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Buried near the end of John Markoff's front-page feature in the Times today about "deep learning", neural-net-inspired software, this tidbit, which I think requires no further elaboration, but is worth noting, and noting again:
One of the most striking aspects of the research led by Dr. [Geoffrey] Hinton is that it has taken place largely without the patent restrictions and bitter infighting over intellectual property that characterize high-technology fields.
"We decided early on not to make money out of this, but just to sort of spread it to infect everybody," he said. "These companies are terribly pleased with this."
Said companies will (a) build a new industry on these openly shared ideas; (b) make fortunes; and then (c) dedicate themselves to locking those ideas up and extracting maximum profit from them.
That's inevitable and nothing new. Let's be glad, though, for the occasional Geoffrey Hintons and Tim Berners-Lees, who periodically rebalance the equation between open and closed systems and keep our cycle of technology evolution moving forward.
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Journal's Sarb-Ox goof, Kos's flawed polls: New kinds of errors demand new kinds of corrections
June 30, 2010 by Scott Rosenberg 1 Comment
Once upon a time in journalism, an error was a mistake in a story, and a correction was a notice published after the fact fixing the error. This kind of errror and correction still exists, but in the new world of news the error/correction cycle keeps mutating into interesting new forms.
Consider these two recent examples, one involving the Wall Street Journal and Twitter, the other involving Daily Kos and its polling program.
On Monday morning, decisions were pouring out of the U.S. Supreme Court and keeping reporters who deal with it very much on their toes. I noticed a flurry of comments on Twitter suggesting that the court had struck down Sarbanes-Oxley, the corporate-fraud bill passed nearly a decade ago in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals. That struck me as odd, and so I clicked around till I found an AP story about the ruling, but that piece reported that only one tiny provision of the law had been overruled.
Eventually I traced the source of this confusion back to a single tweet from the Wall Street Journal's Twitter account, announcing "BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down Sarbanes-Oxley." Twelve minutes later the Journal tweeted, "Only part of law is affected. We'll have more." Another 13 minutes later, the Journal quoted Chief Justice Roberts' opinion as saying that Sarbanes-Oxley "remains fully operative as law." So in 25 minutes the Journal did a 180.
Now, anyone trying to post breaking news to a service like Twitter is going to make mistakes. If you followed the Journal's stream it was evident that the paper had simply goofed in its first take. (Felix Salmon takes them to task here, and Zach Seward, the Journal staffer who was manning the paper's tweet-stream, responds in the comments.) How should a news organization deal with such a goof?
I'll give the Journal half-credit: they re-reported a more accurate version of the news quickly. Their staff was forthright in explaining the situation in public on the Web. And they didn't take the cowardly memory-hole route of simply deleting the erroneous tweet.
What the Journal never did, though, was simple admit the error as an error. This should not be so hard! The moment it became clear that the tweet was a mistake, the paper should have posted something along the lines of: "We goofed with our previous notice that Sarb-Ox was struck down", along with a link to the tweet-in-error.
There is no good argument for not doing this. Embarrasment? Forget it, this is the ephemeral world of Twitter. Legal repercussions? If the paper is worried about lawsuits, it shouldn't be attempting to distribute breaking news via Twitter at all. Reputation? That's better protected by admitting error than by driving past it.
I think the Journal's handling of this mistake reflects the imperfect efforts of an old-school newsroom to adapt its traditions to a new world. Next time something like this happens, and of course it will, let's see how much the paper has learned.
For an example of how a new-school newsroom handles a much larger problem, take a look at Daily Kos's dispute with the pollsters at Research 2000, which had been providing the popular liberal blog community with its own polling for some time.
A trio of "statistics wizards" uncovered some patterns in Research 2000's data that suggested it was unreliable at best, fabricated at worst. Kos proprietor Markos Moulitsas didn't just announce the problem; he published the entire statistics dissertation explaining the issue and posted a lengthy explanation of his own view of the affair.
The whole thing is highly embarrassing for Daily Kos. You can bet that any conventional news hierarchy would have done its best to hide the evidence, minimize the damage, and "stand by our story" as much as possible — particularly in light of the likely lawsuits down the road.
Kos instead throws the whole affair onto the table and declares war on his former polling partners. It's not pretty, but in its own way it's admirable.
[Cross-posted to the MediaBugs blog]
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Memo to Steve: We already are a nation of bloggers
June 2, 2010 by Scott Rosenberg 27 Comments
Let's look at Steve Jobs' comment last night at his onstage interview at the Wall Street Journal's D conference and see how many mistaken assumptions and fallacies we can mine from it:
""I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers myself. We need editorial more than ever right now."
First, there's a condescending assumption here that bloggers are some sort of inferior order. This is the sort of ressentiment we often hear from laid-off newsroom denizens who blame legions of bloggers for the business troubles of their former employers. But it's funny to hear it from one-time rebel and industry-disrupter Jobs. Jobs has his own beef with the tech-news blogosphere, which relentlessly struggles to break the cone of silence he imposes on Apple news. But here he lets the chip on his shoulder place him on the wrong side of history. The media institutions he praised at D (New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal) have all been leading the charge to embrace blogging themselves.
Next, there's this strange notion that blogs aren't, or can't be, "editorial." If an editor is someone who makes choices about what to cover, then any good blogger is also an editor. If an editor is someone who reviews someone else's copy for mistakes or quality control, then most bloggers have an army of editors — their readers. Yes, blogging has largely discarded the old model of editing as bureaucratic workflow, and that has pros and cons. But to suggest that blogs are somehow bad because they aren't "editorial" — and that the traditional newsroom's editing process guarantees something better — betrays a real ignorance of how journalism really works.
Most important, there's Jobs' implicit belief in a zero-sum, either-or media world, in which either bloggers prosper at the expense of the old-fashioned newsroom, or traditional media prospers and bloggers are put in their place. Such views have always been wrong-headed, and never more so than today. We are in the middle of a full-throttle reinvention of the news industry, as old-line journalism rushes to figure out how to bring its skills and traditions to bear in the new realities of online news and throngs of hard-working, imaginative bloggers are experimenting with new styles and techniques of journalism that technology has enabled. It is not a time for handwringing about the prospect of a "nation of bloggers." We are already a nation of bloggers. The only question is, how do we make sure we get the news and information we need now that we are?
Given all this, it seems a shame that — when it comes to media, at least — Jobs, who once encouraged his Macintosh team with a war-cry about how much better it was to be a pirate than to join the navy, has chosen to side so visibly with the fleet.
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"Say Everything" in paperback, and new postscript
June 1, 2010 by Scott Rosenberg 1 Comment
When we were preparing the new paperback edition of Say Everything — on sale as of today! — I knew I wanted to add some material covering the period since I brought the book to a close (roughly the end of 2008). To keep this material as timely and up to date as possible we decided to publish the postscript online rather than add it to the book.
I offer this now for what I hope is your pleasure. The essay, "Four cases for the persistence of blogging," stands on its own as a look at the impact of four phenomena — Twitter, Facebook, Apple's App Store, and the rise of content farms — on blogging and the future of the independent Web.
To keep my life simple I'm not hosting comments over on the book's site, but this thread here at Wordyard can serve that purpose.
Here's a brief excerpt:
The Internet, as it has evolved in the nearly two decades since its emergence from the public sector that incubated it, is a messy, sometimes anarchic commons. The same openness that allows myriad novelties, including blogging, to prosper also leaves it vulnerable to con artists, junk peddlers and spam. Businesspeople from Steve Jobs on down dream of reasserting control over the environment, cleaning up the mess, banishing the hackers and cranks and porn merchants, and figuring out how to reinflate profit margins that the Web has, for the majority of industries, decimated.
For this vision to be realized, the legions of bloggers whose ascent Say Everything chronicled must drop their keyboards and docilely accept losing all the autonomy, bonhomie and voice that their posts have provided for them. No one should wait up for that to happen any time soon.
The Wall Street Journal: Cavalier about corrections?
May 25, 2010 by Scott Rosenberg 26 Comments
Last week I wrote about my fruitless quest to alert the Wall Street Journal to a mistake it had made in a book review — misspelling the name of the author the piece mainly focused on.
Yesterday I made one final effort to close this loop; I emailed the book review's author, Philip Delves Broughton. Broughton responded quickly and courteously, agreed that it was a mistake (one he'd been responsible for), and noted that as a freelance contributor all he could do was notify the book review's editor.
As of today this mistake, now 11 days old, remains uncorrected. In the face of my persistent and no doubt annoying barrage of emails, phone calls, and blog posts, the Journal newsroom has remained entirely mum.
Now, there are a few ways to read this situation. You could say: Who cares? It's just a misspelling of somebody's name.
If it's your name, of course, you may care a great deal. If you're the author, you might care not just for vanity, but for the sake of the people who might be Googling your writing or looking your book up to purchase it on Amazon.
In this case, the author, Mac McClelland, happens, right now, to be doing some on-the-ground reporting from the Gulf oil spill for Mother Jones. If you were her, you might want readers to connect the book review with the in-the-news byline.
So another possible response is: The Journal's editors and reporters are very busy people. They've got financial meltdowns to cover. Why are you harassing them with this trivia?
That's just fine — unless the Journal actually cares whether its readers trust its coverage. If a news outlet can't be bothered to get an author's name right, can you count on it to get the financial stories right?
I'm sorry, but none of these responses is adequate. Until and unless we get a more plausible response, the only interpretation that makes sense is a very sad one: that the Wall Street Journal, once one of the world's great trusted news institutions, lacks a functioning correction process. Or it simply doesn't care about sweating the details any more.
UPDATE: This post is now linked to from Romenesko, and the very first comment there provides a nice illustration of my argument. Mark Jackson writes, "Really? This is a big deal to you? Column inches. Limited space. Priorities. Possibly the world financial system crashing was a bigger issue? Just sayin'."
It seems to me that the Journal has every right to say, "We no longer have the resources to fix small errors like misspelled names. You should no longer count on us getting that stuff right."
Something tells me no editor at the paper is likely to say that. Because when most of us signed on as journalists we signed on for the small stuff too. And readers expect that — and expect some kind of response from the newsroom when they point out an error.
[Crossposted at the MediaBugs blog]
How hard is it to report an error to the Wall Street Journal? Hard.
The correction process is a simple thing in most newsrooms, right? If the news outlet gets something wrong, people will tell the editors — they'll email or call or post a comment on the website. And then the editors will correct the mistake.
End of story? If only.
One of the early field results of the MediaBugs experiment is a simple one. It turns out that, in the case of many news organizations, including some pretty prominent ones, just figuring out how to tell the newsroom that there's a problem requires persistence and stamina.
Consider this anonymous error report we received at MediaBugs a few days ago. It said that the Wall Street Journal, in a recent book review, had misspelled the name of the author being reviewed. The book is Mac McClelland's For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question. The Journal spelled her name "McLelland." (The publisher's page listing the book, which I'll take as an authoritative source, spells it with the extra "c.")
Now, MediaBugs is focused on Bay Area-based news organizations and coverage, and — while we'll handle reports that focus on the Journal's Bay Area coverage — we're not going to deal with most of the paper's content. So we marked the McClelland report "off topic."
But I figured that it did seem to be a real mistake, albeit a small one (but not that small, unless you think misspelling the name of the central subject of an article is not a big deal). If I were an editor at the Journal I'd want to know about it and correct it. So as a courtesy I set out to inform the newspaper.
My first stop was the story's comments, where I thought I'd just post the information and let the Journal editors glean it at their leisure. The page had zero comments, so I figured my note would not be lost in a sea of rants.
I wrote a brief note about the problem, then discovered that I would need to register at the Journal site before they'd accept my comment. So I registered and confirmed my email address, re-entered my comment, and clicked "post." Nothing happened. I tried again with a different browser, guessing that there might be some browser-specific posting bug. No luck with either Firefox or Safari. No wonder the story has zero comments! So much for that feedback channel. (To try to figure out what the problem was, I took a look at the next day's Journal books piece. It had five comments — so sometimes, I gues,s the comments work. Interestingly, these comments reported errors in that review: it contained impossible, self-contradictory dates. These errors were reported five days ago. The piece has not been corrected.)
For my second approach, I looked for some link on the Journal site for "corrections" or "report an error." No such link exists on the Journal home page, nor did searching voluminous "Help" and "Customer Service" pages turn up anything. The "Contact us" page offers three general email addresses for feedback, labeled as follows:
Send a comment/inquiry about an article or feature in The Wall Street Journal to: wsjcontact@dowjones.com.
React to something you've read on WSJ.com at: newseditors@wsj.com.
Offer a comment/suggestion about features and content on WSJ.com at: feedback@wsj.com.
I challenge anyone who is not a part of the WSJ organization to interpret which of these three lines of inquiry would be an appropriate choice to report an error. Apparently there's a distinction between responding to the print and Web editions of the Journal, but what about with stories that appear in both places, as is the case for so much Journal content? And what are we supposed to make of the distinction between "reacting to something you've read" and "offering a comment/suggestion about features and content"?
I opted for door number one, since I was reporting a mistake in the printed Journal and that seemed to be the choice relating to the newspaper as opposed to Web-only material. But plainly I was grasping at straws. I sent a polite note to the wsjcontact address, and copied it for good measure to the managing and executive editors' addresses that were also listed on the Contact page. This was two days ago.
For my third effort, I resorted to the good old telephone. The Journal only lists a single phone number on its Contact page, so I called it. It turns out to be an automated inbox for the entire Dow Jones operation. So you walk your way through the voice menu patiently, only to end up at a recording that tells you there's no one to receive your call but you're welcome to leave a message.
So that's what I just did. I will now rest from my labors. We'll see if any of these efforts elicits a response, or whether this post somehow prods the Journal beast from its slumber.
I went to these lengths because, right now, this is my work. But we shouldn't have any illusions about normal members of the public. They won't jump through these hoops. They will conclude — rightly or wrongly but very understandably, either way — that the newsroom doesn't actually care about hearing about its mistakes.
If we want to understand why people don't trust the media, this might be a very good place to start.
[Crossposted to the MediaBugs blog]
No more bouncers at the journalism club door
May 3, 2010 by Scott Rosenberg 27 Comments
[I'm posting a lightly edited text of the talk I gave Friday at Stanford Law School's "Future of Journalism: Unpacking the Rhetoric" conference. As you will see, I took seriously the concept of unpacking the rhetoric, and tried to answer the questions on the event's agenda.]
I've been asked to defend the tenet "We are all journalists now." But there are so many questions in those five words!
Who is we? What is a journalist? When is now? And, most importantly, for those of you whose memories extend back to the Clinton administration, what is the meaning of is — or in this case, "are"?
We aren't all journalists now. My wonderful parents? they're not journalists. They have a computer that's connected to the Internet. But they're not journalists. My ten-year-old twins? They aren't, either. Not yet, anyway.
Am I? I've been a writer for 30 years. Worked for a newspaper for 10, a web magazine for another 10. But I never went to journalism school. Never been a member of SPJ or any other professional organization.
So I'm not happy with "we are all journalists now." Let's give it an edit. Let's change it to "Now, anyone can do journalism."
So what have I done here? First, I've moved from focusing on the role, the label, the professional imprimatur of the word "journalist," to the verb, the activity, the pursuit. I've switched from talking about an individual's identification with a professional label to pointing our attention to an activity.
Second: I've changed the statement from one about static definitions of states of being to one about the potential for participation.
We're still going to have to address the fact that the "we" in the first version and the "anyone" in the second still ignore those reaches of our society and world where the tools of the Internet remain either inaccessible or unfamiliar. So we probably need to do one more tweak of the wording, maybe to "Now, anyone who's online can do journalism" — or "Now, anyone on the network can do journalism."
Now these are tenets I can get behind.
Still, we're left this term "doing journalism." What are we talking about here?
Here's my take: You're doing journalism when you're delivering an accurate and timely account of some event to some public.
Roberts is to pager as Bush is to scanner
April 23, 2010 by Scott Rosenberg 3 Comments
Way back in ancient times, a decade ago, I wrote a piece for Salon that mentioned the widely circulated anecdote about President George H.W. Bush (the elder) casting a wondering gaze at a supermarket scanner. The tale had legs during the 1992 election cycle because it echoed a sense in the electorate that Bush was out of touch with the common people who were then suffering through a miserable recession.
I believe Bush was indeed out of touch. But my reference to the tale evoked several outraged emails from readers who accused me of perpetrating an urban myth. Bush had been treated unfairly by this news meme (Snopes.com has the details), and I had repeated the injustice.
I learned a couple lessons from the experience. One was to redouble my efforts as a journalist to question received wisdom. The other, more important lesson was that the knowledge my readers were going to send (and sometimes hurl) my way was invaluable. (Or, in Dan Gillmor's famous phrase: "My readers know more than I do.")
I thought of all this recently as I encountered the latest transmutation of the Bush/scanner meme. Yesterday The Huffington Post picked up a report on a law blog that made out Chief Justice Roberts to be a technological naif who had to ask, in the middle of an argument, "what's the difference between email and a pager?"
I read the original blog post. Then I read the comments. Then I read the link to the original transcript of the argument that a commenter had helpfully provided. And I concluded for myself (you might feel otherwise, but I doubt it) that — however much Roberts may be more radical a conservative than I would wish — he's not an idiot, and he had a reasonable basis to ask the question.
The self-correcting online feedback loop works a lot faster today than it did 10 years ago, and a lot more openly (we didn't have comments on Salon back then). The "Roberts doesn't know what a pager is" meme ought, by rights, to have been stopped in its tracks. It will be very interesting to follow its course in coming weeks and months. Past experience suggests that, despite having been arrested early on on the web, it will now be amplified on cable and in print and have a long half-life in our collective psyche.
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MediaBugs: day one, and widgets
Yesterday we went live with our public beta of MediaBugs. If you find something in any news report in the SF Bay Area that you think needs correcting, come on down and file a bug report!
We got some coverage from Mallary Tenore at Poynter.org, who talked with journalism experts on errors and corrections like Scott Maier and Craig Silverman (a project adviser); Megan Garber at Nieman Lab, whose piece walked through the tale of our first corrected bug; and Tracey Taylor at Berkeleyside. We're grateful for the attention.
MediaBugs is on Twitter as @media_bugs if you want to follow us there.
You'll also find, at the bottom of this and every post on this blog, a link that says "Report an error." This is a demo of how MediaBugs works as an embedded service. Ideally, you shouldn't have to go to another site to report an error on a page you're already reading, right? You should be able to report the error in situ — in place. We'll be offering this to media partners and anyone who has a website that covers Bay Area news. The code is pretty simple. Give it a spin!
Where I've been: MediaBugs, MediaCritic, speaking
February 17, 2010 by Scott Rosenberg 2 Comments
OK, I'm still here! Here's what's up:
(1) MediaBugs: I've been deep in bringing this project — a sort of public bug-tracker for Bay Area news coverage — to life. Ben Brown's really been doing the hard lifting. (If you have a social website of any kind to develop, I can't recommend him, his company XOXCO, and his platform PeoplePods highly enough!)
Meanwhile, Mark Follman and I are busy testing, planning, and talking with folks at local media outlets. If we haven't already reached out to you, you're probably on our list to get to, but if you're interested in talking with us don't hesitate to be in touch with me.
We're this close to beginning a brief closed beta-test, which will be soon followed by an open beta. If you want to check it out, just email me and I'll add you to the beta list.
Here's the logo! Aimed at representing the pragmatic, get-things-done stance we boiled down to a catch-phrase: "Fix the news."
(2) MediaCritic: We soft-launched this site last month. It's still very much an evolving thing. For now what I'm up to there is publishing a daily digest of the conversation on Twitter and the Web about the future of the news media. We call it the Tweetgeist. I'm having fun, but there's a lot more we — which is me, Dan Gillmor, and Bill Gannon — hope to achieve with it.
(3)Speaking engagements: I've got a bunch coming up! Here's info:
March 1: In conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll, at Berkeley Rep. A benefit for Park Day School. I'll be talking about Say Everything, blogging, the transformation of media, MediaBugs, and whatever else Jon decides we should talk about.
March 2: I'll be part of the amazing roster at Ignite Bay Area, with a five-minute, 20-slide blitz about the ideas behind MediaBugs. It's at 7 p.n. at Automattic, Pier 38.
March 13: At SXSW in Austin I will speak on a panel titled "Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple." Emily Gordon is the moderator and the other panelists are far cooler than I am. But I'm delighted to be going to SXSW.
Please forgive me for the blogging break! I expect to be here a bit more now.


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declare @EntityId int; select @EntityId =1 IF
  OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#sequence') IS NOT NULL  BEGIN
      DROP TABLE #sequence END   create table #sequence (id int not null primary key) INSERT INTO #sequence (id) VALUES((select
  Cast([szDocumentNrLocal] as int) from dbo.tms_Document_ex where
  EntityIdFk = @EntityId))

The code is producing the error: Msg 512, Level 16, State 1, Line 14
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
The statement has been terminated.
How do I do this properly please?

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A mentally-challenged man who disappeared six years ago was finally reunited with his elated mother, and explained how he hitchhiked and walked more than 1 800 kilometres from his home in Delft to end up in eSwatini.
Denzil Daniels (30) had been missing for such a long time that his mother Jane had given up hope of ever laying eyes on her son again. She had even gone as far as holding a memorial service to say goodbye, three years after his disappearance.
Jane was finally able to embrace her son again when they were brought together at the Oshoek Border Post between South Africa and eSwatini.
As reported by EWN, Denzil was elated to see his mother, who immediately burst into tears when they hugged, murmuring "My child, my child… oh how I've missed you," as she held on to him.
It is reported that Denzil seemed happy, but was also confused and dissociative, speaking softly. He said he had simply hitchhiked to eSwatini, making friends and working odd jobs to sustain himself.
"I helped people to earn some money, selling clothes and stuff like that… I missed my family," he said.
It is still unclear how Denzil was able to enter eSwatini without any documents, and even he cannot answer this question.
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Natalie Hunter investigates a cutting-edge technique that is helping researchers better understand how the brain works
Imagine being able to switch off the neurons that control an individual's fear response, turning a normally shy, timid creature into one unafraid of the unknown. Sound far-fetched? Well, researchers have achieved this with mice using a technique known as optogenetics.
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How does optogenetics work?
Optogenetics involves genetically modifying cells in order to make them sensitive to optical stimuli, meaning that their activity can be controlled by light. Years ago, researchers discovered proteins in some types of algae that respond to a specific wavelength of light; often these proteins are cell membrane ion channels, and so open or close in response to light.
Scientists hypothesised that if they inserted these proteins into the cell membranes of neurons, they might be able to control brain processes, using light to open and close ion channels to produce or inhibit action potentials. This, they thought, would be revolutionary, because it would make it possible to switch on and off specific groups of neurons at specific times, allowing scientists to test their role in behaviour with much greater precision. Prior methods of electrical brain stimulation had not been able to distinguish between particular groups of neurons, and also hadn't been able to avoid stimulating nearby axons of cells in other neural networks. The specificity allowed by optogenetics would overcome these issues.
Optogenetics is often achieved using the well-established technique of transfection. The gene in the algae which codes for the specific light-responsive protein, known as an opsin protein, is isolated. It is then inserted into a virus, which acts as a vector (though it is modified so that it can't cause disease), entering a host cell and forcing it to express the genetic material it is carrying. A 'promoter' DNA region that only allows expression in specific cells is also included in the transfected genetic code, to make sure the opsin protein is only produced in the desired cells.
What can optogenetics be used for?
Most optogenetic experiments so far have been done on model animals such as mice, and some exciting results have been produced. A lot of research has been done in the mouse amygdala, the brain region responsible for some emotions, including fear.
Mice are normally timid. Hesitant to enter large open spaces, they will sniff and investigate their environment before moving around. In one experiment, researchers transfected opsin genes into neurons in a mouse's amygdala, and then implanted a light-emitting diode (LED) into the skull in such a way that the targeted neurons were able to detect it. When the LED was switched on, the targeted neural circuit in the amygdala was inactivated, and the timid mouse suddenly became brave, venturing into open space without hesitation. When the light was switched off, the mouse scurried back to a corner.
Experiments like this can give unprecedented insight into the workings of the brain. They are letting scientists directly identify how specific neurons and circuits regulate specific behaviours for the first time.
Can we start using optogenetics to treat human diseases?
Some researchers argue these experiments show how optogenetics could be used to treat certain human diseases. For example, the experiments on fear in mice could potentially translate into treatments for anxiety disorders in humans. Work is being done to see if optogenetics could be used to treat neural illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, in a similar way to transcranial magnetic stimulation (read our article on TMS here).
However, there are many barriers to be overcome. First of all, the process of injecting a virus into a person's brain cells may carry risks, and public acceptance of such a procedure may be difficult to obtain. Secondly, it is very invasive; studies in mice require an LED to be inserted into the skull or spinal cord. Thirdly, our understanding of the many neural networks that underlie complex disorders and behaviours is still very limited, so we are not yet in a position to begin controlling them in humans.
But further optogenetic studies on model animals will increase our understanding of how the brain works, and in a way that traditional stimulation methods cannot. While the therapeutic use of optogenetics may be a long way off, its value as a research method is undeniable.
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Questions for discussion
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Global Covid cases top 295 million as Omicron spreads
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People do their Christmas shopping before the Dutch government's expected announcement of a "strict" Christmas lockdown to curb the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, in the city centre of Nijmegen, Netherlands 18 December, 2021AFP
The overall number of global coronavirus cases topped 295 million, with the new Covid strain Omicron showing a spike in the number of hospitalisations.
According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 295,124,311 while the death toll from the virus reached 5,456,620 Wednesday morning.
The US has recorded 57,048,800 cases so far and more than 830,071 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
As the super-contagious Omicron variant rages across the US, new Covid-19 cases per day have more than tripled over the past two weeks, reaching a record-shattering average of 480,000. Schools, hospitals and airlines are struggling as infected workers go into isolation, reports AP.
Meanwhile, hospital admissions averaged 14,800 per day last week, up 63 per cent from the week before, but still short of the peak of 16,500 per day a year ago, when the vast majority of the US was unvaccinated. Deaths have been stable over the past two weeks at an average of about 1,200 per day, well below the all-time high of 3,400 last January.
Omicron accounted for 95 per cent of new coronavirus infections in the US last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday, in another indication of how astonishingly fast the variant has spread since it was first detected in South Africa in late November.
Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since last January, registered 22,328,252 cases as of Tuesday, while its Covid death toll rose to 619,654.
India's Covid-19 tally rose to 34,960,261 on Tuesday, with 37,379 new confirmed cases registered in 24 hours in the country, as per the federal health ministry data.
The Indian ministry also reported 124 more deaths due to the pandemic, taking the total coronavirus toll to 482,017.
Situation in Bangladesh
Bangladesh reported 775 more Covid-19 infections with six more deaths linked to the virus in 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
The country's daily cases crossed 700 last on 6 October, 2021, with the logging of 703 cases and 23 deaths.
With the detection of fresh cases after testing 19,740 samples, the daily case positivity rose to 3.91 per cent from Monday's 3.37 per cent during the period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The fresh numbers took the country's total fatalities to 28,087 while the caseload mounted to 1,587,915.
Meanwhile, the mortality rate remained static at 1.77 per cent during the period.
Besides, the recovery rate further declined to 97.61 per cent with the recovery of 185 more patients during the 24-hour period.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh's total tally of Omicron cases stood at 10 with the detection of three cases on Friday, according to GISAID, a global initiative on sharing all influenza data.
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Chrissy Amphlett, née Christina Joy Amphlett le  à Geelong, Victoria, Australie et morte le  à New York, est une chanteuse australienne. Elle fut la chanteuse du groupe Divinyls des années 1980 et 1990.

Biographie
Elle grandit à Geelong et devient chanteuse et danseuse. Elle quitte le foyer familial adolescente et voyage jusqu'en Angleterre, en France et en Espagne où elle est emprisonnée pendant trois mois pour avoir chanté dans la rue.
Elle meurt en 2013 d'un cancer du sein et de la sclérose en plaques.

Les années Divinyls
Le groupe Divinyls a été créé en 1980 avec Mark McEntee, qui a joué un morceau de musique du film Buffy the Vampire Slayer en 1992. En 1990, ils sortent leur plus gros succès, le célèbre single I touch myself extrait de l'album éponyme Divinyls.

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Chanteuse australienne
Naissance à Geelong
Naissance en octobre 1959
Décès en avril 2013
Décès à New York
Mort d'un cancer du sein
Mort de la sclérose en plaques
Décès à 53 ans
Mort d'un cancer aux États-Unis

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Spojka je strojní součástka, která spojuje obvykle hnací a hnaný hřídel a slouží k přenosu kroutícího momentu, někdy také k vyrovnání vzájemné nesouososti obou hřídelů. Podle druhu použití můžeme dělit spojky například na pevné (např. trubková, kotoučová aj.), které přenášejí stálý kroutící moment mezi hřídeli, a na spojky pohyblivé (např. třecí lamelová spojka), které umožňují rozpojení mezi dvěma hřídeli a tím přerušení přenosu kroutícího momentu. Významnou součástí strojů je pojistná střižná spojka (např. kotoučová spojka se střižným kolíkem), která zajistí přerušení kroutícího momentu přestřižením kolíku, pokud se překročí kroutící moment, který je předepsán pro daný stroj. Jsou také důležité pro tlumení rázů. Spojky lze postavit i tak, aby umožňovaly rozpojení za chodu, axiální/radiální pohyb hřídelí nebo umožňují plynulý rozběh.

Pro přenos kroutícího momentu ve spojkách se používá mnoho různých způsobů a součástí, např.: kolíky, čepy, lícované šrouby, pryže (např. spojka PERIFLEX) nebo různé konstrukční úpravy spojkových kotoučů, jako například u zubové spojky a v neposlední řadě se používá třecí síly jako například u třecí lamelové spojky, která má velký význam v automobilovém průmyslu.

Druhy spojek

Existuje 8 hlavních skupin spojek:
 Pevné spojky – pevné spojení dvou souosých hřídelí bez žádných přídavných vlastností
 Pružné spojky – tlumení rázů a vibrací
 Vyrovnávací spojky – vyrovnávání nesouososti obou hřídelí nebo jejich vzájemný pohybu
 Výsuvné spojky – rozpojení hřídelí za klidu
 Třecí spojky – plynulý rozběh hnaného hřídele i rozpojení za provozu
 Rozběhové spojky – automatický plynulý rozběh hnaného hřídele
 Pojistné (bezpečnostní) spojky – omezuje přenášený kroutící moment
 Jednosměrné spojky – přenášení kroutícího momentu pouze jedním směrem

Výpočet krouticího momentu spojky
Pokud je spojka na hnací i hnané straně klidně zatížena, je přenášený krouticí moment v Nm dán vztahem:

kde P je výkon v kW a n otáčky za minutu.

V praxi spojka nepřenáší jen jmenovitý moment, ale moment větší kvůli nerovnoměrnostem v konstrukci a různým typům hnacích a hnaných strojů. Proto musí být dimenzována na jiný moment a stavěna pro větší námahu, než se kterou se normálně počítá. Vztah pro přenášený moment je tedy upraven:

kde C ≥ 1 je provozní součinitel.

Provozní součinitel
Tento součinitel je koeficientem, upravujícím hodnotu kroutícího momentu tak, aby spojka snesla případný přenos většího krouticího momentu. Závisí přibližně úměrně na tom, do jaké výkonnostní třídy patří hnací a hnaný stroj. Pokud je hnacím strojem malý elektromotor nebo parní turbína a hnaný stroj jen malé dynamo nebo promítačka, koeficient je určen jako C=1 až 1,4. Při stejném hnacím stroji, ale nejvyšší třídě hnaného stroje, dosahuje součinitel hodnoty 3 až 3,9. Nejvyšších hodnot dosahuje součinitel při nejsilnějších hnacích strojích a nejtěžších hnaných strojích, např. spojka mezi stacionárním čtyřdobým jednoválcovým benzínovým motorem a vysokotlakým čerpadlem má součinitel 4,4 až 5,3.

Pryž má velký vliv na tlumení spojky, a proto je u pryžových spojek voleno vždy nižší rozmezí hodnot součinitele.

Literatura

 Svatopluk Černoch: Strojně technická příručka (dva svazky), SNTL, Praha 1977

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Petrolympic Added to the Evangeline Lake Gold Property, Bob Tough Shaft
Wednesday, November 24, 2021, 5:45 AM MST
TORONTO, Nov. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Petrolympic Ltd. (TSX.V:PCQ) (OTC:PCQRF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an agreement to acquire three (3) additional Mining Claims covering 75 Ha and located in the heart of the previously purchased Evangeline Lake gold property, which consists of 24 map designated mining claims (cells) covering 600 Ha Southwest of Espanola, Ontario, District of Sudbury (NTS 41/04F), approximately 70 km Southwest of the town of Sudbury, a major gold mining center in Central Ontario.
On execution of the purchase agreement between the vendors and the company, the purchase price will be satisfied through the issuance of an aggregate of 200,000 common shares of the Company. Upon the completion of the transaction the Company will have acquired 100% interest in the mineral rights of the Property. The vendors will also receive a 2.0% NSR royalty from all eventual commercial mineral production on the project.
The issuance of the common shares under the transaction shall be subject to applicable securities laws, any securities regulatory authority having jurisdiction, and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange, and the common shares shall be subject to a four-month hold period in accordance with applicable securities laws and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. Completion of the acquisition remains subject to approval by the TSX Venture Exchange.
The gold potential of the property, as outlined in a previous press release dated November 11, 2020 (filed on www.sedar.com), includes the following key elements:
The Evangeline Lake property lies within a belt of Huronian metasediments which strikes east-west for a distance of 53 kilometers. Numerous gold occurrences are found within this belt adjacent to the Charlton Lake Fault in association with diabase dykes and several old gold and silver producing mines were active during the late 1930's and early 1940's within this metasedimentary belt. These mines include the McMillan Gold Mine, Majestic Mine, Bousquet Mine, Hawry Creek Mine and Upsala Mine.
The mineralogical and structural nature of the gold mineralization in Evangeline Lake property is similar to the before-mentioned gold properties. The gold bearing quartz-carbonate veins in the area are apparently associated within and at the contacts of folded quartzite and pelite units in close proximity to diabase sills and dikes. Gold occurs in its native state and intimately associated with arsenopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. The gold bearing vein systems are associated with fault/shear zone environments and at pelite/quartzite contacts.
Bob Tough Gold Mines Limited carried out surface exploration and diamond drilling on the property. Based on these results, a three-compartment shaft was sunk to the 150-feet level, where 118 feet of cross cutting was completed. Gold values up to 6.6 g/t Au over 1.36 m were recorded for holes drilled by the company during the late 1930's.
In 1988 a geophysical survey was done on the property. The contoured Magnetometer/VLF-KM surveys outlined numerous east-west trending conductors and magnetic anomalies.
Based on these promising evidence, a thorough exploration program including geological and geophysical surveys will be prepared to generate targets for more detailed exploration works.
The technical contents of this press release were approved by George Yordanov, professional geologist, an Independent Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
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This news release contains information about adjacent properties on which the Company has no right to explore or mine. Readers are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on the Company's properties.
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Certain information contained or incorporated by reference in this press release, including any information regarding the proposed acquisition, constitutes "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are to be considered forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based on a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, geological and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance. Known and unknown factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include but are not limited to: economic and global market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, fluctuations in market prices, exploration and exploitation successes, continued availability of capital and financing, changes in national and local government legislation, taxation, controls, regulations, expropriation or nationalization of property and general political, economic, market or business conditions. Many of these uncertainties and contingencies can affect our actual results and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, us. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and, therefore, readers are advised to rely on their own evaluation of such uncertainties. All of the forward-looking statements made in this press release, or incorporated by reference, are qualified by these cautionary statements. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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Longtime producer on Leno's move to 10 PM: "It is very depressing"
Famed producer Peter Lassally, who worked with Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" before moving on to "Late Show with David Letterman" and then "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," told Broadcasting & Cable that NBC's decision to put Jay Leno on at 10 PM every weeknight "doesn't feel good to me at all."
"If I were Conan O'Brien, I would be very upset," he told B&C.
Despite his personal disappointment, Lassally does understand why NBC is launching The Jay Leno Show weeknights at 10, thus keeping late night's top dog from jumping to a rival network.
"NBC was desperate to keep Jay Leno," Lassally says. "But the mistake they made was five years ago when they decided he wasn't the man for the job. Now they just had to find a way to keep him. It's a very adventurous decision. It can change things for NBC in either direction."
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It feels bad to me, too. It could be another nail in the coffin for original ie scripted content, already battered by the rise of game shows and "reality" TV. That's 1/3 of NBC's prime time devoted to talk, rather than dramas or comedies. I know *I* won't be tuning in except for performers, in the last ten minutes of the show.


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Welcome to the 150th Anniversary timeline!
150 Years: The 2014 Spring Convocation
The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP), observing the 150th anniversary of its founding this year, focused on both history and church renewal at its annual Spring Convocation April 29 and 30, 2014.
The gathered alumni heard from three keynoters. The Rev. Dr. Philip D.W. Krey, seminary president and Ministerium of New York Professor of Early Church History, led off Tuesday morning with a focus on the circumstances of the seminary's founding in 1864 with an eye to the school's mission and challenges for the future. At points during the program, the Rev. Dr. Katie Day, holder of the Charles A. Schieren Chair in Church and Society and Director of the seminary's Metropolitan/Urban Concentration, served as facilitator and moderator for audience questions and discussion.
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Tuesday afternoon, remarks on "Renewal of the Church" were delivered by the Rev. Dr. Kevin R. Johnson, senior pastor of Bright Hope Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Pastor Johnson serves as vice-chair of Lincoln University's Board of Trustees. His activities also include sitting on the boards of Philadelphia's Urban League, the Forum for a Better Pennsylvania, and the Mayor's Voter Task Force. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College, having received the Martin Luther King, Jr., and Oprah Winfrey Scholarships. He earned his MDiv from Union Seminary in New York City, receiving the prestigious Maxwell Fellowship, awarded to the seminarian deemed most likely to succeed in parish ministry.
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On Wednesday morning, the topic of church renewal was addressed by the Rev. Beth Ann L. Stone, an assistant to Bishop Robert Driesen of the Upper Susquehanna Synod (PA) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. A student of current literature on the evolving church and the faith lives of young adults, Pastor Stone is known for pulling together research findings, theological reflections, and pastoral experiences to offer an informed perspective on the seismic shifts new generations of Christians are bringing to the church. She received her MDiv from Trinity Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, and her BA from St. Olaf College in Minnesota.
Listen and watch remarks by Pastor Stone:
The seminary presented three Alumni Awards for Distinguished Service to Pastor Violet C. Little, MDiv '91, the Rev. Rafael Malpica Padilla, MDiv '81, and Bishop Dwayne D. Royster, MAR '10. Pastor Little founded The Welcome Center in Philadelphia, a place of hospitality and healing for people experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia. She serves as mission developer and pastor for The Welcome Church, a congregation without walls serving Philadelphia's homeless community. Pastor Malpica Padilla serves as executive director of the Global Mission program unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The initiative fosters deepening relationships and partnerships with Lutheran churches in some 50 countries. Bishop Royster is the founding pastor of Living Water United Church of Christ in Philadelphia's Oxford Circle. He also serves as executive director for Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild (POWER), an interfaith social action coalition of more than 35 Philadelphia-area faith communities that among other things has been advocating for improved working conditions and benefits for employees at Philadelphia International Airport. Royster has also served on the city council of his Norristown, Pennsylvania, home community.
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A highlight of the Spring Convocation was the Wednesday chapel sermon message, "Curious George," delivered by the Rev. George E. Keck, retired director of admissions for the seminary, and a member of the seminary's class of 1964, which was observing its 50th reunion.
At the banquet honoring the distinguished alumni, class gifts were announced by reunion year classes. In all, the class gifts totaled $$26,742. Highest percentage of givers was the 50th anniversary Class of 1964 at 46% and their total giving was $10,546, also the highest of the classes. The Rev. Gus Wedemeyer accepted the dual awards for the 50th anniversary class (in photo, left).
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The striped legless lizard (Delma impar) is a species of lizards in the Pygopodidae family endemic to Australia. As of 2015 it is threatened with extinction, with few habitats left.

The lizard is up to 30 cm in length. It is superficially similar to a snake, and sometimes confused with the deadly brown snake. However, it is more closely related to the gecko and the skink. It has vestigial legs and an unforked tongue. Most of its body is made up of a non-detachable tail.

Habitat
The striped legless lizard was formerly distributed throughout temperate lowland grasslands in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), the south-western slopes and Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, central and southern Victoria, and the south-eastern corner of South Australia. The distribution of the species has declined, with many known sites no longer supporting populations. Due to habitat fragmentation the remaining populations are probably small and isolated.

Its sole habitat within Canberra is scheduled for development in late 2015–2016, which will destroy most of the small-animal population there. In an innovative effort, prior to bulldozers destroying the grasslands, roofing tiles are being used as "heat bait" to attract the lizards in the area. The captured lizards are then planned for evaluation, tracking, and transportation to what may be a sustainable habit  away.

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In 1967, The Kinks took a major turn in their sound and direction and released Waterloo Sunset to the world and was an instant chart success, breaking the top 10 in most of Europe as well as Australia and New Zealand. Why haven't you heard of this monster hit, then? Because you're either not a Kinks fan or you live in America, where it failed to chart at all.
How a song like Waterloo Sunset could fail to chart in America is beyond reason or explanation. With a beautiful melody, catchy guitar, and a gorgeous production, this song has all the makings for a world wide phenomenal success and it has become one of The Kinks', and more specifically Ray Davies', most enduring works.
Waterloo Sunset is written in the narrative style for which Ray Davies would become a legend in the songwriting community and is at times melancholic, reminiscent, hopeful, charming and sad. The narrator of the song describes things that he sees from his window over looking the river. A deeper look at the lyrics would suggest that the narrator may suffer from a phobia or mental hardship that prevents him from leaving his home as he sings "But I am so lazy, don't want to wander, I stay at home at night" but the one thing that calms his fears and unease is to stare at the beautiful Waterloo sunset.
Attention is often given to this being a love song about Terry and Julie who meet every Friday night and therein lies the genius of this lyric. On the surface, one can view the narrator of this song as simply a story telling device or as the protagonist of the song. When the focus is on Terry and Julie, the song is sweet, simple, and endearing but when the focus is on the narrator, the song is sad, heartbreaking, but hopeful. No interpretation is wrong and no interpretation is right but where every Kinks fan can agree is that this depth and beauty is what makes Ray Davies one of the greatest song writers of the rock era.
Beyond the lyrics, the musical arrangement is stunning. Perfect guitar lines flow in and out of the melody and the backing vocals are among the most arranged and prevalent in the entire Kinks catalog. Along with being the first single released in full stereo by The Kinks, it's also the first song that the band would produce on their own, a practice that would continue for the rest of their career.
Waterloo Sunset is one of those songs that every songwriter wishes they had written and few ever come close. There is something about this song, something indescribable, that speaks directly to the heart. Maybe it's the perfect marriage of lyric, melody, chord progression, arrangement, and performance or maybe it's just a smart song writer hitting a peak in his abilities or maybe it's dumb luck. Whatever it is, we are lucky that it exists and that the power of music can speak through simple works of pop music such as this.
With every note perfectly placed and orchestrated and equally important to the structure of the song, nothing could be added to make this a better piece of music and nothing could be subtracted without damaging the quality of the song. It's pop perfection.
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Rupert Pupkin Speaks: Underrated '56 - James David Patrick ""
-------Of all my Underrated lists, Underrated '56 proved the most difficult. I may have said that before, but this time I really mean it. Honest. I came up with four - and only because I happened to toss While the City Sleeps into the DVD player last week. I'm still thinking about adding A Man Escaped to the bottom of this list, but it's hard to consider Robert Bresson's masterpiece underrated. I'll just conclude this pitiful introduction by adding that if you haven't seen A Man Escaped, do it now. Do it yesterday, actually. Push it to the top of your Cinema Shame list. That way I won't feel guilty about not writing about it and we can all soldier on with a clear conscience.
One of the obscure jewels shown during the 2016 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. Most of us attended the screening knowing nothing about the film other than "Argentinian Film Noir" - which was all we needed to pack the theater. Los Tallos Amargos (The Bitter Stems) is a tawdry tale of toxic machismo cloaked in chiaroscuro. I'm really trying to sell the movie with that one line. Is it too late to get a blurb on the poster of a 1956 film from Argentina? Did those blurbs have to be in Spanish? Because I don't think I can accurately translate that, despite my many years of Spanish classes that I've forgotten.
A Buenos Aires newspaperman gets wrapped up in a correspondence-school scam with a scheming Hungarian. And if there's a lesson to learn from Los Tallos Amargos, it's never get involved with a scheming Hungarian. Suspicion drives one of the men to commit a most heinous murder... but that which is buried doesn't always remain underground.
The headscratcher finale offers much conversation fodder. But even if you don't believe it all comes together in the end (and I think it does), there's no disputing the gorgeous black and white cinematography by Ricardo Younis.
A tense, wildly uneven and wholly entertaining exercise in the misappropriation of journalistic integrity. I don't think I'm overstepping my analysis when I suggest that this might be the best film of Fritz Lang's American career. Dana Andrews leads a fantastic cast featuring the likes of George Sanders, Vincent Price, and Ida Lupino among other notables. Even though the script skews dry, the cast, especially Dana Andrews and his curious facial ticks, keep the audience engaged.
Lang's film proves unsettling in its prescience as it lays bare the self-fulfilling media machine. This is the German director showcasing his personal distaste for the America of the 1950's - both personal and professionally. His camera lingers on the vulgarities of interior design, sentimental idiosyncrasies (kitschy porcelain knick-knacks, for example) and his own cynical view of the business of mass media.
The villain comes off as a sexually confused misfit, toothless really. Though the film initially recalls Lang's M, While the City Sleeps evolves into something much broader, more Billy Wilder-ish perhaps. Despite the lurid tagline (Sensational Lipstick Murder!) that might have come from a giallo poster, While the City Sleeps is merely a noir with a figurehead villain and an entire commercial enterprise to blame for his sins.
If you like your film noirs in CinemaScope and drenched in oversaturated Deluxe color, then boy do I have a film for you. A Kiss Before Dying looks strange, talks strange and acts strange. Perky opening titles fit for a Doris Day rom-com ease you into the Odd, but there's still a steep learning curve. One scene slams to a halt to admire a woman in a see-through blouse. A pregnant woman falls down stairs - with no consequence. At one point a guy coughs, interrupting the scene and it's impossible to tell whether it was actually part of the script or director Gerd Oswald just didn't care to film another take.
As I questioned the competency of Mr. Oswald and studied his filmography, I came to the conclusion that Hollywood also called his ability into question. After a few big projects early in his career (Crime of Passion with Sterling Hayden and Barbara Stanwyck being the most notable), the industry sent him to Siberia, aka TV and Europe, to practice his trade.
That said, A Kiss Before Dying entertains in spades both as a result and in spite of its quirks. It's a basic money grab noir narrative. A college student (a devious Robert Wagner) woos an heiress purely for her money but finds out she's pregnant. When he fears she'll be disinherited, he stages her suicide. The girl's sister, however, has her doubts about the legitimacy of the suicide. The appeal of A Kiss Before Dying has little to do with the story being told. Just let the haywire noir wash over you like a shower of coconuts.
Rod Serling originally wrote Patterns - a tale of "corporate politics and boardroom bloodletting" - as a teleplay. The episode aired on January 12, 1955 as part of the Kraft Television Series. After the success of the television episode (it actually re-aired four weeks later due to popular demand), Serling adapted the story to the big screen with a few adjustments to the narrative to make it more cinematic.
Serling spins a Shakespearean tale of greed and corruption, deliciously acted by the ensemble cast headlined by Ed Begley and Van Heflin (who might be a little too old here at 46 to be playing a "junior executive," but I'll never argue with a Van Heflin appearance). Most astounding is that fact that the film, now 60 years old, remains perfectly contemporary.
Patterns is a paced endeavor, a study in acting and understated tension. I fail to comprehend how and why this film isn't better known considering it's timeless relevancy and Rod Serling pedigree.
So glad you included "A Kiss Before Dying" on the list. Even though it's shot in colour and CinemaScope, the film itself is really unsettling and Robert Wagner exudes true creepiness.
Also thrilled to see you talk about "Patterns", which I haven't seen for years and need to revisit soon.


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U.S. Women Win Fourth World Cup Soccer Title
L.A. soccer fans watch the final game of the women's World Cup at the L.A. Football Club's stadium.
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Gabriel Cortes | July 8, 2019
The U.S. women's soccer team won its fourth World Cup title Sunday after it beat the Netherlands 2-0 in Lyon, France. Angeleno fans watched the game and celebrated the victory at the L.A. Football Club's stadium adjacent to the Coliseum.


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est le trente-quatrième tome de la série Michel Vaillant. Il a pour thème principal les difficultés des pilotes Vaillante face aux Leader dans le championnat du monde de Formule 1.

Synopsis
Steve Warson et Michel Vaillant dominent le championnat du monde de Formule 1 mais, un an après le très grave accident de Dan Hawkins à Indianapolis, l'écurie Leader annonce son retour à la compétition et ses débuts en Formule 1 lors du Grand Prix automobile d'Allemagne. Steve se remet dès lors à penser à Ruth qu'il n'a plus revu depuis le drame d'Indianapolis.

Il retrouve par hasard la jeune femme à Paris et retombe amoureux. Sur la piste, les Leader réussissent leurs débuts en remportant les Grands Prix d'Allemagne et d'Autriche. Alors qu'il veut demander Ruth en mariage, Steve reçoit une invitation de la part du Leader.

Personnages réels présents
 Mario Andretti
 Niki Lauda
 Vittorio Brambilla
 Didier Pironi
 James Hunt

Notes et références

Michel Vaillant


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Moreno and Pataky Crowned Little Mr. and Miss 2015
By Lauren Bergner
The Little Mr. and Miss 2015 pageant was held on September 26th, 2015 at New Haven City Park. The event was sponsored by New Haven High School Student Council, and was another fun activity in accordance to the New Haven Balloon Festival. Student Council members Kate Weiser, Lauren Bergner, and Maddie Fleer were the pageant's judges, while Henrik Linzenich and Michelle Bahena hosted the event.
To start the day off, the 5 contestants rode on the "Pirate Ship" parade float along with several Student Council Members and advisor. The contestants threw out candy, while showing off their "international" attire.
Shamrock Cross Country Competes at Belle
By Clare Roth
The Shamrocks raced their hearts out Thursday, September 24 in the Belle Invitational.
The varsity girls, led by freshman Julia McIntyre, placed sixth with a score of 111 points. McIntyre placed second overall with a time of 20:38 to St. James senior Leslie Perona.
Senior Clare Roth followed after McIntyre (28th in 24:11), with junior Lucy Roth following (37th in 24:57), and sophomore Natalie Hoerstkamp (62nd in 28:35) and freshman Audrey Ford (63rd in 28:39) rounding out the pack.
The junior varsity boys also competed, placing third with a team score of 96 points. The JV Shamrocks were led by sophomore Ryan Blankenship, who placed 7th with a time of 20:27. Dalton Gerdes (20th, 21:55), Austin Moeckli (25th, 22:20), Robbie Cichon (35th, 22:49), and Colton Ruediger (36th, 22:50) also ran.
Keven McDowell was the only member of the team to compete in the varsity boys race, placing 21st with a time of 19:23.
New Haven High School Named National Blue Ribbon School
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Announces 2015 National Blue Ribbon Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today recognized 335 schools as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2015 based on their overall academic excellence or their progress in closing achievement gaps among student subgroups. These schools demonstrate that all students can achieve to high levels.
"This honor recognizes your students' accomplishments and the hard work and dedication that went into their success," Duncan said in a video message to the awardees. "Your journey has taught you collaboration, intentional instruction, and strong relationships in school and with your community. You represent excellence—in vision, in implementation, and in results—and we want to learn as much as we can from you."
Eight Missouri Schools Named Blue Ribbon Schools
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Eight public schools in Missouri have been honored as 2015 Blue Ribbon Schools, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday.
The national award honors schools for high levels of academic achievement or significant progress in closing gaps in achievement among disadvantaged and minority students.
Missouri's Blue Ribbon Schools are:
Blanchard Elementary, Cape Girardeau 63 School District
Ralph M. Captain Elementary, Clayton School District
Ladue Middle School, Ladue School District
Truman Middle School, Lindbergh Schools
New Haven High School, New Haven School District
McKelvey Elementary, Parkway C-2 School District
West Middle School, Parkway C-2 School District
Kennard Classical Junior Academy, St. Louis City School District
Senior Movie Night
The Senior Class is hosting a movie night this Saturday night, October 3rd at 7 pm in the high school gym. Doors will open at 6:30. This event is open to students only, and The Avengers will be playing. This event will help raise money for the Senior class. Pizza, candy, and popcorn will be there for purchase! Admission is a free will donation. We hope to see you there!
Shamrocks Fall to the Bearcats in Third-Place Match
Starting on Monday, September 21, the New Haven Shamrocks volleyball team competed in the 60th annual Hermann Invitational Volleyball tournament. In pool play, New Haven played Owensville, Union, and St. Francis Borgia.
In their first game against the Owensville Dutch girls, senior Lauren Bergner had 5 kills and senior Erin Scheer had 18 assists. The Shamrocks won the first set 25-7, and lost their second set, 24-26.
Pin Oak Pumpkin Patch Opens in October
Pin Oak Farms U-Pick Pumpkin Patch will be opening this weekend. The Pumpkin Patch will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in October. Pin Oak is owned by Duane and Michelle Brune and is located on 2431 Highway E, in New Haven. With free admission, parking, and hayrides to the patch, who wouldn't want to enjoy the autumn fun?
Pin Oak Farm is more than just pumpkins--it's also family fun! The pumpkin patch offers: pumpkins of all varieties, 5-acre corn maze, Tub o'corn for little kids, kiddie corral, face painting, play areas for children, straw-bale maze, farm animals to pet, fall decorations, group bonfires, great fall picture backdrops, and yummy treats.
New Haven Garden Club
On July 14, members of the New Haven Garden Club visited the gardens of Norma Wilson and Joyce Oberle in Sullivan MO. Both are Franklin County Master Gardeners and Ms. Oberle is actively involved in the Monarch Butterfly Pollinator Protection Campaign. Following the tour, garden club members and their hosts enjoyed dinner in a local restaurant.
On August 11, members of the New Haven Garden Club visited Teraflora in Hermann, co-owned by Luci Valbuena and Terra Layton. Ms. Valbuena laid out three table settings and greenery arrangements for autumnal, Thanksgiving and Christmas entertaining. Members left with many ideas for creating festive tables for their holiday entertainment.
For more information on the NHGC please contact Rosalie M Laune, 573-237-2564 or coolchic@fidnet.com.
New Haven Softball Tailgate
Come support the New Haven softball team this Wednesday, September 30th. The tailgate will be held from 4 pm to 5 pm at Lion's Field. Hot dogs will be served and free water bottles will be handed out prior to the game.
Little Mr. and Little Miss Contest at the Hot Air Balloon Race
Ralph Scheer Retires After 45 Years
It is a sad time for the New Haven Lumberyard.
After 45 years of work, Ralph Scheer is finished. Known around town for being cheerful and helpful at the lumberyard, Scheer will officially be retiring soon. "I didn't even know it was 45 years until recently," Scheer says.
Scheer started working for the New Haven Lumberyard when he was 35. He originally worked for Warren Bauche at what is now the city shed downtown. "Before working for the lumberyard, I worked for Home Oil, Chrysler, and McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing)," Scheer says.
Students Weigh Options for Transportation to School
By Krista Bennett
When you are in high school, transportation is a big deal. Whether you ride the bus, drive your own car, or walk, students must find a way to make it to school. For some, it is not a problem getting to school. For others, it all depends on the situation.
While many students take it for granted, having a car is a blessing. For some, owning a car means having more freedom. On the other hand, there are many ways around getting a car.
Shamrock Conversations: Henrik Linzenich
Over the years, we have had a variety of foreign exchange students come to learn at New Haven High School. Last year, we hosted a girl from Germany, a girl from Italy, and a girl from Pakistan. A few years ago, we hosted a boy from Egypt. This year, New Haven High School has one foreign exchange student. Henrik Simon Linzenich is a 17 year old senior at New Haven High from Cologne, Germany. Besides the U.S., he has traveled to Canada, Turkey, Austria, Spain, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Greece.
Henrik stated, "I wanted to become a foreign exchange student because my sister was an exchange student in the United States once before and loved it. I also wanted to improve my English."
NHES to Host Walkathon
In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the New Haven Elementary Service Leaders will be hosting a walkathon to raise funds for Childhood Cancer Research on Friday, September 25, 2015 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The students will be walking and dancing on the field above the Elementary School. New Haven Elementary student Danika Huff suggested our school do something in honor of her friend Kyra who was diagnosed with cancer and passed away two years ago. All elementary students are collecting money until Friday, September 25, 2015. If you would like further information or would like to donate please contact Melissa Frick, Beth Ebker, or Eileen Roth at 237-2141 or email eroth@newhavenschools.us.
New Haven Rocks the Round-Robin Tournament
The 28th annual New Haven Round-Robin volleyball tournament was held on Saturday, September 19th. New Haven, Winfield, Bowling Green, and Belle were the teams competing in this year's tournament. New Haven played at 9 am against Belle, at 12 pm against Winfield, and at 2 pm against Bowling Green.
The Shamrocks came out strong in the first game against Belle, winning in two sets, 25-9, 25-14. In this game, libero Kim Hoffmann had 5 aces, and outside hitter Emma Borcherding had 8 kills.
Cheerleading Fundraiser at the Balloon Festival
This weekend at the Balloon Festival, the New Haven High School Cheerleaders will have a cotton candy fundraiser to help raise money for cheer uniforms for the 5 freshman who joined the squad. The funds will also go towards shoes and other things the cheerleaders need during the season.
On Friday, September 26, the cheerleaders will be selling nachos and cotton candy at the Balloon Glow.
On Saturday, September 27, the cheerleaders will be selling cotton candy after the parade at the Balloon Race.
Stop by the Cheer Booth and support your NHHS Cheerleaders!
Shamrock Softball Competes in New Haven Classic
By LeeAnna Linton and Patricia Weatherly
Over the weekend, New Haven hosted their annual Softball Classic, in which eight teams participated. New Haven played Calvary Lutheran, Hancock, and Hermann.
The first game was against Calvary Lutheran at Lion's Field. The end score was 5-1 in Calvary Lutheran's favor. Coach Scheer stated that the girls had great defense, but still need to approve on batting. The only run was scored by starting pitcher Emily Scheer by a home run error play on Calvary. Due to the loss, the Shamrocks were 0-1 in the tournament, heading towards their second game.
The second game was against Hancock at Bock Field. The end score was 16-0 in New Haven's favor. This was New Haven's first win of the season. The game ended with Mercy Rule in the second inning. Emily Scheer was one pitch away from pitching a perfect game. The Shamrocks went up through their line three times in the first inning. A highlight of the game was Scheer hit a triple and ran in three RBIs. Due to the win, the Shamrocks were 1-1 in the tournament, heading towards playing for Consolation.
Shamrocks Take Three Firsts at Steelville
The sun shined--no, the sun beat--on September 17 in Steelville, where the cross country boy's team won the Steelville Invitational for the second year in a row, with frontrunners Nathan Ford and Julia McIntyre taking first in both varsity races. With temperatures reaching upwards of 90 degrees, this was a hot one.
The Shamrocks couldn't be bothered by the boiling temperatures.
Coach John Tucker says, "looking at the times, both my boys and my girls teams ran well. We've been running in the heat and we've been hydrating well, so I really don't think it was a factor for us."
New Haven Shamrocks Defeat Union Wildcats
On Thursday, September 17, 2015, the Shamrocks took on the Union Wildcats in their second conference volleyball game on their home court. First, the freshmen played and defeated the opposing team in three sets. Then, the junior varsity team also won, but this time in only two sets. Last but not least, the Varsity team had their turn to play the Wildcats. During the game, the Shamrock's setter, Erin Scheer, had a total of 19 assists, and one of the outside hitters, Emma Borcherding, had a total of 8 kills and also 8 digs.
When asked about how she thought the game went on Thursday night, a middle hitter, Lauren Bergner said, "I thought we served well and protected our court well against them."
Another player, Maddie Fleer said, "I feel as though we accomplished what Mrs. Hoener wanted us to, especially with our serving and I look forward to playing them again in the Hermann tournament."
The Shamrocks ended up with a win that night, the first set going 25-6, and the second set 25-9.
Missouri on pace to complete 47.5-mile extension of Katy Trail from Windsor to Pleasant Hill, Gov. Nixon announces
JEFFERSON CITY – Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that by the end of 2016, Missouri State Parks expects to complete the extension of the Katy Trail from Windsor to Pleasant Hill along the Rock Island Trail State Park. The 47.5-mile-long extension will allow hikers and bicyclists greater access from the Kansas City region to the 240-mile long Katy Trail, which runs from Clinton to St. Charles County.
"One of my top priorities as Governor has been to improve and expand our outstanding state park system and give Missouri families and visitors even more ways to enjoy the outdoors," Gov. Nixon said. "At a time when other states were closing state parks or charging entrance fees, here in Missouri we worked hard to improve the health and wellbeing of our communities by expanding access to affordable outdoor recreation. This extension of the nationally-recognized Katy Trail will continue to provide Missourians and visitors alike with an outstanding opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the Show-Me State."
Balloon Festival Parade Route
The annual Balloon Festival Parade will begin at 1 pm this Saturday, September 26th. The parade route will begin at New Haven Elementary School and end at New Haven High School.
Check out the map of the parade route below:
Balloon Festival
Presented by Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of New Haven
The Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of New Haven will host its 26th annual Balloon Race Saturday, Sept. 26, at 3 p.m., at the New Haven City Park.
The race includes more than 20 hot air balloons from across the Midwest.
The race is a hare and hound race, which means that the hare balloon takes flight first and marks an "X" where it lands. The hound balloons follow and try to drop a bean bag onto the X. The balloon that drops closest to the mark wins the race.
Balloons begin inflating for launch between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., weather permitting.
The New Haven Chamber of Commerce also will host balloon festival activities on race day, including a parade at 1:00 p.m. To enter a float for the parade, contact City Hall at 237-2349 or complete the parade entry form.
Refreshments and food will be available for purchase, as well as a bounce house and a little Mr. and Miss contest.
The third annual Balloon Glow will be held Friday, Sept. 25, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the New Haven City Park. The event offers spectators a breathtaking view of inflated hot air balloons lighted by their burners. Visitors can walk around the balloons and meet the pilots.
Park Drive will be closed for both events. Spectators are encouraged to park on Lion's Drive or in the New Haven High School and municipal swimming pool parking lots. Both events are free and open to the public.
New Haven Volleyball Round Robin Schedule
9:00 New Haven vs. Belle
10:00 Bowling Green vs. Winfield
11:00 Belle vs. Bowling Green
12:00 Winfield vs. New Haven
1:00 Belle vs. Winfield
2:00 New Haven vs. Bowling Green
3:00 Third Place Match
4:00 Championship
New Haven Softball Classic Rescheduled
The New Haven Softball Classic has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 19th. The tournament will take place at Lions and Bock Fields. New Haven's first game will be at 9:00 A.M. against Calvary Lutheran at Lions Field.
Check out the bracket below for more information on the tournament.
JV Places 3rd at Linn Invitational
On Saturday, September 12th at 7:30 a.m., the New Haven Cross-Country team arrived at the school to hop on a bus headed to Linn. Both the middle school and high school teams competed at this meet, with the first race beginning at 9:00am.
One of the two middle school girls competed. Grace Allgaier, an eighth grader, received a medal for placing 13th.
Out of the middle school boys, Dominic Lewis and John Hughes earned medals in their race. Lewis received 14th place, and Hughes received came in 15th.
For the high school events, the Varsity Girls ran first, followed by the JV Boys, and then the Varsity Boys ran last.


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Government and Politics Jul 9th 2020 - 2pm
$1.8 million in new work at Gamehaven park gets green light
First-time Rochester author projects dystopian future
"In Our Bones" is a kind of alternative history that at times doesn't seem so implausible.
Written By: Matthew Stolle | Dec 2nd 2020 - 8am.
"In Our Bones" by Pernell Plath Meier. (Contributed image)
"In Our Bones" is a work of fiction, but its themes of an unstable political system, a fraying society, and the growing appeal of white nationalist groups have unmistakable, real-life echoes. That's by design, said its author, Pernell Plath Meier.
Minnesota-born Lauren is a "troubled soul" who retreats into her own world as the country and its democratic traditions fall apart. The nation has descended into authoritarianism and is ruled by a President Trump-like figure. The book is a kind of alternative history, a what-if, that at times doesn't seem so implausible.
Published by Between the Lines Publishing in Lutsen, "In Our Bones" can be bought online on Amazon and Barnes & Noble or at Silver Lake Books in Rochester. It goes for $12.99.
Author Pernell Plath Meier. (Contributed photo)
Why did you call the book "In Our Bones"?
It's from one of the lines in the book: "We all knew in our bones that things were bad with society, that there was something wrong or something broken. We didn't quite know how to put our finger on it."
And, personally, I think that's what's going on with all this stuff. I'm an anthropologist by training and have studied small-scale cultures. If you compare modern society with how we meet our emotional needs now versus the small-scale culture, we're not even coming close.
So this brokenness leads to a Trump-like figure who essentially takes over.
That is my assertion. There is that meaning that people are looking for. There's a brokenness inside of people. Particularly, unfortunately, middle- and working-class white men, who have had a privileged position in society, have suffered a decline in status. And then you have a Trump-like leader who comes in and says, "It's not your fault that things are bad." It's the Black people. It's the immigrants. It's all these other people who are creating the problems that you're suffering from.
You don't have to look within or look at the larger structural issues of the economy. You just blame other people.
Why did you write the book?
Last summer, in 2019, I read the International Report on Climate Change from the (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), and was seeing all these trends with white nationalism and authoritarian tendencies. And I'm like, if all this stuff goes down, we are screwed. The book was a way for me to do something about the problem. Even if it was just writing a book, it was something I could do to address these things.
Why do you think such a dystopian world is a possibility?
I think Trump is a character that many people on the left want to dismiss as a fool. I'm not going to say Trump is so smart that he is playing four-dimensional chess like these QAnon people think. But he's not a fool. Narcissists, interestingly enough, often have more emotional intelligence than the rest of us. So, they know how to emotionally manipulate people. He knows how to whip up fear. He knows how to induce anxiety. He knows how to play on people's worst instincts.
It's one thing to write your first book. It's another to get it published. How did you get a publisher?
It was serendipity. I figured I was going to have to self-publish, because the timeline was so short. I wanted it out before the election. I was on a Facebook group for self-publishing people. I commented on somebody's post, and my publisher wrote to me on that thread. He's like, "Hey, what's your book about? Is your manuscript done?"
I submitted to them my first three chapters. They knew I could write from the chapters I submitted. It was still a leap of faith for them.
It appears to be getting a good reception, based on online reviews.
The only thing I know is I wrote my publisher, and I said, "Are you guys happy with the sales?" They are. That's all I know. I follow my sales rank on Amazon every day. It changes pretty dramatically from day to day.
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