowski, her all-too-real facts' public release were prompted by a concoction of unethical journalism and a disregard for the face behind a potential headline.
According to Wachowski—one half of the sibling-director-duo behind the Matrix films—said her coming out process was unnaturally expedited by Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. Wachowski alleged that the newspaper threatened to release a story exposing her transgenderism. In an effort to share her authentic narrative, as each human deserves, Wachowski wrote an open letter for her hometown LBGTQ news source Windy City Times—somewhat unwillingly coming out as transgender.
With recent, public celebrity transitions—such as that of Caitlyn Jenner—everyone seems to have an opinion on transgenderism. While some opinions are religiously motivated and others grounded in pure ignorance, Wachowski's words likely hit a compassionate nerve in most readers.
"You know, when you're living as an out transgender person, it's kind of difficult to hide," she said in the online publication. "I just wanted—needed—some time to get my head right, to feel comfortable. But apparently, I don't get to decide this."
Wachowski's emotional admittance is nothing short of heartbreaking, mainly because of the dual issue that impelled her to come out.
First, from a journalistic standpoint, Daily Mail breached what could be called one of journalism's golden rules: respect the privacy of innocent persons.
Wachowski—a professional woman, dedicated to her craft—deserved to tell this story on her own terms, when she was ready to face potential criticism head-on and with a sense of self-assurance. Unfortunately, Wachowski became the victim of media bullying instead.
It's hard enough for many LGBTQ community members to come out to those they adore: family, friends and, even, coworkers. For Wachowski, poor journalistic ethics, mixed with her "celebrity" status, forced her to come out on a global scale. Within the first few hours of the letter's publishing, Wachowski went from being a notoriously private filmmaker to a public spectacle.
Outside Daily Mail's breach of a long-held journalistic principle, those who pressured Wachowski breached a moral principle: compassion for the experiences of others. It might not be a legal responsibility, but it's one the public generally aims to uphold. Sure, we're all humans, and we're not always as respectful as we ought to be; however, there's a heightened moral expectation from journalists.
There's power in words—especially those that tell the stories of others. Daily Mail wasn't dealing with some fluff story on the best local diners—they were toying with someone's reality. It's worth noting that, as many LGBTQ community members will attest to, it's a reality often unaccepted by the majority of faces they greet with each day's passing.
Daily Mail threatened Wachowski with her own narrative, likely attempting to use a shock-value story to increase publication "views." In the end though, Daily Mail established themselves as an unscrupulous, unfair publication with no regard for the human condition.
On the other hand, Wachowski showed immense strength—taking control of her own narrative and refusing to be made suppressed by faulty ethics and morals.
Posted on March 17, 2016 by intrepidsbuPosted in Entertainment, UncategorizedTagged Daily Mail, Ethics, journalism, Lily Wachowski, Matrix. Leave a comment
"Spotlight" victory: J-School professors talk career milestones
By Bryce Spadafora
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The 88th Academy Awards last week honored Spotlight with Best Picture, and it was a victory for journalists everywhere.
The movie, based on actual events, tells the story of a team of Boston Globe journalists who uncover a sexual abuse scandal involving Roman Catholic priests. The journalists who covered these stories went on to win the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Professors in the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication at St. Bonaventure University have spent years working in the journalism industry. During this time, they covered and witnessed stories that impacted and influenced their careers.
For professor Patrick Vecchio, the stories he covered helped reform a statewide system, as well as had historical significance.
Vecchio started his career at the Salamanca Press in 1979. The Salamanca Press was the second smallest daily newspaper at the time. Vecchio worked there until 1982 before moving to the Olean Times Herald, his hometown paper, where he worked his way up to editor.
In his first month at the Salamanca Press, Vecchio and a colleague received a tip about a sheriff's son shooting a suspect. The sheriff's son, along with a corrections officer, saw a car that had ran a red light and began to chase it. The car had crashed and the driver had tried to escape on foot when the sheriff's son shot him.
"A colleague and I worked on the story that whole morning and went to press that afternoon," said Vecchio. "We beat everybody. We beat all the local and regional papers. We beat the Buffalo papers. It was an exclusive, and it was a huge story."
During his time at the Salamanca Press, Vecchio also worked on a series about part-time police officers in Salamanca. According to Vecchio, his work led to part-time police officers throughout New York State being trained differently. The way they were being trained before exposed their municipalities to potential lawsuits, said Vecchio.
Vecchio also covered the first murder conviction in New York State where a body was never found. State police had asked Vecchio if he wanted to go along with them and cops from every agency in New York to search for the victim's body.
The case eventually went to trial in Buffalo. The state investigator called Vecchio as soon as the verdict was released.
"That meant a lot to me because I had built up a good enough relationship with him that he called me," said Vecchio. "Again, we sweeped everybody. It was a historically significant story."
In some cases, professors were able to uncover corruption in their community with the stories they covered. Richard Lee, director of the Integrated Marketing Communications Program, is one of these professors.
Lee worked at the Montclair Times for five years, The Aquarian Weekly for three years and The News Tribune in New Jersey for eight years.
One story Lee covered exposed irresponsible spending by The New Jersey Highway Authority. The highway authority had proposed to double the toll rates on the Garden State Parkway from 25 cents to 50 cents. According to Lee, nobody had ever closely covered the highway authority.
Lee and colleagues received tips that the group wasn't spending its budget responsibly. After every project the highway authority worked on there would be money left over. This leftover money would go into a numbered account.
"It appeared they were deliberately overestimating the cost of projects so they could bloat this account," said Lee.
The extra money went towards building a local amphitheater. Lee's story focused on how the highway authority wasn't making the best use of the money they collected. Ultimately, the toll was only raised to 35 cents.
"It's not a life or death issue," said Lee. "But I always joke with people that when you're driving on the Parkway you're paying a dime less because of what I did."
For Dr. Dennis Wilkins, there are two stories during his career that he said were important for newspapers to play a role in.
Wilkins started working for The Recorder in Greenfield, Massachusetts as a sports writer in 1970. Wilkins worked there for 20 years, spending his last five years with the newspaper as the editorial page editor.
The first story involved the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986. The Recorder, along with its sister-paper The Concord Monitor, had shared resources to cover Christa McAuliffe, a schoolteacher and one of the astronauts aboard the shuttle.
"It led to the most intense 24 hours of my career along with some difficult ethical decisions," said Wilkins. "I learned an awful lot about managing material, teamwork and how necessary it is for there to exist a group of people who keep their heads when everyone else is losing theirs."
The other story involved the unidentified body of an infant found by a state department of highways crew. The crew had found the infant's body while emptying barrels at a local rest area, said Wilkins.
After Wilkins' newspaper ran the story, people from the community organized and paid for the infant's funeral.
"It was amazing to report both a tragedy, but a story of hope," said Wilkins. "When people who had no connection with this infant stepped up to pay for expenses and give the infant a joyous sending off to wherever the infant went."
According to professor Anne Lee, her most memorable stories told the experiences of people who had gone through difficult times. Many of these people were Holocaust survivors.
"Not one of them had the same story," said Lee. "What always struck me was that they were such optimistic people who were happy to be alive."
According to Lee, one story involved local high school students working on an art exhibit in honor of a woman displaced during World War II. Lee attended an event at the school to hear the woman speak about her experiences.
The woman, after being separated from her family, would wander the forest near her home during the day. At night the woman would stop at houses and ask for food. Eventually, the woman was reunited with her sister who had also been surviving on her own.
"I learned then that everybody has a story, and some stories need to be told or they will be lost," said Lee.
According to Lee, bone marrow drives were becoming more common during that time. She and other journalists worked on stories covering the drives, who needed bone marrow and what readers could do to help.
"Those were the kind of stories that made me aware that newspapers, while holding to their standards of editorial content, could do a lot of good for people," she said.
Posted on March 8, 2016 March 8, 2016 by intrepidsbuPosted in Features, UncategorizedTagged Anne Lee, denny wilkins, Jandoli School, journalism, Journalism Wins, Patrick Vecchio, Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Spotlight, St. Bonaventure University. Leave a comment
Welcome to Journalist's Workshop: real world experience inside the classroom
By Joshua Svetz @svetz17
Tucked away in the John J. Murphy Professional building is a small room with yellow brick walls and several tables making a circle. On Thursday nights, this little room comes alive, when a handful of students enter with big ideas.
Welcome to JMC 410 Journalist's Workshop where upperclassmen journalism majors get the unique opportunity to work with former Dorf Feature Service editor Anne Lee and Buffalo News features writer Tim O'Shei.
Recently added to the required JMC curriculum, this class gives students two drastically different opportunities: On Thursdays, students report for O'Shei's "Live starring … You" website, which gives them the opportunity to attend and write about concert and sporting events. On Tuesdays, in Murphy 104 – better known as The Mac Lab — students gather with Lee for an online, community news publication called "The Convergence," reporting on events and people in the area surrounding St. Bonaventure.
The students get the opportunity to network with a wide range of people. From interviewing interesting locals in Western New York to well-known professionals in the news, sports, entertainment, and music industries, all facets of journalism are explored in this course. The class runs in a similar fashion to a newsroom because the professor checks in on the students' stories and gives feedback and guidance to each of them. The students have the opportunity to pursue their interests while also building a portfolio and learning the ins and outs of journalism in the real world.
Lee, who used to edit regionalized feature sections in New Jersey, said she encourages student journalists to "look for your next story in the contact you just made. If you go to Allegany and there's a street fair, and you see three different artists with different artwork, take a card, call them later and do a story on them. Always be looking for a story."
The two instructors offer students opportunities to cover important local events, to interview politicians, musicians, writers and many more. Exposure is the key to this class as young journalists get opportunities that are not usually present outside of internships.
Senior journalism major Mitch Skrabacz recalled going to cover concerts with a classmate. "We were able to get VIP and media passes to do a [Foster the People] concert review," he said. "We also got an interview with AER [rap group]. It was interesting to talk to famous people."
In addition to the opportunities presented, students share their experiences in the classroom and genuinely help each other as they reflect on their interviews, stories and experiences. "It's rewarding to watch these students grow and learn from each other's experiences," remarked O'Shei.
Another interesting thing about the program is that it gives student-athletes and students involved in other time-consuming programs such as ROTC a chance to gain experience and add to their portfolios. Skrabacz has experience with this because he is a student-athlete currently playing soccer for the Bonnies. "I can't be heavily involved [with clubs], so I haven't had that much experience, whereas in the class you have to do stories for the class which added to my portfolio."
With all that in mind, the goal of the class remains the same: become a great journalist.
"It's a very challenging course, but it's very rewarding," said senior JMC major Jalen Taylor. "You're going to work. There's going to be a lot of responsibility on you, and a lot of things will be expected of you. But if you make an effort and do what you're supposed to do, then it's going to be a good experience for you."
Posted on February 23, 2015 March 15, 2015 by intrepidsbuPosted in Features, NewsTagged Bonas JMC, Joshua Svetz, journalism, journalism and mass communication, St. Bonaventure University. Leave a comment
Greg Mitchell and the rise of digital Media
By Elyse Breeze @ezeerbesyle
Traditional journalists must now contend with web-based rivals. From reporter to social media guru, Greg Mitchell has experienced one of the most prevalent deviations in journalistic history: The transition from print to digital.
Digital media has made it possible for newsworthy information to be at our fingertips at all times. From the newest generation of the iPhone to our laptops, media has become ubiquitous. The trends are clear: young people are turning to the Internet for their news and developing their own digital strategies.
"I knew from the age of, like, four that I wanted to be a newspaper reporter… I was a big Superman fan; but I was the only kid who wanted to grow up to be Clark Kent," Mitchell said.
Mitchell's journalism career began at St. Bonaventure University when he graduated cum laude in 1970. The esteemed grad hit the ground running when he landed a job with Crawdaddy! Magazine – the pioneer of rock and roll journalism. Among the latest and greatest of Crawdaddy! scoop, the profile of rock music legend Bruce Springsteen before his major debut, co-authored by Mitchell alongside Peter Knobler in 1972, is one of the most impressive.
Since then, he has worked with news sources such as: Nuclear Times, Feature, Editor & Publisher, Huffington Post and currently The Nation. He has written dozens of books, manages a successful blog and continues to be an icon in the world of journalism.
According to Mitchell, news sources began transitioning their information from print to digital as early as the mid-1990s. "[They] were kind of dragging their feet… they were just hoping that this was kind of a fad."
Traditional newspapers didn't want to put too much emphasis on the web for the fear that it would eventually fade out. Online revenues for most news media are still only a small fraction of the income from traditional print or broadcast; however, the rates are increasing as young people continue to retrieve their news via the Internet.
As news sources continue to transition from print to digital, the rest of the world is doing the same. Staying connected through digital communication, social media and technology has become integral in our world, especially for young people. Mitchell, however, a "digital immigrant," has become accustomed to digital forms of media just the same as "digital natives."
Mitchell's impressive blog on Blogspot "Pressing Issues" is a great indication of his digital brand, including his Twitter follower count of just over 27,000. In developing his digital brand, he created a blog that focused on his interpretation of the media in topics such as politics, film, music and television.
"I wanted something that was totally my own," Mitchell said. "If you're going to have a blog, you need to figure out what your passion is."
"You tweet it; you try to get others to link to your stuff. You write something original that's kind of provocative and next thing you know some big, national site links to you. Overnight, you go from unknown to [people] bookmarking your blog," Mitchell advises for students interested in pursuing digital media, especially in strategic communication.
Mitchell's experience in the transition between traditional print journalism to digital media marketing is admirable, to say the least. He has utilized his skills as a reporter to develop his own digital brand using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Blogspot. As our world continues in shifting prospective, as digital natives, we are expected to adhere to the transition. While print journalism has not become obsolete, we were born prepared for its downfall.
Posted on November 3, 2014 November 3, 2014 by intrepidsbuPosted in NewsTagged digital media, greg mitchell, interview, journalism, sbu, St. Bonaventure, strategic communication, The Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Leave a comment
The (Un) Natural State
By Alex Ross, @alchristineross, Contributing Writer
Arkansas: the wholesome "heartland" of America. Within its homogenous population, sightings of tattoos, designed scars, and man-made horns protruding from human foreheads would soil the human landscape, right?
In short, if you want sub-skin décor or inkless tattoos, don't go to "The Natural State."
The state, surely wanting to stay natural, recently passed a law deeming artistic scarring and shaped silicone implants illegal. Known as scarification and subdermal implants to the marked masses, they're nothing new.
According to an Alternative Press article, senators, who are clearly experts on tattoos and piercings, ruled that these methods were "untraditional" and unsafe. Obviously, these guys never spent an entire "sick" day on the couch watching Nat Geo. They would know that scarification practices have been a significant part of African culture for as long, or longer than, Arkansas has been a state. Senators' lack of knowledge of rules and regulations followed by tattoo parlors and their artists also becomes apparent through their argument. Way to do your research, guys.
It's peculiar how society allows people to put grossly disproportional implants in their chests and faces for their own decorative purposes. The legislative claims prove suspiciously vague to be working under. The law has a big, red target on the untraditional.
People want horns? Give them horns. They want tattoos? So be it. Silicone and pigment may not be natural, but human nature and choice are.
rossac10@bonaventure.edu
Posted on September 17, 2013 by intrepidsbuPosted in UncategorizedTagged alternative, arkansas, body modification, editorial, ink, journalism, laws, mods, natural, opinion, scarification, subdermalimplant, tattoos, unnatural. Leave a comment


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Q: LateInitializationError: Field 'screenWidth' has not been initialized. Exception in flutter I am new to flutter
I had this size config file and I used it in an old project
and right now I took it again to another project and it shows no errors but when I run it gives me an Exception :
════════ Exception caught by widgets library ═══════════════════════════════════
The following LateError was thrown building Body(dirty):
LateInitializationError: Field 'screenWidth' has not been initialized.
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class SizeConfig {
  static late MediaQueryData _mediaQueryData;
  static late double screenWidth;
  static late double screenHeight;
  static double? defaultSize;
  static Orientation? orientation;
  void init(BuildContext context) {
    _mediaQueryData = MediaQuery.of(context);
    screenWidth = _mediaQueryData.size.width;
    screenHeight = _mediaQueryData.size.height;
    orientation = _mediaQueryData.orientation;
  }
}
// Get the proportionate height as per screen size
double getProportionateScreenHeight(double inputHeight) {
  double screenHeight = SizeConfig.screenHeight;
  // 812 is the layout height that designer use
  return (inputHeight / 812.0) * screenHeight;
}
// Get the proportionate height as per screen size
double getProportionateScreenWidth(double inputWidth) {
  double screenWidth = SizeConfig.screenWidth;
  // 375 is the layout width that designer use
  return (inputWidth / 375.0) * screenWidth;
}

A: make sure you call the method init() in build method
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
SizeConfig().init(context);}

and make sure you import sizeconfig class from the right source
for example :
import 'package:to_app/ui/size_config.dart';
where you want to use it

A: You must ensure ScreenConfig.init() is called before you use ScreenConfig.screenWidth.

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Fleet starts making deliveries on campus.
FAIRFAX, Va. – A fleet of high-tech robots has deployed at a northern Virginia university for the noble purpose of delivering pizza, doughnuts and coffee on demand to students.
The company's partnership with Sodexo, which has the catering contract at George Mason, means students can get deliveries from Blaze Pizza, Starbucks and Dunkin for a $1.99 fee. A convenience store is also participating and more vendors are expected to join the program later.
The robots drew smiles and bemused looks from students who stopped to take pictures as they rolled around campus Wednesday making lunch deliveries.
Justin Plassmeyer, a senior computer science major, received a pizza delivery Wednesday as his friends watched and took photos.
The robot took about 8 minutes to make a delivery that a person walking briskly might have done in 5. The robots are slowed a little by the need to use ramps instead of stairs.
Tuohy said college campuses are an ideal setting for Starship robots to operate: college students are interested in technology and innovation, and campus grounds are generally pedestrian friendly.


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Flyers at midseason: Lots of improvement, but not yet a Stanley Cup contender | Sam Carchidi
by Sam Carchidi, Updated: January 3, 2020
Right winger Travis Konecny, checking Buffalo's Evan Rodrigues, was the lone Flyer named to the All-Star team.
YONG KIM / Staff Photographer
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Flyers reached the halfway point of the season with a 5-4 loss Thursday in Vegas. They are 13 points better than at a corresponding point last season, but they still need a few more pieces to be considered Stanley Cup contenders.
Here are their midterm grades for the first 41 games.
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Team: B.
Despite a slew of injuries and Oskar Lindblom's cancer diagnosis, the Flyers enter the weekend in a wild-card spot (barely) with a 22-14-5 record for 49 points and a .598 points percentage, placing them 11th in the 31-team NHL.
At the Wells Fargo Center, they get an A-plus because of their 13-2-4 record and league-best .789 points percentage. But they are dragged down by their road struggles (.432 points percentage, 24th in NHL).
The Flyers' power play (13th in NHL) and penalty kill have struggled recently. In about a week, the PK has fallen from No. 3 to 14.
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They have made strides on defense from last year (3.41 goals-against per game, 29th in NHL) and are ninth in the league, allowing 2.88 goals per game despite surrendering four goals in each of their last two first periods entering Saturday. Offensively, they have averaged 3.1 goals, a slight improvement from last season and 14th in the league.
Travis Konecny: A.
He has been the Flyers' most consistent player and their top forward. His defense has improved, too. He is on pace for 24 goals and 72 points, which would shatter his career high of 49 points.
Oskar Lindblom: A.
Before the diagnosis of a rare form of bone cancer, Lindblom was leading the Flyers with 11 goals and having a breakout season. At the time, he was on pace for 30 goals and was the team's second-best defensive forward.
Sean Couturier: B-plus.
He's on pace for 24 goals and 66 points, a slight dip from his last two seasons. He has excelled in the faceoff circle (fourth in NHL at 59.1%) and has been the Flyers' best two-way player.
Flyers center Sean Couturier is having another outstanding season.
Kevin Hayes: B.
He is on pace for 24 goals, which would be one shy of his career high, and has helped improve the Flyers' usually weak penalty kill. That said, he needs more consistency in his game.
Claude Giroux: B.
His production (30 points, on pace for 60) has dropped from the last two years (102 points in 2017-18, 85 points last season) but he has still been a solid performer. He paces the Flyers with 13 goals and leads the league in faceoff percentage (61.3%).
Jake Voracek: B.
Voracek has arguably been the Flyers' best forward during the last two weeks, but he went through an up-and-down stretch earlier in the season. His playmaking has been off-the-charts recently, and his defense, rocky in the past, has improved. He is on pace for 16 goals and 66 points.
Scott Laughton: B-minus.
Two injuries have sidelined him for a total of 20 games, but Laughton, who has played with an edge, still might set career highs in goals and points. He has five goals and 10 points in 21 games.
Scott Laughton (right) has missed about half the Flyers' games this season.
James van Riemsdyk: C-plus.
He's on pace for 24 goals, but he has been extremely inconsistent. The Flyers especially need him to be more productive on the power play, where he has just two goals.
Tyler Pitlick: C.
Though far from flashy, he has given the Flyers productive minutes in the bottom six and filled in when needed on the penalty kill.
Joel Farabee: C-minus.
The 19-year-old rookie (three goals in 32 games) has shown glimpses of his offensive talent and has displayed some surprising grit. He has been in a massive slump since early November, scoring just one goal in his last 24 games.
Michael Raffl: C-minus.
The versatile Raffl has been strong on the penalty kill and has played primarily on the third and fourth lines. He is goalless in his last 22 games.
Michael Raffl has been in a goal-scoring drought.
Misha Vorobyev: C-minus.
He hasn't scored much (one goal in 18 games) and has been so-so as a fourth-line center, but his game is still developing. If Nolan Patrick (migraine disorder) gets healthy and returns, Vorobyev will probably be sent to the Phantoms and the Flyers will be much stronger with Laughton as their fourth-line center.
Nic Aube-Kubel: Incomplete.
He has played just eight games but has given a strong account. Aube-Kubel has played with an edge and has contributed three points.
Chris Stewart: Incomplete.
A good locker-room presence, Stewart has supplied some toughness on the ice but is minus-7 in just 15 games.
Andy Andreoff: Incomplete.
He has played in just 12 games and hasn't been able to get into a flow because he's been in and out of the lineup.
Ivan Provorov: A.
Without the weight of a new contract hanging over him, Provorov has returned to his form from two years ago and is on pace for 18 goals, 48 points, and a plus-10 rating. Provorov has scored a team-high six of his nine goals on the power play.
Matt Niskanen: B-plus.
Niskanen, acquired for Radko Gudas, has stabilized the defense and the penalty kill, and he has helped elevate the game of Provorov, his defensive partner.
Matt Niskanen has improved the Flyers' defense and penalty kill.
Phil Myers: B-plus.
His game is still evolving, but Myers has had a strong rookie season despite playing just 23 games. He leads the Flyers with a plus-17 rating and has chipped in with 11 points.
Robert Hagg: C-plus.
He is what he is: a dependable, stay-at-home defender who blocks a lot of shots and provides some much-needed physicality. Considering he has been yanked in and out of the lineup, he's done a good job of staying sharp.
Travis Sanheim: C.
The player they call "Sanny" has been up and down and is on pace for eight goals, 24 points, and a plus-4 rating. He got better in the second half last season, and the Flyers hope he repeats that.
Shayne Gostisbehere: C-minus.
He went through a poor stretch but has elevated his play after a three-game benching. He is on pace for 10 goals and 22 points, a far cry from his personal bests (17 goals, 65 points).
Justin Braun: C-minus.
After an awful start to the season, he's been better the last month or so but still has a team-worst minus-11 rating.
Goalies:
Carter Hart: B.
Hart, 21, gets an A-plus for his home play (11-1-2, 1.49 GAA, .947 save percentage), but he has struggled mightily on the road (2-8-1, 3.84, .855). He needs to be much better on the road if the Flyers are going to be a factor in the playoffs — if they get there. Overall, he is 13-9-3 with a 2.52 GAA and .908 save percentage.
Flyers goaltender Carter Hart, stopping New York Rangers left winger Artemi Panarin on Dec. 23, has had a bizarre half-season.
Brian Elliott: C-plus.
Elliott (3.06 GAA, .901 save percentage) has been mostly dependable, and his numbers look inflated because of a few poor games.
Alain Vigneault: B-plus.
Compared with recent seasons, the new Flyers coach has generally gotten the team to start much better and to play a full 60 minutes (or beyond) in most games, though not so much on the current road trip. He has also held players accountable and has not been afraid to bench or demote players, regardless of their salaries.
On the flip side, he could have used his timeouts better to stem opponents' momentum, and some of his Myers benchings have been puzzling.
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Abstract: We study the determinants and effects of the relative compensation of top executives and lower-level employees. First, we show that CEO–employee pay ratios depend on the balance of power between the CEO (relative to the board) and ordinary employees (relative to management). Second, our results suggest that employees do not perceive higher pay ratios as an inequitable outcome to be redressed via costly behaviors that lower productivity. We do not find a negative relation between relative pay and employee productivity, either in our full sample or in subsamples where employees are well-informed about executive pay and are protected against career retributions. Rather, we find that productivity increases with relative pay when the firm has fewer employees who are well-informed, and when promotion decisions are predominantly merit-based. We also find that firm value and operating performance both increase with relative pay. We conclude that ordinary employees appear to perceive an opportunity in higher pay ratios but the extent to which such perception incentivizes them depends on the likelihood of success in a series of sequential promotion tournaments.


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Lawyer Limelight
Lawdragon Press
Lawyer Limelight: Nathaniel Palmer
By Katrina DeweyMay 31, 2020July 29th, 2020Lawyer Limelights
Photo by Laura Crosta.
Injustice anywhere, the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, is a threat to justice everywhere.
It also has an innate talent for kindling resistance in those it touches, as it did with Nate Palmer.
A partner at Reid Collins & Tsai in Austin, Texas, Palmer was in high school, just learning to drive, when a well-to-do client destroyed his father's construction business.
"He lost everything," Palmer recalls. "The family was in turmoil. Throughout the rest of high school, I worked two or more jobs. I played baseball, I studied and ended up as the valedictorian in my class. But I just started grinding away at that point to pay as many of my own expenses as I could. And it crushed my dad."
The experience was a seminal one for Palmer, influencing his thinking when an acquaintance of his father offered career advice years later. An undergraduate at Wheaton College in Illinois, he decided to take the Law School Admissions Test, or LSAT, and was accepted at the University of Texas, where he earned his juris doctorate in 2008.
After a year as an associate at Diamond McCarthy, he joined a core group of young attorneys who left to form Reid Collins. Early on, he played a role in an early lawsuit by the Colombian government accusing Diageo plc and Pernod Ricard SA of helping drug traffickers launder money through alcoholic beverages smuggled into the South American country.
The lawsuit had been filed in U.S. District Court, and "it was fascinating to see how the political and legal systems in a foreign country interacted with the U.S. legal system," Palmer recalls. "It was a complete quagmire to sort through."
Lawdragon: That sounds like great experience to get early in your career. Can we go back a little further than that? Tell me about where you grew up. Were there lawyers in your family?
Nate Palmer: I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, to a very blue-collar family. I didn't know any lawyers growing up, or really what they did. I had no idea. By the time I was in high school, my dad had gone out on his own and started building residential homes, some of which were "spec" homes.
He built one spec home, a man agreed to buy it and my dad bent over backward doing things for him, accommodating the level of detail he wanted. The buyer wanted to pay for lead, but he expected gold. He would ask to have closet shelves torn out, sanded, and the underside painted because they weren't smooth enough. My dad did all that, and then the guy came back months later and sued him.
We obviously didn't have any money, so my dad hired a lawyer – for the first time in his life – and he got the case dismissed. Then the guy sued my dad again, and his attorney contacted my dad's lawyer and said, "This man has paid me several hundred thousand dollars, and he told me my mission is to put Mr. Palmer out of business." My dad had nothing left after the first lawsuit, so he filed for bankruptcy.
LD: I'm so sorry. That's a terrible story.
NP: That was my first introduction to the power of the law. I didn't like that things like that could happen to people. I have a very strong protective instinct, and I believed that's not the way these things should operate. You shouldn't be able to just crush people the way that my dad was crushed. He didn't have the means to fight back, unless an attorney took the case pro bono, but he couldn't find anyone that would do that.
So I went to college, kept playing baseball and working on the side to pay for school. During the summer, I worked with my dad on commercial construction jobs as a carpenter, and I met an acquaintance of my dad's, a salesman whose wife was a judge. We all started talking, and he asked what I was going to do and I told him I didn't know. He said, "Let me give you a bit of advice: If I could do it all over again, I'd be an attorney or a veterinarian." And at that time, I hadn't taken all the science courses. I had done well in science in high school, but I hadn't pursued that in college. And I was like, "Well, I can't be a vet; I don't want to go back and take all those classes. That'll take forever. So let's see what I can do on an LSAT." So I did; I had the idea from that point on that I would try to protect or help people who got into situations like my dad's. I knew that being an attorney, I could provide for my family, and provide them with opportunities that I didn't necessarily have as a kid.
LD: So after Wheaton, you went to the University of Texas for law school. Were there professors or people you met who really helped you process the inclination you already had to help the little guy?
NP: There were. One professor who did was a practicing attorney, Mark Perlmutter, who had a seminar class; very, very different from a normal law school class. It focused on trial strategy, how to be an ethical attorney and protect the integrity of the system, protect the integrity of your clients. And how to be a better trial lawyer by using emotion to communicate to a jury. So that's the one class I can really remember that kind of touched a nerve with me.
LD: Tell me about your path to Diamond McCarthy.
NP: It's funny how it all circles back to the same point. Another job that my dad was working on was with a commercial construction company and there was a lawyer named Brent Bull out of Dallas who did construction litigation. One of those jobs had something going on, and my dad told Brent about me and I ended up meeting Brent.
My wife, Krissy, and I were about to move to Austin to start law school and he said, "Well, I know a guy down in Austin, he's a great person. You need to meet him." And that was Jason Collins. When we moved down here, we became a part of Jason's small group. And so we got to know Jason and his wife, Lisa, pretty well.
Jason had told me, "If you do well your first semester, I'll see what I can do. I can't promise anything." And then I did well my first semester, so I got my first-year clerkship with them that way. So I clerked for Diamond McCarthy, where Jason was at the time, and I clerked for Baker Botts.
LD: It's great you had two different types of firms to compare.
NP: My path has always been defined by looking at two things: One is what I want people to say about me when I die. The other is that everywhere I went, I looked at the attorneys who were senior and I said, "Is that where I want to be at that point in my life? Do I respect what they're doing? Do they have the same values I do? Do they have the same ethics?" And that was really one of the questions I asked. And the Austin office of Diamond McCarthy was Bill Reid, Jason, and Lisa Tsai.
I knew Jason had many of the same values. He was a good dad. He spent time with his family. He was a good lawyer; he lived by his morals. And Bill was the same way. Bill was having kids at that point and I could see that he was a good dad. He loved his family and wanted to spend time with them. That's kind of a unique thing, I think, in the legal world. To me, family has always been something that's extremely important. I wanted to find a way to have a career but not sacrifice my family. Because even though we didn't have money, the one thing my dad always gave me was time. He was our coach in baseball from the time I could read, from when I was little all the way through high school. And he was always there.
I knew I wouldn't be able to do exactly what he did with the career I had chosen. But I wanted to be able to give time to my family and kids. And I could see that in them, and what they modeled in their lives.
LD: Tell me some of your recollections of your first cases and how they laid the groundwork for your niche of coming up with innovative legal approaches that have a big impact.
NP: I'm curious. I've always been curious about things. I liked digging into the different businesses, learning what they did, and learning who they were, and what happened. The earliest one I can remember involved a friend of Bill's who was a wine merchant and had become involved in a dispute but didn't have the resources to hire an attorney. So Bill put me on it. I think this was within a month after I got my license. It was awesome. You get great experience that way. I moved for summary judgment, and Bill went with me and let me argue the whole thing. And we won; we got the case tossed. That was the earliest one I can remember where it was much more of a David-and-Goliath story. And we achieved a good result.
LD: And Bill saw you in action, what you were made of. And so I assume you went on to some bigger cases from there. Are there some that stand out to you?
NP: There have been a number. Obviously, Credit Suisse is far and away the biggest highlight. That one was so long and intense and so much work, and the result at trial was awesome.
LD: Can you walk me through some of your work on that case?
NP: Highland Capital had sued CBRE, which handled an appraisal on behalf of Credit Suisse that convinced Highland to participate in the refinancing of the Lake Las Vegas real estate development. The project later went bankrupt. They were getting close to trial and summary judgment motions when I started getting into the case, and negotiations with Credit Suisse were starting to break down. We were looking at filing a suit against Credit Suisse, and I began to wonder what the credit agreement actually said about the appraisal. What were the requirements? What exactly were they supposed to deliver?
I started going through the credit agreement, reading the definitions, piecing together all the different definitions and then going through the contract itself and looking at, "OK, where do they come up? How is all of this fitting together when it comes to the appraisal? What was its role? Why is it there? What are the requirements?" And I realized we might have a breach-of-contract claim. I took a copy of the credit agreement that I had highlighted, tabbed, and marked so that I could easily demonstrate my theory and showed it to Bill. When you took the various pieces and put them together, they created an obligation. We told Highland Capital, walked the strategy past some of their business people and from there, I put in the complaint.
LD: And it achieved such an amazing result. The Colombian case sounds fascinating, too. What was that like?
NP: That was just a crazy experience. Greg Schwegmann and I were the two young guys on that one. Once it moved into discovery, Colombia had to respond to all of these requests and the two of us were sent there for a week at a time for several months, where we went from department to department meeting with officials to discuss the case and discovery-related issues.
It was a really fun experience – a crazy experience. We were still pretty young lawyers, and we were sitting there with the head of what was, in effect, their customs department, talking to him, and we would go meet with high-ranking government officials. I hadn't spent much time with politicians in a close capacity before, and it was fascinating to see how the political and legal systems in a foreign country interacted with the U.S. legal system. And of course, we had to figure out how to get people with such different expectations and understandings of the world to adapt to the U.S. legal system.
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IBEX 2017: Torqeedo sees rising interest in electric power for boats
Eric Colby
Marcia Kull
TAMPA, Fla. — After new boats were unveiled at the Newport International Boat Show and the Cannes Yachting Festival with Torqeedo electric power, Torqeedo president Marcia Kull said interest in electric power for boats is growing.
"It's moving from, 'No I'll never' to 'Tell me more,' and that evolution has come to us basically through the auto industry," said Kull.
Kull said that at the Newport show last week and at this week's International BoatBuilders' Exhibition & Conference, inquiries and interest in electric power for boats have grown, especially with lightweight electric motors for boats such as kayaks and canoes.
For 2018 Torqeedo is introducing an Advanced Mounting System, which allows an electrically powered ultra-light outboard to be mounted on any kayak with a power pole mounting plate. That means the motor can be installed on a boat without the need for drilling any holes, making it more applicable for rental and other applications.
Kull said the increase in interest in Torqeedo motors for fishing from kayaks and other small boats is being driven by bass fishermen. "It's an access issue," she said. "It's a grow-the-sport issue."
One thing that has helped Torqeedo increase awareness about electric power is the partnership the company has with BMW for lithium ion batteries. "It brings to our customers the automotive scale and engineering," she said. "It's longer life, better capacity, better power-to-weight ratio and increased density."
Additionally, Torqeedo is working with lithium ion battery suppliers from Korea and Japan to source components. "It's not just the chemistry and how we put it together, it's the quality control," said Kull. "It's how you assemble them, the clean environment."
As the idea of electrically propelled boats grows, Kull said, "We are on the cusp of something." She said Torqeedo has experienced 38 percent growth in 2017, adding, "It's been a steady growth."
Kull explained that she is responsible for global sales on the recreational and commercial fronts. San Antonio recently ordered 44 water taxis with Torqeedo power for use on the city's popular Riverwalk area. Kull also pointed to China and the Middle East as potential commercial outlets for Torqeedo products. South America is similar to Asia, with users looking to reduce greenhouse emissions.
In North America, Kull said, "people are choosing electric propulsion because they want electric propulsion." She said she hopes that boats such as the new Hinckley with electric power will draw people to electric boats because of the experience it provides.
"When we start seeing more Hinckley-like, purpose-built boats, people will be thrilled," said Kull. She acknowledged that a customer will pay more for a Torqeedo electrically powered propulsion system, but said the rise in inquiries shows consumers aren't scared off by the increased cost.
"What do you pay for little or no maintenance?" said Kull. "What do you pay for no fuel? What do you pay for reducing your carbon footprint?"
Torqeedo has been working with pontoon boat manufacturers such as Bennington and Tracker. Kull would like to see the first entry-level electrically powered boat by the fall of 2018.
For hybrid packages, Torqeedo continues to work with Greenline Yachts, producing the energy-management system that monitors an entire boat's electrical system, not just the engines and batteries.
Using the electric power can potentially cut the diesel-engine side of the hybrid system by a third, which reduces the amount of money an owner must spend on maintenance for those diesel engines.
"If you can cut your [diesel] engine hours by a third, you can cut your maintenance costs by a third," said Kull. "You pay more for electrical propulsion systems because you get more. Purpose-built electric boating is here.


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Factors influencing farmer willingness to reduce aggression between pigs.
RSE Peden, F Akaichi, I Camerlink, Laura A Boyle, SP Turner
Rural Development & Food Marketing
Aggression between pigs remains an important animal welfare issue despite several decades of research. Aggression is primarily caused by the unstable social structure created by regular regrouping, as pigs fight in order to re-establish dominance relationships. Several strategies to reduce the occurrence or intensity of aggression at regrouping have been identified. However, these strategies are insufficiently adopted in commercial practice. Uptake of livestock welfare research relies on various stakeholders being willing to recommend or adopt changes to farm structure or management (e.g., veterinarians, researchers, farmers). We surveyed 122 UK and Irish pig farmers on their attitudes and practices regarding aggression between growing pigs. A structural equation model was used to investigate the factors that influence farmer willingness to implement aggression control strategies, to identify targets for initiating a change in practice. The majority of farmers mixed pigs at least once during each production cycle, and had tried at least one strategy to reduce aggression in the past. Strategies were considered to be moderately useful, but farmers expressed limited willingness to use them again in the future. Willingness to implement aggression control strategies was directly influenced by (1) their beliefs about the outcome (p < 0.01), and (2) their perceived possibility to make a change (p < 0.01). Furthermore, willingness was indirectly influenced by (3) their perceptions of the problem (p < 0.001) and (4) relevant stakeholder groups (p < 0.01). Veterinarians had the greatest influence on farmer behaviour when compared to all other stakeholder groups (p < 0.05). We recommend that researchers employ a combination of approaches to encourage a change in practice. Aggression control strategies should be tested outside of the highly controlled research setting, in order to establish their outcomes and ease of practical implementation under commercial conditions. The economic consequences of different strategies should be calculated, in order to advise farmers on the most cost-effective solutions and their impacts on farm profitability. Finally, information on the consequences of aggression, how to recognize it as a problem and how to control the issue should be effectively transferred into industry by researchers. Knowledge transfer should be directed not only at farmers but at various stakeholder groups, with special emphasis on veterinarians. The Structural Equation Model approach could be useful to understand farmer decisions with regards to other specific and entrenched animal welfare issues.
https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-889-6
Print publication - 5 Aug 2019
53rd Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) - Bergen, Norway
Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 9 Aug 2019
http://www.isae2019.com/
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Peden, RSE., Akaichi, F., Camerlink, I., Boyle, L. A., & Turner, SP. (2019). Factors influencing farmer willingness to reduce aggression between pigs.. 363. Paper presented at 53rd Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE), Bergen, Norway. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-889-6
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There are many drivers who firmly believe that driving is something that should always happen in luxury and style. If you're one of the drivers who share this opinion, then a second hand Mercedes Benz is the right choice for you.
When you're behind the wheel in one of these cars, you convey a certain class and style – which is important when first impressions are everything.
Here's why a used Mercedes Benz could be the perfect next car choice for you.
Not only does the brand have a long and rich international history, it has become integral in South African culture – and it's been a goal for many youngsters to one day sit behind the wheel of their own Mercedes.
Maybe you are just getting to know the brand and looking for your first car, or maybe you've been driving them for a while and want to find your next perfect model; whatever your reasons for buying one, there's very good reason why what you're buying is one of the best.
When you're looking for a stylish secondhand buy, there's nothing better than one of these German masterpieces.
The first Benz to see South Africa was more than 100 years ago: A Velo model that was showcased to the then-president Paul Kruger in Berea Park, Pretoria in 1897 according to the official Benz Club South Africa.
Ever wondered what the name really means? It is actually named after the daughter of a prominent racer and entrepreneur, and the name still carries her legacy today.
The first production car that was ever put into production was a Benz, and was known as the simple Patent Motorwagen. Did they have any idea just how much it would catch on?
According to an article in Car Magazine, the brand sold an incredible 16, 164 new models during the year 2018.
A press release from Daimler reveals that they sold an incredible 2.3 million cars worldwide during the year 2017, and was one of the top-selling car brands in the world for the year.
The AMG C63 is a rugged version of your regular luxury Merc, and it comes with a 4.0L V8 diesel engine outputting an incredible 350kW of maximum power; some later models have upped this capacity to as much as 588kW under the hood.
The C300 is the most popular illustration of the style that comes with driving a C-class. It comes with a 2.0L petrol engine with 190kW of power purring under the engine, and it's available as a four-wheel drive option that really sticks to the road.
The B180 is for when you need a little more space; it's the bigger hatchback option, and comes with several engine choices, including a 1.5L diesel engine (85kW of power) or the 2.0L diesel engine that puts out 110kW.
The International German PR Prize for 2018 shows that building a great brand is about far more than only building quality vehicles, and they perform well in their international efforts to wise-up consumers about what it is they're driving.
The brand took home a whopping 10 awards at the Automotive Brand Contest in 2016 (10 awards).
In 2018, the NY Daily News awarded the C-Class the coveted award of being the best consumer luxury vehicle of the year.


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Open Banking APIs: Coming Soon to a Country Near You
Patricia Hines
Externally-facing APIs in financial services have been around a long time, with many initially emerging in the e-commerce and cards space. The growth in APIs for payments, banking, and other financial applications has skyrocketed over the past few years, with more than 530 new APIs published from 2015 to 2017.
Regulatory-Driven Open Banking APIs
Regulatory requirements drive much of the growth in newly-published open banking APIs. The intent of open banking legislation is to provide consumers with more choice — by allowing third-party providers to create new financial services offerings with aggregated bank account data. Regulators across the globe are moving towards open account access, and in some counties, payment initiation.
Market-Driven Open Banking APIs
A handful of market-leading banks launched open APIs long before regulatory mandates.
Credit Agricole: Credit Agricole launched its API marketplace, CA Store, in 2012. The CA Store API site gives developers access to a software development toolkit (SDK) with which to build their own applications. The customer-facing CA Store now has 50 applications in their marketplace.
BBVA: BBVA began hosting hackathons in 2013 under the InnovaChallenge brand. For the hackathons, BBVA provided participants with anonymized credit card data sets, offering prize money for the applications best adding value to BBVA's data. The BBVA API_Market now offers two sets of APIs, one covering BBVA Spain and the other, BBVA US.
Fidor Bank: Fidor, now part of Groupe BPCE, received its German de novo banking license in 2009. It built its banking platform from scratch, creating an integrated experience with complete control over the products and services suite. It published its first public APIs in 2014 and now offers more than 50 APIs.
Like these pioneers, banks around the globe aren't waiting for regulators to force the issue. Banks such as Citi, Bank of America, Capital One, Banco do Brasil, Absa, Emirates NBD, DBS, Mitsubishi UFJ, and YES BANK offer freely available access to their developer portals, unlocking business value with open banking APIs.
Look for my upcoming Celent report, titled "APIs in Banking: Four Approaches to Unlocking Business Value." In the report, I discuss how banks are benefitting from APIs for Integration, Banking as a Platform, Innovation, and Customer Connectivity. The report contains updated case studies from CBW Bank, Fidor Bank, JB Financial Group, Citi, and YES BANK detailing their API journey, including technology architecture, monetization approach, and latest results. For banks seeking to begin their API journey, I recommend a series of guideposts that banks can follow to unlock business value with APIs.


This is not a review post based on a product trial offer rather it's just one I wanted to share with others as we love it! It's oven baked and all natural! No preservatives, gluten and trans fat free! We've been on a slow path towards eating healthier and my girls love Cheetos but after reading some of the healthy books such as Vintage Remedies, it's been opening my eyes to preservatives and additives.
Here is the book if interested as my giveaway for Vintage Remedies already ended. It's an excellent resource for those wanting to get back to a natural way to eat.
My daughters and I embarked on a mission to Earth Fare and they had samples out of the Smart Puffs and much to my surprise, the girls loved them and so do I! We ran out and tried to buy another brand but it left a weird after taste. The Smart Puffs are addicting as the real Wisconsin cheddar is amazingly good.
They are part of the Pirate Brands of food and to date, we've tried the Smart Puffs and the Pirate's Booty Aged White Cheddar.
The first ingredient is corn meal ... no processed, refined flour .. just corn meal and I can actually pronounce every ingredient on the label which doesn't contain much.
Check them out here and on Facebook.


Dominion offers a large selection of backpacks for almost every occasion. We offer nautical backpacks from Guy Harvey and Sailor Bags. There are also many new and unique backpacks from sources around the world including some cute eco friendly ones. Free monogramming is available on select backpacks.


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@interface SWInfiniteScrollContainer : UIView

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray *images;

- (void)scrollToPageIndex:(NSInteger)pageIndex;

@end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub