In that context, describing an attempt at actual treatment as "harm" is... well frankly it's perverse. I'm fine with arguing it was pointless or futile, but describing it as harmful when the alternative is certain death takes some serious mental juggling.
The argument was not about "harm" in that sense, it was about causing "unnecessary suffering" which is fundamentally different.
It was apparent to the multi-disciplinary team at GOSH as early as last December that Charlie Gard had suffered irreversible brain damage and that the effects on him had been catastrophic, causing him to become blind, deaf, mute, and suffer profound damage to his kidneys. Of gravest concern to them were the seizures which he was beginning to suffer with increasing frequency (again indicative of profound neurological damage) which caused his body to spasm or fit, which was probably causing the infant pain: but because of his inability to make any noise it was impossible to tell with any degree of certainty when, and to what degree, he was in pain.
GOSH eventually went to court because after 3 months they had been unable to get through to the parents that the involuntary spasms were not normal movement, or that the lack of any outward sign from their child was not a sign that he was not in pain. As physicians dedicated to the relief of suffering I imagine they were becoming increasingly haunted that the acts of ventilating and tube feeding the child, thus keeping him alive, were in fact prolonging and worsening his suffering and causing him to feel pain which he was unable to express.
And moving the child to the US - leaving aside the logistical difficulties of getting him there - was almost guaranteed to worsen the pain he was likely to be suffering, but without the prospect of any positive improvement in his condition. In other words, the act of ventilating Charklie, thus enabling life to continue, was the very act that was enabled these painful seizures to continue.
In my book, that constitutes causing harm - certainly that was the view taken by the judge.
certainly that was the view taken by the judge.
I will have to go back and look at the judgement before agreeing.
Whether it was in the best interests of the child is not the question I'm raising here. Because my issue is not with the judge's findings about futility, but querying on what basis the hospital could step into this treatment decision.
If we're going to say they could override the parent's wishes because the parents wanted something harmful, we have to identify what was harmful, not just futile. And I don't recall what evidence, if any, is in the judge's decision about harm rather than futility.
The harm was ongoing. GOSH believed that Charlie was suffering significant ongoing pain, and that prolonging his death was causing him unnecessary extra suffering.
The judge, in his ruling, references Charlie's parents as having accepted that in his then current condition, Charlie's life was not worth prolonging.
I'm fine with arguing it was pointless or futile, but describing it as harmful when the alternative is certain death takes some serious mental juggling.
What if it causes pain and suffering in the attempt?
we have to identify what was harmful, not just futile. And I don't recall what evidence, if any, is in the judge's decision about harm rather than futility.
There was the point that the bag of stuff they want to give has never been given to a rat before, and therefore they have no idea what sort of local or systemic reaction to expect in a human being. There is a risk of suffering there.
a person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically in medicine.
I don't think that's a reasonable term for Dr Hirano.
I think his claims of benefit were dishonest, and imply a lack of expertise in how a new treatment is worked up. He had no basis for claims of 10% chances of benefit, or anything else that he claimed. This was a drug that hadn't been given to laboratory rats for this condition, that was unlikely to cross the blood brain barrier, and he hadn't bothered to inform himself adequately regarding the case.
I appreciate he has a prestigious position and has expertise in neurology, but his behaviour in this instance is quackery.
IIRC, I read an article about a kid with another mitochondrial disease who was helped by the treatment. I'll look for it, but it may take a couple of days.
"This man's son tried the experimental treatment Charlie Gard's parents want" (CNN Wire, via KFOR).
Arthur Estopinian says Arturo, his son, was helped by the treatment--and he was the one who put the Gards in touch with Dr. Hirano.
"Why Charlie Gard's case is so disturbing to Americans" (STAT magazine of medical journalism).
"Mito Hope & Help" (Support site on Facebook).
In a tissue biopsy, mitochondrial DNA levels were found to be 6% of normal, and falling. (MDDS is diagnosed by levels below 35%.) Clearly he was already very, very ill, with a disease for which in general there are "no cures, and few effective treatments". For RRM2B, because it affects the brain too (unlike other versions which only affect the muscles), the idea of treatment is remote. If you saw a report on CNN which said "and here's someone with mitochondrial disease just like Charlie Gard!" it was possibly TK2, and it isn't like his. RRM2B is also progressive: unless you can figure out how to make the mitochondria work, the condition will worsen and lead inevitably to death.
Which adds to my feeling that Charlie would have suffered less if the US doctor and supporters had kept their noses out.
But ISTM that most people who tried to help (as opposed to people (like anti-abortion activists) who were forcing their own agenda) were simply trying to help. The Gards wanted to do everything they possibly could to save their son, or at least give him a chance. I skimmed some of the Mito support group postings. Looks like they supported the Gards, and some definitely thought they should have a chance to decide on their own. One went so far as to call what the powers that be did "murder".
<snip> my issue is not with the judge's findings about futility, but querying on what basis the hospital could step into this treatment decision.
orfeo, having read the April judgement, the phrasing is to stop additional treatment to Charlie, whatever hospital, because his condition had deteriorated so badly. The whole judgement is what is in the best interests of Charlie, and he was represented in court by his team, who have been kept anonymous. The judge is deciding for Charlie as the hospital and family cannot come to a consensus, other than Charlie continuing on ventilation with no chance of recovery was not what anyone wanted. The contention was that the parents wanted the hospital to allow Charlie to trial the nucleoside bypass therapy after the hospital discounted it at a meeting on 13 January, which the parents attended.
GOSH were going to trial the nucleoside therapy in January, after consultation with others. On 9th January it was going ahead, a planned meeting of the Ethics Committee on 13th January to discuss and approve this (para 79 and 82). What changed is that Charlie started having catastrophic epileptic fits in January (probably started in December), from 9th or 10th January "intermittently to 27th January" that could only be seen on brain scan, because he had no muscles to make his body move. There were electrical impulses, no responses. Those fits were indicators that the brain damage had deteriorated and he only had months to live whatever support he had. He had no muscles to support breathing, so the ventilator was forcing air into him, with the corresponding damage to his lungs, other organs were failing, particularly his kidneys.
He was born 4 August 2016 looking normal but within a few weeks was failing to thrive. He had already deteriorated badly enough to be on a ventilator and feeding tube in GOSH intensive care by October, and diagnosed in late October, early November. He was on a feeding tube first to help him put on weight, and later referred to GOSH. It took experimental DNA analysis to diagnose him with later confirmation from more conventional sources in December.
The procedures that Charlie was undergoing to be kept alive included nasal suction to keep his lungs clear and other invasive treatments, including regular blood tests (heel pricks), which his mother described him as not enjoying. He also had a sore area on his neck where the tape to his face goes.
In his final paragraphs the judge suggests that instead of resorting to court hearings there should be a private mediation provision to hear these cases.
As to legal costs - all the solicitors and barristers for the family and Charlie provided their time pro bono (for free). I suspect GOSH will have legal fees to pay.
...were simply trying to help.
Whatever their motives, the outcome was a 6mth prolongation of futile suffering for Charlie, and emotional turmoil for his parents. Whatever their motives, the information they acted on was incorrect and their actions are profoundly unhelpful.
One went so far as to call what the powers that be did "murder".
All of which (and what came above) begs the question of whether he was "alive" in any meaningful way at all - one which medics must be frequently required to ask.
The hypocrisy of that piece is impressive. Americans must be so sensitized by the millions of uninsured children and bankrupt parents that this one child reaching the edge of medical care has really disturbed them.
...or if the patient doesn't have enough money or insurance. Much more ethical.
My dentist causes me pain and suffering when she cleans my teeth.
I agree that causing pain and suffering when a treatment is futile is one more reason to not have the treatment. But pain and suffering in and of itself is not a reason to not have treatment.
Just flagging I am going to come back to CK's post, but it's not feasible on iPhone.
a) the patient can't consent for himself.
c) the treatment causes pain and suffering.
When a), b) and c) are all met, the court has business getting involved.
c) there is a bit of pain, I would suggest considerably less than Charlie's potential suffering during the last 6 months.
Therefore the court has no business getting involved.
Phrasing this carefully, one can be a legitimate medical practitioner and dispense highly "questionable" advice.
It is staggering that people who are actively attempting to take away health care from children it could actually help are pretending concern for Charlie Gard.
This was a different variation of the condition.
There is a whole section on Dr Hirano in the judgement on the Charlie Gard case. Both the quotations I gave above are included in that section, many paragraphs apart.
Has anything yet been decided as to what is to be done with the money raised by crowdfunding?
BBC News, at least, has gone quiet - hopefully, out of respect for Charlie's family, who will, presumably, be holding his funeral very soon.
That doesn't mean funeral plans are not all over other news outlets (the Evening Standard for one).
Apparently the money is to provide support for families dealing with similar genetic problems.
Yes, I don't doubt that the (mainly) right-wing media feeding frenzy will continue until after the poor little chap's funeral. Common decency amongst such people seems to be unknown.
Hopefully the money raised will help those still battling with this condition.


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Q: Dynamic deep population with MongoDB I'm wondering if you can dynamically deep populate with MongoDB, specifically I'm using mongoose on an express app. I'm trying to build a basic reddit clone. On my Post model, I'm trying to create a reply chain. Replies could become nested, as someone could reply to a reply of a reply. Can I populate down that reply chain? I can only figure out how to populate the first layer of replies. Based on reading the documentation and looking at other anwsers on stack overflow I don't think this is possible, but wanted to put the question out there before I remodeled my data. Here is my Post Model:
    const postSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    content: {
      type: String,
      required: [true, 'A post can not be empty'],
    },
    thread: {
      type: mongoose.Schema.ObjectId,
      ref: 'Thread',
    },
    isReply: {
      type: Boolean,
      default: false,
    },
    parentPost: {
      type: mongoose.Schema.ObjectId,
      ref: 'Post',
    },
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  {
    toJSON: { virtuals: true },
    toObject: { virtuals: true },
  }
);

postSchema.virtual('replies', {
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  foreignField: 'parentPost',
  localField: '_id',
});

And the thread handler where I'm doing the query and trying to populate the reply chain:
exports.getThread = factory.getOne(Thread, 'thread', {
  path: 'posts',
  // Deep populate the replies from each post
  populate: { path: 'replies' },
});

// This is the factory getOne function
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        const doc = await query;

        if (!doc)
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          );

        res.status(200).json({
          status: 'success',
          data: { [modelName]: doc },
        });
      });

A: The desired behaviour is not integrated into mongoose.
I would also advice against a data-structure that makes this necessary. Did you consider other document tree structures (you can find plenty of examples on here or check out the mongodb docu). I find trees with parent references most useful for comments.
But back to recursive population:
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CHEFKIRK & CARL KRUGER - THE PLAIN PEOPLE (CDR by Retinascan) So I wonder if anyone who will get this release, reads the titles, such as 'The Plain People', 'Jacob Amman', 'Menno Simons' or 'Dordrecht Confession Of 1632', will understand that this is a release about the Amish. The Amish live outside 'our' society and rely on nobody. Hence Chefkirk and Carl Kruger saw a connection, as the 'noise' community is also outside the standard of music society. A bit far fetched if you ask me. Chefkirk more than Kruger has earned some recognition in the world of noise, mainly due to his endless stream of releases, of which not all were great. But here in his collaboration with Carl Kruger, things work quite well. There is of course feedback, heavy type digitally distorted rhythms and vague rumbles of electro-acoustica, but throughout it's well enjoyable. There is variation among the lot, among the tracks and even inside the tracks. Perhaps one or two tracks are bit too long, but otherwise: thumbs up! And of course, nice cover, but that's hardly a surprise for this label: they are always nice!


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When a meta develops and a list type becomes commonplace, then lists that counter it will develop. Bringing lists specifically designed to counter the meta is a good strategy even if they don't work well against other lists because the common lists will be weak to it. We see sniper teams all the time because there currently isn't much to deal with them beyond other snipers and a commander for each faction. That doesn't mean it isn't doable, and given your current attitude towards the situation it seems like you've given up trying to. You've discounted lists that can beat them as "lower tier", which is a mistake in itself to do. Armor isn't in a bad spot, heavies are. FFG is trying to fix this, although I hate having to buy a new unit for an upgrade to fix an earlier unit. The Occupier and landspeeder look nasty, and pose a threat to the current meta. The generic pilot for the ST turns it into an even bigger meat grinder. If you want an immediate solution, triple flamethrower RTs would decimate almost all the top 8 lists from Adepticon.
Any tips on rescaling photos taken from, for example, a phone's camera, so that they can be posted here?
Oh oh! I have a question; pick me! What's the fluff/description for Force Sensitive Outcast? What is the outcast cast out of? Jedi Order? Civilization? Is it a voluntary, or involuntary casting out? I want to know how the spec fits into the grand scheme. Thanks!
Move and bind would seem fairly obvious places to start. Something quick and easy would be to give him Vader's Force Choke ability and the Move ability of the Grand Inquisitor. edit: Assuming they use the same write ups from DoR.
Testing to see if this works. edit: Rebel and Imperial personnel specialists.
That will teach me to stop using the old rulebooks. I just downloaded the online reference. Thanks for the pointer.
Right. So a crew that stacked with that could make the Vultures' first engagement nasty, Calculation-wise.
This is true, but their will be lists that are BETTER (my point) against majority of the field, than sub-optimal lists. Why did we see high activation lists with multiple sniper teams dominate???? These lists are better against the field and have few weaknesses. In your example: You mention how not having a reliable counter to armor should make you struggle against armor. Yes, this is true! But, lists with armor fit into a lower tier. These lists can't compete that well in objective missions. Not to mention, they are a bit pricey and force you into taking certain choices (You won't see Vader/Sith comboed with an AT-ST). I think cheap, effective vehicles may help counter these meta lists, but right now, we don't have them. Going to 1000 points is more of a preference. I don't know if it will fix the current stale meta, but it will allow for more interesting battles.
Perhaps you have not understood or you don't want, I'll explain better: 1- You are right about Luke Skywalker choking, but this was simply an example, let's use another one: you wouldn't give Chewbacca force powers and allow him to make a force choke, isn't it? That would be against fluff, and as such, I consider inventing things for snowtroopers. That's what I meant, you sure knew it, but hey, I will not get tired of explain myself till I make myself clear. 2- In the battle of Coruscant we didn't have an emperor throwing lightning bolts at enemies, during that battle, he just stayed kidnapped and only took part in a rescue mission... and he was the hostage. Again you sure knew what I meant and it is a pity that I have to explain it twice. 3- Again, hate to repeat, but do you consider what happened at bespin a battle? I could concede you it is a squirmish... but without normal or average rebel troops... where's the battle? This is exactly the problem with legion: Bespin should be a combat scaled for Imperial Assault, not for Legion, but of course, they said it was going to be a battle scaled game and then began to give us commanders and operatives... so you could plan on doing Bespin as a battle... what? Look, the only thing I consider a battle in Star Wars films are: battle for Naboo, Geonosis, the battles we see during order 66, Hoth, Endor, Scariff, Yavin (only space battle)... and that's all, I think. What happens for example in ANH in Death Star involves Leia, Luke, Chewie, Kenobi, Han, Vader, Tarkin... and lots of stormtroopers, and there's a lot of blaster fire, but definitely is not a battle. Again I would say that you already knew what I am talking about. 4- Got a lot of imagination, but as I said before, according to secondary beliefs in persistent worlds (that theory that Mr. JRR Tolkien had about how a CONSISTENT world gives realism to the story) the details have to stay the same so that you believe accordingly that the world presented is real. Read my post about it up there. You can imagine lots of things, but as I said, I PREFER to have a thematic army... the rest of the way I play (the mission, the background, the objectives...) can be as imaginative as you want (in fact you don't know how do i work that aspects of a gameplay, whenever I play with friends I even send them by mail a map (photoshop) of the battle zone (with real photographs of my terrain and scenery) and a short story explaining the mission and WHY and WHO and WHAT are they doing. I can only ONCE imagine the snowtroopers are there for some obscure random event... the rest of the times it will be stupid to see them in Endor. I would do a lot of things, I can even make a thematic Hoth army, painted red, and say they are a special harsh environment group that has fallen from a stolen spaceship, or that they are aliens from the planet that once stole imperial material from a lost Imperial ship, or that the are space pirates or whatever, but... I CAN'T make a NORMAL THEMED army without repeating at least three times the same stormtrooper miniatures, and I wouldn't mind to do it if at least they were multipose, so that my army is customized, but build the same miniatures again with the same poses is BORING.
Kracken sort of serves that function. Takes a little set up and is limited to 3 droids, but it is there.
Probably not, but any time my Vultures have to spend a calculate defensively that's one less ESC I get to shoot. So it largely depends on if such an upgrade would be a crew or tac relay or what, and cost could mitigate any Overpoweredness.
It's a transformer in the midst of turning into robot form.
See that's funny, I'd never run more than 2. If you have three, I'm swapping two for an Arc, or a support CLT Jedi.
Counter-point: that data only demonstrates that sniper teams are liked by that group of players, not that they're a dominant unit per se. If you want to demonstrate that, you'd have to have control trials of the same players playing basically the same game with different setups, and not just one trial per setup per player, but hundreds. As that's not going to happen, there's no result here that can be stated with ANY level of confidence.
If they did that then they'd have to have a bunch of character faces on the inside of that one to keep with the "don't judge a book by the inside of its cover" non-matching theme.
With IG-88 D and the various C-3POs in other factions doing something pretty similar, some sort of double-calculate crew may likely be released for Separatists in time. I guess it could be a Networked Calculations source, but doesn't strike me as too potent.
I'm a dedicated Scum player, well versed in the Z95 and the Scyk both. Having played *against* the V19 only a few times and never with it, my initial impression is that it is not quite as good as the Z95, but better than the Scyk. At least in terms of generics. And that's all I have, but I thought I'd chip in. Specifically, yes they crit out faster than Z95s, but are a ton cheaper than Scyks. I think they are best used as a super cheap swarm filler. But you do need more than one. More than two? I think I would treat them much like I do Z95s, three (at least) in a block, with or without support. A throwaway ship that you cannot wholly afford to ignore.
This is probably the crux of it. I like it, and find it worthwhile at current points even. Particularly for Jedi. But that's my play style, I don't shy away from the red moves if I can use it to get an advantage. My opponents can attest, I'm master of putting my ships where I want them, which is often somewhere bad for them. And I'm not the type to really fully disengage often. Play to your strengths, and mine is maximizing maneuvering.
I'm sure I'm reaching here....but take a look at the insides of the covers for A&A. The cool graphics of ships and weapons and stuff make me think FFG might possibly be planning on compendiums of gear or ships or something in the future.


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6/12 Yamaç Pehlivan (Mimar Sinan University) Stars as extreme laboratories for neutrino physics Conference room, Cosmos Lodge / 13:30
6/12 Yamaç Pehlivan (Mimar Sinan University)	Stars as extreme laboratories for neutrino physics
Neutrinos are the second most abundant particle species in the universe after the photons. Due to their small cross sections, their last point of scattering (and hence their memory) lies deep within dense astrophysical objects. As a new observational window to the Universe, neutrinos hold a great potential. But, an equally exciting possibility is to use these observations as a probe to their minuscule properties under the Universe's most extreme conditions.In this talk, I will focus on the neutrinos emitted by core collapse supernova where, in the deep regions, neutrino-neutrino interactions turn their flavor oscillations into a nonlinear many-body phenomenon. Various tiny neutrino properties can be amplified by these nonlinear effects with detectable consequences. These can show themselves directly in a future galactic supernova signal detected by Super-Kamiokande, or indirectly (through their effect on nucleosynthesis) in elemental abundance surveys by Subaru and TMT.
6/28 Masanobu Kunitomo (Nagoya University) Revisiting the pre-main sequence evolution of low-mass stars: Importance of accretion and deuterium
Recent theoretical work has shown that the pre-main sequence (PMS) evolution of stars is much more complex than previously envisioned: Instead of the traditional one-dimensional solution of the contraction of a spherically symmetric gaseous envelope, protostars grow from the first formation of a small seed and subsequent accretion of material. This material is shocked, accretion may be episodic and not necessarily symmetrical, thereby affecting the energy deposited inside the star and its interior structure. Given this new framework, we confirm the findings of previous works (e.g., Baraffe et al. 2009, 2012, Hosokawa et al. 2011) that the evolution changes significantly with the amount of energy that is lost during accretion. We find that deuterium burning also regulates the PMS evolution. In the low-entropy accretion, the evolutionary tracks in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are significantly different from the classical ones and sensitive to the deuterium content. Our results agree with previous work that the variation of heat injection can be the solution of luminosity spread problem of PMS stars and show the importance of the deuterium content. We also discuss the internal structure evolution of young stars and the impact on the stellar surface composition.


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const NextQL = require("../src");
const nextql = new NextQL();

class RandomDie {
	constructor(numSides) {
		this.numSides = numSides;
	}

	rollOnce() {
		return 1 + Math.floor(Math.random() * this.numSides);
	}

	roll({ numRolls }) {
		var output = [];
		for (var i = 0; i < numRolls; i++) {
			output.push(this.rollOnce());
		}
		return output;
	}
}

nextql.model("RandomDie", {
	computed: {
		rollOnce: (source, params) => source.rollOnce(),
		roll: (source, params) => {
			return source.roll(params);
		}
	},
	methods: {
		getDie({ numSides }) {
			return new RandomDie(numSides || 6);
		}
	}
});

test("getDie", function(done) {
	nextql
		.execute({
			RandomDie: {
				getDie: {
					$params: { numSides: 6 },
					rollOnce: 1,
					roll: {
						$params: { numRolls: 3 }
					}
				}
			}
		})
		.then(
			result => {
				expect(result).toHaveProperty("RandomDie");
				expect(result).toHaveProperty("RandomDie.getDie");
				expect(result).toHaveProperty("RandomDie.getDie.rollOnce");
				expect(result).toHaveProperty("RandomDie.getDie.roll");

				done();
			},
			error => {
				console.log(error);
				done();
			}
		);
});


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Libya pro-GNA force drives rival out of Sabratha
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Sabratha - A security force loyal to Libya's internationally recognised government announced on Friday that it has driven a rival militia out of the city of Sabratha, after three weeks of deadly fighting.
The clashes between a security force loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the militia of the head of a former people smuggling network, Ahmad Dabbashi, have killed 39 people and wounded 300 since September 17.
Sabratha has been "liberated and... the destructive militias have been defeated", the leader of the pro-GNA force, General Omar Abdeljalil, said in a video posted on Facebook.
The GNA, which had originally set up the security force to fight the Islamic State group during its brief occupation of central Sabratha in February 2016, welcomed the announcement.
It expressed "great satisfaction with the positive developments at Sabratha", in a statement posted on Facebook.
Both the GNA and the security force urged the people of Sabratha to refrain from carrying out revenge attacks.
"Those who have complaints must resort to justice and refrain from harming the lives and property of the defeated," said General Abdeljalil.
The violence began with an exchange of gunfire at a checkpoint manned by the security force in which a militiaman was killed.
Libya has plunged into insecurity and political chaos since the ouster and killing of its long-time leader Moammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed 2011 revolution.
People smugglers have fed on the turmoil, turning violence-wracked Libya into a key gateway for illegal migration to Europe.
Sabratha, 40km west of Tripoli where the GNA is based, is Libya's main departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe.
Dabbashi is reportedly among several people smugglers who have decided to halt their lucrative business and cooperate with authorities.
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Study examines how news spreads on Twitter
by University of Arizona
Nearly every major news organization has a Twitter account these days, but just how effective is the microblogging website at spreading news? That's the question University of Arizona professor Sudha Ram set out to answer in a recent study of a dozen major news organizations that use the social media website as one tool for sharing their content.
The answer, according to Ram's research, varies widely by news agency, and there may not be one universally applicable strategy for maximizing Twitter effectiveness. However, news agencies can learn a lot by looking at how their news diffuses once it is posted on Twitter, said Ram, McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems in the UA's Eller College of Management.
Ram, who recently presented her findings at the International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis in Istanbul, examined, over a six-month period, the Twitter activity of 12 major news organizations focused on U.S. news, global news, technology news or financial news.
All of the agencies selected – The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, NPR, Reuters, Guardian, Forbes, Financial Times, Mashable, Arstechnica, Wired and Bloomberg – regularly share news articles on Twitter, which allows users to post 140-character messages as well as links to online content.
Ram, working with Devi Bhattacharya, an MIS doctoral student at the UA, tracked what happened to a news article after it was tweeted by a news organization. Together, they looked at how many people retweeted, or reposted, the article on their own Twitter feeds, then how many times it was subsequently retweeted from those accounts and so forth.
They were then able to evaluate the volume and extend of spread of an article on Twitter, as well as its overall lifespan.
"The goal for a news agency is to have a lot of people reading and following your articles," said Ram, who is also a professor of computer science at the UA. "What we've done is use network analysis, which is quite different from just looking at the total number of tweets or total number of retweets. You're starting to see, over time, how information is spreading."
Ram and Bhattacharya rendered the data they collected from each organization visually as images showing how the news is diffused. The network visualizations appear something like fireworks, with dots representing individual twitter users and cascade streams from those dots depicting retweets. The images reveal different diffusion patterns for the different agencies, which can provide clues to those organizations about how their news is spreading and what they might want to focus on to be successful, Ram said.
"This gives them good feedback, and it's kind of a performance report for them," Bhattacharya said. "It gives them an idea about the reading habits of people online and how they like to consume news."
Of the organizations analyzed, BBC had the maximum reach in terms of affected users and retweet levels. BBC articles also had the highest chance of survival on Twitter, with 0.1 percent of articles surviving, through continual retweets, for three or more days. The BBC's high numbers were likely due in large part to the fact that the main "bbcnews" Twitter account also is supported by two other agency accounts – "bbcbreaking" and "bbcworld," Ram said. The New York Times and Mashable had the second highest reach. Articles from Forbes, Wired and Bloomberg had the shortest Twitter lifespans.
Overall, Ram said the data showed that articles on Twitter dissipate fairly quickly, with retweeting typically ending between 10 and 72 hours after an article is originally shared.
The Twitter study is a jumping off point for further research into how news is disseminated through various social media platforms, Ram said. In December, Ram will present a follow-up paper at the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems in Florida on the importance of Twitter-follower engagement for news organizations, as opposed to volume of followers.
"The term 'social media' refers to a lot of things. The first thing people think about is Facebook and then Twitter, but it's so much more than that," Ram said. "It's really all the various forums – the blogs, photo sharing sites, video sharing sites, microblogging, social bookmarking like Digg, Delicious and Reddit and so on."
Ram's research is part of the ongoing work being done by the UA's INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics. The center – which Ram co-directs with Paulo Goes, head of the UA's MIS department – mines data from social media sources to find patterns that can help businesses and organizations identify ways to improve their operations.
Ram says she hopes to do more extensive research on news sharing and develop partnerships with news agencies to help them answer specific questions about their social media practices and performance.
"The idea is really to see if we can make some predictions," Ram said. "What are some attributes of these networks that will help us make predictions? Is it number of followers? Is it engagement of followers? Is it what time you tweet? Is it who else is tweeting at the same time? Which are the more useful attributes that will help us predict, and therefore will help us give organizations suggestions on how to be more effective in spreading their news? Because ultimately their goal is more people reading their articles and talking about them."
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Scotland's Music and Dance: Songs and Musicians
This is the second post about music and dance in Scotland. Here, we look at some examples of Scottish songs, as well as eminent musicians, especially musical families, and people with a love of music.
Scottish songs
In the Statistical Accounts you can discover lyrics and references to particular Scottish songs. Actual people, events and settings are within their narrative, making them distinctly Scottish. Scenes of Scottish songs include the farm of Cowden Knows, about a mile outside of Banff, "justly celebrated for its rural beauty" and supposedly "the scene of the plaintive Scots ballad" The New way of the Broom of Cowden Knows (OSA, Vol. XX, 1798, p. 328), as well as the Yarrow Water in Yarrow, County of Selkirk, which is the location of many songs, including The Sang of the Outlaw Murray, The Dowie Dens of Yarrow (also known as The Braes of Yarrow) and Yarrow Vale. (NSA, Vol. III, 1845, p. 37)
Four excellent songs … by E. Johnstone, printer. Published 1820. Found on the Internet Archive.
People are also the subject of songs. One example is The Lass of Patie's Mill who resided in the parish of Keithhall, County of Aberdeen. "Her father was proprietor of Patie's mill, in Keithhall; of Tullikearie, in Fintray; and Standing Stones, in the parish of Dyce. From her beauty, or fortune, or from both causes, she had many admirers; and she was an only child. One Sangster, laird of Boddom, in New Machar parish, wished to carry her off, but was discovered by his dog, and very roughly handled by her father, who was called black John Anderson. In revenge, he wrote an ill-natured song, of which her great grandson remembers these words:
Ye'll tell the gowk that gets her,
He gets but my auld sheen.
She was twice married; first, to a namesake of her own, who came from the south country, and is said to have composed the Song, to her praise, that is so generally admired, and partakes much of the music, which, at that time, abounded between the Tay and the Tweed." (OSA, Vol. II, 1792, p. 542)
You can hear a recording of the song The Lass o Patie's Mill on Tobar an Dualchais.
Another example is the song Fair Helen. "She was a daughter of the family of Kirkconnell, and fell a victim to the jealousy of a lover. Being courted by two young gentlemen at the same time, the one of whom thinking himself slighted, vowed to sacrifice the other to his resentment, when he again discovered him in her company. An opportunity soon presented itself, when the faithful pair, walking along the romantic banks of the Kirtle, were discovered from the opposite banks by the assassin. Helen perceiving him lurking among the bushes, and dreading the fatal resolution, rushed to her lover's bosom, to rescue him from the danger; and thus receiving the wound intended for another, sunk and expired in her favorite's arms. He immediately revenged her death, and flew the murderer. The inconsolable Adam Fleeming, now sinking under the pressure of grief, went abroad and served the banners of Spain, against the infidels. The impression, however, was too strong to be obliterated. The image of woe attended him thither; and the pleasing remembrance of the tender scenes that were past, with the melancholy reflection, that they could never return, harassed his soul, and deprived his mind of repose. He soon returned, and stretching himself on her grave, expired, and was buried by her side." He was said to have written the song whilst he was in Spain. The lyrics can be found in the parish report of Kirkpatrick-Fleming, County of Dumfries (OSA, Vol. XIII, 1794, p. 274) There is also a recording of the song Fair Helen of Kirkconnel on Tobar an Dualchias.
Events such as battles, have also been immortalized in song. In the report given by the Chapel of Garioch, County of Aberdeen, there is a description of the Battle of Harlaw. "From the ferocity with which this battle was contested, and the dismal spectacle of civil war exhibited to the country, it appears to have made a deep impression on the national mind. It fixed itself on the music and the poetry of Scotland. A march called the Battle of Harlaw continued to be a popular air, down to the time of Drummond of Hawthornden; and a spirited ballad on the same event is still repeated in our own age, describing the meeting of the armies and the death of the chiefs in no ignoble strain." (NSA, Vol. XII, 1845, p. 568) In Wamphray, County of Dumfries, "songs are still sung descriptive of the barbarous deeds and bloody feuds of some former age, of which this parish was the scene." (OSA, Vol. XII, 1794, p. 606) One man named Mackay from Thurso, was an Adjutant to the Thurso Volunteers and "and as a specimen of his poetical abilities, the copy of a song, which he composed on that corps" can be found in the report of Thurso, County of Caithness. (OSA, Vol. XX, 1798, p. 532)
Other songs that you can find out about in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland include The Souters o' Selkirk (OSA, Vol. II, 1792, p. 436), Logie o' Buchan (NSA, Vol. XII, 1845, p. 812) and Gin I Were Where the Gadie Rins (NSA, Vol. XII, 1845, p. 1020).
Title page of the book 'Scottish Songs – in Two Volumes', 1794. By Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons.
Eminent musicians
Inhabitants of certain parishes became very accomplished musicians. In Towie, County of Aberdeen, "vocal and instrumental music, particularly the violin, form the most prominent amusements of the people in the winter evenings, and it is believed that few parishes in Scotland can boast of so many good Strathspey players, who are also temperate in their habits, and industriously employed in their other vocations." (NSA, Vol. XII, 1845, p.418) A strathspey is a type of dance tune which has 4 beats to a bar. Examples include Auld Lang Syne and Coming through the Rye. It also refers to the dance performed to it. (In the last post we looked at some particular Scottish songs.) Whereas, in the County of Caithness, "the violin, and Highland bag-pipe, are the only musical instruments, played on by professional men in Thurso. The Highland reels are played particularly well, on both these instruments, in Caithness; but the proper flow bag-pipe tunes and marches, are not given in that perfection here, with seems almost peculiar to the West Highland pipers." (OSA, Vol. XX, 1798, p. 531)
Specific eminent musical families are also mentioned in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, including the MacCrimmons, who were the hereditary pipers of the MacLeods. "Certain it is that, what rarely happens, high musical talent as well as high moral principle and personal bravery, descended from father to son during many generations in the family of the MacCrimmons. They became so celebrated that pupils were sent to them from all quarters of the Highlands, and one of the best certificates that a piper could possess was his having studied under the MacCrimmons." As reported by the parish of Duirinish, County of Inverness, "finding the number of pupils daily increasing, they at length opened a regular, school or college for pipe music on the farm of Boreraig, opposite to Dunvegan Castle, but separated from it by Loch Follart… Macleod endowed this school by granting the farm of Boreraig to it, and it is no longer ago than seventy years since the endowment was withdrawn." Find out for what reason at NSA, Vol. XIV, 1845, p. 339.
Kilmuir was also famous for its pipers, the most notable of which were the MacArthurs. "When the proprietors resided in the parish, a free grant of the lands of Peingowen, a hamlet in the place, was given to the MacArthurs, in the same manner as Boreraig was given by the MacLeods of Dunvegan, to the MacCrimmons. Peingowen, like Boreraig, was a sort of musical college, to which pupils were sent by various chieftains, to acquire a correct knowledge of piobaireachd. A little green hill in close vicinity to Piengowen, called Cnoc-phail, was the general rendezvous of the MacArthurs and their pupils. To the top of this eminence, they almost daily resorted, and practised their tunes. The MacArthurs vied with the MacCrimmons of Dunvegan, the MacGregors of Fortingall, the Mackays of Gairloch, the Rankins of Coll, and the MachIntyres of Rannoch, who were all renowned performers in their day." (NSA, Vol. XIV, 1845, p. 285)
It is not all just bagpipes and violins. Stevenston, county of Ayrshire, was well-known for the manufacture of trumps, also known as the Jew's harp at Piperheugh. "The pipers and harpers, like their woodland village, have passed away; but they seem to have bequeathed the mantle of song, to their posterity, for the inhabitants of Stevenston are still distinguished for their musical propensities, as an instrumental band, and glee club, and, what is better, the excellent singing of the congregation in church, amply testify." (NSA, Vol. V, 1845, p. 453)
Iain Lom's memorial at Cille Choirille kirkyard. James Yardley [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
In the parish report of Kilmonivaig, County of Inverness, you can read about the fascinating Iain Lom who was considered "a poetical genius of a very high order. His songs translated into English would exhibit a striking picture of the period in which be lived." He wrote songs about many events which he and his contemporaries experienced, such as the Battle of Inverlochy in 1645, the Treaty of Union in 1707 and the Battle of Killiecrankie, "which he describes in a song, composed on the occasion, in such a manner as an eye-witness alone could describe it." He was believed to have held the office of Gaelic Poet Laureate to King Charles II, an office which, is believed, died with himself. It is very interesting to learn how influential his songs were to the Scots. "[His] songs more powerfully influenced the minds of his countrymen than all the legislation which was at that time employed for that purpose. Children were taught to lisp them. They were sung in the family circle on long winter evenings, and at weddings, lykewakes, raffles, fairs, and in every company. They attributed to the Stewarts and their adherents the most exalted virtues; and the opponents of that family they represented as incarnate fields." (NSA, Vol. XIV, 1845, p. 509)
Other prominent Scots who were music enthusiasts are:
Allan Ramsey and John Gay; (OSA, Vol. XVII, 1796, p. 628)
William Tytler, Esq. of Woodhouselee; (OSA, Vol. XV, 1795, p. 444)
John Maxwell, Esq; of Broomholm, who wrote an Essay upon Tune. (OSA, Vol. XIII, 1794, p. 591 and OSA, Vol. XXI, 1799, p. 240)
General Reid. (NSA, Vol. I, 1845, p. 676)
It is through the devotion and dedication of Scotland's people that their music has become so distinctive and longstanding. Scotland's songs chart the history of its people and events and so are central to the country's identity. It is wonderful to be able to discover traditional songs and their origins, and, in so doing, helping to ensure that Scotland's music and its meaning is not lost.
In our next post on Scotland's dance and music we will explore musical education, music in a religious context (including weddings and funerals) and changes in attitudes to music.
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This beautifully shot documentary features rare and recent interviews and performances of soul music protagonists. Every year, in the last 30 years, some of the greatest "legends" of Soul and R&B have performed at Porretta Soul in Italy — the most prestigious festival in Europe for this music. A Soul Journey is a film narrating some aspects of the intricate and delicate lives of these artists, and in particular, the artistic, human and emotional journeys to perform in such a small village "lost" in the Italian mountains. We look at the human aspects, the contrasts and paradoxes of these two very apart worlds. On one side, "stars" who have performed thousand times in each corner of the world, and on the other, a settlement in the Italian Apennine Mountains, between Bologna and Firenze, probably geographically renowned for its natural spas, which gets a "second life" every summer as Soul and R&B fanatics descends from various parts in Europe and Italy to witness a musical miracle, again.
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