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Space mission leaves Euro trash on surface of Moon
Europe's first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission yesterday with a planned crash on the lunar surface, hitting its target at 2kps, or 7,200kph.
The impact, in a volcanic plain called the Lake of Excellence, was captured by observers on earth, and scientists hoped the resulting cloud of dust and debris would provide clues to the geologic composition of the site.
"That's it -- we are in the Lake of Excellence," said spacecraft operations chief Octavio Camino as applause broke out in the European Space Agency's mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany. "We have landed."
Minutes later, a video screen on the control room wall showed an image of the bright flash from the impact. The infrared image was captured by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mount Kea in Hawaii.
"It was a great mission and a great success and now it's over," mission manager Gerhard Schwehm said.
During its months in orbit around the moon, the spacecraft scanned the lunar surface from orbit and took high-resolution pictures. But its primary mission was testing a new, efficient, ion propulsion system officials hope to use on future interplanetary missions including the BepiColombo mission to Mercury slated for 2013.
Launched into Earth's orbit by an Ariane-5 booster rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, in September 2003, Smart-1 used its ion engine to slowly raise its orbit over 14 months until the moon's gravity grabbed it.
The engine, which uses electricity from the craft's solar panels to produce a stream of charged particles called ions, generates only small amounts of thrust but only needed 80kg of xenon fuel.
The craft's X-ray and infrared spectrometers have gathered information about the moon's geology that scientists hope will advance their knowledge about how the moon's surface evolved and test theories about how the moon came into being.
On Saturday, mission controllers had to raise the craft's orbit by 600m to avoid hitting a crater rim on final approach. Had the orbit not been raised, the craft would have crashed one orbit too soon, making the impact difficult or impossible to observe.
China possibly committed 'genocide': US commission
China has possibly committed "genocide" in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China said in a report on Thursday. The bipartisan commission said that new evidence had last year emerged that "crimes against humanity — and possibly genocide — are occurring" in Xinjiang. It also accused China of harassing Uighurs in the US. China has been widely condemned for setting up complexes in Xinjiang that it describes as "vocational training centers" to stamp out extremism and give people new skills, which others have called concentration camps. The UN says that
Australia to kill bird that crossed Pacific from US
A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 13,000km Pacific Ocean crossing from the US to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it. Kevin Celli-Bird yesterday said he discovered that the exhausted bird that arrived in his Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 last year had disappeared from a race in the US state of Oregon on Oct. 29. Experts suspect the pigeon that Celli-Bird has named Joe — after US president-elect Joe Biden — hitched a ride on a cargo ship to cross the Pacific. Joe's feat has attracted the attention
Virus Outbreak: Australian scientists raise doubts over vaccine efficacy
Australian scientists have raised questions over the efficacy of the AstraZeneca and University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in establishing herd immunity, calling for a pause on its widespread rollout as the country recorded one new case of the virus yesterday. Opposition to the vaccine casts a cloud over Australia's immunization plans, with 53 million doses of the AstraZeneca jab already on hand. "The question is really whether it is able to provide herd immunity. We are playing a long game here. We don't know how long that will take," Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology president Stephen Turner said. Turner added
Poland top court overturns extradition of Chinese man
The Polish Supreme Court on Friday quashed a lower court's green light for the extradition of a businessman to China for alleged fraud, a charge he has denied, saying that he is being targeted for supporting Falun Gong. Polish authorities took Chinese-born Swedish citizen Li Zhihui, now 53, into custody in 2019 on an international warrant issued by China for alleged non-payment in a business deal, Krzysztof Kitajgrodzki, his Polish lawyer, told reporters. Following the Supreme Court ruling, the case would return to a lower appellate court for review. Kitajgrodzki told reporters that it was still not a given that his client


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This pregnant woman was all of us when an aggressive 'grandma' threw out her coffee
If you know what it's like to live for that one sweet cup of coffee a day, you'll understand exactly why this woman's wild post on Reddit went viral.
By Sherika Harris
Photo: iStockphoto
Pregnancy and opinion go hand in hand. Whether you take a sip of wine, sample a bit of soft cheese or relax in a hot bath, everybody and their mother will have something to say about it—which can be hard to handle when you're dealing with heartburn, swollen feet and sleepless nights (not to mention raging hormones). So if one of your few comforts is your daily dose of caffeine, there's no judgment here!
But, sadly, there is judgment elsewhere. A mom-to-be went viral on the BeyondtheBump subreddit after a mom-shaming moment left her in utter disbelief. The pregnant woman, who goes by the Reddit handle CountingRavens, titled her post: "Random woman literally took away my coffee? Is this grounds for murder?"
She went on to explain that at 36 weeks pregnant, she's "Huge. Massive. Uncomfortable. Tired and grumpy," and was simply waiting for her order, a grande cold brew, at her local café. When the barista called her name, she went to grab her coffee when an elderly woman, whom she affectionately (OK, maybe passively aggressively) refers to as "grandma," tried to come between the mom-to-be and her coffee.
"You can't have that, you're pregnant!," the woman shouted. CountingRavens attempted to explain that one cup is fine, but after shouting at her again, the 'grandma' literally grabbed her full bevy and dropped it in the trash.
The barista, whose jaw was on the floor at this point, kindly offered to make her another drink as the expectant mom tried to explain that her doctor approved one cup a day. "Please leave me alone," she begged her newfound nemesis. "I'm tired, and want my coffee. I get one cup a day, this is it. Please go away."
Then in a tone she refers to as "banshee screaming," the coffee-snatcher launched into another rant, shouting, "No, you can't have it, you're pregnant, it will make you have the baby now! You can't do it, I won't let my daughter do it either but she drinks it anyway and if I can't save her I'll save you instead." Wow.
In an attempt to help, the barista tried handing the woman's second drink to her directly, but "grandma" tried to grab it once again. Can you imagine? Anyone who thinks they can get between a tired, pregnant woman and her limited daily caffeine is in for a rude awakening. The pregnant mom lost it at this point and shouted, "Please leave me alone. You're making me uncomfortable and I don't want you this close!" (Frankly we're surprised she even managed to say please at this point.)
At long last, uninvited guardian of her baby's wellbeing left her alone.
Read the entire recap below:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BabyBumps/comments/bb8k85/random_woman_literally_took_away_my_coffee_is/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
The post went viral, racking up more than 2,000 points and nearly 400 comments, with the majority taking the mother-to-be's side and poking fun at "grandma."
"OMG I tried EVERYTHING to induce labor with my daughter," keratadikatse wrote jokingly. "8 days late and here I was eating pineapple cores and walking for hours. If only I knew all I had to do was drink a cup of coffee."
And as for the naysayers, a thoroughly fed up CountingRavens had some words for them, too: "for the couple of you who are suggesting that this is a false story, bite me," she said at the top of the post.
And "for those of you who are making the same comment about not being allowed to have coffee because I'm pregnant," she continued, "bite me."
Now, maybe the old lady's heart was in the right place. Maybe her OB, years ago, told her that caffeine could hurt her baby or induce premature labour. But times have changed, grandma. And it's never OK to treat a person like that.
Read more: 6 things to never say to an overdue pregnant women This mom shared a gorgeous birth photo—and then got shamed for the worst reason
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Cone 1996
DI MAURO, Sebastian - Creator
23 x 66 x 38.5cm (closed); 20.5 x 82 x 66cm (open)
Found leather suitcase, jute felt
Place Created
Brisbane, Qld
Purchased 1997. The 1997 Moët & Chandon Art Acquisition Fund
For biographical and background information see Acc. no. 1994.010 'Additional information'. For most of his career as a professional artist Sebastian Di Mauro has been concerned with making objects suggestive of rituals and spiritual beliefs. 'Cone' is an elderly leather suitcase packed with coarse brown felt, in which a cone-shaped hole has been excavated. Di Mauro is sensitive to the physical character of tactile art-making materials. His paintings, installations and sculptures are closely connected to this most fundamental consideration, despite the fact that the objects he makes are at the opposite end of the philosophical spectrum from this basic materialism. Although better known for making large works, relatively recently he began to make artist books, which he first exhibited in 1994. This way of working suits his close attention to and fondness for tactile surfaces. His bulky, textured books match the tendency current among younger, emerging Brisbane artists in the late 1990s to produce modestly scaled, often fetishistic objects, which question the conventions of sculpture as thoroughly as installations do, but in considerably less space. 'Cone' was shown last year in a Brisbane exhibition entitled "Diaspora", based on the theme of migration and displacement, and a group of these suitcase works was included later in the year in his exhibition at Beatty Gallery in Sydney. They are, in the most literal way, portable art; not only do their felt contents suggest the references to nomadic tribes in the work of Joseph Beuys, they can also be carried by their handles. They encapsulate the poignant diaspora theme. The incongruous, abandoned appearance of 'Cone' further stresses the idea of homelessness.
© Sebastian Di Mauro
Grey II 1984
MAKIGAWA, Akio - Creator
Table with two legs on the wall 2005
AI Weiwei - Creator
Obsessive memories 2002
LIU Jianhua - Creator
Bowl: Printemps (Spring) 1991
BOHM-PARR, Judy - Creator
Sometimes I wonder 2005
WALLACE, Anne - Creator
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Anglo-Saxon England facts for kids
Overview map of Anglo-Saxon England in the early 9th century, on the eve of the Danish conquests.
Anglo-Saxon England is the history of England from the 5th to 11th centuries.
The Anglo-Saxons were people from Germanic tribes. They first came as migrants to southern Britain from central Europe. Anglo-Saxon history begins after the end of Roman control.
In the 5th and 6th centuries there were seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex.
Anglo-Saxon Christianity arrived in the 7th century. Viking invasions and Danish settlers started in the 8th century. The gradual unification of England under Wessex hegemony occurred during the 9th and 10th centuries.
Anglo-Saxon England ended with the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. Anglo-Saxon identity survived beyond the Norman Conquest, and slowly developed into the modern English people.
Images for kids
2nd to 5th century simplified migration patterns.
Silver coin of Aldfrith of Northumbria (686–705). OBVERSE: +AldFRIdUS, pellet-in-annulet; REVERSE: Lion with forked tail standing left.
Escomb Church, a restored 7th century Anglo-Saxon church. Church architecture and artefacts provide a useful source of historical information.
The walled defence round a burgh. Alfred's capital, Winchester. Saxon and medieval work on Roman foundations.
Edgar's coinage
Viking longboat replica in Ramsgate, Kent
St Bene't's Church of Cambridge, the oldest extant building in Cambridgeshire; its tower was built in the late Anglo-Saxon period.
Anglo-Saxon England Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


Creativeleap: Too Good for T.O.
Recently I dropped into Nadege Patisserie on Queen West to pick up a paintbox mix of their incredible biscuits (flourless by the way). A special something for a special someone. My first thought was that this was a nice place, particularly by Toronto standards. After tasting some of these Marie Antoinettes (really?) my next thought was, "this place is too good for Toronto".
Yes. This place is so good, you'd expect it to be somewhere like New York or London or maybe even Paris. But Toronto? Really? Then I had another thought, there area a few things that Toronto, a city bereft of any design sense, despite being a center of design activity economically, just doesn't appreciate or deserve. Like the Japanese Paper Place also on Queen. This exceptional shop has been bringing some of the finest handmade papers from Japan and Italy for years without barely a peep. Swipe Books on Richmond is another exceptional store for both it's inventory and knowledgeable staff that gets nary a mention around town. Coach House Press. Ed Burtynsky's Image Works. Hariri Pontarini's McKinsey & Company Toronto Office. All examples of things that this town doesn't deserve.
Of course, there are a lot more things that actually are not good enough for Toronto. Things like the TTC, cycling lanes, storm sewer infrastructure, the municipal government, are all sub-par for a city of Toronto's size and economic importance.
So please, Toronto. Don't screw up the good stuff and let's try to make the crappy stuff better.


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Frankenstein is a novel haunted by the spectre of death. Not yet a quarter of the way through the novel, the reader will encounter in Justine the fifth orphan (after Walton and his sister, Caroline, and Elizabeth). Beyond this repeated pattern, death has touched each chapter of the novel, first as Walton recounts how he inherited a fortune upon the death of an unnamed cousin (Letter 1.3 and note), the decline of Alphonse Frankenstein's friend Beaufort (1.1.2), the sudden demise of Caroline Frankenstein (1.2.2), Victor's nocturnal visits to vaults and charnel houses (1.3.3), his association of his Creature with mummies and ghouls (1.4.3), and the death of Justine's three siblings and mother in this paragraph. The actual context for this narrative should, of course, not be forgotten, an unexplored reach of the Arctic wilderness where the sight of another human being (Letter 4.2) provokes "unqualified wonder."


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News blackout at al.com? State's biggest site at loss for words
Posted on May 31, 2012 by Wade Kwon | 7 comments
Staff members at al.com celebrate a contest victory
with a Google-sponsored party in January.
By Wade Kwon
While the Birmingham News' reduction in print editions and jobs has received much attention, the plan to put al.com at the forefront has received relatively scant attention.
The largest website in Alabama recently changed its front page, and just today changed its dominant color from yellow to a warm gray (as did sister site nola.com). But aside from cosmetic changes, questions remain as to what's next for the company.
Birmingham News, other Advance papers to cut jobs, print editions
Cindy Martin, president and CEO of al.com, will become president of the newly formed Alabama Media Group. Owner Advance has also created Advance Central Services Alabama, to be headed by News publisher Pam Siddall.
Martin and various al.com staff members declined requests for interview.
Martin told the Birmingham Business Journal that her new company will be based in Birmingham, with offices in Huntsville, Montgomery and Mobile. In an interview with ABC 33/40, she said, "We've really got to change our business to keep and stay ahead of the consumer media habits."
And in the announcement, Martin said:
"We're excited to bring together the quality journalism of The Birmingham News, the Press-Register of Mobile and The Huntsville Times and the up-to-the minute immediacy of al.com. This is obviously a dramatic change, but we believe our award-winning journalism, top-notch advertising services and the largest website in Alabama position us to be a healthy, growing company.
"There are always painful choices when you begin a process that will lead to people losing their jobs. But at the same time, we must position ourselves to be sustainable businesses going forward. The new companies we launch in the fall, we believe, not only achieve that, but will serve our growing audiences and advertisers better than ever before."
How many staff members al.com will gain or lose, if any, remains to be seen, as well as how Martin and Siddall will work together in daily operations and hierarchy.
The Alabama Media Group management:
Vicki Applewhite, vice president of advertising at the (Mobile) Press-Register, will be vice president of marketing and strategy;
Mike Marshall, editor of the Press-Register, will be Statewide Commentary Director;
Dee Dee Mathis, director of sales at al.com, will be vice president of digital solutions;
Natalie Pruitt, vice president of advertising at the Huntsville Times, will bevice president of sales;
Kevin Wendt, editor of the Huntsville Times, will be vice president of content.
To mark the Times' 100th anniversary in 2010, Wendt wrote:
"There remains no better avenue for disseminating information – both news and advertising – than the printed newspaper. … The printed paper, The Times included, will continue to adapt in times of change."
The Advance Central Services Alabama management group:
Vicki Catlett, controller/treasurer at the Press-Register, will be executive director of finance and accounting;
Troy Niday, vice president of operations at the News, will be executive director of operations;
Diane Romine, regional vice president of technology at the News, will be executive director of technology;
Ellen Williams, human resources director at the News, will be executive director of human resources.
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Wade Kwon is a co-founder of Media of Birmingham and a Birmingham journalist for 25 years.
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Insiders detail Birmingham News' lurch toward digital future
Slide from Birmingham News/Big Communications
branding strategy presentation
The mass firings start next week.
That's the word at the Birmingham News and other Advance newspapers pushing forward the digital agenda. The master plan was to have been announced June 5, but the New York Times' scoop forced Advance's hand in New Orleans and across Alabama.
Sources within the Birmingham News who wish to remain anonymous confirmed details of the transition for staff and operations. Much still remains up in the air, as the newspaper scrambles to prepare for the historic changes afoot, dropping to three print editions a week.
"This is a disaster," a veteran reporter said. "It makes me physically ill."
It appears that employees will find out early next week if they will have a job at either of the newly formed companies, Advance Central Services Alabama or Alabama Media Group. If not, their employment will be terminated with a possible severance package.
Three major departures are already confirmed:
Editor Tom Scarritt's retirement was announced during Thursday's staff meeting.
Western Kentucky University announced the hiring of managing editor Chuck Clark on May 17 as the school's director of student publications. Clark starts his new job July 1.
Editorial page editor Bob Blalock, a 30-year News veteran, starts June 18 as editorial director for internal communications at Alabama Power.
Those remaining with the company could see cuts in salary and benefits. (Gambit reports that New Orleans Times-Picayune staffers who receive offers may still have to reapply for those jobs.)
Staff members have seen several rounds of buyouts and layoffs in the last few years. The News could see an influx of younger, cheaper journalism school graduates — a sea change in the paper's past hiring practices — to help create more posts in the new digital model.
Perhaps the most drastic change will be the moving of the newsroom from the News' downtown headquarters. In its place will be support services for the News, the Huntsville Times and the Press-Register. The new newsroom location has not been determined, though the News owns two other commercial properties.
All reporters and photographers will have company-issued laptops and cell phones, filing content to al.com rather than for the next day's print edition. Plus, they're expected to shoot photos and videos and participate in social media. One staffer said the editors will "dip" into the "rivers" of posts for the Sunday, Wednesday and Friday newspapers.
"(Publisher) Pam (Siddall) keeps saying the journalism is still important, but I don't believe that. How do we do in-depth, investigative pieces in short posts?"
Siddall, publisher of the News for the last 28 months, will head up Advance Central Services Alabama, while Cindy Martin, president/CEO of al.com since 1997, will be in charge of Alabama Media Group.
For the past few months, early shift reporters have been instructed to post just about anything every 15 minutes from 7 to 9 a.m. to al.com to drive traffic. Often, the posts would be based primarily on media releases.
Journalists are also now being instructed to participate in the often unruly comment sections following most stories, a directive that is already meeting resistance.
Because Huntsville's paper will be printed at the News' press starting in the fall, some Times production employees could shift to Birmingham. But it remains uncertain how many News production staffers will keep their jobs, though at least one department has been told it will remain intact with no planned layoffs.
A longtime production employee said, "There was a complete lack of respect and consideration for the employees in this.
"There is obviously a certain amount of discomfort in everyone's stomach about all this. We all feel betrayed to an extent and see Newhouse/Advance as just trying to improve their bottom line by shaving even more off their expense reports.
"It is theirs to do with as they wish, although it would have been more considerate of them to have done this in a much more above-board manner."
A reporter added, "I suspect that most of us will be gone, even those of us who have worked to develop the skills necessary in this brave new world."
The biggest change of all may simply be stature. With Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile dropping daily print coverage, the state's largest newspaper will be the Montgomery Advertiser.
Mockup of Birmingham News billboard with
Twitter updates using the #this_is_our_story hashtag
Additional coverage:
Weld for Birmingham: "No News is bad news: Advance shake-up leaves three Alabama cities without daily papers"
In New Orleans, staffs at Times-Picayune and Nola.com have never gotten along.
Ad Age: "What Print Cuts at Times-Picayune Mean for Papers"
For "This Is Our Story" campaign with Big Communications, Siddall said in October, "We all have really stretched our budgets to the limit."
New York Post: Changes in New Orleans making employees at other Advance papers worry
Lagniappe: Columnist blames Press-Register's decline on former publisher Ricky Mathews (now at Times-Picayune)
More stories on the Birmingham News
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Posted on May 24, 2012 by Wade Kwon | 29 comments
The newspaper world was hit with some bombshells this morning, all lobbed by Advance Publications.
Wednesday night, unconfirmed reports popped up suggesting its New Orleans' paper, the Times-Picayune, would undergo severe cuts and reduce to three times a week publication. This morning, it became a reality, as staffers found out — not from their own supervisors — but from Web and TV reports.
The New Orleans operation will reform under two companies, one handling digital operations and one handling print operations. The paper will run Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays starting in the fall, instead of seven days a week.
This morning, staff members at the Birmingham News found out from publisher Pam Siddall in a hastily called staff meeting that they too would roll out the same plan for all Alabama Advance papers, including the Huntsville Times and (Mobile) Press-Register.
Wednesday marked the rollout of a new front page design for al.com, which had previously been debuted at Advance sites mlive.com and nola.com. The new look was met with much criticism from the readers.
See Twitter reaction from Birmingham News staffers
Siddall will head up one new company, Advance Central Services Alabama, handling production, distribution, technology, finance and human resources for all three papers in Birmingham. That means the Times will be printed in Birmingham starting at a date to be determined in the fall and the Press-Register will continue to be printed in Mobile.
All three papers will run on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with special editions (such as Thanksgiving) as needed. Sunday papers will remain $2, and Wednesday and Friday papers will remain $1. Subscribers will also be given access to the e-edition.
News operations will be handled in "hubs" across the state.
Cindy Martin, president of al.com, will be the head of Alabama Media Group, over all three newspapers and al.com. It is to be a "digitally focused media company."
Martin said in the press report that the change in organizational structures across all departments will lead to a reduction in the overall size of the workforce, with details still to be worked out.
Advance owns the Birmingham News and Birmingham-based al.com, as well as the weekly Birmingham Business Journal. Its Ann Arbor (Mich.) News ended its print run in 2009 after 174 years, switching to an all-online model at annarbor.com with reduced staffing and a twice-weekly print edition.
Forbes blogger Micheline Maynard predicted that New Orleans would see similar results as Ann Arbor did:
"No offense to its staff, but AnnArbor.com, online at least, is a constantly updated blog, which gives equal play to impaled cyclists and rabid skunks as it does to politics and crime. The printed edition is newspaper-like, but with a different style and less gravitas than its predecessor."
News industry analyst Ken Doctor is calling the transformation a "forced march to digital."
Also, it was announced that the News' 37-year veteran Tom Scarritt, editor since 1997, would retire in the fall. He became the newspaper's vice president in 2001.
Andrew Beaujon at journalism institute Poynter reports that the News' Sunday circulation jumped significantly between March 2011 and March 2012, while the rest of the week fell:
"The Birmingham News' average Sunday circulation increased from 153,023 to 173,187, a 13 percent increase mostly attributable to the inclusion of 'YES! Your Essential Shopper,' a home-delivered collection of flyers. Its average daily circulation declined 7.5 percent, from 112,209 to 103,729.
"The Press-Register's Sunday circulation was basically flat, going from 103,300 to 103,373 and its daily circ dropped from 87,518 to 82,088; both figures rolled in distribution of The (Pascagoula) Mississippi Press.
"Average Sunday circulation rose 1 percent at The Huntsville Times, to 68,092 from 67,286, and daily fell 5.5 percent, from 47,366 to 44,725."
The Birmingham News, the state's largest newspaper, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for reporter Brett J. Blackledge's investigation into corruption in the state's 2-year college system. Wednesday, it was a finalist for several Green Eyeshade Awards, including its extensive coverage of the April 27, 2011, tornadoes and its 2011 series on "Reinventing Our Community."
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Posted on December 3, 2009 by Wade Kwon | 1 comment
The editor-in-chief at the state's biggest Web site has gone. Ken Booth left AL.com after 10 years, announcing his departure via Twitter:
"Today I left al.com after a great 10 years and am striking out in a new direction. All is well and I'll share more about my plans soon."
Booth oversaw editorial coverage and managed production and upkeep of the site. He previously worked as online editor for OrlandoSentinel.com. When interviewed by e-mail, he added:
"I'm leaving to pursue some other online business opportunities. My 10 years with al.com and Advance Internet has been a rewarding experience and I'll certainly miss working with the people there. I will not miss my long commute from Madison to Birmingham.
"My immediate plans are to join an associate to help him grow an editorial and e-commerce Web site. I'll be prepared to share more about that soon."
We asked AL.com president and chief executive officer Cindy Martin for a comment, but have not heard back from her. No word as to if or how the position will be filled. According to a company insider, the departure was sudden and no additional information was given to staff.
Update Dec. 9: Robert Sims, Internet editor at the Birmingham News, will join AL.com as director of content. This position will replace editor-in-chief.
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March's Hospital Hero is IT project and transition manager, Keiran Donovan.
Keiran has only been only been a project manager in the IT department for a year, yet he has successfully led the procurement and implementation of the Radiology Information System (RIS) replacement project within budget and to tight timescales.
Typically a project of this scale and complexity would take 12 months, however in this case it was completed in just four.
Keiran worked above and beyond what would be reasonably expected from his role to deliver the project, whilst at the same time learning the necessary skill sets to accomplish the role.
He has embraced and demonstrates the Trust values in his day to day activities and this has been reflected not only in his successful delivery of the RIS replacement project, but by the high esteem in which he is regarded within IT and radiology teams and by his colleagues across the wider Trust.


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Is Sophomore Summer Living Up to the Hype?
Current students and alumni share reflections on the iconic term.
by Pierce Wilson | 8/13/21 3:10am
by Alexandra Ma / The Dartmouth Staff
Fortunately, for members of the Class of 2023 and some members of the Class of 2022 who are on-campus, an in-person sophomore summer is underway for the first time since 2019. Now that pandemic restrictions have been relaxed — for the most part — has our post-pandemic sophomore summer lived up to the expectations and rumours we heard from upperclassmen?
Freshman year, I often heard the term "camp Dartmouth" when referring to sophomore summer. The upperclassmen around me said that classes would be easier and that everyone would be focused on making new friends, bonding with their class and spending time outside.
I sat down with College archivist Peter Carini to learn more about the origins of sophomore summer and trace where some of these myths originated. According to Carini, the sophomore summer requirement grew out of the beginnings of coeducation at the College in 1972 and the need for year-around operations.
"The primary reason I know of for the [sophomore summer requirement] is because they were trying not to decrease the number of men on campus while adding 1,000 women to campus," Carini said.
He said that while trustees approved coeducation and year-around operation in 1972, the sophomore summer requirement was not implemented until 1982.
Between 1978 and 1982, the committee on year-around operations met to discuss problems caused by year-around operations, such as faculty concerns about course offerings and students being unhappy with year-around operations, according to Carini.
"And so in 1982, as a way to balance it out and ensure that students were on during summer term, [the committee on year-around operation] required sophomores to be on during the summer," Carini said.
Government professor Jason Barabas '93 said that leading up to his sophomore summer, he heard about how different it would be to see Hanover not covered in ice, and that upperclassmen told him it would be a very special time to be on campus.
Barabas said that during his sophomore summer, he especially enjoyed bonding with other members of the Class of 1993 and forging new friendships, many of which lasted "a long time."
"It was a good chance to meet other members of the class," Barabas said. "It's a small college, but there's a good chance you can go through college without knowing some other members of your class. So it's a really good chance to meet a lot of those people."
Barabas said that one his favorite memories from his sophomore summer is "jumping off a house into the river, something [his] mother wasn't too happy to hear about."
Ahnili Johnson-Jennings '23 described her experience of sophomore summer and whether or not it lives up to the expectations she heard from upperclassmen.
"I was hoping the weather would be better for a longer time, but otherwise, it's been fun," Johnson-Jennings said. "It's been really rainy and really humid and really cloudy and just no sun. The air quality has been really poor, so it's been really foggy lately and hard to see through."
Johnson-Jennings noted that she had a bucket list going into the summer.
"I wanted to go to the river a lot, I wanted to go kayaking, I wanted to go berry-picking and I wanted to go to the Ludlow Vermont falls," Johnson-Jennings said.
She said that although the weather has prevented her from going to the river as often as she'd hoped, she has done everything on her bucket list other than berry-picking and visiting the falls, which she hopes to make time for during the last few weeks of the term.
Johnson-Jennings also said that the rumour of coursework being lighter during sophomore summer has not been the case for her.
"I was expecting the classes to be a lighter load than they are, just based on what other people had said around campus and my peers in other classes," she said.
Diego Perez '23, who is only taking two courses this summer instead of three, said that although he has less work in total, the workload from each class is still the same.
In her sophomore summer, Hanna Bliska '20 said she spent "quite a bit of time" working on classwork, but she found her professors were more flexible.
"I felt like the energy from professors was very different," Bliska said. "All of my professors had this understanding that it was summer. They were more flexible than normal, which just made things feel very different academically."
Jimmy Nguyen '21, however, said that his sophomore summer was one of his most difficult terms at Dartmouth.
"I think sophomore summer really is what you make of it," Nguyen said. "I went into sophomore summer very focused on trying to get the best internship possible and also taking four classes. It was very stressful, and it ended up being a very negative experience."
Nguyen said that while his sophomore summer started out fun when he did sophomore trips — which he said is one of his favorite memories from his time at Dartmouth — he ended up spending most of the rest of summer in his room studying and preparing for recruiting.
Sarah Hong '21 shared that she had a similar experience of being stressed from classes and recruiting, but that she still enjoyed her sophomore summer, and she looks back upon it even more fondly now given that it was her last term on campus prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It definitely wasn't as 'summer camp-y' as I thought it would be, because I ended up being bogged down by classes and recruiting," Hong said. "But I do think I still got closer to my class and got to enjoy Hanover summer."
Hong also said that sophomore summer allowed her to meet more people in her sorority and engage more comfortably in Greek life.
"Greek life was less intimidating after sophomore summer," Hong said. "Because all of the social chairs were from my year and I knew most people when I went to a Greek house instead of it being mostly upperclassmen, so I felt like I had a little more ownership."


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by Julie Pollitt | Jun 17, 2016 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
"It's not you, it's me."
Heard that before?
Generally this phrase gets thrown down during a break up of sorts, be it a love relationship, a friendship, a business deal. The only time it seems to be omitted, or rather, changed up, is when there is friction, anger, offence…..and now we're spruking, "Oh. It's totally and utterly you!"
I hate to break it to you but, more than likely…..it's totally and utterly……..You.
*horrified gasp*
Keep your knickers on…
So, over the new year and a fair chunk into this one, I had the pleasure and life-course changing experience of working with a couple of business mentors and something that really struck home was, "It's actually you."
My angst, my 'seemingly' important issues, offences, troubles, conflicts……they were (are) all totally, utterly and completely, 100% me and if I wanted change then…….you guessed it……………it was (is) all going to have to begin and start with ME.
At this point, I was both enlightened and full of frustrated, angsty love/hate tension.
"But they…..! But it…..! But he…..! But she…..!"
But friggen nothing.
Yogi Bhajan said,
"If you are willing to look at another person's behaviour toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all."
Kendall SummerHawk said,
"The Value we perceive in others is simply a mirror of our own magnificence."
So, let's flip that shall we because if that's the case on the lovely side of the coin, then the opposite is also true…..
What is MY behaviour towards someone else saying about ME?
What is MY perception of other's failings and shortcomings, saying about ME?
When I'm all shittified and stubborn towards my Mr, what is that saying about ME?
Sure. It takes "two to tango". Sure. The Mr is not "perfect". But then, neither am I *I know right?! So inserting another horrified gasp here….* *cheeky grin*
We (*ahem* "me") can focus all of our energy on condemning, judging and correcting our partner (and others) when what would really help us would be a good long, open-minded look into the mirror.
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."
– Ernest Holmes.
Dear Sweet Cheeks,
People do evoke feelings of angst, anger, frustration, sadness, pain and sometimes, they are complete and utter jerks.
The true power, the true lesson and the real answer lies in US, at OUR core, in OUR heart.
You are brave enough to go there.


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I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American politician and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and the 64th United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. She was the first female secretary of state in U.S. history.
1.1 1990s
1.3.1 Putin Is Making a Historic Mistake (2022)
2 Quotes about Albright
3 Disputed
1990s[edit]
It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.
Stated on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.
Public statement in response to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. In: Schweid, Barry (August 10, 1998) "Albright Offers $2M Bombings Reward".
Lesley Stahl: We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is worth it.
Stated on CBS's 60 Minutes (May 12, 1996). Albright was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations at the time.
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
Comment on the Rwandan Genocide in Madam Secretary (2003), p. 147.
What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?
To Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the 1990s, on Bosnia, recounted in Madam Secretary (2003), p. 182
Little effort was made to explain Saddam's culpability, his misuse of Iraqi resources, or the fact that we were not embargoing medicine or food. I was exasperated that our TV was showing what amounted to Iraqi propaganda...I must have been crazy; I should have answered the question by reframing it and pointing out the inherent flaws in the premise behind it. Saddam Hussein could have prevented any child from suffering simply by meeting his obligations. Instead, I said the following: 'I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.' As soon as I had spoken, I wished for the power to freeze time and take back those words. My reply had been a terrible mistake, hasty, clumsy, and wrong. Nothing matters more than the lives of innocent people. I had fallen into a trap and said something that I simply did not mean. That is no one's fault but my own.
Comment on Stahl interview in Madam Secretary (2003), pp. 274-275
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
On her upbringing, Madam Secretary (2003), p. 512
Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.
(BBC HARDTALK 17-MAY-2004) uncut version.
I never should have made it. It was stupid.
Comment on Stahl interview, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (October 19, 2005)
What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.
When asked what she considered the greatest mistake of the George W. Bush administration, interview with Deborah Solomon, New York Times (April 23, 2006)
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.
Keynote speech at "Celebrating Inspiration" luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)
I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.
Quoted in Time (July 18, 2006)
The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
Speech at a Harvard Institute of Politics/Harvard Divinity School forum (April 11, 2007), quoted in the Harvard Crimson
Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.
On illegal migrants to the United States from Mexico and Central America, in Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership (2008), p. 225
I'm a critic. I think the administration has really undermined America's power and reputation and that Iraq may go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy, which means that I think it's worse than Vietnam in its unintended consequences and for our reputation. This president, because his administration is imposing democracy, which is an oxymoron, has, I think, hurt the concept. It is not just that the administration has been unilateral but that it has been unidimensional. It has paid attention primarily to one part of the world, without enough attention being paid to other parts.
When asked what the George W. Bush administration's legacy in foreign affairs would be, interview with Thomas Omestad, U.S. News & World Report (January 2, 2008)
Get out, you disgusting Serbs!
At a book signing in Prague
Putin Is Making a Historic Mistake (2022)[edit]
In early 2000, I became the first senior U.S. official to meet with Vladimir Putin in his new capacity as acting president of Russia. ... I have been reminded in recent months of that nearly three-hour session with Mr. Putin as he has massed troops on the border with neighboring Ukraine.
Opinion Guest Essay: "Putin Is Making a Historic Mistake", The New York Times (23 February 2022)
Should he invade, it will be a historic error. ... Instead of paving Russia's path to greatness, invading Ukraine would ensure Mr. Putin's infamy ...
Ukraine is entitled to its sovereignty, no matter who its neighbors happen to be.
In early 2000, I became the first senior U.S. official to meet with Vladimir Putin in his new capacity as acting president of Russia. We in the Clinton administration did not know much about him at the time — just that he had started his career in the K.G.B. I hoped the meeting would help me take the measure of the man and assess what his sudden elevation might mean for U.S.-Russia relations, which had deteriorated amid the war in Chechnya. Sitting across a small table from him in the Kremlin, I was immediately struck by the contrast between Mr. Putin and his bombastic predecessor, Boris Yeltsin.
Whereas Mr. Yeltsin had cajoled, blustered and flattered, Mr. Putin spoke unemotionally and without notes about his determination to resurrect Russia's economy and quash Chechen rebels. Flying home, I recorded my impressions. "Putin is small and pale," I wrote, "so cold as to be almost reptilian." He claimed to understand why the Berlin Wall had to fall but had not expected the whole Soviet Union to collapse. "Putin is embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness."
I have been reminded in recent months of that nearly three-hour session with Mr. Putin as he has massed troops on the border with neighboring Ukraine. After calling Ukrainian statehood a fiction in a bizarre televised address, he issued a decree recognizing the independence of two separatist-held regions in Ukraine and sending troops there.
Mr. Putin's revisionist and absurd assertion that Ukraine was "entirely created by Russia" and effectively robbed from the Russian empire is fully in keeping with his warped worldview. Most disturbing to me: It was his attempt to establish the pretext for a full-scale invasion.
Should he invade, it will be a historic error.
In the 20-odd years since we met, Mr. Putin has charted his course by ditching democratic development for Stalin's playbook. He has collected political and economic power for himself — co-opting or crushing potential competition — while pushing to re-establish a sphere of Russian dominance through parts of the former Soviet Union. Like other authoritarians, he equates his own well-being with that of the nation and opposition with treason. He is sure that Americans mirror both his cynicism and his lust for power and that in a world where everyone lies, he is under no obligation to tell the truth. Because he believes that the United States dominates its own region by force, he thinks Russia has the same right.
Instead of paving Russia's path to greatness, invading Ukraine would ensure Mr. Putin's infamy by leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically crippled and strategically vulnerable in the face of a stronger, more united Western alliance.
Mr. Putin's actions have triggered massive sanctions, with more to come if he launches a full-scale assault and attempts to seize the entire country. These would devastate not just his country's economy but also his tight circle of corrupt cronies — who in turn could challenge his leadership. What is sure to be a bloody and catastrophic war will drain Russian resources and cost Russian lives — while creating an urgent incentive for Europe to slash its dangerous reliance on Russian energy. ... Such an act of aggression would almost certainly drive NATO to significantly reinforce its eastern flank and to consider permanently stationing forces in the Baltic States, Poland and Romania. ... And it would generate fierce Ukrainian armed resistance, with strong support from the West.
Although Mr. Putin will, in my experience, never admit to making a mistake, he has shown that he can be both patient and pragmatic. He also is surely conscious that the current confrontation has left him even more dependent on China; he knows that Russia cannot prosper without some ties to the West.
Mr. Putin must know that a second Cold War would not necessarily go well for Russia — even with its nuclear weapons. Strong U.S. allies can be found on nearly every continent. Mr. Putin's friends, meanwhile, include the likes of Bashar al-Assad, Alexander Lukashenko and Kim Jong-un.
If Mr. Putin feels backed into a corner, he has only himself to blame. As Mr. Biden has noted, the United States has no desire to destabilize or deprive Russia of its legitimate aspirations. That's why the administration and its allies have offered to engage in talks with Moscow on an open-ended range of security issues. But America must insist that Russia act in accordance with international standards applicable to all nations.
Ukraine is entitled to its sovereignty, no matter who its neighbors happen to be. In the modern era, great countries accept that, and so must Mr. Putin. That is the message undergirding recent Western diplomacy. It defines the difference between a world governed by the rule of law and one answerable to no rules at all.
Quotes about Albright[edit]
Consider Madeleine Albright. The U.N. imposed draconian sanctions on Iraq, pushed by the U.S. and Britain after it invaded Kuwait. Before that, in 1989 Iraq was reported to have "one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world, as well as universal, free healthcare and education." ("Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq," johnpilger.com, 1-15-05) Iraq's remarkable health was due to President Saddam Hussein nationalizing the country's vast oil resources, and investing certain of its revenue in the Iraqi people. This policy did not set well with Western oil corporations, which saw Iraq's bountiful oil reserves as a gold mine to be controlled and tapped. The sanctions prevented Iraq from importing supplies of food and medicine and other necessities. A survey by two scientists, Drs. Mary Smith Fawzi and Sarah Zaidi, found that "as many as 576,000 Iraqi children may have died since the end of the Persian Gulf war because of economic sanctions imposed by the Security Council." ("Iraqi Sanctions, Kill Children, U.N. Reports," By Barbara Crossette, The New York Times, Dec. 1, 1995)
America's Respectable War Criminals, William Alberts , CounterPunch, 2019
Shortly after the end of the Cold War, virtually the entire American foreign-policy establishment succumbed to a monumentally self-destructive ideological fever. Call it INS.... Indispensable Nation Syndrome, along with the militarism that it's spawned in this century... Back in 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright not only identified INS, but also captured its essence. Appearing on national TV, she famously declared, "If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future." Now, allow me to be blunt: this is simply not true. It's malarkey, hogwash, bunkum, and baloney.,, The United States does not see further into the future than Ireland, Indonesia, or any other country, regardless of how ancient or freshly minted it may be.,, To charge Albright with lying, however, somehow rates as bad form, impolite, even rude...To be fair, Albright herself is not solely or even mainly responsible for the havoc that INS has caused. While the former secretary of state promoted the syndrome in notably expansive language, the substance of her remark was anything but novel. She was merely reiterating what, in Washington, still passes for a self-evident truism: America must lead... we make the rules.
Belief in America as the "Indispensible Nation" Is Bullshit—And Always Has Been, by Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch, August 5, 2021
..veteran Pentagon officials told the Senate Budget Committee in 1991 that military spending could safely be cut by 50% over the next 10 years... U.S. officials instead set out to exploit the post-Cold War "power dividend," a huge military imbalance in favor of the United States, by developing rationales for using military force more freely and widely around the world. During the transition to the new Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright famously asked Gen. Colin Powell, then chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?" In 1999, as secretary of state under Bill Clinton, Albright got her wish, running roughshod over the UN Charter with an illegal war to carve out an independent Kosovo from the ruins of Yugoslavia. The UN Charter clearly prohibits the threat or use of military force except in cases of self-defense or when the UN Security Council takes military action "to maintain or restore international peace and security." This was neither. When U.K. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told Albright his government was "having trouble with our lawyers" over NATO's illegal war plan, Albright crassly told him to "get new lawyers."
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, Congress loots the Treasury for U.S. war machine — while bickering over Build Back Better, Salon, (December 7, 2021)
Twenty-two years later, Kosovo is the third-poorest country in Europe (after Moldova and post-coup Ukraine) and its independence is still not recognized by 96 countries. Hashim Thaçi, Albright's hand-picked main ally in Kosovo and later its president, is awaiting trial in an international court at the Hague, charged with murdering at least 300 civilians under cover of NATO bombing in 1999 to extract and sell their internal organs on the international transplant market. Clinton and Albright's gruesome and illegal war set the precedent for more illegal U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, with equally devastating and horrific results.
I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to 2.2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.
Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc., Interview with the Memphis Flyer, (8 May 2008)
Maybe it wasn't such a great idea for Hillary Clinton to invite Madeleine Albright to campaign for her in New Hampshire. During a campaign event in Concord on Saturday, the former Secretary of State declared: "Young women have to support Hillary Clinton. The story is not over!...They're going to want to push us back," she continued. "It's not done and you have to help. Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember, there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other." And while it was not the first time Albright muttered that phrase, the backlash was swift and severe. Pointing to Albright's notorious defense of the 1990 sanctions on Iraq, during which she said that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was "worth it," observers speculated about someone else who may end up in that "special place."
Rebuke Swift After Albright Declares: 'Special Place in Hell' for Women Who Don't Vote Clinton, by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, February 7, 2016
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Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event—something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough—and slow enough—so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?
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Chapter 15: Time Will Tell
Where will the creative destruction in the news business take us? Several of our interview subjects look ahead to where the road may be leading.
Leave your thoughts and comments below.
Chapter 14: Going Social and Paying to Play
As the Great Recession of 2008 hit the global economy, a new wave of innovation led by social networking, along with other new models for online communication and news, began to form.
Chapter 13: The Advertising Rollercoaster
Advertising budgets fluctuated wildly in the movement of from traditional outlets to the web, but the net effect was to swap dollars for dimes — a shift for which the industry has yet to find a financially satisfactory answer.
Chapter 12: Google, The Second Coming
Google got off to an inconspicuous start in 1998 but would come to change everything, creating the world's most powerful advertising platform.
Chapter 11: From the Ashes
Amidst the wave of business destruction brought on by the dot-com bust, some of the most potent innovation bubbled up, setting the stage for major disruption in the industry.
Chapter 10: The Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Later everyone recognized the dot-com boom as a bubble, but for a short period in the late 1990s it appeared that nearly every model would create successful business models for news online.
Chapter 9: Birthing the Blogosphere
While most traditional media companies were using the web to push content to users, a new breed, known as bloggers, was experimenting with a more interactive, conversational model.
Chapter 8: The Innovator's Dilemma
Traditional news providers may have viewed the web as a "sustaining innovation." But it was the newcomers who turned the Internet into an instrument of disruptive innovation.
Chapter 7: The Nerds and The Newsies
The culture clash between journalism and technology, and how a lack of engineering talent helped precipitate the decline of the traditional news business.
Chapter 6: The Return of Newspapers
By the mid 1990s, it looked like traditional media companies might be able to find a killer online business model that combined unfettered web distribution with successful advertising models.
Chapter 5: Then Came Cable
How the entrance by television news organizations into the battle for online audiences helped accelerate the shift in business models for news.
Chapter 4: The Original Sin
The story of free news on the web and why most news providers felt powerless to stop it.
Chapter 3: The Big Bang
And then came the World Wide Web, which tore asunder traditional business models in news and information.
Chapter 2: America Goes Online
While the established media giants were shutting down their costly early experiments with electronic distribution, a band of visionary online entrepreneurs were just getting started.
Chapter 1: The Teletext/Videotext era
When journalism companies invested heavily in early electronic consumer information services, and unalterably helped to set an industry on a collision course with the Internet.
Setting the stage for an era of creative destruction in the news business.


The net profit for Q3 2017 amounting to SR 728K, compared to a net loss of SR 6,263K in Q3 2016, improved by SR 6,991K representing an improvement of 112%. This improvement in results is primarily due to growth in gross written premiums by SR 38,054K representing an increase of 178% and an increase in net earned premiums by SR 38,157K representing an increase of 270%.
The net profit for Q3 2017 amounting to SR 728K, compared to a net loss of SR 3,475K for Q2 2017, improved by SR 4,203K representing an improvement of 121%. This improvement in results is primarily due to growth in net earned premiums by SR 18,664K representing an increase of 56% versus Q2 2017.
The joint auditors interim review report on the interim condensed financial statements mentions that the interim condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International Accounting Standard 34 and SAMA guidance on accounting for zakat and tax.
1.Total comprehensive income for current quarter is SR 728K compared to total comprehensive loss of SR 6,263K for the same quarter last year, and compared to total comprehensive loss of SR 3,475K for the previous quarter.
2.Total comprehensive loss for the current 9 month period is SR 9,303K compared to SR 21,343K for the same period last year, an improvement of 56%.
3.The accumulated losses as at the end of 30/09/2017 are SR 39,456K which is 19.7% of the paid up capital.
4.Total shareholders' equity (there is no minority interest) for the current period reached SAR 160,544K compared to SAR 176,628K for the same period last year, a decrease of 9%. The equity in Q2 2017 had reached SAR 160,416K which represents an increase of 0.08% compared to Q3 2017.
5.Earning per share (EPS) for the three months period ended 30 September 2017 of SR 0.04 per share versus SR (0.31) per share for the same period in 2016. EPS for current period is SR (0.47) per share versus SR (1.07) per share for same period last year.


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DBAMP is not executing without SYSADMIN access to NT/AUTHORITY system user in SQL server while calling from ControL M as batch file executable. Please let us know how to fix this issue.
Can you provide the error messages you are seeing ?
Is this concerning xp_cmdshell ?
Can you provide the error messages you are seeing ? Is this concerning xp_cmdshell ?
07:38:41: Upserting Salesforce using ACCOUNT_FNZ_COMPANY_STAGEOUT (XXXXXXX / SFDC_STAGE_OUT) .
07:38:41: Error: Unable to open SQL Server Source with SQLNCLI.
Description: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM'.
Description: Cannot open database "SFDC_STAGE_OUT" requested by the login. The login failed.
Are you running the proc in the Control M step or the exe directly ?
Running through Control M , Contro-l M is calling DBAMP batch file.
DBAmp does not have batch files. One of your developers must have written the batch file.
Can you post an example of the batch file ?
DBAmp does not have batch files. One of your developers must have written the batch file. Can you post an example of the batch file ?
So your batch file is running the DBAmp.exe program and apparently Control M is executing the batch file under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM .
SQL Server is complaining that the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is not allowed to connect to SQL Server.
1. Have Control M run the batch file under a windows user that is allowed to connect to the SQL instance.
2. Run the DBAmp Configuration Program and change the SQL Login Init string to a SQL user that is allowed to login to SQL and access the tables in the needed database.
So your batch file is running the DBAmp.exe program and apparently Control M is executing the batch file under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM . SQL Server is complaining that the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM is not allowed to connect to SQL Server. Possible workarounds: 1. Have Control M run the batch file under a windows user that is allowed to connect to the SQL instance. 2. Run the DBAmp Configuration Program and change the SQL Login Init string to a SQL user that is allowed to login to SQL and access the tables in the needed database.


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The Evolution of Airports and Key Drivers for Transformation
Edward Wilson-Smythe
Five Forces Driving the Evolution of Airports
Major airports have evolved from being merely the beginning and end of journeys, to being an integral part of the socioeconomic engine which drives regional growth. This shift has been driven by the emergence of four forces which have changed the role of airports for each of their stakeholder groups:
Externalization of airport profiles, driven by:
Airports becoming the primary point of entry into a given region for international visitors and visitors from outside the immediate region.
The expectation of passengers for an integrated experience which starts and ends beyond the boundaries of the airport.
Internal focus on airport operations, driven by:
Global and regional hubs focusing activities on connections and driving critical needs for flexible operations and an improved passenger experience within the airport, rather than on simpler origin-destination operations.
Airports becoming civil ecosystems which serve the social and economic needs of the large population of workers which are associated with airports on a daily basis.
Changes in strategic and financial drivers, driven by:
Airports increasingly operating as autonomous agencies or corporations, and not extensions of municipal or regional government, leading to less focus on tax and appropriations burdens and more focus on financial viability as stand-alone entities.
Increasing pressure by airlines on aeronautical fees, with these fees driving airline decisions on preferred airports especially in regions with multiple airport choices and strong alternative inter-city transportation options.
The growth in ancillary (non-aeronautical) revenues driving a greater proportion of airport financial viability, which help offset the downward pressure on aeronautical fees.
Increasing constraints by regulatory and law enforcement requirements, driven by:
Increasingly stringent controls and standards related to security and movement of aircraft, passengers and baggage, impacting the ability to drive flexible airport operations.
These constraints having an increasingly negative impact on passenger experience which reflects directly on passenger satisfaction and airport choice, especially for global and regional hub operations.
These four forces not only drive fundamental changes to the role of airports, but also pose often conflicting priorities which are difficult to reconcile. Key among these conflicts are the need for greater flexibility offset by more stringent controls and constraints, the need to externalize the airport profile hampered by the need to focus on internal airport operations, and the need to reconcile expectations of key stakeholders – airlines, passengers, workers, government and regulatory agencies, taxpayers, shareholders/bondholders – which are often at cross purposes.
The solution to these challenges is the emergence of the fifth force, which enables airports to address the key drivers in an integrated manner, and reconcile conflicting objectives to drive benefits across the entire ecosystem:
Integrated technology leverage, consisting of:
Innovations driven by the growth of low-cost, scalable, flexible and secure technologies which enable integration of informational, operational and customer integration in a way which was unthinkable even a decade ago.
The structured, judicious and purposeful application of emerging technology capabilities to solve strategic and operational challenges.
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Our Defence and Security team will launch its new Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index on Tuesday 29 January 2013. The index will provide a detailed analysis of the corruption risks faced by the defence establishments of 82 countries around the world. In preparation, project officer Leah Warwo examines the risk of political corruption in the defence sector. For politicians looking to illicitly fund their election campaigns, the defence sector—with big deals, huge budgets, high secrecy, and funded with your taxpayers money—can be a prime target.
When a French judge interviewed the ex-wife of French politician Thierry Gaubert, she told him that her husband returned from a trip carrying 'briefcases full of cash'; that cash is alleged to have funded the 1994-'95 French presidential campaign of Edouard Balladur. Through a system of commissions and re-commissions kickbacks, dealers, Swiss bank accounts and suitcases, the money from an arms sale from France to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was allegedly transferred back to the Balladur government that originally approved the deal. Later, 11 engineers from the defence company DCN that sold Pakistan the submarines from this deal were killed in a terrorist attack—allegedly because promised bribes went unpaid.
Politicians military and intelligence leaders, and defence companies work closely together. This proximity can facilitate the process of doing resources-resources-business in a highly technical, complex, and sensitive field. But it can also facilitate corruption. The defence sector tends to command a significant portion of the national budget. It involves sensitive information, and can be an important and volatile political issue. In many countries, military leaders and defence companies tend to be influential actors in national politics. The size and influence of the sector can be a tempting source of corruption for politicians, particularly if there is a lack of transparency to the public that elects them.
Although politicians themselves can be corrupt, of course, effective oversight by elected leaders is a vital protection against corruption in the defence sector. Major defence decisions—the defence budget, arms purchases, the decision of whether to declare war or conduct peacekeeping operations—are made by political leadership and legislatures, along with military officials. In order to have defence and security forces that are accountable to their citizens, a representative legislature must have the power to oversee defence decisions, to investigate potential cases of corruption—and to be able to access the information if they need to.
An openly published and clear national defence policy should form the foundation for decision-making and actions in the defence sector. For example, if a defence policy states a need to protect the nation from a particular threat, and identifies gaps in the existing capability of the national defence establishment, that policy will inform procurement decisions (the purchase of arms or military equipment) and justify purchases. The procurement process itself poses enormous corruption risk but corruption can start before tenders are issued and contracts awarded, when governments develop a defence and security policy. If a defence policy indicates a need for particular equipment—for example, a helicopter with certain qualities—that policy can affect who the country purchases from, and even favour a particular supplier. Without strong controls and oversight in place, politicians may be swayed by bribes, personal or political influence towards a defence policy that meets their needs—not the country's.
An opaque, overly simplified defence budget containing secret items not overseen by legislature can hide corrupt activity and make it impossible for defence leaders to be held to account. Two thirds of the countries studied in the TI Defence and Security's report "The Transparency of National Defence Budgets" provide no information on secret spending to their legislatures or even special legislative committees on defence. Just 29 countries were found to provide information, and even among those, the level of detail varies. In order for legislators to effectively scrutinise spending, the defence budget must be open to them—and it must be transparent, detailed, and clear.
Some realms of defence and security are in particular need of legislative oversight. For example, some militaries are involved in extracting or selling national assets like oil, timber, or diamonds. Scrutiny of such processes by elected officials can help ensure that citizens reap the benefits of national resources in their country, not high-ranking military officials, or the military as an institution.
The intelligence services often deal with sensitive information and covert activities, so they also pose a challenge for transparency. Where full and speedy disclosure is impossible, accountability to elected officials is crucial. Because intelligence agencies control information that is hidden from the public eye, the risk of corruption rises dramatically. And it also makes them a target for groups such as organised crime. For example, in 2011, agents of the Colombian intelligence agency Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) were found to have colluded with drug lords and leaked highly sensitive information—including names and missions of informants and detectives.
For politicians looking to illicitly fund their election campaigns, the defence sector—with big deals, huge budgets, high secrecy, and funded with your taxpayers money—can be a prime target, as the 'Karachi-gate' scandal showed. There is no doubt that corruption can occur between politicians and defence leaders to the benefit of each, and that must be guarded against through investigations by other politicians, civil society and the media. This vigilance is needed to ensure that the defence sector, and the politics that surround it, are clean and transparent. Democratic oversight of defence and security by elected officials, civil society, and the media is vital to ensure that military and security establishments fulfil their raison d'etre: to serve and protect citizens.


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How did Christianity start in Europe?
When did Europeans discover Christianity?
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How did Christianity spread in medieval Europe?
Which country is most Catholic?
Why did Christianity decline in Europe?
What is the oldest religion?
Is Christianity a European religion?
What is the most Protestant country in the world?
What type of religion is Islam?
What are the 5 basic beliefs of Christianity?
Why is Christianity growing in Africa?
Who was the first convert in Europe?
What was the last pagan country in Europe?
How did Christianity spread to Germany?
Beginning in the Middle East, Christianity began its spread north and west into Europe, carried by merchants, missionaries, and soldiers. … As a result, in 313, the Edict of Milan was passed, which guaranteed freedom of religion throughout the Roman Empire, ending the persecution of Christians.
The Roman Empire officially adopted Christianity in AD 380. During the Early Middle Ages, most of Europe underwent Christianization, a process essentially complete with the Baltic Christianization in the 15th century.
Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent kingdom of God and was crucified c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea.
In this environment, Christianity spread from Roman Britain to Ireland, especially aided by the missionary activity of St. Patrick with his first-order of 'patrician clergy', active missionary priests accompanying or following him, typically Britons or Irish ordained by him and his successors.
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According to the CIA Factbook and the Pew Research Center, the five countries with the largest number of Catholics are, in decreasing order of Catholic population, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States, and Italy.
The decline of Christianity is an ongoing trend in West and North Europe. Developed countries with modern, secular educational facilities in the post-World War II era have shifted towards post-Christian, secular, globalized, multicultural and multifaith societies.
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
The three major religions in Europe are Christianity, unaffiliated and Islam. … Christianity is the most popular religion in Europe because of the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church.
China is home to the world's largest Protestant minority.
Islam is partially based on the Judeo-Christian religions. It has a monotheistic (belief in one God) message, and follows some of the same principles as Christianity and Judaism. The followers of Islam, Muslims, believe in one God, Allah, and believe Muhammad was his prophet.
Some of the main themes that Jesus taught, which Christians later embraced, include:
Love God.
Forgive others who have wronged you.
Love your enemies.
Ask God for forgiveness of your sins.
Jesus is the Messiah and was given the authority to forgive others.
Repentance of sins is essential.
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Much of the recent Christian growth in Africa is now due to African evangelism and high birth rates, rather than European missionaries.
In fact, Lithuania was the last pagan state in Europe. Almost 1,000 years after the official conversion of the Roman Empire facilitated the gradual spread of Christianity, the Lithuanians continued to perform their ancient animist rituals and worship their gods in sacred groves.
Christianity is the largest religion in Germany, and was introduced to the area of modern Germany with the conversion of the first Germanic tribes in the 4th century. The area became fully Christianized by the time of Charlemagne in the 8th and 9th centuries.
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A customer service role in a friendly aviation environment surrounding by historical aircraft & unusual memorabilia. We encourage interaction with visitors to the museum so that they have a happy experience.
Tour guide role in a friendly aviation environment surrounding by historical aircraft & unusual memorabilia. We encourage interaction with visitors to the museum so they have a happy experience.
Cleaning duties along with rearranging displays, stocking shop, building stands and assisting with our current World War II aircraft restoration project. Assisting with group visits as needed. Assistance as needed by display museum staff and with restoration project.
Market the museum through our website & on social media. Reinvigorate our website and use it to attract new visitors to the museum. Update & manage our Facebook page and use it as a marketing tool. Document the history of the museum over 22 years of operation.
The National Trust - Victor Harbor Branch require volunteers to work in their gift shop at the Encounter Coast Discovery Centre Museum. The Retail Assistant will perform a vital role as you will be the first contact with visitors to the museum and gift shop. Tasks will include assisting visitors, reception duties for the museum and processing the sale of souvenirs and admission fees to the museum.
The National Trust, Victor Harbor Branch are looking for a general handyperson that can assist with small maintenance and repair tasks, including basic carpentry and painting. Assistance in maintaining the gardens will also be needed.
Customer service and information for visitors into centre. Providing visitors with information on our area, cash handling, merchandising.


The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce enlisted our help in updating their main floor conference room. Our designer worked closely with them to choose the more modern Pimlico conference table by Flexsteel (in Mocha) and one of our favorite conferencing chairs, the Acclaim by 9to5 Seating. The Chamber selected a beautiful light blue paint color for the walls and then chose the perfect coordinating color for the chairs, called "Baltic." We love their new modern look!


Ah, muffs. I very almost did 'Muffvent' this year but I feel certain people would not be able to cope, and I'm not sure I can sustain that level of filth and innuendo for 24 days. Who am I kidding, of course I can. Mind you, I'm not sure Father Christmas would have looked too kindly on it and I'm guessing I'm probably already on the 'a bit iffy' list. I want some presents to open, so I'll have to keep the muff-ness down to a minimum.
Anyway, here's a rather lovely picture by Berthe Morisot of a lady in winter dress. Morisot was a nineteenth century French Impressionist artist, one of three important women, nicknamed 'les trois grandes dames', working in Parisian society in the avante-garde style. She married her friend Edouard Manet's brother and her daughter was the celebrated artist's model, Julie Manet. Whilst I'm not an enormous fan of Impressionism, I like it but it doesn't grab me like Pre-Raph stuff does, I love the work of Morisot and Mary Cassatt, especially their portraits of women.
I love the glow of white around the lady in this picture. She is golden and bright, with the air of frost nipping the air about her and the scarf around her neck. The depth of colour in her muff speaks of warmth and comfort, a necessity for this stylish young woman who has spirit and determination about her expression. She's off to enjoy life and will not let a bit of frost get in her way.
To buy the dress from Lindybop's website go here or to Amazon, who stock the frocks too.
Now I know that Christmas is coming, when you start mentioning muffs! I agree about Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.
Best wishes - I am looking forward to the rest of the posts.
P.S I am hoping the hedge lurker who bothered me slightly last year won't be putting in an appearance this advent!
I really must do Muffvent next year and get all the filth out in one month. It would do me good I suspect.
Thanks for your comments and see you tomorrow!