Two markets in Australia that have come under stress from changing audience viewing habits could be ready for a mini revolution through branded entertainment, the rise of smart phones and the dawn of connected TV.
The automotive and retail sectors are having difficulties in reaching the volume of customers they once enjoyed, their market share driven by traditional media has fallen, but history has a funny habit of not just repeating but, more importantly, reinventing itself.
The DNA for involving brands in entertainment were created by companies such as Proctor and Gamble with their early 1950s US radio then TV sponsored shows which incorporated (mainly) laundry products into the content, had fan clubs and product giveaways. The shows were dubbed 'soap operas' from which we Aussies adopted the term 'soapies' and carved a niche in the global TV market producing programs such as Neighbours and Home and Away.
As the TV markets began to grow around the world during the 1960s, commercials became the staple revenue for free to air networks, retail and FMCG brands moved their entertainment content from in-program (such as the late 50s Graham Kennedy In Melbourne Tonight which was loosely modelled on the US radio format) to the outside and into the thirty second theatre: the TVC. Producers had learned that entertainment and, critically, humour were vital if they were to push their products. The first key: branded entertainment never pushes, but rather pulls the viewer.
On the big screen, the Bond franchise had successfully integrated luxury product placements but it was two 1969 films all about two iconic cars – the British Mini and the German Beetle 'Herbie' – that wrote the next branded entertainment chapter. The cars entertained the audience and took on almost human like personalities as they performed on screen and created life-long branded communities. And here's the second key: branded entertainment is about involving you in an experience that is integral to the storyline, and the brand is holistic. More recently, BMW's video 'Star' for the 7 Series starring Madonna and Clive Owen pulled us in and entertained us in a way that no car TVC possibly could. Originally a dealer support video, it was posted on YouTube and became a branded entertainment cult… and it also showed us why you should never drink and drive!
In 2008 the Swedish IKEA brand became a branded entertainment phenomenon. Thanks to a web show Easy To Assemble created by actress Illena Douglas, who developed the idea of setting a sitcom inside an IKEA store and integrating the brand's products and staff into the storylines, with big name actors queuing up to play cameos, top scriptwriters and high production qualities delivered entertaining program with over 20 million views and a branded community: 'Swedish meatballs'! Target US has just entered into this space with a similar format shot inside their stores starring known actors but pushing the branded entertainment space further by using technology to enable the viewer to access more information about the clothes or products featured in the scenes live, receive samples and also purchase them. The viewer – sorry, customer – then has the choice of home delivery or a bricks-and-mortar pick up which offers the opportunity for added sales.


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Lost in Translation: A Brief History of Problems in Cross Cultural Communication in Advertising
Melissa Thompson
Tue December 11, 2018
Human beings are practically designed for miscommunication. The inability to communicate something unintentionally is almost a feature of the human brain.
According to persuasion expert and cartoonist Scott Adams, "We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them later … Your illusion of being a rational person is supported by the fact that sometimes you do act rationally."
On the Internet, the problem is magnified by the fact that words on a screen lack the all-important context of setting, tone, and body language. When it comes to translation for business purposes, linguistic shipwrecks are happening on a constant basis. Anyone who's ever received a piece of spam from a foreign advertiser filled with questionable sentences knows this first hand.
But for corporations that work internationally, the problem is much more serious. Multinational corporations need reliable translation services– not office-bound researchers using a Google translator. There's a rich and not so proud tradition of amateur translation in big business. Here are a couple of examples from the 80s and 90s.
Translated from English to Japanese and back, the Shakespearian phrase: 'To be or not to be, that is the question,' was transformed into 'It is, it is not, what is it?'
Translated from English to Russian and back, the phrase: 'Out of sight, out of mind' became 'Invisible idiot.'
Some corporations, looking to promote their products abroad, have made similar mistakes, but the consequences are magnified when they are delivered to audiences in real time. Here are some of what can only be called Darwin Award-winning advertisement translations.
-Electrolux, a Swedish vacuum manufacturer wanted to promote their products in the US. To anyone wondering why they have never heard of this brand, it might be because the company's slogan, translated into English is: 'Nothing sucks like an Electrolux.'
One of the funniest miscommunications in advertising befell the Coca-Cola company. Their name in Chinese sounds like 'Ke-kou-ke-la.' What Coca-Cold executives did not realize for years is that in Chinese, that means "Bite the wax tadpole." After discovering the hilarious mistranslation, Coca-Cola made things worse by creating a logo in Chinese characters which they thought would come across well. But in reality, what they came up with meant "Happiness in the mouth."
KFC had just as much luck communicating in Chinese with their slogan "Finger-lickin' good." The closest Chinese translation was "Eat your fingers off."
Perhaps in the future, multinational corporations will commission native speakers to do their translation.
Infographic by https://lighthouseonline.com/.
Melissa Thompson writes about a wide range of topics, revealing interesting things we didn't know before. She is a freelance USA Today producer, and a Technorati contributor.
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Q: ELKI DBSCAN RESULT structure I am not able to get points which are in each cluster returned by elki dbscan.
ArrayList<Clustering<?>> cs = ResultUtil.filterResults(result,
                Clustering.class);
        for (Clustering<?> c : cs) {
            int i = 0;
            System.out.println("clusters: " + c.getAllClusters().size());
            for (de.lmu.ifi.dbs.elki.data.Cluster<?> cluster : c
                    .getAllClusters()) {
                System.out.println("\nclusters : " + cluster.getNameAutomatic()
                        + " , IsNoise:" + cluster.isNoise() + ", Size:"
                        + cluster.size());

Output is:
clusters: 4

clusters : Cluster , IsNoise:false, Size:240

clusters : Cluster , IsNoise:false, Size:374

clusters : Cluster , IsNoise:false, Size:4901

clusters : Noise , IsNoise:true, Size:211

I have gone through this Running DBSCAN in ELKI!. Still I am not able to get around to see the points in a cluster. I want to store it in an Array. What is the structure of cluster stored by elki?? I am stuck !!

A: Use cluster.getDBIDs() to get the cluster members.
To get the raw data, retrieve the objects from the original Relation you analyzed.
for (DBIDIter iter = cluster.getIDs().iter(); iter.valid(); iter.advance()) {
    DoubleVector obj = relation.get(iter);

Note that ELKI allows abstract analysis of data - e.g. when using a distance matrix. In such cases, you may not have a DoubleVector relation, but only object IDs. This is why cluster do not consist of vectors. They consists of a DBIDs collection, and in some cases of a cluster model such as a centroid vector.

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She put the phone down, but later returned and told Barajas that her rings were "back on." The conversation eventually concluded about p.m. To establish capital murder committed during the course of a robbery, the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, in addition to the alleged murder, that the defendant possessed the specific intent to obtain or maintain control of the victim's property either before or during the commission of the offense. Robert Hebner and his wife were neighbors and friends of Holik. Austin police officers checked Holik's house about p.m. Holik's realtor and neighbor, Lakki Brown, saw the police officers. Holik's body was found face down on the floor in an upstairs guest bedroom. The body was fully clothed and there was no evidence of a sexual assault. Teena Fountain, an IBM coworker from Oak Park, Illinois, testified that on the morning of November 16, 2001, she was contacted by coworkers, Diane Kapcar of Dallas and Cynthia Barajas of Los Angeles, California, who reported that Holik had missed a scheduled "meeting," and that they had been unable to contact her by any available means. He does not challenge the evidence supporting the commission of the murder. Knowing that the Austin storm had spawned some tornadoes, Fountain called the Austin Police Department that afternoon asking for a check on Holik. Dogs inside the house appeared to have left fecal matter on the carpet, indicating that they had been confined for some time. Appellant does not brief or present argument or authority in support of any contention that the allegations of murder are not supported by the evidence. When the police officers rolled the body over, a charm fell out of Holik's hair. A spare front door key with a ribbon was missing from the doorknob of a ground floor door. Elizabeth Peacock, deputy medical examiner, performed the autopsy and determined the cause of death to be homicide by ligature strangulation. Barajas warned Holik that she should not let strangers into her home when she was alone.
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Изабе́лла Я́ковлевна Кре́мер (более известна как Иза Кремер, урождённая Лея Янкелевна Креймер; 21 октября 1882, Бельцы, Бессарабская губерния — 7 июля 1956, Кордова, Аргентина) — певица, артистка оперы и оперетты, переводчица.

Биография
Лея Креймер родилась 8 октября (по старому стилю) 1882 года в Бельцах, в семье портного Янкеля Лейбовича Креймера (1852—?) и Ханы Мошковны Креймер (урождённой Ройзенблит). Отец был сыном бельцкого купца второй гильдии Лейба Менделевича Креймера (1826—?), мать происходила из Каменца-Подольского. У Изабеллы с ранних лет проявились музыкальные способности. Первую песню на идише услышала в колыбели из уст своей матери. Когда ей было пять, увлеклась еврейской свадебной музыкой, а в юности писала стихи о нищете своего народа. Тридцать лет спустя Иза Кремер станет первой певицей, которая начала петь на идиш со сцены.

Несмотря на семейные трудности, родители всё вкладывают в музыкальное развитие дочери. С 1912 года она в течение двух лет в Милане учится пению у известного педагога Луиджи Ронци, выступает в небольших театрах, затем возвращается на родину. Её приглашают в Одессу, где она дебютирует в опере Пуччини «Богема». Затем следует партия Виолетты в «Травиате».

Одесса, Петроград, Москва — всюду колоссальный успех. Иногда в этих городах Кремер выступала и в опереттах. Среди оперетт, в которых она участвовала, были «Нищий студент», «Идеальная жена», «Наконец один», «Польская кровь». После революции, в 1919 году, Иза Яковлевна Кремер, вместе со своим мужем, редактором «Одесских новостей» Израилем Моисеевичем Хейфецом (1867—1945), эмигрирует во Францию. Позже, оставив мужа, она гастролируя по многим странам мира, приобретает мировую известность, не только как прекрасная исполнительница песен и романсов, но и завоёвывает славу как киноактриса. В гражданскую войну публиковались ложные сообщения о её смерти.

В 1923 году, несмотря на антисемитские выступления и даже звучавшие в её адрес угрозы смерти, Иза Кремер дала концерт для евреев Варшавы. В 1933 году она приехала в Германию, чтобы выступить в Обществе еврейской культуры. Певица дала множество концертов в поддержку испанских республиканцев.

В 1934 году, во время своего очередного турне по Южной Америке Иза познакомилась с Грегорио Берманном, педагогом по профессии и социалистом по убеждениям. Девять лет спустя они заключили брак по доверенности в Мексике.

Во время Второй мировой войны в Аргентине, где правительство тайно поддерживало нацистов, Кремер давала концерты, сбор от которых шёл в пользу союзников. 19 ноября 1944 года Иза Кремер дала концерт в Карнеги-холле (Нью-Йорк).

В марте 1946 года на фирме «Сева рекорд» вышли новые граммофонные пластинки Изы Кремер — «популярные песни на еврейском языке».

25 апреля 1947 года в зале «Таймс-холл» состоялся концерт Изы Кремер, регулярно наезжавшей в Нью-Йорк из Рио-де-Жанейро, где певица тогда проживала.

Из-за своей весьма активной общественной деятельности в Аргентине, где Иза жила с мужем, супруги пострадали: Берманн потерял работу, а Изу отлучили от больших залов. Но они остались верными своим идеалам мира и справедливости. Иза Кремер передавала средства от своих концертов жертвам Холокоста, дала концерт в поддержку только что появившегося государства Израиль. Все это привело к тому, что в последние годы её карьеры в Аргентине певицу практически не было слышно — её всячески замалчивали. В 1956 году врачи диагностировали у Изы Кремер запущенный рак желудка. Она, вступив в общество аргентино-советской дружбы, даже готовилась приехать на родину, но за несколько дней до предполагавшегося отъезда её не стало. Ещё в тридцатые годы пела она драматическую песню «Россия» Филарета Чернова — о глубокой тоске по родине.

Знаменитую песню «Майн штэйтэлэ Бэлц» (Мой штетл Бельцы) на идише написали специально для Изы Кремер поэт Яков Якобс и композитор Александр Ольшанецкий. Она же впервые и исполнила эту песню в оперетте «Дос лид фун гето» (Песня из гетто), поставленной в Нью-Йорке в 1932 году.

Переводы с идиш
В 1911 г. была опубликована повесть Шолом-Алейхема «Избранные (Из жизни маленьких людей)» в переводе Изы Кремер (в журнале — Креймер), которая вошла в первую книгу журнала «Современник» (1911. Янв. С. 119—154). А. В. Амфитеатров, при ближайшем участии которого издавался этот журнал, так писал об Изе Креймер Шолому-Алейхему 21 ноября 1910 г.:

«Приятно было бы получить Ваш рассказ, как идущий в первую книжку. <…> Пришлите в оригинале. У меня есть очень хорошая переводчица, которую я хочу испробовать на Вашем рассказе».

Примечания

Персоналии:Одесский национальный академический театр оперы и балета
Актёры и режиссёры театра на идише
Оперные певцы и певицы Российской империи
Умершие от рака желудка

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Both history and making objects have been Tod's passions from birth (as far as we can tell). Combine this with 25 years of media experience of museums, interactives, displays, live events, film, theatre, and TV, and this provides a breadth of perspective that is unique in the industry.
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We can be engaged from initial consultancy and design, through to final production and installation or at any stage in between.
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ickens seems to have welcomed with relief his relative anonymity when in 1842 he visited Montreal, Lower Canada's chief city both politically and economically, which had a population of 44,000. His name might have been a household word among the officers and ladies of the British garrison but certainly not among the majority of Montrealers. Having the mother country's leading novelist among them must have certainly have been thrilling for officers yearning to be in England again in the spring of 1842; as Morley remarks, "Something akin to nostalgia could be observed in the dramatic efforts of the English officers" (41) who were members of the Garrison Amateurs, a homesickness evident in the plays they chose, "pieces . . . of the well-worn kind, . . . gone over again and again in the bills of the average English theatre of that time" (41).
Despite a brief visit to Quebec City, Charles Dickens spent most of the two weeks following his 11 May 1842 arrival in Montreal drilling a platoon of Garrison Amateurs for a series of plays to be presented to a private audience on Wednesday, 25 May, and to a larger, public audience on Saturday, 28 May. Immediately after the Garrison Players' theatricals, the Theatre Royal commenced its public season, opening with Milman's Fazio on 30 May. According to Morley and the various biographers, Dickens "had been eagerly looking forward" to taking Vincent Crummles' role of actor-manager "while visiting the cities and townships of the United States earlier in the year" (39), the penultimate stage before sailing home.
Left: The Barracks where theatricals were performed. Right: Queen's Theatre.
Even before the construction of Montreal's first theatre 1804, theatrical presentations in the English language were staged by the officers of the occupying British Garrison, who indeed had their own theatre. Although built in 1825 at the corner of St. Paul and Victor Streets in the Old Town area by local brewer and business magnate John Molson Senior, by the time of the Dickenses' visit the Theatre Royal was referred to as the Queen's Theatre when such non-professional groups as the English Amateurs, the Gentlemen Canadian Amateurs, the Scotch [sic] Amateurs, and the City Amateurs were staging their private theatricals there. With a plain exterior and a neoclassical porch, it had cost the brewer $30,000 to build, and seated approximately 1,500 in a pit, gallery, and two tiers of boxes. Opening with Frederick Reynold's The Dramatist on 21 November 1825, it had initially been home to a 71-member repertory company that catered to a somewhat conservative theatrical taste by staging Shakespeare plays, Regency tragedies and domestic plays by popular Irish dramatist James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862), late-eighteenth-century comedies by Mrs. Hannah Cowley (1743-1809), and Georgian social comedies by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). Local acting companies, including amateurs associated with the garrison, took over after the original management under the financially inept Frederick Brown, the self-styled "Liverpool Roscius," went bankrupt in 1826. After a succession of managers, Henry Tuthill, noted for comic Irish parts, was the lessee in 1842 when Dickens and his wife took to the boards that had already been trodden by the tragedians Edmund and Charles Kean, Charles Kemble, and Edwin Forrest, and one of Dickens's favourite living comedians, J. B. Buckstone. Others who appeared behind the Theatre Royal's footlights included the original of Nicholas Nickleby's Infant Phenomenon (Jean Davenport, 1839), the Dublin tragic actor Thomas L. Ternan and his wife, Fanny Jarman (1836), whose daughter Ellen would figure so prominently in the hidden life of an older Charles Dickens.
Most modern readers must surely wonder at a French colonial city's supporting an English-language theatre and bringing to town so many notable thespians in the early nineteenth century; in fact, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia, during the middle third of the century, English-speakers were in the majority, the result of considerable British emigration after the ultimate defeat of Napoleon in 1815. An energetic, primarily Scottish merchant class created the Bank of Montreal in 1817 and the Committee of Trade in 1822, and began the construction of railways in 1836. At the time of the construction of the Theatre Royal, the population numbered 22,591; by the time of Dickens's visit, that number had increased to 44,000--of whom some 12,000 were members of the British garrison and their dependants. Hence, there was definitely a strong consumer-base for an exclusively English-language theatrical venue capable of seating 1,500. Although the regular season for the Theatre Royal's company in the 1840s was, despite Montreal's well known humidity, late spring and summer, the troupe would go on tour briefly, visiting nearby communities, in particular "The Gibraltar of the North," the citadel of Quebec, the officers of its garrison undoubtedly being avid theatre patrons. According to Morley, after an 1844 season that included the great English tragedian William Macready, a member of Dickens's most intimate circle, the theatre mounted a final production, The Comedy of Errors. The theatre closed on 8 August 1844, to be demolished and replaced by the silver-domed landmark designed by noted British architect William Footner, the Bonsecours Market (1846), which briefly served as Canada's Parliament Buildings in 1849 when Montreal was the capital of Upper and Lower Canada.
The architecturally impressive, block-long Bonsecours Market still occupies the site today at 330 Saint-Paul Est; all that remains of the city's first professional theatre is a plaque on one corner of the market, where the theatre stood for nineteen years. The street named for the visiting author has fared no better, for Dickens Lane at the side of Francisco Rasco's Hotel opposite (where the Dickenses stayed for 19 days) disappeared in 1999 to make way for a large-scale condominium project. On the hotel was a plaque commemorating Dickens's visit to Montreal, but it, too, together with items of Dickens memorabilia, has been swallowed by the sands of time.
Baszczynski, Marilyn. "Theatre Royal." The Canadian Encyclopedia, ed. James H. Marsh. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988. Vol. 4, p. 2149.
Hustak, Alan. Exploring Old Montreal: An Opinionated Guide to its Streets, Churches, and Historic Landmarks. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 2005.
Linteau, Paul-Andre. "Montreal." The Canadian Encyclopedia, ed. James H. Marsh. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988. Vol. 3, p. 1379-1383.
Morley, Malcolm. "Theatre Royal, Montreal." Dickensian 45 (1949): 39-44.


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Now it's my turn to take over the blog.. I made a very simple card showcasing the gorgeous papers available at Lulupu... Doing my first tutorial so please be kind and gentle..
I have done something which is called the starburst technique and I find it one of the best techniques to show off your patterned paper.. So this is a must do for a PP loving people (including me)..
So to start off you need a 4" by 5.25" card-stock for your base and three to four pieces of coordinating patterned paper cut to size 1.5" by 4.5"
Now you have to cut each patterned paper diagonally so that you get 6/8 pieces of the patterned paper.
Now it's time to arrange your patterned paper over your base card-stock.. make sure you roughly align your papers before sticking them so that you can get the feel of the basic outline of your layout..
While adhering the patterned paper onto the card-stock.. do not glue the tips and the edges.. just put some glue to the center of the patterned paper and arrange it in the way shown in the picture below..
This is how the card-stock would look once your have stuck all the patterned papers..
Patterned Paper:-Fashion District Custom Value Pack Pad 12"x12"
Hope you liked the tutorial.. Do drop your comments and queries and will get back to ASAP!!
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That's a gr8 card is really simple too!! Thanks for sharing!!
This is very lovely Khushboo...i love the Pp you have used and the burst of colors looks so amazing..in fact i had seen an sunburst card of your some time ago and always wanted to know how you did it...thank you so much for the tutorial.. will try to give this a go:).
This is real cool! Loved the way you have put it all together in a simple yet elegant way! Gorgeous work Khushboo!
Super super super!! I love the papers and the tutorial is fabulous!! Great job girl!
Thank you for the tutorial. gotta try this!!
Awesome and neat technique-- appeals to the frugal crafter in me!
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silmeth I wouldn't want to suffer a whole game playthrough over a fallible network, but I do prefer streaming 25 Mbit of data every second for a few hours to just try the game than downloading the whole game before I can get a taste of it.
Did you see the presentation? The demo guy literally just left one device and picked up the game on another. I'm sure connection drop is not at all an issue as you should be able to just pick up where you left off.
Shmerl Any recommendation to whom send such proposal? Google isn't exactly known to be very open to external communication. I don't mind sending a suggestion, as long as it won't go to some usual stone wall of support.
Google is huge, and so is the amount of feedback they get. Depends on the team, but they usually go through everything, even if they can't literally reply to everyone. Probably the first step would be to wait for launch, then submit feedback through whatever interface they have. Mind you, they could disagree with the suggestion or have it as low priority, but they won't be able to engage with you personally due to the massive amount of feedback they get.
- If the game runs on Stadia, it's likely already on Stadia's catalogue, which means you can play it regardless of having owned it.
- If the game doesn't run on Stadia, well it doesn't, you can't ask Stadia to run it.
etonbears You are adopting the narrow view of "network neutrality as monopolist tool" popular in the United States. I mean it in the wider sense of equality/restriction for any purpose.
You probably meant anti-monopolist tool, which net neutrality in part is. However I don't see this being very widely differently defined, given the author of the term is Tim Wu who is a law professor in Columbia University. I'm pretty much using his original definition.
That's the whole point of offering a DRM-free option. Currently game on Stadia is DRMed. To make any of them DRM-free, means to offer a downloadable version (I suppose it would mean adjustments like you said, to provide ability to run it on regular desktop Linux). Technical changes aside, it will simply make it possible to back up the game and run it without the service.
I already brought examples of other stores that do that, like Bandcamp for music. You could ask the same question, why offer downloads there, if you could just allow only streaming (Spotify-like).
If your question is, what value is there in having the ability to back things up, I think it's quite self explanatory, and the value ranges from games preservation to ability to use it without Internet connection and avoiding the risk of losing all your catalog if the service shuts down, or your account is simply closed for instance.
And if the question is, what's the value in the streaming use case, it's obvious too. You can play it while not having your high end rig with you, for example. I.e. both use cases have value, and the store can as well offer both. It's only when they are both provided, when the user isn't losing out.
etonbears Which is one argument against net neutrality - you can't guarantee the quality of service you think you are paying for.
Network congestion due to load is not an argument against net neutrality. Net neutrality is about preventing deliberate traffic discrimination (such as for anti-competitive purposes). Managing the network due to congestion is fine according to the concept of net neutrality. Mind you, something like data caps is not a network management tool, it's users fleecing, anti-competitive trash. Limiting bandwidth when network is overloaded though is a legitimate network managing technique.
You are adopting the narrow view of "network neutrality as monopolist tool" popular in the United States.
Debate and discussion of the term as used by Shmerl has been extremely widespread for a number of years. Even if it's used differently elsewhere, it's probably not used nearly as much your way overall because your sense is more technical and less controversial in its implications, so probably just less talked about. So you shouldn't be surprised if Shmerl's is the sense people expect. And if you think it's going to stay limited to the US, well, maybe, but I've sure noticed that nasty practices often start in the US and are then exported to much of the rest of the world through trade agreements and by the same interests elsewhere latching onto the American example to make their greed respectable.
I do think that public provision would be a good idea. The internet is infrastructure; infrastructure works well public.
Perhaps, but it seems like more like Political ( big P ) footballs that are being kicked around in the wrong Stadia ( OK, I'll stop that ).
It's unlikely that countries in the European Union would be "infected" by bad network practices of the sort some Americans fear, as the Competition Commission has a good record at acting on complaints concerning poor behaviour. Most countries here also have regulatory frameworks that work, more or less in the general interest of everyone.
Even the UK, which is much closer that any other EU country to American Ideals, really isn't all that similar. We have our own brands of loonies trying to impose their ill-informed worldviews on us, like most countries, but they don't really resonate with US groups.
I'd have to say that in Canada, neither BC nor Quebec ( the provinces I have visited ) seemed much aligned with US values, and your current administration doesn't exactly seem to idolise its US counterpart; but I suppose Canada might be the most likely domino because of co-location and economic pressure, so I can see your concerns might be more aligned with US sentiments.
ShabbyX Google is huge, and so is the amount of feedback they get. Depends on the team, but they usually go through everything, even if they can't literally reply to everyone. Probably the first step would be to wait for launch, then submit feedback through whatever interface they have. Mind you, they could disagree with the suggestion or have it as low priority, but they won't be able to engage with you personally due to the massive amount of feedback they get.
Would it make sense to write straight to Stadia chief Phil Harrison about it? I doubt this kind of decision can be made without his involvement.
I've recently seen an interesting case, when one Linux user wrote directly to Intel CEO Robert Swan about frustrations with bluetooth on Lenovo E485 laptop, when using Intel wireless chip (in the end it was Lenovo's UEFI fault which they still didn't fix). And in response Intel engineers thoroughly investigated the issue and wrote a detailed response to him which he shared. I was pleasantly surprised how well Intel handled that. I guess sometimes CEOs don't ignore direct feedback.
I completely understand that concern. And I think it's frankly no different than how games are on mobile today, and not really different to how users trust us today with the most precious thing in their life, which are their memories, with Google Photos. I think we would apply the same standards of care to our data going forward as we would to something like Google Photos. This is a moment in the game industry where technology opens up a whole new set of new capabilities for gamers and I would obviously focus on what those incredible advantages are. And that's going to be our point of view of the future of games.
The article also mentions his take on Linux porting by the way.
At least if he is sympathetic, he might not dismiss the idea outright.
May be Liam can get an interview with him asking more from the perspective of Linux gaming. That would be pretty cool.
Quite right, I did mean an "anti-monopolist" in there. And of course quite right that Tim Wu initiated the network neutrality debate. But like most debates and discussions, particularly online, the original theme expands and morphs to encompass different contexts, especially when considered by those in different societies operating under different jurisdictions and regulatory conditions.
While I spend quite a few weeks every year in the US, I do not live there, and I do not usually consider it as my context for discussion unless I say so. The discussion in the US, concerning how the Internet is constructed managed and used, seems to have become intensely partisan and thus narrow because the participants simply assault each other with their best dogmatic assertions and withdraw.
You may not yourself be a US resident, but the tone with which you offered your "correction" to my "misunderstanding" certainly suggests that narrow partisan mindset.
That's quite reassuring. Although yeah, Canada, no matter what the Prime Minister of the day's rhetoric, has a tendency to end up doing a lot of things the American way. BC and Quebec aren't much aligned with US values, but Alberta totally is, a distressing amount of Saskatchewan seems to be, and the big enchilada, Ontario, is in a culture war between US-conservative and Canadian "liberal" values which local Trump-wannabes win all too often. And anyway, what Canadians think doesn't always matter. Although so far we do have significantly better copyright law, despite a lot of pressure to go full DMCA.


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Q: Printing Zebra Labels using Perl CGI I am having issues printing Zebra labels from a Perl CGI, where it works on one server but not another. Also, if I run the program from the command line it works on either server. The servers are IIS 7 (don't laugh it's what I'm stuck using).
Here is the code:
use strict;
use Socket;
use CGI qw(:cgi-lib);
use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser );
my %formdata = Vars;

print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";

# to test running from the command line, hardcode the paramters normally passed from the web interface
# comment these out when running CGI
$formdata{printer} = "zebraprinter.mycompany.com";
$formdata{serials} = "TR16170003|Gerry's Product TR|This is a generic product where all serial numbers start with the letters TR|T~";

# initialize server and port
my $port = 9100;
# create the socket, connect to the port
socket(SOCKET,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,(getprotobyname('tcp'))[2]) or myExit("Can't create a socket $!\n");
connect( SOCKET, pack_sockaddr_in($port, inet_aton($formdata{printer}))) or myExit("Can't connect to port $port! \n");

foreach my $serial(split("~", $formdata{serials}))
{
    my @ar = split(/\|/, $serial);
    my $line;
    if ($formdata{printer} =~ /label2/) # small labels
    {
        $line = "^XA^PRA,A,A^LH5,5^FO10,10^BCN,50,N,N,N,D^FD$ar[0]^FS";
        $line .= "^FO300,10^AD,15,12^FDSerial Number:^FS";
        $line .= "^FO300,30^AD,15,12^FD$ar[0]^FS^XZ";
    }
    else # large labels
    {
        $line = "^XA^PRA,A,A^LH20,20";
        $line .= "^FO20,40^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Serial Number: $ar[0]^FS";
        $line .= "^FO20,120^FWN^AT,60,10^FD $ar[1]^FS";

        # need to hard break and limit long lines
        if (length($ar[2]) > 60)
        {
            my $part = substr($ar[2],0,60);
            $line .= "^FO20,200^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Description: $part^FS";
            $part = substr($ar[2],61,74);
            $line .= "^FO20,260^FWN^AT,60,10^FD$part^FS";
            $line .= "^FO50,340^B3N,N,100,Y,N^FD$ar[0]^FS";
        }
        else
        {
            $line .= "^FO20,200^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Description: $ar[2]^FS";
            $line .= "^FO50,280^B3N,N,100,Y,N^FD$ar[0]^FS";
        }
        $line .= "^XZ";
        # example formatted label
        #$line = qq~^XA^PRA,A,A^LH20,20^FO20,40^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Serial Number: $ar[0]^FS^FO20,120^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Product: $ar[1]^FS^FO20,200^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Description: $ar[2]^FS^FO50,280^B3N,N,100,Y,N^FD$ar[0]^FS^XZ~;
    }
    print SOCKET $line;
}
close SOCKET;
myExit("Labels Printed.");

sub myExit
{
    my $msg = shift;
    print "<script>alert('$msg')</script>";
    exit;
}

I'm guessing it has something to do with opening sockets in a CGI but I don't have a whole lot of experience with that.
Thanks in advance

A: It turns out that our Zebra printer is sending a response after printing labels and waiting to verify it was delivered, which locked it up. The solution that is working so far is to get the response but also set a short timeout on the socket just in case. Also went up the food chain and used IO::Socket instead of the old Socket library:
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use CGI qw(:cgi-lib);
use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser );
my %formdata = Vars;

print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";

# to test running from the command line, hardcode the paramters normally passed from the web interface
# comment these out when running CGI
$formdata{printer} = "zebralabel1.mycompany.com";
$formdata{serials} = "TR16170003|Gerry's Product TR|This is a generic product where all serial numbers start with the letters TR|T~";

# create the socket, connect to the port
my $remote = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                Proto   => 'tcp',
                PeerAddr=> "$formdata{printer}",
                PeerPort=> "9100",
                ReuseAddr=> 0,
                Timeout  => 2,
                ) or myExit("Cannot connect to printer: $!");
$remote->autoflush(1);  # Send immediately

my ($serial, $product, $desc) = split(/\|/, $formdata{serials});
# example formatted label
my $line = qq~^XA^PRA,A,A^LH20,20^FO20,40^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Serial Number: $serial^FS^FO20,120^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Product: $product^FS^FO20,200^FWN^AT,60,10^FD Description: $desc^FS^FO50,280^B3N,N,100,Y,N^FD$serial^FS^XZ~;

print $remote $line;
my $dontCare = <remote>;

close $remote;
myExit("Labels Printed.");

sub myExit
{
    my $msg = shift;
    print "<script>alert('$msg')</script>";
    exit;
}


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History Corner: Association Records (Part 2)
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In Part 2 of our look at NSFA records we concentrate on Men's (Now Senior Mixed) and Women's football. Men's football began in 1961 with an All Age competition. The original clubs competing were...
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History Corner: The story of Hornsby Football Club
Hornsby Football Club only existed for 5 seasons but enjoyed extraordinary success in that time in Men's All Age Division One. After the 1971 season a group of players from Hornsby Ku-ring-gai...
History Corner: Phil Rees
This week we recognise NSFA Life Member and former President Phil Rees. Phil became involved in football in NSFA when sons David and Tim joined St Ives FC. From 1976 to 1979 Phil served as...
History Corner: The Quest for a Home of Football
The search for a true NSFA home ground has been a long and often disappointing journey. In the 1970s our representative teams and Ku-ring-gai SC played their matches at Acron Oval in St Ives and...
History Corner: Metro League's Golden Generation
Today we look at arguably the best group of talented young players in the association's history; the Metropolitan League teams of 2008-09. The Metropolitan League (ML) was a representative...
History Corner: Female Football in NSFA
Those who read our earlier story about Leigh Wardell would remember that female-only football was played at both NSFA level and representative level in the 70s and early 80s. In those...
History Corner: The NSFA Cup
With the NSFA Cup cancelled for the first time in its 52-year history and the other knockout competitions with it, we thought we would look at the tournament's history. Men's competition started...
History Corner: Robbie Hooker
This week we look at the career of Socceroo #370, Robbie Hooker. Born in 1967, Robbie started his football career with Mt Colah Football Club. In 1978 Robbie started playing representative...
History Corner: NSFA's First Matilda
We look at our first Matilda, Leigh Wardell. Leigh started her football career playing in boys teams at West Pymble Waratahs (now West Pymble FC) in the early to mid-1970's. Leigh's dad Dave was a...


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The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) is a united and predictable party which has not taken any turns in politics ever since it was set up eight years ago, party leader Ferenc Gyurcsány said, launching his party's EP election campaign. DK has never made any concession to ruling Fidesz, either in politics or in finances and never resorted to playing tactics, he said, adding that DK is also Hungary's "most European party". DK believes in a united states of Europe, Gyurcsány said. In a common Europe, Hungary will be an active partner and a beneficiary of common successes, he added.
Klára Dobrev, who heads the party list for the EP election, said that Europe must be able to protect its citizens not only from external dangers but also from any government within that is building a dictatorship. "Europe can protect us from [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán," she said.
Dobrev called for the introduction of minimum pensions and minimum wages in the EU, European family benefits and minimum services guaranteed to all. The financial resources for these could be financed from taxes imposed on multinational corporations, she said. Dobrev said DK would not allow Hungary to remain a country from where hundreds of thousands leave. She promised to "chase away" Orbán and call back the hundreds of thousands who have emigrated from the country.


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I'm in the middle of reading How to Breathe Underwater right now, which I am loving, so I am beyond excited to have debut author Vicky Skinner on the blog today! I love that the book features the sport of swimming, so I asked Vicky to touch on her inspiration and research she did on it while writing the book.
When I tell people that I wrote a book about a swimmer, I almost always get a question like this in response: "Oh, are you a swimmer?" or "Did you swim in high school?" or "You think you can beat me in the pool?" (That last question brought to you by the youth pastor at my church, who was ready to videotape the race). When I tell them the truth, it often makes the smile on their face turn to confusion. So, I'll just get the truth out of the way now.
Like Michael, the cute boy across the hall, in HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER, I can mostly only doggy paddle. Swimming is just never a skill that I learned as a child, and it's a skill that only gets harder to master the older you get, and since I've never had a pool of my own, I've never had much opportunity for practice.
So why, you may ask, would I write a book about a sport I can't even come close to participating in? Because swimming is amazing, and there aren't enough people writing about it.
Let's just go back 14 years (no comments on my age, please) to when I was 13, in middle school, and watching my very first summer Olympics, the Athens Olympics. I had my eyes glued to every single sport, but it was swimming that really got my attention, and specifically, Michael Phelps. Now, this was not Michael Phelps' first Olympics, but it was the first Olympics where he won a medal, and I was obsessed. Not just with Michael but with swimming, with the Olympics, with all of it. Water was something that terrified me as I'd almost drowned at a Surf N Swim as a child and had never really recovered, but this was the first time I'd ever seen swimming as a sport, and it blew my mind. Those swimmers did things with their bodies that I couldn't even imagine existed before that moment. They were focused and talented and fast.
From then on, I studied the sport. I followed Michael's career, I learned everything I could about swimming, I might have even tried to date a boy in middle school because I was obsessed with the fact that he was a swimmer and that he shaved his legs for the sport.
But the first time that it occurred to me that I might want to write a book about swimming was when I was in college. Back then, HOW TO BREATHE UNDERWATER was just a book about a girl who had an incident at the beach and was now terrified of water. But after I read Michael's memoir on his time at the Athens Olympics, I knew I wanted to dive deeper (believe it or not, that's the first swimming pun I've made during this whole process!). That's when Kate's story was really born.
Even though I could wax poetic about splits and dolphin kicks and flip turns, I don't actually talk about swimming that much in the book. Kate quits the team early on, and most of her time with the pool on the page happens in the past or is just for recreation, but I could talk about this sport frontwards and backwards, just drop me a line! If you've never watched swimming, it's a sport that is so technical, so precise, and so beautiful that if you see it up close, you might not be able to look away, and maybe you'll love it as much as I do!
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I can't wait to see your review on this book. I've had it on my TBR for months and can't wait to read it!
I hope you've had a chance to read it! Definitely one of y favorite books of the year.
I'm not usually into sporty books, but this sounds like something I could get into! Great guest post!
It's definitely not super sporty, so it definitely might be something you'll like!


The Environment Agency has published data, case studies and evidence about the role of natural flood management in reducing flood risk. Working with natural processes to reduce flood risk is not a new concept but this is the first time that all the evidence has been brought together, with the intention of enabling more uptake.
The evidence behind natural flood management contains more than 60 case studies from across England and explores how successful the approach is, how it could be used elsewhere and what research may still be needed.
Natural flood management is when natural processes are used to reduce the risk of flooding and coastal erosion. Examples include: restoring bends in rivers, changing the way land is managed so soil can absorb more water and creating saltmarshes on the coast to absorb wave energy.
At Hesketh, on the Lancashire coast, a managed realignment scheme has created more than 300 hectares of saltmarsh which protects 143 residential properties, 3 commercial buildings and 300 hectares of farm land. Coastal schemes such as this not only dissipate wave and tidal energy but can also reduce impact on defences, reduce tidal surges and lead to slightly lower water levels at defences.
The study includes a project in Debenham, Sussex, where modelling has shown that installing a range of natural flood management features along the River Deben could provide more than 30,000 m3 of water storage - thereby reducing annual average damages to properties and farmland by 31%.
On Lustrum Beck, in Stockton-on-Tees, modelling showed that providing 100,000 m3 of storage in the upstream catchment, using wetlands, features to reduce run-off and river restoration, could reduce flows by more than 10%.
John Curtin, Executive Director of Flood & Coastal Risk Management at the Environment Agency, said: "I often think improving flood resilience is like a mosaic, many different pieces need to come together to complete the resilience picture. Natural flood management is an important part of that mosaic when used alongside more traditional engineering. These projects also provide fantastic opportunities for community involvement and leadership.
"Many of our flood schemes already feature a mixture of hard and soft engineering and natural flood management. It can be a cost-effective and sustainable way to manage flood risk alongside traditional engineering, while creating habitat for wildlife and helping regenerate rural and urban areas through tourism."
Natural flood management works best when a catchment based approach is taken, where a plan is developed to manage the flow of water along the whole length of a river catchment from its source to sea. This way, natural processes can be used upstream and on the coast to compliment engineered flood defences - such as walls and weirs - in populated areas.
Natural flood management not only reduces flood risk it can also achieve multiple benefits for people and wildlife, helping restore habitats, improve water quality and helping make catchments more resilient to the impacts of climate change.
The Environment Agency hopes that the evidence directory will help flood risk managers, local authority engineers, non-governmental organisations and community flood action groups to incorporate natural approaches to flood risk management in to their plans to reduce flood risk.
Earlier this year the government announced a further £15m for natural flood management schemes across England.


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Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia located at the eastern end of the Himalayas. It is bordered to the north by Tibet and to the south, east and west by the Republic of India.
Capital:Thimphu
King: Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck
Population: 738,267 (2011) World Bank
GDP: 1.689 billion USD (2011) World Bank
Prime minister: Lyonpo Jigme Thinley
Currencies: Indian rupee, Bhutanese ngultrum
In addition ..
This is a spiritual country. 90% of the country practices a form of Mahayana Buddhism and the country has been blessed by many saints
The Government has decreed that Gross National Happiness was a priority and Gross National Product was secondary to that.
Bhutan has a Constitutional Monarchy.
A big part of happiness is a clean, healthy, sustainable environment. Therefore Bhutan is the only country in the world to have a constitutional obligation to its citizens to protect the natural environment and in their constitution it is decreed that 60% of forest cover will forever remain intact and untouched.
Plastic bags and tobacco are banned in Bhutan.
Their mountains are sacred abodes of deities and therefore they are not open to climbing enthusiasts.
Television and Internet were introduced by the government in 1999 and …slightly reluctantly!
Archery is the national sport, and the current king is an excellent archer.
Bhutan has the worlds highest Golf course! The previous king himself is an avid golfer. It is a par 34 course and you can rent clubs at the course.
Main revenues are from hydro power and timber, sold to India.
There are many different animals in Bhutan, including tigers and elephants.
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Grey Liberation comes to the care home in this bittersweet comedy starring leg-endary Lavinia Co-op.
A gentleman called Joan lands in a subdued, suburban care home like a colourful, combustible cocktail in a new play written and directed by Nathan Evans, starring leg-endary Lavinia Co-op and produced by 89th Productions as part of And What? Queer Arts Festival.


This week on the blog, we're talking about The HR Blogger Network. If you're not familiar with The HRBN, check it out — HR software and services vendors get their ads seen on the best blogs in the space, and bloggers get paid. It's a win-win.
The HRBN is bursting with brilliant blogs written by some of the smartest cookies and hippest influencers in the HR world. If you want to check out some of the HRBN blogs but don't know where to start, here are profiles of a few of the bloggers in the network, in no particular order.
Tim Sackett: Tim blogs at The Tim Sackett Project. Because his career has encompassed both recruiting and HR generalist roles in the HR vendor community as well as Corporate America, he has the unique perspective of having seen things from both sides of the desk.
Robin Schooling: Robin is a senior HR leader with experience in strategic planning and execution. She's also a member of the Smartbrief on Workforce Advisory Board and a contributor to the WomenofHR blog. She shares her HR expertise and insight at HR Schoolhouse.
Matt Stollak: Matt Stollak is an associate professor at St. Norbert College and advisor to SNC SHRM. He blogs at True Faith HR.
Steve Boese: Steve is an award-winning blogger with over 20 years of experience implementing enterprise technologies for a variety of organizations. His blog, Steve Boese's HR Technology, covers a range of topics, from HR technology to BBQ to baseball.
Dan McCarthy: Dan is the director of executive development programs at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, and he writes about leadership development on his award-winning blog, Great Leadership.
Ben Eubanks: Ben created his blog, upstartHR, to help "in the trenches" HR professionals grow in their craft and remain passionate about the HR field, and to help them learn about the profession from someone who is doing the same.
To find all the blogs in the network, head on over The HRBN website. And keep checking back this week for more HRBN goodness.


There's a lot of confusion about the 3 main laws -- COPPA, CIPA, and FERPA -- that govern children's and students' online privacy. Confusion about FERPA makes schools reluctant to share information about students' progress or problems. Confusion about CIPA leads schools to utilize unnecessary Internet filters. And confusion about COPPA lets people like Mark Zuckerberg get away with making inaccurate statements about why Facebook doesn't allow those under 13 from joining the site.
"Zuckerberg said he wants younger kids to be allowed on social networking sites like Facebook. Currently, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) mandates that websites that collect information about users (like Facebook does) aren't allowed to sign on anyone under the age of 13. But Zuckerberg is determined to change this. "That will be a fight we take on at some point," he said. "My philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age." But just how would Facebook's social features be used by younger children? "Because of the restrictions we haven't even begun this learning process," Zuckerberg said. "If they're lifted then we'd start to learn what works. We'd take a lot of precautions to make sure that they [younger kids] are safe."
Let's be clear: COPPA does not stop Facebook from allowing users under age 13 to join the site. COPPA does not stop any website from allowing users under age 13 to join. What COPPA does require is stricter privacy measures from websites aimed at those under 13 and at websites that know they are collecting personal information from those under 13.
And that is why Facebook doesn't allow those under age 13. Because Facebook collects our personal data -- when we sign up, when we complete our profiles, when we "like" things. Much of this data is default public (unless you do a good job navigating the site's privacy settings). This data is also shared with advertisers and third-party developers. COPPA does not stop users under 13 joining Facebook. Facebook has this age limit in its Terms of Service as adding these measures to become COPPA compliant would run afoul of company's business model and privacy practices.
Now, none of these rules seem to have stopped some 7.5 million children under the age of 13 from joining Facebook, according to recent statistics from Consumer Reports. And arguably, Facebook could be fined for COPPA violations now as it's certainly trafficking in this data. In all fairness to Facebook, the social networking site does say it makes a good faith effort to kick under-age users from the site. About 20,000 under-13-year-olds are expelled from the site a day, Facebook's chief privacy officer recently told the Australian parliament.
Australian legislators, much like the federal government in the U.S., have been closely scrutinizing Facebook's privacy practices, and in this country, that broader governmental inquiry into Internet privacy issues has led to several pieces of proposed legislation, including an update to COPPA, which was originally passed in 1998 -- funnily enough, the year Mark Zuckerberg turned 14.
When Zuckerberg says he's interested in seeing a revision to COPPA then, one has to ask exactly what that entails. No parental consent? No privacy statement? No opting out of data collection? Clearly what it doesn't entail is a major revision of how Facebook handles privacy -- which come on, folks, has been pretty damn shoddy.
Whatever it means, I'm completely skeptical it has anything to do with making the site better for education. Nice try though, Zuck.


"He was complaining when I did Bird. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that's why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else."
"I'm not going to make Nelson Mandela a white guy."
Oh, and...he told Lee to "shut his face."
"First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation either."
Yikes. But so far Clint has the edge! Spike has a tendency to make great films about race in America (Do The Right Thing, Clockers), while simultaneously saying dopey things about race in America.


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Winston Hills is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is due to be contested for the first time at the 2023 election.

It is an urban electorate in Sydney's West, taking in the suburbs of Constitution Hill, Glenwood, Kings Langley, Lalor Park, Northmead, Old Toongabbie, Winston Hills and parts of Baulkham Hills, Blacktown, Pendle Hill, Seven Hills, Toongabbie and Wentworthville.

Winston Hills was created as a result of the 2021 redistribution and largely replaces the abolished electorate of Seven Hills. Based on the results of the 2019 election, it is estimated to have a notional margin of 5.7 percent for the Liberal Party.

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Blog : Posts tagged with 'Christmas number one'
Another musical thought
In which I bemoan the work of Peter Kay
Written by Forest Pines; published at 2:55 pm on December 29th, 2008.
Filed under: Media Addict.
I know, before Christmas, I grumbled about how disinterested I am, this year, in the annual Christmas Number One single news. So disinterested, in fact, that I wrote two whole paragraphs in it. But, having had to listen to that annoying Peter Kay Christmas song too many times over Christmas,* I decided to write another.
There's no copyright on ideas, as you probably know. Nor on concepts, however many people try to make money selling gameshow concepts to TV production houses. It's hard, after all, to prove that you came up with an idea independently of someone else.** I wondered, myself, what the comedian and writer Tony Hawks thought when he first heard Peter Kay's song. Twenty years ago, Hawks recorded the song "This Is The Chorus", about ear-worms. This year, Kay gets to the top of the charts with, ooh, a song about ear-worms. Kay's business sense, though – I hesitate to use "genius" – is to write a song about Christmas ear-worms. Who has a reason to listen to "This Is The Chorus" now, when it's twenty years old? Nobody. Who has a reason to revive Peter Kay's song?*** Any DJ whose Christmas tape is a bit short. Maybe it will make it into the canon, and keep coming back onto the air over and over again every year. I hope not.
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** as Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz famously found out the hard way.
*** I've (thankfully) forgotten its name.
Keyword noise: Christmas, Christmas number one, comedy, earworm, music, nuisance, number one, Peter Kay, pop, Tony Hawks, unfunny
Carolling
In which we prefer Jeff Buckley
Written by Forest Pines; published at 11:51 am on December 22nd, 2008.
Filed under: Artistic, Media Addict.
K and I are both fairly interested in music, I'd say. We're not experts, and we've only got one or two thousand albums between us; but we're probably more interested in music than the average person.
Having said that: I'm utterly, utterly uninterested in this year's Christmas Number One single news story. It's slightly depressing, true, but not surprising that a plastic, packaged, and heavily marketed version of something should sell more than a genuine-but-unadvertised one. It's good, too, that it might introduce some people to an artist who is definitely more artistic in some ways than the stuff they hear on X-Factor. It's a shame, though, that they're being introduced to someone who's been dead for over ten years, and was barely known before his death. Better they were introduced to someone who would benefit from the support now.
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Keyword noise: chart, chart music, Christmas, Christmas number one, Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley, music, number one, pop, pop charts, X Factor
Festive Music
In which we ponder the potential Christmas Number One
Written by Forest Pines; published at 10:05 pm on December 17th, 2007.
As it's the week before Christmas: it's time for the most pointless contest in music: the Christmas Number One Single. It may be slightly meaningless, and it may well end up being won by some talent-show contestant with nothing interesting about him whatsoever; but at least it gets people buying and listening to music. I hope.
The Last.FM website is campaigning to get "Lips are Unhappy" by Lucky Soul to the top of the charts. They have a lot of users, but I'm not sure they're going to make it. Radio One, on the other hand, is apparently backing "We're All Going To Die" by Malcolm Middleton. Now, "We're All Going To Die" is a wonderful song. It's the opening track to Middleton's last album, the one with the David Shrigley artwork, and it's a lively, exciting, life-affirming piece of music, a wonderful thing to play at this time of year.* I'd be completely behind it, if it wasn't for the fact that it's Radio One supporting the damn thing. Admittedly, one of their better DJs, and someone who works hard to broaden the range of what the station plays; but still, I feel slightly odd about the idea of agreeing with a Radio One-related campaign.
* Never mind what the title says, and never mind it being by someone out of Arab Strap, it's not actually depressing at all.
Keyword noise: music, Malcom Middleton, Colin Murray, Radio One
Keyword noise: chart music, Christmas, Christmas number one, Colin Murray, Malcolm Middleton, music, pop music, Radio One


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New book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) explains how self-deception dooms marriages, starts wars, and promotes a culture of unaccountability
By Jennifer McNulty, Staff Writer 459-4399
Elliot Aronson will speak at 7:30 p.m. on June 13 at the Capitola Book Cafe.
Right up there with hunger, sex, and greed, one of the most powerful forces shaping human behavior is cognitive dissonance, the discomfort we experience when we make mistakes that jar our feelings of self-worth.
As with hunger, when we experience cognitive dissonance, we hasten to reduce it--in this case, by attempting to justify the mistake. Because our brains are hard-wired to reassure us, most of the time we don't even realize the psychological gymnastics that are taking place.
Which is precisely the problem, according to preeminent social psychologist Elliot Aronson, coauthor of the new book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (New York: Harcourt, 2007).
In Mistakes Were Made, he and coauthor Carol Tavris spell out how the protective psychological mechanism of self-justification puts us on a slippery slope of self-deception that frequently gets us into enormous trouble when we are unable to acknowledge our mistakes.
A lively and engaging book, Mistakes Were Made is packed full of examples of people who've been ensnared by the all-too-human trap of self-justification. The authors chronicle President Bush's inability to change course in the war against Iraq despite the absence of weapons of mass destruction and the escalating financial and human costs, and they discuss how rank-and-file soldiers gradually came to mistreat prisoners at Abu Ghraib and why prosecutors refuse to drop charges against wrongfully convicted criminals after new DNA evidence establishes their innocence.
The stakes are highest for public figures because their actions affect the lives of so many, but the phenomenon is the same for us all, said Aronson, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"Self-justification relieves cognitive dissonance and helps us sleep at night," said Aronson. "We're hard-wired this way because it smoothes our path a little bit. But we need to be vigilant so we're able to acknowledge our serious mistakes before we paint ourselves into a corner."
Most of the time, explained Aronson, the largely unconscious process of self-justification is harmless--it relieves the tension we experience after making minor social blunders and embarrassing gaffes. But it can have high personal and professional costs when we ignore our "blind spots" and attempt to justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and harmful actions. "We need to be vigilant so we're able to acknowledge our serious mistakes and learn from them," he said. "That's how we change destructive behavior and avoid making the same mistakes again and again."
In a famous laboratory experiment that illustrated the consequences of self-justification, two-thirds of participants administered what they thought were life-threatening levels of electric shock to another person, simply because the experimenter kept saying, "The experiment requires that you continue." The experiment, designed by social psychologist Stanley Milgram as a study of obedience to authority, is a chilling example of the chain reaction of behavior and self-justification that ensnares people, making ordinary people capable of immoral and harmful conduct.
Importantly, the electric shock experiment also highlights the step-by-step process that can lead us far from behavior we believe to be right or moral. "If Milgram had initially asked participants to administer a life-threatening shock of 450 volts to another person, almost all of them would have refused to obey," said Aronson. "But because he started them off with a small shock, and gradually increased the voltage, the participants justified each step along the way until the great majority were administering 450 volts."
"Self-justification helps us sleep well at night, but sometimes we shouldn't sleep well. I think we would all be better off, for example, if President Bush opened his eyes to reality even if it meant he might lose a little sleep," said Aronson, who has nearly 50 years of experience researching cognitive dissonance theory.
Aronson and Tavris devote two chapters to the role of self-justification in marriage and family life, illuminating the devastating consequences of self-righteous self-justification in such private arenas. "Most family rifts are caused or exacerbated by each party refusing to believe that he or she may be wrong. Each of us must strive to become aware of this tendency we all share," said Aronson. "Awareness of the process is the first step toward changing behavior. It's not easy, but it's doable."
Although the United States is a "mistake-phobic culture" that equates mistakes with incompetence and stupidity, Aronson believes institutions can be designed to reward admissions of mistakes. "Admitting wrongdoing allows psychological healing and sets the stage for better decisions in the future," said Aronson, recounting the experience of a junior executive at IBM who was responsible for a failure that cost the company $10 million. When IBM's legendary founder Tom Watson Sr. called the man into his office, the employee nervously said, "I guess you want my resignation?," to which Watson replied, "You can't be serious. We've just spent $10 million educating you!"
"If we want more people to take responsibility for their mistakes and then strive to correct them, we must start rewarding admissions of mistakes rather than make it uncomfortable for people to own up to them," said Aronson.
Editor's Note: Aronson may be reached via e-mail at elliot@ucsc.edu or by calling Jennifer McNulty in the UCSC Public Information Office at (831) 459-2495.