San Diego, California- On Friday May 7th, 2010 New Media Rights submitted comments in the FCC's Future of Media proceeding. New Media Rights' comments to the Commission draw directly on our experience providing one-to-one pro bono legal assistance as well as a free public media studio to creators of all types. Our work has given us the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of media makers, advocates and citizens. These comments are also intended to supplement a conversation held between New Media Rights, Free Press, Main Street Project, People's Production House, The Transmission Project and Mountain Area Information Network with the FCC's Steve Waldman on Thursday May 6th, 2010.
5. What types of Journalism are most in Jeopardy?
7. Should there be changes to Public Broadcasting Act? Are there examples from other countries to consider?
8. The future of public access channels (PEGs).
Particularly missing from our media landscape is investigative and analysis journalism regarding local issues.
Never has the overlap between copyright law and our society's ability to communicate been so clear.
non-consumptive uses of content, which have been defined as uses that "do not directly trade on the underlying creative and expressive purpose of the work being used."
The ease of access to government data is critical. Government agencies should strive to make data available in easily accessible, open formats so that citizens, businesses, and non-profits can then repurpose it to the benefit of the public. As discussed, public use of basic facts and information is critical to development of vibrant and diverse voices, and governments are only scratching the surface of the possibilities.
Social media websites such as www.OpenCongress.org that are built around accessible legislative information.
The Commission should take steps to ensure that consumers have equal access to information through whatever means consumers choose to connect. The easiest way would be to ensure mobile devices maintain open connections to the internet for individuals to receive news and information through whatever information source they choose. A more complicated route could involve setting a standard for app development, allowing apps to work across various mobile operating systems, or placing restrictions on unreasonable app blocking. The Commission in considering how to approach regulating the industries involved needs to consider the relationship between the content creators and the access providers and the extent to which access providers are also content creators. As the number of consumers accessing news and information through mobile devices continues to increase, the Commission must be prepared to ensure that the industries involved do not unfairly restrict access. This proceeding can at least be a starting point for the Commission to review the state of the mobile devices and their affect on the flow of news, information, culture, and speech.


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Attenti al mostro (Hyde and Hare) è un film del 1955 diretto da Friz Freleng. È un cortometraggio d'animazione della serie Looney Tunes, uscito negli Stati Uniti il 27 agosto 1955. Dal 1997 viene distribuito col titolo Bugs Bunny e Mr. Hyde.

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Bugs Bunny vive in un parco cittadino e riceve ogni mattina la visita di un uomo che gli porta delle carote. Un giorno Bugs propone all'uomo di adottarlo e quest'ultimo accetta, ma Bugs non sa che si tratta del dottor Jekyll. Arrivati a casa, mentre Bugs sta suonando il pianoforte, Jekyll si fa tentare dalla pozione da lui creata e la beve, trasformandosi nel mostruoso e sanguinario Mister Hyde che cerca subito di uccidere Bugs. Il coniglio fugge dal mostro per tutta la casa portandolo invece con sé quando si trasforma nuovamente in Jekyll a intermittenza, dal momento che Bugs non vede mai la trasformazione e rimane ignaro del fatto che i due siano la stessa persona. Alla fine Bugs si rifugia nel laboratorio e Jekyll, tornato definitivamente in sé, decide che getterà il resto della formula nello scarico. Entrato anche lui nel laboratorio, però, non ne trova più e chiede a Bugs se l'abbia bevuta; Bugs si sente insultato dall'insinuazione e decide di tornare al parco. Lì però si trasforma in un mostruoso coniglio verde e spaventa tutti gli anziani che stanno dando da mangiare ai piccioni. Avendo però mantenuto la sua solita personalità ed essendo ignaro della trasformazione, Bugs si chiede cosa gli sia preso.

Distribuzione

Edizione italiana
Il corto arrivò in Italia direttamente in televisione negli anni ottanta. Il doppiaggio fu eseguito dalla Effe Elle Due e diretto da Franco Latini su dialoghi di Maria Pinto. Nel 1997 ne fu eseguito un ridoppiaggio per l'uscita in VHS ad opera della Royfilm diretto da Renzo Stacchi su dialoghi di Giorgio Tausani.

Edizioni home video

VHS
Italia
Carota party con Bugs Bunny & Marvin il Marziano (1997)

Laserdisc
 Looney Tunes After Dark (3 febbraio 1993)

DVD
Il corto fu pubblicato in DVD-Video in America del Nord nel primo disco della raccolta Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 (intitolato Bugs Bunny Masterpieces) distribuita il 2 novembre 2004, in cui è visibile anche con la sola colonna musicale; il DVD fu pubblicato in Italia il 16 marzo 2005 nella collana Looney Tunes Collection, col titolo Bugs Bunny: Volume 2. Fu poi incluso nel primo disco della raccolta DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 8, uscita in America del Nord il 13 maggio 2014.

Note

Voci correlate
 Filmografia di Looney Tunes e Merrie Melodies (1950-1959)

Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi di Bugs Bunny
Cortometraggi Looney Tunes

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¿COMO ES EL PROCESO DE ADOPCIÓN?

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Erich Wenderoth (* 1. Oktober 1896 in Altenkirchen, Westerwald; † 2. September 1993 in Düsseldorf) war ein deutscher Jurist und Mitbegründer und Mitherausgeber der Rheinischen Post.

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Wenderoth, der seine Kindheit in Aachen verlebte, wurde im Ersten Weltkrieg verwundet. Nach Kriegsende studierte er Rechtswissenschaften an der Ludoviciana zu Gießen, wo er 1921 mit der Schrift Die rechtliche Natur der Vereinsgründung promovierte.
Ab 1926 war er eingetragener Rechtsanwalt beim Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf.
Während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus war Wenderoth ein engagiertes Mitglied der Bekennenden Kirche. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war er Mitglied der Kirchenleitung und des Rechtsausschusses der Evangelischen Kirche im Rheinland.
Wenderoth gehört auch zu den Mitgründern der CDU in Düsseldorf. 1946 bat Anton Betz Erich Wenderoth und Karl Arnold, sich an der Publikation der Rheinischen Post zu beteiligen. Im Hauptberuf blieb Wenderoth jedoch weiter als Anwalt tätig.

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Earlier, The Queen received the Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, for an audience at Buckingham Palace.


What's the weather like in Toronto in June?
Located in the east of Canada in the state of Ontario, Toronto has a continental climate with warm summers and cold, wet winters. In June Toronto is pleasantly mild, and there's only a handful of rainy days during the month. This makes it a good time of year to visit the city if you like to explore. Toronto's climate can be affected by the huge expanse of Lake Ontario, so it's worth being prepared for all weathers with summer clothes, lots of layers, and a good rain jacket.
In June, temperatures hover around 17ºC, with highs of 24ºC and lows of 11ºC overnight. With temperatures ranging from cool to warm, make sure you pack for all eventualities before arriving in Toronto. There's a small amount of rain in June, with six wet days on average, so it's worth bringing a light waterproof. With over 15 hours of daylight, there's plenty of time for exploring the city's cultural sights on your holiday to Toronto.


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Vestibular Function Predicts Balance and Fall Risk in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
Authors: Biju, Kevina; * | Oh, Estherb | Rosenberg, Paulc | Xue, Qian-Lib | Dash, Pauld | Burhanullah, M. Haroonc | Agrawal, Yuria
Affiliations: [a] Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA | [b] Department of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA | [c] Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA | [d] Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Kevin Biju, MS, Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, 601 N. Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. Tel.: +484 624 2992; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Background:Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are at high risk for falls. Vestibular dysfunction predicts balance impairment in healthy adults; however, its contribution to falls in patients with AD is not well known. Objective:The objective of this study was to assess whether vestibular function contributes to balance and fall risk in patients with AD. Methods:In this prospective observational study, we assessed vestibular function using measures of semicircular canal (vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) gain) and saccular function (cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic (cVEMP) response), and we assessed balance function using the Berg Balance Scale and quantitative posturography. We evaluated falls incidence for a mean 1-year follow-up period (range 3–21 months) in 48 patients with mild-moderate AD. Results:Relative to matched controls, AD patients exhibited increased medio-lateral (ML) sway in eyes-open (0.89 cm versus 0.69 cm; p = 0.033) and eyes-closed (0.86 cm versus 0.65 cm; p = 0.042) conditions. Among AD patients, better semicircular canal function was associated with lower ML sway and antero-posterior (AP) sway in the eyes-closed condition (β= –2.42, 95% CI (–3.89, –0.95), p = 0.002; β= –2.38, 95% CI (–4.43, –0.32), p = 0.025, respectively). Additionally, better saccular function was associated with lower sway velocity (β= –0.18, 95% CI (–0.28, –0.08); p = 0.001). Finally, we observed that better semicircular canal function was significantly associated with lower likelihood of falls when adjusted for age, sex, and MMSE score (HR = 0.65; p = 0.009). Conclusion:These results support the vestibular system as an important contributor to balance and fall risk in AD patients and suggest a role for vestibular therapy.
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, cognitive aging, falls, postural balance, vestibular function tests
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-215366
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 1159-1168, 2022
Accepted 11 January 2022
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The Academy Awards
Genres: Award Shows, Specials
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The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognise excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers, for the preceding year.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday 16 May 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honour outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. It was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. DeMille.
The Academy Awards traditionally air live in South Africa on one of DStv's movie channels, with a delayed broadcast airing on the same night on M-Net.
Far from the eagerly anticipated and globally televised event it is today, the first Academy Awards ceremony took place out of the public eye during an Academy banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Two hundred and seventy people attended the 16 May, 1929 dinner in the hotel's Blossom Room; guest tickets cost $5. It was a long affair filled with speeches, but Academy President Douglas Fairbanks made quick work of handing out the statuettes.
There was little suspense when the awards were presented that night: the recipients had already been announced three months earlier. That all changed the following year, however, when the Academy decided to keep the results secret until the ceremony but gave a list in advance to newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. on the night of the Awards.
This policy continued until 1940 when, much to the Academy's consternation, the Los Angeles Times broke the embargo and published the names of the winners in its evening edition – which was readily available to guests arriving for the ceremony. That prompted the Academy in 1941 to adopt the sealed-envelope system still in use today.
Fifteen statuettes were awarded at the first ceremony for cinematic achievements in 1927 and 1928. The first Best Actor winner was acclaimed German tragedian Emil Jannings, who had to return to Europe before the ceremony.
The Academy granted his request to receive the trophy early, making his statuette the very first Academy Award ever presented.
The first presentation was the only one to escape a media audience; by the second year, enthusiasm for the Awards was such that a Los Angeles radio station produced a live one-hour broadcast of the event. The ceremony has been broadcast ever since.
The Academy continued to hand out the awards at banquets – held at the Ambassador and Biltmore hotels – until 1942, when increased attendance made these dinner ceremonies impractical. Starting with the 16th Oscar ceremony, which was held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the event has always been held at a theatre.
In 1953, the first televised Oscar ceremony enabled millions throughout the United States and Canada to watch the proceedings. Broadcasting in colour began in 1966, affording home viewers a chance to fully experience the dazzling allure of the event.
Since 1969, the Oscar show has been broadcast internationally, now reaching movie fans in over 200 countries.
Broadcast Notes
The first 24 seasons were not televised.
The Oscars were broadcast in the early 1980s on the SABC, but exact broadcast details are unavailable. The SABC lost the broadcast rights in 1986 and the Oscars resurfaced after a six-year hiatus on pay channel M-Net, beginning with the 64th ceremony in 1992. It has been exclusive to the M-Net stable of channels ever since.
Transmissions dates for the South African broadcasts are incomplete. The Academy Awards traditionally air live in South Africa on M-Net's premiere movie channel (which has changed over the years to include Movie Magic, M-Net Movies 1 and M-Net Movies Premiere), with a delayed broadcast airing on the same night in primetime on M-Net.
Broadcasts on M-Net are three hours long, edited down from the live broadcast.
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I have found some inconsistencies in TemSe and in the Spool system. Please let me know the causes of these inconsistencies. How can I analyze and rectify these inconsistencies?
There can be many different causes for the inconsistencies in TemSe. For example, if you manually delete table entries from the spool and TemSe tables, delete spool and TemSe objects from the file system. The terminations of report and transaction also cause these inconsistencies. Also an incorrectly executed client transport can also lead to inconsistencies in the TemSe and spool.
Check whether the number of your TemSe objects is very large. Also check whether many of your objects are stored with an unlimited retention period. Note that you cannot see the retention period of spool requests here as it is stored in Table TSP01 and can be read from Transaction SP01.
You can also use the report RSPO0041 to delete out-of-date spool requests.
There is another report RSTS0022 for deleting old Temse objects but I suggest not using this report as this report does not take into account dependencies between TemSe tables and other tables.


In computer science, a doubly linked list is a linked data structure that consists of a set of sequentially linked records called nodes. Each node contains three fields: two link fields (references to the previous and to the next node in the sequence of nodes) and one data field. The beginning and ending nodes' previous and next links, respectively, point to some kind of terminator, typically a sentinel node or null, to facilitate traversal of the list. If there is only one sentinel node, then the list is circularly linked via the sentinel node. It can be conceptualized as two singly linked lists formed from the same data items, but in opposite sequential orders.
A doubly linked list whose nodes contain three fields: the link to the previous node, an integer value, and the link to the next node.
The two node links allow traversal of the list in either direction. While adding or removing a node in a doubly linked list requires changing more links than the same operations on a singly linked list, the operations are simpler and potentially more efficient (for nodes other than first nodes) because there is no need to keep track of the previous node during traversal or no need to traverse the list to find the previous node, so that its link can be modified.
The concept is also the basis for the mnemonic link system memorization technique.[dubious – discuss] The mnemonic systems are examples of bijections, not linked lists.
The first and last nodes of a doubly linked list are immediately accessible (i.e., accessible without traversal, and usually called head and tail) and therefore allow traversal of the list from the beginning or end of the list, respectively: e.g., traversing the list from beginning to end, or from end to beginning, in a search of the list for a node with specific data value. Any node of a doubly linked list, once obtained, can be used to begin a new traversal of the list, in either direction (towards beginning or end), from the given node.
The link fields of a doubly linked list node are often called next and previous or forward and backward. The references stored in the link fields are usually implemented as pointers, but (as in any linked data structure) they may also be address offsets or indices into an array where the nodes live.
Traversal of a doubly linked list can be in either direction. In fact, the direction of traversal can change many times, if desired. Traversal is often called iteration, but that choice of terminology is unfortunate, for iteration has well-defined semantics (e.g., in mathematics) which are not analogous to traversal.
One subtle consequence of the above procedure is that deleting the last node of a list sets both firstNode and lastNode to null, and so it handles removing the last node from a one-element list correctly. Notice that we also don't need separate "removeBefore" or "removeAfter" methods, because in a doubly linked list we can just use "remove(node.prev)" or "remove(node.next)" where these are valid. This also assumes that the node being removed is guaranteed to exist. If the node does not exist in this list, then some error handling would be required.
Notice the postponing of the test to the end of the loop. This is important for the case where the list contains only the single node someNode.
To do an "insertBefore", we can simply "insertAfter(node.prev, newNode)".
To insert at the beginning we simply "insertAfter(list.lastNode, node)".
As in doubly linked lists, "removeAfter" and "removeBefore" can be implemented with "remove(list, node.prev)" and "remove(list, node.next)".
It is a list where each node's previous link points not to the previous node, but to the link to itself. While this makes little difference between nodes (it just points to an offset within the previous node), it changes the head of the list: It allows the first node to modify the firstNode link easily.
As long as a node is in a list, its previous link is never null.
To insert a node before another, we change the link that pointed to the old node, using the prev link; then set the new node's next link to point to the old node, and change that node's prev link accordingly.
error "The node is not in a list"
To remove a node, we simply modify the link pointed by prev, regardless of whether the node was the first one of the list.
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Home Habitats The Janus Attitude
A Sense of Happy
The Janus Attitude
Architect Brian Andrews mixes past and present to beautiful effect in his Midtown home.
by Chris McCoy
PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN PICKLE
Brian Andrews' Midtown apartment is filled with objects of his collection obsessions, such as this bust of the Roman orator, Cicero.
"I've lived everywhere," says Brian Andrews. The University of Memphis architecture professor was born in Magnolia, Arkansas, but his horizons soon widened. His father's work as a civil engineer took the family all over the world — first to New Orleans, then Beirut, Lebanon. "I learned to write my name in Arabic before I learned to write it in English," he says.
Brian Andrews is a professor of architecture at the University of Memphis. In the foreground is his newest book, Vervm Fictvm.
He had his first glimpse of his future at age 9, while his family was living in Lagos, Nigeria. "My dad brought home these blueprints one day of what's called a 'jacket,' which is a giant steel tower that sinks into the ocean, and they put a drilling rig on top of it, to get oil out of the earth," he recalls. "I was just fascinated by the graphics of these blueprints. I asked Dad, 'What job do you have to have where you get to deal with these things all day?' And he said, 'Oh, that's an architect.'"
After spending his high school years in Inverness, Scotland, Andrews returned to New Orleans to attend Tulane University, where, after a couple of false starts, he found a passion for the built environment. "I joined the architecture school and never looked back."
Andrews is a believer in the importance of good architecture, and sees his mission as imparting these values to his students. "If you look at cities around the world — cities that are valued, that people want to live in — these cities all have architecture. Cities that do not have architecture suffer tremendously, because nobody cares.
He credits his mother for making sure he was exposed to art and culture during his nomadic upbringing. "One of the things that was amazing about growing up like that was that Mom was diligent about the fact that every time we crossed the ocean, we had to stop somewhere in Europe. So, by the time I was like 8 or 9 years old, I had been to Istanbul, Amsterdam, London, Rome, Athens, all of these amazing cities. And of course, she brought me to all of the architecture. I think it had a profound effect on me as a child, to then grow up and become an architect and to become a collector."
The guest bedroom features a bed by Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe, contrasted with a bust of Poseidon. The vintage Red Cross flag is hand-sewn, and dates from World War II. "I sometimes think of all the things that flag has seen," says Andrews.
Andrews worked in private practice in Boston before being accepted to the master's program at Princeton. "I can draw really well," he says. "This was in the mid- to late eighties, so there were no computers. I was an incredibly valuable asset to these firms because I could do these beautiful drawings that would sell the idea to the clients."
After Princeton, he juggled practice and teaching for a while, but moved to academia full-time after an incident that still mystifies him. Andrews was hired by a wealthy Englishman to design a home on a private island in the Bahamas. "But then, when it was about 75 percent done, the client just disappeared, and we never heard from him again," Andrews says. "I check on Google Earth every once in awhile, and the house is still there, but nothing's happened to it. It's just a shell."
Since then, Andrews has taught at 16 different universities, including Clemson, the University of Southern California, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the University of Virginia, and the American University of Sharja in Dubai. He has published three books, most recently the massive Vervm Fictvm: Architectural Delineation and Speculation, 1984-2020, a 600-page monograph collecting his work.
Andrews is a believer in the importance of good architecture, and sees his mission as imparting these values to his students. "If you look at cities around the world — cities that are valued, that people want to live in — these cities all have architecture. Cities that do not have architecture suffer tremendously, because nobody cares .… Whenever you think of a city, whether it's Rome, Paris, London, you immediately think of architecture. In Paris, it's the Eiffel Tower, it's Notre Dame. Rome is the Colosseum. That's what gives these cities identity."
The mixing of eras continues in the bedroom. Underneath the English landscape painting is a massive Empire couch. The two chairs flanking the table in the foreground were designed in the 1930s by Giuseppi Terragni.
A New Career in a New Town
Andrews was hired by the University of Memphis in the spring of 2020. "I moved to Memphis last July, and it was very difficult, moving here in the middle of the pandemic."
He had one day to find a place to live, and feels he lucked into a 2,000-square-foot duplex in Midtown, a step up from the one-bedroom he lived in while teaching at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. "I was so happy when I got this apartment, because I can finally get all my stuff out of storage and put it where I get to see it and enjoy it."
Andrews is an avid antiquer whose urge to collect comes in waves. "My first phase was Piranesi," he says.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a pioneering eighteenth-century Venetian artist, archeologist, and architect whose detailed depictions of Roman and Greek ruins sparked the neoclassical art movement. Andrews' central hallway features several works by Piranesi.
Until recently, many of the etchings in the hallway by eighteenth-century artist and archeologist Giovanni Piranesi hung in a museum on the campus of Miami University of Ohio.
"When I first moved here, they were actually all on exhibit at the museum at the University of Miami of Ohio," he says. "It took about two months for that exhibit to come down. I had to drive to Ohio and bring them all back and then put them all up. … I love the archeological ones, because I think graphically they're really interesting."
The most striking etching is an exquisitely detailed depiction of Trajan's Column in Rome, which stretches from floor to ceiling. A spiraling bas relief depicts the story of Emperor Trajan's military victories; Piranesi's illustration includes extensive notes describing the narrative and symbolism of the column.
Andrews collected Piranesi's work until another obsession turned his head. "I was teaching in Syracuse, and there was this antique mall," he recalls. "I went down there one day, and they had a bust of Diana. I was like — wow."
Acquiring the Roman goddess of the hunt broke his bank account, but it was only the beginning. In Los Angeles, he found a bust of Cicero; in New Orleans, a helmeted Joan of Arc. Now, he shares his living space with Beethoven, Athena, Mercury, Poseidon, Apollo, Roman athletes, veiled Vestal virgins, Gavroche from Les Misérables, and best of all, a meticulous copy of Michelangelo's David. "I love that statue, because when my daughter was little, it sat in this bay window in Los Angeles. She would crawl up to David, and that's how she learned her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth."
Although Andrews is a talented artist in his own right, you won't find his art on the walls of his apartment. "I just refuse to put my artwork up."
The vintage Murano chandelier over the Empire table is the centerpiece of the dining room. The handmade box on the table contains a series of Andrews' drawings and poems called Scab.
But there are many paintings on display, including a seventeenth-century depiction by an unknown artist of the biblical story of the Massacre of the Innocents. Andrews found it in an antique store in Lexington, Kentucky, and negotiated with the owner for two years before finally agreeing on a price.
"I love that one," he says, "because it's also a portrayal of the ideal city, in that there were so many paintings during the Renaissance that tried to portray the ideal city, usually with the city hall in the center. It's a great painting, in that it clearly shows foreground, middle ground, background."
The living room freely mixes classical elements, such as the marble busts, with Modernist furniture, such as the Le Corbusier couch. The pair of chrome fans on the right are from another of Andrews' collections. He recommends buying multiple copies of the same object, if possible, in order to create symmetry when they are displayed.
Mixed in with all the classicism is an eclectic collection of modernist objects. "I went through a fan phase," Andrews says. "At one point, I owed about 40 of them, but then I started giving them away to students as graduation presents. Now, I only have ones that are either chrome or brass."
He admits his collecting habit has frequently been expensive, but not all of his elegant objects cost money, such as the gray metal desk in the library. "Believe it or not, when I lived in Cincinnati, somebody threw this away!" he says. "I found it outside my apartment, lying on the ground. It was lemon yellow, so I painted it gray and painted the bottom black again."
"There's no formula, per se. A lot of it deals with how much money one has, the geography of where you are, what you can get ahold of." — Brian Andrews
Making the mixture of eras and styles look natural can be tricky. "I love antique furniture, but I also love modern, like Eames," he says. "The couch in the living room is a Le Corbusier, and so is the chaise longue. I love Breuer chairs. I think about how to combine historical and modern things, which is the way I do my architecture, too. I always start off my lectures with a bust of Janus, who was the two-faced god who looks to the past and the future at the same time. I call it the 'Janus Attitude.'
"There's no formula, per se," Andrews continues. "A lot of it deals with how much money one has, the geography of where you are, what you can get ahold of. The Mies [Van Der Rohe] and the [Marcel] Breuer furniture, like that's all pretty standard, right? It's going to work anywhere you put it. But when I was doing [the living] room, I made a conscious decision. We're going to use all the modern furniture, but then all the other pieces are going to be these medical cabinets. So they're all stainless steel, and then you can put wood on top of that. You actually have a theme going, and then you can work it. Whereas in the dining room, it's all classical furniture.
"I don't want to say taste," he continues, "but it's knowing when you have things that will work together. The fans will work with Empire furniture, because they have stronger lines. That would never work with Victorian, because there's too much gobbledygook."
Andrews found this 1940s metal desk abandoned in Cincinnati. The vintage barber tools flanking the marine chronometer are another example of using repetition to create symmetry.
Big Star Architecture
In his short time in Memphis, Andrews has been connecting with the local architectural scene and learning about the city's cultural history. "There are some really good firms in Memphis who are doing good work, and you see it around Memphis. So I think the possibilities are endless."
Soon after he moved to Memphis, a friend recommended the documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, about the world's most famous underground band. "I didn't know about Big Star before I moved here," he says. "I loved it, because here were these four guys who were just nobody. They're from Memphis, and they created music that was unbelievable — so far ahead of its time that's it's just mind blowing! So I like to think that, with architects in Memphis, isolation is what really produces culture. Those four guys, because they weren't in L.A., they weren't in New York, they were in Memphis. They were isolated, and that's what allowed them to be so creative and inventive. As an architect, I think that's what I'm trying to do as well."
The 2,000-square-foot Midtown apartment features a spacious kitchen.
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That there's a fellow in this town and he just looks like me.
Wouldn't I give him particular fits, that fellow that looks like me.
She called me a swindler and kicked me out for the fellow that looks like me.
'Til a crowd came 'round and the bill I paid for the fellow that looks like me.
They dragged me off and locked me up for the fellow that looks like me.
For the ugliest wretch that ever you saw was the fella that looked like me!
This month I chose a light-hearted song that I have been meaning to learn for a while. I came across it via the rich digital archive of MacEdward Leach's field recordings from Newfoundland made available by that province's Memorial University. Leach recorded a wonderful, lilty version from Trepassey singer Cyril O'Brien in 1951. "The Fellow That Looked Like Me" was also sung in logging communities in Pennsylvania and Michigan as well as in Appalachia where it eventually made its way into the old time country repertoire by way of recordings by Al Hopkins and his Buckle Busters and others.
The song had its start in the 1860s during the early days of vaudeville in New York where it was written by Dublin-born John F. Poole and performed by the "Father of Vaudeville" Tony Pastor around 1867. Irish composers, melodies and themes were a central part of vaudeville in those years. Poole and Pastor also teamed up on the famous song lamenting anti-Irish job discrimination, "No Irish Need Apply," as well as the original "Tim Finigan's Wake" (yes that "Finnegan's Wake!").
Of all the versions I've found from folk sources, Newfoundlander Cyril O'Brien's is my favorite and it's also the closest to Poole's original composition. The above melodic transcription is from O'Brien and the text is my own blend of O'Brien's text and the original text published by Poole. Poole's original is available online here.


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How China's first autonomous driving unicorn Momenta hunts for data
A former scientist at Microsoft and SenseTime bets on the future of self-driving
Rita Liao	2 years
Cao Xudong turned up on the side of the road in jeans and a black T-shirt printed with the word "Momenta," the name of his startup.
Before founding the company — which last year topped $1 billion in valuation to become China's first autonomous driving "unicorn" — he'd already led an enviable life, but he was convinced that autonomous driving would be the next real big thing.
Cao isn't just going for the moonshot of fully autonomous vehicles, which he says could be 20 years away. Instead, he's taking a two-legged approach of selling semi-automated software while investing in research for next-gen self-driving tech.
Cao, pronounced 'tsao', was pursuing his PhD in engineering mechanics when an opportunity came up to work at Microsoft's fundamental research arm in Asia, putatively the "West Point" for China's first generation of artificial intelligence experts. He held out there for more than four years before quitting to put his hands on something more practical: a startup.
"Academic research for AI was getting quite mature at the time," said now 33-year-old Cao in an interview with TechCrunch, reflecting on his decision to quit Microsoft. "But the industry that puts AI into application had just begun. I believed the industrial wave would be even more extensive and intense than the academic wave that lasted from 2012 to 2015."
In 2015, Cao joined SenseTime, now the world's highest-valued AI startup, thanks in part to the lucrative face-recognition technology it sells to the government. During his 17-month stint, Cao built the company's research division from zero staff into a 100-people strong team.
Before long, Cao found himself craving a new adventure again. The founder said he doesn't care about the result as much as the chance to "do something." That tendency was already evident during his time at the prestigious Tsinghua University, where he was a member of the outdoors club. He wasn't particularly drawn to hiking, he said, but the opportunity to embrace challenges and be with similarly resilient, daring people was enticing enough.
And if making driverless vehicles would allow him to leave a mark in the world, he's all in for that.
Make the computer, not the car
Cao walked me up to a car outfitted with the cameras and radars you might spot on an autonomous vehicle, with unseen computer codes installed in the trunk. We hopped in. Our driver picked a route from the high-definition map that Momenta had built, and as soon as we approached the highway, the autonomous mode switched on by itself. The sensors then started feeding into the map real-time data about the surroundings, with which the computer could make decisions on the road.
Momenta staff installing sensors to a testing car / Photo: Momenta
Momenta won't make cars or hardware, Cao assured. Rather, it gives cars autonomous features by making their brains, or deep-learning capacities. It's in effect a so-called Tier 2 supplier, akin to Intel's Mobileye, that sells to Tier 1 suppliers that actually produce the automotive parts. It also sells directly to original equipment manufacturers (OMEs) that design cars, order parts from suppliers and assemble the final product. Under both circumstances, Momenta works with clients to specify the final piece of software.
Momenta believes this asset-light approach would allow it to develop state-of-the-art driving tech. By selling software to car and parts makers, it not only brings in income but also sources mountains of data, including how and when humans intervene, to train its codes at relatively low costs.
The company declined to share who its clients are but said they include top carmakers and Tier 1 suppliers in China and overseas. There won't be many of them because a "partnership" in the auto sector demands deep, resource-intensive collaboration, so less is believed to be more. What we do know is Momenta counts Daimler AG as a backer. It's also the first Chinese startup the Mercedes-Benz parent had ever invested in, though Cao would not disclose whether Daimler is a client.
"Say you operate 10,000 autonomous cars to reap data. That could easily cost you $1 billion a year; 100,000 cars would cost $10 billion, which is a terrifying number for any tech giant," Cao said. "If you want to acquire seas of data that have a meaningful reach, you have to build a product for the mass market."
Highway Pilot, the semi-autonomous solution that was controlling our car, is Momenta's first mass-produced software. More will launch in the coming seasons, including a fully autonomous parking solution and a self-driving robotaxi package for urban use.
In the long run, the startup said it aims to tackle inefficiencies in China's $44 billion logistics market. People hear about warehousing robots built by Alibaba and JD.com, but overall, China is still on the lower end of logistics efficiency. In 2018, logistics costs accounted for nearly 15% of national gross domestic product. In the same year, the World Bank ranked China 26th in its logistics performance index, a global benchmark for efficiency in the industry.
Cao Xudong, co-founder and CEO of Momenta / Photo: Momenta
Cao, an unassuming CEO, raised his voice as he explained the company's two-legged strategy. The twin approach forms a "closed loop," a term that Cao repeatedly summoned to talk about the company's competitive edge. Instead of picking between the present and future, as Waymo does with Level 4 — a designation given to cars that can operate under basic situations without human intervention — and Tesla with half-autonomous driving, Momenta works on both. It uses revenue-generating businesses like Highway Pilot to fund research in robotaxis, and the sensor data collected from real-life scenarios to feed models in the lab. Results from the lab, in turn, could soup up what gets deployed on public roads.
Human or machine
During the 40-minute ride in midday traffic, our car was able to change lanes, merge into traffic and create distance from reckless drivers by itself, except for one brief moment. Toward the end of the trip, our driver pushed the lever to trigger a lane change as we approached a car dangerously parked in the middle of the exit ramp. Momenta names this an "interactive lane change," which it claims is designed to be part of its automated system and by its strict definition is not a human "intervention."
"Human-car interaction will continue to dominate for a long time, perhaps for another 20 years," Cao noted, adding the setup brings safety to the next level because the car knows exactly what the driver is doing through its inner-cabin cameras.
"For example, if the driver is looking down at their cellphone, the [Momenta] system will alert them to pay attention," he said.
I wasn't allowed to film during the ride, so here's some footage from Momenta to give a sneak peek of its highway solution.
Human beings are already further along the autonomous spectrum than many of us think. Cao, like a lot of other AI scientists, believes robots will eventually take over the wheel. Alphabet-owned Waymo has been running robotaxis in Arizona for several months now, and smaller startups like Drive.ai are also offering a similar service in Texas.
Despite all the hype and boom in the industry, there remain thorny questions around passenger safety, regulatory schema and a host of other issues for the fast-moving tech. Uber's fatal self-driving crash last year delayed the company's future projects and prompted a public backlash. As a Shanghai-based venture capitalist recently suggested to me: "I don't think humanity is ready for self-driving."
The biggest problem of the industry, he argued, is not tech-related, but social. "Self-driving poses challenges to society's legal system, culture, ethics and justice."
Cao is well aware of the contention. He acknowledged that as a company with the power to steer future cars, Momenta has to "bear a lot of responsibility for safety." As such, he required all executives in the company to ride a certain number of autonomous miles so if there's any loophole in the system, the managers will likely stumble across it before the customers do.
"With this policy in place, the management will pay serious attention to system safety," Cao asserted.
Momenta's new headquarters in Suzhou, China / Photo: Momenta
In terms of actually designing the software to be reliable and to trace accountability, Momenta appoints an "architect of system research and development," who essentially is in charge of analyzing the black box of autonomous driving algorithms. A deep learning model has to be "explainable," said Cao, which is key to finding out what went wrong: Is it the sensor, the computer, or the navigation app that's not working?
Going forward, Cao said the company is in no rush to make a profit as it is still spending heavily on R&D, but he assured that margins of the software it sells "are high." The startup is also blessed with sizable fundings, which Cao's resume certainly helped attract, and so did his other co-founders, Ren Shaoqing and Xia Yan, who are also alumni of Microsoft Research Asia.
As of last October, Momenta had raised at least $200 million from big-name investors, including Daimler, Cathay Capital, GGV Capital, Kai-Fu Lee's Sinovation Ventures, Lei Jun's Shunwei Capital, Blue Lake Capital, NIO Capital, and the government of Suzhou, which will house Momenta's new 4,000-square-meter headquarters right next to the city's high-speed train station.
When a bullet train speeds past Suzhou, passengers are able to see from their windows Momenta's recognizable M-shape building, which, in the years to come, might become a new landmark of the historic city in eastern China.
Update: The article was updated to correct investors' names and clarify that the driver made a turn by pushing the lever, not steering the wheel.


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Philips unveils IntelliSpace Portal 10 with new 3D modeling application to enhance diagnostic confidence
Phoenix Children's Hospital leverages enhanced 3D modeling capabilities from latest edition of IntelliSpace Portal advanced visualization
IntelliSpace Portal 10 highlights Philips' integration with InVivo for expansion into breast and prostate imaging informatics solutions
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Chicago, IL, US – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the debut of IntelliSpace Portal 10, the latest edition of Philips' comprehensive, advanced visualization and quantification platform. This next generation features enhancements across the solution, with a particular focus on oncology to provide radiologists with an improved full set of applications and workflows to support the reading and follow-up of complex oncology cases. IntelliSpace Portal 10 also includes a new 3D modeling application and has been expanded with the DynaCAD Prostate and Breast solutions through integration with InVivo.
Interest in 3D imaging and printing for healthcare continues to grow as health systems see the value of its integrated workflows in areas such as surgery planning, education and training. IntelliSpace Portal 10 is the first solution to feature an embedded 3D modeling application for creating and exporting 3D models intuitively into the clinical workflow. Building on its long-term strategic partnership with Philips, Phoenix Children's Hospital leverages the solution to enable clinicians to use the new 3D modeling features for clinical applications to help improve patient care.
"Our collaboration with Philips has accelerated the co-creation of solutions designed to address the unique needs of pediatric patients," said Dr. Dianna Bardo, Director Body MR and Co-Director 3D Innovation Lab, Phoenix Children's. "The 3D modeling application of IntelliSpace Portal 10 has been instrumental in receiving a more accurate picture of the details of anatomy. This is especially true as we prepare for complex procedures by determining the tumor's exact size and seeing subtle changes over time; informing the most viable treatment choice."
IntelliSpace Portal 10 aims to enhance definitive diagnostic confidence to assist in driving improved treatment and outcomes, support appropriate imaging and treatment, simplify data and insight gathering and reduce costs. Intelligent and adaptive, the solution is responsive to the needs of radiologists and includes a machine learning feature that automatically learns from prior application usage to predict the series and data type on which pre-processing should be applied. IntelliSpace Portal 10 will give clinicians and radiologists a single, vendor-agnostic platform to provide them with the sophisticated tools needed across the continuum of care for oncology.
Our collaboration with Philips has accelerated the co-creation of solutions designed to address the unique needs of pediatric patients.
Dr. Dianna Bardo
Director Body MR and Co-Director 3D Innovation Lab, Phoenix Children's
Expanding into new clinical domains
As the prevalence of cancer and its economic impact increases, solutions like IntelliSpace Portal 10 will play a large role in supporting physicians with diagnostic confidence and patient care. In collaboration with InVivo, a business of Royal Philips focused on advanced clinical visualization systems and MRI-compatible interventional devices, DynaCAD Prostate and Breast capabilities will be directly integrated into this latest edition of IntelliSpace Portal. DynaCAD Prostate and Breast, high-performance advanced image analysis solutions that feature flexible workspaces with custom hanging protocols, image post-processing, lesion segmentation, standardized and structured reporting and interventional biopsy planning, will help reduce processing time to assist with enhanced disease management.
"IntelliSpace Portal 10 highlights our continued commitment to create advanced visualization platforms that offer a single integrated solution for fast, efficient workflows and increased diagnostic confidence, especially in a value-based care environment," said Yair Briman, Business Leader Healthcare Informatics at Philips. "This new edition marks Philips' ability to provide one comprehensive solution to answer our customers' needs, such as clinical improvements and increased efficiencies, especially now with the integration of two important clinical domains of breast and prostate cancer."
Philips aligns with global 3D printing leaders
Philips recently signed agreements with 3D Systems and Stratasys, two of the leaders in the 3D printing industry helping to accelerate medical progress in improved planning and patient outcomes. Philips customers now have seamless access to expedite 3D printing to create models to help physicians understand patient anatomy that is difficult to visualize, and deliver personalized medicine in the most unique, complex cases.
As interest in 3D printing continues to grow, its role in radiology is still being defined. Hear directly from clinicians as they employ new technologies for 3D integrated workflows to print models leveraging 3D segmentations, education and training at the Philips hosted 3D Printing Symposium on November 28th from 9 – 10:30 a.m. CT at S101AB, McCormick Place, Chicago. The symposium will feature speakers from Phoenix Children's Hospital, Ichilov Hospital in Tel-Aviv, and Philips. Philips has collaborated with Ichilov Hospital to integrate 3D surgical visualization and planning into their 3D surgical hub. For more information and to RSVP for the event, visit www.philips.com/rsna.
To learn more about IntelliSpace Portal 10, visit the Philips booth #6735 at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting, taking place Nov. 26 - Dec. 1, in Chicago, Ill. For more information on Philips full suite of integrated imaging systems, devices, informatics and services at #RSNA17, and for live updates from the event, follow @PhilipsLiveFrom or visit www.philips.com/rsna.
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In late November, a group of migrant women from Central America stood outside the Enclave Caracol community center in Tijuana, and announced the beginning of a hunger strike. They would not eat, they said in Spanish, until the United States and Mexico expedited the process for letting asylum seekers across the border.
Earlier that month, the Trump administration had tried to change not only who was eligible for asylum but also where they could apply. As part of his ongoing effort to restrict immigration from poorer countries, he announced that anyone who had crossed the border without authorization would be automatically disqualified from asylum proceedings. (Previously, anyone could apply, as long as they showed a "credible fear" of returning home.) Immigrants would now have to present themselves at an official port of entry, like San Ysidro, just across from Tijuana, or Hidalgo, near McAllen, Texas, and wait—a process that could keep them on the Mexican side of the border for several months.
When I visited Tijuana in late November, a judge had already halted Trump's newest asylum restriction. But the city still housed an estimated 7,000 migrants, most of whom had traveled north in the Central American caravans that Trump had worked to cast as dangerous invaders. U.S. Customs and Border Protection was only taking in between 40 and 100 asylum seekers each day, leaving thousands waiting in the one main makeshift government shelter on the Mexican side of the border, where they slept outside, many without tents. To bring some semblance of order to what has become a complicated and opaque process, a small group of migrants began keeping a list to ensure that those wishing to enter the United States to request asylum did so in the order they had arrived at the border. La lista, as it is known, exists as a handwritten ledger and is passed to new caretakers as the older ones depart. It is a bizarre by-product of the Trump administration's policies, effectively outsourcing American immigration enforcement to Mexico, and sometimes even to the migrants themselves.
But the burden President Donald Trump is foisting onto Mexico today is unprecedented. In November, The Washington Post reported that Mexico's newly elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had struck a deal with the Trump administration to make the Mexican side of the border a permanent way station for asylum seekers bound for the United States. Once the story was published, López Obrador's administration denied it. But even so, thousands of migrants remain on the Mexican side, waiting to hear who will decide their fate. Never before has Mexico had to house so many people indefinitely. Trump, said Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the United States, is continuing to use Mexico "as an electoral and political piñata." The country has become "a de facto filter to the U.S." without getting anything in return.
In 2015, more than a million migrants made their way to Europe, and the backlash to their sudden arrival destabilized the politics of the entire continent. Though migrants have been arriving in Mexico for a long time, their presence has created many of the same problems. The government in Tijuana hasn't embraced the encampment, nor have many residents. In November, hundreds of Mexicans marched to protest the camp's existence, some of them shouting "Tijuana first!" and "no more migrants!" while the mayor, who has called on the caravan leaders to be prosecuted for bringing the migrants into the country, appeared wearing a red "Make Tijuana great again" baseball hat.
Conditions inside the shelters and encampments are dire. When I visited the main camp, an open-air soccer stadium packed with tents and makeshift shelters, it was raining. By midday, after hours of heavy downpour, the stadium floor had turned to mud. People packed into the Enclave Caracol, where a volunteer organization called Food Not Bombs dished up warm meals. (A few months earlier, they'd been serving 150 meals a day in Tijuana, mostly to Mexicans who'd been deported from the United States; now it's 500, almost entirely for migrants who are heading into the United States.) Despite the weather, the months spent on the road, and the prospect of deportation, the mood was cheery: A DJ was playing pop music on the speakers; small children ran around the feet of adults who chatted over steaming heaps of pasta and cups of coffee.
The government has struggled to feed, house, and clothe the refugees. Every day, thousands of people need to eat; they need medical care, jackets, and blankets; children need diapers, and women sanitary pads. Given the limited resources and organizational capacity of Mexican authorities, groups like Food Not Bombs have stepped in, as have legal service providers and other humanitarian organizations. I spoke to a woman named Elodia, who had fled Guatemala with her two children, leaving behind an abusive husband who had burned down her family's house after she'd tried to leave him. A volunteer had just handed her a packet of four diapers. At least it would get her through the next couple of days, she said. What she really needed, though, was a chance to plead her case for safety in the United States.
The human consequences of trapping migrants along the border are self-evident. The political ones may also be severe—for Mexico and for the United States. When Germany forced countries on Europe's periphery to bear the responsibility for housing the majority of migrants, it did little to quell—and may even have exacerbated—xenophobic uprisings in that nation and throughout the European Union.
Later the night I was there, the standing water at the Benito Juárez stadium was ankle-deep. People had lost many of their things: the clothing, bedding, mats that they needed to stay warm and dry and alive. The government announced that it was closing the shelter and opening another one about 30 minutes away, in a former concert hall—a place with few amenities, but, at least, a roof. Hundreds packed their belongings and loaded onto government buses.
Others decided to stay. "Why would I trust the government?" a Salvadoran man told me. There were rumors that the new shelter was an old jail, that the move was a trap to lock migrants up and then ship them back home. From inside the Benito Juárez stadium, you could see the border itself, and the wall that cut like a spine across the sky.
By morning, the water had receded; all that was left was the detritus of what had been lost and ruined. Meanwhile, the hunger strikers continued to refuse food, hoping that someone would take notice and meet their relatively humble demands: to cross the border into the United States, be put into detention, and plead for the right to protection under the U.S. law.


The semi-cold weather season is just around the corner and with it comes a fresh start. If you're like us and missed the chance for a spring cleaning overhaul, now is the time to get down and dirty and start fall on a tidy foot. To help bring order to your jumbled up messes, we've mapped out ten neat-happy shops stocked with nifty organizational goods that will do the job for you.
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The opossum is also commonly known as a possum and is considered the only marsupial in the U.S, meaning once born, the offspring must find their way into the marsupium (or pouch) to latch on and nurse from a teat. Female opossums give birth to very large numbers of young but most of which typically fail to attach though as many as thirteen can attach and survive.
Opossums are nomadic and generally enjoy solitude, staying in an area as long as water and food are food and water are easily accessible. They will temporarily occupy abandoned burrows or under houses because they favor dark areas, accessible areas above or below the ground. Most famously know to "play possum", the opossum will involuntarily react when threatened or harmed, imitating the appearance of a dead animal.


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'Voice of God': John Rooke prepares for 28th season as Patriots PA announcer while son Austin lands play-by-play job with Providence Bruins
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Not many people can say they've been working with the New England Patriots longer than the Kraft family. Not Bill Belichick or Tom Brady. None of the team's coaches, and not a single player. However, John Rooke can.
The team's public address announcer is in exclusive company when it comes to the franchise, and continues to add notches to his belt as prepares for his 28th season on the mic during the team's home games.
Rooke's been around the business for a long time, but the local broadcasting legend's career may not have taken off if it hadn't been for an injury in high school and a story in the school's newspaper.
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"I fell into broadcasting by accident," Rooke said. "I tore up my knee playing basketball in high school. I wanted to stay with my friends on the team, so coach told me I could try out for the position of athletic trainer, so I had to learn how to tape ankles, knees, wrists and fingers and things like that."
"A buddy of mine who was a year older than me in high school, he thought it was kind of cool that I was doing this to stay with the team," Rooke continued. "So he said, 'Would you mind if I interviewed you for the school newspaper?' And I said, 'No, not at all!'"
The reporter sat him down, conducted the interview and the feature came out a week later. As Rooke celebrated his fame as what he called the "BMOC" (Big Man on Campus), a light bulb turned on in the junior's head.
"I loved the whole process of it, and six months later, I was co-editor of the newspaper, and that's literally how it started," Rooke said. "I had ripped up my knee, and all I wanted to do was hang out with my friends because I thought my life was over. But, I discovered at a very early age that when one door closes, another one always opens."
Rooke then pursued his newfound passion at the University of Texas in Austin, earning a Bachelor's of Journalism and landing numerous opportunities to push his career forward.
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While working on the school's newspaper, The Daily Texan, Rooke received a release from the athletic department about campus-wide auditions for the very first voice of the Lady Longhorns, as the 1979 women's basketball team earned a top preseason ranking.
"They were going to do radio broadcasts for the very first time," Rooke recalled. "I said, 'Oh my god, that's too cool.'"
Rooke landed the new gig to add to his resume, and continued to grow during his time in Texas. He handled play-by-play duties for the USFL's San Antonio Gunslingers, the AA-affiliated San Antonio Dodgers and NBA's San Antonio Spurs, adding in some experience as a public address announcer for the Spurs, as well.
The work then transitioned up to the northeast, with Rooke working for local radio and TV stations in Rhode Island starting in 1988.
After losing a television job, however, it was fill-in work for a local radio station that led to the broadcaster finding a new home for his voice.
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"[The station] asked me to come out and kind of host the crowd during the commercial breaks," Rooke said. "I'd do some giveaways, and I would kind of work the crowd up, and we'd just entertain, and so that's all it was. There happened to be two or three members of the Patriots marketing department in the audience, and they all three came up to me after the show was over and introduced themselves."
The team's representatives told Rooke about their search for a new public address announcer for the upcoming football season, and invited him to a public audition for the position.
'They said, 'We loved how you captivated the crowd and we like how you sound and we want you to be a part of that audition,'" Rooke said. "And I'm like, 'Uh, okay.' I wasn't sure what I was getting into, but I said, 'Sure.' So they invited me to the audition, I did like a quarter of one of the exhibition games and I got the job."
Much like how important his knee injury was for jump-starting his journalism career, it was the short stint as the public address announcer for the Spurs that helped give Rooke the mental boost to pursue his new position with the Patriots.
"That one year of experience in San Antonio gave me the confidence of 'Well, if I can do it for an NBA arena, I can do it for an NFL stadium,'" Rooke said. "This will be season 28 for me with the Patriots. I've been there longer than the Kraft's have been there."
Rooke has stuck around with the Patriots for nearly three decades, and has also been the voice of the Providence College Friars for even longer, becoming a mainstay across New England sports with a Tom Brady-esque mindset.
"I think I've wanted to stay with it as long as I have because I keep hearing people on the air who don't do it well enough," Rooke said. "Or they sound good but they butcher something, or I hear somebody on the radio and I'm like, 'God, he's awful, he's terrible, I could do it better than that.' It's probably a little bit of vanity involved in that, but I think when the time comes that I feel like I can't do the job at a high level any longer, it'll be my time to step aside."
Among an endless list of other jobs in the area, including writing jobs for WEEI.com and Patriots.com, Rooke also works for Dean College, currently holding the title of director for the college's Center for Business, Entertainment and Sport Management.
"I like to stay involved because I think I can offer something, but I also like teaching it because I want a new generation to understand the importance of paying your dues," Rooke said. "The importance of doing your homework, the importance of prep, the importance of the entertainment value of what it is that you're doing, all the above. I think that's probably what keeps me going."
Even with a laundry list of different responsibilities and titles, Rooke is still able to separate his skills when needed for his specific jobs.
"What I do with public address and what I do with radio or television play-by play, they're three different beasts," Rooke said. "If I'm doing radio, my job is to paint a picture where there is none. If my job is television, then my job is not to get in the way of the pictures telling the story, and hopefully augment those pictures with relevant facts and information. If I'm at the arena, my job is to make the paying customers in the arena or in the stadium feel like they're getting bang for their buck."
While the numerous play-by-play jobs are easy to transition between, the public address announcing requires Rooke to tap into a whole new version of himself.
"The public address is probably a little bit more of what I would call an entertainment value, a little bit more showmanship," Rooke continued. "You can stretch your voice out, and you can go deep, and you can sound like the voice of God, which I've been accused of from time to time. I have no idea how God sounds, but I appreciate the compliment anyway."
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Rooke's voice carries, whether it's on the phone, on the radio, inside an area or echoing throughout a massive stadium. It's only fitting, however, that the voice would carry over to his son, Austin.
Read to duel. @arooke2 on @marquetteradio & yours truly on @1037WEEIFM @PCMensBBall @BIGEASTMBB #pcbb pic.twitter.com/Y5riDSbTlZ
— John Rooke (@JRbroadcaster) February 10, 2016
Austin Rooke, a graduate of Marquette University, recently landed a spot as the play-by-play announcer for the Providence Bruins, helping to continue the Rooke family's legacy when it comes to the New England sports scene.
"It's kind of surreal," Austin told the Providence Journal. "It's really, really exciting and I'm so grateful for the opportunity and that the Bruins thought of me. To do this in the same building where my Dad has worked for 30-plus years is pretty amazing."
While it was surreal for the younger Rooke, the elder described it on social media as a "proud dad moment."
Excuse the interruption. Proud Dad moment here. https://t.co/tzuw3Jo6Ms
— John Rooke (@JRbroadcaster) August 14, 2019
"I was actually incredulous because I was on vacation," Rooke said. "I'm like, 'Really?' I knew that he would probably be a candidate for it, but I figured there are a lot of candidates that apply for that job. He plowed his own trail and I was very proud of him."
While it may have seemed like a natural path for Austin to follow, his father never wanted him to feel forced to pursue the family business.
"I never wanted to encourage him to go one way or the other, I want him to blaze his own trail," Rooke said. "I never want it to feel like he had to ride my coat tails or something, not that I have long coat tails anyway. I want him to be his own man."
Rooke had a key analogy to describe his mindset not only for his son, but also for the students he teaches at Dean College.
"You can open the door, but you can't push anybody through. It's like the old adage, you can lead the horse to water, but you can't make it drink," Rooke said. "Most people aren't going to let you shove their heads into the trough. So that's all you do, you open the door for somebody based on your abilities and your relationships and your experiences, and if they want to step through that door, they've got an opportunity to step through it and I'm proud of my son for obviously doing that."
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In the end, whether it's for his son or his students, the long-time broadcaster is looking to inspire and inform a new generation looking to get into the business that he fell in love with decades ago.
"I would tell young broadcasters to learn to write, learn to communicate conversationally," Rooke said. "Take as many opportunities as you can to practice, whether you're by yourself, on a campus station, in a classroom, whatever it may be, and then don't say no when someone asks you to do something. Take advantage of every opportunity you can get, and if you do that, I think you'll be just fine."
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Via AlMasdarnews.com,
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According to the report, the Saratov transited the Bosphorus Strait and moved closer to the Syrian port-city of Tartous, where it is expected to dock in the coming days. The Russian naval fleet currently in the Mediterranean consists of more than 10 combat and auxiliary ships, which are part of different units in the Navy.
Russia's #Syria campaign: Russian Navy #ВМФ Project 1171 #ЧФ BlackSea Fleet 197th Landing Ship Brigade Tapir (NATO:Alligator) class LST Saratov 150 transited Bosphorus towards Mediterranean en route to the Russian naval base in #Tartus. pic.twitter.com/xjV7ctA6cE
— Yörük Işık (@YorukIsik) January 11, 2021
This report was confirmed by the Turkish maritime observer and photographer, Yoruk Isik, who released a set of photos showing the Saratov transiting the Bosphorus Strait on Monday, January 11th.
The large landing ships and auxiliary ships of the Russian Navy, in addition to ships chartered by the Russian fleet, are participating in the process of transporting supplies to the Russian aviation group stationed at Hmeimim Airport (Lattakia countryside).
Over the last five years, the Russian Armed Forces have increased their shipments to the Syrian government, as they not only provide humanitarian aid, but also new weapons to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
AFP file image: US convoy in Syria
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