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Young Newark boxer is ready to be an Olympic champion
Shakur Olympics
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By Barry Carter | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The kids at Newark's Boylan Street Recreation Center gathered ringside for an unexpected treat on Tuesday.
Shakur Stevenson was slipping and throwing punches with Willie "Wali'' Moses, one of his trainers - who also happens to be his grandfather - in the city's gym on South Orange Avenue. After a few rounds, he hit the heavy bag in another room before getting back in the ring to spar with a few fighters, which included a playful scrap with his 15-year-old brother, Ibn Guyton.
"He's nice,'' said Quasin Lee, 14.
Nice means "good," as in very good. As in good enough to be in the Olympics.
"He's going to make it," said Knowledge Artis-Jones, 11. "I'm confident.''
Stevenson, 18, of Newark, is on the cusp of fulfilling his dream to join the men's USA Olympic Boxing team this summer at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
He did so by going undefeated, 4-0, at the Olympic trials held in early December in Reno, Nev. His performance in the 123-pound bantam weight division was so complete that he was named the outstanding boxer of the tournament.
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"I did it,'' he said. "It's finally over. I did it. I finally did it."
Just about.
To get the nod to be on the final team, Olympic rules require that he win one of three international qualifying tournaments, which start in March in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It shouldn't be a problem for Stevenson. He is 17-0 in international competition, but most important, he has the character to get it done.
The young man loves to box. He throws punches all the time. In the store, the mall or walking down the street.
"His mentality is different,'' said Julie Goldsticker, public relations consultant for USA Boxing, the national governing body for Olympic-style boxing.
"He shines when the lights are the brightest and in the way he deals with pressure situations.''
The Olympic trials were the tournament he had to win in a promising career that has taken him to places such as Bulgaria, Ukraine, China and now South America.
Isn't that something?
He's "Just a kid from Newark,'' a phrase written in gold letters on a black T-shirt that he was wearing at the recreation center.
That's Stevenson - a Newark kid, the oldest of nine brothers and sisters, who showed interest in the sport at age 2. He'd imitate fighters while watching boxing matches on television with his grandfather, whom he calls "Pop-pop."
Under his grandfather's guidance, Stevenson started learning the craft at age 5 in a Newark boxing program known as COMBATT - Community Organization Making Better Alternatives Today for Tomorrow.
"We could see he had the skills and abilities as a youngster,'' said Larry Hazzard Sr., who is the founder of the program and commissioner of the New Jersey Athletic Control Board.
Stevenson has worked hard since his youth, holding back tears when the referee raised his hand in victory in Reno. From the time the Olympic trials started, Stevenson said he was focused on seizing opportunity. He said his favorite fighter, Andre Ward, had him pumped following a telephone call. The advice: Own this tournament.
"He went back to being himself,'' said Moses.
And that was to hit and not be hit.
"The most amazing thing is seeing him go from a little kid and actually dreaming this and wanting this to happen and making it come true,'' Moses said.
At the trials, two of the four bouts he won avenged losses against Ruben Villa of Salinas, Calif., who beat him twice this year. Stevenson said the setbacks had him doubting his talent.
"I'm not used to defeat,''he said. "I don't take it very well.''
After all, Stevenson hadn't lost since 2012. He was racking up wins, including the Junior World Championships in 2013, making him the third American boxer ever to win that prestigious competition. AIBA, the international boxing association, topped his accomplishment by naming him the best Junior Male Boxer for that year.
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His success continued through last year, with international titles at the Youth Olympic games, Youth World Championships and Youth National Championships.
Now, he has the Olympic trials to add to his resume. And here comes Brazil.
"Dang,'' he said. That's all he could think about after winning - and not crying.
When's the last time you've heard such an utterance, if at all, from a young person? He's not corny. He's just humble, grounded and not a braggart.
But he has every right to celebrate. His 24-hour smile is automatic, and so are the dimples that he gets from his mother, Malikah Stevenson.
"I'm happy for him,'' she said. "It's been something he's wanted for a long time.''
He's home this week to be with family until he heads to Alexandria, Va., where he lives and trains with his coach, Kay Koroma.
But for a few hours on Tuesday, Stevenson was in familiar territory at the recreation center. City officials and family friends took pictures with him. His achievement, they said, is certain to inspire Newark youth.
"It should spur them to be excited about the possibilities of what can happen in their community,'' said Patrick Council, the city's director of Neighborhood and Recreational Services.
You'll get no argument from Isaiah Gaffney, 13. He believes Stevenson is one of the best and what he's done proves that kids in this town can make it.
"I feel like I'm going to win gold,'' Stevenson said.
I do, too.
Barry Carter: (973) 836-4925 or bcarter@starledger or nj.com/carter or follow him on Twitter @BarryCarterSL


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Scroop Egerton ( – ),  de Bridgwater, également connu sous le nom de vicomte Brackley (1687-1701) et de comte de Bridgwater (1701-1720), est un courtisan et pair anglais.

De par sa naissance, le  de Bridgwater fut avancé que duc de Bridgwater en 1720 avec le titre subsidiaire de marquis de Brackley dans la pairie de Grande-Bretagne.

Biographie
D'ascendance noble, il est troisième fils de John Egerton (3e comte de Bridgewater) et de sa seconde épouse, Lady Jane Paulet; ses grands-parents maternels furent Charles Paulet,  de Bolton par sa seconde épouse, la Lady Mary Scrope, fille d'Emanuel,  de Sunderland et de sa femme, la Lady Elizabeth Manners.

Propriétaire des Bridgewater Collieries, il sert comme Lord-lieutenant du Buckinghamshire et est également employé dans la maison du prince Georges de Danemark.

Famille et descendance
Le , Bridgwater épouse en premières noces, Lady Elizabeth Churchill, fille de John Churchill (1er duc de Marlborough) et de Sarah née Jennings (nièce du  de Tyrconnell). Le comte et la comtesse ont eu une seule fille connue :

 Anne Egerton († 1762); mariée en premières noces en 1725 au  de Bedford, puis en 1733 au  de Jersey.

Le , le duc épouse en secondes noces Lady Rachel Russell, fille du  de Bedford et de son épouse Elizabeth née Howland. Ils eurent sept enfants :
 Louisa Egerton ( - ); mariée à Granville Leveson-Gower (1er marquis de Stafford).
 Caroline Egerton (née le ).
 Charles Egerton, marquis de Brackley ( - ).
 John Egerton,  de Bridgwater (1727 - 1748).
 William Egerton ( - ).
 Diana Egerton ( - ); mariée à Frédéric Calvert (6e baron Baltimore).
 Francis Egerton (3e duc de Bridgewater) ( - ).

Héraldiques

Blasons ancestrales et affiliés

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Chambre des lords
 Charbonnage
 Comtes et ducs d'Europe
 Révolution industrielle

Liens externes
 Worsley dans le Lancashire
 www.whitgift.co.uk
 www.burkespeerage.com
 www.almanachdegotha.org

Naissance en août 1681
Décès en janvier 1744
Comte de la pairie d'Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle
Industriel britannique du XVIIIe siècle
Egerton
Décès à 62 ans
Duc de Bridgewater
Comte de Bridgewater
Vicomte Brackley

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Update: Pulp reunion "not true"
Those British tabloids have struck again!
On October 18th, Jarvis Cocker was asked by People.co.uk if there was a possibility that his legendary band, Pulp, would reunite for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Glasonbury Music Festival. The frontman responded saying the following: "Glastonbury means an awful lot to me, I would love to play there again. We've talked about it, there we go, there'll be a band reunion.
Obviously, these comments proved to be a big deal, and picked up quite a bit of steam over the weekend (see NME's headline: "Jarvis Cocker: 'Pulp could reunite for Glastonbury 2010′".) Unfortunately, the fun has come and gone and Mr. Cocker has returned to burst everyone's bubble (via a recent interview with Teletext):
"I can categorically tell Teletext that Pulp have no plans to get back together," Jarvis says. "Someone asked me if I fancied playing at the 40th anniversary of Glastonbury, I said yes, they twisted that into a 'Pulp reform' story. It's not true."
Alas, at least we have dreams of Muse and Bon Jovi still alive.
Jarvis Cocker
Liam Gallagher to start new band
Julian Casablancas streams, tours Phrazes For The Young

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Q: Can not simultaneously run monkeyrunner scripts (e.g. two monkeyrunner process) on multi device test.py script content:
import ....

device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(10,sys.argv[1])

device.startActivity(component='package/activity')

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I have two device , labled device1-id and device2-id

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I found some events in device2-id were sent to device1-id.  I don't know why ?
I noticed some tutorials , they said , if run monkeyrunner on more devices, could write the script like below:
device1 = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(10,device1-id)
device2 = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(10,device2-id)

device1.actions

device2.actions

but this wasn't what I need.  Anybody know why the monkeyrunner behaves this ?
What I need is that , I have one script , would run the same script on multi device simultaneously .

A: You have to specify the monkey port so you may want to use a command line argument like so
 # Imports the monkeyrunner modules used by this program
 from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice
 import sys

 # Connects to the current device, returning a MonkeyDevice object
 device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(timeOut,"emulator-"+ sys.argv[1])

 MONKEYRunner Actions . . . .

NOTE: sys.arv[0] is always the test file
Call by entering the following on the command line:
   monkeyrunner test.py PortNumber

A: I believe that Monkeyrunner is not thread safe.
To test this, create 2 scripts, hardcoding the deviceId into each.
Start each script:
In windows, use the "start script1" and then "start script2"
In Unix use "script1 &; script2 &"
Notice that script1 fails with errors after it looks like it started working just fine. and that SCript2 also fails to do what it was intended to do because it gets commands from both windows.

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Anawrahta, is a tribute to a great King, the founder of the Burmese nation, the modern day Myanmar. Built to resemble a British colonial paddle steamer, the elegant 65-meter/ 214 feet long Anawrahta features three spacious decks and 23 luxurious cabins. With its elaborate carved woodwork and shining brass, intricate tiling and fine works of Burmese art, the Anawrahta takes guests back in time to an era of bygone elegance. Amenities include a colonial style lounge, Hintha Hall restaurant serving fine international cuisine with a Burmese theme and the Kiplings Bar with fine river views and British colonial style decor. Guests can also indulge in therapeutic spa treatments at the Thazin Spa or relax on the sun deck featuring elaborate sun lounge cabanas and a swimming pool.
Embark the ship in Bagan.
Board the ship at midday and settle into your luxury cabin. Enjoy a leisurely lunch as the ship sails towards Pakkoku, an old trading town on the western riverbank of the Ayeyarwady. Visit local handicraft vendors and a thriving market giving you an insight of local goods and trading practices. Pakokku is also well known for the production of Tobacco. Continue to the Shwegu Temple, which features incredible, intricate carvings made from rare Yamanei wood. Return to the ship as she continues her journey northwards on the Ayeyervady. Later, enjoy a special evening in the Kipling Bar, taking guests back in time to an era of bygone elegance. You may also watch a classic movie under the star at the open air cinema on the sun deck.
Early risers may enjoy a yoga session on the sundeck followed by breakfast. The boat departs Pakkoku for Yandabo, a unique and fascinating gem of a village where in 1826 the King of Ava signed the Treaty of Yanderbo, signaling the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War. Explore the village on foot, mixing with locals and observing their techniques and skills to produce a variety of pots and utensils. Return to the ship for a buffet lunch. In the afternoon learn more about some of the long-lasting traditions (Longyi and Thanaka demonstration). A fascinating presentation about the history and culture of Myanmar follows afterwards.
Commence your day with a Yoga class followed by breakfast as the ship sails northward and eventually the boat arrives in Ava. In Ava disembark for a wonderful tour by horse-drawn carriage of the former royal capital, sprinkled with many kinds of distinguished ancient monasteries, such as Bagaya Kyaung, a jaw-dropping teak monastery built in 1834, which nowadays continues to be a monastic school. Return to the ship for lunch as it passes the beautiful Sagaing Hills, scattered with pagodas. Arrive in Mandalay in the afternoon where you may enjoy a tour of the most interesting sights of Mandalay. Observe the incredible process of the goldleaf beating, visit a silk-weaving manufacturer and finally have a stroll through the amiable streets that host several marble carving workshops. The ultimate highlight of the day is a sunset sailing in a small rowing boat around the famous 200-year-old U-Bein Bridge. Return to the boat where you are invited to watch a traditional dance and music performance by students and teachers of the Mandalay Art School.
Wake up early in the morning to watch the river life on the Ayeyarwady before breakfast is served. Join a discovery tour of the most impressive pagodas of Mandalay during your morning tour. First, visit the Kuthodaw Pagoda, which is known as the "the world's largest book". Continue to the Mahamuni Pagoda, which is one of the most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Burma. Lastly visit the atmospheric Shwenandaw Monastery, which is a fine example of a traditional 19th century wooden monastery buildings. Return to the boat as it sails to Mingun, which showcases the monumental, unfinished stupa of King Bodawpaya. It has never been completed, due to an astrologer who stated: once the temple is completed, the king will die. Return to the boat, where the cruise manager will invite you for High Tea with cocktails, sweats and treats. The crew offers farewell entertainment on your last night onboard.
After your final breakfast disembark the boat in Mandalay.
Disembark the ship in Mandalay.


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Das Freiberger Bergrevier ist ein ehemaliges Erz-Bergrevier in Sachsen. Es bestand vom letzten Drittel des 12. Jahrhunderts bis in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Lage
Das Freiberger Bergrevier (auch: Freiberger Zentralrevier) befindet sich im weiteren Sinne auf einer zirka 35×40 Kilometer großen Ganglagerstätte von Edel- und Buntmetallen im unteren Osterzgebirge mit dem Zentrum Freiberg. Es erstreckt sich außerhalb von Freiberg über das Gebiet der Gemeinden Halsbrücke, Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, Weißenborn, Oberschöna und der Städte Brand-Erbisdorf sowie Großschirma.

Das Freiberger (Berg-)Revier war Teil des Freiberger Lagerstättenbezirkes. Es befindet sich in dessen mittleren Teil zwischen dem Halsbrücker Revier im Norden und dem Revier Brand-Erbisdorf im Süden (daher auch: "Zentralrevier"). Diese drei Bergbaureviere waren wie folgt in einzelne Grubenfelder unterteilt:
 Revier Halsbrücke: Kurprinz und Beihilfe
 Freiberger (Zentral-)Revier: Himmelfahrt, Muldenhütten und Junge Hohe Birke
 Revier Brand-Erbisdorf: Beschert Glück, Einigkeit, Vereinigt Feld und Himmelsfürst

Geschichte
Der Freiberger Bergbau nahm hier im 12. Jahrhundert seinen Anfang, als auf der Flur von Christiansdorf Silber gefunden wurde. Dies begründete das erste Berggeschrei. Der Silberbergbau hielt bis 1912 an. Nach einer Periode der Inaktivität wurde durch die Sachsenerz Bergwerks GmbH (später Sachsenerz Bergwerks AG) ab 1933 wieder nach Erzen gesucht und die Produktion von Blei, Wolfram und anderen Metallen wiederaufgenommen. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg untersuchte die SDAG Wismut das Freiberger Revier erfolglos auf Uranvererzungen. Bis 1969 förderte der VEB Bergbau- und Hüttenkombinat "Albert Funk" Freiberg im Freiberger Revier Blei, Silber und Zink sowie Spurenmetalle.

Innerhalb dieses Bergbaureviers waren historisch zahlreiche und sind gegenwärtig noch verschiedene Verhüttungsbetriebe, wie zum Beispiel in Muldenhütten, tätig.

Rohstoffe

Die wichtigsten Erze sind Bleiglanz, Zinkblende, Schwefelkies, Arsenkies, Silberfahlerz, Rotgültigerze und Silberglanz.

Andere mineralische Rohstoffe, die bergmännisch abgebaut wurden waren: Quarz, Kalkspat, Schwerspat und Flussspat.

Literatur
 Ludwig Baumann, Ewald Kuschka, Thomas Seifert: Die Lagerstätten des Erzgebirges. Springer Spektrum, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8274-1222-5.
 Ludwig Baumann, Fritz Hofmann, Wolfgang Weber: Glückauf Freiberg. Bode Verlag, Haltern 1997, ISBN 3-925094-48-2.
 Freudenstein e.V. (Hrsg.):  Tagungsband 17. Internationaler Bergbau- und Montanhistorik-Workshop. Freiberg in Sachsen Oktober 2014. Papierflieger-Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-86948-364-1.

 Jens Kugler: Denkmale der Montangeschichte im Freiberger Nordrevier. in: Sächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (Hrsg.): Technische Denkmale in Sachsen. Arbeitsheft Nr. 27, Dresden 2017, S. 27–39.
 Otfried Wagenbreth, Eberhard Wächtler: Der Freiberger Bergbau. Technische Denkmale und Geschichte. Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-342-00117-8.

Weblinks

 Freiberg, Revier auf mineralienatlas.de

Einzelnachweise

Bergbau (Sächsisches Erzgebirge)
Freiberger Geschichte
Geographie (Landkreis Mittelsachsen)


In case you did not know, last night marked Game 3 of the 2017 NBA Finals. With the Cavs trailing the series 2-0 they hoped to bring things a little closer rolling into Cleveland with home court advantage. Things did not quite work out as planned. The game started with the Cavs being a bit more aggressive and hitting some big shots early. LeBron attacked the rim after being criticized for taking too many deep shots in the previous games. While both sides were playing well, the Warriors three-point shooting is what kept them in the game early. Klay Thompson caught fire early and kept the Warriors close early on.
The second quarter found the Warriors slowing down a bit, though still playing solid on defense. Klay Thompson cooled down, and LeBron seemed to be quietly dominating the game in points. The back and fourth quarter ended with an incredibly last second layup by Kyrie Irving to lead into halftime. Warriors lead by six rolling into the third quarter, but it looked like the Cavs were ready. With Draymond Green in foul trouble, the Cavs built a lead through a back and fourth quarter. The Warriors seemed unable to get it together while Cleveland was moving the ball well and gained some major momentum to end the quarter. The Cavs pulled ahead with a 94-89 lead heading into the fourth. However, the final quarter was all about the Warriors. The fellas moved the ball beautifully, played great defensively and showed off their shooting range and talents effortlessly.
The Cavs again seemed to fall apart in the fourth quarter, which resulted in their third loss in a row and a 3-0 lead for the Warriors. Check out the recap highlights below and stay tuned for Game 4 coming this Friday. Sweep or nah? Let us know your thoughts.


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OFT calls time on Camra's claims over the pubcos
Britain's pub industry was given the all-clear by competition watchdogs today following a 'super complaint' about so-called beer ties.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said it found no evidence that 'tied' prices - where pub companies compel tenants to buy drinks from them - were harming competition for consumers.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) had filed its first ever super complaint to the OFT in July over fears that high rents and beer ties were forcing good landlords out of business.
The OFT dismissed Camra concerns that supply ties were protecting pub-owning companies, leading to higher beer prices and less choice for consumers
But the OFT said it found 'generally effective competition between pubs' and would not be taking further action.
The OFT dismissed Camra concerns that supply ties were protecting pub-owning companies, leading to higher beer prices and less choice for consumers.
In response to Camra's complaints over pub rent calculations, the OFT said while it had received a number of submissions from worried pub lessees, its work was to focus on competition issues and the impact on consumers.
Punch Taverns shares Enterprise Inns shares
Marston's shares Greene King shares
Simon Williams, senior director at the OFT, said: "Any strategy by a pub-owning company which compromises the competitive position of its tied pubs would not be sustainable, as this would result in a loss of sales.
Simon Williams, OFT: 'Consumers benefit from a good deal of competition'
"Pub-owning companies are not therefore protected from competition by virtue of the supply ties agreed with their lessees.
"We understand that our response to Camra comes at a difficult time for the industry, but the evidence indicates that consumers benefit from a good deal of competition and choice within this sector."
The pub industry has suffered in recent years from the introduction of the smoking ban, sharply lower consumer spending amid the recession and competition from supermarkets selling cheaper alcohol.
Figures earlier this year estimated that pubs were closing at the rate of seven a day and Camra said in its complaint urgent reforms were needed to save the sector from "extinction".
Camra's complaint focused on the conduct of large pub groups.
These "pubcos" came under heavy fire from the lobby group, which alleged they were using their strong positions to impose heavy rental burdens while failing to pass on the full benefit of discounts on beer to tenants and therefore consumers.
Camra said the current beer tie system meant licensees paid around 50p a pint over the odds by being prevented from buying on the open market.
However, the OFT found only "marginal" differences in the average retail prices in tied pubs compared to free houses - by 8p more for a pint of lager and 3p for cider, while bitter prices were at the same level.
It added that higher beer prices in recent years were due to increases in pub and service sector costs.
Enterprise Inns, which has 7,600 leased and tenanted pubs, said in a statement it was "delighted" at today's decision by the OFT.
It added: "The tie has now been reviewed no fewer than 25 times since 1966 - 21 in the UK and four in the EU. On every occasion it has been concluded that the tie was fit for purpose.
"For many decades the tie has provided a low cost of entry to the pub industry for committed, entrepreneurial licensees who are unable to afford to buy a pub of their own.
"The tie provides an attractive mix of low fixed cost rent plus variable beer margin which reflects the performance of the pub, aligning the interests of the tenant and the landlord, both of whom want the pub to be successful."
Following the 90-day investigation, the OFT said: "The evidence indicates that at a national, regional and local level, there is no significant concentration of pubs owned by an individual pub company and there is generally competition between a number of different pub operators."
"Further, we have not found evidence to suggest that pub companies are acting jointly to increase prices or rents for their lessees."
Camra called on the Government to overrule the OFT decision and refer the sector to the Competition Commission.
It said the OFT had ignored its concerns and those highlighted in a report by the parliamentary Business and Enterprise Select Committee (BEC) earlier this year, which urged reforms to be made to the relationship between pub-owning companies and their lessees in the interest of consumers.
Mike Benner, Camra's chief executive, said: "We do not accept that there is sufficient competition between pubs or adequate consumer benefit from competition and choice within this sector.
"The OFT decision fails to address the legitimate concerns raised both in our super complaint and the BEC report and does nothing to address the imbalance in the landlord/lessee partnership, which is leading to higher prices, less choice and weak investment in pubs."
Shares in pub groups soared on the London market today after the OFT verdict removed the uncertainty of a major investigation into the sector.
Enterprise Inns shares raced more than 17 per cent ahead, while Punch Taverns lifted 12 per cent. However, the industry still faces a formal response from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to the BEC report released in May.
The response had been delayed until the outcome of the OFT report.
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Why and How Quality Wins over Network Effects and What it Means
Journal of Marketing Research, Forthcoming
7 Pages Posted: 29 Aug 2008 Last revised: 3 Sep 2014
See all articles by Gerard J. Tellis
Gerard J. Tellis
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Department of Marketing
Rakesh Niraj
Eden Yin
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Networks are an important and very interesting phenomenon, which is increasingly prevalent in contemporary high-tech markets. Many papers in the literature have explored how network effects can lead to perverse markets. Contrary to this position, Tellis, Yin and Niraj (2009) suggest that quality is important even in the presence of network effects, which enhances rather than overwhelms the role of quality. The insightful commentaries of Brown and Morgan (2009), Ratchford (2009), Rossi (2009), Reibstein (2009), and Shugan (2009) seem to concur that the evidence of Tellis, Yin and Niraj (2009) is persuasive. However, the commentaries raise a number of important issues that enrich the meaning of the constructs and the interpretation of the findings. They provide a wealth of directions for future research.
Keywords: Network effects, Quality, Path dependance, Tipping
Tellis, Gerard J. and Niraj, Rakesh Kumar and Yin, Eden, Why and How Quality Wins over Network Effects and What it Means (August 28, 2008). Journal of Marketing Research, Forthcoming, Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. MKT 23-09, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1260497
Gerard J. Tellis (Contact Author)
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Department of Marketing ( email )
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Rakesh Kumar Niraj
Case Western Reserve University ( email )
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Tourists entertained by Hongxing as he proudly served his wine.
In 2014, Wu Gongdi's family also began experimenting with storing and fermenting wine in oak barrels for the first time, as part of an agreement with a corporation in the provincial capital that hired his family to make wine as gifts for their employees. The ratio of production of the wine is 1 kilo of raw grapes for every half liter of finished product.
Long awaited grape wine after a month of fermentation.
The liquid becomes the final wine product after the endeavors above and is stored in clay jars for storage, sale, and display. Typically, it might be fermented enough and drunk and sold as early as 3-4 months after first being made.
Bamboo is wrapped around the end of the tubes as a filter while pumping fermented wine.
The filtration and sieving process is repeated several times until the wine becomes a pure liquid free of sediment.
Pumping the fermented wine from the barrel containing sediments of grape seeds and skin.
In order to filter the wine it is siphoned out into small basins or barrels from the larger buckets using a plastic tube. Any leftover grape skins and seeds sieved out are also saved and stored in a bucket for later grape liquor distillation. The filtered wine is then poured back into the buckets and sealed tightly with plastic film again to ferment.
After being left to ferment for three to ten days, the length depending upon the maturity and sweetness of the grapes, the wine is filtered or sieved through bamboo baskets and cheesecloth.
Wu Gongdi's daughter-in-law testing the degree of fermentation.
Additionally, most villagers including Wu Gongdi add sugar when they crush the grapes, indicating that this helps with fermentation and increases sweetness. Indeed 'Rose Honey' itself is a rather sweet varietal of grape and makes a better dessert wine over a dry wine in the views of the authors.
Sealing the crushed grape juice, seeds, and skin for fermentation.
After crushing the leftover stems are picked out of the basins, leaving the grape juice and sediments of grape skins and seeds, which are poured into large plastic buckets.
Wu Gongdi's daughter-in-law crushing grapes, while he himself picks out the stems from the already crushed fruit.
Some seniors have recalled that locals previously chose to use a large wooden stick to crush grapes in wooden barrels before the 1950's. The wooden basins have been abandoned for weight consideration and economics in contemporary times.
Wu Gongdi's family crushing grapes.
After piling all of the grapes harvested from the vineyards in the household courtyard, the grapes are crushed by hand in large plastic or metal basins.
Grape harvesting: Process of Making Red Wine.
Winemaking begins by harvesting of the grapes, which are picked from the vines by the bundle, placed in bamboo or plastic baskets and then carried home with the basket on one's back. All five members of Wu Gongdi's family were actively involved in this stage of harvesting; even his granddaughter and grandson copied the others' actions.
Picking the stems from the crushed grapes.
However, In Cizhong the situation is quite different than in other parts of Deqin. While some households do indeed grow some government introduced Cabernet cultivar with the use of chemicals, other choose to grow mostly 'Rose Honey,' which can be done entirely organically. Household agriculture in Cizhong also remains quite diverse, with large quantities of rice, wheat, barley, corn, and vegetables grown alongside vineyards, making food security a non-issue compared to other villages where grapes are monocroped. Additionally, while small quantities of Cabernet grapes grown in Cizhong are sold to the Shangri-La Wine Company, the majority of households use their grapes exclusively for winemaking, with the sale of wine making a great difference in annual household income. For Wu Gongdi's family, wine, which is sold not only to tourists but also to restaurants and to large companies as annual employee gifts, is the largest source of annual income, with revenue from the sales going into his two granddaughters' primary school education and living expenses in the local county town. In addition to regular grape wine, Wu Gongdi has also been testing production of ice wine, grape liquor distilled from the leftover skin and seeds, as well as 'Rose Honey' grape jam.
Wu Gongdi's and his son Hongxing's wine in a barrel and a Cizhong labeled bottle.
Most households in Cizhong produce relatively small amounts of wine compared to Wu Gongdi and only sell to visitors and also sell some grapes to the local Shangri-La Wine Company. The Shangri-La Wine Company is a recent development throughout the lowland river valleys of Deqin County where Cizhong is located. Developed in the early 2000's by the local government as a poverty alleviation scheme, the company and the county government have promoted the conversion of traditional agricultural fields of barley and wheat throughout Deqin into monocroped vineyards. In most villages the grapes produced in these vineyards are sold directly to the company for winemaking rather than being used for household winemaking as they are in Cizhong. While the growing of grapes has overall led to higher annual incomes for households throughout the region, there have been drawbacks in terms of sustainability and food security. Having abandoned the production of grains for subsistence consumption, households are reliant on the sale of grapes to purchase food, and the Shangri-La Wine company does not have guaranteed contracts with villagers from one year to the next, often showing up late to purchase grapes after they have ripened and begun to dry out. In addition, the grapes introduced to Cizhong more recently and to other villages by the government and the company are of a different Cabernet variety, which requires heavy use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. For more detailed information and these agricultural transformations in Deqin County associated with viticulture, see (Galipeau 2015).
Wu Gongdi's wife vigorously crushing grapes.
With keen entrepreneurial talent and as an expert of grafter of fruit trees, Wu Gongdi, the director of the Cizhong Church Management Committee, started to learn to make wine from his aunt, who was a nun with the French and Swiss fathers in the upstream community of Yanjing in Tibet, prior to the 1950s. Wu Gongdi pioneered 'Rose Honey' grape cultivation with seedlings and cuttings taken from the original walled church vineyard in Cizhong's church grounds in 1998. His family currently plants 8 mu (5333 square meters) of vineyards terraced along slopes below the forested mountains next to his house. From 1998 to the present, Wu Gongdi's family has produced an average of 2000 kilos of wine per year, one of the largest annual household wine outputs in Cizhong. It is agreed among domestic and foreign visitors that the alcohol content is between 10-20%, one alcohol company specifically measured the alcohol content of Wu Gongdi's wine as 18% in December 2014. The wine also fluctuates in taste and quality. Households all over Cizhong Village sell home-produced wine, and villagers are very proud of their ability to produce natural and organic products, contrary to other wine found in the region and discussed below.
Wine in Cizhong turns into a must serve beverage during village weddings.
Today grape wine has also become an item in daily household consumption among some families, though particularly during festivals such as weddings where it is consumed in abundance. With the development of local tourism based around Cizhong's unique history, the local wine has also become a souvenir for Han Chinese and international visitors. The rest of this photo essay describes the production of wine by Wu Gongdi's family in Cizhong in September 2014. This family has been recognized as the first to procure 'Rose Honey' grapes from the remnant churchyard vineyards in 1998 to develop wine as a touristic product, a practice that is now almost ubiquitous among all of Cizhong's households.
Bottling 'Cizhong' labeled grape wine.
I think Catholic culture is part of Tibetan culture, so wine is also part of Tibetan culture. But you also can't talk about wine without talking about Catholic mass. The fathers who were here even learned to speak Tibetan and I think this also makes wine part of Tibetan identity here…We were the first family to regularly make wine, so for my family yes, it is very important to our identity.
An 86-year old devout catholic elder and local historian who used to assist the French and Swiss fathers before the 1950s.
Wine is important to local culture because it is needed for Catholic mass, and this ritual can't take place without wine. Wherever there is a church there is a vineyard; wine is not for play, it is for ritual. The French brought grapes overland from Vietnam, Nepal, and Tibet. These fathers traveled and brought grapes and wine to Sichuan and Tibet earlier before their arrival in Cizhong.
Collecting 'Rose Honey' grape cuttings from the walled church yard vineyard.
Winemaking is an important cultural activity in Cizhong. For over a decade, it has been used in daily household consumption and to serve guests who visit the village, which receives large numbers of tourists each year. Because of its association with village religious identity, wine is a very popular drink to serve to guests. Furthermore, Cizhong villagers are eager to share and discuss the history of wine and winemaking with visitors.
Cizhong Church built with Western and Chinese architectural styles.
The village of Cizhong is situated along the upper Mekong River in Diqing Tibetan Prefecture of Northwest Yunnan Province. A unique feature of Cizhong is that the community consists of many Tibetan Catholics, a religion that French and then Swiss missionaries introduced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Deshayes 2008; Lim 2009). This is highly unusual in and of itself since Tibetans are known worldwide as devout Buddhists. Additionally, the Catholic missionaries introduced grape cultivation and winemaking to this village; both practices that have been revived and carried on by villagers today in response to increasing tourism interest in Cizhong and its Catholic history.
Cizhong Church built in 1909.
Wine in Cizhong village is made of grapes, primarily from a variety known as 'Rose Honey' that was introduced to the Tibetan areas of Yunnan Province by French and Swiss Catholic missionaries over a century ago. This Vitis cultivar is thought to contain at least some DNA from the species vinifera hybridized with other unconfirmed species, though its definitive origin is still unknown. Assumed to be of missionary introduction and previously grown in Europe, it was wiped out by a blight and earlier thought to be extinct (Dangl 2011). By a twist of fate it still exists, but only in Yunnan Province (Galipeau 2015).
by Fei Sun and Brendan A. Galipeau, this photo essay describes the history and process of grape wine production in Tibetan Cizhong Village of Northwest Yunnan Province, China. It follows and documents the annual winemaking tradition in one village household, and also provides photos showing the blending of wine into everyday village life, such as for wedding festivals and tourism promotion.
All photos taken by the authors from August through December 2014.
Fei Sun (MPhil, Anthropology, Yunnan University, 2010) is a freelance anthropologist who has lived and worked in Yunnan Province on projects involving ethnicity, ecology, and environmental conservation for over ten years. He has consulted with and led expeditions and research trips for a variety of organizations including National Geographic Magazine, The Nature Conservancy, and the Joseph F. Rock Herbarium of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa.
Brendan A. Galipeau (MA, Applied Anthropology, Oregon State University, 2012) is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. His research interests and publications focus on environmental and economic anthropology of hydropower development, agricultural practices, and non-timber forest products in Southwest China. His current dissertation research explores economic and ecological commodification as modes of indigeneity and identity formation as they relate to agricultural change of red wine and grape production among Tibetans in Southwest China.
Thanks to Hongxing, the trekking guide, for his hospitality while visiting his home during the winemaking season, and for his insightful contributions to the information in this photo essay. Appreciation also to Wu Gongdi for patiently explaining the processes of wine making. Inspiration was also drawn from a previous article by (Delang 2008) on rice whiskey production in Northern Laos as cited in the list of references below. Helpful comments were also provided by three reviewers from the journal Ethnobotany Research & Applications.
We use Wu Gongdi's and his son Hongxing's real names by their own request, as cultural informants. Wu Gongdi is a public figure in Cizhong as the director of the church management association and has also been the main protagonist in two documentaries produced about Cizhong and Catholicism in Tibet by the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong and the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences (Liu 2002; The Way to Tibet 2004). Wu Gongdi and Hongxing are especially proud of their family's wine and have asked us to use their real names when writing about them because they do indeed want people to know about their wine and their family's story.
Dangl, Gerald. 2011. Tales from the FPS Plant Identification Lab. University of California Davis FPS (Foundation Plant Services) Grape Program Newsletter, October.
Delang, Claudio O. 2008. Keeping the Spirit Alive: Rice Whiskey Production in Northern Lao P.D.R. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 6: 459–70.
Deshayes, Laurent. 2008. Tibet (1846-1952); Les Missionnaires de l'impossible. Paris: Les Indes Savantes.
Galipeau, Brendan A. 2015. Balancing Income, Food Security, and Sustainability in Shangri-La: The Dilemma of Monocropping Wine Grapes in Rural China. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 37 (2): 74–83.
Lim, Francis Khek Gee. 2009. Negotiating 'Foreignness,' Localizing Faith: Tibetan Catholicism in the Tibet-Yunnan Borderlands. In Christianity and the State in Asia: Complicity and Conflict, edited by Julius Bautista and Francis Khek Gee Lim, 79–96. London: Routledge.
Liu, Wenzeng. 2002. Christmas Eve in Cizhong, Cizhong Red Wine (Cizhong Shengdan Jie, Cizhong Hongjiu, 茨中圣诞夜, 茨中红酒). Baima Mountain Culture Research Institute.
The Way to Tibet. 2004. Audio Visual Center of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.


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Yes TV by Fetch App - No longer supported
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When I opened the YesTV application on my mobile phone today it displayed the following message: "The YesTV by Fetch App will no longer be supported. Please swap over to the Fetch Mobi App". So following those instructions I downloaded and installed the Fetch Mobi App. I entered the activation code into the Fetch Mobi App and it took me to a screen asking for my pin. Whenever I entered the pin it kept displaying an error saying the pin was wrong.
I decided to contact Optus YesTV tech support to get help with the error regarding the pin. However, when I explained to the technical support representative that the YesTV app was displaying a message that it would no longer be supported he explained that was not the case and it was an issue with the app. He suggested to delete the cache/data of the app, uninstall it, restart the phone and then re-install the app.
I queried why would Optus's own app tell me it was no longer supported if that was not the case, but the representative assured me it was a technical error. Whilst on the phone I also informed the representative regarding the issue with the pin and it turns out for some reason my pin was reset to the default pin of 0000.
After trying to unistall and reinstall the YesTV app it is still displaying the same message regarding not being supported anymore.
Anyway, I went ahead and activated the Fetch Mobi app using the activation code and the default 0000 pin.
I doesn't bother me which app I use because the are both exactly the same other than in name. My only concern is will using the FetchMobi app still mean that the data usage will be unmetered?
Also, out of interest is the YesTV application no longer being supported or is this a technical issue like the representative suggested?
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Re: Yes TV by Fetch App - No longer supported
"Technical Issue" sounds like a CS who doesn't know why something that should and has worked isn't any more. FWIW it seems very unlikely the Optus Fetch app has been retired.
If you're worried about your data then I suggest you test it out first hand. Wait 60 minutes and then record the data usage in the Optus app (headline number). Then Stream 'free' content for an hour or two. Go to bed and in the morning check the same headline number. If it hasn't changed much then its free still.
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I've done a bit of research and found the following comms from late last year:
The Fetch Mobi App was available to new and recontracting customers (online only). However, due to system constraints between Legacy and Jarvis, the Fetch Mobi app has been withdrawn from sale online.
We'd just released version 3.9 of our Fetch companion app on the 22/05/18
What improvements have been made?
Improved Download Manager
Rotten Tomatoes updates
Resolved issue where recording settings were incorrectly displayed
Recording duration that is less than 1 minute now shows seconds instead
Resolved an issue where detail pages scrolling up would cause the image to shrink
Resolved a rare issue where the app would crash when the user lands on an empty wishlist page.
General user interface clean up
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United States Supreme Court
U.S. v. SHIPP(1906)
Argued: Decided: December 24, 1906
Solicitor General Hoyt and Attorney General Moody for complainant.[ U.S. v. Shipp 203 U.S. 563 (1906) ]
[203 U.S. 563, 568] Messrs. Judson Harmon, Lewis Shepherd, G. W. Chamlee, Robert B. Cooke, Martin A. Fleming, T. P. Shepherd, Robert Pritchard, and Clift & Cooke for defendants.
[203 U.S. 563, 571]
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:
This is an information charging a contempt of this court, and is to the following effect. On February 11, 1906, one Johnson, a colored man, was convicted of rape upon a white woman, in a criminal court of Hamilton county, in the state of Tennessee, and was sentenced to death. On March 3 he presented a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the United States circuit court, setting up, among other things, that all negroes had been excluded, illegally, from the grand and petit juries; that his counsel had been deterred from pleading that fact or challenging the array on that ground, and also from asking for a change of venue to secure an impartial trial, or for a continuance to allow the excitement to subside, by the fear and danger of mob violence; and that a motion for a new trial and an appeal were prevented by the same fear. For these and other reasons it was alleged that he was deprived of various constitutional rights, and was about to be deprived of his life without due process of law.
On March 10, after a hearing upon evidence, the petition was denied, and it was ordered that the petitioner be remanded to the custody of the sheriff of Hamilton county, to be detained by him in his custody for a period of ten days, in which to enable the petitioner to prosecute an appeal, and, in default of the prosecution of the appeal within that time, to be then further proceeded with by the state court under its sentence. On March 17 an appeal to this court was allowed by Mr. Justice Harlan. On the following Monday, March 19, a similar order was made by this court, and it was ordered further 'that all proceedings against the appellant be stayed, and the custody of said appellant be retained pending this appeal.'
The sheriff of Hamilton county was notified by telegraph of the order, receiving the news before 6 o'clock on the same day. The evening papers of Chattanooga published a full account of what this court had done. And it is alleged that [203 U.S. 563, 572] the sheriff and his deputies were informed, and had reason to believe, that an attempt would be made that night by a mob to murder the prisoner. Nevertheless, if the allegations be true, the sheriff, early in the evening, withdrew the customary guard from the jail, and left only the night jailer in charge. Subsequently, it is alleged, the sheriff and the other defendants, with many others unknown, conspired to break into the jail for the purpose of lynching and murdering Johnson, with intent to show contempt for the order of this court, and for the purpose of preventing it from hearing the appeal and Johnson from exercising his rights. In furtherance of this conspiracy a mob, including the defendants, except the sheriff, Shipp, and the night jailer, Gibson, broke into the jail, took Johnson out and hanged him, the sheriff and Gibson pretending to do their duty, but really sympathizing with and abetting the mob. The final acts as well as the conspiracy are alleged as a contempt.
The defendants have appeared and answered, and certain preliminary questions of law have been argued which it is convenient and just to have settled at the outset before any further steps are taken. The first question, naturally, is that of the jurisdiction of this court. The jurisdiction to punish for a contempt is not denied as a general, abstract proposition, as, of course, it could not be with success. Ex parte Robinson, 19 Wall. 505, 510, 22 L. ed. 205, 207; Ex parte Terry, 128 U.S. 289, 302 , 303 S., 32 L. ed. 405, 408, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 77. But it is argued that the circuit court had no jurisdiction in the habeas corpus case, unless Johnson was in custody in violation of the Constitution (Rev. Stat . 753, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 592), and that the appellate jurisdiction of this court was dependent on the act of March 3, 1891, chap. 517, 5, 26 Stat. at L. 827, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 549 (Re Lennon, 150 U.S. 393 , 37 L. ed. 1120, 14 Sup. Ct. Rep. 123), and by that act did not exist unless the case involved 'the construction or application of the Constitution of the United States.' If the case did not involve the application of the Constitution otherwise than by way of pretense, it is said that this court was without jurisdiction, and that its order might be contemned with impunity. And it is urged [203 U.S. 563, 573] that an inspection of the evidence before the circuit court, if not the face of the petition, shows that the ground alleged for the writ was only a pretense.
We regard this argument as unsound. It has been held, it is true, that orders made by a court having no jurisdiction to make them may be disregarded without liability to process for contempt. Re Sawyer, 124 U.S. 200 , 31 L. ed. 402, 8 Sup. Ct. Rep. 482; Ex parte Fisk, 113 U.S. 713 , 28 L. ed. 1117, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 724; Ex parte Rowland, 104 U.S. 604 , 26 L. ed. 861. But even if the circuit court had no jurisdiction to entertain Johnson's petition, and if this court had no jurisdiction of the appeal, this court, and this court alone, could decide that such was the law. It and it alone necessarily had jurisdiction to decide whether the case was properly before it. On that question, at least, it was its duty to permit argument, and to take the time required for such consideration as it might need. See Mansfield, C. & L. M. R. Co. v. Swan, 111 U.S. 379, 387 , 28 S. L. ed. 462, 465, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 510. Until its judgment declining jurisdiction should be announced, it had authority, from the necessity of the case, to make orders to preserve the existing conditions and the subject of the petition, just as the state court was bound to refrain from further proceedings until the same time. Rev. Stat. 766; act of March 3, 1893, chap. 226, 27 Stat. at L. 751, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 597. The fact that the petitioner was entitled to argue his case shows what needs no proof, that the law contemplates the possibility of a decision either way, and therefore must provide for it. Of course, the provision of Rev. Stat. 766, that, until final judgment on the appeal, further proceedings in the state court against the prisoner shall be deemed void, applies to every case. There is no implied exception if the final judgment shall happen to be that the writ should not have issued or that the appeal should be dismissed.
It is proper that we should add that we are unable to agree with the premises upon which the conclusion just denied is based. We cannot regard the grounds upon which the petition for habeas corpus was presented as frivolous or a mere pretense. The murder of the petitioner has made it impossible to decide [203 U.S. 563, 574] that case, and what we have said makes it unnecessary to pass upon it as a preliminary to deciding the question before us. Therefore we shall say no more than that it does not appear to us clear that the subject-matter of the petition was beyond the jurisdiction of the circuit court, and that, in our opinion, the facts that might have been found would have required the gravest and most anxious consideration before the petition could have been denied.
Another general question is to be answered at this time. The defendants severally have denied under oath in their answer that they had anything to do with the murder. It is urged that the sworn answers are conclusive; that if they are false parties may be prosecuted for perjury, but that in this proceeding they are to be tried, if they so elect, simply by their oaths. It has been suggested that the court is a party and therefore leaves the fact to be decided by the defendant. But this is a mere afterthought, to explain something not understood. The court is not a party. There is nothing that affects the judges in their own persons. Their concern is only that the law should be obeyed and enforced, and their interest is no other than that they represent in every case. On this occasion we shall not go into the history of the notion. It may be that it was an intrusion or perversion of the canon law, as is suggested by the propounding of interrogatories and the very phrase, 'purgation by oath' ( juramentum purgatorium). If so, it is a fragment of a system of proof which does not prevail in theory or as a whole; and the reason why it has not disappeared perhaps may be found in the rarity with which contempts occur. It may be that even now, if the sole question were the intent of an ambiguous act, the proposition would apply. But in this case it is a question of personal presence and overt acts. If the presence and the acts should be proved there would be little room for the disavowal of intent. And when the acts alleged consist in taking part in a murder it cannot be admitted that a general denial and affidavit should dispose of the case. The outward facts [203 U.S. 563, 575] are matters known to many and they will be ascertained by testimony in the usual way. The question was left open in Re Savin, 131 U.S. 267 , 33 L. ed. 150, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 699, with a visible leaning toward the conclusion to which we come, and that conclusion has been adopted by state courts in decisions entitled to respect. Huntington v. McMahon, 48 Conn. 174, 200, 201; State v. Matthews, 37 N. H. 450, 455; Bates's Case, 55 N. H. 325, 327; Re Snyder, 103 N. Y. 178, 181, 8 N. E. 479; Crow v. State, 24 Tex. 12, 14; State ex rel. Mason v. Harper's Ferry Bridge Co. 16 W. Va. 864, 873. See Wartman v. Wartman, Taney, 362, 370, Fed. Cas. No. 17, 210; Cartwright's Case, 114 Mass. 230; Eilenbecker v. District Court, 134 U.S. 31 , 33 L. ed. 801, 10 Sup. Ct. Rep. 424. Whether or not Rev. Stat. 725, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 583, applies to this court, it embodies the law so far as it goes. We see no reason for emasculating the power given by that section, and making it so nearly futile as it would be if it were construed to mean that all contemners willing to run the slight risk of a conviction for perjury can escape.
The question was touched, in argument, whether the acts charged constitute a contempt. We are of opinion that they do, and that their character does not depend upon a nice inquiry whether, after the order made by this court, the sheriff was to be regarded as bailee of the United States or still held the prisoner in the name of the state alone. Either way, the order suspended further proceedings by the state against the prisoner, and required that he should be forthcoming to abide the further order of this court. It may be found that what created the mob and led to the crime was the unwillingness of its members to submit to the delay required for the trial of the appeal. From that to the intent to prevent that delay and the hearing of the appeal is a short step. If that step is taken the contempt is proved.
These preliminaries being settled the trial of the case will proceed.
Mr. Justice Moody took no part in the decision.
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Huawei Australia has announced that former Victorian premier John Brumby will leave its board.
John Lord, Huawei Australia's chairman, said Brumby "stayed on the board longer than he first intended" and thanked him for his service to the company and contributions that saw local annual revenue go from $299 million to $623 million during his tenure.
Once CRN was able to enter the conference, we were treated to Brumby and Lord vigorously defending the company.
Brumby said he feels the ban on Huawei 5G equipment in Australia and elsewhere is a geopolitical squabble an a "clash of systems" between China and the USA.
"There has never been any case where the company has been found to misuse information," he said. "The company would never, ever, provide information to the Chinese government if requested because that would be the end of the company.
"We are not a state-owned enterprise, we are owned by employees and those people have an interest in securing the interests of the company," he said.
Brumby's departure from the Board will not massively inconvenience Huawei's local operations, as the Board meets infrequently. Brumby's gravitas may be missed, but Huawei Australia has previously secured directors with similar credentials – former Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was among its first local board members – and Lord said he hopes to recruit a replacement local director.
The departing director added his opinion that Huawei's exclusion from 5G in Australia will cost the nation money, and claimed credit for driving down the cost of broadband. "Our great legacy is the way we have been able to drive down costs and improve network performance."
He added that while business conditions for Huawei in Australia are clearly less bright than they have been, the company has growth prospects in the resources sector and has seen strong growth in its handset business.


Do you think there's a big Olympic computer in Stratford that has "book Emeli Sandé" as a default option?
There she was at the opening ceremony singing plaintively over a simple piano motif, and there she was at the closing ceremony, singing plaintively over a simple piano motif. Her quiff seemed to have flopped a bit in the meantime - presumably because they'd locked her in a cupboard to stop her doing a runner.
The big Olympic computer isn't stupid. Emile's catch-in-your-throat vocals tip buckets of emotion over any scenario, no matter how grandiose or ridiculous. And, yes, that includes supporting Coldplay. So it's no big surprise that Naughty Boy has snared the Aberdonian singer for his debut single, Wonder.
If you don't know Naughty Boy, he's a South London producer who started making music in his garden shed, and now owns a state-of-the-art recording studio with tea and coffee making facilities and everything. Over the last few years, he's been shuffling faders for the likes of Chipmunk, Cheryl Cole and Tinie Tempah. All the while, he's been sneakily working on his debut solo record – a concept album called Hotel Cabana.
As far as I can work out, Naughty Boy doesn't actually feature on the album. According to the blurb, the record will feature a "stellar cast" of guest stars, whose names are being kept under wraps (although eyepatch enthusiast Gabrielle has already blabbed that she's on a forthcoming single called Hollywood). But if the rest of the album matches the anthemic, soulful debut single, we're in for a treat.


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How Imagination Technologies aim to bring desktop graphic details to mobile phones?
While a myriad number of gaming applications are present on smartphones and tablets, they are nowhere near the level of graphic fidelity that desktop and laptop graphics are able to render. While it will take a long time for desktop and laptop class graphics to appear on smartphones and tablets, Imagination technologies, a chip designer placed in England, has found a way to expedite the process. The company's current mobile GPUs, which have been given the model name PowerVR GX6650 are graphical powerhouses when it comes to rendering mobile graphics.
Will Imagination Technologies' next GPU bring superior graphical performance?
The chip designing company's current flagship GPU; the PowerVR GX6650 is one that has been incorporated in to Apple's flagship tablet, the iPad Air 2, which features an A8X chipset; a chipset that runs a tri-core processor. When pitted against the Nexus 9, which is the world's first device to be fitted with NVIDIA's Keplar based Tegra K1 SoC with a Denver CPU, both tablets reach a stalemate according to the benchmarking reports, indicating the mobile graphics rendering capabilities of the PowerVR GX6650.
The company's upcoming GPU series, the Series7xt GT7900 will possess the same graphical performance as NVIDIA's GTX 750 thanks to its technical details. It will possess 16 clusters, along with 512 ALUs (arithmetic-logic units). In addition, the chip's peak theoretical performance will scale above 1 teraflop, making it a formidable GPU for not only its direct competition (mobile GPUs), but for the indirect competition too (desktop and laptop graphic chips).
According to the company, the Series7xt GT7900 will be able to deliver more than 60 percent the performance of Imagination Technologies' current flagship mobile GPU, the PowerVR GX6650. In addition to the performance, the upcoming series will also possess the following technologies.
Improved power efficiency: The upcoming series will possess a new co-issue mechanism that will make better use of existing resources. Seeing as how battery depletion occurs at an alarming rate when smartphones and tablets are stressed under intense gaming applications, the improved power efficiency of the Series7xt GT7900 will provide additional battery life to mobile gamers.
Hardware tessellation: Tessellation was an improved graphic feature that were introduced in NVIDIA's GTX 400 series of GPUs, which possessed support for Microsoft's DirectX 11, an API which boasted the tessellation feature. Now, the graphics technology has found its way to mobile GPUs. Tessellation for mobile GPUs will also include geometry and compute shaders, which add more detail to flat and curved objects such as walls, wheels and characters.
Optional DirectX 11 support: Microsoft's infamous API will allow game developers to take advantage of a plethora of features that not only will make the game visually embellished, but additional optimizations will ensure that the GPU is able to deliver above satisfactory gaming performance without being stressed too much. This feature will retain sufficient battery life.
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While the Series7XT GPU is looking to be an extremely impressive mobile GPU specimen, chances are that it will not be unveiled for at least a year. During this period, Apple will be looking to incorporate the powerful mobile GPU in its upcoming devices; one that will either have Apple's A9 or A10 SoC. It will be interesting to see what Qualcomm has in store in the mobile GPU department. For a company that has the majority of the market share percentage in mobile chipsets, it is very likely that the company will be releasing its Adreno 500 series GPU. As for NVIDIA, the company is most likely working on its Maxwell based chipset to combat the impressive numbers of the Series7xt GT7900. While the Maxwell architecture is thoroughly impressive in the desktop and laptop market, the mobile category is a whole new ball game altogether.
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Anaconda vs All About that Bass: the Skinny-Fat Bitch Scale
Two big songs have come out recently which contain the phrase "skinny bitches", and I thought it was enough to warrant a blog post. As if you haven't guessed, those songs, and their accompanying music videos, are Anaconda (NSFW) by Nicki Minaj and All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor.
What's really interesting is the different way in which either song uses the phrase, and what the reaction to those uses has been. Let's take a look at the relevant sets of lyrics:
Fuck those skinny bitches /
Fuck those skinny bitches in the club /
I wanna see all the big fat ass bitches in the motherfucking club, fuck you if you skinny bitches.
All About That Bass
I'm bringing booty back /
Go 'head and tell them skinny bitches that /
No I'm just playing, I know you think you're fat /
But I'm here to tell you /
Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.
Since its meteoric rise on the music scene, All About That Bass has received some backlash for skinny shaming. For the record, I don't really think the song is trying to be insulting to skinny women, even if it does use the phrase "skinny bitches". Overall the lyrics emphasise the importance of loving yourself and your body no matter what it may look like (despite some mixed messages – come on Meghan Trainor, do you really think all skinny people are Barbie dolls?), and the video features a range of different body sizes. Sure, it's not the most eloquent ode to self-acceptance, but I think the core message is fairly clear.
However, the controversial line in question does sting a little of Trainor wanting to have her cake and eat it too, so I can see why it got people upset. I'm not fully convinced that you can call a group of people skinny bitches (and everything that the term implies) for not having a bangin' booty and then turn around and say hey, only kidding, we're all beautiful! But despite some conflicting evidence, I'm happy to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she did mean to use the phrase ironically to highlight how even people with more stereotypically attractive body types can be (and often are) unhappy with how they look, given that this reading is most consistent with the rest of the song. Any offence caused is probably down to clumsiness rather than malice.
As for Anaconda, that's a whole other kettle of fish. This topic is confusing as hell to try and pull apart in my own mind, let alone the minds of others, so I'll just start by listing series of statements that I believe to be true:
Anaconda is a fun, tongue-in-cheek kind of song.
Nicki Minaj is an impressive role model.
Nicki Minaj is at liberty to present herself in any way she chooses.
Anaconda is an empowering kind of song.
Anaconda is also kind of stupid and objectifying.
But it is meant to be tongue-in-cheek…
You can see just how many conflicting feelings a song (and a music video) can stir up. There's a fair amount which is problematic about Anaconda – for starters the narrator gets with guys because they give her drugs – but I feel like most of it can be forgiven because the song is so darn sassy and cheeky (I had to make at least one bad pun), and it clearly isn't meant to be taken seriously. Yes, even all that booty shaking.
For me, the most interesting part of Anaconda is the bridge, the lyrics of which I picked out above. Nicki goes into a sort of maniacal mini-rant about skinny bitches, whom she seems to hate. However, as with the rest of the song, this somehow doesn't seem that offensive, and I think it is largely to do with how wacky the whole endeavour is overall. When Nicki sang "fuck those skinny bitches", nobody seemed to get as offended as they did at Meghan's similar, but comparatively much gentler, comments in her own song.
And here's my theory: I think "skinny bitch" is a term very few people will self-identify with in Anaconda, even though those very same people might identify with and take offense at the very same term in All About That Bass. Why? Because All About That Bass is a feel-good, upbeat song which is also fairly honest and confessional, in which the phrase "skinny bitches" was arguably a poor word choice – people weren't expecting to be insulted while they were being consoled. Anaconda, on the other hand, is a kooky romp that I expect (well, have you seen that video?) finds pleasure in trying to shock its audience. Plus – it's Nicki Minaj. Nobody expects to be consoled by Nicki Minaj.
Let me put it this way: Anaconda is to fat bitches as Single Ladies is to, well, single ladies. I haven't yet heard Anaconda being played in a club, but I'll bet that it becomes one of those songs that gets every woman up on their feet, no matter where you may fall on the skinny-fat bitch scale. Virtually every single female in the club (and most of the males) will put their hands up when Beyoncé's Single Ladies starts playing, regardless of whether they're single, happily married, or in a long term relationship with their cat. When Single Ladies is on, we are all single ladies, at least for the duration of that song. And when Anaconda comes on, I suspect, none of us are skinny bitches.
But all that aside, it's kind of remarkable how similar the two songs sound on the topic of men's desires when it comes to female body types, and what it takes to be a real woman what the menfolk want:
By the way, what he say? /
He can tell I ain't missing no meals /
He keep telling me it's real, that he love my sex appeal /
Because he don't like 'em bony, he want something he can grab.
'Cause I got that boom boom that all the boys chase /
And all the right junk in all the right places /
Yeah, my mama she told me don't worry about your size /
She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night.
This idea, that you must be a certain way physically for men to find you attractive, is still pretty pervasive. And to be clear, these songs are talking about the right kind of fat – "just fat enough" on the skinny-fat bitch scale – so that ideal is narrow in the extreme. Let's not forget, the main refrain of Anaconda is Sir Mixalot's immortal line "my anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun" – or literally, "unless you got dat ass, I don't wish to procreate with you".
So, while neither of these songs are meant to cause mass offence, and I think both should be taken light-heartedly, they do still highlight a lot of the trouble that continues to exist for women (or men, or anyone really) seeking self-acceptance. I agree with Meghan Trainor: we should be able to love ourselves for who we are. But I don't think it should be called self-acceptance if you have to drag others down to get yourself there, or it it's built upon what others think of you. Will we ever reach a day where we can accept ourselves as beautiful without having to insult others in the process or depend solely on our perceived attractiveness to the opposite gender? I hope so. Until then, we will all have our place on the skinny-fat bitch scale.
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A world-leading algorithm developed by Australian defence force scientists to detect bio-terrorism will be used to forecast our next flu epidemic.
The new tool can accurately predict outbreaks up to eight weeks in advance, giving health professionals a better chance of minimising the impact of the bug.
The system has been adopted by the Victorian department of health and is being experimentally deployed across NSW and QLD with the aim of a rollout across most of Australia ahead of next year's flu season.
The algorithm, known as EpiDefend, has been developed using data from lab flu cases, GP reports and other environmental data such as humidity.
It strengthens the reliability, accuracy and timeliness of detecting a naturally-occurring flu outbreak and helps differentiate it from purposely-released biological agents.
Defence scientist Tony Lau said: "Until now we've been focused on developing in-house skills in the detection and forecasting of naturally-occurring diseases as well as agents that might be used in bioterrorism.
Lau says the challenge confronting defence scientists has always been access to the confidential health and disease data needed for forecasting.
But, he says, a collaboration with the University of Melbourne's School of Population and Global Health has allowed a more detailed analysis of health data and created the potential for a flu early warning system.
"Our team was the first in the world to apply particle filters to disease forecasting, and the combination of techniques used in EpiDefend makes it a world-leading innovation," he said.
The group's work was recently recognised with a $1 million research grant from the US Department of Defense Coalition Warfare Program.
"Our team's goal is dual-purpose," said Lau.
"We want to fulfil our defence charter, protecting our forces against intentionally released biological agents, but disease forecasting will also support the national security and public health areas.


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