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Al Jazeera America is shutting down television operations
Published time: 13 Jan, 2016 19:21 Edited time: 13 Jan, 2016 20:56
© Fadi Al-Assaad © Reuters
Cable news network Al Jazeera America is planning to terminate its operations in the United States effective April 30, 2016. This marks the end of a long decline of viewers and readers for the network.
Al Jazeera America to close down https://t.co/EmFjBw9uC1pic.twitter.com/HDea8ujTPt
— Al Jazeera America (@ajam) January 13, 2016
"I know the closure of AJAM will be a massive disappointment for everyone here who has worked tirelessly for our long-term future," Al Jazeera America's chief executive Al Anstey said in a memo. "The decision that has been made is in no way because AJAM has done anything but a great job. Our commitment to great journalism is unrivaled."
The network has had viewership problems since its launch, with only 20,000 to 40,000 people watching during prime time, according to CNN Money.
Dataminr-16-01-13
AJAM began in 2013, a few months after the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network purchased former Vice President Al Gore's Current TV for $500 million. The channel was billed as a more restrained, clearheaded alternative to mainstream cable news, but it was mired in issues from the start, including a lawsuit from Gore and very low ratings.
"Viewers will see a news channel unlike the others, as our programming proves Al Jazeera America will air fact-based, unbiased and in-depth news," AJAM's former CEO Ehab Al Shihabi said around the time of the launch.
Al Shihabi himself was the defendant in a discrimination lawsuit that claimed that he favored the network's Arabic and male employees. In May 2015, he was replaced, following the exodus of three of AJAM's top female executives.
To make its legal quagmires worse, the network's general counsel, David W. Harleston, was suspended in November after the NY Times reported that he wasn't actually licensed to practice law.
In late December, AJAM broadcast an hour-long documentary that implied that several sports stars, including Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, had used performance enhancing drugs. AJAM's source later said that he was not truthful, and Manning fervently denied the allegations.
"I'm not sure I understand how someone can make something up about somebody, admit that he made it up and yet somehow it gets published in a story," Manning told ESPN's Lisa Salters after the program aired. "It's completely fabricated. Complete trash, garbage. There are some more adjectives I'd like to be able to use, but it really makes me sick"
The documentary, called 'The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers,' ultimately made them the defendant in two defamation suits brought by baseball stars Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard in January. The two players sued the network for libel and false light invasion of privacy.
"[The] decision by Al Jazeera America's board is driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace," Anstey said.
The channel's end has been linked by some to the sharply dropping price of oil, which sunk below $30 a barrel on Tuesday. The government of Qatar – AJAM's ultimate owner – gets much of its income from the Gulf state's massive oil production.
feel horrible for all the talented people at Al Jazeera America. So many smart people doing great journalism. A bad day for broadcasting.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 13, 2016
Digital expansion
The announcement of the closure comes at a time when Al Jazeera Media Network's moves to expand operations on digital platforms into the US market, since audiences "increasingly turn to multiple platforms."
"By expanding its digital content and distribution services to now include the U.S., the Network will be better positioned to innovate and compete in an overwhelmingly digital world to serve today's 24-hour digitally focused audience," the parent company said in a statement.
Anstey says that he will make sure the channel keeps its standards as high as ever until the very end.
"Between now and April, we will continue to show America why AJAM has won respect and the fierce loyalty of so many of our viewers," Anstey wrote. "Through your remarkable work at AJAM we have shown that there is a different way of reporting news and providing information. The foundation of this is integrity, great journalism, impartiality, and a commitment to the highest quality story telling. This will be our lasting impact, and as we produce and showcase the best of our work in the weeks to come this will be clear for everyone to see."


PRINCETON, NJ -- Amid the government shutdown, 60% of Americans say the Democratic and Republicans parties do such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed. That is the highest Gallup has measured in the 10-year history of this question. A new low of 26% believe the two major parties adequately represent Americans.
The results are consistent with Gallup's finding of more negative opinions of both parties since the shutdown began, including a new low favorable rating for the Republican Party, and Americans' widespread dissatisfaction with the way the nation is being governed.
The prior highs in perceived need for a third party came in August 2010, shortly before that year's midterm elections, when Americans were dissatisfied with government and the Tea Party movement was emerging as a political force; and in 2007, when the newly elected Democratic congressional majority was clashing with then-President George W. Bush.
A majority of Americans have typically favored a third party in response to this question. Notably, support has dropped below the majority level in the last two presidential election years in which Gallup asked the question, 2012 and 2008. Support for a third party was lowest in 2003, the first year Gallup asked the question. That year, 40% thought the U.S. needed a third party, while 56% believed the Republicans and Democrats were doing an adequate job.
Republicans (52%) and Democrats (49%) are similar in their perceptions that a third party is needed. In fact, this marks the first time that a majority of either party's supporters have said a third party is needed.
As would be expected, a majority of independents -- those who profess no initial allegiance to either party -- have always said the U.S. needs a third party. Seventy-one percent currently hold that view, which has been exceeded twice before, in 2007 and 2010.
Given the inability of the Republican and Democratic parties to agree on the most basic of government functions -- passing an annual budget to pay for federal programs -- it is perhaps not surprising that the percentage of Americans who believe a third party is needed has never been higher.
However, the desire for a third party is not sufficient to ensure there will be one. Structural factors in the U.S. election system and the parties' own abilities to adapt to changing public preferences have helped the Republican and Democratic parties to remain the dominant parties in U.S. government for more than 150 years. Third parties that have emerged to challenge their dominance have not been able to sustain any degree of electoral success.
A record-low 18% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way the nation is being governed, down from 32% last month.


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package de.pfabulist.lindwurm.niotest.tests;

import de.pfabulist.kleinod.collection.Sets;
import de.pfabulist.lindwurm.niotest.tests.topics.Closable;
import de.pfabulist.lindwurm.niotest.tests.topics.FileChannelT;
import de.pfabulist.lindwurm.niotest.tests.topics.Move;
import de.pfabulist.lindwurm.niotest.tests.topics.Writable;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
import java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel;
import java.nio.file.ClosedDirectoryStreamException;
import java.nio.file.ClosedFileSystemException;
import java.nio.file.DirectoryStream;
import java.nio.file.FileSystem;
import java.nio.file.FileSystemNotFoundException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.OpenOption;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.WatchService;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributeView;
import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
import java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider;
import java.util.Collections;

import static java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption.APPEND;
import static java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption.READ;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

public abstract class Tests07Closed extends Tests06Attributes {

    public static final String CLOSEABLE_PLAYGROUND = "closeablePlayground";

    public Tests07Closed( FSDescription description ) {
        super( description );
    }

    @Test
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSisClosed() throws Exception {
        assertThat( getClosedFS().isOpen(), is( false ) );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCantRead() throws Exception {
        Files.readAllBytes( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCantReadDir() throws Exception {
        Files.newDirectoryStream( getClosedDirB() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedChannelException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCantUseReadChannelPosition() throws Exception {
        getClosedReadChannel().position();
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedChannelException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCantUseReadChannelRead() throws Exception {
        getClosedReadChannel().read( ByteBuffer.allocate( 2 ) );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedChannelException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCantUseReadChannelSize() throws Exception {
        getClosedReadChannel().size();
    }

    //
//    // todo test all other methods on all other channels
//
    @Test( expected = FileSystemNotFoundException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testCantGetClosedFSViaURI() throws Exception {
        getClosedFSProvider().getFileSystem( getClosedURI() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSnewByteChannel() throws Exception {
        getClosedFS();

        FS.provider().newByteChannel( getClosedFileA(), Sets.asSet( READ ) );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSGetBasicFileAttributeViewProvider() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        FS.provider().getFileAttributeView( getClosedFileA(), BasicFileAttributeView.class );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCreateDirectoryOtherProvider() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().createDirectory( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category({ Closable.class, FileChannelT.class })
    public void testClosedFSNewFileChannel() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().newFileChannel( getClosedFileA(), Collections.<OpenOption> emptySet() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCheckAccess() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        FS.provider().checkAccess( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category({ Closable.class, Writable.class })
    public void testCopyFromClosedFS() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().copy( getClosedFileA(), dirTA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category({ Closable.class, Writable.class })
    public void testCopyToClosedFS() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().copy( fileTA(), getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category({ Closable.class, Writable.class, Move.class })
    public void testMoveToClosedFS() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().move( fileTA(), getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSCreateHardLink() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().createLink( getClosedFileA(), getClosedFileA() );
    }

    //    //TODO
//    @Test( expected = ProviderMismatchException.class )
//    @Category( Closable.class  )     public void testCreateSymbolicLinkOtherProvider() throws IOException {
//        assumeThat( descriptionbilities.hasSymbolicLinks(), Is.is(true) );
//        assumeThat( descriptionbilities.isClosable(), is(true ) );
//
//        getClosedFSProvider().createSymbolicLink( getClosedFileA(), getClosedFileA() );
//    }
//
    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSDelete() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().delete( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSGetFileStore() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().getFileStore( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSIsHidden() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().isHidden( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    // todo
//    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
//    @Category( Closable.class  )     public void testClosedFSNewAsynchronousFileChannel() throws IOException {
//        assumeThat( descriptionbilities.hasAsynchronousFileChannels(), Is.is(true) );
//
//        getClosedFSProvider().newAsynchronousFileChannel( getClosedFileA(), Collections.<OpenOption>emptySet(), null );
//    }
//
    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSNewInputStream() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().newOutputStream( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    //
    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSNewOutputStream() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().newOutputStream( getClosedFileA() );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSReadAttributes() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().readAttributes( getClosedFileA(), BasicFileAttributes.class );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testClosedFSReadAttributesString() throws IOException {
        getClosedFSProvider().readAttributes( getClosedFileA(), "*" );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedFileSystemException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testAppendFilesInClosedFSThrows() throws IOException {
        Files.write( getClosedFileA(), CONTENT_OTHER, APPEND );
    }

    @Test( expected = ClosedDirectoryStreamException.class )
    @Category( Closable.class )
    public void testReadFromDirStreamOfClosedFSThrows() throws IOException {
        for ( Path kid : getClosedDirStream()) {
        }
    }

    /*
     * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     */

    public FileSystem getClosedFS() throws IOException {

        if( description.closedFSVars == null ) {
            description.closedFSVars = new FSDescription.ClosedFSVars( description.get( Path.class, CLOSEABLE_PLAYGROUND ) );
        }

        if( description.closedFSVars.fs == null ) {
            description.closedFSVars.fs = description.closedFSVars.play.getFileSystem();
        }

        if( !description.closedFSVars.fs.isOpen() ) {
            return description.closedFSVars.fs;
        }

        description.closedFSVars.provider = description.closedFSVars.fs.provider();

        description.closedFSVars.dirB = description.closedFSVars.play.resolve( nameB() );
        Files.createDirectories( description.closedFSVars.dirB );

        description.closedFSVars.fileA = description.closedFSVars.play.resolve( nameA() );
        Files.write( description.closedFSVars.fileA, CONTENT, standardOpen );

        Path closedCf = description.closedFSVars.play.resolve( nameC() );
        Files.write( closedCf, CONTENT, standardOpen );
        description.closedFSVars.readChannel = Files.newByteChannel( closedCf, READ );

        description.closedFSVars.uri = description.closedFSVars.play.getRoot().toUri();

        description.closedFSVars.dirStream = Files.newDirectoryStream( description.closedFSVars.play );

        try {
            description.closedFSVars.watchService = description.closedFSVars.fs.newWatchService();
        } catch( IOException | UnsupportedOperationException e ) { // NOSONAR
            // no watchservice provided
        }

        description.closedFSVars.fs.close();

        return description.closedFSVars.fs;
    }

    public DirectoryStream<Path> getClosedDirStream() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        return description.closedFSVars.dirStream;
    }

    public FileSystemProvider getClosedFSProvider() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        return description.closedFSVars.provider;
    }

    public Path getClosedFileA() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        return description.closedFSVars.fileA;
    }

    public Path getClosedDirB() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        return description.closedFSVars.dirB;
    }

    public URI getClosedURI() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        return description.closedFSVars.uri;
    }

    public SeekableByteChannel getClosedReadChannel() throws IOException {
        getClosedFileA();
        return description.closedFSVars.readChannel;
    }

    public WatchService getClosedFSWatchService() throws IOException {
        getClosedFS();
        return description.closedFSVars.watchService;
    }

}

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the land is limited, as well as its capacity to absorb all the pollution it is thrown out every year.
With our modern lifestyle, today we need almost 2 planets to live. But we have one and only one and we see now more and more the limits of our system by the appearance of the concrete effects of climate change.
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Low-Tech Lab is an innovative project because it takes the opposite of the current trend of developing high-tech products and using more natural resources and energy. Our solutions are different from others in their natural characteristics, operating without energy, simple, easy to install and use, efficient and economic. In addition these technologies are modular and repairable which reduces the cost of manufacture.


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These shape-shifters melt and reform due to magnetic fields
Shape-shifting liquid metal robots may no longer be the stuff of science fiction.
Miniature machines can go from solid to liquid and back again to squeeze into tight spaces and perform tasks like soldering a circuit board, researchers report Jan. 25 in material.
This phase shift property, which can be controlled remotely with a magnetic field, is due to the metal gallium. The researchers embedded the metal with magnetic particles to direct the movements of the metal with the help of magnets. This new material could help scientists develop soft, flexible robots that can pass through narrow passages and be externally guided.
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Scientists have been developing magnetically controlled soft robots for years. Most existing materials for these robots are made from either elastic but solid materials that cannot fit through the tightest of spaces, or magnetic fluids that are fluid but unable to carry heavy objects (SN: 7/18/19).
In the new study, the researchers combined both approaches after taking inspiration from nature (SN: 3/3/21). Sea cucumbers, for example, "can very quickly and reversibly change their stiffness," says mechanical engineer Carmel Majidi of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "The challenge for us as engineers is to mimic that in soft material systems."
So the team turned to gallium, a metal that melts at around 30° Celsius – slightly above room temperature. Instead of attaching a heater to a piece of metal to change its state, the researchers expose it to a rapidly changing magnetic field to liquefy it. The alternating magnetic field generates electricity in the gallium, causing it to heat up and melt. The material resolidifies when allowed to cool to room temperature.
Because the magnetic particles are sprinkled in the gallium, a permanent magnet can pull it around. In solid form, a magnet can move material at a speed of about 1.5 meters per second. The improved gallium can also carry about 10,000 times its weight.
External magnets can still manipulate the liquid form, causing it to stretch, split, and coalesce. But controlling the motion of the fluid is more difficult because gallium particles can spin freely and have misaligned magnetic poles as a result of melting. Because of their different orientations, the particles move in different directions in response to a magnet.
Majidi and colleagues tested their strategy in tiny machines performing different tasks. In a straight-from-the-movie demo Terminator 2a toy person escaped from a prison cell by melting through the bars and resolidifying into his original form using a mold placed just outside the bars.
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On the more practical side, a machine removed a small ball from a model of a human stomach, melting gently to wrap around the foreign object before exiting the organ. But gallium by itself would turn into carbohydrates inside a real human body, since the metal is a liquid at body temperature, about 37 °C. More metals, such as bismuth and tin, would be added to gallium in applications biomedical. to raise the melting point of the material, say the authors. In another demonstration, the material liquefied and resolidified to glue a circuit board.
Using variable and permanent magnets, researchers turned pieces of gallium into shape-shifting devices. In the first clip, a toy figure escapes his prison cell by liquefying, sliding through the bars, and resolidifying himself using a mold placed just outside the bars. In the second clip, a device pulls a ball out of a human stomach model, melting gently to wrap around the foreign object and exit the organ.
Although this phase-change material is a big step in the field, questions remain about its biomedical applications, says biomedical engineer Amir Jafari of the University of North Texas at Denton, who was not involved in the work. A big challenge, he says, is precisely controlling the magnetic forces inside the human body that are generated by an external device.
"It's a compelling tool," says robotics engineer Nicholas Bira of Harvard University, who was not involved in the study. But, he adds, scientists studying soft robotics are constantly creating new materials.
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The metabolic syndrome as a predictor of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Ann Intern Med. 2005 Nov 15;143(10):722-8. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-10-200511150-00009.
Masahide Hamaguchi 1 , Takao Kojima, Noriyuki Takeda, Takayuki Nakagawa, Hiroya Taniguchi, Kota Fujii, Tatsushi Omatsu, Tomoaki Nakajima, Hiroshi Sarui, Makoto Shimazaki, Takahiro Kato, Junichi Okuda, Kazunori Ida
1 Department of Gastroenterology, Asahi University, Murakami Memorial Hospital, Gifu, Japan. seele@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-143-10-200511150-00009
Background: The frequent association of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with components of the metabolic syndrome such as obesity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and hypertension is well known. However, no prospective study has examined the role of the metabolic syndrome in the development of this disease.
Objective: To characterize the longitudinal relationship between the metabolic syndrome and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Design: A prospective observational study.
Setting: A medical health checkup program in a general hospital.
Participants: 4401 apparently healthy Japanese men and women, 21 to 80 years of age, with a mean body mass index (BMI) of 22.6 kg/m2 (SD, 3.0).
Measurements: Alcohol intake was assessed by using a questionnaire. Biochemical tests for liver and metabolic function and abdominal ultrasonography were done. Modified criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III were used to characterize the metabolic syndrome.
Results: At baseline, 812 of 4401 (18%) participants had nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. During the mean follow-up period of 414 days (SD, 128), the authors observed 308 new cases (10%) of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease among 3147 participants who were disease-free at baseline and who completed a second examination. Regression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease was found in 113 (16%) of 704 participants who had the disease at baseline and who completed a second examination. Men and women who met the criteria for the metabolic syndrome at baseline were more likely to develop the disease during follow-up (adjusted odds ratio, 4.00 [95% CI, 2.63 to 6.08] and 11.20 [CI, 4.85 to 25.87], respectively). Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease was less likely to regress in those participants with the metabolic syndrome at baseline.
Limitations: Ultrasonography may lead to an incorrect diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in 10% to 30% of cases and cannot distinguish steatohepatitis from simple steatosis. Self-reported alcohol intake may cause bias. Because all of the participants were Japanese, generalizability to non-Japanese populations is uncertain.
Conclusions: The metabolic syndrome is a strong predictor of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Q: How to get the configurations of current running XC Test plan programmatically? Problem Statement:
My Test flow will depend on the type of configuration that is currently running for a test plan.
I want to get the configuration name and environment variable entries of the currently running test plan in Xcode, so that according to the configuration I can decide what action to perform in a particular test.
Eg.
I have a test plan XYZ.xctestplan with two configurations "A" and "B". I want to get the environment variable entries that are set in the currently running configuration of the XYZ.xctestplan
According to these environment variables, I will decide which button should be clicked in my UI test.

A: You can pull the environment variables in, say named "359TZ", like this:
    NSString *key = @"359TZ";
    NSString *tz359 = [NSProcessInfo.processInfo.environment objectForKey:key];

Please note that IIRC, you get the environment variables in a configuration when you run from Xcode, but not when you run using xcodebuild.  YMMV.

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Possible online avenues for the Small Claims Court
The interim report from Lord Justice Briggs exploring possible online avenues for the Small Claims Court was published this week.
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the Lord Chief Justice, commissioned the report last year because of concerns that ordinary people's access to litigation has fallen victim to spiralling legal costs and cuts to legal aid. Indeed, last year the Guardian reported that fewer and fewer small claims (under £25,000) were making it to hearing, perhaps as a result of the high costs faced by litigants.
The report aimed to propose an online alternative that would could offer 'effective access to justice' by cutting the cost of litigation. Briggs LJ also noted that an online court would reduce the burden on the court system in general. The report paves the way for a preliminary online court to be established in the next year.
It comes on the back of a report, published last year by legal futurologist Professor Richard Susskind, which suggested that an online court could be in place within two years. Susskind suggested that eBay's dispute resolution system be used as the model, and that aspects of it could be completely automated. Briggs LJ's report shies away from this and Susskind's more extreme proposals.
Briggs LJ's report sketches a three-stage formula for how such a court might function. The first stage would be largely automated and would aim to identify issues in claimants' cases. The second stage would be for the claim to be assessed by case officers, and the final stage would be for the claim to be heard by a judge.
Briggs LJ contends that it would be possible to have case officers, overseen by judges, processing the majority of claims. This would only be possible, he contends, if a significant number of small claims officers could be trained by judges to handle the majority of claims. He recommends that a significant number of 'routine and non-contentious' work could be transferred to case officers without significant disruption.
Most of the savings would come from effectively removing lawyers from small claims litigation. However many legal professionals are concerned that it leaves unanswered many crucial questions about the quality of legal advice potential online litigants will receive.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Law Society has voiced its concern that, in reducing the role of lawyers in small claims litigation, an online court might sacrifice justice on the altar of austerity. Law Society President Jonathan Smithers advised litigants to be wary of seeking redress without taking legal advice. He suggests that providing a cheaper, online alternative to the traditional court would be tantamount to condoning a two-tier justice system where people who cannot afford professional advice are forced to represent themselves, putting them at an unfair disadvantage.
'"People seeking to recover monies due and owing to them will still need legal advice on their claim as well as, in many cases, assistance with navigating through the process, whether online or otherwise."
He also noted that, although the report purports to make access to justice easier for litigants, a lack of access to good legal advice would put them at a disadvantage.
The report is now receiving submissions. Briggs LJ will make his final report later in the year.
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Genomic analyses often involve scanning for potential transcription factor (TF) binding sites using models of the sequence specificity of DNA binding proteins. Many approaches have been developed to model and learn a protein's DNA-binding specificity, but these methods have not been systematically compared. Here we applied 26 such approaches to in vitro protein binding microarray data for 66 mouse TFs belonging to various families. For nine TFs, we also scored the resulting motif models on in vivo data, and found that the best in vitro-derived motifs performed similarly to motifs derived from the in vivo data. Our results indicate that simple models based on mononucleotide position weight matrices trained by the best methods perform similarly to more complex models for most TFs examined, but fall short in specific cases (<10% of the TFs examined here). In addition, the best-performing motifs typically have relatively low information content, consistent with widespread degeneracy in eukaryotic TF sequence preferences. © 2013 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.


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The 23rd Annual NADA Dealer Satisfaction Index (DSI) awards evening took place this past week. Senior management from manufacturers and importers, dealer principals and management from dealer groups, as well as financial institutions, gathered to network as well as receive their awards.
Over the years, the results of the survey have been used by dealer councils and manufacturers as an effective management tool to address areas of concern and thereby improve service delivery throughout the entire value chain to the ultimate benefit of the consumer.
The speakers shared a number of thought-provoking insights of the retail automotive industry. Additionally, all three speakers shared similar thoughts on the "disruptors" the industry faces.
Paul de Vantier, Managing Director, Lightstone Consumer, noted that when it comes to online marketing and dealing, this industry has seen a growing number of people who will transact the whole deal online, from start to finish, with the dealer simply being a delivery and service point. This isn't something that's coming, he said, it's something that's already happening. And he is convinced that this trend will grow.
De Vantier also made note of South Africa's ageing car parc. In 2015 it was 9.6 years, but now it has aged to 9.9 years. He attributes this to rising vehicle prices, affordability and general consumer confidence. "Consumers either can't afford to replace their vehicles or lack the confidence to commit to long term financing deals," stated De Vantier.


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Against The Neoconservatives: Paul Gottfried's WAR AND DEMOCRACY
F. Roger Devlin
Longtime fans of Paul Gottfried, the distinguished political theorist who recently retired as Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania's Elizabethtown College, know that much of his best work is found in the periodical press (including VDARE.com). So it may surprise that Arktos's new collection of his occasional essays and reviews, War and Democracy: Selected Essays 1975-2012 , is the first ever published.
Included are appreciations of significant figures important in Gottfried's own thinking: Oswald Spengler, Herbert Marcuse, George F. Kennan, Theodor Adorno, Joe Sobran, and Gottfried's own father, born in the Hapsburg Empire in 1911. There are reflections on ethnic masochism, especially in its postwar German form, as well as the semantic dérapage undergone by terms such as fascism, liberalism, conservatism and democracy.
Of course, there is no lack of abrasive commentary on the fanatical Wilsonian will-to-power, disguised as morality, which now rages under the name of neoconservatism.
A small but telling example of Gottfried's acumen: his explanation of why mainstream conservatives such as Jonah Goldberg call everyone and everything they don't like "fascist:"
1) It allows self-styled conservatives to have some fun by applying to the other side a pejorative term that the Left has had a monopoly on.
2) Historically, critics such as John T. Flynn had interpreted Roosevelt's New Deal as the American equivalent of the Mussolini's fascism and Hitler's National Socialism (an analysis Dr. Gottfried considers flawed).
3) The "fascist" label is a thinly disguised reductio ad Hitlerum.
4) Most importantly (in Dr. Gottfried's view) because the neoconservatives who have taken over Conservatism, Inc., are in fact unreconstructed leftists to whom the identification of everything evil with "fascism" comes naturally.
Needless to say, the average Conservatism Inc. columnist would be satisfied with any one of these explanations. Gottfried's care in distinguishing four is just one small example of why your time is better spent reading him than them.
Thanks to the neoconservatives, Gottfried argues, millions of Americans now believe that the very essence of conservatism lies in "defending wars that our government involves us in." Such wars, we are assured, are our only guarantee of peace. For America is a democracy, and, as Gottfried summarizes, only democracies, according to every neoconservative scribbler on the planet, can be peaceful; indeed, non-democratic governments are compulsively mischievous and will, unless brought to see the light, unleash war on the bearers of democratic virtue.
Democracies are thus morally obligated to wage what neocon theorist Max Boot calls "wars of peace" until the entire world is democratic.
But as Gottfried points out, "the notion that all countries must be brought—willingly or kicking and screaming—into the democratic fold is an invitation to belligerence." Gottfried rightly likens this armed doctrine to the old Communist claim to be pursuing peace through universal communist revolution. (He might also have mentioned the Religion of Peace's jihad to end conflict by forcibly subjecting the entire world to sharia).
Neoconservative advocates, says Gottfried, "construct a Manichean scheme running throughout human history, at least as far back as the ancient Athenians, in which the democratic and anti-democratic sides are always pitted against each other."
These authors, notes Gottfried, avoid actually defining democracy, preferring instead to apply the label to whatever countries they like and withhold it from those they don't like. Only willful bias combined with ignorance of history can explain, e.g., why the Britain which entered the First World War (House of Lords, restricted suffrage) was "democratic" while Germany (universal manhood suffrage since 1870) was not.
The American reader should not pass over lightly the author's remarks on the PC distortions to which the history of Germany has been subjected—let him bear in mind the Horatian warning mutato nomine de te fabula narratur: change the name and the tale is about you.
As Gottfried recounts, the teaching of German history in America has been dominated since the Nazi era by refugees inclined to reduce all previous German history to a prologue to Hitler. For such writers, he says, "the study of German history has but two overriding purposes: to be an object lesson to foreigners and to serve as a means of contrition for Germans."
"For example," Gottfried recalls,
those German history surveys assigned to my generation in college—with their interminable references to national failures, lost turning points, and squandered revolutions—resembled prosy religious allegories of the sinner's descent into a self-incurred perdition.
Although in the early Nineteenth Century "Southern and Southwestern Germany had more liberal constitutions than did any other part of Europe", today even in Germany itself "all pre-1945 German states are treated in the same way that our media depict the Confederacy."
Such distortions and one-sidedness characterize even the history of the Second World War itself. While about 21,000 Britons died in the German bombing of the UK, something like 650,000 German civilians died in the American and (especially) British bombing of Germany. Gottfried writes:
Although the historical sections of German cities and villages had little if any military value, their stone and wood structures were easily destroyed, thereby creating the indiscriminate devastation that the firebombing was supposed to create.... Most of this went on in the final year of the war, when German cities were relatively defenseless and the British side had abandoned the argument that it was destroying weapons and war material in favor of the idea that it was waging a "moral struggle."
(One wonders how an immoral struggle would have been conducted.)
Today, elderly Germans who relate the story of these wartime horrors come under suspicion (by Christopher Hitchens) of anti-Semitism. [See his The Wartime Toll on Germany, Atlantic Magazie, ] January/February 2003]
Germany's bad old days are said to have ended in 1945, when the victors carried out "de-Nazification" with the help of Frankfurt school Marxists. Since then, we are assured, German history has been a triumph of liberty—even as, Gottfried notes, "German jails are full of politically insensitive authors," and ordinary Germans enjoy fewer freedoms than did their great-grandparents in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm.
And, of course, the new Germany is the very model of "democracy"—although politicians there ignore with even greater impunity than here their subjects' concerns about being replaced by immigrants.
Americans can look forward to our history receiving the same treatment as our old enemy, Germany, after the founding stock ceases to form a majority of the nation.
Most of the Gottfried's material thus bears on "the National Question" in some way, although his views on immigration are not directly discussed here. Just one of the essays included comes from VDARE.com (12 November 2003): For Zionists, Time to Choose, i.e., between accepting ethno-nationalism in others as normal or else abjuring their own.
Nine years later, they still haven't chosen.
Hitler must be laughing somewhere.
F. Roger Devlin [Email him] is a contributing editor for The Occidental Quarterly and the author of Alexandre Kojeve and the Outcome of Modern Thought.


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To Heal and to Comfort
August 1, 2018 September 2, 2019 dylan.davenportPatients, Stories
Editor's Note: In August, we covered Operation Smile in Madagascar's first-ever surgical training rotation at Centre Hospitalier de Référence Régionale in Antsirabe. Since then, we have conducted five out of the six rotations scheduled for 2017. Building on Operation Smile's commitment to strengthening health systems where it works, international teams of medical volunteers provide training to Malagasy health care professionals by providing safe surgery for children suffering from cleft conditions. Throughout the rotations, we've been receiving informative and inspirational field updates from Charlotte Steppling, the project manager for Operation Smile in Madagascar. In this two-part "From the Field" series, Charlotte shares the compelling stories of two patients who received surgery during the fourth rotation, which took place Sept. 23 through Sept. 29. This is the second story.
Ten years ago, Mampionona was born in a small village 230 kilometers west of Antananarivo.
"When he was born, his mother did not know what to say – she had just seen her sister die from illness. She was very emotional when her baby was born," said Tantely, Mampionona's aunt. "We named the boy Mampionona, which in Malagasy means 'to heal and to comfort.' This baby became our healing and our family's comfort."
As a newborn, Mampionona had difficult eating because of his cleft lip. His mother tried hard to feed him milk with a cup. At 6 months old, he started eating solid foods and was able to gain a good amount of weight.
"This child was a gift – a gift from god. God knew that our family needed something special," Tantely said. "We had just lived through a traumatic death in the family and this baby was here to comfort us. He gave us a child with a cleft because he knew we could take care of him."
The family had heard that in a larger town nearby, there was a local doctor that could offer cleft surgery.
"But the surgery was so expensive," Tantely said. "We tried saving up, but then ended up spending money on chickens, rice and household items. We never thought there would be a solution."
In August, Tantely was invited to a wedding in another city. At the wedding, she met a young mother who was rocking her baby girl in her arms. Making pleasantries, Tantely asked her, "That is a beautiful baby, how old is she? Is she your only child?"
Tantely's eyes widened as she glanced at the baby's face.
"Does – does – did your baby have a cleft?" The words stumbled out of her mouth.
The mother of the baby nodded yes. She explained that not even two months prior she had gone to Antsirabe and received free surgery from Operation Smile.
Later that day, Tantely called Operation Smile in Madagascar's hotline number. She spoke to Flex Manantsoa, the patient coordinator for Operation Smile in Madagascar and registered her nephew in the database.
One month later, Flex gave Mampionona's family a call to inform them that he would have the chance to receive surgery at surgical training rotation being held in late September. The family was elated.
"I couldn't believe it!" Tantely said. "I decided that I would accompany Mampionona to Antsirabe. His mother was pregnant and his grandma cannot travel long distances, so it was my duty to bring him."
Before Mampionona arrived at the patient village on Friday afternoon, he had never seen another person with a cleft. He told his aunt, "Can you believe it? Look at this village – everyone looks like me! Everyone has a cleft. Even the small kids, even the babies, and even the adults – they all look like me!"
Mampionona went through screening and was selected for surgery. During the week, they met and talked with other families about their experiences.
"We all agree that it is such a relief to be here," Tantely said. "To be taken care of by such nice people, and everything is free. From a place to sleep to soap to wash ourselves. We are so thankful."
The following week, Mampionona returned to his village. It will be a big change for the villagers who have always known him for his unique cleft.
"They don't believe we are really getting surgery – they think that to receive surgery I must give a piece of my thigh to put on Mampionona's lip! Can you imagine? I mean, I would still give a piece of my thigh if I had too! People will be so shocked and surprised to see him. To see him smile. To see him look like everyone else," Tantely said.
"I am going to tell everyone about this experience. I am going to find more people more children like Mampionona. I thank everyone on the Operation Smile team. Thank you for giving Mampionona the gift of smiling like all other children. Thank you!"
A Landmark Patient
A Life-Changing Journey for Two Sisters


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Q: How to populate one 8gb and one 16gb dimm in a Dell R230? The Dell R230 User Manual page 57 states about mixing dimms with different capacities:

When mixing memory modules with different capacities, populate the sockets with memory modules with the highest capacity first.
      For example, if you want to mix 4 GB and 8 GB DIMMs, populate 8 GB DIMMs in the sockets with white release levers and 4 GB
      DIMMs in the sockets with black release levers.

So if i have 4 dimms, two small and two large, how to populate is clear.
However, I have only two dimms. 1x8gb and 1x16gb.
Pretty sure the 16gb goes into slot A1(white). But what about the 8gb? I guess it would be either i to A2(white) or A3(black).
The guideline to populate two same sized dimms is to use A1(white) and A2(white).

A: It is possible to mix dimms with different size just make sure to populate first the bigger size.  In your case it's A1(16GB)  &  A3 (8GB)
According to Documentation [LINK]:

Memory modules of different capacities can be mixed. For example, 4 GB
  and 8 GB memory modules can be mixed. While installing memory modules
  of different capacities, ensure that you populate the sockets with
  memory modules with highest capacity first. For example, if you want
  to mix 4 GB and 8 GB memory modules, populate 8 GB memory modules in
  the sockets with white release tabs and 4 GB memory modules in the
  sockets with black release tabs. You can mix maximum of two memory
  modules of different capacity.

You can find other information in the Owner's Manual (page 58): LINK


Wilco are streaming their highly anticipated forthcoming album, 'Wilco (The Album)', from their website.
The band made the decision to stream it online in its entirety after a copy was reportedly leaked on the internet yesterday (May 12).
'Wilco (The Album)', can be heard here now. It is due to be released in the US on June 30.
The band also suggested that those who illegally downloaded the album make a donation to Inspiration Corporation, one of the band's favourite charities that helps low-income and homeless individuals in Chicago, the band's hometown.


Formed in Encinitas California, Cambrian Shores consists of Brian Witkin and Cameron Lange, both on acoustic guitar with Brian also on lead vocals. The duo plays a unique and diverse blend of acoustic rock. Brian and Cameron, both Southern California natives and lifelong friends, grew up near the ocean and surrounded by music. Their sound reflects this blend of passions and what began as a pastime at the beach between surf sessions became Cambrian Shores.
Recently, the band has begun performing some shows backed by a full band and is expected to release their debut studio album in summer 2019 on Pacific Records. Stay tuned for Cambrian Shores.


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Turnpike Troubadours Cancel Remaining Tour Dates
Posted on October 30, 2018 by Red Dirt NC
The Turnpike Troubadours have canceled upcoming tour dates until December.
Cancellations continue to haunt one of the biggest and best bands in this music scene as the Turnpike Troubadours announced another round of dates that have been nixed from their current touring schedule. For the second time in just a few months, the Turnpike Troubadours will again be taking a lengthy hiatus for undisclosed reasons after recently making a triumphant return at Medicine Stone, a festival they co-host with Jason Boland in late September, after the first such round of missed events.
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Opening for Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town as part of the "Bandwagon Tour", the Turnpike Troubadours first canceled their final scheduled appearances on August 23 and 24 stating emergency personal issues. These dates were followed by an official statement from the band following more cancellations citing "family and medical issues" as reasons behind their absence and the use of a few off weeks to "regroup and resolve everything."
One month later the band performed on Saturday night at Medicine Stone after their show was postponed because of heavy rain Friday. For the first time in festival history, both the Turnpike Troubadours and Jason Boland played on the same night and for those in attendance it was an epic occurrence that provided hope the band had healed from any medical concerns and resolved any problems among the group.
Everything appeared to be back on track until a recent delayed cancellation took place in Bossier City, Louisiana on October 26. The band, after appearing set up and ready to perform, never took the stage as neither Stoney Larue, scheduled to appear first, or the Turnpike Troubadours played after the venue was opened to patrons.
The following night (October 27) in Corpus Christi, Texas was also carried out without the band although Randy Rogers and Flatland Cavalry did perform, with Steven James and the Jaded, who were a late addition to the set.
Now, more cancellations including a November 9 date in Charlotte, North Carolina and an even more significant unknown about what the future has in store for the Turnpike Troubadours. With everything up in the air, hopes are this group works through their ongoing issues and makes another significant, healthy, and much anticipated return soon.
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Composer, Reclining Nude with Black Stockings, Lone Wolf Productions 7th September – 2nd October 2010, Arcola Studio 2.
Percussion, King Lear, Royal Shakespeare Company 18th February 2010 – 2nd April 2011, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Henry V, Royal Shakespeare Company 6th November 2007 (press night) – 14th March 2008, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Henry IV, Part 1, Royal Shakespeare Company 16th August 2007 (press night) – 14th March 2008, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company 16th August 2007 (press night) – 13th March 2008, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company 23rd January (press night) – 17th February 2007, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Henry VI, Part 1, Royal Shakespeare Company 9th August 2006 (press night) – 15th March 2008, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Henry VI, Part 2, Royal Shakespeare Company 14th July 2006 – 17th February 2007, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Henry VI, Part 3, Royal Shakespeare Company 25th April 2001 (press night), Young Vic, London.
Music by, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company 25th April 2001 (press night), Young Vic, London.
Music by, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company 11th (press night) – 18th March 2001, Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Music by, Henry VI, Part 1, Royal Shakespeare Company 10th (press night) – 17th March 2001, Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Music by, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company 14th (press night) – 26th February 2001, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Composer, Henry VI 2000 – 2001, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Music by, Henry VI, Part 1, Royal Shakespeare Company 13th December 2000 (press night), Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Musician, A Shakespeare Celebration, Royal Shakespeare Company 7th May 2000 (press night), Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Measure for Measure 1997 – 1998, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Measure for Measure 1994 – 1995, Barbican Theatre, London.
Macbeth 1987 – 1988, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Love's Labour's Lost 1984 – 1985, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Badger's Green 2nd – 15th May 1931, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.


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Daily News Stuff 9 February 2020
Stop Making Nonsense Edition
A see-through docky-cloney thing from Orico. (PC Perspective)
I need one of these. I have tons of old bare disk drives I could use to dump backups onto, and a dock is a lot more convenient than swapping them in and out of external cases. So I might pick up this exact model.
California tech companies have responded predictably to California's new privacy laws by fucking everything up. (Tech Crunch)
And in related news:
Format Python code with YAPF. (GitHub)
Or - bear with me - use PyCharm and just hit Ctrl-Alt-L.
Polymath is a markup language for everything.
Unfortunately it's the bastard offspring of Forth and Lisp.
Singapore accounts for half of all takedown notices for Netflix. (ZDNet)
Just a reminder that the First Amendment is a precious thing and some people need to be tarred and feathered, such as, for example, Congress:
The key difference between Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is that Bradbury realised the government would not need to enforce censorship.
The people would do it themselves, and they would be insufferably smug about it.
In short, he predicted Twitter.
A solar cell that works at night? (Inverse)
The summary makes no sense at all - the author seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that solar cells are thermocouples - but maybe the original paper does.
Why is Birds of Prey bombing at the box office? (CinemaBlend)
Because the director chose a non-canonical grouping of a second-tier story for an ultra-violent R-rated girl-power wokegasm and there just aren't that many purple-haired college students, no matter how things may appear on Tumblr.
Be evil. (Silicon Valley)
Google has transformed into Big Brother so clumsily that it was impossible not to notice. If you're going to take over the world and turn us all into mind slaves, can you at least be subtle about it?
Almost every major website tracks your mouse movement. (Medium)
We did this at my day job after we launched our new app. What the software is doing is letting you attach a replay of the user's session to a bug report. When you're a small company with a complex web app this is seriously magical.
And did those dates, in ancient time, grow upon Britain's mountains green? (Science Alert)
No, probably not. But researchers found enough seeds of an ancient and extinct variety of date palm that they've been able to grow six new trees - that show clear signs of selective breeding by Bronze Age civilisation.
What exactly went wrong with the voting software at the Democratic Iowa Caucus? (Rolling Stone)
Everything. Exactly.
Look, it's Rolling Stone, but apparently Rolling Stone has found the keys to the time machine and rediscovered some of its relevance:
Democrats went on to systematically rat-fuck every group in their tent: labor, the poor, minorities, soldiers, criminal defendants, students, homeowners, media consumers, environmentalists, civil libertarians, pensioners — everyone but donors.
They didn't just fail to defend groups, but built monuments to their betrayal.
I don't know of any other even vaguely mainstream media outlet that would print that today.
Disclaimer: I could quote a relevant sketch from This Sporting Life at this juncture but nobody, absolutely nobody, would get it.


The Census ACS 1-year survey reports that the median household income for the Springfield Illinois metro area was $61,573 in 2017, the latest figures available. Springfield median household income is $1,419 lower than the median Illinois household income and $1,237 greater than the US median household income. 2018 metro income data (including Springfield median household income) will be released in September of 2019. Median family and per capita income for Springfield are shown below.
At $61,573, the median household income for Springfield was at a new inflation adjusted high in 2017.
At $61,573, the median household income for Springfield was at a new nominal high in 2017.
The ACS 1-year data shows the median family income for Springfield was $80,225 in 2017. Compared to the median Illinois family income, Springfield median family income is $1,057 higher. As with the median household income data, 2018 family income data for Springfield will be released in September of 2019.
At $80,225, the median family income for Springfield was at a new inflation adjusted high in 2017.
At $80,225, the median family income for Springfield was at a new nominal high in 2017.
The ACS 1-year survey shows the per capita income for Springfield was $34,286 in 2017. Compared to the median Illinois per capita income, Springfield median per capita income is $90 higher. As with the median household and median family income numbers above, 2018 per capita income data for Springfield will be released in September of 2019.
At $34,286, the per capita income for Springfield was at a new inflation adjusted high in 2017.
At $34,286, the per capita income for Springfield was at a new nominal high in 2017.


The Heart Hospital provides a clinically comprehensive cardiovascular center at the Wyoming Valley Hospital. The hospital will provide the community access to invasive procedures such as cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology. The project also includes OR-ready procedure rooms. These new rooms will also allow for expanded surgical services for cardiothorasic surgery. A non-invasive cardiology program complements the surgical services providing echo cardiology, EKG / stress testing, nuclear cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation, physician medical practice clinics and cardiac step-down recovery unit.


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World Series Digital Art
In the 1913 World Series, the Philadelphia Athletics beat the New York Giants four games to one.
The A's pitching gave the edge to a closer-than-it-looked Series in 1913. The great Christy Mathewson lost his Series swan song in the final game to an old college rival and eventual fellow Baseball Hall of Fame member, Eddie Plank.
The Giants thus became the first National League team since the Chicago Cubs (1906�1908) to win three consecutive pennants. They were also the second club (following the Detroit Tigers (1907�1909) to lose three consecutive World Series; and, as of 2011, the last to do so.
The Series itself was an ironic face-off, as the Giants and A's would eventually become cross-town rivals. The A's would win again in a four-game sweep in the 1989 World Series, famous for the earthquake that struck before Game 3, which would be the last World Series victory for the A's.
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These Things Mean More To You As You Get Older
Monday, June 26, 2017, by Michael Dorgan
When Colm Cronin hopped, skipped and jumped 15.89 meters on June 26th 1977, little did the Leevale man realise his Irish triple jump record would remain peerless some 40 years later.
In the intervening years, sport has been radically transformed by an explosion in scientific and technological advances.
Nutrition, training methods, psychology and medicine have revolutionised athletic performances, so it seems remarkable such a record could withstand four decades of advance.
To underscore the feat, Cronin's leap remains the longest standing Irish athletics record in history.
Cronin was a magnificent athlete. At a towering 6'6″, he was blessed with a mix of strength, power, speed and athleticism competing in myriad of track and field disciplines.
The long and triple jump, 200m, 400m and 800m as well as decathlon, his talents were renowned from the bells of Shandon Street to the sandy shores of Rhode Island where, at 18 years of age, athletics would provide him with life-changing opportunities.
"I was going to go to UCC from the North Mon but was selected for an Irish Universities team competing against some American universities in Dublin.
Harvard, Yale, Cornell and University of Pennsylvania, three of them offered me scholarships but Brown University got in contact as well and in the end I decided to go there largely because of their coach Robert Narcession.
He was a former US Olympic hammer thrower and trained the US Olympic teams and he first introduced me back in 75' to the slow lift down and slow lift up for squats.
It was a very tough training programme and instead of building mass, it was all power and endurance.
He was also into the biomechanics in a big way, your body being positioned correctly to maximise athletic performance.
"His emphasis on form and technique was massive and it really helped me progress."
Cronin took the university by storm, leaping 15.21 meters to scoop the Heptagonal Championships as a freshmen, the first time in Browns history.
As a sophomore, he earned All-Ivy, All-IC4A and All-New England recognition and won the New England Outdoor Triple Jump despite competing with a pulled hamstring and as well as the AAA (UK) Junior championships in 1975 both for the Long and Triple Jump.
"I was 20 when I broke the Irish record at the 1977 European Cup qualifiers in Copenhagen, having already held it since 1975. I used to come home for the summers and most of the international meets were June through August.
"It was a great day for Irish team, as it was the first time we ever qualified for the event. It's nice to click 40 and remember it.
"I suppose from my own point of view, it brings back a lot of great memories of the guys I knew that time both at club and international level and a lot who would have ended up being good friends over the years.
"I don't dwell on it or think about it too much but it's nice of course, it's something to remember looking back, and I suppose these things mean more to you as you get older."
Cronin went on to break the Irish indoor record in Detroit 1978, leaping, 16.27, a record which, incidentally, also remains intact today.
Upon graduating with a degree in economics the young Corkman took up a job as a trader in a French company, Louis Dreyfus Corporation, based in Portland, Oregon, though Cronin's massive physique and athleticism drew attention from other fields.
"I was offered a trial to play as a tight end with the Seattle Seahawks and was then offered a contract but at the time the NFL wasn't as commercially successful as it is today and didn't pay like today, so I decided against it".
He remains an avid American football supporter and keen athletics fan when he isn't trading commodities from his offices in Fota, Cork.
"When I started working, I competed in a few meets on the west coast and going into 1980 I was hoping to make the Irish Olympic team.
"I was selected for the Irish Olympic squad and competed in a meet in the Staple Centre but I broke my ankle coming down on the first phase of the triple jump so that kept me out for awhile.
"I came back in 1981-82 but the demands of training and work left me having to make a choice – four more years of training or get on with work.
"It was a very hard decision as I was very focused on making the Olympics but back then there was no such thing as grants from the government that could help you out."
There was, according to Cronin, not much of a focus on diet.
"You had the basics like staying away from the things that were bad for you but in terms of the right mixes between carbohydrates and proteins and the right amino acids like they do today, there was nothing like that.
"An awful lot of it now is very managed, so you always have reference point as to where you are in terms of your strength and your power, your flexibility, your speed.
"It's all documented, you have your diets weight training and power training. So as you go through a season, you always know when you're progressing, whereas back then a lot of it would have been by feel. You're feeling quicker, you're feeling you did the work but you never really had a reference point that you could go take a look at 'well I'm getting quicker faster stronger'. You couldn't gauge it."
As to why the record hasn't been broken? "Perhaps it's because of the toll it can take on you physically and maybe some shy away from it" – his own injury is testament to that.
But while sports science continue to make records easier to crack, there's always raw talent to surmount.
relays says:
26 June, 2017 at 9:11 pm
What a great story of a super athlete and gentleman. I was lucky enough to be through all those great times. We knew he was exceptional but we foolishly felt there will be more like him coming along. The first time he set the Irish record was in Rieti Italy where Leevale was competing in the first ever European Champion Clubs meeting. As Team Manager I HAD GREAT PLEASURE IN COMPLETING ALL THE NECESSARY FORMS AND CERTIFICATES that go with a new National Record. That was Leevale!s greatest ever Senior team in my opinion, with Irish champions and Internationalsin Pat Moore,Javelin,Seamus Power, high hurdles, Dick Hodgins,distance,Bernard Walley sprints,(Capt) Finbarr Jeffords sprints,Pat ORiordan,steeplechase,Brendan Cronin H.J.,Tony Egar THROWS,James Collins ,1500,John Hunter relaysand hurdles,Brendan Mooney 400 and relays Mick OFlynn L.J. T.J. and relays. Amemorable and Historic time.


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118 Famous and Inspirational Quotes And Sayings About Courage
ByThe Editors Updated on January 6, 2021
At least once in our lives, we've heard stories of people who have shown courage —those who fought wars, brought social changes, or stood up for something good. People admire them for their courageous acts.
For some, however, being courageous is not as easy. It can be even more difficult because, often, people forget that courage is not always about these extravagant deeds.
Simple things can be acts of courage. From the smallest everyday decision making to significant financial risks, we can show courage.
Here are 118 inspirational courage quotes to remind us to have courage each day of our lives.
1. "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." – Amelia Earhart
2. "The best protection any woman can have… is courage." – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3. "Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's
law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away." – Archilochus
4. "Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence." – Aristotle
5. "Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage." – Gabriele D'Annunzio
6. "Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution." – Mary Daly
7. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." – e. e. cummings
8. "Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?" – Marie Antoinette
9. "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others." – Aristotle
10. "Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it." – Timothy Dalton
11. "Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." – James Allen
12. "To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that." – Saint Teresa of Avila
13. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage." – Maya Angelou
14. "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." – Muhammad Ali
15. "Genius is talent set on fire by courage." – Henry Van Dyke
16. "Courage follows action." – Mack R. Douglas
17. "Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die." – Vittorio Alfieri
18. "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." – Vittorio Alfieri
19. "To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy." – Henri Frederic Amiel
20. "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." – Earl Wilson
21. "Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead." – Howard Cosell
22. "Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life." – E. M. Forster
23. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." – Aristotle
24. "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears." – Arthur Koestler
25. "Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway." – Robert Anthony
26. "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." – Tommy Douglas
27. "Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding." – Edward Albert
28. "He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust
that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly." – B. C. Forbes
29. "Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave." – Christian Nestell Bovee
30. "I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight." – Chris Bell
31. "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others." – Winston Churchill
32. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
33. "Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today." – Mike Ferguson
34. "Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free." – Anna Akhmatova
35. "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity." – Epicurus
36. "All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them." – Erma Bombeck
37. "Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior." – Karl Von Clausewitz
38. "The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man." – Van Wyck Brooks
39. "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." – Erma Bombeck
40. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney
41. "Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed." – Mason Cooley
42. "True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable." – Jeremy Collier
43. "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return." – Maya Angelou
44. "You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost." – Francis Ford Coppola
45. "It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins." – Jerome Cady
46. "To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man." – Euripides
47. "I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage." – Dame Edith Evans
48. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." – Coco Chanel
49. "The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it." – Gilbert K. Chesterton
50. "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." – Maya Angelou
51. "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." – Benjamin Disraeli
52. "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities – because it is the quality which guarantees all others." – Joseph Chamberlain
53. "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all." – Miguel de Cervantes
54. "To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." – Charles Caleb Colton
55. "Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another." – Charles Caleb Colton
56. "It requires more courage to suffer than to die." – Napoleon Bonaparte
57. "The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark." – Pam Brown
58. "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage." – Jean Anouilh
59. "Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them." – Jim Davis
60. "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." – Lord Chesterfield
61. "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." – Alan Cohen
62. "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." – Harry S. Truman
63. "Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith." – Emily Greene Balch
64. "Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership." – Charles Edison
65. "In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'" – Lady Gaga
66. "But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right." – Ray Stannard Baker
67. "Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." – Napoleon Bonaparte
68. "I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test." – Oriana Fallaci
69. "It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions." – Robert Green Ingersoll
70. "Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity." – Richard L. Evans
71. "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it." – Albert Camus
72. "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." – Maya Angelou
73. "Yes, you must have the courage of being free." – Jose Carreras
74. "We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends." – Mary McLeod Bethune
75. "You can't test courage cautiously." – Annie Dillard
76. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." – Winston Churchill
77. "Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance." – Hans Urs von Balthasar
78. "To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." – Charles Caleb Colton
79. "Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner." – Joseph Addison
80. "Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms." – H. G. Bohn
81. "The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully." – Thomas Carlyle
82. "I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living." – Georg Buchner
83. "Necessity does the work of courage." – Nicholas M. Butler
84. "Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father." – Josephus Daniels
85. "Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future." – Gerry Adams
86. "To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by." – Stephen Baker
87. "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
88. "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." – Tori Amos
90. "A man of courage is also full of faith." – Marcus Tullius Cicero
91. "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men." – Confucius
92. "There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire." – William Congreve
93. "It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it." – Willy Brandt
94. "It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base." – Jean Anouilh
95. "I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster." – Catherine II
96. "My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled." – Carly Fiorina
97. "You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life." – Benjamin Disraeli
98. "It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless." – Giacomo Casanova
99. "The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour." – Laura Dern
100. "Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring." – Marlene Dietrich
101. "Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage." – Hosea Ballou
102. "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed." – Dale Carnegie
103. "Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?" – Charles Lindbergh
104. "Every man of courage is a man of his word." – Pierre Corneille
105. "The word courage – God, I love that word. Words are so important to me." – Peter Fonda
106. "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of
readiness to die." – Gilbert K. Chesterton
107. "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." – Alan Cohen
108. "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life." – Daniel J. Boorstin
109. "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." – John Quincy Adams
110. "Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors." – Jean Baudrillard
111. "I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double." – Catherine Deneuve
112. "We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends." – Mary McLeod Bethune
113. "Being gifted needs courage." – Georg Brandes
114. "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear." – Umberto Eco
115. "People don't follow titles, they follow courage." – William Wells Brown
116. "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity." – Ruby Dee
117. "We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." – Barbara de Angelis
118. "My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage." – Clay Aiken
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