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How the London 2012 Olympic Games could be for everyone
"This is for everyone," tweeted Tim Berners-Lee during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London.
The inventor of the worldwide web was one of the highlights, at least for me, of the exuberant, eccentric and energetic journey through Britain masterminded by film director, Danny Boyle.
Nearly 27m people watched opening ceremony in the UK, while millions more shared photos, videos or impressions about the Olympic extravaganza.
What they weren't able to do is share clips from the celebration of British life.
This is for everyone #london2012 #oneweb #openingceremony @webfoundation @w3c
— Tim Berners-Lee (@timberners_lee) July 27, 2012
The International Olympic Committee fiercely guards the use of Olympic material, as the official broadcasters have paid millions for the rights.
But it is a time for a change. Imagine if the IOC decided that the opening ceremony was, indeed, for everyone.
Imagine if it released clips from the ceremony under a Creative Commons license, from the forging of the rings to the musical trip through British pop to the haunting Abide with Me segment.
Imagine if the IOC said, take these clips, remix them, mash them up, share in the excitement of the games. You could take the industrial segment and mash it up with Firestarter. Or have some fun with the Bond visit to the palace.
Some pastiches of photos of the ceremony are already online.
By opening up some of the Olympics material to the public, the games would but "for everyone" and mirror a time when the audience can be as much as participant as a viewer.
It is time for an Olympics for the media of the 21st century.
(Photo of Olympic Rings by CarlosVanVegas)
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This Week in Review: Lessons from Murdoch on Twitter, and paywalls' role in 2011-12
Murdoch, Twitter, and identity: News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch had a pretty horrible 2011, but he ended it with a curious decision, joining Twitter on New Year's Eve. The account was quickly verified and introduced as real by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey, dousing some of the skepticism about its legitimacy. His Twitter stream so far has consisted of a strange mix of News Corp. promotion and seemingly unfiltered personal opinions: He voiced his support for presidential candidate Rick Santorum (a former paid analyst for News Corp.'s Fox News) and ripped former Fox News host Glenn Beck.
But the biggest development in Murdoch's Twitter immersion was about his wife, Wendi Deng, who appeared to join Twitter a day after he did and was also quickly verified as legitimate by Twitter. (The account even urged Murdoch to delete a tweet, which he did.) As it turned out, though, the account was not actually Deng, but a fake run by a British man. He said Twitter verified the account without contacting him.
This, understandably, raised a few questions about the reliability of identity online: If we couldn't trust Twitter to tell us who on its service was who they said they were, the issue of online identity was about to become even more thorny. GigaOM's Mathew Ingram chastised Twitter for its lack of transparency about the process, and The Washington Post's Erik Wemple urged Twitter to get out of the verification business altogether: "The notion of a central authority — the Twitterburo, so to speak — sitting in judgment of authentic identities grinds against the identity of Twitter to begin with." (Twitter has begun phasing out verification, limiting it to a case-by-case basis.)
Eric Deggans of the Tampa Bay Times argued that the whole episode proved that regardless of what Twitter chooses to do, "the Internet is always the ultimate verification system for much of what appears on it." Kara Swisher of All Things Digital unearthed the problem in this particular case that led to the faulty verification: A punctuation mixup in communication with Deng's assistant.
Columbia's Emily Bell drew a valuable lesson from the Rupert-joins-Twitter episode: As they wade into the social web, news organizations, she argued, need to do some serious thinking about how much control they're giving up to third-party groups who may not have journalism among their primary interests. Elsewhere in Twitter, NPR Twitter savant Andy Carvin and NYU prof Clay Shirky spent an hour on WBUR's On Point discussing Twitter's impact on the world.
Trend-spotting for 2011 and 2012: I caught the front end of year-in-review season in my last review before the holidays, after the Lab's deluge of 2012 predictions. But 2011 reviews and 2012 previews kept rolling in over the past two weeks, giving us a pretty thoroughly drawn picture of the year that was and the year to come. We'll start with 2011.
Nielsen released its list of the most-visited sites and most-used devices of the year, with familiar names — Google, Facebook, Apple, YouTube — at the top. And Pew tallied the most-talked-about subjects on social media: Osama bin Laden on Facebook and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak on Twitter topped the lists, and Pew noted that many of the top topics were oriented around specific people and led by the traditional media.
The Next Web's Anna Heim and Mashable's Meghan Peters reviewed the year in digital media trends, touching on social sharing, personal branding, paywalls, and longform sharing, among other ideas. At PBS MediaShift, Jeff Hermes and Andy Sellars authored one of the most interesting and informative year-end media reviews, looking at an eventful year in media law. As media analyst Alan Mutter pointed out, though, 2011 wasn't so great for newspapers: Their shares dropped 27 percent on the year.
One of the flashpoints in this discussion of 2011 was the role of paywalls in the development of news last year: Mashable's Peters called it "the year the paywall worked," and J-Source's Belinda Alzner said the initial signs of success for paywalls are great news for the financial future of serious journalism. Mathew Ingram of GigaOM pushed back against those assertions, arguing that paywalls are only working in specific situations, and media prof Clay Shirky reflected on the ways paywalls are leading news orgs to focus on their most dedicated users, which may not necessarily be a bad thing. "The most promising experiment in user support means forgoing mass in favor of passion; this may be the year where we see how papers figure out how to reward the people most committed to their long-term survival," he wrote.
Which leads us to 2012, and sets of media/tech predictions from the Guardian's Dan Gillmor, j-prof Alfred Hermida, Mediaite's Rachel Sklar, Poynter's Jeff Sonderman, and Sulia's Joshua Young. Sklar and Sonderman both asserted that news is going to move the needle online (especially on Facebook, according to Sonderman), and while Hermida said social media is going to start to just become part of the background, he argued that that's a good thing — we're going to start to find the really interesting uses for it, as Gillmor also said. J-prof Adam Glenn also chimed in at PBS MediaShift with his review of six trends in journalism education, including journo-programming and increased involvement in community news.
SOPA's generation gap: The debate over Internet censorship and SOPA will continue unabated into the new year, and we're continuing to see groups standing up for and against the bill, with the Online News Association and dozens of major Internet companies voicing their opposition. One web company who notoriously came out in favor of the bill, GoDaddy, faced the wrath of the rest of the web, with some 37,000 domains being pulled in two days. The web hosting company quickly pulled its support for SOPA, though it isn't opposing the bill, either.
New York Times media critic David Carr also made the case against the bill, noting that it's gaining support because many members of Congress are on the other side of a cultural/generational divide from those on the web. He quoted Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler: "It's people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don't use it. In Washington, they simply don't see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn't real to them yet."
Forbes' Paul Tassi wrote about the fact that many major traditional media companies have slyly promoted some forms of piracy over the past decade, and GigaOM's Derrick Harris highlighted an idea to have those companies put some of their own money into piracy enforcement.
Tough times for the Times: It's been a rough couple of weeks for The New York Times: Hundreds of staffers signed an open letter to Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. expressing their frustration over various compensation and benefits issues. The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone reported that the staffers' union had also considered storming Sulzberger's office or walking out, and Politico's Dylan Byers noted that the signers covered a broad swath of the Times' newsroom, cutting across generational lines.
The Atlantic's Adam Clark Estes gave some of the details behind the union's concerns about the inequity of the paper's buyouts. But media consultant Terry Heaton didn't have much sympathy: He said the union's pleas represented an outmoded faith in the collective, and that Times staffers need to take more of an everyone-for-themselves approach.
The Times also announced it would sell its 16 regional newspapers for $143 million to Halifax Media Group, a deal that had been rumored for a week or two, and told Jim Romenesko it would drop most of its podcasts this year. To make matters worse, the paper mistakenly sent an email to more than 8 million followers telling them their print subscriptions had been canceled.
Reading roundup: Here's what else you might have missed over the holidays:
— A few thoughtful postscripts in the debate over PolitiFact and fact-checking operations: Slate's Dave Weigel and Forbes' John McQuaid dissected PolitiFact's defense, and Poynter's Craig Silverman offered some ideas for improving fact-checking from a recent roundtable. And Greg Marx of the Columbia Journalism Review argued that fact-checkers are over-reaching beyond the bounds of the bold language they use.
— A couple of good pieces on tech and the culture of dissent from Wired: A Sean Captain feature on the efforts to meet the social information needs of the Occupy movement, and the second part of Quinn Norton's series going inside Anonymous.
— For Wikipedia watchers, a good look at where the site is now and how it's trying to survive and thrive from The American Prospect.
— Finally, a deep thought about journalism for this weekend: Researcher Nick Diakopoulos' post reconceiving journalism in terms of information science.
Crystal ball photo by Melanie Cook used under a Creative Commons license.
Tags: This Week in Review 2011 2012 buyouts David Carr Emily Bell fact-checking GoDaddy Halifax Media Group identity Jack Dorsey New York Times paywalls piracy PolitiFact Rupert Murdoch social media SOPA Twitter unions verification Wendi Deng
Predicting the future of social media
The Nieman Journalism Lab asked me to contribute to its series looking ahead to what 2012 will bring for journalism.
For my contribution, I suggested that the excitement and hype over social media may start dying down in the coming year, and this is something to be welcomed.
My argument draws from Roy Amara's First Law of Technology:
With every change in technology that affects consumer behaviour, We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
In my post, I suggest:
Technologies reach their full potential when we forgot about the novelty. Instead they become boring and blend into the background. How often do we think about the technology behind the telephone, or the television set in our living room?
With any luck, this is what will happen with social media. Social media tools and services will be so ingrained within our everyday experiences that we forget that they are such recent developments.
Essentially, the technology will become invisible as we shape it to meet our political, social, and cultural needs.
Read the full post at the Nieman Journalism Lab.
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2 guest posts: 2012 predictions and "Social media and the evolution of the fourth estate"
I've written a couple of guest posts for Nieman Journalism Lab and the tech news site Memeburn. The Nieman post is part of a series looking forward to 2012. I'm never a fan of futurology so I've cheated a little and talked about developments already in progress: new interface conventions in news websites; the rise of collaboration; and the skilling up of journalists in data.
Memeburn asked me a few months ago to write about social media's impact on journalism's role as the Fourth Estate, and it took me until this month to find the time to do so. Here's the salient passage:
"But the power of the former audience is a power that needs to be held to account too, and the rise of liveblogging is teaching reporters how to do that: reacting not just to events on the ground, but the reporting of those events by the people taking part: demonstrators and police, parents and politicians all publishing their own version of events — leaving journalists to go beyond documenting what is happening, and instead confirming or debunking the rumours surrounding that.
"So the role of journalist is moving away from that of gatekeeper and — as Axel Bruns argues — towards that of gatewatcher: amplifying the voices that need to be heard, factchecking the MPs whose blogs are 70% fiction or the Facebook users scaremongering about paedophiles.
"But while we are still adapting to this power shift, we should also recognise that that power is still being fiercely fought-over. Old laws are being used in new ways; new laws are being proposed to reaffirm previous relationships. Some of these may benefit journalists — but ultimately not journalism, nor its fourth estate role. The journalists most keenly aware of this — Heather Brooke in her pursuit of freedom of information; Charles Arthur in his campaign to 'Free Our Data' — recognise that journalists' biggest role as part of the fourth estate may well be to ensure that everyone has access to information that is of public interest, that we are free to discuss it and what it means, and that — in the words of Eric S. Raymond — "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"."
Comments, as always, very welcome.
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If We Were Starting NPR's Project Argo in 2012
For the past two years, I've been working on Project Argo -- a collaboration among NPR and 12 member stations in which the stations launched 12 niche websites on a platform we developed (built on WordPress), each putting their own spin on a common editorial model. As the pilot phase of Argo comes to a close, and we turn our attention to spreading and operationalizing what we've learned more broadly throughout the public media system, the question I get more than any other is, "If you were to start back at the beginning, what would you do differently?"
I'd reframe the question slightly. If you work in digital media, you know how much this world is still in flux. The pace of change means that trends, tenets and ideas can spring up, calcify into conventional wisdom, and fade away all in the span of two years or less. So instead, I'll lay out a few things we might change if we were starting the pilot in January 2012, and some of the ideas that we hope to push on in our work with stations over the next year.
1. PLAY MORE WITH LENGTH AND FREQUENCY
Although we emphasized the importance of a considered take from the get-go with Argo, we also stressed that the bread-and-butter of blogging is writing short and often. But as many have remarked, the quickest of quick takes have migrated into status updates on Facebook and Twitter, or blips on Tumblr. And alongside that migration, we've seen blogs become less about the instant and more about the Instapaper. A steady rise in popularity for Argo's highest-trafficked site, MindShift, accompanied its move to less-frequent, longer-form blogging. CommonHealth, another of the network's most popular sites, has scored some of its biggest audience hits with 4,000-word opuses like this one.
2. FIND PARTNERS AND BUILD TEAMS
Part of the Argo team's aim was to replicate a pattern we'd seen again and again in our combined decades of working in independent and commercial news organizations: A single person with a singular vision builds a sizable community around a topic from the ground up. And we saw plenty of that this year. But several of our stations also tweaked the model of the single, full-time blogger that we began with, splitting the position between two part-time bloggers, or augmenting the site with contributions from freelancers. And by and large, this has worked quite well for the stations that have taken this approach. In the meantime, we've seen several popular veteran bloggers expand their operations into teams. Ezra Klein's eponymous one-man operation at the Washington Post became the four-person micro-site Wonkblog. Politico's legendary Ben Smith added Dylan Byers to his roster (very shortly before announcing a move to Buzzfeed). And, of course, "Andrew Sullivan" has been the euphemism for a multi-headed team of collaborators for some years now.
That single person with a singular vision can still make a hell of a splash, of course. (Obligatory year-end reflection shoutout to my colleague @acarvin and my daily inspiration, Maria Popova.) And it's easy to convince yourself you're actually collaborating when all you're doing is sharing one another's widgets. But among the things we'll be looking for in 2012 are opportunities to foment genuine, effective partnerships.
3. LOOK FOR EDITORS
When we were hiring our set of reporter-bloggers for Argo, we stressed that it was vital to hire rock stars to helm these sites. In their quest to find rock stars, hiring managers asked variants on one question over and over -- "Is it more important to hire someone with strong, proven reporting chops, or native bloggers who live and breathe the medium?" (Understanding, of course, that it's not a dichotomy. Plenty of folks have both traits.) Today, though, the advice I'd give is, "Find folks who could be awesome editors." As I told Andrew Phelps at the Nieman Journalism Lab, I shifted from calling our site hosts "reporter-bloggers" at the outset of the project to calling them "reporter-editors."* They do have to be strong, speedy writers. And they must be able to report. But the qualities that lift the best blogs to a higher plane are news judgment, pattern recognition, and an instinct for planning and programming -- the hallmarks, in short, of terrific editors.
When I look at the amazing strides the Atlantic has accomplished online over the last few years, I suspect that much of it comes from having a masthead of double-threats who edit as well as they write -- folks like Alexis Madrigal (and very soon -- permit me a squeal -- Megan Garber).**
4. TREAT CONTEXT AS CONTENT
The three people who paid attention to what I was writing and thinking about just before I started working on Argo probably got some severe whiplash as I took on this role. One of my passions in journalism as far back as I can remember -- the thing I spent a year at the Reynolds Journalism Institute studying -- has been context. For years, I'd been writing about the need to invent a timeless journalism, deeply embedded in context, that eschewed the hyperactive, short-term-obsessed imperatives of news and took advantage of the web's capacity to unite episodic and systemic information. Suddenly, these lofty thoughts gave way to paeans to the listicle and headline-writing tips. I'm happy to trace for you how this effort relates to that larger quest, but I can't deny that the future-of-context mantra has been on the back burner during this effort to build successful niche communities.
This is why it makes me so thrilled to see Argo's sister project, StateImpact, double down on context in their approach to blogging. They are proving that marrying well-tended topic page overviews with regular blog posts can be a formula for success. While Argo's prominent "skybox" promotion modules highlight blog posts, a similar convention in the StateImpact design is engineered to highlight topic pages instead. StateImpact reporters take care in producing these pages, writing authoritative, attention-grabbing headlines for them, promoting them with strong thumbnail images, and treating them, generally, as content (not merely as archives, sidebars, or after-matter for users who want to know more). Partly as a result, the topic pages have become some of the most popular material on the StateImpact sites. And instead of fading away once the initial rush of interest in a story is over, these pages grow more valuable over time.
StateImpact joins sites like Salon and SBNation in starting to blur the line between stories and topic pages. And I like it. I don't think we have a silver-bullet successor to "the article" yet, but I'm eager to move this vein of experimentation forward.
5. THINK BEYOND THE RIGHT RAIL
The "right rail" or "sidebar" has been a mainstay of the news story page for years. Often-automated, haphazardly programmed, it tends to be the dumping ground for material that organizational politics and wishful thinking deem to be essential. Over the years, that space has gotten freighted with more and more stuff -- random widgets, text ads, house promos -- further subdividing the thin trickle of attention that usually accrues to it.
When we started the Argo sites, we tried to keep the right rail on our pages fairly tight. But as time went on, that space began to sprawl (as it's wont to do on every website). We stuck widgets there; stations added their own widgets; partnerships yielded new widgets; all despite scant evidence that the space was capturing much user interest.
Now, with mobile devices on the uptick, we can no longer take for granted that the right rail gets even a token eye fixation from users. And designers have been quietly snuffing it out. When NPR redesigned its Shots blog earlier in 2011, the right rail became a much more minimalist enterprise, both on the front page and on story pages. (The redesign has correlated with a healthy uptick in all our favorite metrics for the blog.) Adweek's gorgeous story page design integrates sidebar material much more organically throughout the page. Recently launched tech site The Verge is doing something altogether different with the concept of the story page, and the right rail is not a part of it.
Again, not all of these thoughts would have led us down a different path in 2010, when we launched Argo. But they point towards some differences in the type of project we'd launch today. I ran this list by my confreres Joel Sucherman and Wes Lindamood, and they liked it, but I'm sure they'd each pick a different set of points.
A consistently astonishing aspect of working in digital journalism is that you always feel like you're at the beginning of something. And in a way, you always are. May our world shift even more in the year to come.
* Yes. I know. And I agree. "Reporter-bloggers" pains me as a term; it risks reinforcing the false dichotomy between "bloggers" and "journalists" that drives all sensible people crazy. But many folks still need reassurances that even we Micro-Aggregated Cyberpeople place great value on reporting, and if a little hyphenation can spare me from having to engage with a 12-year-old stereotype involving pajamas, so be it.
** Alexis himself reminds us all once a week on Twitter that the secret sauce behind the Atlantic's steady march of awesomeness online is actually J.J. Gould and Bob Cohn.
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Just in time for 2012 elections: NewsTrust dives into the fact-check business with expanded Truthsquad
Niemanlab :: Just in time for the 2012 elections, the cottage industry of media fact-checking is ramping up. That latest addition is Truthsquad, which began last year as a pilot project of NewsTrust. TruthSquad will differentiate itself from its peers by bringing in the crowd, combining the talents of professional journalists with the eagerness (if not competitiveness) of the public to separate fact from less-than fact. As the Truthsquad homepage puts it, they're "developing a pro-am network to fact-check political claims during the 2012 elections."
Continue to read Justin Ellis, www.niemanlab.org
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Politico teams up with Random House to publish 4 e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign
Media Decoder :: Politico, an accelerant to the news cycle like wind is to brushfire, is taking on the one realm of political news that it has not yet sped up: book publishing. The all-things-politics Web site is teaming up with Random House to publish four e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign, the first of which is scheduled to go on sale sometime before Christmas.
Continue to read mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com
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In its bid to fast track the development of basketball in Nigeria and Africa, frontline basketball team in the United States of America, Chicago Bulls has donated two hundred balls and some bags to the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria National/International Workshop for coaches.
Nigeria's coordinator of the workshop, Coach O.B. Johnson, fondly called 'Coach OBJ' disclosed this during the close of the training at the gymnasium hall of ABU, at the weekend.
He said the support from Chicago Bulls was unprecedented and called on other public spirited individuals, teams and corporate organisations to emulate the American club and other sponsors of the workshop.
"We are grateful to them and other sponsors and calling on others to emulate them," he said.
Coach OBJ said the workshop which he described as successful featured 54 participants, including nine ladies from all over Nigeria.
The veteran coach, who is also the technical adviser for basketball in ABU attributed the success recorded to team spirit.
"We initiated it as a team work. I couldn't do it without a team. Some of the outstanding people that committed to its success include Andy Kpedi, Director, University Advancement, Professor Adamu Ahmed, Isa Umar Foundation, Edward Tox, and the ABU Vice Chancellor were exceptional.
"We met the Vice Chancellor on Monday, he spent more than half an hour with us while on a courtesy call out of his very busy schedule. He gave us some gifts and we also gave him some.
"Isa Umar Foundation donated two sets of jerseys to male and female basketball teams of ABU during the visit," he added.
Speaking to our reporter on the sideline of the workshop, one of the coaches and also sponsor, Andy Kpedi, said Nigeria is in good hands with basketball coaches.
"They have improved because we gave them the skills they needed to improve on, I made them do a practice plan, which they did. They have been excellent," he concluded.
As part of the workshop, a health fitness session was anchored by Dr. Funmi Dominic, an Associate Professor of the University of Ilorin.
Funmi who is also the institution's basketball coach and currently the director of sports, University of Ilorin, said the session was to ensure the coaches are healthy.


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The global production of plastics has grown exponentially over recent years and therefore correlates quite well with the population growth. The world production of resins, which was insignificant a mere half a century ago, now stands at about 132 million metric tons annually. Figure 2.2 illustrates this exponential growth in production and shows how it correlates with the increase in global population. If the linear relationship shown in the figure holds in the future, it might be used to estimate the approximate future demand for resins worldwide. For instance assuming a global population of about 10 billion around the year 2100, when it is expected to level off, the extrapolation suggests a annual global resin production close to 500 million tons annually.
In the United States the demand for commodity thermoplastics continually grew in the 1990s (except for a brief pullback in 1995), and, during the recent period of 1995-2000, the consumption of plastics increased at a compound growth rate of 1-5%, depending on the application area. Packaging applications are of particular interest from an environmental standpoint (because of the high
Figure 2.1. Common polymers derived from crude oil and natural gas raw materials.
visibility of packaging in municipal waste and in urban litter) and account for about a quarter of the U.S. demand for thermoplastics.3 The highest domestic growth rates for plastics in recent years has been in bottle and container applications of HDPE, fiber and closure applications of PP, and in PVC.
As pointed out in Chapter 1, the per capita consumption of plastics in a country correlates well with its affluence. However, large countries in the developing world are rapidly growing key markets for plastics despite their relatively low per capita income, simply because of the high populations. Asian countries, particularly China (including Hong Kong), for instance, are clearly poised to become a major player in the international plastics business of the future. Asia processes about the same volume of plastics as western Europe (but less than the 34% processed in North America). About half of the Asian processing activity is in China. The annual growth rate of the plastics sector in China has been over 10% throughout the last decade [1]! Not surprisingly, China is also a leading producer of plastic processing machinery in the world. Also, about 20% of the production capacity is estimated to be in need of replacement and will result in significant
3 In recent years the U.S. packaging market for thermoplastics was approximately divided up between resin types as follows: HDPE, 31%; LDPE, 12%; LLDPE, 16%; polypropylene (PP), 14%; poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), 15%. In the year 2000 the packaging sector in the United States used over 21 million tons of resin.
Figure 2.2. World and U.S. production of thermoplastic resins. Most of the data is in long tons with later data in tonnes. Insert shows the relationship between world resin production and the population.
technical upgrades and capacity in the sector.4 The industry sector is particularly strong in the Pearl River Delta region of Hong Kong, which produces processing machinery as well. China is the fifth largest resin producer in the world, using only a small fraction of the resin domestically (per capita plastics use in China is less than 7 kg per year). Table 2.1 summarizes the plastic industry in different
Table 2.1 Data on Plastics Processing Industry in Asian Regions (Other Than China)
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Defusing the Tension in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 38
By Drew Baumgartner
You guys, I love The Thing. That's the John Carpenter movie, not Ben Grimm (though he's cool, too). I'm a sucker for parlor mysteries in general, but the thought that "the killer" might actually be an imposter adds room for extra little twists that make the mysteries more mysterious and the tension more tense. Ryan North and Derek Charm play with this concept in the opening scene of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 38, as Doreen and her computationally-minded friends devise a perfectly logical means of verifying everyone's true identity. In Squirrel Girl's world, there's no white-knuckle blood-test scene, just the shortest route to diffusing that tension. It's a choice North and Charm make throughout the issue, and while it sounds like it would rob the scenes of drama, it actually helps keep the pace moving along at a dizzying clip. Continue reading →
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How The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 37 Hides Everything in Plain Sight
Doreen Green's honesty is a key part of her character. It allows her to find nonviolent solutions to so many of her conflicts, helping her adversaries find a better path forward. But it also means she's not great at subterfuge. It's a weakness that Ryan North and Derek Charm lean into hilariously, as Doreen and Nancy don some truly absurd costumes in order to infiltrate Squirrel Girl's own funeral.
As silly as these costumes are, they also reinforce Doreen's natural honesty — she's simply incapable of selling a lie convincingly. It's a philosophy that North and Charm use to inform the whole aesthetic of the series, which tends to overshare and lampshade niggling details we might have otherwise overlooked. But unlike Doreen's compulsive honesty, North and Charm can use our trust against us, landing a thrilling twist in this issue's final page. Continue reading →
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The Many Irreconcilable Definitions of Redemption in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 34
By Spencer Irwin
Kraven the Hunter is not only the very first enemy Doreen Green defeated way back when Ryan North and Erica Henderson launched The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, but he's also the first enemy she reformed. Unlike the other villains whose lives Doreen has helped turn around, Kraven has continued to pop up as a recurring character ever since, allowing the creative team to explore life after redemption and just what, exactly, Kraven looks like as a "good guy." With this image now firmly in place, North and artist Derek Charm use The Unbeatable Squirrel 34 to muddy and complicate it in fascinatingly complex and nuanced ways. What redemption means for Kraven may not be the same for Doreen, or Spider-Man, or the police, or the people of NYC, and there may simply be no way to reconcile these various viewpoints. Continue reading →
By Spencer • Posted in Marvel, Spencer Irwin, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl	• Tagged Brain Drain, Derek Charm, Doreen Green, Kraven the Hunter, Peter Parker, Rico Renzi, Ryan North, Spider-Man, Squirrel Girl, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Themes and Team Make for a Dream in Squirrel Girl/Ms. Marvel 1
By Taylor Anderson
On paper, the team-up of Squirrel Girl and Ms. Marvel makes too much sense for it not to happen. Both heroes are young protagonists. Both are second tier Marvel heroes next to the headliner Avengers. And perhaps most importantly, both of their series are strikingly modern and fun. But just because a team-up makes sense in theory doesn't mean it will really work in practice. Artistic differences and such often derail the best laid team-up issues. Baring this in mind, does Marvel Rising: Squirrel Girl/Ms. Marvel 1 strike gold or strike out? Continue reading →
By Taylor • Posted in Marvel, Squirrel Girl/Ms. Marvel 1, Taylor Anderson	• Tagged Devin Grayson, Doreen Green, G. Willow Wilson, Irene Strychalski, Kamala Kahn, Ms. Marvel, Ramon Bachs, Ryan North, Squirrel Girl
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 32: Discussion
by Taylor Anderson and Michael DeLaney
Taylor: Usually when I go to work, I wear contact lenses instead of glasses. Generally, that's a decision I make based on comfort, or more accurately, on how late I wake up that morning. This being so, people at work don't see me in my glasses that often and frequently express surprise that I'm bespectacled. My students think it's hilarious to lovingly (I think) mock me by calling me "Professor Anderson" in their best nerd voice when they see my Clark Kent look. This just shows that superficial changes to one's appearance often lead to you being seen differently, and the same can be said of comics. Being a visual medium, how things look matters. And when that look changes, it's a total gambit as to whether it works or not. Continue reading →
By Taylor • Posted in Discussion, Marvel, Michael DeLaney, Taylor Anderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl	• Tagged Derek Charm, Doreen Green, Kraven the Hunter, Nancy Whitehead, Rico Renzi, Ryan North, Squirrel Girl, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Tippy-Toe
by Taylor Anderson and Patrick Ehlers
Taylor: A couple days ago, Erica Henderson announced on Twitter that she would be stepping away from artistic duties on the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. For fans of the comic, particularly those who have been reading it from the beginning, this comes as crushing news, which is only moderately softened by knowing Henderson is stepping down of her own accord. While that makes the situation a bit easier to swallow it's still is weird to consider a Squirrel Girl comic not drawn by Henderson. Luckily, there are still a few issues left to appreciate Henderson's artwork and the 30th issue provides a great example of why she'll be missed so much. Continue reading →
By Taylor • Posted in Discussion, Marvel, Patrick Ehlers, Taylor Anderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl	• Tagged Doreen Green, Erica Henderson, Galactus, Loki, Nancy Whitehead, Rico Renzi, Ryan North, Silver Surfer, Squirrel Girl, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Tippy-Toe
Friends Start as Foes in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 29
Back when the first Avengers movie came out, audiences were thrilled to see a fight between Thor and Iron Man. Fast-forward to last year, and many of the same audiences were similarly thrilled to see Thor fight the Hulk. That audiences love to see heroes fight each other is nothing new. There's a very specific reason why people enjoy fights between comic book protagonists so much: it's essentially a cinematic version of arguments comic book nerds have been having for ages — "who would win in a fight?" And truthfully, it isn't only comic book fans who have been asking this question. Comic book creators have been discussing the question in issues for decades now. This debate continues in Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 29, only now it's accompanied by Ryan North's distinctive humor and irony. Continue reading →
By Taylor • Posted in Marvel, Taylor Anderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl	• Tagged Doreen Green, Dormammu, Drax the Destroyer, Erica Henderson, Loki, Nancy Whitehead, Rico Renzi, Ryan North, Silver Surfer, Sorcerer Supreme, Squirrel Girl, Tippy-Toe, Travis Lanham
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 28 Piles on the Grifts
Loki stories are fun — and have been for literal millennia — because of the dynamic way storytellers let us in on his tricks. Sometimes, we're only tipped off to the trick after the fact, allowing us to be fooled along with his audience. In other cases, we get to be "in" on the trick, effectively seeing it from his perspective. Or our perspective can shift at any point, allowing us to be fooled for a time before revealing the trick to us halfway through, introducing that bit of dramatic irony that makes trickster stories so fun. Ryan North and Erica Henderson understand the fun of all of those approaches, and mix and match them to glorious effect in Squirrel Girl 28. Continue reading →
By Drew • Posted in Drew Baumgartner, Marvel, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl	• Tagged Doreen Green, Dormammu, Drax the Destroyer, Erica Henderson, Loki, Nancy Whitehead, Rico Renzi, Ryan North, Silver Surfer, Sorcerer Supreme, Squirrel Girl, Tippy-Toe, Travis Lanham
by Taylor Anderson and Ryan Mogge
Taylor: I've had this misconception for a long time now that Squirrel Girl is somehow not connected to the Marvel Universe at large. This almost certainly stems from Squirrel Girl being a comedic title that tonally doesn't match the rest of the Marvel Universe (save for maybe Deadpool) and which often portrays superheroes as being goofy and inept rather than noble saviors of the planet. However, no matter how unique Squirrel Girl may be amongst Marvel titles, it's still part of the universe just as much as any other comic, which is a fact made obvious in issue 27. Continue reading →
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Epistolary Irreverence in The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 26
The provenance of epistolary texts are always weird. Actually, it's probably less weird than traditional narratives, where we might somehow be privy to the private thoughts of the protagonist or even the perspective of an omniscient narrator, but epistolary texts necessarily draw our attention to the weirdness in a way that more traditional narratives don't. Because we're reading documents composed within the diegesis of the epistolary narrative, the ostensible writer of those documents are a character, even as the actual writer attempts to become invisible. That tension, between our hyperawareness of the fictional author, and purported obliviousness of the actual author, puts epistolary narratives in this weird netherworld of headspace, embracing the self-awareness of postmodernism in an attempt to produce an entirely un-self-aware story. It's a concept that already folds in on itself, but writer Ryan North adds a few more wrinkles, confusing the notion of self-awareness enough that the confusion starts to be to point. Continue reading →
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Animal Husbandry Minister K. Raju informed the state assembly that there need be no panic over reports of the death of ducks due to avian flu (H5N1 virus) in certain areas of Alappuzha district.
"It has been confirmed that the virus that caused the death of ducks will not affect human beings and hence there need be no panic at all," said Raju.
In the past few days, ducks have been found dead in four Alappuzha villages. Bodies of 1,500 ducks were burnt.
"It has been decided to compensate the farmers for the loss they have suffered. They will be compensated Rs 200 for each affected duck more than two months old while Rs 100 will be given for those aged below. Rs 5 will be paid for each egg that had to be destroyed," added Raju.
The Minister said that two years ago more than two lakh poultry birds were culled in Alappuzha, Kottayam and Pathanamthitta districts following an outbreak of avian flu.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the state government will take necessary steps to ensure that adequate testing facilities are set up in the state.
Samples were sent to a laboratory in Bhopal.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government has banned import of poultry and eggs from Kerala.


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A Giant, Hopeful Step in the Direction of Full Equality
May 22, 2012 /0 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Theology & Church Teaching /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor
Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki
A different translation of Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki's comments about the equality of homosexual and heterosexual relationships offers a slight shift in the understanding of the Berlin archbishop's message reported here on May 20th, though, as far as I can understand, it is still a very hopeful message. First, I'll explain the translation issue and then explain why I think it is still hopeful.
Terence Weldon, who blogs at QueeringTheChurch.com, alerted me to a blog by Daniel Silliman, who posted a variation on the translation of Woelki's comments. Silliman's post translates Woelki's remarks, reported in The Deutche Presse-Agentur, the largest news organization in Germany, in this way:
"The Berlin Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki considers it possible that the Catholic Church will soften its strict position against gays and lesbians in the long term …. It is conceivable that the criteria will be refined. He considers it is imaginable that, 'where people take responsibility for each other, where they live and practice a longterm/permanent homosexual relationship, that that is to be regarded in a similar way [emphasis mine] as a heterosexual relationship,' Woelki said on Thursday at the Catholic Congress in Mannheim.
"However, no one can expect a quick change of heart from the Church on this question. There will be no quick fixes, such a process could take a long time. Above all, this would not change it, that the marriage between man and woman for the Catholic church has a special rank, emphasized Woelki. . . .
"The Magisterium of the Catholic Church must deal with such developments. Unfortunately, this often takes a long time, and would not help people living today, said Woelki."
The biggest difference here is whether Woelki's comparison phrase is translated "in a similar way" or "in the same way." While there is certainly a difference between these translations, I still believe that even if the weaker one is more correct, it is still a giant step forward from the usual absolutist approach most church leaders take that no change can ever possibly take place in the area of homosexual relationships.
What's more important, as I pointed out the other day, is that Woelki's acknowledgement of the possibility of change is part of a trend I've noticed in the last six months where prelates are finding ways to make concessions about civilly legal ways to recognize committed same-gender relationships. These concessions are in direct contradiction to the Vatican's 2003 document "Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons" which stated:
"Where the government's policy is de facto tolerance and there is no explicit legal recognition of homosexual unions, it is necessary to distinguish carefully the various aspects of the problem. Moral conscience requires that, in every occasion, Christians give witness to the whole moral truth, which is contradicted both by approval of homosexual acts and unjust discrimination against homosexual persons. Therefore, discreet and prudent actions can be effective; these might involve: unmasking the way in which such tolerance might be exploited or used in the service of ideology; stating clearly the immoral nature of these unions; reminding the government of the need to contain the phenomenon within certain limits so as to safeguard public morality and, above all, to avoid exposing young people to erroneous ideas about sexuality and marriage that would deprive them of their necessary defences and contribute to the spread of the phenomenon. Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that the approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil."
Cardinal Woelki's comments (even in the translation which weakens the comparison to heterosexual unions) and the comments of the other bishops cited in my previous post ignore this document's injunction not to approve of homosexual acts and they certainly do not state clearly "the immoral nature of these unions," but instead do quite the opposite.
I hope that my post on May 20th did not give the impression that I believed that equality for heterosexual and homosexual relationships in the Catholic Church was just around the corner. That was not my intention. Even without knowing of Woelki's comments that such a change might take a long time, I was still under the impression that such would be the case. For example, while I rejoice that Bishop Geoffrey Robinson of Australia has called for a re-thinking of the church's approach to sexual ethics, I am not going to hold my breath until that happens. Yet, it is still a giant step in the rigtht direction that a bishop has issued such a call.
The cause for rejoicing in Woelki's statement is that a Cardinal of the Church has acknowledged goodness in same-gender relationships and has compared them to marriage–unlike comparing them to addiction, bestiality, and other human frailties or perversions, as some of his brother bishops have been known to do. Knowing that one Cardinal–especially one who may not see full equality between heterosexual and homosexual relationships as ideal–can make such a positive comparison indicates that the hierarchy of the church can indeed work for change in this area of doctrine.
I thank Terence Weldon and Daniel Silliman for their clarifications. I invite readers to offer their thoughts on the Cardinal's statement, and whether or not this news is seen as a sign of hope.
–Francis DeBernardo, New Ways Ministry
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Phew! There..there. . .this morning's "adjustment" is much easier on the anticipation level. LOL I've lived long enough to know that our ancient Holy Mother could never walk, let alone run that fast! No candidate for the Boston Marathon! hahahaaa Rather H.M.'s motto is, in Latin of course: "Ne quid nimis. . . Take it easy!" Anything more sudden would send the blood pressure cuff off the charts! hahaa
But, in line with Christian HOPE, Francis' balanced nuance still goes beyond the 'unexpected'. . .these are "break thru" days. . . and reason to hope for more. In "similar and/or same" way as the oft-used "In the spirit of Vatican II ", let people of good will and devout manner think and act accordingly. . .hopefully "reading the signs of the times" and acting accordingly.
Can The Church say "AMEN"? 😉
May I comment, just a bit, about this part of Francis' commentary? "The biggest difference here is whether Woelki's comparison phrase is translated "in a similar way" or "in the same way." While there is certainly a difference between these translations, I still believe that even if the weaker one is more correct, it is still a giant step forward from the usual absolutist approach most church leaders take that no change can ever possibly take place in the area of homosexual relationships."
Something one would need to know from Rome-speak is how the various persons use these phrases. ."in a similar way" or "in the same way". Does each convey the same thing or something different? A practical example. . . I am not a linguistic expert, by any means but. . . . This is what the Roman committee finally did with the English-speaking Bishops' Conferences text for the New Missal currently prescribed.: For over 40 years in the Eucharistic Words of Institution the priest said, after the consecration of the Bread . ."In the same way, after supper, he took the cup. . . . " The New Missal has the priest now saying "In a similar way, after supper, he took the chalice. . ."
Do these two wordings convey the same meaning. . "In the same way". . . "In a similar way. . " ? I know this sounds like quibbling and so forth, but in Romespeak one needs to know how/what they are saying. . . .?
Can I say that, as in the case of the Eucharistic Prayer, these phrases mean the same thing? If not, then it would seem to me we have a nuanced doctrinal meaning introduced into the Canon of the Mass. If it is so, then was there universal approval and acceptance of the whole Church? As in recent arguments about birth control, contraception and the like what is not "universally received" is not a law. We must remember that the consensus fidelium – the agreeing sense of the Faithful – is one of the "fonts of divine revelation" along with Scripture and Tradition..
See my point? Is "in a similar way" the same thing as "in the same way" If so, as apparently the Words of Institution show us now, then we take the more positive meaning to the Cardinal's words. . . there is equality in Marriage. . . Amen.
BUT. . . it is for the experts to speak. . . .I only sit in the pew and pay and pray. . . .and wonder. 😉
ray. . . . . 😉
Terence Weldon says:
Thanks, Francis.
Daniel Silliman reads a pessimistic message into this, but like you, I think the significance is not in the specific words of Woelki, but in the wider context of an increasing number of bishops, priests and others who are standing up and recognizing the need for a different approach.
I also think that in the widest context of all, its worth noting that Woelki's words came in response to a Jesuit priest who openly challenged him – something that seems to have characterized the German Katholikentag as a whole. Meanwhile, in Ireland, NCR reports that the assembly of the faithful earlier this month had expression of goodwill from several bishops and senior clergy – none of who attended
Whatever the state of the episcopacy, the church as a whole is moving on – while the bishops collectively give every appearance of seceding from the Catholic Church.
Brother Benilde Montgomery, O.S.F. says:
While I admire your role as John the Baptist, I frequently abandon all hope in the Institutional Church. Its present goal seems to be its own decomposition, the most hopeful aspect of its current social positiion. Our hierarchy appear to be either entertainers like Dolan or Decartes-bound intellectuals so caught up in themselves that they are eating themselves up alive. As Maureen Dowd quoted former governor Cuomo, they seem to be more in love with the "Church" than with Christ. I do get some hope, however, from Walker Percy's "Love in the Ruins" (1971) where we do seem able to reecover our simple, earth-bound, pre-Roman roots.
But without John the Baptist, we are really slipping away. Keep preaching, "John."
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Matt Anderson is keen to be able to use his JIBC paramedic training to serve his remote Central BC community. He also hopes to eventually train others to help provide a basic level of medical care for the town's 800 residents. (Story by Wanda Chow / Photo by Jimmy Jeong)
Just a week after Matt Anderson successfully completed his paramedic licensing exam he was practically bursting to talk about the possibilities that come with his training at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC).
After all, as the lone certified paramedic in Moricetown, a Wet'suwet'en village in Central BC halfway between Smithers and Hazelton, he and a licenced Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) were to be the main regular providers of health care to the approximately 800 residents.
It was yet another role in the community for Matt, who is also a high school teacher for at-risk youth, the town's driving instructor, one of 12 members of its volunteer fire department, and one of only two certified EMRs.
As a first responder, he said, "It's 24/7. I have a radio on me and I just go when I'm called."
The town's fire chief asked him to become the fire department's "medical guy" because no one else wanted to do it. In a First Nations community, the close knit nature and location can often result in Indigenous firefighters and first responders attending to emergencies involving their own families. This can lead to some uncomfortable situations, unique to a small community. Matt, however, is one of the few non-Indigenous residents, from a family that's called Moricetown home for almost 40 years.
He agreed to the role, was trained in Occupational First Aid Level 1 and enjoyed it so much he started thinking about becoming a paramedic. He attended JIBC to get his EMR certification and eventually community leaders agreed they wanted him to pursue further training.
His school supervisor and the fire chief both gave him leaves of absence so he could go through the eight-month process of training for the Primary Care Paramedic Certificate at JIBC's Chilliwack campus and completing the licensing requirements; the Moricetown Volunteer Fire Department and the Kyah Wiget Education Society he works for helped cover some of the costs; and the Moricetown Band is also behind him.
The JIBC training was everything he'd hoped.
"I just loved it. I ate that program up. I loved the instructors. The instructors in Chilliwack are phenomenal and I hear that from everyone. Really great course." read more »
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Justin Woodroff thrives on the type of calls that give him an opportunity to use the education and problem-solving abilities he gained while a student at the JIBC Paramedic Academy. Beyond technical skills, his JIBC instructors taught students numerous lessons based on their lengthy experience in the field. (Story by Wanda Chow / Photo by Jimmy Jeong)
The call came in as a biking injury in northern Chilliwack, recalled Justin Woodroff, a 24-year-old paramedic with the BC Ambulance Service. The patient had crashed on one of the jumps at the bike park.
When he and his partner arrived, Justin could see this was no routine injury.
"He was under a blanket but we could tell as soon as we got there that his femur was obviously fractured and angulated up towards his torso."
Thanks to his education in the primary care paramedic program at Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), and his work experience since graduating, Justin was able to make the right decisions to care for the patient. They called for an advanced life support unit and a helicopter staffed with critical care paramedics to fly the patient to hospital.
It's the sort of case he thrives on, the type that gives him the opportunity to use a lot of his education, tools, skills and problem-solving abilities to help someone in need. Paramedicine is a career path Justin started on at age 19 when he began volunteering with the Cultus Lake Fire Department.
"After responding to various emergencies with the fire department I was hooked on emergency medicine," he said, adding since high school he had always envisioned working in a science or medical-related field so it was a natural fit.
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JIBC staff and faculty gain lifelong learning opportunities working with Aboriginal students
August 8, 2016 – 9:42 am
An Aboriginal hoop dancer performs at National Aboriginal Day celebrations held at the Justice Institute of British Columbia recently. JIBC staff and faculty marked the occasion by recounting personal and professional lessons they learned from working with Aboriginal students and communities. (Photos by Richard Chu / Story by Wanda Chow)
When it comes to working with Aboriginal students and communities, staff and faculty at Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) find the lessons go both ways.
That was the common theme among speakers at this year's National Aboriginal Day event held June 21 in JIBC's recently-opened Aboriginal Gathering Place at the New Westminster Campus.
"National Aboriginal Day is always a special occasion at JIBC," said Dr. Jeffrey Schiffer, Director of the Office of Indigenization. "This year, we decided it was a great opportunity to share some of the ways the education we're providing is helping to build capacity within Aboriginal communities, and strengthen relationships in the spirit of truth and reconciliation."
Bridget Malcom, JIBC's Aboriginal Student Recruiter & Advisor, shared her story of how her work at the Institute has put her in touch with her own Aboriginal heritage. Growing up, she lived with her father in New Westminster, with little awareness of her mother's Aboriginal culture. After working at JIBC planning events and ceremonies with local First Nations and their Elders as part of her role, Malcom said there's been no shortage of opportunities to learn more about her Aboriginal roots. She notes that exposure to her cultural heritage has only enhanced her work and commitment to assist JIBC Aboriginal learners. read more »
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Eugeneia McPherson nets 20 for Red Storm
Eugeneia McPherson looks inside in a game last season against Villanova. (Feb. 27, 2010) Credit: Patrick E. McCarthy
By Marcus Henry December 8, 2010 11:41 PM
The St. John's women just continue to roll.
North Babylon graduate Eugeneia hit four three-pointers and scored a career-high 20 points as the No.20 Red Storm topped Seton Hall, 71-52, in the Big East opener for both teams.
McPherson played an important roll for the Red Storm (8-1, 1-0 Big East) last season. But she's being asked to even more this season.
"I consider us to always have six starters," St. John's coach Kim Barnes Arico said. "She's always been in the mix and the last three games she's started when Nadirah was coming off the bench. So her confidence is at a high."
Her shooting has improved steadily this season, according to the coach.
"She's a streaky shooter and if she gets hot she can knock down some shots for us," St. John's coach Kim Barnes Arico said.
Rangers' Smith wants to make it tough to take him out


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Kolkata, Oct 25 (IANS) Asian Football Confederation (AFC) general secretary Dato Windsor John on Wednesday said while taking a call on starting one Indian football league, the best of "heritage clubs" and "modern" ones have to be taken into consideration.
At present the I-League and the Indian Super League (ISL) run simultaneously.
"No. I am not sure if you are aware there was a big (meeting). I have not seen the report yet. Once we see the report two-three experts will take a call on what is to be done," Windsor John told reporters on the sidelines of the FIFA U-17 World Cup semi-final between England and Brazil here.
The AFC had a all stakeholders' meeting earlier this year where it was decided that for the short term I-League and the Indian Super League (ISL) will be take place simultaneously while in the longer run there has to be one league.
"AFC in its statutes that one country one league. We just gave a provision for a transition. one league is sure. I have to reports and then we need to sit with AIFF and ISL," the AFC secretary said.
Asked about the fate of city football giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan who have refused to pay participation fee, Windsor John said their contribution over the years cannot be forgotten.
"We cannot forget their supporters' base. We are conscious of their contribution to football. If today football is alive it is because of them," he said.
All India Football Federation (AIFF) general secretary Kushal Das added that they are trying to merge the two leagues by next year.
"There will be one league. It's not been decided yet. Dates but most likely it will be from next season," Das said.
"They have to fulfil the criteria. They have to pay participation fee. They cannot compromise with it," Das added.
After meeting all state associations and clubs across the country, FIFA and AFC officials will do market research and then prepare a draft on the merger of the I-League and the ISL.


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Tekagami and Calligraphy Video
Welcome to Tekagami and Kyōgire, a digital exhibition featuring the collection of fragmented calligraphy at the University of Oregon.
In East Asia, calligraphy was (and to certain extent still is) considered the most noble form of art that could reveal the very essence of a person. Unlike pencils and pens we use for writing today, the traditional East Asian writing utensil was a brush with a rather flimsy tip made of varying materials, most typically horsehair. The softness of the tip gave a brush great fluidity and freedom of expression, while demanding of its user incredible self-discipline and control of one's body. For this reason, all writing in East Asia was not just communication, but a performance. An accomplished hand, therefore, was revered, eagerly sought after, and studied.
In China, an emperor of the Tang Dynasty called Taizong (r. 626-649) famously ordered an authentic work by the greatest "calligraphy sage," Wang Xizhi (303-361), to be buried with him upon his death. The fervor for not just studying but collecting calligraphy was shared in Japan throughout its history of writing, first among the intellectual elites, like the aristocrats, Buddhist clerics, and literati, but eventually among every stratum of society as the rate of literacy rose beginning in the seventeenth century.
This exhibition introduces two gems of UO's collection of Japanese calligraphy: the album of calligraphy known as tekagami in the collection of the Knight Library Special Collections and UO Archives (SCUA), containing a total of 319 examples; and thirty-six individually mounted calligraphy fragments in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA). Together, the collection showcases some of the most beautiful and representative examples of Japanese calligraphy with a dizzying array of paper decoration, ranging in dates from the eighth to seventeenth centuries, and content from copied sacred scriptures, poetry slips, and narrative stories to personal letters.
The metadata for the calligraphy fragments included in this website are the fruits of research conducted by Akiko Walley during the Mellon fellowship period in 2019-20, but they are still a work-in-progress. Although incomplete, they are shared in hopes that they may spark interest in this material and contribute to the future discovery of other similar works in collections outside of Japan. The information will continue to be updated in the future.
Literally "mirror of hands," tekagami 手鑑 is an album of calligraphy fragments of poems, stories, religious scriptures, historical documents, and personal correspondences, known collectively as kohitsu 古筆 ("antique writing"). Kyōgire 経切 or "sutra fragments" are fragments taken from copies of Buddhist scriptures. These sūtras, commonly written in English as "sutras," are the words of the Buddha, and with Buddhist precepts (vinaya) and commentaries (abhidharma), make up the "three baskets" (tripiṭaka) of the Buddhist canon.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike 4.0 International License to Akiko Walley and the University of Oregon, 2020.
The digital exhibition Tekagami and Kyogire is the result of a collaboration between the University of Oregon Libraries and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.


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Home Houston Mutiny and Riot Records [Letter] 1918 February 1, Eurydice Club, Marion, Indiana, to President Woodrow Wilson.
[Letter] 1918 February 1, Eurydice Club, Marion, Indiana, to President Woodrow Wilson.
Hon. Sir: - The undersigned respectfully request you to disapprove the sentences of death imposed upon the colored soldiers in the court martial at Houston Texas.
You are the only man that can save these mens lives and we the members of Eurydice Club � composed of thirty colored woman of this city � that stand for uplift and the best in American Citizenship beg of you to hear our plea.
Title [Letter] 1918 February 1, Eurydice Club, Marion, Indiana, to President Woodrow Wilson.
Description Letter from the Eurydice club of Marion, Indiana requesting clemency for the Houston rioters condemned to death.
Subject African American soldiers; Camp Logan Tex. -- History; Houston Tex. -- race relations; Courts martial and courts of inquiry; Military Offenses; Trials Military offenses; United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 24th; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924; Eurydice Club.
Source Original records found in Record Groups 153 and 393, Modern Military Records Branch, Textual Archives Services Division, National Archives Services Division, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland. This digital reproduction is found on reel 2, image 294.
Transcript Marion, Indiana Feby 1st 1918 To The President White House, Washington DC. Hon. Sir: - The undersigned respectfully request you to disapprove the sentences of death imposed upon the colored soldiers in the court martial at Houston Texas. You are the only man that can save these mens lives and we the members of Eurydice Club � composed of thirty colored woman of this city � that stand for uplift and the best in American Citizenship beg of you to hear our plea. Loyally yours, (Mrs.) L Pius Welch Cur. Secy Eurydice Club. 212 W. 20th St.


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Tunheim gives presentation on JFK assassination
In the Interest of History
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim speaks about the Kennedy Assassination during Thursday's Law Day event at the Lowell Inn. Tunheim was chairman of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board that examined records related to JFK's 1963 shooting death.
The November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains one of America's most debated and discussed historic events. What members of the local Lions and Rotary International clubs learned at their annual Law Day event Thursday is that history is sometimes best left open to interpretation with the facts.
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim, the featured speaker at Thursday's event at the Lowell Inn Banquet Center in Stillwater, was chairman of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board for four years. The board was established in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush and continued by President Bill Clinton. The board was created as an independent agency to re-examine for release JFK assassination-related records that federal agencies still regarded as too sensitive to open to the public. The board was not to come to conclusions, but simply declassify the records.
"As you and I all know there is some fairly broad disagreement about who is responsible for what happened that day. Our job was to open records to the public and let them decide for themselves what happened in the days after the assassination." Tunheim told his audience. "We've all heard the conspiracy theories, and I feel that the secrecy at the time of the assassination did have an impact on those."
Tunheim gave a brief overview of the events of Nov. 22, 1963, with supplemental video that included footage of the Kennedys landing at Dallas Love Field, the famous Zapruder film that captures JFK's assassination and news coverage of the aftermath of the assassination, as well as the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Tunheim said the board went through millions of documents including CIA and FBI records, foreign organization records, police reports, records from New Orleans and information from the Clay Shaw case, the only man brought to trial and acquitted of Kennedy's assassination. The collection, which includes 6 million pages, can be found at the National Archives.
"We did run into conflict with quite a number of organizations. The process was set up with an appeal and could be challenged by the organization." Tunheim said. "What we didn't declassify at the time were documents related to protection of the President."
Tunheim added that the board did go through KGB files that had been collected on Lee Harvey Oswald when he defected to old Soviet Union after being discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps.
"The KGB had records of Oswald that were eight feet high. They had kept a close eye on him, making sure he wasn't a trouble maker. In the roof of his apartment that he got when he found a job in Minsk, there were peepholes on the roof and a Russian woman in the attic, so we have a pretty complete record of his life for the two-and-a-half years he spent there." Tunheim said.
Tunheim said Oswald was the prime suspect from the beginning of the investigation.
"His motivation is, I think he thought he was supposed to be someone famous in his own mind, and if he did this he would be viewed with great glory in the Soviet Union and Cuba," Tunheim said. "He was a really mixed-up 24-year-old who was on a parade route that had changed to go near his workplace."
Tunheim said the board was given the opportunity to look at the Warren Commission report that ruled there was one shooter, no proof could be found that organized crime was involved, and there were only three bullets used.
Tunheim said the FBI was not involved in the investigation because at the time, shooting the president was not a federal crime. He added that the number of shots going from three to six and then three again dealt with skipping tapes, and that Oswald's shooter, Jack Ruby, had minimal ties to organized crime though it remains unknown who paid for his lawyers during trial.
"Records of Ruby's conversations with his lawyer have never been released because of attorney-client privilege," Tunheim said. "In the interest of history though, I think they should be."


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La competizione del salto con l'asta di atletica leggera ai Giochi della V Olimpiade si tenne i giorni 10 e 11 luglio 1912 allo Stadio Olimpico di Stoccolma.

L'eccellenza mondiale

I protagonisti dei Trials statunitensi sono:

 Est: Marcus Wright con 4,015;
 Centro: Frank Murphy con 3,63;
 Ovest:  Samuel Bellah con 3,90.
Non partecipa ai Trials ma stacca lo stesso un biglietto per Stoccolma Harold Babcock, che vince i Campionati nazionali con 3,66.

Risultati

Turno eliminatorio
Qualificazione 3,65 m
Si qualificano 11 atleti, di cui ben otto sono statunitensi.

Finale
Frank Nelson impressiona valicando 3,80 di ben 30 centimerti. Ma si ferma a 3,90. L'unico che valica la misura è il connazionale Babcock. Rimasto solo, supera anche 3,95, poi tenta il record del mondo a 4,06, ma fallisce.

Collegamenti esterni
  Athletics at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games: Men's Pole Vault su Sports-reference.com

Atletica leggera ai Giochi della V Olimpiade
1912

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I said I'd report back on an experiment I started last November. For the Chilli Lager I made with a 3kg malt kit, I primed half the batch in the normal way, and didn't prime the remaining bottles. The theory is that when using a full malt kit, after primary fermentation and bottling, there should be enough residual dextrins left to be slowly enzymatically converted into simple sugars and then be digested by the remaining yeast. I've had a request to report on the outcome of the experiment. So here is a status report.
A month ago I would have said that the unprimed bottles were basically flat. My problem is that I don't how long I should wait for these enzymes to act! I had basically given up on the unprimed bottles, but last night I tried another sample, and there was some definite fizz going on. It wasn't nearly as active as the primed batch, but it certainly had more sparkle than some English beers I've had. So, I'll wait and see. In the past I've had home brew improve over the course of a year in the bottle. Perhaps that improvement was due to a similar process.
Nonetheless, my plan for future batches is to keep adding priming sugar before bottling.


To remove a deposit from valves. To check whether the core is deformed and whether there are no cracks on a plate; at damages to replace the valve.
To check whether it is not too worn-out and whether the working facet is damaged. When grinding a working facet of the valve on the grinder to sustain the facet corner equal 45 В°30' В± 5'; and to track that thickness of a cylindrical part of a plate of the valve after grinding was not less than 0,5 mm.
To check a gap between the directing plugs and a core of the valve, having measured diameter of a core of the valve and an opening of the directing plug.
In case of wear of plugs more than on 0,08 mm they are pressed off in the direction of the combustion chamber outside by means of a special mandrel and the hammer or under a press.
After a press fitting the opening of the directing plug is developed to diameter 8,022... 8,040 mm for inlet valves and to diameter 8,029... 8,047 for final valves. At the same time ovality and conicity of an opening to 0,01 mm are allowed.
If the increased gap between the directing plug and the valve cannot be eliminated with replacement of the valve, replace plugs of valves, using a mandrel (fig. of Vypressovk of the directing plugs).
For replacement of two guides of plugs of inlet and final valves of the first and fourth cylinders to turn off two hairpins of fastening of the case of bearings of the camshaft as they prevent installation of a mandrel.
It is necessary to press the directing plugs with the put-on lock ring against the stop of a ring in the cylinder head plane.
After a press fitting to develop openings in the directing plugs development.
Then to proshlifovat a saddle of the valve and to bring width of a working facet to the necessary sizes as it is stated above.
At maslootrazhatelny caps peelings of rubber from fittings, cracks and excessive wear of a working edge are not allowed.
At repair of the engine maslootrazhatelny caps are always recommended to be replaced new.
The damaged maslootrazhatelny caps can be replaced, without removing a head of the block of cylinders from the engine. For this purpose it is necessary to remove the case of bearings of the camshaft, to install the piston of the corresponding cylinder in VMT and to remove valve springs, as shown in rice. Removal of springs of valves. Then to remove the damaged cap from the directing plug and a mandrel to napressovat a new cap on the directing plug.
To check a condition of the working surfaces of the lever which are interfaced to a valve core, to a cam of the camshaft and to the spherical end of an adjusting bolt. If on these surfaces there were teases or risks, to replace the lever new.
If deformation or other damages on the plug of an adjusting bolt of the lever or on the bolt is found, to replace details.
To be convinced whether is not present on springs of cracks and whether their elasticity decreased for what to check deformation of springs under loading (fig. A specification for check of an external spring of the valve of the engine of fashion. 2106, the Specification for check of an internal spring of the valve of the engine of fashion. 2106, Scheme of check of a spring of the lever).
For springs of levers (see rice. The scheme of check of a spring of the lever) the size A (a spring in a free state) has to be 35 mm, and the size B under loading (55 ± 6) N [(5,5 ± 0,6) kgf] – 43 mm.
The surfaces of laying should not have damages. They have to be equal, without dents, cracks, swellings and breaks. Peeling of obkladochny material from fittings is not allowed.
On a fringing of openings there should not be cracks, progar and peelings.
However, even if the laying removed from the engine conforms to the above-stated requirements, at assembly of the engine it is recommended to replace it new.
To carefully clear saddles and valves and to establish a head of the block of cylinders on a support (fig. Check of tightness of valves).
To insert valves and the corresponding guides of the plug and to close openings of spark plugs traffic jams.
To install adaptation in the situation specified rice. Check of tightness of valves, and, strongly pressing the lever to create a rubber pear pressure of 0,5 kgfs/sq.m.
During 10 sec. pressure drop should not be observed.
If facets of valves and their saddles are not interfaced completely, leak of air will be noted by movement of an arrow towards zero. In this case to repeat grinding of a working facet of the valve and a saddle on a head of the block of cylinders, carefully carrying out the above-stated operations.
Tightness of valves can also be checked, having poured kerosene in inlet and final cavities of a head of the block of cylinders. At endurance within 3 min. it should not be observed kerosene leaks via valves.
– to force the pump water in a head under pressure of 5 kgfs/sq.m.
Within 2 min. leak of water from a head should not be observed. At detection of cracks to replace a head of the block of cylinders.


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Sydney Guide: Tips For First-time Visitors
November 13, 2017 / Sydney, Sydney Life / 0 comment
Welcome to Sydney! I'm thrilled you're visiting my hometown. Sydney is a beautiful, safe city and there's so much to do. This Sydney guide will help you navigate the city and enjoy your visit.
1 How to get around
2 Driving in Sydney
3 When to visit
4 National Emergency Services
5 Where to stay
6 Things to do in Sydney
Sydney has an extensive public transport system that includes trains, buses, ferries and light rail. If you're in Sydney for a few says, buy an Opal card to use public transport – the one card gives you daily travel caps and enables you to use all four transport systems, plus lets you use the $2.50 per person Sunday cap. Taxis and Uber in Sydney are expensive so walking plus public transport are your best options.
Driving in Sydney
To see a lot of Sydney and its surrounds, it's advisable to hire a car. International visitors may use a foreign driver's licence in NSW. Note that all speed limits are strictly enforced with cameras and it is illegal to drive with a blood alcohol level of 0.05 per cent or higher, or to drive under the influence of illegal drugs.
Sydney is the perfect year-round travel destination due to its temperate climate. It does, however, get extreme heat in summer (December to February). While the average maximum temperatures are around 26°C (78.8°F), it can reach over 40°C (104°f) during this time of year. Summer is also the most humid time of year to visit, with average humidity of 65%.
Winter (June – August) average maximum temperatures are around 16°C (60.8°F). Sydney's highest rainfall is between March and June.
National Emergency Services
The national phone number for all emergency services in Australia, including ambulance, fire and police, is 000. You can dial Triple Zero within Australia from any fixed line, mobile phone, pay phone and certain Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. If you have a GSM digital mobile phone, you can also dial the international standard emergency number 112.
For a short stay, hotels in the CBD particularly around Circular Quay and The Rocks will make it easy to get around as they're close to public transport as well as main attractions. Darling Harbour is also a good choice particularly for families.
Get reviews on my fave hotels in Sydney: The Langham Sydney in The Rocks and the Shangri-La, Sydney.
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