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Joe Burke Named Chief Creative Officer
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Responsible for agency-wide creative leadership
Joe Burke has been promoted to EVP/ Chief Creative Officer. Joe, who joined MARC USA in 2011 and was formerly Executive Creative Director in the Chicago office, now has oversight of creative across offices in Boston, Chicago and Pittsburgh.
MARC USA President Cari Bucci Hulings says, "Joe is the ideal creative. He's a truly gifted storyteller, but just as important, he's such a great leader and genuinely good person — committed to mentoring and developing talent."
Joe's resume includes creative leadership roles at DDB, Element 79, FCB and JWT prior to MARC USA. Perhaps, best known for the iconic, multi-award-winning "Is It in You?" campaign for Gatorade, Joe has been helping consumers fall in love with brands for more than 25 years. In addition to Gatorade, his wide range of experience includes work on Rite Aid, True Value, Payless ShoeSource, Ruby Tuesday, Navistar, Quaker Oats, Life Cereal, Capitol One, Frito-Lay, Coors and American Family Insurance.
Joe has won all the top creative awards but says he's most proud of his multiple EFFIEs and the real business results he has achieved for his clients. He adds, "I love the entrepreneurial vibe at MARC USA. From the day I got here, the agency has honored entrepreneurialism and independence — always brave and always seeing brands in fresh, new ways. These are critical factors in making great work happen."
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Tap into the Underdog Principle to create brand fanatics
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Todd Fabian, Director of Market Research, and Brenda Magnetti, Associate Director, Account Planning, look at how leveraging the Underdog Principle can pay off for brands large and small.
Yes. The Super Bowl is a showcase for world-class cities and football teams with the most elite athletes. And, high-performing, resilient teams give all they've got all season long to claim victory in the ultimate two-team throwdown where each puts it all on the line for hometown bragging rights and NFL history.
Yet, it's not really about cheering on the best teams to take home the Lombardi Trophy. Is it?
Instead, it turns out, unless you're from New England, it's about rooting passionately for the underdog.
We can't help ourselves. It's a reflection of Behavioral Science and the way our brains work. And we're not even aware of it because 95% of our decisions happen in our subconscious. We have an innate bias for equilibrium. When one team dominates, we want the other to win. When the leader stumbles and falls, we feel bad and switch our allegiances back.
Many smart marketers create value and reap commercial benefits by showing up as an underdog brand. Sprint acknowledges that its network is smaller but touts its much lower cost as a reason to switch. The current Buick campaign literally pokes fun at the fact that its image isn't as stylish as its cars. The University of Phoenix taps this principle by overtly targeting people who identify as underdogs — the hardworking, less-privileged people with big ambitions.
Meaningful results? Absolutely. Those brands drive increased purchase intent, preferred choice and brand loyalty.
How to invoke the Underdog Principle
There are a few Behavioral Economics principles that can help you leverage Underdog status for your brand. Transparency, humility and self-deprecating humor are also tried and true strategies. Buick's willingness to address the elephant in the room (and no, that's not a comment on the cars) conveys honesty and gives people permission to reconsider the brand. Transparency is also a powerful appeal. Consider Domino's return to popularity by confessing its prior quality lapses.
The principle of Own Team Bias states that when we share some kind of identity with a group of people, we automatically and immediately feel positive toward them. This principle has most often been used to explain unconscious racial bias, but brands are also using it to invoke a stronger emotional connection with their targets.
Several Super Bowl advertisers leverage this principle by connecting their brand to a "team," or in this case, a cause, with which their target wants to identify. Instead of selling cars during the Super Bowl using famous faces and spending millions on a celebrity, Kia is using its ad time to launch The Great Unknowns Scholarship, which promises to "help young people in need get a foothold in higher education."
Perennial Super Bowl advertiser Verizon is dialing up last year's tribute to First Responders. This year's work includes 12 vignettes about NFL players and coaches who wouldn't be playing football if it weren't for the heroic efforts of First Responders. Interestingly, this is also a nod to the principle of Loss Aversion — imagine what we might have lost if not for those First Responders.
Ironically, one might even say that President Trump leveraged these strategies for his "brand" when he classified himself as an outsider, touting his lack of experience in Washington and flouting his lack of concern over being politically correct. The approach may be polarizing, but there's no doubt it has endeared him to his "team."
So, whether it's during the Super Bowl or any other time, brands both large and small can invoke the Underdog Principle to advantage — one that can last all year long. That is, unless you're the Patriots.
Also published in MediaPost.
The connection between AI and Decision Science: How they influence each other and your customers
January 7, 2019 /0 Comments/in Blog, Homepage Post /by corpdev_admin
The connection between AI and Decision Science:
How they influence each other and your customers
Our Analytics and Insights experts share their favorite reads on these vital topics in today's marketplace.
In today's marketing environment, AI is making vast quantities of data all the more accessible and actionable. At the same time, Decision Science — particularly Behavioral Economics — helps us understand consumers' unconscious biases so we can make better use of the data to eliminate barriers and activate triggers to consumer choice on behalf of brands and causes.
To help you get the New Year off to a great start, we're providing a deeper look into both AI and Behavioral Economics through curated insights from some of our favorite experts in these field.
First, find out why you really act as you do. Boston University's Dr. Carey Morewedge provides this fascinating read on unconscious biases in The Atlantic.
Next here's a deep dive into AI from MIT. We promise you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see how AI works, how it can be applied and how much we should rely on it.
Finally, here's an unsettling look from the Los Angeles Times at how unconscious biases can creep into AI to influence machine learning and perpetuate these biases.
We'd love to hear your feedback, and we're ready to put our Decision Science and AI tools to work for you. To learn more, just contact Josh MacCarty, Director of Data Science.
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I wish it could be easier, but it can't. It just can't. That's because the most valuable and priceless things in our lives rarely come without great sacrifice. They're almost always earned, and not just found.
So keep working. All of your hard work is creating something that is worth the effort.
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St Paul's is known as a beautiful, joyous, peaceful and dignified church with a welcoming spirit and as such it is popular for various sacramental occasions such as baptisms and weddings.
Luck brushes some people unnoticed. Dozens of Governors and their ladies laid the foundation stones of scores of mediocre Australian churches, but it fell to the lot of the Countess of Belmore to lay the foundation stones of the two churches which can be considered the best buildings of Blacket's very best period. We saw that she laid the foundation stone of St Stephen Newtown in November 1871. This was only four months after she laid the stone of St Paul Burwood, …, for St Paul Burwood is the work of Blacket at his best period, …
The church is small, not particularly ornate, but the disposition of the parts, the proportions and scale are nearly perfect. The details are of the finest craftsmanship … (The Blackets: An Era of Australian Architecture, Morton Herman, 1963, p. 138)
Baptism is the means of becoming a member of the Body of Christ, the church. Baptism normally takes place on the third Sunday of the month during the 9.30 am service. While Anglicans are traditionally baptised as infants, people of any age can come for baptism.
Application are made through the Parish Office. Parents and Godparents (where possible) of infants to be baptised will be asked to meet two weeks beforehand to prepare for the baptism.
Please contact the Parish Office on (02) 9747 4327
St Paul's Church is a popular venue for weddings, offering a traditional service accompanied by traditional organ music. Couples are welcome to apply to be married in the church and will be required to meet with the priest for wedding preparation. A set fee is charged for the use of the church, the priest, organist and flowers. Bells are optional.
For details and to make bookings please contact the Parish Office on (02) 9747 4327.
Notice of Intended Marriage form
St Paul's is a place of love and care and as an expression of our trust in God's love. Our priests conduct funerals at St Paul's upon request. Usually the funeral director will make these arrangements with the parish.
Healing Ministry
Prayers for those who are sick or in some form of distress are offered at Sunday worship and the Wednesday Eucharist which commences at 10.30 am. Names can be added to the prayer list by contacting the Parish Office on (02) 9747 4327.
Visiting the Sick
The clergy of the parish conduct a ministry to parishioners and family members by visiting those who are ill or in hospital as time and circumstance allows. To advise the clergy of those who are sick, please contact the Parish Office on (02) 9747 4327.
Anointing of the sick by a priest can be arranged by contacting the Parish Office on (02) 97474327
Renewal of Wedding Vows
Married couples who wish to thank God for the blessings of their married lives may make a renewal of wedding vows in the church. Appointments with the clergy to discuss this ministry can be made.
While Anglicans make a general confession during worship services, those who wish to make an individual confession before a priest may do so. Please contact the Parish Office on (02) 9747 4327.
Information about current events and activities at St Paul's is available in our Weekly Pew Sheet:
24-26 December 2021 | Christmas
19 December 2021 | Advent 4
5th December 2021 | Advent 2
28 November 2021 | Advent 1
21 November 2021 | Christ the King
St Stephen's Day Event Time: 8.00am Said Eucharist & 9.30am Choral Eucharist
Event Location: St Paul's Church
About St Paul's Burwood
Welcome to the website of the beautiful, historic Church of St Paul's, Burwood, an Anglican parish in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney. At St Paul's you will find a welcoming community of people who value Christian fellowship and traditional Anglican worship. All welcome!
Stay in touch with what's happening at our church.
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import unittest

from vector import Vector
from graphics import translate_to_player, scale_vertices, grow_rectangle
from settings import config

class TestDrawingSurface(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_translate_to_player(self):
        """
        Moves given location to the correct player corner
        """
        config.tabletop_size = Vector(1000, 500)
        config.player_area_size = Vector(200, 200)

        for player, l in [
            (0, (10, 10)),      # Top left hand corner
            (1, (810, 10)),     # Top right hand corner
            (2, (810, 310)),    # Bottom right hand corner
            (3, (10, 310))
        ]:
            self.assertEqual(translate_to_player(player, (10, 10)), l)

    def test_scale_vertices(self):
        """
        scales all values in a nested list
        """
        config.scaling_factor = 3
        self.assertEqual(
            scale_vertices([5, (10, 12, [3, 8], Vector(2, 3))]),
            [15, [30, 36, [9, 24], [6, 9]]]
        )

    def test_grow_rectangle(self):
        """
        Moves the rectangle and increases the size
        """
        self.assertEqual(
            grow_rectangle((50, 70, 30, 20), 4),
            (46, 66, 38, 28)
        )

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Dr Nadeem Moghal has had a uniquely varied career as a doctor and medical leader in the NHS. He landed here, a refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda's. He has had a privileged NHS career caring for children and their families as a specialist in kidney disease. He pursued investment in his development as he took on increasingly challenging roles through his MBA, the NHS Institute, The Institute of Healthcare Improvement, The NHS Leadership Academy and The Harvard Kennedy School. His leadership roles ranged from consultant paediatric nephrologist leading the tertiary service, Clincial Director, Associate Medical Director, Director of Strategy, and Medical Director, all in different NHS organisations across England.
Reflecting on his medical career, and its many challenges, Nadeem has developed a deep interest in medical professionalism, and why it matters. Nadeem is a coach and mentor, skills he has used throughout his career to support colleagues wishing to develop, understand the challenges of the NHS, adapt to the cultural issues, and rescuing those in difficulty with colleagues, employers and regulators.
Nadeem has worked to support and improve the skills of international medical graduates to enable effective professional integration and contribution; supporting regulatory compliance, fluency of language, cultural context communication, and medical professionalism.
The NHS will always rely on international medical graduates, who make considerable sacrifices to work away from thier homes and roots. He is determined to continue to support his international colleagues in their NHS careers.
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Home Technology - General News Ex-Google CEO Schmidt to sell up to 2.4M shares
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to sell up to 2.4 million shares of stock currently worth nearly $1.5 billion.
Schmidt, now Google's executive chairman, intends to stagger the sales of the stock over a one-year period. Google disclosed Schmidt's plans in a Friday regulatory filing.
If all 2.4 million shares of stock are sold, that will reduce Schmidt's stake in Google Inc. from 2.8 percent to 2.1 percent.
Schmidt's decision to sell some of his shares comes 10 months after he ended his 10-year stint as Google's CEO and turned the job over to one of the Internet search leader's co-founders, Larry Page.
Page and co-founder Sergey Brin filed plans to sell 5 million Google shares apiece in 2010.
Google shares fell $1.88 Friday to close at $604.64.
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"Benjamin Tapner, of West Stoke, in Sussex, labourer, son of Henry Tapner, of Aldingbourne, Sussex, bricklayer, aged 27, before he was turned off, owned the justice of his sentence, and desired all young persons to take warning by his untimely end, and avoid bad company, which was his ruin. When in gaol, before he was brought out for execution, he said he did not remember he put the rope about Chater's neck.
" William Carter, of Eowland's Castle, thatcher, son of Win. Carter, of East Meon in Hants, aged 39, at the place of execution and in gaol, confessed the justice of the sentence passed upon him, and acted more suitably to a person in such unhappy circumstances than any of them; he likewise at the gallows, cautioned every one against those courses that had brought him to so shameful an end.
" Tapner and Carter, when all the ropes were fixed, shook hands, but what or whether any words then passed between them, was not heard.
aged 68, was unwilling to own himself guilty of the fact for which he died, and said he never saw Chater ; but being asked whether he never heard him, as he was confined so long in the next room to that in which he generally sat, made no answer.


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The four major current fashion capitals are acknowledged to be Paris, Milan, New York City, and London, which are all headquarters to the greatest fashion companies and are renowned for their major influence on global fashion. Fashion weeks are held in these cities, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences. A succession of major designers such as Coco Chanel and Yves Saint-Laurent have kept Paris as the center most watched by the rest of the world, although haute couture is now subsidized by the sale of ready-to-wear collections and perfume using the same branding.
Modern Westerners have a wide number of choices available in the selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to wear can reflect his or her personality or interests. When people who have high cultural status start to wear new or different clothes, a fashion trend may start. People who like or respect these people become influenced by their personal style and begin wearing similarly styled clothes. Fashions may vary considerably within a society according to age, social class, generation, occupation, and geography and may also vary over time. If an older person dresses according to the fashion young people use, he or she may look ridiculous in the eyes of both young and older people. The terms fashionista and fashion victim refer to someone who slavishly follows current fashions.
One can regard the system of sporting various fashions as a fashion language incorporating various fashion statements using a grammar of fashion. (Compare some of the work of Roland Barthes.)
In recent years, Asian fashion has become increasingly significant in local and global markets. Countries such as China, Japan, India, and Pakistan have traditionally had large textile industries, which have often been drawn upon by Western designers, but now Asian clothing styles are also gaining influence based on their own ideas.


My Banner for Creatively Cizon on Etsy (spinning off from this blog).
Too many people have said what a great job my hand crafted cards are and why not sale some too! So without further pause I am creating an Etsy Account to share my artistic nature via hand-crafted cards and acrylic art work.
This will be a blast and I can't wait! I'm busy setting up Etsy, picking the best way to weigh and ship through the USPS. I am also looking at bringing in some extra stamps, embellishments and paper to create as well as canvass to spread a little acrylic and love on as inspired! By no means am I able to give up the day job but I sure hope to have a great journey with my craft and who knows where it leads. I'd really like to have enough items created to set up at the Boulder City Arts and Crafts Fair during the fall of 2014! Now that would be something.
I'll keep you updated on my progress and will soon announce the grand opening of Creatively Cizon on Etsy!


Horizontal style, presents a complete infraestructure for quality and reliability in service, allowing customers to stay in harmony, whatever your need.
There are 50 apartments spread comfortably. Leisure area with whirlpool. It offers apartments and special access for the disabled.
Breakfast is included in the room when they served in the hotel restaurant, buffet style comes with a selection of breads and fruits.
Wi-Fi in the lobby and in the rooms (paid service).
Cascade Hotel offers room service and restaurant.
The recreation area includes 2 beautiful long pools (adults and children) and 1 indoor pool with whirlpool. Game room, sauna wet compeltan accommodation.
From October 25 to 30 days and the sauna will be closed for maintenance. Sorry for the inconvenience.
A choice of leisure and relaxation with all the comfort you deserve.


The Organic Speciation International Workshop is sponsored by the Western Regional Air Partnership/Western Governors Association. APACE is seeking support from the US Dept. of Energy, US EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, and the National Science Foundation.


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Apresentação pélvica é uma complicação do parto em que o feto se apresenta pela bacia e pelos pés, em vez de se apresentar pela cabeça, como seria normal. A apresentação pélvica ocorre em cerca de 3 a 5% das gravidezes a termo. Na maior parte dos casos de bebés em posição pélvica o parto é realizado por cesariana, por ser mais seguro que o parto vaginal.

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Complicações do trabalho de parto e do parto

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Alice Bowsher describes herself as a London-based illustrator looking for laughs. And her joyfulness shines through her quirky cartoon-like figures, from animals to humans.
So it comes as a surprise that she more or less stumbled into her job as an illustrator. "I've always liked drawing for myself but never really thought it could be a viable career choice," she told Lonely Planet.
Bowsher quickly realized her true passion and went on to illustrate books. She takes her inspiration from the world around her, from people she sees on the train to her close circle of friends.
@scoopmag came round the other week and asked me some questions which you can read my answers to on their post.
Here is a piece I made for @coloursmayvary 'Year of the Dog' exhibition that is on now till the end of January. I highly recommend you pop by because not only will you see this but there's some other great pieces from @william.grill @roman_m @matthewthehorse @idiotspasture And @helcovell Just to name a few. All of the prints are on sale now for a bargain price of £12!!!!! Wow. Wow. Wow.
My favourite lady from @grandmatter_ @girlupcampaign DOWNLOAD FOR MORE FUN. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #cute #pizza #girl P.S TYPE IN 'for the girls grand matter' into the App Store and you'll find it.


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Q: $X_j$ is locally connected and all $X_j$ are connected, with the exception, perhaps, of a finite number then te product space Locally connected I was trying to solve the right to left part of the problem:
Let $\{X_j:j∈J\}$ be a family of non-empty topological spaces. The product space $ \prod_ {j∈J}X_j$ is locally connected if, and only if, each $X_j$ is locally connected and all Xj are connected, with the exception, perhaps, of a finite number of them.
There's another part where they post " a solution" but i think it's not clear enough: $ \prod_{j \in J} X_{j} $ is locally connected if, and only if, each $ X_{j} $ is locally connected ...
Hope you can help me with it

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Almost 80 per cent of the rural population is without access to basic public health and this fact should be considered seriously. Voicing concern over the poor state of rural health services, the Delhi High Court has asked the Health Ministry to consider launching a special medical course of three years to bring out doctors to man primary healthcare centres in the country. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the Union Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India (MCI) to consider changing the MBBS curriculum so that basic health facilities can be provided to the rural populace.


Christians should be careful to maintain good works. How should this be demonstrated in our financial gifts to support the work of the local church?
Consider the connection between good works and our giving to support the church.
Titus 2:14 – Jesus gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
Titus 3:8 – Those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works.
Ephesians 2:10 – We were created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Colossians 1:10 – We should may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
These and many other passages teach us as Christians to emphasize the importance of doing good works. These good works include our individual responsibilities in our homes and in our relationships to people around us.
One Way We Do Good Works Is Through the Local Church.
We can participate in the good works that the church does when we are actively involved in the work and when we support the church with our financial gifts.
Local churches should preach the gospel to those who are not God's children.
Philippians 4:14-18 – Churches supported preachers financially.
Hebrews 10:24,25 – We provoke one another to love and good works in our assemblies.
Studying God's word (see above).
Prayer (1 Corinthians 14:15; Acts 2:42).
Lord's Supper (1 Corinthians 11:17-34; Acts 20:7).
Singing (1 Corinthians 14:15; Hebrews 2:12; Ephesians 5:19).
Collection (1 Corinthians 16:1,2; 2 Corinthians 8 & 9).
1 Corinthians 16:1,2; 2 Corinthians 8 & 9 – Collections were taken to aid needy saints.
(Acts 4:32-35; 2:44,45; 11:27-30; 6:1-6).
Christians should be aware of the works being done through the local church where we are members. We should appreciate those works, actively participate in them to the extent of our ability, and support them with our financial gifts each first day of the week.
Giving is not just a routine that we go through. It is worship to God because by our gifts we honor God and participate in the good works that He wants us to maintain in our lives.


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Now that the teams have officially been determined you can go get your swag on. "Team bling" as I like the call it can really add to your party and make it part of the now as we all know each super bowl is different. Party stores have some of the best team party supplies from plates and cups to balloons and favors. A lot of times I base the colors of my football party around the teams or even the Super bowl logo for the year. This year it goes down to the dirty south in New Orleans with Yellow, Purple and Green.
The party stores also have the logo wit Dark Purple and Navy blue it that more suites you.
Check your local Party City or Party America for these fab 49er party supplies. Some are even on sale!
They also have Ravens gear too!
Hello would you mind sharing which blog platform you're working with? I'm looking to start my own blog soon but I'm having a difficult time selecting between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The reason I ask is because your layout seems different then most blogs and I'm looking for something completely unique. P.S Sorry for being off-topic but I had to ask!


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Bunker officials can't be dropped as no replacements: Annesley
Margie McDonald NRL.com Senior Reporter
Mon 13 Jul 2020, 06:46 PM
The NRL admits it needs to train up more bunker referees so there is scope to rotate reviewers more if mistakes are made.
Head of Football Graham Annesley backed the bunker personnel to make the right decision far more often than a wrong one.
But at his weekly briefing on Monday at NRL Headquarters, Annesley showed two player interference decisions – Jack Hetherington (Warriors) and Jamal Fogarty (Titans); Bailey Simonsson (Raiders) and Josh Addo-Carr (Storm) – where he felt the bunker made judgment calls.
For the first, he said it was a "50-50 call" on whether Hetherington impeded Fogarty.
For the second, he said Simonsson should never had been sin-binned or the Raiders penalised.
"The Bunker generally do a very good job on the decisions sent to them," Annesley said.
"But when we come to these kinds of judgment calls I think they're putting too much focus on individual aspects rather than looking at the incident (a) in real time and (b) as most fans would look at them.
"So I think they're looking for too much in these incidents."
Simonsson sent to the sin bin
However, unlike players or on-field officials who can be dropped for making an error, Annesley admitted the NRL did not have that luxury at present. There are not enough people trained up to perform the detailed work needed.
"To be brutally honest with you no we don't at the moment," Annesley said, when asked if bunker reviewers should be stood down for a week if they make a mistake.
Raiders coach Ricky Stuart had said it was no good complaining about video decisions because the same people would be back next week. And he's right.
At present there are only three qualified: Jared Maxwell, Steve Chiddy and Steven Clark, who are all retired from on-field officiating.
"One of the reasons for that is that it's a very specialised role … they're dealing with camera angles, technicians, referees on the field," Annesley said.
"They are effectively managing their own little television production to make sure they get quick access to the best angles; they are operating under pressure because everyone is waiting for the decision.
"There are very few people trained for this role. In the past few years we had the luxury of having some of our main first grade referees being also [able] to double in the bunker," Annesley said, saying Ashleigh Klein had done it previously but was now in a referees bubble similar to players.
"Because of COVID-19 and bubbles, this year we can't do that," he said.
"There is no point taking people out of that role to put someone else in who has less capability to do the job, because we'll get more errors.
"Yes, we do need to train more people and there are a few guys who are close to the end of their careers as referees. So they'll be ideal to come into the bunker when their on-field career is finished.
"But we just don't have the luxury of numbers at the moment."
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Regarding the debate of whether scrums were still a viable set piece of play, Annesley said that was "an ongoing discussion".
He said scrums would remain for season 2020 but at the end, they would be reviewed.
"Scrums these days are no more than a restart to play … and with some of the changes we've made this year we have seen some good tries scored off scrums," Annesley said.
"Are they a good contest? They're not a contest any longer. Do they look untidy? At times they can.
"So they'll be reviewed and if it's determined – whether this year or some point in the future – that they've outlived their usefulness the Commission has shown they're prepared to make changes that are in the best interests of the game."
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Віртуа́льна держа́ва (), мікрона́ція () — загальна назва проєктів зі створення нових штучних держав, що існують лише в уяві їхніх творців, на папері або в Інтернеті (цифрових держав), будь-яких утворень, що заявляють про свою державність, але не є державами, а лише імітують їхні певні риси. Віртуальні держави не сприймаються країнами серйозно, на території яких вони проголошені, і не визнаються світовою спільнотою. Деякі з віртуальних держав іменуються також мікродержавами, або мікронаціями, щоб підкреслити, що мова йде про державу з дуже маленькою територією. Деякі з них можуть називатися  кібердержавами  або  фентезійними державами , а також віртуальними націями, з використанням абревіатур MN або μM.

Терміни є неологізмами, що з'явились у 1970-х роках для опису маленьких невизнаних самопроголошених псевдодержавних утворень; з того часу таких «країн» утворилось кілька тисяч. Цей же термін став використовуватись для позначення більш ранніх віртуальних спільнот, деякі з яких існували ще на початку XIX століття.

Мотивами для створення мікродержави є теоретичний досвід, політичний протест, художнє слово, особисті розваги або здійснення злочинної діяльності..

За теорією державності, держава, як суб'єкт міжнародного права, має відповідати таким критеріям:
 Мати постійне населення
 Певну територію
 Уряд
 Здатність вступати в міжнародні відносини

Мікродержави можуть існувати в різних формах, зокрема у фізичному світі (на суходолі, на морі й у космічному просторі), в Інтернеті, у свідомості їхніх творців або в поєднанні деяких з них. Іноді мікродержави мають територією, але частіше вкрай невелику, розміром з дачну ділянку або маленький острів, наприклад, проголошення незалежності маленького острова біля Сардинії, відокремлення від Естонії двох хуторів та відтворення на їхній території «радянської влади». Найвідомішим прикладом протягом десятиліть є Сіландія. Багато віртуальних держав взагалі не мають території та розташовуються в Інтернеті або в уяві своїх засновників. деякі віртуальні держави заявляють про належність певних територій, однак при цьому не мають над ними реального контролю.

Мікродержави нагадують справжні незалежні держави, але не визнаються такими. Відсутність збройного протистояння з визнаними державами відрізняє їх від сепаратистських режимів. Віртуальні держави можуть та зазвичай прагнуть відтворювати формальні державні атрибути — прапори та герби, грошові знаки, монети, поштові марки, паспорти, відзнаки, вони можуть брати участь у міжнародних форумах, друкувати книги, випускати періодичні видання, проводити спортивні заходи тощо.

Перші віртуальні держави з'явились у кінці XIX століття. В 1990-х роках, з розвитком Інтернету та комунікацій, ідея створення подібних утворень отримала новий розвиток.

Мікродержави, що іноді називають моделлю країни та нових проєктів у країні, є невеликими, самопроголошеними організації, які стверджують, що вони є незалежними суверенними державами, однак, не визнані як такі жодною визнаною суверенною державою, або будь-якою наднаціональною організацією. Їх не слід плутати з «карликовими державами», які є визнаними незалежними державами, але мають невеликий розмір.

За вказаним визначенням не вважаються державами Ватикан або Суверенний військовий Орден Госпітальєрів Святого Івана Єрусалимського, лицарів Родосу і Мальти, в деяких джерелах вони визначаються як державоподібні. З усім тим, ці створення визнаються суб'єктами міжнародного права.

Уряд
Відповідно до одного з визначень, держава — це політична форма організації життя суспільства, що з'являється після виникнення та діяльності публічної влади. Віртуальні держави прагнуть бути у всьому схожими на справжні. Форми політичного устрою в віртуальних державах різноманітні, це республіки, монархії та навіть джамахірії. У кожній більш-менш розвиненій віртуальній державі є глава (зазвичай главою держави є її засновник), певна форма парламенту та суду. Структура управління може бути дуже різноманітною. Більшість віртуальних держав — монархії, абсолютні або конституційні, вони управляються однією людиною, часто ідеологом створення цього проєкту. Однак, є й винятки — наприклад, Республіка Лакота або Вільне місто Християнія.

Структура законодавчих норм у віртуальних державах зазвичай подібна. Основним, стартовим документом є Декларація незалежності. Її підписання є певним чином початком історії нової країни. Потім зазвичай формується конституція, що визначає основи політичного ладу. У віртуальних державах, як і в реальних, діє безліч кодексів — кримінальний, цивільний, а також велике різноманіття законів. Більшість з них нелегальні.

Економіка

Економіка віртуальних держав достатньо проста. Більшість таких новоутворень випускають поштові марки, грошові знаки, колекційні монети та інші сувеніри. Частина таких країн пішла далі: вони розміщують у себе віртуальні сервери та продають хостинг, купують та перепродають акції великих світових компаній. Деякі віртуальні держави створюють на своїй території офшорні банки та компанії для відмивання грошей та легалізації бізнесу.

Віртуальні держави Антарктиди

Першою на території Антарктиди з'явилась держава Вестарктика (, початкова назва — Ахейська територія Антарктиди). Її засновник Тревіс Макгенрі 2001-го року висунув територіальні претензії на землю Мері Берд (єдину нейтральну територією в Антарктиді, на яку офіційно не претендує жодна з визнаних держав). Згодом в Антарктиді з'явилося ще кілька мікродержав (див. список в кінці розділу).

2008 року був створений Антарктичний союз мікродержав ( або GAMA). Його засновниками були мікродержави Фінінсмунд, Мері-Стейт та Велике герцогство Фландренсіс. Нові країни можуть вступити до GAMA, але протягом перших 3 місяців не мають право висувати територіальні претензії. У разі самоліквідації володіння країн переходять у спільну власність GAMA. Під самоліквідацією розуміється відсутність відповідей на службові листи протягом певного часу. Між державами-членами Союзу існують невирішені територіальні розбіжності.

Майже всі мікродержави GAMA розташовані на Землі Мері Берд, Землі Королеви Мод та Антарктичному півострові.

2009-го року вибухнула Родезійська війна мікродержави між Королівством Фінінсмунд та Республікою Родезією (перша і поки єдина війна в Антарктиді). Родезія запропонувала Фінінсмунду договір, за яким усі землі Фінінсмунда відходили Родезії. Фінінсмунд через неуважність договір підписав, але потім відмовився його виконувати. У відповідь Родезія зробила кілька хакерських атак на сайт Фінінсмунда. За підсумками війни і внаслідок дипломатичних зусиль інших мікродержав Фінінсмунд задовольнив претензії Родезії та потім припинив своє існування.

Список мікродержав Антарктиди:

 Вестарктика (утворена 2001-го року, найстаріша держава в Антарктиді, претендує на землю Мері Берд)
 Королівство Фінінсмунд (утворене 2008-го року, претендувало на південь землі Королеви Мод і схід землі Мері Берд). Припинило своє існування 2009-го року, всі землі відійшли Республіці Родезія.
 Республіка Південна Георгія (утворена 2010-го року жителями однойменного острова; єдина мікродержава, що має реальну присутність в Антарктичному регіоні).
 Республіка Мері (утворена 2008-го року, претендує на захід землі Мері Берд).
Велике герцогство Фландренсіс (утворене 2008 року, претендує на деякі острови біля берегів Антарктиди).
 Keep Watch (утворено 2006-го року).
 Федеративні штати Антарктиди (претендує на всю Антарктиду та частину Південного океану, складається з 7 штатів та федерального округу; антарктичні оазиси, вільні від льоду, розглядає як свої анклави).
 Федерація Західної Антарктики.
 Антарктичне товариство Ландашир (друга за віком мікродержава континенту, засноване 2001-го року одразу після появи Вестарктики; об'єднання кількох маловідомих держав Антарктиди).
 Герцогство Аркель (васал Великого герцогства Фландренсіс).
 Спільнота Азусан (об'єднання 3 держав).

У листопаді 2016 року від членства в союзі відмовилися найстаріші й найактивніші країни, після чого він зазнав занепаду й припинення діяльності, яка була відновлена колишніми членами (зокрема Вестарктикою, Ужупісом і Монтескано) 24 лютого 2020 року.

Крім антарктичних мікронацій, на Антарктиду претендують деякі мікронації, основна територія яких розташована поза Антарктидою (наприклад Домініон Мелхиседека та Американська Радянська Республіка)

Список деяких віртуальних держав

Віртуальні держави з книги #Micronations

 John Ryan, George Dunford, Simon Sellars. . - Lonely Planet, 2006 - 156 p. - ISBN:  978-1-741047301

Віртуальні держави, про які немає джерел

Див. також
 E. Peterbus Unum — епізод мультсеріалу «Гріфіни», в якому головний герой, Пітер Гріффін, заснував свою мікродержаву внаслідок юридичної помилки в документах.

Примітки

Література
 Задорожній О. В. Державоподібні утворення // Українська дипломатична енциклопедія : у 2-х т. / редкол.: Л. В. Губерський (голова) та ін. — К : Знання України, 2004. — Т. 1. — 760 с. — ISBN 966-316-039-X.

Посилання
 Створи свою країну — найвідоміші мікродержави світу  // Turist.ru. — 10.01.2008.
 Про концепцію віртуальної держави / Сергій Переслегін.
 Ідеальний офшор та віртуальні держави сучасності  / Дмитро Разахацкій.

Віртуальні держави
Віртуалістика
Симулякри
Політичні неологізми


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Objective To understand the epidemiological characteristics and changing patterns of HIV transmission through heterosexual contact since 2008, and to project the influences of heterosexual transmission mode on the HIV epidemic in China. Methods Demographic data and history of exposure in newly identified HIV/AIDS cases aged 15 years or older, through heterosexual transmission mode from 2008 to 2014, were collected and analyzed. Results The number of HIV/AIDS cases caused by heterosexual transmission increased from 23 402 in 2008, to 68 671 in 2014. The proportion of heterosexual transmission mode increased from 8.7% in 2008 to 66.4% in 2014. Among these cases, the proportion of males increased from 55.3% in 2008 to 68.2% in 2014. Among those who reported acquiring HIV through heterosexual contact, the proportion of cases through extra-marital sexual acts out of all the newly report ones, increased from 78.2% in 2008 to 88.2% in 2014. This mode of infection accounted for 85.2% in the age 15 to 49 years group, comparing to 84.2% in the age group of 50 years old or above. The proportion of reported HIV infections through extra-marital sexual acts appeared 93.8% on males while 69.0% on females, with statistically significant difference (χ2=36 000.000, P<0.001). Conclusion As the predominant factor of HIV/AIDS epidemic, currently in China, heterosexual transmission showed diversities in different sub-epidemic areas, gender or age groups. Tailored strategies were urgently needed for health education and high-risk behavioral intervention,according to the local epidemic driven factors, respectively.


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Q: What is the difference between I-V characteristics of rectifier diodes and Schottky diodes? I searched for the difference between rectifier diodes and Schottky diodes on the internet but cannot find it.

A: The following assumes you mean pn diodes by "rectifier diodes"; Schottkys are considered rectifiers as well. Diodes not generally considered rectifiers (but still usable as such) would be Zener diodes, LEDs, photodiodes, varactors, and TVS diodes, among others. PN, PIN, and Schottky diodes are all types of rectifier.
Both types of diodes (if sufficiently idealized) follow the same ideal diode equation, just with slightly different numbers involved.
Schottky diodes have a substantially lower forward voltage than pn diodes. For silicon, Schottky diodes can have forward voltages in the 0.3 to 0.5 V range, compared to the 0.7 to 1.0 V range for pn diodes. For silicon carbide, Schottky diodes have a typical forward voltage of around 1.0 to 1.5 V, compared to pn junctions of typically 3.0 to 4.0 V. (SiC pn diodes are not commercially manufactured, primarily for this reason.)
Schottky diodes are significantly leakier than pn diodes; their reverse current is typically a few orders of magnitude higher, μA compared to nA.

Outside the I-V curve, Schottky diodes also have much faster (ideally 0) reverse recovery time, while pn diodes can have a reverse recovery time measured in the tens or hundreds of μs (except for FREDs, which are typically in the tens of ns).

A: Look at the specified Vf point. Schottky diodes have lower forward voltage at a specified current than a similarly rated PN diode. Practically, move the i-v curve a bit to the left.


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How to Create Community Norms in Your Coworking Space (and Why You Should)
Author Cat JohnsonPosted on August 20, 2018 August 10, 2020
Community norms are an essential element of a coworking community. They set expectations and values and give new members a guide to what is, and isn't, acceptable in the workspace.
NextSpace Senior Community Manager Maya Delano is a wealth of information and experience around creating community norms and keeping them in place. Here are some of her best tips and insights.
Create Community Norms Early
Member norms are created out of necessity. You want everyone in the space to be very clear about what they can and can't do, as well as what they can expect from their fellow coworkers. Create member norms early and involve the community members in creating them.
"Creating member norms early-on is key because it gets member buy-in," says Delano. "Before you have a community, you can't make up your rules—it's just not going to work that way. You do the heavy lifting beforehand."
Create Community Norms with Your Members
Delano advises hosting a town-hall-style event to co-create norms together with members.
"Create community norms by gathering a group of members and you, as a group, come up with the norms," she says. "Then people have a voice around what the community norms are, so they're going to have more ownership of them and, as a community manager, you're going to have a much smoother experience."
Let People Know Why Norms are In-place.
"Community norms are all about setting expectations," says Delano. "That's what member policies and community norms are: setting everyone's expectations."
When you're creating community norms with your members, start with the basics, including kitchen norms (Who makes the coffee? What do you do with dirty dishes? How long can you leave things in the fridge?), and noise levels (Can you use a headset for your phone in the common area? What about speakerphone or videos? Are there any quiet areas where there is no talking allowed?)
"I let people know during orientation that if they have an opera voice, I'm going to let them know," says Delano. "I do it in a fun way because most people don't want to annoy others, they just have no idea their voice level goes up—it's natural for people's voice to go up when they're on a headset."
Respect the Humans Behind the Norms
Once you set community norms, your job as community manager is just beginning. As Delano explains, the "community norms are the standard, but there's a lot of humanness in them."
She advises leaving wiggle room in them and letting members know that, as the space grows and evolves, the norms will, as well.
"Community norms are there to set markers, but you can't be black and white when it comes to community," says Delano. "If you have a community manager who is rule-binding, they are not in the right business. It's all about the psychology of the human experience—there has to be a lot of grey matter."
Get New Members On-board with Norms Immediately
Make sure new members read and sign the community norms when they sign up. Delano advises making the norms a simple, one-page, paper document they can see and sign during onboarding. "It's setting your members up for success," she explains.
Go with the Positive
When creating community norms, try to stay positive. For instance, rather than saying, "Don't leave your mug in the sink," say, "Yes, do your own dishes."
"It's really important for your community norms to be positive," says Delano. "If you're having a hard time figuring out how to do that, write all the no's down on one side of a paper, then, on the other side of the page, write down what all the yes's would be."
Keep it Simple Sweetheart
A lot of the community norms at NextSpace are, as Delano puts it, "the things that you learned in kindergarten, like being kind to others." Don't overthink the norms. What you're trying to do is create the best possible work environment for all your members.
Remember, Community Norms Help Everyone
Norms are in-place to make it easy to know how to behave in a workspace. They help new members, existing members, visitors and community managers. A lot of people are still not familiar with coworking and working in a shared space, so community norms help them comfortably find their way.
"Member norms help everybody sort through this wild world of coworking, which is still so new to so many people," says Delano. "If you've never walked in a community space and you're overwhelmed, you want to know the rules—you want to know what you can and can't do."
Norms are also a powerful tool for community managers who are tasked with the sometimes difficult task of enforcing the norms. Having them formalized and accessible to everyone means community managers can point to them when an issue comes up.
Norms also give members behavior guidelines in advance so they don't need to figure out the rules as they go along.
"It's not trial by fire," says Delano. "No one wants to be told that they can't use a speakerphone. It's a lot easier on a tour, or when you onboarding somebody, to let them know they'll need to use a headset. Then, if someone is using the speakerphone in the space, it's a simple, 'Hey, just a reminder of our community norms. Thank you so much. Let me know if you have any questions.'" Having the norms to point to takes the personal out of this aspect of community management.
"It's something they agreed to when they walked in the space and you're just reminding them of that," says Delano. "It's a lot easier to refer people to something official."
Member Norms will Evolve
As your space grows and community evolves, your member norms will, as well. In the early days of NextSpace Santa Cruz, the team didn't anticipate members trying to market to other members in the space. Once they realized what was happening, a new norm was created.
"We didn't know, when we first started, that we would have people marketing, face-to-face, in the space, to our members, and trying to schmooze and hustle their wares, when people were just trying to get to work," says Delano. "People want to market to our members, so now, we let them sponsor a happy hour—they get to pay to play. If you bring tacos or ice cream, we'll listen to you."
Now, one of the community norms in the space is that members don't blatantly sell themselves in the space.
"Of course, natural conversations are going to come about," says Delano, "but you can tell when someone's selling—you know the difference."
Know Your Space and Community
Community norms will be different in every space. Kitchen expectations, noise levels, rules around guests in the space, norms around meeting room use and a variety of other things should all be created around your unique space and community.
Your space, and how it's set up, is going to determine what kind of members policies you need to implement. In a small, open space, noise will be more of an issue than in a space with an abundance of closed door offices. At NextSpace Santa Cruz, the open space is generally bustling with activity and a fairly steady buzz of voices. Because the open space is busy, members have access to a quiet area dubbed Library Row, and four different meeting and conference rooms.
With the addition of more meeting rooms came a new member norm: "We ask people not to squat in the meeting room," says Delano. "We have a community norm of going into the meeting room on time and leaving one minute before your scheduled time is up."
What About the Dogs?
An ongoing conversation in coworking is whether spaces should be dog-friendly or not. At NextSpace Santa Cruz, dogs are allowed, but there are member norms—or doggie norms—around them being in the space.
"We don't allow dogs in our open coworking space," says Delano. "We're very cozy and it would not work to have a distraction of dogs. There are not too many places to go."
Dogs are allowed in enclosed offices once members sign off on the "pooch policy." But, the dogs have to prove themselves before they're officially welcomed into the community.
"They get one week to prove themselves," says Delano. "They can't bark in the space or pee on the carpet. If they're quiet as a mouse, then they're good coworking dogs."
Addressing Sensitive Issues
When you come upon serious member issues, it needs to be clear what is acceptable and what is not. One of the community norms at NextSpace is not sleeping in the space overnight. It has only come up a few times over 10 years, but it's a sensitive issue because the community manager is accusing someone of doing something.
"Situations like this call for a face-to-face, off-to-the-side conversation," says Delano. "Tell the member you need to talk with them about something that's important and that, to keep our community norms, you cannot have them spending the night—or whatever it may be. You're just reminding them of the community norms."
Delano advises listening to the members to find out if they're struggling with personal issues, or if there's a way the community can support them, but staying firm.
"Give them a warning," she says, "but by the second time, they're out. If the person doesn't listen to me the first time, I don't put up with that. You can't. You have to set the standards that this is not okay."
Delano explains, however, that napping in the space is part of the NextSpace Santa Cruz culture.
"Napping during the day is totally okay and encouraged at NextSpace," she says. "If I got rid of our sleeping couch, all hell would break loose. I'm not allowed to get rid of that couch."
Don't Send Blanket Emails
When addressing violations of community norms, go right to the source to deal with the issue, says Delano. You can't email all the members and tell them not to put their dish in the sink. It just won't work.
Talk to the person face-to-face so you can see their reaction and really listen to them. When you have community norms to fall back on, it removes the responsibility of being a rule-maker from the community manager. Instead, you're pointing to community norms that the member has already agreed to.
"It sure is nice to have community norms to fall back on," says Delano, "so I don't have to make up rules and scold people as we go along."
View and download the Community Norms Document for NextSpace Coworking Santa Cruz below.
Written by our awesome content strategist, Cat Johnson.
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Let's talk about hockey for a moment. . .
Publié par Patrick on Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Ah, Canada. . . It sucks to be a Canadian right now. Losing 2-0 to Russia this afternoon means that our team won't even be part of the medal round at the Olympics. And in this country, where anything less than a gold medal in that event is an aberrant failure, this means a lot. I guess you have to be Canadian to truly understand what this defeat means. To understand what hockey means.
Canada is a strange place. In a country where there is no veritable national identity (we're probably the only country in the world without a "true" national identity), a majority of people identify themselves by what they are not -- Americans. The East despises the West, and vice versa. Collectively, we all hate the province of Ontario, or more exactly the city of Toronto. The provinces blame the federal government for every ill in this country, while the federal throws the ball back to the provinces, claiming that they can't even govern themselves in their own jurisdictions. The anglophones hate the francophones, and the francophones dislike the anglophones. And oddly enough, within the confines of these circumstances, people actually wonder why nothing ever gets done. Talk about voluntary blindness. . .;-)
As for me, well as a French-speaking Québécois, half of the country probably hates my guts for the sole fact that my mother tongue is different than theirs. And because I read in English, write in English, and watch tv in English, other Québécois see me as a traitor. And being a right-wing kind of guy, I'm also considered a fascist. So in a nutshell, no one likes me!;-)
Anyway, in light of all this, there is one common denominator that unites this disparate nation. Simply put, it's the sport of hockey. When it comes to hockey, there is no barrier. Of course, we have our own rivalries. What would an NHL season be without a good scrap between Edmonton and Calgary, or Toronto and Montreal, or the more recent Toronto and Ottawa rivalry? In Canada, the sun rises and sets with our hockey teams. Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, my earliest memories are of two things: the Montreal Canadiens and Star Wars.
Hockey is like a religion in most Canadian cities. But in Montreal, it's even worst. Only the New York Yankees have won more championships than the Montreal Canadiens -- in the whole world. Time was, the Stanley Cup parade used to be an almost annual event in the streets of this city.
And Canadians from coast to coast are proud to say that hockey is OUR game. You watch Off the Record and other such sports shows, and the message is always the same: WE OWN THIS GAME! I've always believed that it's more than a little arrogant, especially since these shows are always quick to show spotlights of Canada's greatest victory -- namely when we defeated the then USSR in 1972. Wow! That was 34 years ago! But the way they keep bringing it up, it's as if it happened last night.
The truth of the matter is that Canada is no longer the lone powerhouse on the planet. The fact that we have only a single medal to show for our troubles in the last 3 Olympic Games should be ample proof of that. Sweden, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and the USA are just a number of countries who have now challenged us and joined us at the top of the moutain. And as far as the sport is concerned, it's a great thing.
Today it sucks to be Canadian, that's for sure. But while other countries were assembling teams that would pack speed and firepower, we decided that we needed players like Doan, Draper and Bertuzzi. No, those guys are not bad players, but they certainly did not deserve to be on the national team. Where were guys like Crosby, Staal and Tanguay? We were told that we needed leadership more than we needed the speed of youth. Funny that in a team packed with All-Stars we needed so much leadership. Heck, most of the players of Team Canada are captains or assistants on their respective teams. Problem is, the coaching staff never could get them to play as a team. And where were our snipers? We packed enough firepower to annihilate any team, yet we were shut out three times in four games.
The long and short of it is this: We no longer own this game. So all you "old school" people who watch replays of the 1972 Summit Series every night need to wake up and smell the coffee. We can no longer steamroll through our opposition with ordinary teams. There was a time when hockey was "our" game. But this year, we were beaten at our own game. And it cuts a bit deep because since the player nominations were announced, there was a lot of talk concerning the presence of some "undeserving" players. And now we've been eliminated from the tournament.
Tonight, there are millions of people in Canada who are still wondering what could possibly have happened. The answer, in the end, is quite simple. Other countries sent the very best team they could put on the ice. We didn't. . . Case closed!
Okay, rant's over! Don't even get me started on the Habs or I'll bitch all night! Back to fantasy. . .:-)
Well, a Quebecois I went to college with just won Olympic gold with Team Canada... the women definitely steamrolled. ;-)
mr nobuddy said...
Don't feel bad about it. Belgium hardly ever gets medals, least of all gold ones. We're used to losing :)
RobB said...
I'm just glad the Olympics are over and glad Elyas's injury wasn't too serious. Honestly, I saw the Olympics only as a major distraction from the NHL.
I like the idea of the "world baseball classic" even less.
ogtjl!
Habber said...
Hey, I should get you started on the habs. Now that Theo is basically done for the season we can go somewhere. HUET HUET HUET!!!
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Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949)
Foremost Mexican muralist, easel painter and graphic artist; he began as a student of agriculture and architectural drawing, turning to painting in 1909. During 1910-17 he did scenes of sordid genre and Mexican Revolutionary content, and from 1922 to 1927 frescoes in the National Preparatory School, the House of Tiles (now Sanborn's) and the Industrial School at Orizaba. This early work shows generalized Renaissance forms, to which is added an increasingly emotional element through Revolutionary material used in the impressive symbolic sense that characterizes his work from then onward. His style developed monumentality, strength and, later, Expressionistic force. Color at first was subdued, structure and compositional arrangements rigidly controlled; later he would become more fluid and dynamic. From 1927 to 1932 he was in the United States, doing frescoes at Pomona College, California, the New School, New York, and Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. For the most part, these show a new quality, a looser drawing and a higher degree of symbolic and emotive content with a growing Expressionistic intensity, but they are still basically three-dimensional and figurative in form.
In 1934 begins the period of his great murals in the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, and the Governor's Palace, the University, and the Orphanage, Guadalajara. Orozco now emerges as the pre-eminent painter of the Mexican mural movement, his influence extending also into the graphic arts. His works of this period show a new, flaming symbolism, often with powerful diagonal thrusts, and a looser, more graphic style; his Expressionist manner becomes fully developed. Dark contours, white highlights and dramatic reds combine with a swirling movement of figures in dynamic groups in which individual shapes are distorted. We are frequently struck by Orozco's distinction between the anonymous and even dangerous mass of people and the idealistically conceived individual. Orozco's art at this point is visualized in historical and didactic terms, yet working toward a humanistic idea, a compassion for mankind.
In 1940 he did frescoes in the Library at Jiquilpan with gigantic black-and-white drawings on the side walls and a colored painting at the far end. In the same year, the portable Dive Bomber mural for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, shows signs of the development of mechanical symbols; i.e., man crushed by the machine and the aggression of the machine in war. The murals in the Mexican Supreme Court (1941) symbolize Mexico's natural resources and the moral power of justice. His unfinished murals in the Church of Jesus Nazareno, Mexico City (1942), with their visionary and apocalyptic subject matter, reveal Orozco as a prophet of our anguished times. He makes use here of abstract explosive forms. His open-air mural in the amphitheatre of the National School for Teachers (1947) is an abstract summing up in machinistic terms of the history of Mexico. This was one of the most positive indications of a new direction for the painter; but he died two years later without fulfilling it. In 1948 he did a mural in the National Historical Museum, Chapultepec Castle, showing Juarez and the Reform, and another in the Chamber of Deputies, Guadalajara. Between 1940 and 1949 Orozco's easel painting grew in a restless Expressionist style comparable to his murals. In 1946 he received the National Award of Arts and Sciences and the following year was honored by a retrospective exhibition in the Palace of Fine Arts. His death in 1949 was a day of national mourning for Mexico.
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Hickory, Dickory, Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory, Dickory, Dock.
According to "Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics" edited by Alex Preminger, Frank J. Warnke, O. B. Hardison Jr. (2015), "hickory, dickory, dock" seems to derive from old Celtic numbers (most likely for 8, 9, 10) which went out of use and was eventually mainly used by shepherds to count their sheep.
Here's a slightly different version from The Real Mother Goose (1916):
Hickory, dickory, dock!
The mouse ran up the clock;
And down he run,
Here's a longer version found in A History of Nursery Rhymes (1899) by Percy B. Green:
Dickery, dickery, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
Dickery, dickery, dock.
The clock struck three,
The mouse ran away,
The clock struck ten,
The mouse came again,
Here's a version from Denslow's Mother Goose (published in 1901, New York):
Hickety; dickety, dock,
Down the mouse ran,
Hickety, dickety, dock.
Andrew Lang, author of The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897), wrote: "'Hickory Dickory Dock' is a rhyme for counting out a lot of children. The child on whom the last word falls has to run after the others in the game of 'Tig' [i.e. tag] or 'Chevy.'"
[Note: Chevy is a game that's also called Prisoner's Base where there are two teams that try to tag their opponents and take them to their own "base".]
Here's one way the counting out works:
"Children stand round, and are counted one by one, by means of this rhyme. The child upon whom the last number falls is out, for "Hide and Seek," or any other game where a victim is required"...
HICKORY (1), Dickory (2), Dock (3),
The mouse ran up the clock (4);
The clock struck one (5);
The mouse was gone (6);
O(7), u(8), t(9), spells out!
Here's the version of this rhyme in the mp3:
Dickory, Dickory, Dock,
Down he run,
Dickory, Dickory, Dock.
Dock, dock!
Many thanks to Sarina and Lila for singing this for us!
2nd mp3 sung by Ruth Golding.
3rd mp3 performed by 17 talented university student musicians who were sisters in the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women at California State University-Stanislaus in 2007. The musical score the recording is based on comes from Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911) arranged by Alfred Moffat.
The 1st illustration comes from The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane (circa 1877), with a little graphical editing by Mama Lisa and the 2nd illustration is from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. 3rd illustration is by H. Willebeck Le Mair from Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911), arranged by Alfred Moffat.


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Off to give talks over the next couple of days
I will be in New Orleans to give talks to the annual Public Choice meetings as well as the Federalist Society. Talks will be on my recent work with Kevin Hassett on media bias and the judicial confirmation process.
A real circus: Congress subpoenas current, ex-baseball stars
Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire and four other baseball players were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a congressional committee investigating the sport's steroids policy.
Curt Schilling, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro and Frank Thomas also were subpoenaed to appear at the March 17 hearing of the House Government Reform Committee along with players' association head Donald Fehr, baseball executive vice presidents Rob Manfred and Sandy Alderson and San Diego general manager Kevin Towers.
Canseco, Fehr and Manfred had agreed to testify. Manfred will speak on behalf of baseball commissioner Bud Selig.
"The remaining witnesses, however, made it clear — either by flatly rejecting the invitation to testify or by ignoring our repeated attempts to contact them — they had no intention of appearing before the committee," committee chairman Rep. Tom Davis and Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat, said in a statement.
For my view on all this see this.
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Illinois is one of only 4 states that ban people from carrying concealed handgun. This week a state House panel overwhelmingly passed two concealed handgun bills, but don't hold your breath.
Piece on why New York City's Gun Industry Responsibility Act doesn't have any teeth
Professors ANTHONY J. SEBOK AND TIMOTHY LYTTON have a very interesting op-ed on New York City's Gun Industry Responsibility Act. People should read the piece, but it makes several interesting points:
1) New York State does not accept the rule that breach of a local ordinance can be the basis for per se negligence.
2) If instead the new law is classified as a "Police Power," they argue that it is almost certainly unconstitutional.
3) This may be one case that actually runs afowl of the Dormant Commerce Clause.
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A liberal grassroots network that helped fuel Howard Dean's maverick run for president is crackling back to life to fight Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot initiative drive, another sign that the governor's plans for a special election this year could produce a costly and fiercely partisan battle. . . . But volunteers from California for Democracy hope to frustrate those efforts. They plan to use the Web and mobile technology to keep roughly 9,000 supporters abreast of the whereabouts of signature-gatherers for Schwarzenegger ballot initiatives. . . . The strategy took shape last week in a conference call involving 1,000 of the group's members and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, a day after Schwarzenegger launched a signature-gathering drive for three initiatives that mirror proposals he laid out in January.
This is a rather thuggish tactic for the Democratic party to openly track signature gatherers and physically disrupt their ability to gather signatures. It doesn't signal a lot of confidence among Democrats.
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John Fund describes a recent debate between Justices Scalia and Breyer:
Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the minority dissent in the juvenile death penalty case, opened his argument by lamenting the "arrogance" of judges who cite international law rather than the U.S. Constitution they are sworn to uphold. "Doesn't it seem arrogant to think I can decide moral views for penology, death penalty and abortion?" he asked, in arguing that legislatures or voters should make those decisions.
Justice Stephen Breyer replied that the court had to look more widely at how to define fundamental rights in an increasingly global society. "U.S. law is not handed down from on high even at the U.S. Supreme Court," he said. "The law emerges from a conversation with judges, lawyers, professors and law students.... It's what I call opening your eyes as to what's going on elsewhere."
"What you're looking for are the standards of decency of American society," Mr. Scalia shot back. "What does an opinion of a wise Zimbabwe judge have to do with what Americans believe?" That stung Mr. Breyer, who had cited a court case from Zimbabwe in a decision a few years back. Acknowledging that the country's rule of law has been destroyed under the despotic rule of Robert Mugabe, Mr. Breyer agreed that his citation of a Zimbabwean judge was "unfortunate."
But that's the trouble. When citing international law, judges are likely to be selective in their use of foreign opinions, cherry-picking those that fit the outcome they want. A foreign court may oppose the death penalty, for example, but since the U.S. is one of the few countries in the world to have legalized third-trimester abortions, the same foreign court would likely have a more conservative slant on abortion.
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Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell gets the lowest grade for fiscal policies of any serving governor. California governor Schwarzenegger gets the highest grade.
"So why did Ed Rendell finish 41 out of 42 governors? (Eight governors were excluded from the study because they just began office). The only governor ranked behind Rendell was McGreevey, who resigned last year. It appears that Rendell's plan of siphoning $1 billion a year from working Pennsylvanians to support his massive government spending plan had something to do with his low marks. There's also those hidden taxes, including higher fees for state inspections and emissions testing. And let's not forget the $50 tax on workers Rendell pushed through last year, allowing communities to raise their occupational privilege tax from $10 to $52 a year."
Still More on Felons Voting
John Fund has a new piece on felons voting. Among John's other points:
Liberals normally avoid partisan arguments in expressing their support for voting by felons. Instead, they point to the disproportionate racial impact. Sometimes they overstate that impact, as Mara Liasson of National Public Radio did last week when she said that "I would expect if you did a study, you would find that probably the vast majority of [felons] are African-American." In truth, a little more than a third of disfranchised felons are black. . . .
The allegation that laws restricting felon voting are racially motivated is flawed. Harvard historian Alexander Keyssar, author of the classic book "The Right to Vote," points out that many states passed such laws before the Civil War. Later, the laws were passed in many Southern states by Reconstruction government run by Republicans who supported black voting rights. Mr. Keyssar says that "most laws that disenfranchised felons had complex and murky origins," often centering on the notion that "a voter ought to be a moral person." As one judge noted: "Felons are not disenfranchised based on any immutable characteristic, such as race, but on their conscious decision to commit an act for which they assume the risks of detection and punishment."
Letters in NY Post Responding to my piece on Felons Voting
HILLARY'S VOTE FOR FELONS
March 7, 2005 -- The fact that most people with felony convictions are poor, working-class citizens who might vote Democratic is not the issue, as John R. Lott Jr. and James K. Glassman seem to think ("The Felon Vote," Opinion, March 1).
How a citizen votes is not a prerequisite to having the right to vote.
The fact is, five Republican governors, including President Bush when he was governor of Texas, have realized that this is about fairness and basic rights.
They were some of the first state executives to urge reform of voting eligibility laws to allow more ex-prisoners to vote.
Their actions clearly signaled that this is a bipartisan issue about fairness and democracy — and not partisan politics as Lott and others proclaim.
The Count Every Vote Act offers solutions to voting inequities that have plagued our system for centuries. I say, let Congress finally have this debate.
Joseph Hayden
Hillary and Bill Clinton have made a mockery of public office.
Now Hillary wants to give felons the right to vote. She will apparently go to any length to get elected.
I would love to see the duo run — back to Arkansas.
Howard Taylor
The first letter misses the central point. With all the penalties that felons still face after they are released from prison, why is it that this is the one single penalty that Democrats are trying to remove. Why not restore their right to professional or business licenses? Why not their ability to work for the government or unions? Why not their ability to own a gun? it is hard to deny that this is being pushed by Democrats (and this change only for felons) because they believe that it helps them politically.
posted by John Lott at 2:24 AM
Cab driver charged after killing in self defense
March 4, 2005 NEW HAVEN-- A cab driver who says he had to kill a customer to save his own life is speaking out.
John Lutters says he is the victim after he was stabbed in the neck during a robbery attempt and fought back.
Lutters is now a convicted felon, having to plead guilty to charges in court. Lutters did not have a permit to carry the gun he used to shoot his passenger, Travis Hazelwood, in self defense.
"It*s cost me everything I*ve had just about, including a criminal record", says Lutters.
More on Felons Voting
Hannity & Colmes discuss the new Hillary Clinton and John Kerry legislation that would guarantee that felons are allowed to vote.
HANNITY: Congressman Fattah, as John Lott pointed out in his recent article that there is some academic work that has studied this. Jeff Mansa and Marcus Britain of Northwestern University. And Christopher Reagan of the University of Minnesota have studied the issue.
And what they found is that Bill Clinton pulled 86 percent of the felon vote in 1992 and a whopping 93 percent in 1996. So clearly the evidence shows it does favor the Democrats. So this is a political move to help in close races, isn't it, sir?
FATTAH: Well, Sean, really, it's just a distraction from the real problems of the country. The reality is Republicans control the Senate and the Congress. If they don't want this bill to pass, it won't pass.
Not exactly a strong denial from Fattah.
In the UK you must "scare off their prey before opening fire"
COUNTRY sportsmen keen on pigeon pie will need to put the cat among them first. Farmers and landowners will also need to hone their windmill gyrations and scarecrow impersonations if they are planning a potshot at crop-eating birds. The Government has ruled that it is now illegal to shoot a crow, rook or pigeon for the pot without scaring it first. The legislation says shooters must attempt to frighten off the birds before pulling the trigger. Only when the birds fail to respond can he or she shoot it for dinner. The same rule applies to farmers who have shooting days blasting woodpigeons and rooks to protect their crops or gamebirds. At this time of the year thousands of people pull on their camouflages for a day's rough shooting. They are now acting unlawfully. They too must first engage in frightening techniques to disperse the birds. Only if their antics are ignored can they shoot legally. Failure to comply can result in a fine of up to £5,000 or a maximum six months in prison.
93 year old man uses gun defensively
He might not have been a cop since 1966, but this 93 year old still new what to do to defend himself.
"I was sitting here in the front room around quarter after three, and I saw this van pull up," Thomas said Friday, recalling how his police instincts kicked in. "Something told this old retired policeman to go out and get the license number.And then I sat down again and started reading the sports page." While he was reading, the doorbell began to ring repeatedly. Said Thomas, a widower who lives alone: "The next thing I know, these two guys are going into my back yard." Thomas saw them go behind his house and then heard a sound at his window just five feet away. "I heard it first and then saw them fooling around with the window," he said. "I knocked once, and they ran." Despite the pair's quick retreat, Thomas' day was far from over. Both men eventually returned and began prying off the screen. He got his service pistol from his bedroom, "the one that was issued in 1943," Thomas said. "I got me a gun out of retirement — like me." Thomas left his house through the back and began to walk toward the men, gun in hand. "Somehow or other they smelled me," he said.
Thanks to Goodwillhntg@aol.com for providing this.


Talk about a bar brawl. What constitutes a "healthy" product has long been contested in the snack industry, but a recent back-and-forth on the issue between KIND Snacks and Clif Bar has expanded the debate.
To kick off the summer adventure season and all the outdoor activities that come with it, Clif Bar & Company, a leading maker of nutritious and organic foods, today introduced three new products – CLIF Fruit Smoothie Filled Energy Bar, CLIF BAR Sweet & Salty and CLIF Energy Granola, a new food category for the brand.


We seek to live as a redemptive, healing community who delight in and celebrate God and his work passionately. We seek to live interdependently as stewards of God's eternal purposes, engaging as redemptive agents in the wholistic transformation of our neighborhood.
Just like every neighborhood ours is a combination of joy and pain, triumph and struggle, courage and despair, resilience and challenges. In many breathtakingly beautiful ways, the Image of God shines through the individuals and community. In many other ways there is apparent evidence that sin has staggeringly vandalized and marred that image.
The Fall has impacted our neighborhood. We see its results through individual choices and systemic policy. We see it through the ways people are hurt by historical and present day injustice. We see it through outside unrighteousness and through the ways people contribute towards their own pain.
Overall life expectancy is four to nine years shorter than any other part of the city. For males, life expectancy is a five full years shorter than the next lowest community.
43% of children in our neighborhood live below the poverty line.
The unemployment rate (19.5%) is more than double that of most other parts of the city.
Of those still in the school system, less than one out of four of local high school students reads proficiently (24%).
While we are clearly aware of the reality that things are not as they should be, we know with brilliant clarity that Christ is redeeming and reconciling all things to himself. We know that his death and resurrection provide the power and the access for individuals to know him, be transformed by him, and become ambassadors of reconciliation themselves.