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Cannes Lions 2017: Show Me More - How Ellen captivated a global audience
Dan Leary, Bonnie Horton Willoughby, Derek Scobie July 2017
Dan Leary, Bonnie Horton Willoughby, Derek Scobie / July 2017
Bonnie Horton Willoughby, Director of Brand Content & Partnerships, and Daniel Leary, Co-Executive Digital Producer, both from The Ellen Degeneres Show, joined YouTube's Derek Scobie on the Beach stage in Cannes for a discussion about the development of Ellen's online presence, and the inspiration behind her new YouTube exclusive series, 'Ellen's Show Me More Show'.
Ellen Degeneres is by most measures one of the world's great cross-over stars. Not only does 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' pull in a huge television audience, but her online audience of 20m YouTube subscribers and 70m Twitter followers speaks to an appeal that stretches around the globe and across both traditional and digital media.
"YouTube was a space where we could play with our audience and have fun," says Daniel Leary, describing how in 2010, Ellen and her team made their first forays into online video when the show's executive producers decided to take digital content production in-house. By focusing on surprising and delighting Ellen's online audience, the team were able to create significant buzz driving viewers to the TV show, as well as reaching out to international audiences and 'cable-cutters' who didn't have access to the live broadcasts. "We started looking at our daytime TV show through the lens of what segments would look like on YouTube, and then taking it a step further by creating content specifically for our YouTube audience."
"We started looking at our daytime TV show through the lens of what segments would look like on YouTube, and then taking it a step further by creating content specifically for our YouTube audience."
- Daniel Leary, Digital co-exec producer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
With her exclusive YouTube series 'Ellen's Show Me More Show' launching later this year, Ellen's status as the leading TV and online cross-over star is sure to continue. For Bonnie Horton Willoughby, the new show is also exciting as it opens up fresh opportunities for brands to engage with Ellen's fan-base. "We love working with brand partners who approach us with open briefs asking what they can do to reach Ellen's audience," she says, citing the trust and authenticity of Ellen's relationship with her viewers as key to her ability to seamless integrate brand messages into the show.
Looking forward to the launch of 'Show Me More', Daniel Leary says that they intend to remain true to Ellen's values. "For us, we lead with what we think our audience is going to like," he says. "Asking how you can make something successful can be the kiss of death. Instead we ask how can we give our fans what they want?" On this, Bonnie agrees, saying that Ellen's personality provides direction and impetus, encouraging everyone who works on the show to think bigger, bolder and better. With a career highlights reel that already contains special moments ranging from heartfelt messages to the young LGBTQ community, to a mannequin challenge at the White House, both brands and fans are eager to find out what Ellen will show us next.
Dan Leary
Digital co-exec producer, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Bonnie Horton Willoughby
Director of Brand Content & Partnerships, The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Derek Scobie
Head of Global Content Programs, Google Brand Solutions & Innovation, Google
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Street Music Week
Street Music Week?
The Street Music Week documentary, Sing for Their Supper, was produced in 2013.
Street Music Week is an annual event with two purposes:
Fill the event sites with a variety of music and performance art ever year during the noon hours of one business week.
Raise money for 2nd Harvest Inland Northwest Food Bank.
Since 2002, Street Music Week has been held during the second full week of June – raising over $240,000 so far. Food bank officials say they can purchase six pounds of food for every dollar donated. That means we've provided over 700 tons of food for the area's needy families.
Street Music Week began on the sidewalks of downtown Spokane as a solo act when Doug Clark, then columnist for the city's daily paper, The Spokesman-Review, took his acoustic guitar to the downtown sidewalks and collected donations for a week.
Clark raised $503 that first year. He wrote about his experience as a busker and donated what he made to the food bank.
The next year he did it again, this time inviting others to join him. The event has taken off ever since. Some 300 performers now give their time and talents during Street Music Week, which has expanded to include Sherman Avenue in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, as well as Spokane's historic Garland District.
A SIMPLE PROCESS*
Now retired, Clark continues to spearhead the event and believes that its steady growth and success is due to its simplicity.
Street Music Week takes place from noon to 1 p.m. during the second full business week in June, Monday through Friday.
Performers can take part one day or every day. It's entirely up to them.
All they have to do is come to a central location in Spokane's downtown business core prior to noon. They sign in and are given a red collection bucket and an event badge (which they can keep) that identifies them as a participant.
It's then up to the artist to find a sidewalk spot and perform until 1 p.m. Then the artist brings the bucket back to the command center and turns in the donations.
"There are no stages. There are no electric outlets," said Clark. "We want the artists to have a true street music experience. If a performer wants amplification, it must be battery-powered and portable and comply with the city's noise ordinance."
Another key to the success is that Street Music Week is open to performers of ALL ages, ALL levels of ability and ALL artistic endeavors.
"It's about generosity, not virtuosity," has become the event's unofficial slogan.
Street Music Week participants have ranged from symphony virtuosos to beginners.
We've had a world champion accordion player and an elementary school marimba band. We've had a group of high school Scottish Highland dancers with bagpipe band.
Our Spokane Police Chief joined us one year to play spoons with a bluegrass band. Mayors and city council members have pitched in to sing, tap tambourines or just show support. A video of a performance by Spokane native Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge and Slash's backup band Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators collected over 500,000 internet views. Peter Rivera, the original lead singer of Rare Earth, has wowed listeners by singing his mega hits like "Get Ready" and "I Just Want to Celebrate."
Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge (shown here with Jim Lyons) rocks Street Music Week 2016.
We've even hosted street magicians, 11-year-old jugglers and an artist who painted on butcher paper laid out on the sidewalk.
Street Music Week is proclaimed each year as a city-sanctioned event by the mayor of Spokane and the Coeur d'Alene City Council.
Because of the event's simple nature, we believe that the Street Music Week concept can be duplicated in almost any community that has lunch-hour foot traffic and vibrant music and art scene. (An annual sister event, in fact, takes place in Appleton, Wis., with all proceeds going to the region's Feeding America organization.)
"And we would be glad to help any other city that wants to get involved," added Clark. "All it takes is a bit of organization and a dash of desire."
*SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 2020
*For 2020, the actual street performances have been canceled due to COVID, but there is a virtual option. Click the Performers tab for more information about performing. And of course, donations are still encouraged through the Donations tab.

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Most of you are familiar with allergy problems, however, very few people understand the term "Immunology". The immune system protects us from the outside environment so we can all lead a healthy life. Any dysfunction in the immune system can result in several diseases that we deal with in day-to-day life. The immune system consists of many different types of cells, and these cells make antibodies and mediators. The combination of these mediators and antibodies works to keep us healthy. If they do not function, people develop a group of diseases called immunodeficiency diseases. A common example that we all know now is AIDS, which is caused by the HIV virus that attacks the immune cells.


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Electricity is the fuel we use in our everyday lives for things like: lighting, heating, appliances, computers, telephones and games. You cannot see it, but it's always there. Just imagine what it would be like to live in a world without electricity.
Electricity is made with tiny particles called electrons, which move from one place to another. Lightning is a natural form of electricity.
The Greeks first discovered electricity about 3000 years ago. Its name came from the word "elektron", which means amber. Amber is the yellow, fossilised rock you find in tree sap. The Greeks found that if they rubbed amber against wool, lightweight objects (such as straw or feathers) would stick to it. This form of electricity is known as "static" electricity.
Benjamin Franklin started working with electricity in the 1740s. He performed a lot of different experiments to try to understand more about it. Mr Franklin believed that lightning was like water (i.e.fluid). To test this, he tied a metal key to a kite and flew the kite during a thunderstorm. When the key became charged with electricity he had proof that lightning flowed like water. Mr Franklin's experiments led to his invention of the lightning rod. We still use many of the words he developed to describe electricity today: charge, discharge, conductor, electrician and electric shock.
In 1821, English scientist Michael Faraday discovered how to make an electrical current. He found that when a magnet spins inside a coil of copper wire, a tiny electrical current flows through the wire, creating an electrical charge. This is the principle of how electricity is made today, but to make the copper wire spin to produce enough electricity for us to use each day, we need to force this to happen.
Where does it come from?
Most of the electricity we use each day comes from a power station. Large fan-like machines called turbines turn to create electricity. The electricity reaches us by travelling along wires strung from power poles or towers or run underground. This allows us to switch on our lights, heat and cool our homes and use our appliances.
The most common way of producing electricity is by using fossil fuels. There are three main forms of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. These fuels were formed millions of years ago, long before the dinosaurs. The remains of plants and animals settled to the bottom of lakes and oceans and were covered by sand and mud.
Over millions of years, the earth's pressure and heat turned the layers of earth into a hard rock-like substance called coal, a thick liquid called petroleum, or an invisible substance called natural gas.
To begin the process of converting fossil fuels into electricity these substances need to be taken out of the ground. Coal mines bring the coal up from underground, while massive drills collect the oil and gas. Coal produces around 64% of the world's electricity, with the remainder coming from water, gas, nuclear and green sources. Most developed countries rely heavily on coal for power.
Coal is a non-renewable resource (which means it will eventually run out), but at current usage there is enough coal in Australia to last for another 700 years or more. Despite this, it is important we preserve it and look for more environmentally friendly ways of producing electricity.
How does it get to your home?
Electricity is always there when you flick a switch or plug something in, but electricity has to travel a long way to get to your home. It is fed through cables, which are either hung from poles or run underground. It is initially sent at very high voltages but this decreases as it gets closer to you, making it safe to use.
inside the power plant, coal, oil or gas is burned in a big boiler to create steam. If the plant is hydro-electric, water is used.
the steam is used to spin a big fan, known as a turbine. The turbine turns a big magnet inside a generator – like an electric motor that works in reverse - to create an electrical current.
the electricity is sent through a transformer to make it the right voltage. This gives the electricity enough pressure to travel long distances.
big high-voltage transmission lines carry the electricity to your city or suburb.
it passes through sub-stations, where the voltage is lowered to make it safe to use in our homes.
it travels through smaller power lines to your house.
it passes through an electricity meter that measures how much your family uses.
the electricity goes to the switchboard in your home, where it is divided into different circuits for each area of your house.
the electricity travels through wires inside the walls to outlets and switches all over your house.
you can use the electricity to switch on lights, watch TV, listen to music and cook dinner!
How is it made?
The process of creating electricity is the same in most cases. A turbine is used to create the energy. A turbine spins like a fan, converting the energy from water, wind or steam into mechanical power. There are a number of ways to make a turbine spin.
Most of the electricity used in Australia is made from power plants that burn fossil fuels to create steam. The main type of fuel used is coal, because it allows large amounts of electricity to be produced in one place.
Once the fossil fuels are out of the ground, they are transported to the power plants. Many of Australia's power plants are located close to coal mines, so the fuel does not have far to travel.
If oil is being used it usually first arrives in big tanker ships and then is transported to the plant along huge pipelines.
In Australia, coal fired power stations are built adjacent to coalfields and the coal is transported by conveyor belt. Gas is transported by pipelines.
Another popular way to make electricity is with hydro power – created from water stored in huge dams. The energy created by the water released from these dams is transformed into electricity by hydro-electric turbines and generators. The most famous source of hydroelectric power is the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme.
To make hydroelectric power, water from rain or melting snow is collected and stored in a dam. The flow of this water can be controlled with the opening and closing of the gates or pipes. A dam wall can also create a high water level, which creates more force when the water drops towards the turbine. A large pipe carries the water from the dam to the turbine. The force of the water pushes against the blades and turns the turbines. The rotating turbine is connected to a generator, which makes the electricity.
How is it measured?
Volts, amps, and watts measure electricity. Volts measure the "pressure" under which electricity flows. Amps measure the flow or amount of electrons that go past a particular point each second. Watts measure the amount of work done by a certain amount of current or flow rate at a certain pressure or voltage.
To understand how volts, amps and watts are related, think of water in a pipe:
The water in the pipe has a pressure (voltage) and a flow rate (current).
Turning on the tap is like turning on a switch - it lets the electrical pressure push electrons through an appliance - just like water being pushed through a pipe.
You would use lots of water - that comes out really hard (like a lot of watts) - to wash off a muddy car. You would use less water that comes out more slowly - (like less watts) - to fill a glass.
Electricity is not free. To get it into your home and schools costs money. Not everyone uses the same amount. Large families might tend to use a lot of electricity. Small families would use less.
To ensure that Ausgrid charges the right amount for its electricity, electrical retailers read the electricity meter in your home or school.


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Parapsychology & Ghosts
Date Thursday - April 12, 2012
Guests Loyd Auerbach, Marc Seifer
Parapsychologist and paranormal investigator Loyd Auerbach discussed the ins and outs of working with psychics and mediums in ghost investigations, as well as how the media has spawned a paranormal community that is unfortunately quite separate from the scientific parapsychological community. For his recent book, The Ghost Detectives' Guide to Haunted San Francisco, he teamed up with the medium Annette Martin (the two were planning a series of books but Martin suddenly passed away in September). Annette would have conversations with the ghosts at some of the locations they investigated such as the Presidio's Officer Club, Alcatraz, and the Queen Anne Hotel. At the Hotel, Annette communicated with the spirit of a woman who'd been the headmistress when the building was a school, and a little girl's ghost, and made a little play with them, he recalled.
Hotels and restaurants are often the sites of hauntings, as ghosts like to be around people, Auerbach posited. A bar in Banta, CA (near the city of Tracy) was said to be haunted by the bar's owner who died in 1968, and his ghost was seen and identified by numerous witnesses. Eventually, the spirit started moving objects, even throwing an ashtray, and Auerbach witnessed some of this first-hand. Some of the strongest evidence comes from cases in which groups of people all report seeing/hearing the same phenomena at the same time, such as occurred aboard the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, he reported.
One fascinating case he investigated, involved a family's purchase of a home in an estate sale that included the previous owner's porcelain doll collection. After they moved into the home in Livermore, CA, the parents saw a spirit, and their young son began having extensive conversations with her, the deceased owner, who told the boy she was like a "ball of energy" who broadcasted her appearance for the living to perceive. Auerbach was critical of the methodology used on many TV ghosthunting shows, which have inspired a rapidly growing group of amateur/hobbyist investigators. He suggested that these groups study and read about parapsychology rather than just emulate techniques depicted on the TV programs.
Consciousness & Psychology
First hour guest, author Marc Seifer talked about higher states of consciousness, and intriguing aspects of psychology that he explored in his new book, Where Does Mind End?"The energy that created the universe is on some level a thinking energy," which suggests a kind of intelligent design to our consciousness and existence, he commented. Many people don't tap into the huge realm of the unconscious-- the greater essence inside ourselves, but one way to easily access it is through our dreams, he noted.
News segment guests: Douglas Hagmann, Capt. Kelly Sweeney
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Auerbach's FATE Articles
Loyd Auerbach, who was a consulting editor and columnist for FATE magazine from 1991-2004, has made available a number of his articles as free downloads, including pieces on psychokinesis, ESP, and strange cases.
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Paul Simon visits Princeton University
Performance Central
Internationally renowned singer/songwriter Paul Simon visited Princeton University yesterday, talking about his career and his most recent work in a discussion facilitated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Princeton Professor Paul Muldoon. The Grammy Award-winning artist also offered an impromptu performance to a capacity audience of over 800, made up of mostly students joined by faculty and staff at Richardson Auditorium on the Princeton campus. The event was presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts' Performance Central.
In a relaxed conversation with Muldoon, Simon discussed a range of topics including his most recent work, his early influences, the current state of the music industry, and the challenges artists face in today's world. He also took questions from Princeton students in the audience.
Paul Simon recalls his early musical influences during the conversation that spanned a range of issues and topics from the music industry to politics to his latest musical explorations. Photo by Denise Applewhite
When asked about his earliest musical influences he noted the doo wop groups of the 1950s, Elvis Presley, and particularly the Everly Brothers, saying he was in awe of Phil and Don Everly as a teen, calling them the best-sounding duo he had ever heard. He recalled a 2003 concert in which he and Art Garfunkel, reunited for a world tour, invited the Everly Brothers to come out of retirement to be guest performers.
Who does he listen to now? Clap! Clap!, the project of Italian music producer C. Crisci, focused on research and sampling of tribes, bands and singers originating from the African continent; Charles Ives; Lou Harrison; a range of classical music; Philip Glass; Frank Sinatra; and music from the 1950s, especially the period 1954-56. "But I mostly listen to me," he quipped, noting that he is constantly working on new material.
In talking about his most recent musical endeavors, Simon described his current interest in the work of 20th-century composer Harry Partch, who composed microtonally, closely looking at the range within each note. Partch contended the western scale of 12 notes in an octave was actually 36 notes and did not fully represent the range of notes. Partch invented instruments to play microtonal intervals. Simon had an opportunity to play and record with these instruments for the new songs he is working on. He played a recording of one of these new songs, "The Insomniac's Lullaby."
When asked about the prospects for a young songwriter starting out today, Simon noted the challenges of the current economics of the music business. "We are living in an anti-art age," he explained. "The world is now a brutal place and obsessed with speed and wealth." He noted the biggest problem with the music industry today is that it is more about the packaging of the artist controlled by a small number of large corporations. There are a few huge stars but many talented, struggling artists. However, he believes this will change, predicting the industry will see a shift similar to the one that occurred in the 1960s, ushered in by the young people studying music today. His best advice to budding songwriters: work hard; there are no shortcuts.
Simon also expressed concern about the growing financial resources spent on presidential campaigns in the U.S., with those processes being heavily influenced by a very small group of extremely wealthy individuals. He observed that artists have valuable perspectives on life, but politicians don't ask artists for their opinions on important issues. He recalled that when he was working on the album Graceland in South Africa, the artists and musicians with whom he collaborated had the best understanding of South African politics. When asked what it was like working on Graceland with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, he said, "It was one of the great learning experiences of my life."
Paul Simon (left) and Paul Muldoon share a laugh during a lively conversation about Simon's work and career. Photo by Denise Applewhite
During the question and answer session, sophomore Aaron Schwartz of Melville, Long Island, asked Simon, who grew up in Flushing, Queens, how his identity as a native New Yorker has shaped his songwriting. "Everybody's hometown has a big effect on their writing — the first things that you see and hear and love," Simon said, adding that when he creates a character in a song who is not from New York, he finds it more challenging to sing.
Schwartz, who is majoring in civil and environmental engineering and is also pursuing a certificate in urban studies, said that he came to the event because he grew up on Simon's music. "My parents always played Paul Simon and Simon and Garfunkel CDs in the car," said Schwartz, who plays the saxophone in the Princeton University Wind Ensemble. "When I found out he was coming here, I called them up and said, 'Guess who I'm seeing?'"
Sophomore Keith Gladstone of Bridgewater, New Jersey, who is concentrating in operations research and financial engineering, called the event "the opportunity of a lifetime" and said a highlight for him was Simon's discussion of new musical technologies.
"He was talking about the variation within a single note, that as computers get better and software gets better, you can find optimal tones, the optimal ways to produce music," Gladstone said. "But as a student who's taking a lot of technology-oriented classes, what I gather from this whole experience is that even the most intelligently thought out algorithm or program or advancement in some sort of machine technology can never really replicate the human element in any way."
Gladstone also attended because of a personal connection to Simon's music. "I just learned that Paul Simon went to high school with my grandmother — so I'm going to call her and tell her how great the experience was," he said.
After being asked by a student in the audience if the microphone and stool on the stage meant Simon might perform a song, the songwriter responded to encouraging applause and was handed a guitar by Muldoon. Simon performed a rendition of The Sound of Silence, the 1964 hit song from Simon and Garfunkel's first album. He had noted earlier that he chose this song when asked to perform at an event marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11, rather than the initially requested Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Paul Simon surprised the audience of over 800 Princeton University students, faculty and staff with a performance of The Sound of Silence. Photo by Denise Applwhite
Princeton's oldest a cappella group, The Nassoons, opened the event with a performance of a medley of songs from Simon's album, Graceland.
Prior to the public talk, Simon visited a creative writing/music course taught by Muldoon, "How to Write a Song." In this popular course, Muldoon leads students with varied backgrounds in music and creative writing in the creation of new songs. Working in small teams, the students are asked to compose music and write lyrics each week that respond to such emotionally charged themes as contempt, gratitude, revenge, desire, disgust, joyousness, remorse, loneliness, despair and defiance. Simon is the most recent in a series of guest artists who have joined Muldoon and the 26 enrolled students throughout the semester. He spent three hours with the students earlier that afternoon, listening to and critiquing the songs the songwriting teams had created that week.
"It was inspiring for the obvious reasons," noted senior Pam Soffer, a member of the class and a psychology major from Los Angeles. "But I appreciated that he gave us very specific comments and suggested questions we can always ask ourselves when writing to help us focus on places in our work that need tweaking and revisiting."
"A good question he told us to ask ourselves," added sophomore Charlie Baker, another songwriting student, "was whether we could see ourselves continuing to work on the song for six months, whether we were that committed to it." Baker, from New York City, intends to major in German while pursuing a certificate in theater.
The students will perform songs from the course in a public concert at the end of the semester.
During his distinguished career, Simon has been the recipient of many honors and awards including 12 Grammy Awards, three of which (Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Graceland) were Albums of the Year. In 2003 he was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as half of the duo Simon and Garfunkel. He is a member of The Songwriters Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Hall of Fame's Johnny Mercer Award, and is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. His song "Mrs. Robinson" from the motion picture The Graduate was named in the top ten of The American Film Institute's "100 Years 100 Songs."
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Performance of Original Songs by Students in the Spring course, "How to Write a Song," led by poet Paul Muldoon
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I was recently shopping for a wreath for one of our bathroom doors. I kept checking the aisle and looking at the different wreaths. I couldn't find one I particularly liked, though. At first, I was just going to leave the store empty-handed. Then, I noticed a rather bare wreath and had an idea — I'd design my own! With these two (yes, just two!) easy steps, you can too!
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on the wind blowing by.
like once so long ago.
as I keep drifting in my dreams.
it just won't let me be.
along with the night breezes.
but you, you must promise to stay.
Lovely work, Rasma, with heart warming phrases. Well done. May you always be at peace with that enduring love. Take care.
Such heartfelt words. So painful when we become lost in love or for that fact without love, that it engulfs our entire being. It seems so hopeless, so helpless, but when you do find those words its is simply put, "Magic." Lovely verse Rasma.
You're welcome, Jamie. Glad you enjoy it.


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Study Of African Politics essay example
To answer the question posed and understand if the study of African politics should be approached differently than the study of politics in the west I believe it is essential to consider them both separately and establish if there any similarities or apparent differences. In order to do this I am going to break this essay down into sections that will enable me to conclude and ultimately answer the question posed. The three sections that I have proposed are; firstly 'Does the study of western political systems help us understand politics in Africa? Secondly, Do we need different concepts and methods to study African politics? And finally, Can the study of African politics tell us about politics in the west? The term the West has, I think two overlapping meanings.
In a general sense, the term refers to the cultural and philosophical inheritance of Europe, which has often been exported through migration or colonialism. The roots of this inheritance lie in the Christian religion and the learning of 'classical' Greece and Rome shaped in the modern period by ideas and values of liberalism. When looking at western political systems it is apparent that what exists is a Polyarcy (literally means rule by the many) and this refers to the institutions and political processes of modern representative democracy. The most important feature of a polyarcy is the existence of regular and competitive elections operating as a device through which the people can control and, if necessary displace their rulers. Thus defined, the term 'Polyarcy' may be used to describe a large growing number of regimes throughout the western world. The West defines itself as democratic, its institutions and conventions are formed on ancient ideals of democracy.
The political decision making body, the state or government, for example is formed by a democratic vote by those people who are citizens within that country. Both the UK and the USA use a system that is known as first past the post to elect its government officials. In comparison Nigeria can be used as an African example of first past the post being used in electing both the House of Representatives and also the Speaker of the House of Representatives. When we study Western politics we start by looking at governments and their institutions and then work our way down and by doing this we can see how all other institutions are formed and why they exist.
Western politics sees government's that are representative of the electorate and they are multiparty states which means that more than one party competes for power, and example of this is the UK where more than one political party exists and the electorate has a choice to vote for any of them. Throughout Western government's certain structures exist, for example each government consists of an executive, a legislature and a separate judiciary. The United States of America has a complete separation of powers meaning that the three powers of government mentioned above are separate and they do not overlap. To talk about western politics in general assumes that most western countries are the same but the UK has a unique system of government in that no separation of the powers exist and there is overlaps between the three powers of government. To study Western politics we essentially just examine the institutions of government, the constitution etc. and how they operate but by applying this to African politics we will learn something but we will inevitably miss an awful lot. The origin of contemporary African politics is based on Western colonial political systems and the two therefore do have similarities.
Because the modern African State has adopted multiparty and democratic forms of government it is a clear indication that the study of the two can generally be approached in a similar manner. The framework that is used in Western politics stands as a basis for comparison as it does provide the foundation of the structure of African Politics but to lump states together and talk of 'African politics' is somewhat misleading because there are important differences between them. William Tordoff puts forward the view that 'There is a wide cultural gap between the North African states and the black African states south of the Sahara. The geographic and demographic differences are also striking as witnessed by the huge Sudan and Zaire on the one hand and the tiny Rwanda, Brunei and Swaziland on the other. There is also an immense divide between stable and prosperous Botswana and states including Angola, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan which are torn apart by civil war and face collapse'. (Government and Politics in Africa, pg 1) Ultimately comparing African political systems to those of the west to form a true basis of understanding will prove to be unsuccessful.
It would be justified to assume that a national political culture and a set of local public institutions in Africa as in the rest of the world. But comparing institutions in the West to those of Africa suggests generalizations and a lack of understanding as to the complexity and difference within the African continent. As outlined above by William Tordoff the continent of Africa proves to have countries with vast differences within its boarders and they should not be collated together as one example or compared to any other example. What I have noted so far is that Western model of politics and government does not provide a basis for understanding African politics.
Firstly where African politics differs greatly to Western style politics is in the nature of ethical, religious and territorial issues that have been evolving for a long period of time and they provide the basis of importance among African States. The study of African politics is unique and in a continent where corruption and weak states exist the ideologies of national self-determination and development provide areas of importance for the African people. The result of this leads me to think that the analysis of African politics must depart from that of Western models of state sovereignty and national authority. A defining principle in Western politics is that the government is accountable to the electorate in several ways and it is the job of that government to carry out the interest of it's electorate. In the event if this does not happen then, in Western style democracies they have the power to remove that government and elect another.
However, over the course of history Africa has proved to be an example where this procedure does not take place. Before the 1990's, many undemocratic one-party systems with poor leadership dominated the continent and proved to be disastrous. It is thought that after independence the multiparty system imposed by Western democracies gave way to the formation of too many regional parties not representing the country as a whole. This in turn led to the establishment of military coups in many African States Nigeria is an example of this; 'In January 1966 the first military coup brought General Irons i, and ibo to power. It destroyed the old political system and killed the north's leading politicians as well as a number of southerners. But no ibo leader died' (African Politics and society, Markowitz, pg. 249) By 1975, approximately half of the continent's states were led by military governments.
This of course has profound implications on the notion of legitimate government, and it is safe to say that these regimes became a very prevalent political phenomenon, which by stark contrast to Africa is an essential feature of Governments in the West. This provides evidence that the systems of government and rule in Africa and the West are at two different poles of the same spectrum and they therefore need to be approached differently to encompass the different ideological and cultural backgrounds of the two. In the study of Western politics we tend to look at the formation of the government and it's institutions and by doing so we are able to grasp a sound understanding of it. In contrast however, if we do the same when studying African politics we will essentially miss an awful lot. To fully understand the study of African politics it is essential to look at ethnicity, religion and nationalism to fully understand what it is about. This is where I will answer the second question posed in my introduction about if we need different concepts and methods to study African politics.
I feel that we do not need different concepts or methods to study African politics but that we should approach it from a different perspective. African politics is much more localised in nature and ethnicity is a central theme now more than ever to many African states. This has happened because since the 1990's and the re-emergence of multiparty elections, many overtly ethnic political parties have been formed. Ethnic politics in the 1990's is not the same as ethnic politics in the 1960's, in a sense there is a new ethnicity in Africa today. In African states because they are so vast and interests tend to be localised individuals associate themselves with tribes. A tribe is 'A culturally, linguistically, politically homogenous unit, united under a single leader with deep primo doral roots' (Seminar notes 19th Feb 2003).
African politics can be described as tribalistic in nature and tribalism continues to be a key variable of African politics. African's are seen as tribalistic because they belonged to natural groups, but since their groups are considered more primitive, they are thought not as nations but as 'tribes'. In comparison western political systems such as Europe are viewed in terms of nations as they are identified by their country such as French etc. as opposed to their local community which is the case in Africa. In Africa, a combination of socio-economic change, anthropological studies, and deliberate attempts by the colonial authorities to establish a workable administrative framework caused Africans to move beyond narrower identification with lineage or a clan to see themselves as members of large and newly invented tribes. Politically, most African countries had been unable to develop systems that maintained stability while respecting the rights of the citizens and giving them a measure of protection against arbitrary acts by their leaders.
Single party systems and charismatic leaders had long since gone. Many countries were caught in endless cycles of military coups and half-heartened attempts to return to civilian rule. The result of the combined political and economic crisis was that there was very little reason for most Africans to feel an attachment to their governments or even their states. Since the 1990's their has been a revival of 'ethnicity' among African states which has allowed for ethnic conflict to become more visible along with the development of ethnic political parties, the emergence of the ethnic state organized along ethnic lines and the collapse of the state. This provides a stark contrast to the Western model whereby ethnicity plays a secondary role in the formation of governments, as people tend to look to a more national basis for identification as opposed to a regional one. Religion in Africa also plays a vital role, and this can also be used as a tool to allow us to understand African politics.
Throughout African history religion and politics have overlapped but in Western countries there is typically a separation between the church and the state with religion largely relegated to the private sphere. Religion like politics is concerned with power and the two have been linked over time, in Africa they believe that an invisible world underlies the visible world and many of them consult witchdoctors whom they believe are intermediates between the visible and invisible world. In Africa witchcraft is often used by ordinary people but it is also used by leaders and many African presidents turn to the a cult to keep themselves in power as they are enormously superstitious and believe by doing so they will be guarded from evil. To understand African politics the world of religion and the supernatural need to be taken very seriously, however in the West nowadays it would be dismissed as just stupidity. Soweto is an example of an African state that indulges in supernatural activity. Since transition in 1994 their has been a decrease in political activity but a huge increase in witchcraft haunts.
It seems that now with apartheid gone people are at a loss for explaining their misfortune and therefore blame others. Due to the decline of the state among many African states ordinary people have now turned to other religions in order to fill this gap. It seems that religion in Africa offers a hope for political renewal in a continent where secular state structures have failed to acquire widespread legitimacy. In response to the third question posed in my introduction I believe it is now clear that the study of African politics cannot tell us about politics in the west. I believe this because although the ingredients are the same between the two the methods that are used in African politics are very diverse from those used in the west. Concepts that are of a secondary nature in the west such as religion and witchcraft provide sound foundation in African politics for the basis of political co-operation.
So it is clear now that although African politics did originate from the west and does have some apparent similarities it is also extremely different. In conclusion to the question posed I feel that the study of African politics should be approached very differently to that in the West. I feel that In this essay I have outlined some of the important points that distinguish African politics from that in the West. African politics needs to be approached differently because it is not just based on concepts of government, sovereignty, constitution etc. but rather is based around religion the supernatural and ethnicity.
The concepts that are used in African politics may be interpreted differently than they are in the west but they are not essentially different concepts. The key to approaching the study of African politics is to use different methods than the ones to understand Western politics, in essence a more anthropological approach is needed to understand African politics than is required to understand Western politics.
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Stamford's Loft Artists Association hosting new members show,
Mentalist Joshua Kane's interactive 'Borders of the Mind'
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/policereports/article/Stamford-police-seize-loaded-revolver-4648732.php
Stamford police seize loaded revolver
Updated 7:15 pm EDT, Friday, July 5, 2013
STAMFORD -- Police seized a loaded revolver Friday morning from two men driving in a West Side neighborhood plagued by recent shootings.
Officers patrolling Richmond Hill Avenue saw a BMW with windows so darkly tinted they could not see the occupants and stopped the vehicle, Sgt. Robert Shawinsky said.
When the officer came to the vehicle to check the license and registration, a strong marijuana smell poured out the window, Shawinsky said.
Police then pulled the driver Heriberto Irizarry, 21, and passenger John Spencer, 19, out of the vehicle.
Spencer, of 50 Prospect St., admitted to having four small bags of marijuana on him; when officers asked Irizarry, of 1 Southfield Ave., if there was anything illegal in the car, he said no, Shawinsky said.
But when officers looked inside the BMW, they saw a revolver handle sticking out from the passenger seat that Spencer had just been sitting in, police said.
Police determined the five-shot, .38-caliber revolver was fully loaded. There were scratch marks on its the serial number, which remained legible.
After entering the number into a nationwide database of guns, police discovered the pistol was reported stolen to Brattleboro, Vt., police on May 17, 2002, Shawinsky said.
Spencer and Irizarry were each charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle, illegal alteration of pistol identification numbers and stealing a firearm.
The two were held on $75,000 bond.
Stamford police arrest man wanted for October car break-in


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Il Giro dell'Emilia 1998, ottantunesima edizione della corsa, si svolse il 26 settembre 1998 su un percorso di 197 km. La vittoria fu appannaggio dell'italiano Mirko Celestino, che completò il percorso in 4h37'00", precedendo i connazionali Massimo Donati e Michele Bartoli.

Sul traguardo di Bologna 42 ciclisti, su 158 partiti da Modena, portarono a termine la competizione.

Ordine d'arrivo (Top 10)

Collegamenti esterni

Ciclismo nel 1998
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Nazis In The Military: 'I'm So Proud Of My Kills'
[Shawn Stuart, Iraq War veteran, at a 2006 neo-Nazi rally in Olympia, WA.] Two years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center ran a devastating report
By David Neiwert
[Shawn Stuart, Iraq War veteran, at a 2006 neo-Nazi rally in Olympia, WA.]
Two years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center ran a devastating report describing the infiltration of neo-Nazis into the ranks of the American military. The Pentagon's official response was steadfast denial of the problem.
The SPLC's David Holthouse just published a follow-up report, and found, predictably, that the problem is getting worse as the conflict in Iraq drags on:
A new FBI report confirms that white supremacists are infiltrating the military for several reasons. According to the unclassified FBI Intelligence Assessment, "White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel Since 9/11," which was released to law enforcement agencies nationwide: "Sensitive and reliable source reporting indicates supremacist leaders are encouraging followers who lack documented histories of neo-Nazi activity and overt racist insignia such as tattoos to infiltrate the military as 'ghost skins,' in order to recruit and receive training for the benefit of the extremist movement."
The FBI report details more than a dozen investigative findings and criminal cases involving Iraq and Afghanistan veterans as well as active-duty personnel engaging in extremist activity in recent years. For example, in September 2006, the leader of the Celtic Knights, a central Texas splinter faction of the Hammerskins, a national racist skinhead organization, planned to obtain firearms and explosives from an active duty Army soldier in Fort Hood, Texas. That soldier, who served in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, was a member of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group.
I observed at the time that one of the uglier aspects of the presence of neo-Nazis in Iraq would be the behavior of American soldiers among civilians there:
As Atrios notes, the SPLC report raises immediate questions about the kind of men we're sending over to Iraq. To what extent, really, does the spread of white-supremacist attitudes in the military bring about atrocities like the recent murder of a 14-year-old girl and her family, or the Haditha massacre? It isn't hard to see, after all, attitudes about the disposability of nonwhite races rearing their ugly head in those incidents.
Sure enough, as Holthouse reports:
Earlier this year, the founder of White Military Men identified himself in his New Saxon account as "Lance Corporal Burton" of the 2nd Battalion Fox Company Pit 2097, from Florida, according to a master's thesis by graduate student Matthew Kennard. Under his "About Me" section, Burton writes: "Love to shoot my M16A2 service rifle effectively at the Hachies (Iraqis)," and, "Love to watch things blow up (Hachies House)."
Kennard, who was working on his thesis for Columbia University's Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, also monitored claims of active-duty military service earlier this year on the neo-Nazi online forum Blood & Honour, where "88Soldier88" posted this message on Feb. 18: "I am in the ARMY right now. I work in the Detainee Holding Area [in Iraq]. … I am in this until 2013. I am in the infantry but want to go to SF [Special Forces]. Hopefully the training will prepare me for what I hope is to come."
One of the Blood & Honour members claiming to be an active-duty soldier taking part in combat operations in Iraq identified himself to Kennard as Jacob Berg. He did not disclose his rank or branch of service. "There are actually a lot more 'skinheads,' 'nazis,' white supremacists now [in the military] than there has been in a long time," Berg wrote in an E-mail exchange with Kennard. "Us racists are actually getting into the military a lot now because if we don't every one who already is [in the military] will take pity on killing sand niggers. Yes I have killed women, yes I have killed children and yes I have killed older people. But the biggest reason I'm so proud of my kills is because by killing a brown many white people will live to see a new dawn."
The July 2006 report by the SPLC found this infiltration occurring at an alarming rate. Neo-Nazis "stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up across the branches once they're inside, and they are hard-core," Department of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield told the SPLC. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," he added. "That's a problem."
The source of the problem, as the report explained, was the extreme pressure military recruiters were under to fill their recruitment quotas. "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces," said Barfield, "and commanders don't remove them . . . even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members." The military downplayed a neo-Nazi presence in the ranks, Barfield added, "because then parents who are already worried about their kids signing up and dying in Iraq are going to be even more reluctant about their kids enlisting if they feel they'll be exposed to gangs and white supremacists."
One of the noteworthy aspects of this phenomenon is the increasingly military style of the Far Right in recent years, particularly the militias in the 1990s, who openly recruited veterans and current military members. The two cultures have become increasingly enmeshed, as embodied by Steven Barry's recruitment plan for neo-Nazis considering a military career as a way to sharpen their "warrior" skills.
The FBI's assessment in the "White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel Since 9/11" report found that the numbers of identifiable neo-Nazis within the ranks was quite small (only a little over 200), but warned:
Although individuals with military backgrounds constitute a small percentage of white supremacist extremists, they frequently occupy leadership roles within extremist groups and their involvement has the potential to reinvigorate an extremist movement suffering from loss of leadership and in-fighting during the post-9/11 period.
Looking ahead, current and former military personnel belonging to white supremacist extremist organizations who experience frustration at the inability of these organizations to achieve their goals may choose to found new, more operationally minded and operationally capable groups. The military training veterans bring to the movement and their potential to pass this training on to others can increase the ability of lone offenders to carry out violence from the movement's fringes.
Military experience—ranging from failure at basic training to success in special operations forces—is found throughout the white supremacist extremist movement. FBI reporting indicates extremist leaders have historically favored recruiting active and former military personnel for their knowledge of firearms, explosives, and tactical skills and their access to weapons and intelligence in preparation for an anticipated war against the federal government, Jews, and people of color.
... The prestige which the extremist movement bestows upon members with military experience grants them the potential for influence beyond their numbers. Most extremist groups have some members with military experience, and those with military experience often hold positions of authority within the groups to which they belong.
... Military experience—often regardless of its length or type—distinguishes one within the extremist movement. While those with military backgrounds constitute a small percentage of white supremacist extremists, FBI investigations indicate they frequently have higher profiles within the movement, including recruitment and leadership roles.
... New groups led or significantly populated by military veterans could very likely pursue more operationally minded agendas with greater tactical confidence. In addition, the military training veterans bring to the movement and their potential to pass this training on to others can increase the ability of lone offenders to carry out violence from the movement's fringes.
This problem doesn't involve only the Nazis, gang-bangers, and other violent personalities worming their way into the military. It also affects the many more formerly normal, non-racist recruits who have been dragged into multiple tours of duty in Iraq, regardless of the psychological dangers of such treatment. This includes many people whose evaluations have recommended they not be returned for duty but have been sent back regardless. Thus the Timothy McVeigh Finishing School continues to operate.
This has the deadly potential to become a significant component of the predictable surge in far-right activity likely to manifest itself in the United States in the coming months and years, especially as Democrats and liberals expand their hold on power. We run the risk of re-creating the conditions that arose in Germany and Italy after World War I: the presence of scores of angry, disaffected, and psychologically damaged war veterans, fed a steady diet of "Dolchstosslegende," poised to organize into a political force aimed at "rebirthing" the nation and its heritage.
In our current situation, these veterans not only will have served with neo-Nazis amid their ranks, they will likely be faced with unemployment and a wrecked economy, eager for someone to blame and fully trained and capable of violent action.
SPLC Chief Counsel Richard Cohen has written another letter to the Defense Secretary pleading that the DoD take concrete steps to deal with this problem. Here's hoping he produces something other than denial this time.
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There are at least 148,000 healthcare professionals in Canada. Healthcare organisations vary widely in scope, and often have employees who work alone out in the community visiting a patient at their home. It is impossible to know who else may be present when employees arrive. Peoples behaviour is unpredictable. Therefore, an element of risk is present. To counteract the risk, check-in calls are made periodically. However, the repetitive task can be easily forgotten.
For example one of our clients, Sunrise Health Region has home care nurses working in the community, visiting many different homes everyday. They were concerned about their employees well-being. And they had good reason to be worried. Their staff was tasked with treating patients with mental health issues, some of whom have a history of unpredictable behaviours. In addition, nurses were travelling through dangerous neighbourhoods. A lot of anxiety was felt by staff and management about the situation.
Even though check-in calls to nurses were supposed to be made regularly, office staff frequently became too busy and forgot. They'd also forget to log check-in calls, so seeing the status of a nurse was extremely difficult. Even when office staff logged a check-in call, it was often recorded in different places. It was all very unorganised. Feeling increasingly uneasy about their nurses safety and their current safety system, Sunrise Health Region sought out a solution.
They found Ok Alone on google and decided to sign up for a free trial. After a couple of weeks of testing they got a sense of the peace of mind it provided to their lone workers. Nurses were checking in easily on their smartphone apps every 2 hours. Missed check-ins meant Management received alerts which outlined specific response procedures and nurses' GPS coordinates. Furthermore, every check-in was automatically recorded, which made incidents easy to investigate and information easy to export in the event of an audit. Sunrise Health Region was now organised and saving time.
After witnessing dramatic differences in workers' psychological well-being, time savings and organisation, Sunrise Health Region decided to get setup with their own account. They've found a good fit with their Ok Alone solution. Workers now feel safe and all pertinent health and safety records are available should they need to be retrieved.


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Volvos Now Detect And Brake For Cyclists
A deer detector could be next.
By Francie Diep | Published Mar 8, 2013 7:00 PM
This could be helpful no matter what side of the wheel you normally find yourself on. Volvo has built a system that automatically detects bicyclists. If the driver is on a collision course, the system sounds an alarm and brakes, the BBC reported.
The cyclist-detector works with a similar, pedestrian-avoiding feature that Volvo began offering as as an option in 2010. A radar in the car's grille calculates the distance between the car and objects in front of it, while a camera in the rearview mirror figures out what type of objects are in front of the car.
Spotting cyclists is more difficult than detecting pedestrians, however, so the new system uses a more powerful processor, the BBC reported. That means those who already own people-sensing Volvos can't simply get a software upgrade. The cyclist feature will be built into certain new models of Volvos that will be available starting in mid-May. It'll cost at least $2,787 (1,850 British pounds).
Next up, the company wants to make a system that's able to detect deer and other animals.
[BBC, Volvo]


Have you ever met someone who is a chronic complainer? Nothing ever seems right. Are you a chronic complainer about your life? Regardless of the situation you may be facing today, one thing is for sure: God made this day, and He wants you to rejoice in it. In Psalm 118:24, the writer says, "We will rejoice and be glad." You can choose to rejoice and be glad, or you can choose to grumble, gripe, and complain. Choosing the latter course of action does not change the circumstances; it just sours your attitude. Choosing to rejoice, however, pleases God and lets your light shine for the Lord. What are you facing today? God has a miracle with your name on it, so stop complaining and start rejoicing! You and I serve the risen Savior who loves us, died for us, rose again for us, and promises to work all things together for good. Now that's REAL HOPE.


Texas Tigers: We're going on a frog hunt….
Gigi and Pops have an awesome pool in their backyard - which is always the first thing the kids want to do and who can blame them?
Lexie was a pro at swimming all around the pool in her puddle jumper by the end of the first day in Gigi's pool. She hardly ever said 'help me, help me' like she does at the Y pool when she gets further away from me than arms reach.
Of course it's not just the pool that has captured their attention at Gigi's house. It's also the frogs that have seemed to make it their home. All the landscaping plus the pond right behind their house has seemed to be sending out an invitation for baby frogs to come and jump in the pool. Gigi at one point found 7 of them all piled on a tiny (no bigger than you palm) plastic toy dinosaur floating in the skimmer basket.
Both Abby and Micah became pros at catching the frogs and loved to play with them…. a little much for my liking!
Micah tortured his frog a couple times jumping in with them… he also did great with his swimming while we were there. He made it the long ways with using his big arms a couple times. A little more practice and he just might be able to pass the swim test at the Y this summer and be able to go down the slides.
Who knew a few little frogs could keep kids so entertained? It's the first thing they wanted to do the second time we came - right before getting in the pool to swim. They would barely stay inside the house if we didn't tell them they couldn't be outside without a grown-up. I guess I shouldn't be too shocked. My parents do have a picture of me with a teeny tiny frog like Micah was holding on my nose.
Unique experiences like that are almost magical! What a fun way to spend the day.
I wish we had Nordstron's! Shopping online isn't the same. The pool is so pretty.


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reestheskin : education, medicine, and more.
On (or off) New Year's Resolutions
by reestheskin on 06/01/2020
The productivity abyss…and how to escape its gravitational pull. Here is an article extolling time-wasting.
To which she has two responses — first, most people overestimate the amount of time they actually work and second, she proposes accepting that your to-do-list will never get done.
Let's rebrand a bit of time-wasting as healthy living | Financial Times
The fist I agree with. Awhile back I tried time tracking using the Timery app and Toggl. It's scary. And that is even when you include meetings as work. But the second point, entailing an amnesty on all the things you thought or think you are going to do, conflicts with my sense of original sin. The sun has to rise, just like guilt.
On not being the Queen of Sciences
"If biology is difficult, it is because of the bewildering number and variety of things one must hold in one's head".
John Maynard Smith (1977).
Leo Szilard recalled, that when he did physics he could lounge in the bath for hours and hours, just thinking. Once he moved into biology things were never the same: he was always having to get out to check some annoying fact. Dermatology is worse, trust me.
Medicine is just one technology
Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."
Putt's Corollary: "Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion." with incompetence being "flushed out of the lower levels" of a technocratic hierarchy, ensuring that technically competent people remain directly in charge of the actual technology while those without technical competence move into management.
Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat – Wikipedia
Windows 95: a fate worse than….
This is from a recent article in Nature describing how its new custom typeface got its name.
A custom typeface, Harding, has been created for Nature's new logo and much else: you're reading it right now [you are not]. Harding is named after the late neurologist Anita Harding. Brilliant and generous, she published in Nature before she died in 1995 at age 42. According to colleagues, she was known for taking questions from the clinic back into the laboratory, and for her wry sense of humour. When she learnt that she had a terminal illness, she apparently joked that at least she wouldn't have to buy Windows 95.
The design decisions behind Nature's new look
"I have wasted a lot of time living"
John Gray on Michael Oakeshott
He would have found the industrial-style intellectual labour that has entrenched itself in much of academic life over the past twenty-odd years impossible to take seriously. He wrote for himself and anyone else who might be interested; it is unlikely that anyone working in a university today could find the freedom or leisure that are needed to produce a volume such as this. Writing in 1967, Oakeshott laments, 'I have wasted a lot of time living.' Perhaps so, but as this absorbing selection demonstrates, he still managed to fit in a great deal of thinking.
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Smombies everywhere
My youngest daughter lived in South Korea for a while and I visited on a couple of occasions. It was a lot of fun in all sorts of ways. The following rings(!) true
The government initially tried to fight the "smombie" (a portmanteau of "smartphone" and "zombie") epidemic by distributing hundreds of stickers around cities imploring people to "be safe" and look up. This seems to have had little effect even though, in Seoul at least, it recently replaced the stickers with sturdier plastic boards.
Instead of appealing to people's good sense, the authorities have therefore resorted to trying to save them from being run over. Early last year, they began to trial floor-level traffic lights in smombie hotspots in central Seoul. Since then, the experiment has been extended around and beyond the capital. For the moment, the government is retaining old-fashioned eye-level pedestrian lights as well. But in future, the way to look at a South Korean crossroads may be down.
A dangerous creature is haunting South Korean crossroads – Smombie apocalypse
Living in Scot itchland
Genital scabies was, to the English, "Scotch itch," and Scotland was "Itch-land." The pox was the Spanish or Neapolitan Disease to the French; the French Disease to the Spanish, English, and Germans; the Polish Disease to the Russians; the Portuguese Disease to the Japanese. Captain Cook was chagrined to learn that it was called the British Disease in Tahiti as, in so many words, it was in Ireland: in Ulysses the Citizen, a rabid Irish nationalist, mocks Leopold Bloom's reference to British civilization: "Their syphilisation you mean."
Vile Bodies | by Fintan O'Toole | The New York Review of Books
Wigged out!
"There is no urgent need to go discarding something which has been out of date for at least a century."
The Economist | Wigged out
This quote refers to the wigs judges in the UK wear. But it seems apposite for much of the way we think about medical education.
The digital skin web
On some Swedish trains, passengers carry their e-tickets in their hands—literally. About 3,000 Swedes have opted to insert grain-of-rice-sized microchips beneath the skin between their thumbs and index fingers. The chips, which cost around $150, can hold personal details, credit-card numbers and medical records. They rely on Radio Frequency ID (RFID), a technology already used in payment cards, tickets and passports.
Why Swedes are inserting microchips into their bodies – Bjorn Cyborg
One of these is going to end up being sectioned as some time….waiting for the first case-report. Not often I can get two puns in a three word title.
On ratio scales and the spirits of invention
It is said that much of the foundations of 20th century physics was done in coffee houses (or in the case of Richard Feynman in strip bars), but things were once done differently in the UK
With neither institutional nor government masters to answer to, the British cyberneticians were free to concentrate on what interested them. In 1949, in an attempt to develop a broader intellectual base, many of them formed an informal dining society called the Ratio Club. Pickering documents that the money spent on alcohol at the first meeting dwarfed that spent on food by nearly six to one — another indication of the cultural differences between the UK and US cyberneticians.
The work of the British pioneers was forgotten until the late 1980s when it was rediscovered by a new generation of researchers… A company that I cofounded has now sold more than five million domestic floor-cleaning robots, whose workings were inspired by Walter's tortoises. It is a good example of how unsupported research, carried out by unconventional characters in spite of their institutions, can have a huge impact.
A review from 2010 by Rodney Brooks of MIT of "The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future" in Nature (For more on Donald Michie and "in spite of their institutions" see here).
Chadgrind lives on
I have had of all people a historian tell me that science is a collection of facts, and his voice had not even the ironic rasp of one filing-cabinet reproving another.
Jacob Bronowski | Science and Human Values
Precision medicine and a den of robbers
I have removed the name of the institution only because so many queue to sell their vapourware in this manner
Precision Medicine is a revolution in healthcare. Our world-leading biomedical researchers are at the forefront of this revolution, developing new early diagnostics and treatments for chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, arthritis and stroke. Partnering with XXXXX, the University of XXXX has driven … vision in Precision Medicine, including the development of a shitload of infrastructure to support imaging, molecular pathology and precision medicine clinical trials…… XXXXXX is now one of the foremost locations in a three mile radius to pursue advances in Precision Medicine.
And He declared to them, "It is written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer. But you are making it 'a den of robbers.'" Matthew 21:13
On statistics
Statistics — to paraphrase Homer Simpson's thoughts on alcohol — is the cause of, and solution to, all of science's problems.
Of chaos, storms and forking paths: the principles of uncertainty
Take that, capitalism !
There are, of course, reasons why tattooing is different from other fine arts. First is the medium: human skin. Then there is the fact that a tattoo, unlike a painting or sculpture, cannot be sold on. "To a degree, the fine art world has jumped on it. But a tattoo has no resale value. That is crucial," said London-based tattoo artist Alex Binnie.
How the Nobel are fallen
As John Hammerbacher, Facebook's first research scientist, remarked: "the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads… And it sucks."
Quoted in Stand Out of Our Light, James Williams
A not wildly unsurprising comment to anybody in the 'modern' university. A comment Russ Roberts made in an interview with David Epstein.
I want to share my favourite course evaluation when I used to teach in the classroom. So, I got a 1 from this student, on a scale of 1 to 5 (where 5 is good and 1 is bad)…. a 1 is really demoralising. So, I look at it:
What does the student say? "This course was very unfair. Professor Roberts expected us to apply the material to things we had never seen before."
Changing your mind — and how to avoid
The economist J.K. Galbraith once suggested that when people are "faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof"
The market is dead: long live the market | Wonkhe | Comment
Too old, too fat, too lazy and too rich
Quite a motto to live by, but David Hume saw things more clearly than the rest of us.
Hume's ironic wit and humour make him a biographer's dream. After his History of England proved to be a tremendous critical and popular success, his publisher entreated him for another volume, only to receive the memorable rebuff:
"I have four reasons for not writing: I am too old, too fat, too lazy and too rich."
When at a last dinner before Hume's death in 1776, Smith complained of the cruelty of the world in taking him from them, Hume said: "No, no. Here am I, who have written on all sorts of subjects calculated to excite hostility, moral, political, and religious, and yet I have no enemies; except, indeed, all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians." There are many other such stories.
How Adam Smith would fix capitalism | Financial Times
The information society
This is a little old, but I snapped it as I was passing through a hospital. It speaks volumes about the state of learning and engagement in the NHS.
A diagnosis not to miss: email apnea
A phenomenon that occurs when a person opens their email inbox to find many unread messages, inducing a "fight-or-flight" response that causes the person to stop breathing.
James Williams, 'Stand Out of Our Light'
I wonder when this will be recognised as a bona fide occupational disease.
You need a wallet biopsy
"However, if a wallet biopsy – one of the procedures in which American hospitals specialise – discloses that the victims are uninsured, it transfers them to public institutions."
In Paul Starr, 'The Social Transformation of American Medicine'.
Why wait so long?
Apparently, on average, doctors interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of beginning their story. When we tell lawyers about this, they wonder why their medical friends wait so long.
Quoted in the 'The Future of the Professions'
"There's a classic medical aphorism," he recalls. "'Listen to the patient, they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a lot of rubbish, and you have to stop them and ask the pertinent questions."
Jed Mercurio: 'Facts used to have power. Now stupidity is a virtue' | The Guardian
The question is when?
All in the stars
The story is about the 'approval' by the Norwegian higher education regulator of courses in astrology. The justification is interesting, relying on the fact that "astrologers had good employment prospects". So that is alright then. To be fare the regulators argue that the can only enforce the 'law', as is. You can find similar such goings on close to the homes of many of us in the UK. (Time Higher Education, 28th March, 2019).
'Joy'
Not the word I usually associate with student descriptions of their emotional state on being taught (except after the exam). Sadly. But the word featured in a teaching management meeting today. Made me smile.
Contrast this with the quote from a book on reforming engineering education, "A Whole New Engineer"
Go into the bathrooms at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT) and you will see an acronym scrawled on the walls of the stalls: IHTFP. It means "I Hate This F** king Place." (IHTFP is also found in the service academies and other elite engineering programs.) Whether this remains the true sentiment of MIT students today or merely a tradition handed down from generation to generation isn't clear….
De Selby's numerical calculations
My experience of Irish government state employees at the 'border' is that they aim to be the antithesis of 'hostile'. It is not a bad USP. Passing through Dublin or Cork is an enjoyable experience: "Welcome home Jonathan', is not the most formal salute; or, in the case of my wife, "Lisa — from Mulfulira—I remember you". But this aside in the Economist, brings a little of the Flann O'Brien to the party.
In the 1970s, when contraceptives were still banned in the Irish republic, a family-planning campaigner went south with 40,000 condoms in his station wagon; his insistence that they were all "for personal use" was met with good-humoured banter by an Irish police patrol.
The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics. By Diarmaid Ferriter. (reviewed in the economist)
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Noting that 1,500 people had travelled to Davos by private jet to hear David Attenborough talk about climate change, he said he was bewildered that no one was talking about raising taxes on the rich.
Seen in George Square. I get the Econ101 bit, the 1984 reference, but… And no, I can't manage crosswords either — although I shared a flat with somebody who, as a student, refused to leave his bed until he had completed the Telegraph crossword. There were studies, and then those other studies.
Skin centre
Not that sort of….
Talking 22nd Century Skills: All Steamed Up.
Talking 22nd Century Skills with @realpbanksley – Rick Hess Straight Up – Education Week
I noted that he seems to be one of the leading thinkers in the push to rebrand STEM as STEAMED (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Everything Delightful).
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reestheskinblog.me is mainly about education and medicine, and a little bit more. I think Roger Schank has it spot on when he says: 'There are only two things wrong with the education system (i) what we teach and (ii) how we teach it'.
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The Courts Service will advertise any vacancies with the Public Appointments Service.
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Quang Binh seeks investment in 62 projects
Tuesday, Jan 12, 2021 07:00
A view of Quang Binh. — Photo baodautu.vn
The central province of Quang Binh is calling for investment in 62 projects in the 2021-23 period, according to the provincial portal.
The list, which was approved by the provincial People's Committee last week, focuses on agriculture, industry, energy and trade, infrastructure development and tourism.
Among large-scale projects are a US$4 billion gas-fired power plant with a capacity of 3,000 MW in Hon La Economic Zone, the third phase of Le Thuy 3 wind power plant, worth $155 million; an $86 million automobile assembly and production plant with an annual capacity of 50,000 units; the development of $172-million Bang Industrial Zone in Phu Thuy and Mai Thuy communes and the construction of the $33.4 million Hon La Non-Tariff Zone.
At the two-day investment promotion conference, slated to start on January 16, Quang Binh plans to grant in principle approval for 13 projects in trade and tourism and urban area development, according to the provincial Planning and Investment Department.
"This conference is an opportunity for Quang Binh to show its great potential in economic development and as an attractive and reliable investment destination for all investors," Secretary of the Party Committee of Quang Binh Vu Dai Thang said.
It will focus on introducing the potential and strengths of Quang Binh, including the energy industry, tourism, services, agriculture and the marine economic sector.
The investment promotion conference in 2021 will attract domestic and foreign organisations, enterprises and investors.
It will create dialogues between the authorities and businesses of Quang Binh to seek opportunities for investment and business in the province and solutions on effectively exploiting the potential in this province.
The conference is expected to receive about 600 delegates, including representatives from agencies of the Government and the National Assembly, ministries, sectors, localities and diplomatic bodies of other countries in Viet Nam.
Quang Binh would continue to improve the business climate and provincial competitiveness as well as enhancing quality and efficiency in investment management, local authorities have said.
"The province is willing to welcome strategic investors who are interested in investing in the province in the fields of tourism and real estate, among others," Thang told baodautu.vn
"We are committed to creating all conditions for investors to invest in the province, on the basis of bringing benefits for local people, the province and themselves and on the basis of ensuring environmental protection," he said.— VNS
Tags Quang Binh
US announces preliminary determination on Vietnamese passenger vehicle tyres
Railways revenues take $57.4 million hit from COVID
Digital transformation helps local firms change business methods
Forum discusses warehouse industry trend in Viet Nam
Vietnamese businesses set mixed targets for 2021
Cement industry: domestic sale forecast to increase but export to slowdown
Insurance firms struggle to attract investors despite good performance amid pandemic
Viet Nam continues to move forward in 2021
Viet Nam to be among top growth performers again in 2021: HSBC
Viet Nam imports Indian broken rice
No decision about tariffs on Vietnamese goods yet: USTR
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Foreign investors net-sell local stocks but remain optimistic in VN's market


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package mygame.gamestates;

import mygame.gamestates.GameState;
import com.jme3.app.Application;
import com.jme3.app.SimpleApplication;
import com.jme3.app.state.AbstractAppState;
import com.jme3.app.state.AppStateManager;
import com.jme3.asset.AssetManager;
import com.jme3.bullet.BulletAppState;
import com.jme3.input.InputManager;
import com.jme3.light.AmbientLight;
import com.jme3.light.DirectionalLight;
import com.jme3.light.PointLight;
import com.jme3.material.Material;
import com.jme3.math.ColorRGBA;
import com.jme3.math.Vector3f;
import com.jme3.renderer.ViewPort;
import com.jme3.scene.Geometry;
import com.jme3.scene.Mesh;
import com.jme3.scene.Node;
import com.jme3.scene.VertexBuffer;
import com.jme3.util.BufferUtils;
import mygame.common.Log;

/**
 *
 * @author db-141205
 */
public class MainGameState extends GameState {

    @Override
    public void initialize(AppStateManager stateManager, Application app) {
	super.initialize(stateManager, app);
	getScreen().parseLayout("Interface/Game.gui.xml", this);

	initStars();

	initialized = true;
    }

    @Override
    public void cleanup() {
	super.cleanup();
	// unregister all my listeners, detach all my nodes, etc...

    }

    @Override
    public void setEnabled(boolean enabled) {
	// Pause and unpause
    }

    // Note that update is only called while the state is both attached and enabled.
    @Override
    public void update(float tpf) {
	// do the following while game is RUNNING
    }

    private void initStars() {
	for (int j = 0; j < 20; j++) {
	    Vector3f[] lineVerticies = new Vector3f[5000 / 20];
	    for (int i = 0; i < 2000 / 20; i++) {
		lineVerticies[i] = new Vector3f((float) (100 * (Math.random() - 0.5f)), (float) (100 * (Math.random() - 0.5f)), (float) (-10 * (Math.random())));
	    }
	    plotPoints(lineVerticies, ColorRGBA.Gray, (float) j / 20 + 1);
	}
    }

    public void plotPoints(Vector3f[] lineVerticies, ColorRGBA pointColor, float size) {
	Mesh mesh = new Mesh();
	mesh.setMode(Mesh.Mode.Points);
	mesh.setBuffer(VertexBuffer.Type.Position, 3, BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(lineVerticies));
	mesh.setPointSize(size);
	mesh.updateBound();
	mesh.updateCounts();
	Geometry geo = new Geometry("line", mesh);
	Material mat = new Material(assetManager, "Common/MatDefs/Misc/Unshaded.j3md");
	mat.setColor("Color", pointColor);
	geo.setMaterial(mat);
	rootNode.attachChild(geo);
    }
}


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Q: Same Image Preview getting displayed for all attachments I am trying to display respective attachment preview on a VF Page, but if you can see below picture of my VF page, same image is getting displayed for all attachments, not sure where i'm going wrong
Below is the respective coding part which i have used for this functionality
VF PAGE
<apex:page standardController="Case" extensions="DelAttachments_Img_Controller" >
<apex:form >
<apex:sectionHeader title="Select the Attachments you want to Delete: " description="You can delete more than one attachments from the list below"/>
    <apex:actionFunction name="DoSelection" action="{!selectAttachment}"/>
<apex:pageBlock >
    <apex:pageBlockButtons >
        <apex:commandButton Value="Delete"  action="{!AddAttachments}" immediate="true"/>
        <apex:commandButton Value="Cancel" action="{!GoBack_toRequest}" immediate="true" />
    </apex:pageBlockButtons>
    <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!lstAllAtach}" var="atch" >
        <apex:column headerValue="Select">
            <apex:inputCheckbox immediate="true" value="{!atch.Selected}" onclick="DoSelection()" />
        </apex:column>
        <apex:column headerValue="Name" value="{!atch.attachobj.Name}" />
        <apex:column headerValue="Type" value="{!atch.attachobj.ContentType}" />
        <apex:column headerValue="Size" value="{!atch.at_size}" />
        <apex:column headerValue="Date Created" >
            <apex:outputText value="{0,date, MM'/'dd'/'yyyy}" >
                <apex:param value="{!atch.at_createDate}" />
            </apex:outputText>

            <apex:image url="{!imageURL}" style="max-width:100px;max-height:100px;"></apex:image>
        </apex:column>
    </apex:pageBlockTable>
</apex:pageBlock>
</apex:form>

CONTROLLER
public class DelAttachments_Img_Controller {
public Id CaseId;
public selectedAttachments[] lstAllAtach {get; set;}
Public Map<Id,selectedAttachments> SelectedResultMap {get;set;}
list<Attachment> toBeDeleted {get;set;}
public String imageURL{get;set;}

public class selectedAttachments {
    public Attachment attachobj{get; set;}
    public Boolean Selected {get;set;}
    public String at_size {get; set;}
    public DateTime at_createDate {get; set;}

}

public DelAttachments_Img_Controller(ApexPages.StandardController stdController){
    SelectedResultMap = new Map<Id,selectedAttachments>();
    CaseId = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('CaseID');
    if(CaseId != NULL)
    {
        lstAllAtach = new list<selectedAttachments>();
        List<Attachment> relatedAttachments = [SELECT Id, Name, ContentType, BodyLength, CreatedDate FROM Attachment WHERE ParentId =: CaseId];
        if(!relatedAttachments.isEmpty() && relatedAttachments != null) {
            for (Attachment a : relatedAttachments) {
                selectedAttachments oneAtch = new selectedAttachments();
                oneAtch.Selected = FALSE;
                oneAtch.attachobj = a;
                oneAtch.at_createDate = a.CreatedDate + offset;
                oneAtch.at_size = (((Decimal)a.BodyLength)/1024 >=1024.0)? (((Decimal)a.BodyLength)/1024).setScale(2)+' MB' : (((Decimal)a.BodyLength)/1024).setScale(2)+' KB';
                lstAllAtach.add(oneAtch);
                imageURL='/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=';
                 if(relatedAttachments.size()>0)
                  {
                      imageURL=imageURL+relatedAttachments[0].id;
                  }
            }
        }
    }
}

A: Your imageURL property is the same for all the records. You have to do the following:
a) Update your custom class to have the imageURL in
public class selectedAttachments {
    public Attachment attachobj{get; set;}
    public Boolean Selected {get;set;}
    public String at_size {get; set;}
    public DateTime at_createDate {get; set;}
    public String imageURL{get;set;}
}

b) Update your apex so it populates properly
Remove
imageURL='/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=';
if(relatedAttachments.size()>0)
{
    imageURL=imageURL+relatedAttachments[0].id;
}

and instead put
oneAtch.imageURL='/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=' + a.id;

c) update your VF page to pull from the class
<apex:image url="{!atch.imageURL}" style="max-width:100px;max-height:100px;"></apex:image>

A: You have a single imageURL, and its not part of the list of attachments
try
<apex:image url="{!'/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=' + atch.attachobj.Id}" style="max-width:100px;max-height:100px;"></apex:image>

and get rid of the imageURL declaration and also
imageURL='/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=';
if(relatedAttachments.size()>0)
{
    imageURL=imageURL+relatedAttachments[0].id;
}

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This years guest instuctors are Master of Tapi Tapi, Gaby Roloff and founder of KAPAP, Israelie Jiu jitsu, Master Avi Nardia.
Master Roloff has been training in Modern Arnis exclusively since 1985 and has traveled frequently to the United States and throughout Europe to learn directly from Professor Presas. Master Roloff is also active in her Modern Arnis instructions and teaches regularly in Hamburg, Germany. She is one of the few people selected by Prof. Remy Presas, to carry the torch and bring Modern Arnis to the future, holding the highest title in Modern Arnis, Master of Tapi Tapi.
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biopharmaceutic classification system (BCS) drugs?.
this category that will be useful for me.
Hope these recent reviews help.
disposition classification system. Pharm Res. 2005, 22(1):11-23.
These two papers are based on WHO drug list.
Mol Pharm. 2004 Jan 12;1(1):85-96.
2:  Lindenberg M, Kopp S, Dressman JB.
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