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Five worthless opinions: The Chevrolet Dual in Detroit
The Verizon IndyCar Series floated onto Belle Isle in Detroit and, with promoter Roger Penske's help, managed to put on two races that once again highlighted the yin and yang of IndyCar as we know it. Here are some waterlogged WO's (worthless opinions) to bring some sunshine to your day.
1. Andretti Autosport went 1-2 in Saturday's race with Carlos Munoz and Marco Andretti. Strategy of any kind makes a race more compelling. The decision to stay on slicks and stretch fuel as the rain was coming in was flawless, as was Marco's aggressiveness in staying out longer than the team wanted so he could build his lead. Munoz's later fuel stop allowed him to pass Marco for the win, but it was gutsy racing from both Andretti drivers. Take a chance, win a race.
2. What was great about Sunday's race? The obvious was the small teams up on the podium. Sebastien Bourdais, a beast in the wet for KVSH Racing, held off Takuma Sato, another beast in the wet for A.J. Foyt Racing, for the win. The final podium spot was Graham Rahal, a beast in general this year for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Something less obvious was the fact that it was a Chevy and two Hondas vying for the win and nobody really noticed. It should be the drivers competing for the win, not the motors. I am sure that Honda is proud of sweeping eight out of the top nine spots on Sunday, but Will Power taking out Helio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya running out of fuel, and Scott Dixon getting wrecked by teammate Charlie Kimball had a little something to do with Chevy's bad day.
3. Wet socks were the order of the day for both Saturday and Sunday, as was the cold. Rain and temperature are a strategist's nightmares. Will the race go the distance? Will it be timed? When do we go from rains to slicks and slicks to rains? Do we stay out for position or get fuel? A hard-core fan is following all of these possibilities. A casual fan is wallowing in them. One thing that is extremely difficult to follow at a street race is strategy. If you have a radio or scanner, it helps tremendously. At home, viewers depend on the broadcasters, who are at the mercy of their monitors and their directors. Truthfully, radio does a much better job of explaining strategy. In any case, being able to follow team strategy just makes the racing better. Not shilling here, but if you have a Verizon phone, download the IndyCar 15 app. Radio broadcast, team radio communications, and other goodies…all free.
4. Speaking of strategies, Jon Beekhuis (@JonBeekhuis) conducted a Twitter Q and A after the race that was illuminating. He explained timed races, discussed tire selection, and interpreted rules and penalties. My question is this: Why is this only taking place on Twitter after the race? All these are topics that fans and viewers want and need to understand. Much of the consternation of being an IndyCar fan comes the esoteric nature of rules, penalties, and strategy. A new fan to the series needs a primer on these topics. If not, then rain shortened races like Saturday and Sunday confuse fans instead of excite them. Beekhuis takes these topics, and without dumbing them down or using props, clearly and cleanly explains them. Use and promote this man on pre-race, YouTube, and Twitter! Engage the fans! We are not stupid, just uneducated.
5. The rules and race control are in the news, as always. I will give race control this, they are NOT making calls that affect the outcome of races. Whether this leads to issues on the track or not remains to be seen. Graham Rahal moved all the way over on the track to block Takuma Sato on Sunday and defended this by saying blocking is legal as long as you don't move in response to another driver. Fair enough. Still called for blocking, though. He was required to give up his position to Sato. That's a penalty I can live with. His race was not ruined, just his spot on the podium. Juan Pablo Montoya complained loudly that Sato jumped the start. If he did, there was no penalty. I am not sure that probation and points penalties handed out on Wednesdays will deter rule breaking, but so far a light hand has seemed to work. I do wonder if the rolled-up-newspaper threat to drivers will be ignored by the drivers like it is ignored by dogs everywhere, though.
In honor of the doubleheader weekend, I considered a doubleheader set of WO's (worthless opinions) but decided against it. The two days of bad weather in Detroit this weekend was punishment enough.
Posted in Five Worthless Opinions and tagged A.J. Foyt Racing, Belle Isle, Carlos Munoz, Chevrolet Indy Dual in Detroit, Chevy, Detroit, Graham Rahal, Helio Castroneves, Honda, Jon Beekhuis, Juan Pablo Montoya, KVSH, Marco Andretti, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Takuma Sato, Verizon IndyCar 15, Verizon IndyCar Series, Will Power
Sibling rivalry: the plight of the Angie's List GP of Indianapolis
People with older siblings understand the story. If your older brother or sister is anything you are not – smart, good-looking, athletic, popular, criminally insane – then you are constantly in the position of being compared, normally unfavorably. You hear the disappointment in every back-handed compliment and outright criticism:
"Those grades are okay. Not as good as your brother's, though."
"Why can't you take more pride in your appearance and dress like your sister?"
"You know that your brother averaged double figures when he played basketball."
"Even though he went to prison, your brother was a real genius when it came organizing a distribution network and cooking meth in the barn."
We have all heard it. And it hurts. So welcome to the family Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis! Your little road race is cute, but look what your big brother built.
That really is the story. The GP of Indianapolis will always be in the shadow of its older, more successful, and more popular sibling. And truthfully, not much can be done about it.
I'm a fan of the road race at IMS. Turn 1 (Turn 4 area on the oval) is exciting as hell. Unless you are Juan Pablo Montoya, of course. His quote after this year's race dealt with a long, fast straight leading into a first gear corner and the expected carnage at the beginning of the race. Point taken, JPM, although as a counterpoint I would mention that every driver knows that the aforementioned first gear corner is there. Act accordingly.
The GP of Indy had some great stories. Graham Rahal's second place run once again proved that something is different on the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team. It must be engineering since having his dad Bobby off the box couldn't have that big of an effect, right? A one car team with local sponsor Steak and Shake could add up to a tasty story line for the 500.
Will Power is stamping his dominance on the Verizon IndyCar Series. He simply put on a show that stated he is all grown up and focused. Finally. He is the most dominant road racer in the series. The oval at IMS remains his white whale, though. He needs Ahab focus in the next two weeks. Without the insanity, of course.
Even with these storylines, the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis is still the little brother tagging along for the ride because the parent company Hulman Motorsports said so. The lengthy shadow cast by its much older brother simply cannot be overcome.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has done a masterful job of taking a month of May that had dwindled to the 500 and a convoluted qualifying weekend with barely enough cars to fill the 33 car field and expanded it to a three weekend month with two IndyCar races on two different courses at IMS sandwiching a convoluted qualifying weekend with barely enough cars to to fill the 33 car field. Regardless of the attendance, a race with a title sponsor should be making money for the series/facility.
The problem is not the racing at the GP of Indy, nor is it the fact that it is a road race. The problem is that it is not the Indy 500 and never will be. Simply put, the big brother is just more popular than the little brother in everyone's eyes. Any racing event absolutely depends on local attendance. While the Indianapolis 500 brings in fans from around the country, the majority of its fans are local. These locals plan for the event. They order tickets in advance, host parties, shop for food and beer like its Black Friday, and spend money like drunken sailors on leave. They do it because the event is the thing. It's the Indy 500. It's a Midwestern Mardi Gras. At the end of the month, they sober up and go back to sleep for another year. They don't have the love or the money for another event. Going to a race at IMS is a massive undertaking.
All this leaves the GP of Indy waving its arms in the air and shouting, "Look at me! Look at me!" to a populace that smiles and pats it on the head telling it how cute it is and then turns its attention to the fair-haired older sibling who always gets the accolades. Fair it is not, but who said life was fair? Even though the general admission tickets are an absolute bargain, and the spectator mounds offer sight lines to the best passing zones, the Indy area fans will always love the 500 more.
What does all this mean for the Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis? Just keep trying to get everyone's attention. There is no need to cause trouble, act out, or start hanging out with unsavory characters. A younger sibling in this situation has two choices: quit trying or get busy pleasing yourself instead of trying to compete with big brother. My advice for the GP of Indy is simple. Be yourself. Or else spend years of therapy trying to come to grips with your feelings of insecurity and inadequacy. Your choice.
Posted in Humor, Opinions and tagged Angie's List Grand Prix of Indianapolis, GP of Indy, Hulman Motorsports, IMS, Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indy 500, Juan Pablo Montoya, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Steak and Shake, Verizon IndyCar Series, Will Power
Five Worthless Opinions: Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama Edition
At times, my WO's (worthless opinions) can run to sarcasm. Surprising, I know. And the Verizon IndyCar Series always seems to offer snark fodder in abundance. At previous races this year, the fragile front wings, racing in the rain, and rules interpretations have made it easy for one so inclined. The Honda Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park changed most of that. While not snark free, most of these WO's celebrate a great race.
1. All-American Finish: Josef Newgarden winning is a big deal for many reasons. A compelling storyline to recent Verizon IndyCar Series seasons is the lack of a marketable American drivers for a North American series. F1, noted for drivers from around the world, is a truly international series with venues around the world. The IndyCar series is not. The international drivers in IndyCar are outstanding, but without sounding all jingoistic about it, having a young, well-spoken, and telegenic American cannot hurt the marketability of the series. If the series chooses to market him, of course. They had American Ryan Hunter-Reay as both series champ and Indy 500 winner, and it would be hard to say they capitalized on that.
2. The Racing: Newgarden and his Chevy were racy from the start, passing Scott Dixon, Simon Pagenaud, and Will Power to grab the lead from a fifth place start. It was the kind of start that had fans using body English to help the drivers maneuver through traffic. Graham Rahal's run in his Honda to second after a late fuel stop had fans watching two strategies at once: Newgarden's slow-paced fuel saving in his Chevy versus Rahal's hanging-it-out after stopping for fuel near the end. Fans could actually see the interval decreasing by seconds per lap. And while Newgarden's early passes were scintillating, Rahal's outside passes throughout the race were equally spectacular. Great stuff.
3. Lack of Idiocy/Penalties/Yellows: It was almost life affirming to not see carbon fiber flotsam and jetsam strewn around the track on the first lap. The racing was tight and, for the most part, clean. For the second race in a row, yellow flag racing was at a minimum. Of course, the last two races simply balanced out the first two in the green/yellow ratio. We'll see where it goes from here. It goes without saying that no Verizon IndyCar Series race is complete without grousing and complaining from drivers and teams about the officiating. Both Sebastien Bourdais and Stefano Colleti took exception to yellow flags causing them personal hardship. Juan Pablo Montoya took umbrage at Rodolfo Gonzalez slowing him down. James Hinchcliffe was upset with Rahal's line through the turns. Ryan Hunter-Reay is still upset about NOLA and sees inconsistency everywhere. And of course, everyone complained about Francesco Dracone's pace. The reality was that Race Control penalized some, drivers, warned others, and called nothing in other situations. It's like calling holding in the NFL. An official can do it every play. You can't call it all in racing, either, no matter how much the drivers whine and complain.
4. Success of CFH Racing and RLL Racing: Back at the top of the podium, the success of Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing over Penske and Ganassi bodes well for the sport and the team. The same holds true for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, too. The smaller teams in the series need success to bolster their bottom lines when it comes to sponsorship. While Ed Carpenter has Fuzzy's Vodka for he and Luca Filippi in their ride share, a win can go a long way to help Sarah Fisher land a season-long sponsorship for Josef Newgarden. Graham Rahal's second place finish sure put sponsor Steak and Shake in the spotlight. And Rahal, ever the shill for his sponsors, tweeted after the race that he might stop in for a shake on his way home.
5. Big Mo Heading to Indy: There must be something to momentum in sports. Every announcer, coach, and player in every sport talks about its value. If that's true, then the month of May in Indy could be interesting. Chevy certainly has engine and aero kit momentum. They are the class of the field. Penske has some, too. The team has every driver in the top nine in the standings with Montoya and Castroneves running first and second. The Ganassi boys are coming on, particularly after Long Beach. With Newgarden and Rahal riding their Barber success, this might be the year for an underdog winner at the 500. And don't forget about the invisible man, Ed Carpenter. He knows Indy. The greatest beneficiary of momentum has to be the Verizon IndyCar Series. After the aero growing pains of St. Pete and the weather woes of NOLA, the series seems to be finding its groove.
All in all, it was a most excellent race. Let's hope it sets the tone for a most excellent month of May in Indy.
Posted in 10 Worthless Opinions, Humor, Opinions and tagged Barber Motorsports Park, Carpenter Fisher Hartman Racing, Ed Carpenter, Francesco Dracone, Fuzzy's Vodka, Graham Rahal, Helio Castroneves, Honda Grand Prix of Alabama, James Hinchcliffe, Josef Newgarden, Juan Pablo Montoya, Luca Filippi, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Sarah Fisher, Sebastien Bourdais, Steak and Shake, Stefano Coletti, Verizon IndyCar Series, Will Power


Abia Warriors of Umuahia's new coach, Henry Makinwa has declared that the club will aspire to emerge as the champions of Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) this season, because they are not new comers.
Speaking against the backdrop of his unveiling as the Abia State-owned club's new gaffer, footballlive.ng reports that the ex-youth international striker stressed that a team that has spent over five years in the league cannot be called 'small,' hence his verdict that they can become champs.
As a player, Makinwa starred for Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Concord, Udoji United, Rayo Vallecano of Spain, Penafiel, Farense, Feirense, Gil Vicente and Vitoria Setubal of Portugal as well as Rapid Bucharest of Romania.
The 41-year-old striker-turned-tactician now has a UEFA Pro Coaching License, which he acquired in Spain and qualified him for his new job, stressed that Abia Warriors are one of the big teams in the NPFL.
Makinwa said excitedly: "I am very pleased with the contract. It's a big opportunity for me to improve my career.
"I think it is a symbiotic relationship where I know Abia will gain from my wealth of experience.
"As a coach, I've lived a country where football is well-packaged, like in Spain. I've live there and I was trained there.
Coach Gbenga Ogunbote describes oriental derby as tougher as expected.


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Maybe not much will change at all: 2011 journalism predictions from Malik, Gillmor, Golis, Grimm, more
Editor's Note: We're wrapping up 2010 by asking some of the smartest people in journalism what the new year will bring.
Below are predictions from Andrew Golis, Dan Gillmor, Joe Grimm, Om Malik, Jim Brady, Seth Lewis, David Cohn, Jeff Israely, Barry Sussman, Evan Smith, and Joe Bergantino. Plus, to round things off, a few not-so-serious predictions from Dan Kennedy and Bob Garfield.
Seth C. Lewis, assistant professor of new media journalism, U. of Minnesota
So, the question is: how much will journalism and media change in 2011? My answer: not much, actually. I know that's a contrarian view, at a time when so much seems to be in flux, so let me try to explain.
I think we tend to overestimate the volume of change that actually occurs in a given year, and at the same time underestimate the obduracy of individual and societal habits, routines, values, and bureaucratic systems. This doesn't mean change doesn't occur — of course it does! — but rather that it tends to be more incremental, more subtle, and even more glacial than we sometimes like to imagine. And I'm not trying to be a kill-joy here, for I love tracking the exciting future of journalism as much as anyone and have no particular fondness for the past. Rather, I'm coming at this question as a former journalist and present academic who studies the extent to which (professional) journalism's core identity — its ethics, worldview, fundamental practices, etc. — is evolving in the digital age. The research out there suggests that change does come, yes, but not without considerable resistance and reluctance on the part of professions and institutions.
So, what does this mean for 2011? Well, that we're more likely to see change occurring by degree rather than by kind. There will be more iPad news apps; more journalism crafted to take advantage of the social, viral, and "spreadable" nature of networked media; and more newsrooms experimenting with Big Data, both of the WikiLeaks and less sensational variety. There may even be some business-model breakthroughs as newspapers figure out a Groupon-like strategy for local advertising. But to see truly significant changes in kind — changes to the very DNA of journalism and how it gets accomplished — we may have to look beyond 2011, toward something like a five-year or even a ten-year time horizon. Just as we can see rather significant changes in news work as we look back over the past decade, it may be a long while yet before we appreciate what's really happening under our feet, and its impact (or lack thereof), in any particular year.
Om Malik, GigaOm
When I sit down and think about the future of media, I see two core problems with the media business at large. Most media entities tend to define themselves by features — magazines, newspapers, television and radio — while the audience aka the customers see media entities as "information" resources.
I think we are going to see the continuous destruction of value in the media industry because folks refuse to look beyond what is obvious and comfortable. That is precisely why we are going to see media industry lose a shirt on ill-conceived mobile applications, mostly because publishers want to replicate what they know best — an ambiguous, non-measurable advertising paradigm — on digital devices.
Similarly, the media entities will all come to a realization that chasing pageviews is a zero-sum game, and they are playing with a losing hand against zero-cost pageview-generation megafarms like Facebook, especially at a time when the modes of content consumption and discovery are changing. Content farms like Demand Media and Associated Content are commoditizing the value of banner ads and pageviews.
In 2011, I expect following to happen:
— Bloomberg will continue its march and become one of the most powerful media entities in the U.S. It has television assets to go along with web, print offerings (Bloomberg BusinessWeek), and data terminals — making it a company in the business of selling information.
— We will see continued implosion of large-scale media barring a handful of national/transnational brands such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. 2011 is going to be particularly hard for companies that have cut back on their core competency — journalism.
— MSNBC make a serious bid to acquire The Huffington Post.
— The Discovery Group will become one of the major media groups. The company has done a good job of merging its cable television and web businesses with a thriving e-commerce business, making it less reliant on pure advertising revenues. In 2011, Oprah joins the Discover family. What's good for Oprah is good for Om!
Andrew Golis, blogging czar, Yahoo News
2011 will be the year online journalistic innovation reaches scale.
For the first time, a critical mass of journalists — not just a handful of early-adopters — have moved beyond learning the core skill set or figuring out the inherent incentives of the web. They've mastered the craft and the medium and are primed to push boundaries and innovate.
At the same time, those who have been experimenting — be it startup, nonprofit, amateur, or otherwise — are coming away from their projects with lessons learned. Now their ambitions and ideas are less abstract, more tangible and ready to be implemented.
And add to that the fact that major news organizations have stopped playing defense and are pivoting to invest in things that will excite their fickle, fragmenting audiences.
2011, then, will be the year millions of Americans see the kind of experimentation and innovation Nieman Lab readers have been following.
Dan Gillmor, author, Mediactive
The "woe is us" crowd, which dominated the conversation for the past several years, will be largely supplanted by the "wow, let's try new things" multitudes who are experimenting with a huge variety of journalism and business models. We'll also stop looking for magic solutions to the "problem" of replacing monopoly and oligopoly profits, recognizing that the emerging media ecosystem will be diverse and, in the end, more robust. The outlines of tomorrow's ecosystem will begin to emerge as a small percentage of the experiments show signs of financial sustainability.
As we are flooded with more and more information, much of which is garbage, we'll see a strong move toward trusted sources. This will take many forms. One will be a classic retreat to quality, as the best news providers retain or earn positions of trust. Another will be progress toward increasingly sophisticated combinations of human and machine intelligence, where aggregation and curation are melded so that people and communities can sort out what they need and want based on quality, popularity and reputation. But we're also in the early days of this shift, so it won't happen in a mere 12 months.
Overhanging all this will be who controls the ecosystem. Will it be us, the users, or will it be powerful interests that clamp down on what we can do? I fear that 2011 will be more of the latter, as media and communications incumbents, aided by a government that increasingly wants to control what we can see and do online, erect more and more barriers to innovation. The people who favor a diverse and robust media ecosystem will realize they need to become more political — and as they do they'll help the public understand what's at stake.
Jim Brady, former general manager, TBD
Local will be the next hot thing. The continued rise of mobile and location-based services will be major factors in that emergence, and will help drive major innovations in local journalism. I predict a steady rise in locally based startups.
You'll see more longtime digital types abandoning their legacy roots and either going to web-only companies or starting their own things.
Social media will establish itself firmly as something that every media company will need to have a strategy and staff for. This isn't a fad.
Partnerships will be a strong theme. Companies that once would never have considered even talking to each other will begin forming partnerships in order to allow each to focus on its strengths. As a result, news sites will continue to become more niche.
The number of niche news startups employing fewer than 20 people will begin to increase, and begin to cause grief for larger, more general-interest news sites.
The paywall debate will drone on for another year, and at the end of it, there will still be equally dug-in camps on both extremes of the issue. (That's the prediction I feel most comfortable about).
Joe Grimm, Poynter blogger and recruiter, Patch.com
In 2011, I expect to see some shakeout of traditional and innovative newsrooms. Some of the new ones will have hit the wall that tells them they don't have the right model to go forward. Legacy newsrooms seem to gaining traction with digital advertising and are feeling some traditional advertisers come back, but they have been substantially weakened and devalued. With the amount of cash that is sitting idle, I expect we will see some acquisitions among traditional media companies. The prize in those deals will be the content parts of the operations, of course.
I would not surprised if some traditional newsrooms are absorbed by digital companies looking to build credibly news-oriented footprints fast. Watch Yahoo! and Facebook in 2011 to see how they try to grow their reputations as news sources.
Mobile and tablets will continue to boom, with some shakeout among devices and a real gold rush to build apps, backed up by original news and news aggregation. Individualized services or services curated by friends will grow.
David Cohn, founder, Spot.Us
The WikiLeaks phenomenon will continue. As Julian Assange has recently said, he'll move out of military leaks and into Wall Street. Instead of being unpatriotic, there will be new legal claims blasted at them (copyright, IP, privacy). The ongoing drama of Julian Assange will come to a head in some way shape or form (arrested, killed, stepping down), but WikiLeaks or another organization with the same ethos will remain. Somehow it must move beyond Julian Assange and just be WikiLeaks, or another leak-esque organization that doesn't have a cult of personality.
The New York Times pay ramp will launch. It will neither be a huge success or a huge failure. The nature of the pay ramp means that the vast majority of people will still get free content from the Times. They'll only be able to ask people who come to the site regularly to pony up some money. And that amount of money will have to be high enough to compensate for the loss in advertising dollars (when X percent of readers leave) and low enough that the X percent is as low as possible.
As a result, it'll work. It might even make them some money. But the margin of error is so small here — if they charge too early or too much — that it won't really solve the problem of print dollars to digital dimes.
Jeff Israely, founder, Worldcrunch
Next year will mark the end of the pay vs. free debate as we've known it. In 2011, those on either side of the question who speak about it in ideological/philosophical/historical terms will begin to sound, like, so 2000s. We can all now agree that information neither "wants to be free" nor is a consumer good like any other. The confluence of more and cheaper tablets on the market, the Times' metered-model rollout and Murdoch's continued (and intentional) overplaying of his hand with thick paywalls will combine to help close the black-or-white era of this debate.
This doesn't mean that next to the barrel-chested Murdoch, The New York Times will not look a bit, er, wimpy in its halting moves to charge for some of its content. But even if it has trouble finding the sweet spot on the meter (or communicating its intentions), it will become clear rather quickly in 2011 that for a quality/global news gathering organization like The New York Times, there is no turning back to the days of all free access. This is also does not mean that the Guardian or Des Moines Register or Twitter for that matter can't have another approach. But from now on, they'll always have to explain their choice in strategic terms.
Meanwhile, Julian Assange has shown that there are still plenty of religious battle lines to be drawn around the Internet and information, without having to debate whether it is right or wrong to charge people (who can afford it) for news and let those who would rather spend their money elsewhere find the free stuff.
Barry Sussman, editor, Nieman Watchdog
Stories by nonprofit, online news organizations already have a foothold in elite national newspapers — but nothing like the prominence they'll have in 2011. They will produce strong watchdog reporting and, as a result, they'll draw sharply increased funding from individual large donors.
Evan Smith, editor-in-chief and CEO, Texas Tribune
More meaningful collaborations between nonprofits and for-profits!
Joe Bergantino, director, New England Center for Investigative Reporting
Public TV and public radio will take a much more proactive role in helping fill the investigative reporting void that's resulted from cutbacks at commercial media outlets.
Many more newspapers will attempt to monetize their websites with paywalls for "exclusive" content.
The experiments to pool, among local TV stations, more types of news coverage, will accelerate over the next year —leading eventually to the end of an era in which most major cities have at least three or four TV stations airing several newscasts.
Dan Kennedy, journalism professor, Northeastern U.
AOL executives, despairing at the dearth of advertising on their hyperlocal Patch.com sites will hit upon a bold new strategy: print. "We believe that publishing weekly community newspapers will prove to be the hottest new media idea since Twitter," AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong will say. "A study we conducted shows that local businesses such as hardware stores, funeral homes, and nail salons are far more likely to advertise in a newspaper than online. Our goal is nothing less than to revolutionize local journalism and the business model that supports it." Kirk Davis, president of GateHouse Media, which publishes nearly 400 weekly and daily community newspapers across the United States, will not be reachable for comment.
Time magazine will name Google's ruling troika its Persons of the Year for 2011. In singling out chairman Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the magazine will explain: "In a digital media world in which most consumers are all too willing to live under Apple's semi-benign dictatorship, Google has kept the flame of openness alive, selling tablet computers and smartphones for which anyone can write applications without fear of censorship. The spirit of the garage-based startup lives." In response, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will order Time's iPad app to be removed from the App Store.
Bob Garfield, columnist, Advertising Age, cohost, On the Media
Rupert Murdoch's "The Daily" debuts. Both subscribers are extremely satisfied.
In August, after months of crushing losses, The Daily Beast/Newsweek folds. In November, Howard Kurtz stops filing stories.
Glenn Beck shoots at two black helicopters hovering near his home, killing a Medevac pilot and a Fox 5 traffic babe.
Katie Couric steps down as anchor of CBS Evening News to join 60 Minutes, lowering the average correspondent age by 28 years. Kim Kardashian assumes Couric's role reading the news.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, on trial in Sweden, is asked by prosecutor where he pays taxes. "None of your beeswax," Assange replies.
On March 1, Steve Jobs introduces the iPatch, a tablet designed for content piracy. More than 30 million units sold on first day.
On April 1, 100 million iPatches explode, maiming the entire US population between 15 and 29.
Fearing revenue declines at its Kaplan Education subsidiary, the Washington Post Co. buys 49 percent of the Mafia.
Comcast, under FCC scrutiny for first time, sells NBC Universal to Barry Diller. Tina Brown brought in to run it.
Paul Krugman loses his sense of outrage. Universe contracts.
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Gawker copycats, luxurious print, more robots, and a new blogging golden age: Predictions for 2011
Below are predictions from Susan Orlean, Joe Grimm, Matt Haughey, Adrian Holovaty, Megan McCarthy, Mark Potts, Jake Shapiro, and Cody Brown.
We also want to hear your predictions: take our Lab reader poll and tell us what you think we'll be talking about in 2011. We'll share those results in a couple days.
Susan Orlean, Twitter artist, and staff writer, The New Yorker
We'll be reading more on our phones, our iPads, and our Super Scout Decoder rings by the end of next year.
Several magazines — maybe Time or Newsweek or both — will go monthly and/or digital only. But there will be new magazine startups in print that will be luxurious and expensive and book-like. 2011 will be the year of those two forms making themselves distinct; things on line will become more webby, and print publications will become more "collectible" and classic.
Journalism schools will offer a "web producer" major.
The last typewriter living in the wild will be captured, its DNA sequenced; and then it will be humanely destroyed.
Joe Grimm, Poynter blogger and recruiter, Patch
In 2011, I expect to see some shakeout of traditional and innovative newsrooms. Some of the new ones will have hit the wall that tells them they don't have the right model to go forward. Legacy newsrooms seem to gaining traction with digital advertising and are feeling some traditional advertisers come back, but they have been substantially weakened and devalued. With the amount of cash that is sitting idle, I expect we will see some acquisitions among traditional media companies. The prize in those deals will be the content parts of the operations, of course. I would not surprised if some traditional newsrooms are absorbed by digital companies looking to build credibly news-oriented footprints fast.
Watch Yahoo! and Facebook in 2011 to see how they try to grow their reputations as news sources.
Matt Haughey, founder, Metafilter.com
Whether or not the Gawker suite of sites redesign is successful or not, the rest of the New York media blog world will follow suit and copy the new direction for layout, because big business blogging is basically a cargo cult where everyone does what Gawker is doing since that seems to be successful for them (in the hopes it is successful for them).
Adrian Holovaty, founder, EveryBlock
This is sort of a half-prediction and half-hope, but I'd love to see the self-publishing pendulum start to shift the other way, from centralized services (like Twitter and AOL before it) back to a beautiful diversity of decentralized/independent tools and services like we had in the "golden age" of blogging. We've seen some occasional banter about this over the last few years, but I think people are going to get more serious about it in 2011, and certainly by the end of 2012.
Oh, and Google is totally the new Microsoft. I can see that being a theme of 2011.
Megan McCarthy, editor, Mediagazer
The convergence of the media and technology industries will continue. Consumer-facing technology companies will start to encroach onto traditional media territories, and media companies will realize that they need to invest more into technology in order to compete with the tech companies entering their space. There will be more tech/media partnerships like the one between Betaworks and the New York Times, but there will be a struggle to see which side — tech or media — comes out on top. The real winners will be developers, executives, and small sites that straddle both worlds.
Mobile access to the web will become more reliable, especially if the iPhone heads to another carrier (like Verizon) as has been predicted. A spike in smartphones will bring an obvious spike in mobile views. Apps will still be important, but, as mobile OSes multiply, the smarter move might be towards mobile-friendly websites that work across platforms (like http://mediagazer.com/m)
Traditional web advertising will still be a mess, yet there will be substantial resistance to changing the model. There will be too much emphasis put on metrics that no one actually knows how to measure. Pageviews will become more and more meaningless, but people will still chase them, like rainbows, hoping to find that pot of gold.
Oh, and there will be more robot/cyborg/machine involvement in media, and it will be a good thing. Algorithms are not the enemy!
Mark Potts, CEO, Growthspur
A continuing explosion of blogs covering local communities and local interests, written by passionate community members whose coverage and audience engagement far outstrips what can be managed by corporately backed local interlopers like Patch. Key to these efforts, though, will be the bloggers and local site operators getting serious about tapping their share of the $130 billion local-advertising market. At the same time, the rise in location-aware mobile services will begin ushering in a new generation of targeted local coverage and information in the palm of readers' hands. Mobile is local, and I suspect we'll see the first breakthrough, wildly popular local mobile product in the next year or so.
Jake Shapiro, CEO, PRX
Apple will change its tune on one-click donations to nonprofits and public media.
Public broadcasting will emerge from its existential crisis (Juan Williams fiasco and defunding threats) as a more focused, collaborative, and inclusive "public media" industry, reasserting a central role in sustaining journalism and leading innovation.
The Public Media Platform will launchand catalyze more collaboration and innovation, expanding beyond the borders of public radio and TV.
News orgs will start leveraging Mechanical Turk and other crowd-powered services to help manage overwhelming data needs.
Cody Brown, founder, kommons
"Private" social media websites like Path are going to boom. Sites that see privacy as a value as opposed to an antiquated social norm are going to go big. I don't think Path is actually that great, but they are in the right space.
WikiLeaks will leak a government document that outlines strategies to assassinate Julian Assange.
Gawker will buy then break a story that starts a war.
Tags: Predictions for Journalism 2011 Themes Adrian Holovaty Cody Brown Jake Shapiro Joe Grimm Mark Potts Matt Haughey Megan McCarthy Susan Orlean

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Q: why is React Native HTTP POST not working?
export const login = () => {
    return async (dispatch) => {
        try {
            const response = await fetch(
                `https://simplyrem.com/srwl/haib/index.php`,
                {
                    method: 'POST',
                    headers: {
                        accept: 'application/json',
                        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                    },
                    body: JSON.stringify({
                        auth: 'XCXCXCXCX',
                        usernamex: 'XXXXX',
                        passwordx: 'XXXXXXXX',
                    }),
                }
            )

            if (!response.ok) {
                const errorResData = await response.json()
                console.log(errorResData)

                throw new Error('Something went wrong!')
            }

            const responseData = await response.json()
            const userInfo = responseData

            console.log(userInfo)

            dispatch({
                type: LOGIN,
                userInfo: userInfo,
            })
        } catch (err) {
            throw err
        }
    }
}

Hello all,
I have tested this API using insomnia while inputting my credentials and I got a JSON response back, so I know that the API works and my credentials are correct. I am new to React Native and I don't know if I'm adding the parameters correctly by using body: JSON.stringify... Obviously, I've replaced the information with "X"s. In swift, I was able to also get a response back, but when I'm trying to recreate the API call in react-native I get error
> [Unhandled promise rejection: SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unexpected EOF]
> * [native code]:null in parse
> - node_modules/react-native/node_modules/promise/setimmediate/core.js:37:13 in tryCallOne
> - node_modules/react-native/node_modules/promise/setimmediate/core.js:123:24 in setImmediate$argument_0
> - node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/Timers/JSTimers.js:130:14 in _callTimer
> - node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/Timers/JSTimers.js:181:14 in _callImmediatesPass
> - node_modules/react-native/Libraries/Core/Timers/JSTimers.js:441:30 in callImmediates
> - node_modules/react-native/Libraries/BatchedBridge/MessageQueue.js:387:6 in __callImmediates
> - node_modules/react-native/Libraries/BatchedBridge/MessageQueue.js:135:6 in  __guard$argument_0
> - node_modules/react-native/Libraries/BatchedBridge/MessageQueue.js:364:10 in __guard
> - node_modules/react-native/Libraries/BatchedBridge/MessageQueue.js:134:4 in flushedQueue
> * [native code]:null in flushedQueue
> * [native code]:null in invokeCallbackAndReturnFlushedQueue >

A: JSON Parse error: Unexpected EOF it's usually
an error when you are trying to convert the non-covertable response to json (like Html response) into json
for safety I usually convert it first to string using .then(res => res.text()) then console.log() or alert() it to prove the response is Convertable to json or not without showing the react-native's red-box message,
if the response is valid json you can convert it by yourself with JSON.parse(responseText)
example like
fetch( "https://simplyrem.com/srwl/haib/index.php", {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        Accept: "application/json",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({
        Email: 'XXXXX',
        password: "xxxxx",
      }),
    })
      .then((response) => response.json())
      .then((responseJson) => {
        if (responseJson.IsSuccess) {
            console.log(responseJson);
            alert(responseJson)
        } else {
          console.log(responseJson.ErrorMessage);
          alert(responseJson.ErrorMessage)
        }
      })

      .catch((error) => {
        alert(error);
      });

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The Surface line has been experiencing consistent growth since the release of the Surface Pro 3. While the brand initially suffered with the first few generations of devices, Microsoft has since turned it around. With the addition of the highly anticipated Surface 3 this year and the expected Surface Pro 4 release by the end of this year, the Surface line has a bright future.
Since the first Surface device was released Microsoft has shipped 12 million Surface devices with a large bump coming since the release of the Surface Pro 3 which is widely regarded as a solid and worthwhile device.
Here's a poll to share your opinion on the future of the Surface line. You can select more than one answer.
What do you see as the future for the Surface line?
If you want to share an opinion that isn't an option on the poll please share in the comment section.


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Tag Archives: Eve Babitz
My Own Eve Babitz Obsession
Probably it's too soon for me to me to be diving into this trend, but Eve is very much on my mind right now. For one thing, I have a massive hangover. For another, I'm in a February funk and inclined to be jealous of those sunny, smoggy L.A. days she describes in those books of hers that pretend to be fiction but are blatantly based on her own utterly insane life.
Wonderfully formed pieces lacking remorse, just right there in your face like her take on sex. So many of her love affairs are public record: Harrison Ford, Jim Morrison, Paul Ruscha, Steve Martin (she told him to wear that white suit), and on and on. There's never any hint of coyness or manipulation, she's just fully there, shockingly entire yet pure. No wonder that famous photo with Marcel Duchamp works so well: Eve with her face hidden but her fulsome nakedness on display, him bent over his chess game, entirely in his head, and both divinely oblivious.
I am so envious of her days with no pleasure declined, no curiosity unrelieved, everything just see and take. I love it, the whole sex and drugs scene of the late sixties and seventies. What a perfect vicar she is for all of us so weighted down with responsibility and stratagems and fear. Worrying about getting hurt and also about who we might ourselves hurt, entrenched in our rules and laws and other boring nonsense.
It takes a narcissist I suppose, but Eve's got an unflinching and unmistakably loving eye, because that's what loving means. And she's got the language of a woman raised on the best literature, the sense and rhythm of it is in her blood and bone, all that instinctive selection and refinement and pacing and purpose. She's an artist in the service of art and nothing else ever, and so she's also separate, isolated.
And she's all the craze these #MeToo feminist days, especially among the millennials, and I suspect for all the wrong reasons, taken totally out of context. Naturally there's a recent biography (Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik), a truly pathetic if unintentionally hilarious one worth reading for its key to all those roman a clef identities, but equally for its wonderful subtext. The author practically harasses her legendary but reclusive subject in order to promote herself, to claim literary equality with Babitz and Joan Didion to boot with a rudely inserted thesis on the novel to justify it all, and just – no. Lauding Slow Days, Fast Company over the fresher, freer Eve's Hollywood because who needs all that joy? Oh, you have to read it to enjoy both these woman playing each other, and for the way Eve somehow forgets the other's name every time they meet, and cadges meals, and then flicks her away like cigarette ash.
Not that Eve smokes or does drugs or even drinks anymore; AA helped there, and others have stepped in to steady the always wobbly writer now this resurrection is bringing in some fresh funds.
But Eve, following a devastating accident in which half her body was burned (thankfully not her face or feet), took a hard right turn, politically. I find this interesting and perhaps disturbing, speaking here as the author of an entire novel concerning a woman who took a hard right turn, and why, and what happened afterward. So I've been examining Eve through her writing to try to figure this out, in effect to remember what I was thinking then myself.
Is Eve's conservative stance a defiant declaration of independence, a projection of her old fear, as she put it, of being adjectivized? I think that's part of it. But Eve, who noticed everything (the black music blaring over a very white party in Sex and Rage) apparently never feels the urge to interfere; she observes, and that's it. Why bother with politics when you have a life? So instead she watches the L.A. riots from a suite at the Chateau Marmont, merely regretting the destruction of familiar sites. Or so she implies, and it matches what we know of her. So maybe the ground was tilled all along, just waiting for the right seed. Maybe it has something to so with what's always been missing from Eve, all the usual internalized cultural crap, the need to be good. But what do I know?
Except I know that the artist always protects the artist, whatever it takes. So that's happening.
Photo credits: Chateau Marmont by Kelly Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Hollywood by LWYang (CC by 2.0)
(PLEASE NOTE: The sale on the Kindle version of Worthy of This Great City ends on February 15th, so right now it's as low as it goes. BUT before buying the book please read the Reader Alert on the Home Page, then the full Prologue on the Excerpts page. Really, do that.)
This entry was posted in THE BLOG and tagged Eve Babitz, fiction, Hollywood, L.A. on February 3, 2019 by Mike Miller.


The North Dakota Business or Farming Corporation Articles of Incorporation | Form SFN-16812 must be filed with the North Dakota Secretary of State when forming a profit corporation in this state. This paperwork may require additional documents as per the nature of the exact type of the corporation being formed. For instance, if forming a professional profit corporation, you may be required to submit the approval of a licensing or regulatory board or if this is a farming corporation then you must include attach the Initial Report for For Farming or Ranching. Additionally, the articles of incorporation used here only satisfy the requirements of the North Dakota Secretary of Stat and does not exclude requirements placed upon entity formation by other governing bodies with authority such as the Internal Revenue Service.
Regardless of any additional paperwork or provisions that must be submitted with the North Dakota Business or Farming Corporation Articles of Incorporation, you submit a Full Payment for the Filing Fee when submitting this form. The Filing Fee is $100.00 and is payable with a check made out to Secretary of State. You may also pay this fee using a major credit card (Discover, MasterCard, or Visa) however you will need to fill out the "Credit Card Authorization" form at the end of the North Dakota Business or Farming Corporation Articles of Incorporation packet. You may pay by credit card regardless of how you file but you may only pay be check if you are mailing in the articles. You may either Fax the articles to (701) 328 – 2992 or you may mail them to Business Registration Unit, North Dakota, State of North Dakota, 600 E. Boulevard Avenue Department 108, Bismarck, ND 58505-0500.
Step 3 - In Article 1A, enter the Full Name of the corporation you are forming in the space provided. Include one of the mandated corporate designation suffixes (i.e. Corporation, Corp., Incorporated, Inc.).
Step 4 - In Article 1B, enter the Full Address of the Principal Office on the blank line. This may not be a P.O. Box Number address but the physical location of the Principal Executive Office.
Step 5 - You must choose between Article 2A or Article 2B. Do not fill both of these in. If you have obtained a North Dakota Commercial Registered Agent then fill in his/her/its Name in the space provided. If you have obtained a North Dakota Noncommercial Registered Agent then fill in his/her Full Name in the space provided. If you have obtained a North Dakota Noncommercial Registered Agent then fill in the Address of this entity's Registered Office in Article 2C.
Step 6 - In Article 3, indicate when you would like these articles to go in effect if approved. If you would like this to happen when they are approved then check the first box (labeled "When Filed…"). If you would like this to occur at a later date, within 90 days after filing, then mark the second box labeled "Later…" then enter the desired Date of Effect on the blank line.
Step 7 - In Article 4, document the Purpose of this corporation. Include why it is being formed and how it will conduct its affairs.
Step 8 - In Article 5A, report the Total Number of Authorized Shares this corporation may issue. Then, in Article 5B, report the Par Value of these shares. Write in the word "None" if there is no par value. If the Par Value is different for different classes, leave this blank and continue to Article 5C. Here, in Article 5C, fill in the Class, Total Number of Shares, and Par Value per Share in the table provided (if this is common stock then leave this table blank).
Step 10 - In Article 7, report the Full Name and Full Address of each Incorporator in the table provided. Make sure to fill in the applicable information under the column headings (Name, Street/RR, P.O. Box, City, State, Zip Code).
Step 11 – Below Article 7, each Incorporator must Sign his/her Name then write in the Date of their Signature. Each Incorporator listed, as per Article 7, must provide a signature and a date for that signature.
Step 12 - The last line of this document must contain information for the individual the North Dakota Secretary of State may correspond with concerning these articles. Enter the Name of the Contact Person in the first box, the Email Address of the Contact Person in the second box, and the Daytime Telephone Number (including any available extension) in the third box.
Step 13 - Organize all attachments and required filings that must be submitted with the North Dakota Business or Farming Corporation Articles of Incorporation into one package. Make sure each document has a clearly understood Title. If you are mailing these articles you must include a check, payable to Secretary of State, for $100.00. You may pay by credit card whether you are submitting by mail or by fax. This will necessitate filling out the Credit Card Authorization form at the end of this document. Here you will need to provide the "Amount Authorized" in the top left hand corner. The Card holder's Name and Telephone Number on the first line, the Address on the second line, the type of card used on the third line, and the Account Number, CSC Number, and Expiration on the fourth line. The card holder must sign his/her Name and Date this document in the bottom right hand corner.


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Wales – First country in the world – Compulsory Green Travel
Green travel – Wales
Wales has decided to lead the way with in Green travel, with a bill to make it mandatory to provide routes for walkers and cyclists.
"LOOK at that my little lambs, there's a site for sore eyes: Humans on foot, here in the welsh valleys."
"What will they think of next?"
Image by Robb North via Flickr
A white paper proposes making it compulsory for local authorities to provide safe and integrated routes for walking and cycling.
Wales is set to become the first country in the world to make it compulsory for local authorities to provide safe and integrated routes for walking and cycling as part of an ambitious plan to boost green travel and end the hegemony of the car.
A white paper launched on Wednesday morning by the Labour-led government in Cardiff will oblige Welsh councils and other authorities to identify, plan and implement walking and cycling routes, and how they can be integrated. The hope is that creating a network of safe routes will tempt people out of their vehicles.
The Welsh administration hopes the active travel (Wales) bill, if passed, will sweep aside such stagnation and deliver a change to the nation's entire transport culture. The bill is "aimed at tackling some of the major barriers that are preventing more people from walking and cycling", said the Welsh minister for local government, Carl Sargeant.
"This bill is not a short-term quick fix," he said. "This is aiming to shift attitudes and change minds so that we all think about travel in a different way."
"This is a groundbreaking move by the Welsh government that will help people get around more safely, cheaply and healthily," said Malcolm Shepherd, the Sustrans chief executive. "People all over the UK want to cycle and walk more for everyday journeys but are held back by safety concerns. Walking and cycling are the answers to the UK's rocketing fuel bill and expanding waistline but getting around actively must be made safer and easier across the country."
A series of campaigns on the issue of travel in the UK, remains dominated by the car, to the detriment of the nation's health and the environment.
According to NHS figures just 40% of men and fewer than 30% of women meet the government target of being "moderately active" for at least 2.5 hours per week.
Despite a recent increase in the popularity of cycling, only about 2% of journeys in the UK are made by bike, compared with 27% in the Netherlands.
A long-term study by Lancaster University academics last year concluded that mass cycling in Britain was extremely unlikely without investment in a joined-up network of segregated bike paths, as most people see the pursuit as too dangerous. Government efforts to get people on bikes had so far had almost no impact, it found.National cycling campaign group the CTC said the idea of the Welsh bill was excellent but it did not guarantee a transport revolution. However, the principle is excellent."
…More at Wales gets tough over green travel
I must say whenever I've visited Wales, it has always seemed to be the perfect green environment, but I must admit most of my visits have been to the North of Wales: Snowdonia, the valleys and other similar unspoilt areas I expect I must have been very lucky on my travels to Wales, because the majority of places I've visited in Wales, seemed to be the perfect picture postcard of green travel.
I hope you have found this article – Compulsory Green Travel, Wales – informative, and you will share your own experiences below in the comment box and please take the time to click on the share button, many thanks; see more articles on The Daily Green Post home page.


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"""RDF values related to events."""

from grr_response_core.lib import rdfvalue
from grr_response_core.lib.rdfvalues import structs as rdf_structs
from grr_response_core.lib.util import random
from grr_response_proto import jobs_pb2

class AuditEvent(rdf_structs.RDFProtoStruct):
  """An RDF wrapper for the `AuditEvent` protobuf."""

  protobuf = jobs_pb2.AuditEvent
  rdf_deps = [
      rdfvalue.RDFDatetime,
      rdfvalue.RDFURN,
  ]

  def __init__(self, initializer=None, **kwargs):
    super().__init__(initializer=initializer, **kwargs)
    if not self.id:
      self.id = random.UInt32()
    if not self.timestamp:
      self.timestamp = rdfvalue.RDFDatetime.Now()

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Skys the Limit is a photography and videography company based in Dallas, Texas that is all about capturing your happily ever after. They will uniquely document your story with happiness and creativity so that it can be told for years to come.
Owner and photographer Sarah Kae always preferred to express herself visually, growing a great love and respect for photography. She earned a communications degree specializing in videography, which taught her how to develop, process and print film. After three years of working in news, she decided to become a full-time photographer.
Sarah with Skys the Limit was a joy to have as our Wedding photographer. Very professional and easy to work with, she really captured all the special, sweet and funny moments. We love the photos and memories we get to now keep forever.
Absolutely loved working with Sarah! She was so sweet and she did an amazing job on our wedding video! I was hesitant to hire a videographer and I'm SO glad that we hired Sarah. She captured so many moments from our day that I will get to watch for the rest of our lives together and show to our family for years to come! Sarah is so great to work with and I highly recommend her!!
Sarah is absolutely amazing! She took our Christmas mini photos plus our engagements and we are so in love with our photos. She is professional, flexible, and provides your products quickly with beautiful quality work. I highly recommend using Skys The Limits for your wedding needs!
Skys the Limit does absolutely stunning work. Sarah has a very sweet personality and a way of making her clients feel comfortable and relaxed so that they're personalities and love come through in her work. If you are looking for a great photographer or videographer, definitely check out Skys the Limit.


Trocomare is a delicious seasoning salt made from organically grown fresh herbs following the original recipe by world famous Swiss Naturopath A.Vogel.
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Q: Fields and Euclidean Ring While proving that every Field is a Euclidean ring, how can one show that Euclidean Function v(x)=1 satisfies the Euclidean postulate.

A: Let me make sure we are on the same page in regards to definitions.
$F$ is a field and you want to define a function $f$ from $F\setminus \{0\}$ to the non-negative integers such that "If $a,b\in F$ and $b$ is nonzero, then there are $q$ and $r$ in $F$ such that $a = bq + r$ and either $r = 0$ or $f(r) < f(b)$".
Since in a field you have multiplicative inverses for all elements, take $q=b^{-1}a$ and $r=0$. You don't need to worry about $f$ at all, just that it maps to non-negative integers. So, your example $f(x)=1$ will work.
Note: Some authors require a little more, e.g. that "for all nonzero a and b in $F$, $f(a) ≤ f(ab)$". See the discussion on Wikipedia. Keep in mind that in a field, every non-zero element is a unit.
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This impressive well cleanout involved milling out a total of 64 composite bridge plugs from a lateral nearly 10,000 ft. long in an 18,674 ft. MD horizontal well. The liner was 5 1⁄2-in. and the job was run on 2 5⁄8-in. CT. The 3 1⁄8-in. BHA consisted of a motor head assembly, dual back pressure valve, hydraulic disconnect, screen sub, 3 1⁄8-in. High Flow-High Impact Tempress HydroPull™, 3 1⁄8-in. Oil States Energy Services motor and a 4 5⁄8-in. tri-cone rock bit. Water with friction reducer was pumped at 4.25 bpm increasing to 5.0 bpm towards the toe of the lateral. All 64 plugs were milled without incident and 10 bbl gel sweeps followed the milling of each plug.
Two short trips were utilized to ensure a good cleanout of sand and plug debris, including one trip to vertical after milling the 46th plug. The wellhead pressure ranged from 250 psi to 420 psi and the pump pressure ranged from 2,800 psi to 4,250 psi.
This job was completed in a single HydroPull™ run in 57 hours with an average plug milling time of 5 minutes per plug.


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title: Projects
layout: splash
permalink: /projects/
header:
  overlay_color: "#000"
  overlay_filter: "0.5"
  overlay_image: /images/banner-sunsetatdwarka.jpg
  actions:
    - label: "Contact Me"
      url: "/contact/"
  caption: "Sunset at India's Westernmost Sunset Point at Dwarka, Gujarat"
excerpt: "I'm a Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience making web applications, machine learning tools and data processing applications with remote teams"
intro:
  - title: "Project Categories"
  - excerpt: '[Full Stack Development](#full-stack-development-and-operations){: .btn .btn--info} [Creative Technology](#creative-technologies){: .btn .btn--info} [Machine Learning](#machine-learning-and-computer-vision){: .btn .btn--info} [Desktop and Data Apps](#desktop-and-console-applications){: .btn .btn--info} [Design](#design-and-typography){: .btn .btn--info}'
web_intro:
  - excerpt: '# Creative Technologies'
feature_kolam:
  - image_path: /images/project-kolam.gif
    alt: " Kolam Generator "
    title: "Generative Kolam"
    excerpt: "Kolam is a traditional drawing that is part of multiple cultures in South East Asia. They can be seen outside of homes on particular occassions and all of these Kolams look different. The Kolam Generator uses symmetry & rules of a Kolam and P5.js to keep making Kolams until you close the tab"
    url: "kolam"
    btn_label: "Open Kolam Generator"
    btn_class: "btn--primary"
feature_knowyourmp:
  - image_path: /images/project-knowyourmp.png
    alt: " Know Your MP "
    title: "Know Your MP"
    excerpt: "Every 5 years India elects 543 citizens to represent interest of every region of the country. Know Your MP shows state of the nation using multiple maps each showing key personal metrics of our representatives. Built with D3.js"
    url: "knowYourMP"
    btn_label: "Open Know Your MP"
    btn_class: "btn--primary"
feature_machines:
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-5.jpg
    title: "Revese Engineering Firmware"
    excerpt: "We had an [evalauation board from Analog Devices](https://www.analog.com/en/design-center/evaluation-hardware-and-software/evaluation-boards-kits/eval-sdp-h1.html#eb-documentation) used for low-cost evaluation of ADI components. I wrote an API for this board so that we can gather data collected by it, I collected transferred packets In and Out of the board with USB Sniffer. These traces were then used to make an API for the board. This required learning about the USB3 Spec, `LibUSB` (C Library) and `PyUSB` for replaying the traces"
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-2.jpg
    title: "One-Line-Drawings Drawbot"
    excerpt: "A drawing robot with no microcontroller(!) but only two Servo Motors. This was an experimental design to simplify onboard electronics. The Servo Motors can be plugged in to any device with a headphone jack which plays an audio file. The audio contains drawing instructions encoded into two PWM waves -- one for each motor"
devops_intro:
  - excerpt: '# Full Stack Development and Operations'
feature_devops:
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-3.jpg
    title: "Estate Management Systems"
    excerpt: "Led development of a Web Application Ecosystem currently used by a Fortune 50 Company. It is used to manage a company town of more than 15,000 residents. These web applications are being used to manage Guest Houses, Residential Maintenance Requests, Inventory of Department and all Township Buildings, Quarter Allotment, and Residential Bill Generation. Built with Windows, Apache, `SQL Server` and PHP Stack using Bootstrap for Frontend"
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-5.jpg
    title: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems
    excerpt: "I have more than 2 years of experience in managing IVR and Internet Telephony based SaaS Business. My key responsibilities included System Administration and DevOps on a Windows, Apache, `SQL`, `PHP` Stack"
desktop_intro:
  - excerpt: '# Desktop and Console Applications'
feature_bridges:
  - image_path: /images/project-bridgeconnect.png
    title: "BridgeConnect"
    excerpt: "A simple no-nonsense ERP solution for Public Weighbridges. The application is written in `C#.NET` with frontend made in WPF and uses an `SQLite` database"
  - image_path: /images/project-syncbridge.png
    alt: " DB SyncBridge "
    title: "SyncBridge"
    excerpt: "A background service to push new transactions at a Weighbridge to an API. Built with `C#.NET`"
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-7.jpg
    alt: " Serial-To-File "
    title: "Serial-To-File"
    excerpt: "A console application that reads weight from serial communication based WeighBridge Controllers and overwrites it in a file. It adapts to all the string formats used across manufacturers. Built with `C#.NET`"
feature_row:
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-2.jpg
    alt: " SearchIA "
    title: "SearchIA"
    excerpt: "Command Line power tool to search Internet Archive for all media right from the Terminal. Built with Internet Archive API and `Python`"
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-3.jpg
    alt: " Hypernormal-Typewriter "
    title: "Hypernormal Typewriter"
    excerpt: "A command line text editor that promised distraction free research and collaboration tools. It turned out to be a vapourware and never saw the light of the day. Built with curses library and `Python`"
  - image_path: /images/sample-image-5.jpg
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Perhaps the Best thing I can do on this forum.
The Gospel of Matthew we have today is not the Gospel which Matthew wrote to the Hebrews. The gospel of Matthew we have today was originally written in Greek and is nearly a word for word copy of the gospel of mark with a few scenes added, such as the nativity.
The gospel of Matthew as we have it today was not widely accepted as a legitimate gospel in the first few centuries. It is important to realize that the writer of the book of Matthew that we have in out new testament cannon was not the apostle Matthew.
"It is the near-universal position of scholarship that the Gospel of Matthew is dependent upon the Gospel of Mark. This position is accepted whether one subscribes to the dominant Two-Source Hypothesis or instead prefers the Farrer-Goulder hypothesis."
Today, most critical scholarship agrees that Matthew did not write the Gospel which bears his name, and prefer instead to describe the author as an anonymous Jewish Christian, writing towards the end of the 1st century.
However, even though the gospel of Matthew we have today is not a first hand account of the words and deeds of Christ, or even likely a second hand account for that matter, and though it is most likely not as accurate as the other gospels, the gospel of Matthew in the original Greek nevertheless does not apparently teach ET or annihilation. The simple fact is that the gospel of Matthew uses the same terminology for judgment that the other four gospels do, in the words "aionios Kolasin", which literally means "correction/chastisement of the age(s)".
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That is also what I believe..
It will seem as a "blink of the eye" as in awaking from a deep sleep with no dreams or any perception of time.
thank you for addressing that issue, Ironmaw. I'd bet 99.999% of Christians are not even aware that this is NOT the Matthew who walked with our Lord; that a full text of the gospel does not emerge until hundreds to a millennium years after Jesus was on earth; that it had undergone innumerable copies and translations before then; that the Bible as we know it today was NOT assembled in one gathering by wise and learned men who were in communication with the Holy Spirit. We picture this gathering like the Constitutional Convention where everything was done in one or two fell swoops and it was nothing like that. Our Bible was assembled over innumerable councils, secret meetings, official and unofficial gatherings, etc over a period of roughly 1600 years. Book were added, then yanked; other were hidden from view because they contradicted the emerging dogma of the Church; others were included for no other reason than a particular group of powerful men liked them. Just the fact that James and Jude quoted from the Book of Enoch is enough to demonstrate that it should have been included, but the book was branded anathema by a group of self-serving men because of the extraordinary, otherworldly details it went into. By God's grace, though not by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we have what we have today, considering the enormous odds against putting together a mishmash of torn-up, molding, fragmented writing that could not even be accurately traced back to any reliable sources, in many cases.
You mean Jude and 2nd Peter, right? And maybe Enoch should have been made a part of the cannon, or 2nd Peter and Jude should not have been.
2nd Peter is almost certainly not written by the apostle Peter as well. It is almost certainly pseudepigraphical. One thing is for certain, whoever wrote second Peter was not the same person who wrote 1st Peter, the writing and the language are completely different.
Many scholars believe that both Jude and 2nd Peter were actually written by the same person, and it was neither Jude the brother of Jesus or Peter who wrote them.
In various posts I have shown passage after passage after passage which make it clear that there is no such thing as soul sleep. I have already addressed the questions you are again asking in this post. I have shown Matthew 10:28 which flat out tells you that the soul does not cease to exist when the body dies. I have shown passages which show the soul of the believer in heaven.
From what I have presented on this thread, in posts # 77, 82, 103, 134, and 146, and on the thread The Orthodox View of Hell is correct in that Hell is a place of Conscious Everlasting Torment in post #97 there should be no doubt in the mind of anyone who believes in Christ that there is no such thing as soul sleep. Every believer goes immediately into the presence of the Lord in heaven.
However, all I can do is present the facts. I can't make anyone believe anything. It is up to those reading this to be objective and open their mind-gate and perceive, comprehend what has been said.
That's a worthwhile goal. I wish you success.
Both 1 and 2 Peter were written by the apostle Peter. And it is not pseudepigraphical. The reason that Peter's writing style was different in 2 Peter is that he was writing elliptically. Peter was writing excitedly. He had things to say and knew that his death was near (2 Peter 1:13-15). Peter was not trying to teach anything new. He was reminding in 2 Peter, those things of which he had previously taught. He wanted to make sure that these things were not forgotten.
2 Peter 1:12 'Therefore, I shall always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.
2 Peter 1:13 'And I consider it right, as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder, 14] knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling (his body) is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. 15] And I will also be diligent that at any time after my departure you may be able to call these things to mind.
2 Peter 3:1 'This is now, beloved, the second letter I am writing to you in which I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, 2] that you should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior spoken by your apostles.
I think if the OP has taught me anything here it is that the word of universalism needs to be spread to Brenham, Texas. So if your a universalist you might want to find out what community pages there are for that town and post where available. Maybe find local universities to get the message to.
Thats your professional scholarly opinion right?


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These are the Easter baskets that I made this year. I've had the pattern for the "basket" for years and had never really used it. I enlarged the pattern so I could make it as big as possible using a 12" sheet of paper. The paper I had was given to me (thanks Marianne!) and I glued two sheets together to make it heavier and two sided. I then added the personalized "tags" and ribbon.
I am glad you put the paper to such creative use. Enjoyed reading the blog and I am inspired --some day I will start one too!! Keep up the creative flow!!