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January 24, 2011 / Brandon Irvine / Main Slate
I Am Love – 2009 – dir. Luca Guadagnio
I Am Love is the story of Emma (Tilda Swinton), a middle-aged wife and mother in a family of wealthy Italian industrialists. As she falls into an affair with a young chef and deals with the consequences of pursuing her passion, the film manages to be affecting and intense, but through strategies that are utterly distinct from anything in a typical Hollywood film.
The first sequence, a formal dinner at the family's sumptuous mansion in Milan, establishes that little traditional exposition will be used. For one, characters don't say much, relatively; "The idea that people are articulate, I think, is a real mistake," observes Swinton early on in the DVD commentary. One of the maxims of scriptwriting is that if you can show something, the characters won't need to bother to articulate it, but in I Am Love, there isn't much of either. Instead, the camera spends time lingering on movement or simply taking in the settings — the mansion, a verdant countryside, an imposing cathedral. At least in the case of the house, the exceptional craftsmanship actually does some of the characterization of these textile manufacturers: "There is something about practicality in this family. It is about making things that can be seen in reality," as director Luca Guadagnino comments.
Once the chill atmosphere of the family is established, however, the focus centers on Emma and her burgeoning desire to break free. Swinton calls it a "prison film," and it's easy to see how the family and the home are stifling. But even when she goes out to the countryside for an assignation with her lover, her surroundings still dominate cinematically. Close-ups of plant life are intercut with their bodies making love alfresco, in shots that pick out a piece of their anatomies, making them as unfamiliar as the flora. Sex is made to seem more like the biological process of intercourse, not so much an emotional catharsis. "Nature is a very important character in the film," says Swinton, and this is not nearly as hollow an assertion as it would be if she were talking about the average Hollywood film set in the outdoors.
This depersonalizing scene aside, the film makes Emma's experience extraordinarily vivid despite the lack of traditional character development. Extreme close-ups are mostly reserved for her and her daughter, whose own new-found homosexuality spurs Emma on. She is given some of the most revealing dialogue of what little is provided, as we learn briefly of the life she left behind in Russia to marry the Italian magnate. This minimal revelation seems like a major step forward, setting it off sharply from a borderline-incomprehensible subplot about the sale of the family's textile company.
But the strongest force in the film is the array of the cinematographic and editing devices used, which are so diverse that the viewer is always kept slightly off balance. While most of the editing is slow by Hollywood standards, a few scenes are, inexplicably, cut more quickly than is comfortable, and the few times that a dissolve is used, they are exceptionally quick and transition between scenes in what would ordinarily be a straight cut in Hollywood.
Likewise, the cinematography changes frequently enough to develop a sense of chaos. There are so few handheld shots that when one finally appears, it's a bit jarring. Later, a single long tracking shot takes Emma through the house during a party — the kind of stunt filming that draws attention to itself (for better or worse) — but it's the only one of its kind. Earlier, a critical moment of budding love is out-of-focus and almost illegible, and a walk through the city takes in the buildings with quick moving shots that are disorienting and contrast sharply with the film's slow pace.
Any one of these alone would be a subtle point of interest, but all together the diversity and frequency of these choices lend the narrative an intense feeling of upheaval. Either by design or coincidence, this strategy fits almost perfectly with the story of a woman upending her life for love and discovering herself in the process, and so it distinguishes Emma's perspective even more as the central point of view. Moreover, the lack of regular exposition often has the effect of making what we actually see harder to understand, almost as though we are like Emma, confronting emotions we don't even have a name for.
In the end, these all add up to a deep tension within the film. Emma is only a sketch of a character, but we identify with her, even as she feels almost as distant and inscrutable as the rest of the Recchi family. It is that tension that makes I Am Love feel unique, and "unique" is almost always a superlative in art.
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Abstract: This collection consists of a WWII diary (October 5, 1942-March 9, 1943) kept by Lt. Thomas M. Clement during his service aboard the USS Philadelphia, newspaper clippings concerning the Philadelphia, citations of service for Clement, leave passes, morning orders, and the Sixth Birthday Edition of the History of the Philadelphia (September 23, 1943) which was printed aboard ship. Clement's diary documents the Philadelphia's service during the Invasion of North Africa, especially the assault on Safi and Casablanca.
Upon American involvement in WWII, Thomas M. Clement left his position at the American Tobacco Company to serve in the U.S. Navy. On 4 October 1942, Lt. Clement joined the crew of USS Philadelphia CL-41 in Norfolk Virginia. While stationed in the Chesapeake, the crew practiced amphibious landing techniques and Clement began his war diary. Written for his wife Martha, his diary (1942-1945) chronicled the everyday activities aboard the vessel as they traveled through the Atlantic (specifically North African near Morocco, and Mediterranean waters near Italy). Of particular interest are 7th and 8th of November entries which outline his watch duty hour by hour, showing the diligence expected of each man aboard the vessel. The December 24th-25th entries also offer curiosity as he writes of the conflicting realities of celebrating a holiday while under attack. Throughout the diary, Clement includes the coordinates of the vessels positions and the daily miles traveled. The diary concludes on March 9th, 1945, with a section labeled "Personal Thoughts." Lt. Clement received national recognition for his service during the war when he was awarded the Naval Bronze Star for outstanding service as a Flag Lieutenant and an Aide to Rear Admiral Lt. Davidson in the Mediterranean Theatre. Within the collection are several newspaper clippings reporting on this momentous occasion. At the war's conclusion Clement returned to Oklahoma where he was a real estate broker and appraiser.
Besides Clement's diary this collection also contains historical information concerning the USS Philadelphia found in the Sixth Birthday Edition of the Press News published September 23, 1943, on the anniversary of the commissioning, military passes, a morning order, a photograph of Lt. Clement and an unknown person, and newspaper articles concerning both the USS Philadelphia and Lt. Clement.
Thomas M. Clement was born on August 22, 1909, in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri, was a sales manager for the American Tobacco Company, and then served as an officer in the Navy during World War II with distinction. He served on several U.S. cruisers including the USS Philadelphia. After the war he was a real estate broker and appraiser in Oklahoma City. He was married to Martha J. Clement who died in 1976 and to Ila Pearson Clement. He had a son Thomas C. Clement (1943-1962) and he died on January 10, 1996, in Bethany, Oklahoma. He is buried in Rose Hill Burial Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Commissioned on 23 September 1937, and constructed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 10,000 ton light cruiser USS Philadelphia began its WWII service in the Chesapeake for training purposes. From the Chesapeake, Philadelphia's first engagement of WWII took place off of Scoglitti, Italy. The crew reported that the vessel was christened during this battle as the vessel narrowly missed enemy bombing by a mere thirty-five yards from the port bow. Philadelphia's actions off of Italy earned the vessel the nickname "Galloping Ghost" for its devastation and illusiveness to the Axis forces. The Philadelphia continued to operate in the Atlantic theatre through the duration of the war, the vessel (and crew) earning five battle stars for the services rendered. Battles of particular importance were the battle of Salerno, part of the Fifth Army's invasion of Italy, and the battles off of French Morocco.
September 21, 2014, 0.25 cu. ft.; This collection consists of a WWII diary (October 5, 1942-March 9, 1943) kept by Lt. Thomas M. Clement during his service aboard the USS Philadelphia, newspaper clippings concerning the Philadelphia, citations of service for Clement, leave passes, morning orders, and the Sixth Birthday Edition of the History of the Philadelphia (September 23, 1943) printed aboard ship. Clement's diary documents the Philadelphia's service during the Invasion of North Africa, especially the assault on Safi and Casablanca. Purchased, with state funds, from Denning House Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts, Lancaster, PA.
Folder a Lt. Clement's personal hardbound war diary documenting daily life aboard USS Philadelphia from training maneuvers in the Chesapeake to engagements in European and North African waters, 1942–1945.
Folder b Sixth anniversary edition of Press News dedicated to USS Philadelphia's commissioning, issued in Palermo, Sicily. The paper documents the vessel from its creation in 1937, the vessel's christening in Scoglitti, to its continued participation in the war, 1943.
Folder c Newspaper articles and photographs of Lt. Clement documenting his achievements as a naval officer, especially receiving the Navy Bronze Star for his service in the Mediterranean Theatre. Also included are passes, morning order, and citations, 1943–1945.


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Archives|The Second Time Around, Marriage With Jewels
The Second Time Around, Marriage With Jewels
By BARBARA O'DAIR DEC. 22, 2005
THE first time she got married, in 1986, Kaethe Cherney was an aspiring actress. Her wedding was a modest ceremony at New York's City Hall. And the ring, fittingly, was "a simple silver band," said Ms. Cherney, 44, who now works in the film industry and lives in London. At the time she thought it romantic, but the ring's no-fuss aspect also signaled some indifference on her part. "I had never considered a traditional engagement ring," Ms. Cherney said. "It hadn't even crossed my mind."
Seven years later, when Ms. Cherney remarried, her indifference was gone. "I felt like I was getting it right this time," she said. She wanted a real wedding, she said, the kind where the bride gets to walk down the aisle. Her husband-to-be, Andrew Wheatley, a London gallery owner, picked up on her feeling and commissioned a special engagement ring. After several months of laboring to meet the couple's high standards, the ring maker produced a gorgeous, colorful piece: six attached silver bands, each with a tiny gold post holding a different semiprecious stone.
On a visit to Manhattan, Mr. Wheatley presented the ring to Ms. Cherney on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. "The ring symbolized everything that was right" about the relationship, she said.
At Christmas 10 years later, in 2003, he gave her an anniversary ring, which she finds more meaningful still: a gold ring studded with green garnets and, in the center, a fat Brazilian tourmaline. "I've gone from a $5 ring to bling," she said, adding, "With age comes emotional intelligence and a taste for the good things in life."
Ms. Cherney is one of many women who find greater meaning in the ring the second time they marry. According to The Wedding Report, an online market research study of weddings and marriage, 1 in 10 of the more than two million American brides in 2006 will remarry. And about 67 percent of these women will get an engagement ring, said Dana Telsey, a luxury goods research analyst with Bear Stearns. Although no statistics indicate how many of these women skipped that part of the tradition the first time around, observers from jewelers to older brides have seen the change.
Women who once rigorously avoided a fancy engagement ring are revising their notions about this classic symbol of commitment and love. The older bride wants a ring that proclaims: I'm getting married, I'm proud of it, and I want a way to show it.
"Second marriages are planned a lot more," said Steven Nock, a self-described scholar of marriage who teaches sociology and psychology at the University of Virginia. The engagement ring trend is likely "part of a larger trend of making marriage a grander celebration," he said.
Even if a bride's second wedding ceremony is not as elaborate as her first, without the big, white dress and the train of bridesmaids, the ring may grow in significance, especially if the bride is someone who used to think of herself as a feminist.
"For my first marriage I had no ring by choice," said Freddi Greenberg, 56, editor in chief of Nick Jr. Family Magazine, who also chose an unconventional ceremony without a traditional wedding dress in 1973. Back then she found the idea of a ring "really hokey." Rings seemed to symbolize a woman's dependence on a husband, financially and otherwise, and Ms. Greenberg was a woman who intended to stand on her own two feet.
By the time she remarried almost 20 years later, Ms. Greenberg said, "I had lived the life of a strong, independent woman," and so had nothing to prove in that regard. She and her future husband, David Mauer, believed that a ring would help make their impending marriage "more official" and symbolize stability to the children of their first marriages, two of them hers and three of them his. Her fiancé gave her a one-carat, bezel-cut diamond ring from the New York jeweler Reinstein/Ross, a tasteful alternative to a traditional solitaire.
Many jewelers see the increasing focus on rings primarily as a sign of how much money second-time couples have. "The second marriage always means higher-priced diamonds," said Elizabeth Chatelain, president of the marketing company Jewelry Consumer Opinion Council. "Women are more comfortable with diamonds these days. Women are even buying diamonds for themselves."
Karl M. Taps, assistant manager at Cartier, said of second-time brides: "They have more of the ways and means to get bigger stones. They don't need to set up a home," or have many of the other financial burdens that young marrieds carry.
Martha McPhee, 42, a novelist in New York City, admits that money is what prompted her to get a better engagement ring, though she did so without remarrying. When she and her husband, Mark Svenvold, married 10 years ago, he was a starving poet.
"I remember saying to Mark that I had my grandmother's ring and wanted to replace the setting at Tiffany," Ms. McPhee said. "He looked at me as if I were completely insane."
They ended up exchanging simple gold bands. But eight years later, after the couple had settled into their teaching and writing careers and had two children, Mr. Svenvold surprised her with a gold band encircled by diamonds.
Kamy Wicoff, 33, of Manhattan, author of "I Do But I Don't: Walking Down the Aisle Without Losing Your Way" (to be published in June), traded rings several years after she got married for something more meaningful too, but hers was a switch to something less showy. Her first ring was an emerald-cut diamond that was more than two carats. But she found that when people looked at it, they made inferences about her husband's economic status, and that made her uncomfortable.
"I found that my ring spoke louder than I did," Ms. Wicoff said. She wanted it to be a sign of love, not of wealth. After four years of marriage, she put the diamond in a safe-deposit box, and she and her husband exchanged matching gold bands rimmed with little rubies, a gesture that was more meaningful to them both, she said.
Some women who once dismissed the idea of engagement rings have come to feel that they missed out on an appealing romantic ritual. Marcelle Karp, 41, founding editor of Bust magazine, wed six years ago at New York's City Hall not long after giving birth to her daughter. "I got married in a practical, punk rock way," she said. "We didn't want to spend the money" on a ring. Two years later she divorced, and today, she said, she would do things differently. "If I get married again, I'd want an engagement ring. I want it to be a fantasy."
"In the last couple of years," another woman said, "I've been looking at diamond rings on other people's hands and what they symbolize. They are lovely, feminine, powerful." An architect in her mid-40's, this woman married 15 years ago with no engagement ring because, she said: "We had already lived together for seven years. I basically wanted to downplay the whole thing. I was very sensitive to having a career and not being a wife." She asked not to be identified by name to avoid hurting or embarrassing her husband. Now, she said she feels both "stupid" for not caring about a ring to begin with and "guilty" for wanting one now.
Ms. Wicoff is not surprised by the wedding ring's hold on people's emotions. "The rings are so symbolically powerful," she said, "it's hard for us to part with the process." They signify the hope in marriage.
As Diane Meier Delaney writes in "The New American Wedding," (Viking Penguin, 2005), "We stand in the face of broken families, broken promises, broken contracts and believe that this time it will be different."
A version of this article appears in print on December 22, 2005, on Page G00009 of the National edition with the headline: The Second Time Around, Marriage With Jewels. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


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Is Mariah Carey's little girl eyeing a future in the make-up industry?
On Saturday, the 42-year-old singer posted an intimate snapshot of her daughter Monroe using a powder brush on Mimi's face.
"Beauty school hour 01 lol," Carey wrote on Instagram.
The American Idol judge is gearing up for the show's highly anticipated 12th season, which premieres on FOX on Wednesday.
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Natalie Portman and her baby boy Aleph were spotted enjoying some mommy-and-me time on Friday, as the pair headed to a play date in Pasadena, Calif.
The 31-year-old actress and her adorable tot bundled up for the chilly afternoon, sporting matching windbreakers and backpacks.
Portman and her husband Benjamin Millepied welcomed their firstborn back in June 2011. They were married last summer in an intimate Jewish ceremony in Big Sur.
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Pickles and ice cream may be the typical pregnancy cravings, but Hollywood's finest are proof positive that the strange urges don't stop there.
For Katie Holmes, cupcakes were the one snack that remained on her mind throughout her pregnancy with daughter Suri Cruise, now six. And she wasn't particular about where she satisfied her sweet tooth: the former Dawson's Creek star is known to be a patron at Sprinkles, Georgetown Cupcakes and Magnolia Bakery.
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Even Kourtney Kardashian believes in hand-me-downs.
As she, her boyfriend Scott Disick, and their kids Mason and Penelope made their way to Deer Valley, UT, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star shared one of her favorite parts of being a mommy — dressing up little Penelope in Mason's uber cute clothing.
Just days before she's set to debut her post-baby body at the Golden Globe Awards, the Grammy-winning songstress stepped out at LAX Airport in Los Angeles, Calif., on Jan 10. But she didn't jet in to the states solo: Adele cradled her baby boy in a blanket as a security team shielded them from photographers.
Britney Spears rang in the New Year on a sad note — her beloved grandfather passed away just days before the holidays, the pop star's uncle has confirmed to Celebuzz.
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He used to be a trainer, but then retired into researching pokémon. His lab is used to research Pokémon, unravel the mysteries of these creatures, and study their characteristics and behavior in a natural environment.
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A Year in Review at The Alliance
There are only a few days left in 2022, and it has been a year!
Since the inception of this organization in 2016, The Alliance has installed 11 public art pieces, including murals and temporary sculptures, across Texoma. By the end of the year, we will add three new murals to that list! We have established new partnerships with organizations that recognize the arts' power to positively impact communities.
Our Regional Museum Network has expanded from ten museums in four counties to 17 organizations across nine counties. Our arts education programs continue to grow, with more than 2,400 people utilizing our A+ online lesson plans. These activities integrate the arts into core subject areas, including Science, Math, English, Language Arts & Reading, and Social Studies.
This year, we also launched a fundraising campaign to honor Wichita Falls native and trailblazer Charlye Ola Farris with a bronze sculpture on the lawn of the Wichita County Courthouse. Farris was the first African American woman licensed to practice law in Texas, the first African American attorney, male or female, in Wichita County, and the first African American to serve as a judge in the South since Reconstruction. With the help of our community, we will ensure her achievements are not forgotten.
Finally, we were thrilled to host the inaugural ACE Awards in October, celebrating arts and cultural achievements in Wichita Falls. Nearly 200 of our friends came together to celebrate innovation and creativity. We hope you'll join us for next year's event! Next year, our work continues, and we are poised to do even bigger things for Wichita Falls and the communities beyond.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Review by Marty Mapes
Nicholas Nickleby is an imperfect film. Any movie that tries to cram an entire Dickens novel into just over 2 hours is destined to be imperfect. Nevertheless, writer/director Douglas McGrath makes a valiant effort that focuses on fun.
Hunnam and Courtenay investigate the lighter side of Dickens
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Based on Charles Dickens' novel, Nicholas Nickleby follows young Nicolas (Charlie Hunnam), who turns to his uncle for help after the death of his father. Uncle Nickleby (Christopher Plummer) finds work for Nicholas' sister Kate (Romola Garai) and their mother at a dressmaker's, and he finds a job for Nicholas at Dotheboy's academy for boys.
The headmaster at Dotheboy's is the cruel and deformed Mr. Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent). Mr. and Mrs. Squeers treat all the boys cruelly, but one in particular draws their scorn, Smike (Jamie Bell), a cripple. Nickleby tolerates the Squeers' cruelty as long as his moral compass allows, and then he leaves, taking Smike with him.
They hitch up with a gay band of traveling actors (led by Nathan Lane and Dame Edna) before coming home to London to reunite with Nicholas' mother and sister. Uncle Nickleby has been inviting his friends to make unwelcome passes at Kate, so Nicholas severs their ties from their uncle.
Meanwhile, Nicholas finds work and love in the city, Smike takes ill, uncle Nickleby plots against Nicholas and Kate, and a mystery man appears with some sort of dark secret.
The Sum of the Parts
As you can see, McGrath managed to pack a lot of plot and dozens of characters into two hours. His screenplay is complex but never hard to follow. Where necessary, music glues together disparate scenes, and elsewhere the score (by Rachel Portman) adds a touch of class. All in all, Nicholas Nickleby seems like a great achievement.
In fact the film is very good, but it shows its seams. Dickens writing isn't subtle, and although he was a good storyteller, his works seem almost childish at times. There is little room for emotional or thematic depth among the dozens of characters and half dozen plots.
McGrath emphasizes this shallowness by playing each scene for its own sense of camp, fun, sadness, or rage, without regard to an overriding theme for the whole movie. It feels like he's pandering to the audience, particularly when the entire cast is either freakishly good-looking (Hunnam), hamming it up (Lane), or a favorite British celebrity (Timothy Spall).
A Joy to Watch
But McGrath's choices are also what makes the movie so much fun. Playing each scene for all its worth makes each scene a gem, even if it's only linked to the whole by a musical score. Casting charismatic and hammy actors makes the on-screen chemistry spark into life.
The result is a movie that's a joy to watch. Villains are villains. Heroes are heroes. Beautiful young women fall in love with handsome young men, and the poets look on with fondness and nostalgia. Nicholas Nickleby is a good time at the movies in the guise of serious literature.


We evaluated the artifacts in segmentation-based attenuation correction maps (μ-maps) of hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance (PET/MR) mammography using dedicated PET/MR breast coil in breast cancer patients.
Attenuation map of hybrid F-18 FDG PET/MR mammography in 38 patients diagnosed with invasive breast carcinoma were retrospectively inspected for artifacts. The artifacts were subdivided into 2 groups with minor (group A) and major artifacts (group B) on the basis of their severity. The impact of μ-map artifacts on PET interpretation was evaluated qualitatively via visual analysis as well as quantitatively by comparing SUVmax of breast cancer between PET/MR mammography and whole body PET/MR.
Minor Attenuation map artifacts were found in 22 patients and major artifacts in 16 patients. Minor artifacts were field of view edge artifacts, lung boarder artifacts, small body contour artifacts, respiratory artifacts and trachea artifacts. Major artifacts were body contour artifact with missing dorsal body contour including both lungs (n=10), left lung (n=5) and wide expanded areas around breast and chest (n=1). All FDG-avid malignant mass were not affected by artifacts on visual PET interpretation. SUVmax in PET/MR mammography and whole body PET/MR in group A and B were 8.31±6.31, 6.15±4.20, 4.75±3.70 and 4.70±4.10, respectively. The changes in group A and B was 31.11% and 14.08%, respectively. Quantitatively, major μ-map artifacts led to significant SUVmax changes (p<0.001). No change in diagnosis was caused by μ-map artifacts. Major attenuation map artifacts that occur in a considerable percentage of hybrid PET/MR mammography have the potential to falsify PET quantification. However, there was no change in clinical diagnosis due to μ-map artifacts.


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The Case For In Person-Immersive 'Listening' To Understand Sports Fan Behavior
by Jon Last , Columnist, March 12, 2019
I'll be the first to admit that social media and technology have transformed and enhanced the tool kit for those who research fan attitudes and perceptions. Social conversation listening can often proactively surface issues and amplify the loudest voices for sports marketers.
That said, I've often maligned those who rely too heavily on these sources as marginalizing the perspective of the "silent majority." In fact, with the generation of social conversation and buzz often among the objectives of sports marketing programs, meta scans and attempted quantification of conversation can in some ways further cloud any insights derived from an attempted objective assessment of their veracity.
Rather, I'd suggest that with today's rightfully obsessive focus on optimizing fan experience, the optimal recipe for "fan listening" and "voice of the customer" insights should extend well beyond social media monitoring. It should even go beyond traditional qualitative and quantitative marketing research, particularly when those two modalities are limited to house files or opt-in fan communities, each with their own inherent biases.
Sports marketers are investing significantly on a proliferation of onsite activations, interactive experiences and enhanced creature comforts aimed at delivering a more engaging fan experience. And they should, because we all recognize the broader competitive landscape for the attention and wallets of our target customers.
But as the onsite experience becomes more nuanced and broader in its offerings, I'd maintain that traditional feedback loops, referenced above, while important in their own right, stop short of good old-fashioned, discrete and immersive observation. Memories are selective, and often clouded by recency. That doesn't mean that they aren't an important means to gauge the stickiness of sports marketing activation, but there's a void in the absence of observing fan experience in the moment, and its impact on overall fan satisfaction and future resultant actions.
I'm a big advocate of observational research modalities like mystery shopping and ethnography because they enable researchers to immerse themselves in the actual world of the customer — to walk a mile in their shoes in a natural and unstructured environment.
The beauty of adapting these approaches for the sports marketplace is that traditional barriers like the high cost of recruitment and time requirements are condensed into the natural and finite environment of sporting events or retail spaces. The benefits and insights derived are rich and can often be captured on video, and edited and shared in reels for marketing management.
Embedding research teams in sporting goods retail opens a window to the impact of point of sale and visual merchandising, as well as the efficacy of product education on salespeople.
In-venue observational research under trained eyes and with appropriate moderator interactions can capture emotional connections or frustrations in real time. We've seen this to be particularly effective in assessing the impact of various social space and F&B enhancements.
Bottom line, a greater focus on listening to fans can greatly benefit sports marketers. Observing these same fans can take insights to an even higher level.
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The 4th International Yoga Day was celebrated with enthusiasm across Kargil here today during which District Administration organized a series of yoga awareness and exercise sessions at the District Headquarter as well as the Sub Divisional levels. The main function was held in the premises of Indoor Stadium Kargil. Deputy Commissioner and CEO LAHDC Kargil Vikas Kundal was the Chief Guest on the occasion who along with the Additional Deputy Commissioner Imteeaz Kacho, SE PWD Sarwan Singh, Chief Planning Officer Kargil, district officers and officials of different departments, trainees of the Sports Authority of India Special Area Games Centre and students of various schools performed different Yoga asanas and 'pranayama' (breathing exercise) enthusiastically under the guidance of trained Yoga experts. Speaking on the occasion the DC while highlighting the importance of yoga as a form of exercise in maintaining physical and mental fitness and to bring harmony between mind and body urged the participants to make Yoga an integral part of their lives. Yoga camps were also held at the District Police Lines (DPL) Kargil where the Senior Superintendent of Police and Deputy SP DAR Kargil along with the Police personnel performed different yogic postures to mark the occasion. Similar yoga camps were held at Boys Higher Secondary School Kargil, Government Degree College Kargil, District Hospital Kargil, Indoor Stadium Drass, Higher Secondary Chiktan, Sankoo and Padum Zanskar, Kendriya Vidyalaya Kargil (KVK) and NHPC premises Kargil. Hundreds of people including officers, officials, students and yoga enthusiasts turned up at the venues to practice yogic asanas on the International Yoga Day.
Meanwhile the District Administration had made elaborate arrangements for the celebration of the day and Nodal Officers including the SDMs of the respective Sub Divisions, Chief Education Officer, Chief Medical Officer, District Youth Services and Sports Officer, Principal Kendriya Vidyalaya Kargil (KVK) besides trained Yoga Experts were appointed at different venues.


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The NIH Launches Bridge2AI, a New Program to Expand the Use of A.I. in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
By Femtech Insider Ecosystem, News, Research September 23, 2022
The National Institutes of Health will invest $130 million over four years, pending the availability of funds, to accelerate the widespread use of artificial intelligence by the biomedical and behavioral research communities. The NIH Common Fund's Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (in short: Bridge2AI) program is assembling team members from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to generate tools, resources, and richly detailed data that are responsive to AI approaches. At the same time, the program will ensure its tools and data do not perpetuate inequities or ethical problems that may occur during data collection and analysis. Through extensive collaboration across projects, Bridge2AI researchers will create guidance and standards for the development of ethically sourced, state-of-the-art, AI-ready data sets that have the potential to help solve some of the most pressing challenges in human health — such as uncovering how genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors influence a person's physical condition throughout their life.
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Performing the Duties of the Director of NIH, explains: "Generating high-quality ethically sourced data sets is crucial for enabling the use of next-generation AI technologies that transform how we do research,The solutions to long-standing challenges in human health are at our fingertips, and now is the time to connect researchers and AI technologies to tackle our most difficult research questions and ultimately help improve human health."
AI is both a field of science and a set of technologies that enable computers to mimic how humans sense, learn, reason, and take action. Although AI is already used in biomedical research and healthcare, its widespread adoption has been limited in part due to challenges of applying AI technologies to diverse data types. This is because routinely collected biomedical and behavioral data sets are often insufficient, meaning they lack important contextual information about the data type, collection conditions, or other parameters. Without this information, AI technologies cannot accurately analyze and interpret data. AI technologies may also inadvertently incorporate bias or inequities unless careful attention is paid to the social and ethical contexts in which the data is collected. In order to harness the power of AI for biomedical discovery and accelerate its use, scientists first need well-described and ethically created data sets, standards, and best practices for generating biomedical and behavioral data that is ready for AI analyses.
As it creates tools and best practices for making data AI-ready, Bridge2AI will also produce a variety of diverse data types ready to be used by the research community for AI analyses. These types include voice and other data to help identify abnormal changes in the body. Researchers will also generate data that can be used to make new connections between complex genetic pathways and changes in cell shape or function to better understand how they work together to influence health. In addition, AI-ready data will be prepared to help improve decision making in critical care settings to speed recovery from acute illnesses and to help uncover the complex biological processes underlying an individual's recovery from illness.
NIH has issued four awards for data generation projects, and three awards to create a Bridge Center for integration, dissemination and evaluation activities. The data generation projects will generate new biomedical and behavioral data sets ready to be used for developing AI technologies, along with creating data standards and tools for ensuring data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, a principle known as FAIR. In addition, data generation projects will develop training materials that promote a culture of diversity and the use of ethical practices throughout the data generation process. The Bridge Center will be responsible for integrating activities and knowledge across data generation projects, and disseminating products, best-practices, and training materials.
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Apple's AirTags are cheaper than usual in Woot's latest one-day sale
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AirTags are some of the most affordable Apple gadgets you can get, which is probably why deep discounts on them are hard to come by. Last week, we saw one of the trackers drop to $24 and a four-pack fall to $96 on Amazon, but Woot's latest flash sale makes the bundle even cheaper. Today only, you can get a four-pack of AirTags for $94, which is five percent off its normal price. Woot's dropped the price to as low as $88 in the past, but that all-time low happened during the holiday shopping season, making it unlikely to come back around anytime soon.
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Much like Tile devices and other Bluetooth trackers, AirTags are designed to help you keep track of your stuff. The coin-sized gadget can slip into your wallet or backpack, or attach to a holder that you can clip to your keys, allowing you to keep track of your things using the Find My app on your iOS device. When you do misplace something, you can force the AirTag to emit a chime or, if you have an ultra-wideband supporting iPhone, the Precision Finding feature can lead you directly to your missing stuff using directions on your phone's screen. And if you're not the in vicinity of your belongings anymore, you can check out the AirTag's last location in the Find My app and even turn on Lost Mode, which will ping you when the AirTag gets detected by the network again.
Keep in mind that you'll have to be an iPhone user to get the most out of AirTags. Apple recently released an app that allows Android users to see if an AirTag is nearby, but its goal is detection, privacy and returning the lost AirTag to its rightful owner. Also, we recommend checking out Woot's return policy before buying because it is much different from that of its parent company, Amazon.
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Q: Zend Framework Jquery Sortable I have been trying to get JQuery Sortable working on my Zend Framework application but only with limited succes. I have been using the ZendX library for most of the Jquery functionality that i need such as the datepicker and those work perfectly fine. I just can't seem to be able to get sortable to wich is not supported in the ZendX library.
As for the code. In my bootstrap i have defined the helper path for Jquery etc. as per useual:
protected function _initViewHelpers()
    {
        $view = new Zend_View();
        $view->addHelperPath('ZendX/JQuery/View/Helper/', 'ZendX_JQuery_View_Helper');
        $view->jQuery()->setLocalPath('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js')
                       ->setUiLocalPath('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.21/jquery-ui.min.js')
                       ->addStylesheet('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.21/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css');
        $viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('ViewRenderer');
        $viewRenderer->setView($view);
        Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);
    }

I then activate JQuery in the layout using echo $this->jQuery()->enable();
Now this works all fine, the datepicker works and it shows the Smoothness design as intended etc.
Now i implement a small list with a the simple sortable script as follows in my index.phtml:
<!DOCTYPE html>

Item 1

Item 2

Item 3

Item 4

Item 5

The only way i can get this to work is to add the line

to the index.phtml. This to me looks just about as ridiculous as it gets. in the bootstrap i already add this script so why should i have to do this again just to get sortable to work?
Anyone happen to have a solution to my problem?
Any advice will be appreciated :)

A: Could you please try below code approach :-
protected function _initView()
{
    $view = new Zend_View();
    $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
    $view->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8');
    $view->headTitle()->setSeparator(' - ');
    $view->headTitle('IMR - BI System');
    $view->env = APPLICATION_ENV;
    $view->baseUrl = Zend_Registry::get('config')->root_path;

    $view->addHelperPath("ZendX/JQuery/View/Helper", "ZendX_JQuery_View_Helper");
    $view->jQuery()->addStylesheet('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.21/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css');
    $view->jQuery()->setLocalPath('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js');
    $view->jQuery()->setUiLocalPath('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.21/jquery-ui.min.js');
    $view->jQuery()->enable();
    $view->jQuery()->uiEnable();
    $viewRenderer = new Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ViewRenderer();
    $viewRenderer->setView($view);
    Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper($viewRenderer);

    return $view;
}

Hope this would help :)


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It's important to keep things exciting in a relationship if you want it to thrive and remain as vibrant and exciting as it was on the first date. Just as with anything else over time, a relationship can lose its new-car smell if not kept up with routine maintenance. So, finding cool and creative things to spice up your dating life with your partner is key to a successful and happy future. For many people, that means using cannabis to enhance their lifestyle together and reconnect with what matters most.
If you're running low on ideas for your next date with that special somebody and happen to appreciate the positive effects that cannabis can bring to body, soul, and mind, then take note of these romantic opportunities.
Who says you can't partake in cannabis and be active? It's all about finding a strain that works for you, and there are definitely some out there that can help you stay focused and energized. Applying that "higher" thinking to some couples yoga, hiking, or bike riding can help tone up your body AND your relationship! When you look good, you feel good, and having someone to do it with makes it all the more fun. Try adding a little strain-specific herb to your pre-workout or game of one-on-one with your partner, and see if it doesn't amp up the excitement and creativity.
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Chanel's Intimate Technology
Chanel has already pushed fabric technology to the limit, but, here, the designer's celebration of all things digital was the collection's raison d'être.
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PARIS, France — "Intimate Technology." Karl Lagerfeld pronounced those words with great relish after showing his Spring collection for Chanel on Tuesday morning. In practice, they could be taken to mean the cyber-tweeds layered over pale, filmy lingerie, worlds colliding in a way that Lagerfeld has always loved.
It was the kind of elision that only he would be capable of, simultaneously versed in the ways of the Old World and infatuated by whatever's about to happen next.
The show took place against the Chanel Data Centre, a gigantic simulation of one of those facilities you imagine buried deep in the heartland of the USA or Russia, where every call, every purchase, every download that anyone makes is processed and stored. It's a fascistic notion, which Lagerfeld seemed to acknowledge by sending out a couple of CocoBots to open the show.
But what immediately followed — yet another reconceptualisation of the classic Chanel tweed — was actually fresh and charming. If we're all living in the Matrix (Scientific American published a piece which proved that may be perfectly possible), it didn't look as dystopian as I remember. In fact, Karl Lagerfeld has seen the future and it's pink. Chanel has already pushed fabric technology to the limit, but, here, the designer's celebration of all things digital was the collection's raison d'être. It was like the candy-coloured wiring of a million circuit boards had been untangled and rewoven.
"It's up to us to put the soul in the machine," Lagerfeld declared. Maybe that's what the lingerie underpinnings were all about, a sensual, human layer underneath the techno flights of fabric fancy. "It's not Belle Époque," he insisted. But even if it was, it would be a sweet idea to have in mind when confronting the realities of an époque that is rather more bête.
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DotNetNuke is the leading open source content management system for the Windows Server platform. More importantly it is an extremely powerful and secure framework on which to build robust websites. And yes, the world of open source can exist and even thrive within the Microsoft environment. From the granular security model which allow system administrators to precisely define website permissions at the site, page or module level to the rich market of third party themes and add-ons, DNN offers a mature environment that rivals or surpasses those on other platforms.
In this session I will give an introduction to DNN and the way it operates. We'll also look at a few demo sites and discuss their operation. Finally we will talk about DNN in comparison to other website tools like WordPress and Drupal and deal directly, honestly and rabidly with the differences between each and their relative strengths and weaknesses.


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Henry Cavill Joins The Great Wall
Superman: Man of Steel star Henry Cavill has lined up his first post-Superman gig, landing a starring role in The Great Wall for director Edward Zwick.
We first reported on this drama back in August, which is the first project to be developed under Legendary Pictures' new Legendary East banner. The story centers on how The Great Wall of China was built, and the mysterious circumstances which lead China to construct it. No character details were given for Henry Cavill's role.
Edward Zwick is directing The Great Wall from a script he is co-writing with Marshall Herskovitz. The project is based on an original idea by Legendary Pictures executive Thomas Tull and World War Z author Max Brooks.
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Thomas Tull will produce for Legendary East, alongside Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Jon Jashni, Alex Gartner, and Charles Roven. It isn't known when production will begin on The Great Wall.
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TRENTON—Most Mercer County government offices and facilities will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in observance of Veterans Day.
The following County offices and facilities will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, and will reopen for business Tuesday, Nov. 12: McDade Administration Building, 640 South Broad St.; Criminal Courthouse, 400 South Warren St.; Office of the County Clerk, 209 South Broad St.; Civil Courthouse and Office of the County Surrogate, 175 South Broad St.; Board of Social Services, 200 Woolverton St.; One-Stop Career Center, 26 Yard Ave.; Cooperative Extension of Mercer County, 1440 Parkside Ave., Ewing; and Mercer County Connection, Route 33 at Paxson Avenue, Hamilton.
The following County facilities will remain open: Trenton-Mercer Airport (except for administrative offices), Correction Center, Sheriff's Office and the Emergency Services Communications Center. Also open for business will be four branches of the Mercer County Library system: Ewing, Hickory Corner, Lawrence Headquarters and West Windsor, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; all other branches will be closed in observance of Veterans Day.
The following Mercer County Park Commission facilities will be open Nov. 11: Ice Skating Center, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Tennis Center, 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; all four County golf courses, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Mercer County Stables, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Wildlife Center, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Tulpehaking Nature Center, Howell Living History Farm and Park Commission administrative offices will be closed on Veterans Day. For more information on Park Commission facilities and programs, please visit www.mercercountyparks.org.


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Badly Drawn Boy It's What I'm Thinking Pt. 1: Photographing Snowflakes
By Ian Gormely
Four years after his last album proper, English troubadour Badly Drawn Boy (aka Damon Gough) returns with the most subtle and focused record of his career. After completing music for the film The Fattest Man in Britain, Gough was, apparently, creatively reinvigorated; he began working on what will be a trilogy of albums whose express goal is quick turnaround: write, record and release as fast as possible. Much will be made of the record's lyrical introspection ("I'm a failure at heart," from the title track), but part of the charm of Gough's Mercury Prize-winning debut, The Hour of the Bewilderbeast, was its quirky sonic experimentation. Subsequent efforts like One Plus One is One and the disastrous Have You Fed the Fish? wallowed in over-produced pop bombast, but here the echo-laden vocals often take a backseat to the album's lush instrumental tracks. It doesn't always work ― at times, Gough comes across like window dressing in his songs. But when it does, as on the album's final two tracks, "This Electric" and "This Beautiful Idea," we can again see the artist we put so much faith in ten years ago. (The End)
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Electromechanical Relay (EMR): An electromechanical relay uses a physical moving arm, triggered by a voltage applied to the relay coil, this arm connects contacts within the output component of the relay. The movement of the arm allows an electrical circuit to be completed, allowing current to flow to the connected equipment. The physical components within the relays commonly make a "click" sound, which can be used as an audible operation indicator.
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In 2018, Yestermorrow staff, interns, instructors, and students embarked on an exciting campus improvement. Over the course of 6 months, we harvested and milled the timbers from our woodlot, prepped the site, designed and then raised the frame, and worked together to complete a new outdoor classroom. In this video Yestermorrow instructor and board member, Mac Rood reflects on what makes Yestermorrow such an incredible place to learn and how our community comes together to complete these impactful design/build projects.


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As Jonathan Ladd noted in his wonderful post on Colbert and Stewart, American journalism changed substantially between the 19th and 20th century. While it was common for newspapers to be publicly affiliated with and root for parties in the 1800s (titles like the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette live on from those days), the press of the 1900s was largely bound to a model of objectivity. Journalism had become "professionalized," with reporters trained to gather evidence from multiple sides of a debate and report on events impartially. Endorsement of explicit opinions would thenceforth be relegated to the back pages of newspapers.
But how exactly did this rapid shift come about? The general interpretation is that the Progressive movement of the early 1900s was responsible for it, with many of its adherents opposed to political corruption and convinced that principled journalists could help rid society of the worst aspects of machine politics. Richard Kaplan has a somewhat different take on this in a chapter on the origins of the objective press: that the party system itself was partially responsible for the change.
In the wake of the election, Kaplan adds, party politics took on a much more regional pattern, with the Democratic Party becoming largely uncompetitive in northern and western states. Affiliating with the Democratic Party had thus become a bad business decision for many newspapers.
Now, as Kaplan concedes, newspapers had bolted the parties in previous elections but eventually came back to support them. What made this time different was some specific contributions of the Progressive movement. For one, voter registration led to dramatically lower voter turnout in the early 20th century. Newspapers were great rabble-rousers, but there was now just far less rabble to rouse. For another, a popular Progressive idea of nonpartisanship (or at least independence from the era's major parties) was taking hold. Perhaps the newspapers didn't need to go back to the parties; perhaps they could do just fine advancing their own agenda without being tainted by partisanship. Kaplan argues that this led papers to sever their ties to both parties in short order.
So yes, the Progressive movement bore responsibility for the advancement of modern objective journalism, but it did so by exploiting a collapse in the old party system and a period of crisis for the partisan press.


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Tyson Chandler, Knicks vow to get back on defense
Houston Rockets guard Jeremy Lin drives upcourt past Tyson Chandler at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. (Nov. 23, 2012) Credit: Getty
By AL IANNAZZONE al.iannazzone@newsday.com Updated November 25, 2012 1:33 AM
Tyson Chandler has taken losses harder than any of the other Knicks players, harder than he did last season. The Knicks' higher expectations could have something to do with it, or perhaps it's because Chandler isn't playing as well as he's capable.
Chandler is the reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and the Knicks' defense has been the biggest issue in their last two losses.
They gave up 245 points at Dallas and Houston. Jeremy Lin and the Rockets rang up 131 points -- more than any team scored against the Knicks last season -- and enjoyed a 28-point laugher Friday.
"We're just getting flat-out beat and it's difficult to get help," Chandler said. "It's coming too fast. We've got to get stronger. I'll take full responsibility. We've got to get better. That's my end and I'll take it."
It's not all Chandler, not when the Knicks have allowed 196 points in the last six quarters of the three-game trip. It's a team-wide lack of commitment and focus defensively. But Chandler hasn't been as effective as he was last season in guarding the paint or playing help defense.
The Knicks were outscored by 10 in points in the paint, were minus-23 in second-chance points and were outrebounded by 24.
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The Knicks (8-3) also have taken a nosedive in the defensive rankings. Before Dallas, the Knicks were allowing the fewest points in the NBA (88.9). They dipped to 11th by the end of the trip at 95.0 per game.
"You've got to be concerned," Chandler said. "We've got to get it together. That [Houston] team, first of all, they're not better than us. They're not 30 points better than us. That's no disrespect to them. We can't allow that to happen. The same thing with the Dallas Mavericks. We've had two letdowns. We've got to get together, got to get our focus back."
If there's any consolation for the Knicks, the low-scoring Pistons are in town Sunday. They began Saturday 26th in points (92.2) and have reached 100 only three times. Either Detroit (3-10) will be the cure for what ails the Knicks, or vice versa.
But if the Knicks want to be a championship contender as they say they do, they will play with more urgency and be more committed defensively, the way they were earlier this season.
"We got the record that we have because we've been defending," Mike Woodson said. "We haven't been rebounding that great, but our defense has held us in and has created for us, and now we're just trying to outscore teams, and that's not good enough."
Some of the Knicks' concerns could be resolved if Rasheed Wallace can play Sunday. He was a late scratch Friday with a sore left foot. Wallace has been one of the Knicks' leaders off the bench with his hard-nosed play, defense and shooting.
Another player who might be able to help but has been curiously out of the rotation is former Defensive Player of the Year Marcus Camby. He has been one of the NBA's better shot-blockers and rebounders his entire career. It's unclear why Woodson isn't playing Camby, who missed most of training camp with a strained calf, but it could be a conditioning issue.
"These last two games haven't been us," Carmelo Anthony said. "We've been fighting an uphill battle. Giving up 30-something points, that's not our identity. We got to get back to doing what we do best."
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The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized
How the Internet helps Iran silence activists.
By Farhad Manjoo
An Iranian woman demonstrator
What happened in Baharestan Square on Wednesday? According to a woman who called in to CNN, Iranian security forces unleashed unimaginable brutality upon a few hundred protesters gathered in central Tehran. "They beat a woman so savagely that she was drenched in blood, and her husband, who was watching the scene, he just fainted," the anonymous caller screamed into the phone. "This was—this was exactly a massacre. You should stop this. You should stop this. You should help the people of Iran who demand freedom. You should help us."
Clips of the phone call ricocheted across the Web and cable TV. The message was corroborated on Twitter, where a post by @persiankiwi brought horrific news from Baharestan Square: "we saw militia with axe choping ppl like meat - blood everywhere - like butcher - Allah Akbar."* News organizations around the world told of a brutal crackdown—Iran's Tiananmen. But at the same time, other reports suggested the rally was a far tamer encounter. A reader on the New York Times' Lede blog wrote in to say that the protest had been cleared by security forces with minimal violence. The blog of the National Iranian American Council, which has been closely following all the news out of Tehran, published a report from a "trusted source" who said that while the rally was "tense," it didn't match the CNN caller's account. "The moment we stood in one place, they would break us up," the source wrote. "I saw many people get blindfolded and arrested, however it wasn't a massacre."
Over the last couple of weeks, those who believe in the transformative powers of technology have pointed to Iran as a test case—one of the first repressive regimes to meet its match in social media, the first revolution powered by Twitter. Even in the early days of the protest, that story line seemed more hopeful than true, as Slate's Jack Shafer, among many others, pointed out. Since last week, though, when the state began to systematically clamp down on journalists and all communications networks leading out of the country, hope has become much harder to sustain. The conflicting accounts about what happened at Baharestan Square are evidence that Iran's media crackdown is working. The big story in Iran is confusion—on a daily basis, there are more questions than answers about what's really happening, about who's winning and losing, about what comes next. The surprise isn't that technology has given protesters a new voice. It's that, despite all the tech, they've been effectively silenced.
The crackdown in Iran shows that, for regimes bent on survival, squashing electronic dissent isn't impossible. In many ways, modern communication tools are easier to suppress than organizing methods of the past. According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran has one of the world's most advanced surveillance networks. Using a system installed last year (and built, in part, by Nokia and Siemens), the government routes all digital traffic in the country through a single choke point. Through "deep packet inspection," the regime achieves omniscience—it has the technical capability to monitor every e-mail, tweet, blog post, and possibly even every phone call placed in Iran. Compare that with East Germany, in which the Stasi managed to tap, at most, about 100,000 phone lines—a gargantuan task that required 2,000 full-time technicians to monitor the calls. The Stasi's work force comprised 100,000 officers, and estimates put its network of citizen informants at half a million. In the digital age, Iran can monitor its citizens with a far smaller security apparatus. They can listen in on everything anyone says—and shut down anything inconvenient—with the flip of a switch.
We've seen the effects of this control over the past couple days. To be sure, a few harrowing pictures and videos have filtered through Iran's closed net. But they're the exceptions; much of what's happened since the start of the week went undocumented. As the Lede points out, many of the clips now being posted to YouTube were first published last week, before Iran shut down its connections with the outside world. In the absence of fresh videos coming out of the country, people have been attaching new dates to old clips in order to stoke new outrage over the security crackdown.
The dearth of new images isn't surprising. The Internet is not anonymous; in places like Iran and China, whatever you do on the Web can be traced back to your computer. Hackers and activists have come up with many clever ways to elude such monitoring, but for most citizens, posting videos and even tweeting eyewitness accounts remains fraught with peril.
There's another problem with expecting digital movements to overthrow repressive governments. Organizing online—using tools like text messaging, Facebook, and Twitter—requires social trust, a commodity in short supply in a police state. Even in America, we've seen movements that look mighty online fizzle when they hit the ground (see Howard Dean). Imagine how much more difficult this would be if you were sitting in Tehran: You come across a tweet alerting you to a rally this afternoon in Baharestan Square. You'd like to go, but all kinds of fears begin to run through your head. What if they're watching me? Is this rally for real—or is it disinformation? What if I'm the only one to show up?
Other than trying to shut down many parts of the Web, we don't know what, precisely, Iranian security forces have done in response to the online protest movement. It's unclear whether they've actually planted disinformation online or tried to trace images and videos back to their original posters. But the uncertainty itself breeds fear. Several times over the last couple weeks, rumors have flooded the Web that the government had already gotten wise to Twitter and was actively seeding the movement with fake news. It was a stark example of how the psychological repression characteristic of authoritarian regimes—the constant fear, the inability to trust anyone—finds particularly fertile ground online.
Here's another one: On Wednesday, a reader alerted the Lede to an Iranian government Web site called Gerdab.ir, where authorities had posted pictures of protesters and were asking citizens for help in identifying the activists. That's right—the regime is now using crowd-sourcing, one of the most-hyped aspects of Web 2.0 organizing, against its opponents. If you think about it, that's no surprise. Who said that only the good guys get to use the power of the Web to their advantage?
Correction, June 26, 2009: This piece originally misidentified a Twitter user as persianwiki. The correct username is persiankiwi. ( Return to corrected sentence.)


"X-rays help us connect what's happening to the particles near the event horizon with what we can measure with our telescopes", Joey Neilsen, an astronomer at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, who led the Chandra and NuSTAR analysis on behalf of the EHT's Multiwavelength Working Group, said in a statement. Most galaxies are thought to have a supermassive black hole at their center.
But, for the sake of perspective, the black hole is believed to be 3 million times the size of planet Earth; not to mention that it's estimated to be 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun.
In a historic breakthrough, an global team of scientists has announced that they've captured the first-ever image of a black hole. The images show a circle of light around a dark hole.
US National Science Foundation Director France Cardova said: "This is a huge day in astrophysics".
Scientists have known for decades that black holes exist, but only indirectly. Indeed, the two targets of this imaging project were the monster ("supermassive") black holes at the center of our Milky Way and in the M87 galaxy.
Scientists say they observed the source for four days and "the size is always the same, it doesn't change and we measured the contrast between the ring itself and the central darkness", Astrophysicist Monika Moscibrodzka from Radboud University Nijmegen said.
Although black holes share a key characteristic - gravitational powers beyond that of even an supervillain - they have a variety of physical appearances. "It could be something just inside the event horizon, an exotic object hovering just beneath the surface, or it could be a singularity at the centre ... or a ring", Ziri Younsi, a member of the Event Horizon Telescope said " It doesn't yet give us an explanation of what's going on inside".


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by Dubin Law Group | Jan 6, 2022 | Accidents in the News |
PIERCE COUNTY, WA — A 40-year-old Tacoma man died New Year's Day after being struck by an Amtrak passenger train in Lakewood, according to The News Tribune.
The fatal incident took place along the new Point Defiance Bypass route, between the Gravelly Lake and Thorne Lane exits off Interstate 5, at about 6:50 p.m.
West Pierce Fire and Rescue said the victim had been walking or sitting on the tracks when he was hit by a northbound Coast Starlight passenger train, known for running between Seattle and Los Angeles once a day.
First responders cut a hole in a nearby fence to access the man, but the victim was pronounced deceased at the scene shortly after. The Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office has since reported he died from "multiple blunt force injuries," in what was determined to be an accident.
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GWS Production AB (publ) ("GWS") today announces that the annual report for the financial year 2018 is available on the company's website globalwarningsystem.com.
Net turnover for the year amounted to SEK 18.9 (14.2) million for the Group and the corresponding figure for the Parent Company was SEK 12.9 (8.9) million.
Operating result for the year for the Group amounted to SEK -10.7 (-13.0) million and for the Parent company the corresponding figure was -9.4 (-11.0).
The result for the year amounted to SEK -10.5 (-12.5) million for the Group and the corresponding figure for the Parent company was SEK -11.1 (-11.5) million.
Cash and cash equivalents amounted to SEK 19.9 (14.1) million at the end of the year and cash and cash equivalents for the Parent company was SEK 17.5 (13.5) million.
Earnings per share for the Group amounted to SEK -0.59 (-0.84) before dilution and -0.55 (-0.78) after dilution. The corresponding figures for the Parent company amounted to -0.63 (-0.79) before dilution and -0.58 (-0.73) after dilution.
A franchisor to a very successful and global retail concept extends its agreement with GWS significantly. The agreement is initially extended for at least two years and has an order value over the two-year period of 264,000 euros.
GWS is tasked with improving the safety of everyone working off the coast of Malaysia. The agreement is a pilot study of two years and is worth MYR 550,000, about SEK 1.2 million.
GWS signs agreement with Tempest Security AB. The agreement runs for three years with a total value of approximately 89,000 euros.
GWS buys out partners in GWS Asia in Malaysia. The purchase is paid via a directed issue of 611,162 shares in GWS Production AB.
GWS announces that a total of 794,000 warrants have been subscribed for by series 2018/2021. A decision on a directed issue of warrants of series 2018/2021 was made at the Annual General Meeting on May 29, 2018.
Entrepreneur Greg Dingizian invests SEK 15 million in GWS via Adma Förvaltnings AB. A resolution on a directed issue is taken at an extraordinary general meeting on October 17, 2018.
The insurance giant Chubb INA Holdings extends the agreement with GWS until August 2021. Chubb also extends the agreement with e-learning tools for the users of the platform "Chubb Travel Smart".
GWS signs agreement with Falck Global Assistance. The total initial value of the agreement, spread between 1-3 years, is approximately SEK 6.4 million.
GWS signs agreement with security company Expat Preventive in the Netherlands.
The insurance company ERV extends its agreement with GWS until mid-2020. The extension is worth approximately SEK 3 million.
GWS, Global Warning System, was founded in 2009, triggered by the experience with a global SARS epidemic, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the Mumbai terror attacks. The company offers a unique security platform: Safeture, which is the new, complete way to take control of employee safety with a state-of-the-art technology. The GWS share is listed on NASDAQ First North Stockholm. Erik Penser Bank AB is the Certified Adviser. Ph: +46 8-463 83 00 E-mail: certifiedadviser@penser.se.


Magical Hat no Buttobi Turbo! Daibouken (まじかるハットのぶっとびターボ!大冒険) is a 1990 game for the Sega Mega Drive developed by VIC Tokai and published by Sega to tie into Studio Pierrot's Magical Hat anime series. While this game was never released outside Japan, its story, graphics, level layouts, and music were changed into those of Decap Attack.
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