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Loverich deserving of spot in Hall
Chuck Stark
Sports columnist
Next time you watch Steph Curry throw up one of those running one-handers, think about Ed Loverich.
Loverich, the Bainbridge Islander and former Washington Husky star who is being inducted into the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 28, helped popularize the one-handed shot in the 1930s.
Was he the originator? Probably not.
Some people think Charles Gray, a farmboy from Moscow, Idaho, was the true pioneer. Gray was, according to research by Boston-based author Stephen Fox, shooting one-handed when he started the first of his four seasons at the University of Idaho in 1913.
Most everyone agrees Hank Luisetti was the first player to get widespread attention for the shot. The former Stanford great was the second person inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, right after James Naismith, the man who invented the game in 1891.
If Clarence "Hec" Edmundson, the longtime coach at the University of Washington, were still alive, he would argue it was Loverich who turned the sport upside down with his shooting style.
In Edmundson's autobiography, written by Leo Lassen — a former Seattle sports announcer and writer — the UW coach credits Loverich with "revolutionizing basketball shooting with his one-handed push shots … Loverich did more than any other individual player in the game's history, in my opinion, to revolutionize this basketball fundamental."
If Gerald Efendahl, a former curator for the Bainbridge Island Historical Society, had a say, Loverich would have a spot alongside Luisetti and all of the basketball greats in Springfield.
"Ed's an important story," Elfendahl said of the popular Bainbridge native who was one of the founders and owners of Town & Country Market in downtown Winslow before dying in 1996. "I nominated him three times for the National Basketball Hall of Fame. I even went back there one time to get the lay of the land."
Loverich was steady, but not spectacular his first two years at Washington. He led the Huskies in scoring as a junior and senior, earning Pacific Coast Conference honors both years. The sturdy 6-foot-2 forward, also a feared hitter on the baseball team, never made it into the Husky Hall of Fame — a slight that probably cost him any chance of making in into the national hall of fame, reasons Elfendahl.
"It was during the great depression and Ed left school and never graduated from the UW," Elfendahl said. "I think that's why he never got in."
Loverich helped the Huskies advance to the first U.S. Olympic Trials at Madison Square Garden in 1936. This was three years before the first NCAA Tournament, and the closest thing to a national tournament at the time. The Huskies were one of five college regional champions — Arkansas, Temple, DePaul, and Utah State were the others — who advanced to the the tournament. They were joined by the national YMCA champs from Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, and two AAU powerhouses — McPherson Oilers from Kansas and Universal Studios from Hollywood, California. It would be another decade before the NBA would launch its professional league, so the top AAU teams were like the pros of today.
Washington placed third behind the AAU teams at the Olympic Trials. Loverich was one of two collegians named to the All-Star team, and an alternate on the Olympic team, which would travel to Berlin and beat Canada, 19-8, for the first Olympic gold medal in basketball. Yep, until the one-hander came along, basketball was kind of a dull sport. Players were taught to shoot the ball with two hands, launching it from their chest, their feet never leaving the floor. Fast-breaks were non-existent. There was a center jump after every basket until the start of the 1938-39 season.
Loverich scored 20 points, all with one hand, in a 54-33 win over DePaul during the Olympic Trials. There was a report about his "unconventional but effective one-hand release," but not a lot of coverage about the tournament, which was poorly organized and not very well attended if you believe what you read. Some of the lack of interest can be attributed to the fact that East Coast powers Long Island University and City College of New York chose to boycott the Olympic Trials in protest against Nazi anti-Semitism.
Eight months later, Luisetti scored 15 points and Stanford broke Long Island University's 43-game winning streak with a 45-31 win before a sold-out crowd of 17,623 at Madison Square Garden over the Christmas holidays. The influential New York sporting press started to pay attention to a different style of basketball.
"Overnight, and with a suddenness as startling as Stanford's unorthodox tactics, it had become apparent today that New York's fundamental concept of basketball will have to be radically changed," wrote Stanley Frank of the New York Post. "Every one of the amiable clean-cut Coast kids fired away with leaping one-handed shots which were impossible to stop."
Luisetti and Stanford, which won three straight Pacific Coast Conference championships, returned to New York in 1937, beating City College of New York this time. On the final game of the road trip in Cleveland, Luisetti scored 50 points, still a Stanford record, in a 92-27 romp over Duquesne.
There's no doubt Luisetti was the real deal. In voting the best player of the first half of the last century, Luisetti was second to George Mikan.
Loverich was also making a name for himself, but his fame was confined mostly to our corner of the planet.
Vince O'Keefe, a sports writer for the Seattle Times in the 1930s and '40s, wrote the Basketball Hall of Fame a letter when he heard about Elfendahl's efforts to get Loverich honored:
"It never occurred to me then that I was watching history being made when Loverich swished those long one-handers," he wrote. "He did it on the run effortlessly and often. It was only in later years that I realized he was probably the first major-college player to shoot that way instead of the conventional, two-handed set shot, which had been the standard bearer since Naismith first hung up his peach basket."
Edmundson, according to O'Keefe, could only recall Loverich making two field goals during his career in which he used both hands.
Loverich had been shooting his one-handers for a couple seasons before Luisetti enrolled at Stanford, so there's a thought that maybe he and others adopted Loverich's style of shooting.
The late Rod Belcher, a Seattle sports broadcaster, grew up in San Francisco and he remembered watching Stanford and Washington play at the old San Francisco Civic Auditorium when he was 15.
Luisetti scored 32 points and had a great all-around game, but Loverich's shooting style and uncanny accuracy from long distance, caught Belcher's attention.
"San Franciscans had never seen anyone shoot set shots from the 18- to 25-foot range one-handed," Belcher wrote in a letter to Elfendahl. "At that time players shot layups, short hooks or turnarounds and running shots one-handed, but everything else was strictly a two-handed set shot.
"Even Luisetti … shot a modified two-handed style from long range in that, his sophomore year. When he later switched to one-handers, I often wondered if watching Loverich influenced him."
Luisetti, for the record, claims to have started shooting one-handers as a youngster in San Francisco. He was small for his age, and it helped get him around defenders and create some space to shoot.
According to Elfendahl, Loverich and a friend cleared out hay bales in an old warehouse behind his dad's store on Winslow Way, put up basket and shot hoops all winter. Loverich told the Seattle Times he started "fooling around" with the one-hander before practices at the UW in 1935.
Edmundson showed up early one day and paid attention to what Loverich was doing.
"I can shoot this on the run and I'm a lot more accurate," Loverich told his coach.
Edmundson gave Loverich the green light to shoot it in games, and it wasn't long before Ed "Ashcan" Loverich became somewhat of a household name to basketball fans in the Northwest.
Loverich took the shot to the Orient following his Husky career, leading a team of ex-Huskies on a 22-game tour. He went on to become an AAU star, playing on Seattle-area teams that reached the quarterfinals and semifinals of national tournaments, and in the military while serving with the Army in Hawaii.
Loverich later became a well-known community figure while helping his boyhood friend, Mo Nakata, operate the Town & Country Market. Loverich was gracious and generous.
"I used to work at the store in the summers, stocking shelves," Elfendahl said. "Ed knew who was in trouble and who was having financial problems. I don't know how many times I'd see him go up to someone, shake their hand, and leave a $10 or $20 bill. He was a great guy."
As for the nickname "Ashcan," I've heard two theories.
1) He got the name because he was always shooting at open garbage cans in his father's grocery store.
2) Ed was reportedly a voracious eater, known for cleaning up not only his plate, but those of his teammates.
Elfendahl remembers seeing this headline after a Husky victory: "Ashcan Can Can 'Em!"
"He used to shoot 35-, 40-footers like they were nothing," Elfendahl said. "Sort of like the guy in San Francisco with the pro team."
He was referring to Golden State's Stephen Curry, the NBA's reigning MVP.
That's pretty good company.
Chuck Stark is the former sports editor of The Sun. Reach him at chuckstark00@gmail.com.
KITSAP SPORTS HALL OF FAME BANQUET
When: Saturday, January 28. Social hour noon; dinner and induction ceremony at 1 p.m.
Where: Kiana Lodge, 14976 Sandy Hook Road, Poulsbo.
Tickets: $30 if purchased or reserved by Friday; $35 at the door if still available. Buy or reserve tickets by contacting jodee.strickland@aol.com or noah.garguile@gmail.com or 360-731-6459. Cost for children 12 and under is $15; $6 and under free.
Sponsor: Kitsap Athletic Roundtable, a non-profit club that is celebrating its 50th year of operation in 2017.
Next KAR meeting: Wednesday, Jan. 25, Kitsap Golf & Country Club. Social hour 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. University of Washington athletic director Jen Cohen will be the guest speaker. It's open to the public. Tickets ($25 if purchased or reserved by Friday, $30 at door) available at brownpapertickets.com/event/2718215 or noah.garguile@gmail.com or 360-731-6459.


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Tanzania Tourism
Serengeti Voted Africa's Leading National Park in 2020
On 9th November 2020, the Serengeti park in Tanzania won for the second consecutive year the World Travel Awards for Africa's Leading National Park category.
Serengeti was also voted Africa's best safari destination in a survey conducted by SafariBookings.com in 2020.
Other Tanzanian winners this year include the Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti in Africa's Leading Luxury Safari Lodge category, the Thanda Island in Africa's Leading Luxury Island category, and the Port of Dar es Salaam in Africa's Leading Cruise Port category.
The World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry.
Founder Graham Cooke commented: "The World Travel Awards 2020 program received a record number of votes cast by the public. This shows that the appetite for travel and tourism has never been stronger and bodes well for the industry's future as the global recovery begins."
The Tanzanian tourism sector was severely hit in 2020 after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the suspension of international flights from America, Europe and Asia.
According to Hamisi Kigwangalla, Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, the number of tourists visiting the country dropped from an estimated 1,867,000 to 437,000 annually.
However, Tanzania reopened its airspace for international passenger flights on 1st June 2020, and international airlines are now flying to and from Tanzania.
Data from the Tanzania National Parks Authority (Tanapa) shows that a total of 3,062 French tourists visited the Tanzanian parks during the three months period covering July, August, and September 2020, outshining the US with 2,327 holidaymakers.
The third source markets of tourists were Germany (1,317 visitors), followed by the UK (1,051 visitors), Spain (1,050 visitors), India 844 (visitors), Switzerland (727 visitors), Russia (669 visitors), the Netherlands (431 visitors), and Australia (367 visitors).
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Tanzania Economic Review – November 2022: Coal and Sisal Exports Increased Significantly, Tourist Arrivals Doubled
The Bank of Tanzania (BOT) released its Monthly Economic Review-December 2022 which covers key macroeconomic indicators for the…
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Established in 2002, the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival Presented by M&T Bank takes place in June of each year, in Rochester, New York. It is owned and produced by RIJF, LLC, whose principals are John Nugent, Co-Producer and Artistic Director, and Marc Iacona, Co-Producer and Executive Director.

The nine-day festival is held at 20+ diverse venues throughout downtown Rochester New York's East End cultural and entertainment district, including  Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music, Hatch Recital Hall, Lutheran Church of the Reformation, Rochester Regional Health Big Tent, Max of Eastman Place, Montage Music Hall, The Auditorium at Broad and Chestnut, Wilder Room, The Little Theatre, Bethel Christian Fellowship, and multiple outdoor free stages and venues - all within walking distance and many on "Jazz Street" (otherwise known as Gibbs Street during the rest of the year), which is closed off for the festival's nine days. More than 90 free concerts and events are presented on outdoor stages and other free venues. A five-day Jazz Workshop provides an opportunity for elementary and high school music students to learn from and play alongside noted musicians performing at the festival.  The festival supports the RIJF Eastman School of Music Jazz Scholarship, which has awarded almost $500,000 in scholarships since 2002 to 40 students to attend the Eastman School of Music.

In 2019, the festival also drew more than 208,000 to see 1750+ musicians from around the world perform in 325+ shows.

In 2018, the festival drew a record-setting crowd of more than 208,000 people from around the world to see more than 1500 musicians from 20 countries performed in 320+ shows.

CGI Communications became the festival's new title sponsor as of July 2018, succeeding Xerox, which was the title sponsor for 10 years from 2009 through 2018.
M&T Bank is the presenting sponsor.

In 2009, attendance was estimated at a record 133,000 for the 225 concerts presented.

In 2010,  162,000 people attended the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival's 250 concerts presented over nine days, breaking the record set the prior year of 133,000.

2011 saw another record-setting year with 285 concerts presented over nine days and in 18 different venues.  Attendance reached an all-time high of 182,000.

In 2012, the 11th Edition hit another attendance record of 187,000, a record number of headliner sell-outs,   the addition of new venue, Hatch Recital Hall and 9 days of spectacular weather. Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers, Esperanza Spalding, Zappa Plays Zappa, and Daryl Hall "Live From Daryl's House" with special guest Keb' Mo' headlined this year.

Festival history

2009 appearances
The 2009 lineup of major performances was announced on March 24, 2009.

Headliners
Smokey Robinson
Michael McDonald
Dave Brubeck

Other appearances
Taj Mahal
The Susan Tedeschi Band
Jake Shimabukuro
"SMV" (bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, and Victor Wooten) on their Thunder Tour

2010 appearances

Headliners
The following headlining acts all played ticketed shows at Eastman Theatre
Gladys Knight
Herbie Hancock
Keb' Mo'
Jeff Beck's first show sold out soon after it was announced, prompting the announcement of a second show
John Pizzarelli
Bernie Williams

Other Appearances
Trombone Shorty played three nights in a row at the festival
Los Lonely Boys made a repeat appearance, playing a free outdoor show
Smash Mouth closed the festival with a packed, free, outdoor finale concert.

Past performers

Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band
Tony Bennett
Ravi Coltrane
Chaka Khan
Al Jarreau
The Respect Sextet
Chris Botti
Bobby McFerrin & Jack DeJohnette
Bill Frisell
Al (Roomful of Blues) Copley
Sonny Rollins
Chick Corea
Hilton Ruiz
Madeleine Peyroux
Steve Turre
Strunz & Farah
Aretha Franklin
Charles Ellison Quartet
Sonny Rollins
Dr. John
Dave Brubeck
George Benson
Stephane Wrembel
Norah Jones
The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band led by Jon Faddis
John Hammond
Willem Breuker
Michael Moore
Harold Danko

Dave Pietro & Banda Brazil
Wallace Roney
Paul Smoker
Juana Molina
Derek Trucks
Gap Mangione
Harry Allen
Lew Tabackin
Paula West Quartet
Joe LaBarbera
Jonas Kullhammar Quartet
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Raul Midón
Wycliffe Gordon
The Shuffle Demons
Marian McPartland
Dave Mancini Quartet
David Sanborn
Oscar Peterson
James Brown
Das Contras
Phil Woods
McCoy Tyner
Toots Thielemans
Wayne Shorter
Susan Tedeschi
Etta James
Little Feat
Soulive
Dickey Betts
Dianne Reeves
Slide Hampton
Medeski Martin and Wood

References

External links
Rochester International Jazz Festival Official Website
Jazz@Rochester: A blog covering the RIJF and live jazz in and around Rochester, New York.

2002 establishments in New York (state)
Music festivals established in 2002
Jazz festivals in New York (state)
Music of Rochester, New York
Summer festivals
Festivals in Rochester, New York

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Android Oreo released by Google!
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New Android OS out in market by Google.
By Kaushik Gujjar	 Last updated Aug 22, 2017
Google has released the latest version of its Android mobile operating system (OS), which is named after Oreo chocolate biscuits.
What's New in Andoird Oreo
It adds a new "picture-in-picture" mode that lets some apps run in a small corner of the screen.
Google's own Nexus and Pixel phones are expected to be the first to receive the software update.
New versions of Android can be slow to roll out, and just 14% of Android devices run the previous OS, Nougat.
Android Oreo introduces measures to help people manage the volume of notifications on their devices, which has been described as "notification diarrhoea".
App developers will now be able to split notifications into categories, so people can block some types of alert while still receiving others.
Previously, Android users could only allow all or block all notifications from each app.
Other new features include:
"smart copy-and-paste", which highlights an entire address, telephone number or web addresses when people try to copy it
limiting how many system resources apps can use while they are running in the background, to reduce memory use and battery use
instant Apps, which lets some services invoke parts of their Android apps, even if people have not installed them
a redesigned set of emojis, which look more like the ones seen on Apple's iOS
The picture-in-picture mode will let people watch YouTube videos in a corner of the screen while they use other apps, as long as they have paid for the YouTube Red subscription service.
However, people using Android Nougat can already watch YouTube videos in the split-screen mode for free.
The software was released at 19:50 BST to coincide with a solar eclipse visible on the east coast of the United States.
It is now up to phone manufacturers to decide whether to make the new software available on their existing devices, although many do pre-install it on their new releases.
Some thoughts describe android oreo
"Google's challenge with new versions of Android is that it's only immediately available to a small number of smartphone users," said Ian Fogg, of IHS Markit consultancy.
"Android typically needs to be adapted and approved by each handset maker and mobile operator, so it takes months for new versions of Android to reach a significant number of users.
"One key change in Android Oreo is in the architecture: to make it easier in the future for phone manufacturers to make their changes, but still push out new versions of the operating system to users.
"That's probably the most significant change."
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in Freedom Fighters in India
Kittur Rani Chennamma – Queen of Kittur (Women Freedom Fighter)
Born in the month of October 1788, Kitturu Chennamma is famously remembered for her fight with the British East India Company along with her army and that too with defiance against the Doctrine of Lapse to retain control of her territory.
She was defeated in the second war against the British and died in Prison. She was one of the first female fighters in India to resist British colonization and she is a national heroine who is well known in Karnataka. She is a symbol of the Independence Movement in India.
1 Kittur Rani Chennamma Information
2 Chennamma's Early Life
3 Fight With British Started
4 Her Last Days
Kittur Rani Chennamma Information
Name: Kittur Chennamma
Born: 23 October 1778, Belgaum
Died: 2 February 1829, Bailhongal
Spouse: Raja Mallasarja (m. 1793–1816)
Children Shivalingappa
Chennamma's Early Life
Kittur Rani Chennamma was born on 23rd October 1788 in Kakati, which is located in the present Belgaum District, Karnataka. She was well versed in Horse riding, sword fighting, and archery from a very young age.
Chennamma married Raja Mallasarja of the Desai family who died in the year 1824 leaving her son and the state and soon her son also died in the year 1824. Now Rani Chennamma was alone and she was left with the state of Kittur to be saved from the British.
Fight With British Started
She adopted Shivalingappa in the year 1824 to make him heir to the throne which irked East India Company as it was against the Doctrine of Lapse. And under this context, the Kittur State came under the control of the Dharwad collectorate where the in-charge did not accept the new ruler and asked the state to come under British Control.
Rani Chennamma did not accept this and sent a letter to Lieutenant-Governor of the Bombay Presidency however the request was turned down and what followed was the war. The first war between the British and the State of Kittur was fought heavily where British forces lost the war when St John Thackeray, collector, and a political agent was killed in the war, Sir Walter Elliot and Mr. Stevenson two British officers were also taken as hostages who were released soon.
Her Last Days
During the second war with the British, Chennamma fought fiercely but was captured by the British Forces and was imprisoned at Bailhongal Fort where she died in the year 1829 because of false news delivered by the British that Rayanna has died, hearing this news Chennama had the only hope who is no more she decided to die.
Sangolli Rayanna who was a loyal lieutenant of Chennamma's army came to see her death by changing his looks, there he decided he will fight till his last breath against the British, so he continued the war, and later he was captured and hanged.
She was one of the first female freedom fighters who is still remembered due to her clever war against the British and also opposing the British against their ownership of land. Due to the war, the state of Kittur lost a huge amount of treasury and jewels which is valued at 1.5 million rupees.
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Note: Boysenberries are a delicious cross between a raspberry and a blackberry. They are soft and delicate like the raspberry with the distinct tartness and seeds of the blackberry, often growing to half as large as your thumb. If the seeds bother you, press about half of the finished mixture through a mesh sieve in small batches. Because this jam is not stiff, it will also pour very nicely over vanilla ice cream. This recipe is from Edon Waycott.
Step 1Combine the berries, sugar and lemon juice in a large nonaluminum bowl. With a potato masher or large metal spoon, press gently on the berries to bruise and lightly crush them. This allows the juices to start exuding freely. Allow the fruit to macerate at room temperature for at least 4 hours, stirring occasionally, and as long as overnight (covered and refrigerated).
Step 2Pour the contents of the bowl into a wide, shallow saucepan (not unlined aluminum or iron) and bring to a boil over high heat. With a metal spoon or fine mesh skimmer, skim off any foam that collects on top and reduce the heat to moderate. Continue cooking the fruit mixture for 25 to 35 minutes, stirring constantly the last 10 minutes to prevent the jam from sticking to the pan. When the bubbles begin to change from large intermittent ones to very small all-over ones, the jam is ready. The mixture should be reduced by half and will look like bubbling tar. The jam will thicken more while cooling.
36 calories; 0 sodium; 0 cholesterol; 0 fat; 0 grams saturated fat; 9 carbohydrates; 0 protein; 0.52 gram fiber.
Edon Waycott's strawberry jam tastes like strawberries, only more so. Strawberries squared. Strawberries to the nth degree.
It could be that this is the way jam used to taste before we stopped making our own and started buying the processed stuff. But one can't be sure that the jams of yesteryear were ever quite this good. Waycott's jam is the nearest thing to a garden in a bottle.
While conserving fruit is considered an art in France, Waycott is lost for words at how to describe herself. "I wouldn't know what to put on a business card," she jokes. She describes jam-making as one of a continuum of pursuits. Since art college in New York in the '60s, these have included painting, fabric design and cookery writing, including a book on jam, "Preserving the Taste" (Hearst, 1993).
It was a passion for bread, she says, that led her to experiment with jams. This took the form of a collaboration with chef Mark Peel and baker Nancy Silverton, proprietors of Campanile restaurant and La Brea Bakery. She devised the jam recipes for both places.
The day we visit her ranch house bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu, the scent of strawberries carries out of the house, across the courtyard, clear to the driveway.
Inside the kitchen, 8 quarts of strawberries simmer in a wide, surprisingly shallow copper-lined French braising pan. "People always think they should be jam-making in a deep pot," she says. "When you don't use commercial pectin, you want the evaporation." The secret, she sums up, is slow cooking in a wide-mouth pot.
At first, her accumulated wisdom tumbles out in a succession of dos and don'ts. Don't use frozen fruit, or bruised or rotten produce, she warns. Good jam starts with the fruit.
The strawberries simmering before her come from up the Pacific Coast Highway in Oxnard. They were bought at the Santa Monica farmers market a day earlier. After rinsing and hulling the berries, the first step is to macerate them in sugar and "a little lime juice" overnight. "It draws out the juices," she explains.
She reserves extra emphasis for the next rule. "Don't," she says, "cut them up. Leave them whole." Pureed strawberry jam, she says, "is just red."
The next trick is the slowest possible cooking. "Don't add water," she says. The art is removing the water, allowing the fruit to cook down to the point that the three cartons of fruit are captured in an 8-ounce jar.
As the pot of strawberries nears ready, Waycott darts into a larder to retrieve jams that she made earlier--much earlier. As she sets out elegantly labeled little jars, the strictures subside and enchantment sets in. Waycott cannot quite conceal the rapture behind these neat little vessels. They sum up a year in her garden.
From winter, there are citrus marmalades: grapefruit and orange and Meyer lemon. "It's so aromatic," she says, practically purring as she uncaps the Meyer lemon.
Then she offers a jam she knows will stump the taster. It is an amber jelly that is neither tart nor sweet. If there were an ale for bees, this would be it. "It's guava," says Waycott, gleaming. "As you cook it, it looks like dishwater. But as it cooks, it turns amber. It's so exotic."
Within minutes of tasting the guava jelly, we are outside a pair of garden doors, being instructed to pinch blossoms off a nearby blooming pineapple guava hedge. "Eat them!" she cries. They are succulent, slightly sweet and, again, arrestingly strange. "I have trouble leaving any flowers for fruit," she confesses. "I could eat every blossom on the tree."
And so begins the tour of Waycott's real love: her garden. To love jam, one realizes, one must love fruit. For Waycott, to love fruit is to grow it. She leads us past trees and shrubs that will bear mulberries, blood oranges, apricots, lemons. There are Satsumas, plums, pomegranates. Of course, grapes--Concord and Muscat.
It is tempting to go on about the unusual varieties (the mulberries are Persian mulberries, the apricots Royal Blenheims, etc.) or 65 varieties of old roses, or the herb garden where pennyroyal and savory thrive, or the native California lilacs.
But suffice it to say here that if this small, intense woman were a bird, she would be a hummingbird. Waycott spends her days on missions for nectar. Once she captures it, she preserves it with rare and wondrous perfectionism.


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Writers at Work: Jean Lee Cole and Nguyen Khoi Nguyen
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Jean Lee Cole is a Professor of English at Loyola University Maryland. She is the author of How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (forthcoming, 2020) and The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (2002) and the editor or co-editor of several books, including Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (2008) and Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner (2013). She was awarded Loyola's Nachbahr Award for scholarship in the humanities in 2017.
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Some residents of an Indianapolis senior living complex say complaints about conditions have gone unresolved
"It's just not healthy for seniors to be living in an extremely hot environment or extremely cold environment," said a relative of one tenant.
Author: Logan Gay
Published: 11:52 PM CST November 15, 2021
Updated: 12:12 AM CST November 16, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS — Hoosiers living in affordable housing for seniors say their living conditions are on the verge of elder abuse.
Imagine having no air conditioning - or heat - since April.
Cassandra Anderson's mother has been living at St. Clair Senior Living Apartments for seven years. She said it didn't take long for the maintenance issues to begin. Heating and cooling seem to be the biggest problems.
"We had to move my grandfather to hospice because it had gotten so hot in here," she said.
Now, as the temperatures are dropping, the building is still without heat and air conditioning.
"It's just not healthy for seniors to be living in an extremely hot environment or extremely cold environment," said Anderson.
Anderson said her mother is a good tenant. She told 13News she's frustrated.
"They continue to go up on her rent. She doesn't complain about it, she pays it. Yet they can't do the basic things to make sure she has heat and air conditioning," said Anderson.
It seems the tenants' complaints are going unanswered or unresolved. Attorney Carman Malone said that could be a problem.
Credit: WTHR/Logan Gay
"The landlord has to provide the necessities. Heat is a necessity. I would venture to say the tenant would have some form of action," said Malone.
Resident Paul Blade has been advocating for better conditions for neighbors and himself. He said no one deserves to live like this.
"There are a number of seniors here who are veterans, and the disrespect they are accorded..." Blade said.
Credit: WTHR
Temperatures in some rooms have reached as low as 40 degrees. It's been so cold, Blade has started locking the door to the building's community room so his neighbors don't come in and get sick. Now he's trying to warn others.
"I've already called the VA and advised them, 'Don't send anyone else here,'" said Blade.
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The apartments are owned by Riley Area Development. Bryan Murphy said they're still waiting on a major part to fix the HVAC system. He claims supply chain issues are the reason for the delay. They have advised tenants to buy their own space heaters in exchange for a credit.
"That's not safe," Anderson said. "Either they replace the system or the building burns down at some point because you have all these space heaters running."
She is worried about tenants who might not be able to afford a space heater.
Both Anderson and Blade said they will continue to fight for better living conditions until the issue gets resolved.
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Q: Some doubts about libraries Say, I want to write a program in C++ in Linux and I need some specific libraries. There are 2 ways of getting these libraries:

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*Using the command line--> apt-get install library

*Downloading and extracting a .zip or .tar file from their website.

Now my questions are:
For the first method I have seen libraries being downloaded with apt-get install library and apt-get install library-dev. I know dev means development or developer, but what is the difference between installing the dev and not installing the dev? What does dev do, exactly?
For the second method, do I need to build the libraries using a compiler? Because I have seen tutorials doing it but the OS used was usually Windows, do I only have to build them on Windows and not Linux?
Also, say I can only use the 2nd method for a certain library and not the first one. After extracting, what am I supposed to do? Is there any default way of installing a library manually or is each library different?
Finally, when I use the first method where is the library installed to? Is it /usr/local/lib, /usr/lib or /usr/include? Because when I have to link to these libraries in the Linker's settings I only write their name, not the path so I assume there is already a default path for libraries to be in.
One last question: Is there any default way of installing and using libraries in general or does that depend on what I want to do, programming language, etc...?

A: The second method is very broad because it depends entirely on the how the project is designed including the build system used etc. Things get a little more conformant when you use a distribution's managed packages.
If you want to develop a program that uses the library you need the library-dev package that usually contains the C/C++/etc.. header files.
Many development package conform to a standard tool that helps your build system find the libraries header and binary files.
For example libcurl uses the pkg-config system so its compiler components can be found from the command line like this:
pkg-config libcurl --libs # print the library link flags

You can then add that to your Makefile (or whatever build system you use):
program:
     g++ -o program program.cpp $(shell pkg-config libcurl --libs)

The $(shell pkg-config libcurl --libs) part adds the correct compiler flags to link with the library.
Not all dev packaged use pkg-config. Some come with their own tools (like mysql_config) while others let you guess and try to figure it all out for yourself (looking at you libclang).

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Family Tile Games
Family tile games are based on either a set of dominoes or a set of Mah Jong tiles.
They may not be as popular as Card games or Board games but they still provide hours of fun for very little money.
Dominoes originally came from China although the regular sets used in the West today are only about two hundred years old. They are available as either wooden or plastic tiles with spots on each end. Most games use a double-six set which has from zero (blank) to six spots at each end. There are 28 tiles in a double-six set, shown below. The colour of the spots does not matter; some sets have spots of only one colour.
Some family tile games use a set of 55 double-nine tiles, which are useful for larger groups. You can even get a set of 91 double-twelve tiles.
Individual dominoes are called tiles, stones or bones. Dominoes with an identical number of spots on both ends are called doubles.
Chinese dominoes are similar to normal dominoes but are slightly longer and narrower. There are two series, a civil series and a military series which make up the complete set of 32 tiles, with no blanks on Chinese dominoes. Note the difference in pattern of spots on the Chinese double three tile. Chinese tiles are also coloured with fours and ones in red, double six in red and white and all other numbers in white. It is possible to make a set of Chinese dominoes by combining certain tiles from two sets of double-six dominoes.
Mah Jongg is also derived from an older Chinese game but only reached the West in the 1920s. In Mah Jongg, there are 144 tiles with different pictures on each tile. Regular domino tiles cannot be used for Mah Jongg.
Most games are suitable for all ages. Games for a standard double-six set include:
Block Dominoes - the basic game of dominoes suitable for all ages
Draw Dominoes - similar to Block Dominoes but slightly harder to play
Blind Hughie - a simple game that involves more luck than skill
Fortress - a variation of Cyprus (see below) that uses a standard double-six set
Young children may enjoy:
Fours - a really easy game that teaches children to match numbers
Line Up - similar to fours but with slightly harder rules
Adults and older children may like to play:
All Fives - different to other domino games since the aim is to gain points rather than getting rid of all your tiles
Doubles - a complex game based on Draw Dominoes
The following family tile games use more than the standard double-six domino set:
Matador - can use either a standard double-six set (for 2-4 players) or a double-nine set (for 5-8 players)
Cyprus - another game for all ages which uses a double-nine set and is suitable for 4-10 players ("Fortress" is a version that uses a standard set of double-six tiles)
Tien Kow - a four player game that uses a set of Chinese Dominoes and is suitable for adults and older children
While we have included many games that our family loves, you may have other games that you and your family think should be on the Family Games Treasurehouse website. Whatever your favourite, click on the link for your chance to Share YOUR Game with the world for free!
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A window in Chile gives a glimpse of beautiful star jets
Have you heard of stellar jets? They are a common result of the formation of stars. Astronomers believe they're formed by the interaction of magnetic fields of swirling young stars and the disks of gas around them. This clash results in huge smears of ionised gas going in opposite directions – just like in the picture above.
This amazing image you see here was taken by a team of astronomers using the Gemini South telescope, right at the edge of the Chilean Andes. The jet, named MHO 2147, is about 10,000 light-years from Earth (!) almost between the constellations Sagittarius and Ophiuchus.
The shape of a stellar jet depends a lot on the stars that create it. In the case of the MHO 2147 jets, their "mother star", IRAS 17527-2439, is too dark for us to see, as it is hidden behind an infrared dark cloud – a cold region filled with dense gas that is not very visible at infrared wavelengths.
MHO 2147 has its river-like shape because the direction of the jet has changed over time and its slight 'S' shape is due to the continuous emissions from its central star. The jet's change in direction can also result from the gravity of nearby stars acting on IRAS 17527-2439, MHO 2147's central star.
All in all, IRAS 17527-2439 could belong to a triple star system separated by more than 300 billion kilometres (almost 200 billion miles)!
Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA. Acknowledgments: Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF's NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF's NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF's NOIRLab) PI: L. Ferrero (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
To make this image, astronomers used the Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager (GSAOI). Adaptive optics is a technique in astronomy that makes up for the atmospheric turbulence that makes stars blur and twinkle. This video gets you covered on how it works.
This Space Scoop is based on a Press Release from NOIRLab .
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Мистерията за раждането на най-масивните звезди
Астрономите разрешават прашна загадка
Още си любопитен? Научи повече...
Какво е Space Scoop?
Открий още астрономически тайни
Вдъхновяваме ново поколение космически изследователи
Приятели на Space Scoop


We will set up a unique network name of your choosing so that you can easily identify yours from others in the surrounding area.
Using a WPA2 security key ('geek speak' for the highest level of encryption available for your router), your personal information will be protected from online theft and your internet connection secured against use by others.
All new routers come with a default, factory-set administrator username and password. This makes them relatively insecure and vulnerable to being hacked, potentially putting any personal information stored on your network at risk. Your router's default username and password will both be updated to ones of your choosing.
…and we can help secure your network and computer!


Game Text: Each time an opponent draws a card (or takes a card into hand) during the Shadow phase, you may remove (1). Maneuver: Exert Gandalf to wound Saruman twice.
Equivalent for all intents and purposes to Betrayal of Isengard*, from The Fellowship of the Ring block, with the exception of the Uncommon rarity (as opposed to Rare). Please see that page for strategy and clarification.
This page has been moved, the new location is Betrayal of Isengard (12U25).


How does one use ALTID=N in a CA Endevor processor?
The ALTID is being used for allocate/delete of permanent files in a processor using iefbr14 and IDCAMS delete; is there any way to turn the ALTID off for the steps within the processor?
ALTID=NO should be used on the processor EXEC PGM= step for those programs being executed that no swap is to occur.


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Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the most precise measurements of the expansion rate of the universe since it was first calculated…
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Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory are one step closer to changing the international definition of the kilogram. By using technology produced by the NPL,…


Our research primarily focuses on optical and plasmonic properties of nanostructured photonic metamaterials. The inclination toward miniaturization in the emerging generation of nanoscale materials has led to a growing interest in the physics of hybrid nanostructures to understand and exploit interactions arising by confinement, topology and dimensionality. In recent years significant strides have been made in the understanding of phenomena due to the manipulation and organization of atoms and molecules by mimicking processes and strategies adopted by Mother Nature.
My earlier research has mainly involved the experimental study of dynamics, electro-optical properties and lasing in soft matter by means of laser spectroscopies. Random lasing and DFB lasers have been extensively investigated in my group for many years. Another relevant topic we have been interested concerns electro-hydrodynamic instabilities and turbulence in liquid crystals; It has represented an interesting scientific arena to explore the amazing physics behind the chaotic dynamics and random lasing.
More recently, my research interests are focused on the physics of waves and fields in nanostructured plasmonic metamaterials, artificial composite materials whose electromagnetic properties are induced by organizing atoms and molecules at deeply sub-wavelength scales. Nanophotonics is the new branch of physics that is involved to study new effects and phenomena arising from interplay and dynamics between molecules and few tens of atoms thick nanostructures.
Electromagnetic properties of intrinsically active and tunable photonic metamaterials.
These topics allow us to realize a cutting edge research program in the areas of soft-condensed matter, Nanoscience, Biosensing, Spectroscopy, Nonlinear Optics and Nanophotonics.
K. V. Sreekanth, A. De Luca, and G. Strangi Negative refraction in graphene based metamaterials Applied Physics Letters 103, 023107 (2013).
Carbone F, Sorriso-Valvo L, Versace C, Strangi G, Bartolino R. Anisotropy of spatiotemporal decorrelation in electrohydrodynamic turbulence. Physical Review Letters vol. 106, 7114 (2011).


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The people are happy, lots of gorgeous bugs to chase. I watch it, and it lands on a dead body of another species of firetip. Suddenly there are a ton of clearwings, and lots of butterflies hitting the baited leaves. Laura Orgue ran an impressive time of 3: Texas trio Bad Sports release their fourth full-length to Dirtnap and with it, push their sound into a more modern sphere of punk.
As I continue on towards the bus I see 2 more, then run into David on the big bridge. However it sure feels good to get back to the hot pools at Papallacta. American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century.
Now we have 5 Taiwanese, 1 Swiss, and 3 North Americans. Did the community centers affect gang life? What are some examples of Luis and others making the stereotypes and prejudices "their own"?
David has the hotel manager ask him not to put more bait out along the entrance road, she got complaints about the smell. That afternoon we go into Mindo and visit the Mariposarium on the other side of Mindo, where I stayed 14 years ago.
He and David came here last year in Feb and it was good. We spend about 3 hours photographing bugs here, and everyone is happy. Always Running Luis J. David knows Always runnning by luis rodriguez call, sort of a chunky clunk noise, not at all like most tanagers, and once he points it out to me you can track them easily.
The last morning we hike out through the mud. It just goes to show that you never know about the weather, it can change from bright sun to rain and overcast, then back to sun within hours.
If you were a collector and hung a black light and a sheet you would have a great time. The light is off when we arrive, but it must have been on last night, as we spend an hour or more shooting the spectacular moths all over the walls.
It really should be translated into every language under the sun.
The next day I hear them again, and point them out to others in our group. The one waiter carefully served us one at a fime, starting with the oldest woman, then the next, then the next, and finally the poor men. How do you think such a history could influence the self-perception of the locos and other Mexican kids -- as well as the way Anglos perceive them?
David catches a small centipede-snake and brings it back to the lodge to show everyone. They find several new species for our list that afternoon, it would have been more productive to stay and do the trail.
The woman makes us herbal tea and coffee, while we wait for the rain to let up. Much of the same butterflies as yesterday, but some new ones too.
I think that Luis did good on writing this book for several reasons. What sets Electric Citizen apart from contemporary heavy counterparts is their songwriting.
This place is odd, as they try to be artificially pretentious, even though it is a rustic, wooden place in the wet jungle. Jin Dynasty's territories become more populated that some of it's citizens created trading bases in Kamchatka, Hokkaido and Sakhalin, the Japanese settle Hokkaido and Aomori peninsula as well causing the start of the dillution of the Ainu and the Nivkhs and the Yupiks start to learn from the people of Jin.
If so, you are a born life coach or spiritual teacher April 28th, The ones that are in gangs supposably are just fakes and rookies. What do you think the events that surround his father's coming to the United States say about the immigration experience?
Two new Lasiophila, and several dark Pedaliodes, which turn out to be P.
We drive back towards Mindo and turn off on another dirt road to San Jorge de Milpas lodges. We have had poor weather, but even on sunny days the numbers seem very low to me and David. Luis reflects on the power of prejudice in this way: All sorts of high elevation goodies are coming to the water.My favorite part was just chatting with them over breakfast (always healthy and delicious).
GUNS N ROSES, ETC) también esta cerca el palacio de los deportes y el AUTODROMO HERMANOS RODRIGUEZ El centro de la maravillosa CIUDAD DE MÉXICO esta a 20 minutos en metro o BUS. También caminando estamos a 15' del foro sol, aeródromo hnos. I had lively conversations with him and other family members and I will always remember my stay at this place with a smile on my face.
They are truly unique people. Luis Fernando TZ; Room Type. Private room. Property Type. Bed and breakfast.
Accommodates. 1. Bedrooms. 1. Hi Alexandrin, This is a big problem for English speakers. The publishers think there are enough hand reading books on the market. No-one realises how cutting edge this information is. Butterflying Trip Reports Text and photos of butterfly photography trips in Mexico, Central and South America.
I always like seeing the antpittas. Day 19 Nov 26 – drive from WildSumaco to the Termas (hot springs) at Papallacta Pass, which is a fancy, resort-type hotel. We have a circle of little cabanas around 3 hot pools of varying.
Mozart, Betulia Liberata. (Jeremy Ovenden, Marijana Mijanovic, Julia Kleiter, Franz-Josef Selig, Irena Bespalovaite, Jennifer Johnston et al. Vienna State Opera Chorus and Munich Chamber Orchestra/ Christoph Poppen. Concert performance produced by Bernhard Fleischer.
Runnning time approx. '). Check out ESPN SportsNation's Global Fan Chat: Game 6. but I'm always on line following the game. Go Steve Kerr and please no more Popovich. I'm at work but I have NBA Courtside Live.


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Least Surprising News
Friday, April 13, 2018 Monday, April 2, 2018 by Michael Dawson
Advertising Age for March 30 includes a story titled "Brands Just Can't Seem to Quit Facebook."
Facebook exists to collect marketing data, to perform for corporations what people with cameras and stopwatches do inside corporate workspaces.
According to this report, at most 5 of Facebook's top 1,000 advertisers even might have ceased using the platform as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Most likely, none have.
"This speaks to how important Facebook is as an advertising channel, and that brands are surely making the decision that the benefits of the platform outweigh the smaller risks of brand damage due to association with it," [marketing research firm CEO Gabe] Gottlieb says.
As Gottlieb knows, the institutional fact is that the spying done by Facebook and an ever-expanding portion of the rest of the infrastructure for off-the-job life is every bit as vital to corporate capitalists as is detailed knowledge of paid labor processes. Barring a huge popular uprising against them and their system, the powers-that-be are simply never going to desist from gathering such data. Power concedes nothing, and scrambles to cover its trail when important concessions threaten to get discussed. Hence, this phony little mea culpa melodrama.
Categories Corporate Marketing 101, Data Scraping Tags Cambridge Analytica, corporations, data
Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Corporation
Thursday, September 18, 2014 Thursday, September 18, 2014 by Michael Dawson
The mega-marketing platform known as the National Football League is taking some heat for its employment (Captain Renault is shocked!) of violent people.
The NFL's hypocrisy, meanwhile, is a mere grain of sand compared to that of its sponsors. To wit:
"The behaviors are disgusting, absolutely unacceptable, and completely fly in the face of the values we at PepsiCo believe in and cherish."
Thank you, sugar-water pusher!
"We are not yet satisfied with the league's handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code."
That's Budweiser talking.
"As a brand that has always supported women and stood for female empowerment, COVERGIRL believes domestic violence is completely unacceptable."
Yes, make-up is all about empowerment and equality.
"McDonald's is a family brand."
The only howler bigger than these shameless lies about corporate values is the suggestion that any of these capitalist behemoths might ever refrain from availing themselves of the NFL's services as an eyeballs-and-eardrums rancher.
Categories Eyeballs and Eardrums (The Media) Tags corporations, NFL, sponsors, sports Leave a comment
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Tuesday, April 8, 2014 by Michael Dawson
According to a Wall Street Journal report on the latest Commerce Department statistics, the system is functioning normally:
U.S. corporate profits hit new highs last year, driven by the tight lid firms have kept on hiring and spending almost five years into the economic recovery.
A closely watched measure of after-tax corporate profits rose to $1.9 trillion in the final three months of the year, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Corporate profits stood at 11.1% of gross domestic product, up a bit from the prior quarter.
The latest uptick underscored a factor that has dogged the economy since it emerged from recession: Many companies are guarding their cash rather than putting it back into the economy in the form of new hiring.
The normalcy extends in all the usual directions, too. According to Advertising Age, big business marketing also grows apace:
Why would major U.S. corporations keep a tight rein on almost all costs last year — except advertising?
By continuing their firm grip on hiring and spending, U.S. corporate profits reached new highs for 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Advertising expenses, at least for the top 1,000 companies, was the exception. According to Kantar Media, the biggest marketers boosted spending 3.3%, while smaller advertisers cut ad budgets 6.6%.
Maybe companies figured it was cheaper to spend money on advertising than to invest in research and development to try to stay one step ahead of the competition.
But that meant advertising's job [even more] often was to divert attention from the product itself and toward emotional and purpose-driven benefits.
What's going on? As one of the fake product differentiators says in its ads, it's not complicated: Corporate capitalism is succeeding at serving its one and only purpose.
Categories Corporate Capitalism, Corporate Marketing 101 Tags corporations, growth, marketing, profits Leave a comment
Koop it Up
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Wednesday, June 26, 2013 by Michael Dawson
In the spirit of C. Everett Koop, Joycelyn Elders, and Diane Ravitch, it appears we have our latest heretical honest public servant mistakenly-appointed high government agency administrator. This time, it's Julie Brill, pictured at left, head of the Federal Trade Commission. Per Advertising Age:
Big data brokers are "taking advantage of us without our permission." Those were the words of Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill this morning at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference in Washington.
The commissioner, often vocal on data-privacy issues, called on Congress to legislate what she calls a "Reclaim Your Name" program, one that would establish technical controls allowing people to access the information data collectors have stored about them, control how it is shared and correct it when necessary.
As always, the reaction was immediate:
The Direct Marketing Association was caught off guard by Commissioner Brill's announcement. "DMA has been in discussion with Commissioner Brill regarding ways to increase transparency in the 'data broker' industry, but was surprised to see her announcement of this new initiative," said Rachel Thomas, VP of government affairs at DMA. "The FTC's Section 6B inquiry into 'data brokers' is still ongoing, and the Commission has yet to articulate a specific problem that would justify a call for congressional action in this area," she continued in an emailed statement.
The fun continued, too, as Brill dared tell the obvious truth about another aspect of corporate marketing-spying:
Ms. Brill indicated that the FTC believes mobile device IDs are personally-identifiable…. "Information linked to specific devices is, for all intents and purposes, linked to individuals," she said.
The FTC is calling on data companies and users of consumer data "to commit to a robust program to de-identify their information," she said, arguing that predictive analytics have rendered much of the consumer information collected as forever linked to individuals, no matter industry's claims that the information often is anonymized or aggregated.
Companies should "take both technical and behavioral steps to make sure information used in advertising is truly and completely de-identified." Ms. Brill didn't make distinctions between data collected and used by first-parties and third-parties.
Countless retailers and consulting firms that provide data services to them — such as Acxiom, Merkle and many others — handle terabytes of personally-identifiable consumer data on a regular basis.
Ms. Brill's comments come amid revelations that the National Security Administration has gleaned consumer phone call and Internet data from corporations including Verizon, Google and Facebook. Indeed, corporate data-harvesting practices for logistics and marketing purposes have facilitated the controversial NSA data grab.
Companies collecting or employing data should make a public commitment not to re-identify information, and should contractually require their partners to make the same commitments, continued the commissioner.
How can you tell when you have the overclass dead-to-rights? That's when they have nothing left to say but plain denial. According to Ad Age:
Many of the companies using device IDs to track in-store shopping behavior and other location-based interactions hold that they are not.
"Many" here means "all," of course…
One wonders: How long til Zerobama cans Brill?
Categories Lifelines, Privacy Tags big data, corporations, data 4 Comments
Saturday, May 18, 2013 Saturday, May 18, 2013 by Michael Dawson
My digging around in the Fortune 500 data — part of the slow progress toward the Courting Carmageddon book — shows that the annual revenues of the biggest 100 U.S.-based corporations is now (2011) equal to 50% of U.S. GDP. This is achieved with a number of employees equal to 8.7% of the U.S. labor force.
In 1954, by the way, the Top 100 took in revenues equal to 24% of GDP with employees numbering 7% of the national labor force. Thus, the revenue share has grown four times faster than the employment share, despite the rapid rise of the supposedly labor-intensive service sector of the corporate economy.
Talk about something that's simply unsustainable! Alas, such utterly basic facts have zero chance of ever being reported in the marketing platform known as the mainstream corporate media…
McDonald's, by the way, is not in the 2011 Top 100! It is #107…
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Turns out our friends who are "in the advertising business" are major tax evaders. The Guardian recently ran a story reporting:
Filings for Facebook Ireland, through which all of the social network's profits outside the US are channelled, show it paid the Irish tax authority €3.2m (£2.9m) last year.
Facebook is structured so that companies buying advertisements on the website in the UK, or anywhere outside of the US, have to pay Facebook Ireland. This allowed Facebook Ireland to make gross 2011 profits of £840m – or £3.1m per each of its 287 staff. Despite the high gross profit, Facebook Ireland was able to cut its tax bill to just €3.2m by using an accounting technique called the "Double Irish".
The manoeuvre allows multinationals to move large amounts of money to other subsidiaries in the form of royalty payments. Facebook moved nearly £750m to the Cayman Islands and its Californian parent in licensing and royalty payments. After the transfers, Facebook Ireland reported a £15m annual loss, despite it accounting for 44% of the social network's $3.15bn (£1.95bn) revenues.
Like Apple and Google, Facebook uses its Irish subsidiary to reduce its liabilities to HM Revenue & Customs and other European tax regimes. Amazon and Starbucks also cut their British tax bills by using the same technique via other European countries.
Business Insider notes that this represents an effective tax rate of 0.3%.
All perfectly legal, of course, in our continuing epoch of [Black] Reaganism.
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Radioactive materials give off a form of energy that travels in waves or particles. This energy is called radiation. When a person is exposed to radiation, the energy penetrates the body. For example, when a person has an x-ray, he or she is exposed to radiation.
Radiation is measured using the unit sievert or rem, which quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissues. One sievert is 1,000 millisieverts (mSv). One millisievert is 1,000 microsieverts. One sievert can be converted to 100 rem.
People are constantly exposed to low levels of naturally occurring radiation called background radiation and man-made sources. Background radiation comes from cosmic radiation and from radioactive elements in air, water, and earth. Cosmic radiation is concentrated at the poles by the earth's magnetic field and attenuated by the atmosphere. Thus, exposure is greater for people living at high latitudes, at high altitudes, or both and during airplane flights. Radioactive elements, particularly uranium, are present in many rocks and minerals. These elements end up in various substances, including food, water, and construction materials. The doses from natural background radiation are far too low to cause radiation injuries, although they may increase the risk of cancer. Man-made sources involve medical imaging and radiation therapy.
Normally, people are exposed to natural radiation of 2-3 mSv a year. In some parts of the world, people receive between 5 and 10 mSv a year.
In a CT scan, the organ being studied typically receives a radiation dose of 15 mSv in an adult to 30 mSv in a newborn infant.
A typical chest X-ray involves exposure of about 0.02- 0.67 mSv, while a dental x-ray can be 0.01 mSv.
What happens after radiation exposure?
Exposure to 100 mSv a year is the lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident. A cumulative 1,000 mSv (1 sievert) would probably cause a fatal cancer many years later in five out of every 100 persons exposed to it.
Large doses of radiation or acute radiation exposure destroys the central nervous system, red and white blood cells, which compromises the immune system, leaving the victim unable to fight off infections.
For example, a single one sievert (1,000 mSv) dose causes radiation sickness such as nausea, vomiting, bleeding, but not death. A single dose of 5 sieverts would kill about half of those exposed to it within a month.
Though rare, but radiation accidents happens, here are some examples.
The Japanese Government reports at one point, radiation levels near the stricken plant on the northeast coast reached as high as 400 millisieverts (mSv) an hour. That would be would be 20 times the annual exposure for some nuclear-industry employees and uranium miners. Radiation levels then dropped to about 0.6 millisieverts per hour.
If radioactive iodine is released into the air after a radiological or nuclear event it can be breathed into the lungs. In most cases, once radioactive iodine has entered the body, the thyroid gland quickly absorbs it. After it has been absorbed into the thyroid gland, radioactive iodine can then cause thyroid gland injury. Potassium iodide, also called KI, is a prophylaxis to block radioactive iodine rom being taken into the thyroid gland and protect this gland from injury.
The thyroid gland cannot tell the difference between stable and radioactive iodine and will absorb both. KI works by blocking radioactive iodine from entering the thyroid. When a person takes KI, the stable iodine in the medicine gets absorbed by the thyroid. There is so much stable iodine in the KI that the thyroid gland becomes "full" and cannot absorb any more iodine—either stable or radioactive—for the next 24 hours.
It is also important to know what KI cannot do. KI cannot protect parts of the body other than the thyroid from radioactive iodine. KI cannot protect the body from any radioactive elements other than iodine. If radioactive iodine is not present, then taking KI is not protective.
A single dose of KI protects the thyroid gland for 24 hours. Taking a higher dose of KI, or taking KI more often than recommended, does not offer more protection and can cause severe illness or death.


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title: Mid-term Quiz Results
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A few weeks ago we gave a quiz to the SWC students on the first three topics of the course: Version Control, Spreadsheets, and Databases.  We did this in addition to our student check-ins in order to get a sense of how the students were doing with the material.  Half of the class (24 students) submitted their answers.

Results:

Everyone did really, really well!  The majority of the mistakes were small SQL syntax errors, or other similarly minor things.

Problem areas:

Spreadsheets — Absolute References:

This was probably the most common error made on the quiz.  There were quite a few instances where students failed to recognize the necessity of using absolute references in their solutions.  (Questions 2 and 6 in the Spreadsheets section of the quiz.)

Databases — Nested Queries:

The final question of the quiz involved nested queries.  A few of the students did not use nested queries correctly, or failed to use them at all.

Version Control — Comments:

Ah, of course.  There was tendency for students to skip the "give a meaningful comment" part when explaining how to commit changes to a repository.

Overall, the students did very well.  We did not assign numeric scores, but the majority of the quizzes were perfect or near to it.

Well done, Fall 2010 class!

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Speakers voiced concern about "drill and kill" style teaching, deficit thinking, and Kendall Pace's comments.
Employee Compensation Plan will provide a 1.5% base salary increase to all employees. The final budget will be adopted after a public hearing in June.
Interlocal Agreement between UT and AISD for district's 2017-2022 Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Grant passed 6-0-2. Trustee Gordon and Trustee Elenz abstain because of their affiliation with UT.


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L'espèce fait partie de la section Weilbachia.
Elle a été décrite en 1999 par Utley''' - Kathleen Burt-Utley et John F. Utley.

Répartition géographique
Cette espèce est originaire du pays suivant : Mexique.

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The Vancouver Aquarium is a non-profit organization; our earned revenues, such as those earned from our Café, directly support our education, conservation and research initiatives.
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This Morning: Wake up and smell the hypocrisy
Ben Davis November 28, 2017 April 26, 2019
Wake up and smell the hypocrisy, with This Morning hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. Take a moment to compare the two exchanges below. In the first video, Schofield and Willoughby mock Christians for believing people can't change their biological genders, branding their view "utterly abhorrent" and "medieval."
Schofield: "You said, 'The issue lies with the fact that recognising gender fluidity conflicts sharply with your religious beliefs. It's not unreasonable to call someone a girl if they are born a girl.' And that in itself could lead you straight back into the fire because that is not the way now that we are led to believe that's how we should be addressing children… Children do kill themselves! … You're both Christians. It doesn't seem very Christian to me for you to be so intransigent… So, in your eyes, it's not possible to be born in the wrong body?… I'm finding this utterly abhorrent… Well, we'll get back to the show and back to 2017 and not medieval Britain in just a moment…"
Now, compare that to the second video in which Schofield appears visibly stunned as a guest details her transition from white to black. The clip begins with Schofield face palming as the woman details her belief that she can change her biological ethnicity.
Schofield: "You understand that race and colour is much more than skin deep. It's heritage, and pedigree and tradition, and history, and, and, and struggle – it's all of those things that you can't hope to get anywhere near with three tanning injections."
Selective science and hypocrisy at its finest.
Trans-gender: OK
Trans-race: NOT OK
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Prescott student honored with Hildebrand Seymour-Junkman Award at UW-River Falls
May 31, 2016 -- A first-generation Health and Human Performance graduate from Prescott has been honored with the Hildebrand Seymour-Junkman Award from the College of Education and Professional Studies (CEPS) at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
Matthew Pechacek received the award, presented to a graduating senior with the highest grade point average (GPA) in each of the four UW-River Falls colleges, at a ceremony earlier this month.
"It was a very rewarding and gratifying feeling, knowing that all my hard work and determination is being recognized," Pechacek said.
Pechacek graduated from the Health and Human Performance program with a 4.0 cumulative GPA. While studying at UW-River Falls, Pechacek lived on his parent's dairy farm, where he continued to work throughout this college career. Along with his brother, Pechacek is the first of his family to attend college. That, coupled with a lifelong love of learning, has driven him to work hard and succeed.
"Throughout high school and college, I found I have a passion for learning new material," he said.
Pechacek was also selected by the Exercise and Sport Science program faculty for this year's Outstanding Student Award, and he's a McNair Scholar. He will begin pursuing a doctor of physical therapy degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June.
"Matthew's hard work and dedication to his studies serves as an example to all of us," said Larry Solberg, dean of CEPS. "I wish him the best as he continues his education."
For more information, contact Solberg at 715-425-3774 or larry.c.solberg@uwrf.edu.