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Yeah, Walkom's thinking appears a bit muddled on this one.
I think he's mistaking the NDP's shift to the centre (real or perceived) as a indicator of wanting to usurp the Liberals. It's most likely a shift to reflect the leader's or the party's read of where the electorate is, particularly outside of Toronto. Whether or not that impression is accurate and whether it will sit well with the NDP's supporters / core vote is another story.
Precisely. The object is to win over right wing voters, not Liberal ones.
Nearly 25% of all Rob Ford voters identified themselves NDP voters.
Liberal-left policies of supporting increased flat taxes (HST) and user fees (David Miller "revenue tools") to support social programs have backfired enormously driving many pocket book savvy working class voters into the Conservative camp. The NDP is clearly trying to retrieve those "core" voters.
The Liberals by contrast like to talk about "expenditures" on social programs to make themselves sound progressive, but refrain from talking about where that money is coming from.
As for the campaign. Walkom is right that it needs a "central" thread, which is missing. Maybe one will be forthcoming now that things are a little clearer after two weeks.
Unionist wrote:
[url=http://rabble.ca/news/2014/05/raising-minimum-wage-and-defeating-hudaks-... Hudak's anti-labour agenda[/url]
I have to say this is probably one of the best written articles I've seen on the subject so far. Frache makes her case as to why this is an important issue, the limits of electoral politics in achieving movement, and the importance of people mobilizing for this to happen. Most importantly, she is relentless and thorough in out lining the issue without descending to cheap talking points in the service of one political party or another.
Agreed, it's a very good piece.
But someone sometime should point out that the historic movement to increase the minimum wage is related to, but extremely distinct from, measures to eliminate poverty.
Right. It is not an anti-poverty campaign per se.
Wages are paid by employers - as opposed to social assistance, education, basic health care, transit fares, housing... all of which either are or should be provided (or at least subsidized) by society as a whole, in order to treat its members with respect and create a fairer distribution of wealth.
Right again, this is the domain of government and political parties, per se, and not the "labour" movement. Therefore, our examination of party policy, and the things that parties are doing to support ALL low income people are just as relevant as the minimum wage which is just one aspect of social policy, when discussing overall governance.
Again noting also, that policy regarding social assistance also has the collateral effect of supporting the real market value of labour.
Theoretically speaking, if we were to raise welfare rates to a "living wage" there would be no need for a living wage demand, since the market value of labour would rise above the base social assistance allowance. By the same token, the Liberal proposal to increase the the social assistance rates by less than the rate of inflation, is actually a regressive policy, because it marginally decreases the real market value of labour.
So I find it ironic to steadfastly stand on the minimum wage issue in regards to the NDP, while endorsing the Liberal plan to minimally increase the minimum wage to less than poverty levels, while they are at the same time acting to depress the real market value of labour by effectively reducing social assistance rates, in real terms.
If anyone bothered to look in depth at the living wage campaign you would see that minimum wages were only one component on what they were working for. The living wage calculation is postively affected by changes in housing affordability, transit, daycare and any number of other issues. Clearly wages are one of the most important, but to focus on wages to the exclusion of all else is just wrong.
Pogo wrote:
Clearly wages are one of the most important, but to focus on wages to the exclusion of all else is just wrong.
Who was doing that, Pogo?
Wife of Jim Flaherty, MPP Christine Elliot will give her first TV interview since his death. But not to talk about Jim
Tonight on TVO The Agenda host Steve Paikin brings the Liberal health minister Deb Matthews to debate health care with the opposition critics. PC health critic Christine Elliot and NDP health critic France Gélinas. Green party candidate will round out this quartet.
Video from last nigt's show is up on the TVO website.
Please do watch because it was a GREAT debate.
An all women's panel, which is another reason why women make better politicians than men. So many more problems could be solved if women ruled the world.
http://tvo.org/video/203921/your-vote-2014-health-care
onlinediscountanvils wrote:
[url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1342879/ontario-election-traditional-ndp-suppo... NDP supporters disgruntled by new policies[/url]
For most of her adult life Judy Rebick has been a passionate campaigner for social justice, often in the streets carrying picket signs. In all that time she was a reliable NDP supporter, even running for the party in one election.
But in a recent conversation about social media she told me she was thinking of creating a new twitter hashtag:
[url=https://twitter.com/judyrebick/status/467003486471589889]#wherestheondp?...
"I know lots of people who have ripped up their cards, decided not to donate and they're even considering not voting."
Is this the same Judy Rebick who defended Buzz Hargrove when he was rightly expelled from the NDP for endorsing Paul Martin during the federal election? What kind of political instincts are these?
Is this the same Judy Rebick
Probably. Do you know anyone else by that name?
Yes, the NDP can't win. Attacked by MSM, and often attacked here as well, regardless of what they do or say. The NDP announced Horwath plan will focus on healthcare fundamentals, cut ER wait times in half and what is reported in the MSM media today? Wynne riding a tractor this time, while Hudak rode a tractor last time.
Yes it is. The very same Judy Rebick, who defended Buzz Hargrove when he headed up the CAW, one of the predecessor unions to UNIFOR that endorsed the Liberal budget.
They could always buy the cover of the Toronto Sun....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/ndp-sun-wrap-ad...
Andrea is wisely keeping her cards close to her vest.
The ONDP realize that they first have to win the election if they are ever going to improve things for the people of Ontario.
The platform will be released when it is good for the NDP to do so, not when it is good for the Liberals.
Right now with the NDP sitting within 1/2 doz points of the Liberals is exactly when the NDP needs to be at the moment.
And always remember, the NDP, nor its predecessor the CCF, never won any election with the help of the mainstream media.
mark_alfred wrote:
swallow wrote:
That link doesn't work for me.
Try [url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/ndp-sun-wrap-ad....
Is this the same Judy Rebick who defended Buzz Hargrove when he was rightly expelled from the NDP for endorsing Paul Martin during the federal election?
Interesting distortion of history. Buzz Hargrove "endorsed" Paul Martin. What an utter fabrication.
"Rightly expelled". Yeah, throw all the fucking assholes out that can't toe the line.
Let me see: Judy Rebick, or Andrea Horwath. Rebick, or Horwath.
Tough choice.
All right, all right, you can have Horwath.
That's how I remember it. Hargrove giving the CAW jacket to Martin.
Yeah, when Martin was a guest at the CAW Council meeting in December 2005. Now find a source, a link, a document, a rumour, that says that Hargrove "endorsed" Paul Martin. It's a plain lie. Hargrove, and the CAW Council at the time, voted to endorse strategic voting. That's why he was turfed by the Ontario NDP. He never endorsed Paul Martin. But lies, repeated often enough, become truths, don't they?
Thanks. I actually like it simply because it's different. Bold. And why bother going for alleged pseudo progressives who are just gonna "strategically" vote Liberal anyway? Many of the actual poor and disaffected read the Sun, so why not try to reach them? It'll be interesting if this works.
Hargrove, and the CAW Council at the time, voted to endorse strategic voting. That's why he was turfed by the Ontario NDP.
Good. Anyone who endorses "strategic" voting should be booted.
Heard that the NDP platform is coming out tomorrow.
FWIW, along with everything else about this campaign, "Put the Liberals in the penalty box" is driving me mad. It's an admission the party isn't even seriously aspiring to govern. Which makes me wonder afresh why Horwath triggered an election she clearly wasn't ready to fight, let alone fight to win.
I imagine there must be a lot of "WTF was she thinking?" going on in federal ranks watching this unfold. There better be.
What about anyone who breaks promises to workers, panders to the rich, supports aggression abroad, and generally genuflects before "business", which is not a four-letter word?
No, they're cool, as long as they jump up and down and swear "my party, right or wrong".
JeffWells wrote:
Which makes me wonder afresh why Horwath triggered an election she clearly wasn't ready to fight, let alone fight to win.
Geez Jeff, can't you get with the program?????
Horwath didn't trigger an election. It was Wynne, who was too cowardly to defend her budget in the house (even though two parties had already announced they would vote against it).
Horwath must have been shocked as shit when, after declaring she would vote with Hudak against the budget, Wynne said "let's have an election".
You can't blame Horwath for that. She was just shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Agreed. A lot of the catch phrases are just too cute for me. Put the Libs in the penalty box. If they can't build a raft, how do they expect to build a ship.
Sorry Unionist, you lost me. Whom in the NDP are you attacking now?
DLivings
And how is "my party, right or wrong" even related to strategic voting in the way it is usually advocated? Strategic voting as it's used in the current federal context is based on the fallacy that the Liberals, who reduced health transfers to the provinces more than the Cons and reduced corporate taxes significantly, are somehow preferable to the Conservatives, so don't waste your vote for a new democrat, vote Liberal. (Of course, in the west of this country strategic voting is "anyone but the ndp", pick the dominant "free-enterprise" party.) At least in BC that makes it apparent what a Liberal stands for.
Oh, anyone who does the things I mentioned. The ONDP, for breaking promises when it formed government (auto insurance), and tearing up negotiated collective agreements. Um, Andrea Horwath, for promising to cut "waste" (can't even dream up her own right-wing memes). Tom Mulcair and his camp followers, for supporting aggression in Libya, for praising the Canadian contribution to Afghanistan's liberty, for bullying Libby Davies into submission over Israel and Palestine.
Those are the people whose sorry asses should have been hurled out of the NDP. Not for preaching "strategic voting". For betraying the principles that people foolishly believe the NDP defends.
But the NDP has no rules in that respect. They didn't even kick Bev Desjarlais's ass for declaring that she would vote with homophobia. No. Nothing matters, so long as you support the party, right or wrong.
Need more examples?
Lots of revisionist history going around these days.
The NDP just threw Buzz out for no reason at all.
Buzz was gunning for a Senate position and threw his union jacket around Martin's shoulders at a media event during the election but he wasn't endorsing the Liberals. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Unfortunately Buzz is no Bob White.
Strategic voting = a Liberal ploy to get NDP supporters to vote for the Liberals.
We had the opportunity to bring Harper down and the Liberals walked away because they knew better than Jack Layton.
If you don't like what Harper is doing blame the Liberals for allowing him to continue in office when the Liberals had the chance to work with the NDP and throw Harper out.
The Liberals will never ever co-operate with the NDP unless their backs are against a wall, and even then quite reluctantly.
There will be a Northern Ontario debate between Horwath and Wynne Monday evening. Hudak claims he can't make it because he already has important work to do (in Southern Ontario). I'm not saying that Horwath will win but if she does do well it could help increase her prominence in media coverage and give her campaign a lift. While the Conservatives traditionally do not have great support in the North, this won't help and it could help make him look him unwilling to face tough questions from the opposition.
DLivings wrote:
... the fallacy that the Liberals ... are somehow preferable to the Conservatives...
If you can't tell the difference between Paul Martin or Stéphane Dion and Stephen Harper, then unfortunately we are on opposite sides of the trenches. Jack Layton was able to tell the difference.
This issue will resonate with lots of voters
Andrea Horwath vows to cut ER wait times in halfLiberals have spent too much on bureaucrats, NDP leader charges
Ontario's Liberal government wasted millions of dollars in a fruitless effort to reduce overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath charged Tuesday as she unveiled a plan to cut ER wait times in half if the New Democrats win the June 12 election.
The Liberals spent too much money on bureaucrats and not enough on front line care as they tried to reduce wait times in various areas of the health care system, added Horwath.
"They put a whole bunch of money into wait times for home care, but a nice chunk of that money went to the administrators of (Community Care Access Centres), went to the executive directors getting close to 50 per cent salary increases," she said.
"They seem to waste a lot of money at the top — look at the Ornge air ambulance as a perfect example — but the money never seems to focus in on the front lines, and that's where our program is different."
I proudly support the NDP. They're the underdog who get attacked by everyone. But they're still the best of the lot.
is the Monday Northern Debate going to be televised or recorded in some way? Will there be a PC rep in Hudak's place?
Excellent! Why on earth would they advertize in the Star. I certainly wouldn't reward night and day attacks in a media outlet, without noticeable counter comment by giving them money. Are you joking?
Seems like someone in the NDP has finally got their head on straight and decided to punish journalistic failure. No cookie for you.
Someone seems upset that the NDP would try and communicate with voters outside of liberal circles. The nerve! Why would anyone try and errode the Conservative voter base? Certainly not Wynne, she is too busy trying to suck votes away from the most progressive representatives in the Ontario legislature in Toronto.
Maybe the OLP should change its name to the Toronot Liberal Party, and just have done with it. They are dying everywhere else.
Stephan Dion couldn't control his caucus?
If someone says that its ok to vote for "so and so's" party, even if only conditionally, they are still endorsing that party. Its a dual endorsement of both the NDP and the Liberals, which strictly speaking goes against the party policy. If you aren't going to support your party voting for your party against the competition, unconditionally, then you might as well not be in it.
Debater
Like its Federal counterpart, the Ontario NDP has moved so far to the right in order to get into power, it has sacrificed its traditional principles. When even long-term NDP supporters like Judy Rebick are disturbed, that tells you how far off-base it has veered:
Judy Rebick:
"The NDP, so far anyway in their program, they've moved to the right of the Liberals," she said.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1342879/ontario-election-traditional-ndp-suppo...
The Northern Ontario debate is scheduled from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. on May 26 at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay.
The event will be live webstreamed at:http://www.netnewsledger.com/2014/05/21/northern-leaders-debate-livestream/
http://www.noma.on.ca/debate
Monday's debate is open to the public, but registration is required and there is a fee of $45.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/tim-hudak-confi...
It is obviously not open to the poor and I don't agree that the public should have to pay to listen to politicians, especially during an election campaign.
Meanwhile, a new poll finds that 56 per cent of residents in northern Ontario feel the provincial government has done "a poor or very poor job of managing the affairs of the north."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-votes-2014/provincial-lead...
With this level of dissatisfaction with the Liberals in the North and the unwillingness of Hudak to attend the debate, Horwath has an excellent environment, at least in the North, for taking on Wynne.
Rebick, sadly, despite the great deal of great work she has done, is completely out in space on what "left" and "right" are. Anyone who actually thinks the Liberal budget is anything but an austerity budget is only focussing on the expenditures, not on who is paying for what, or how it is being paid for.
Rebick seems to operating as the political version of a "native informant".
Why are the Liberals afraid to debate the economy?
Why aren't the Liberal supporters here not clammering for an econiomic debate?
What is Wynne afraid of?
What are the Liberals afraid of?
Wynne can run but she can't hide the economic mess the Liberals have created in Ontario.
The result of the Liberal efforts have now made Ontario a have-not province.
Quebec will receive the most from equalization payments in the 2013-2014 year.[4]
However, per capita, PEI benefits the most. In the 2013-2014 year, the following provinces will receive equalization payments:[4]
Quebec ($7.833 billion)
Ontario ($3.169 billion)
Manitoba ($1.792 billion)
New Brunswick ($1.513 billion)
Nova Scotia ($1.458 billion)
Prince Edward Island ($340 million)
The following provinces will not qualify for equalization payments in 2013-2014:[4]
NDP's Andrea Horwath pushes for economy-focused debate
Horwath said jobs and the economy are topics important enough to have their own debate in this campaign.
"One of the things I'm concerned about is that we're not focusing enough on [the economy] in this campaign," Horwath said Monday during a campaign stop at a north Toronto bakery.
"I do believe the people in this province need to get an understanding of what the party leaders believe are the best ways to stimulate job creation and to get people back to work in this province."
NR, please. Equalization payments are handed out on a per capita basis. These kind of gross figures are usually used by Conservatives to attack the equalization program, and Ontario, and in particular Quebec.
Equalization payments are good. Quebec is also good.
PEI is actually the greatest recipient of equalization payments per capita and Ontario is lowest, and Quebec is second lowest.
Kathleen Wynne shakes the hand of charged fraudster Joe Fontana
She refused to meet Ford – who hasn't been charged with anything, amazingly – and that was absolutely the right position to take. She should have never met with Fontana. Huge, huge mistake.
Am I the only one who gets the sense that this feels like the federal campaign of 2005-2006?
That's not my feeling at all. No one was accussing Jack Layton of being Adolph Hitler because he theoretically turned down a National Daycare Program, moreover, the end point result of all that was the NDP becoming the official opposition in 2010.
North Report. That is an interesting thing about the municipal mayors. City Council in Toronto officially asked for the Liberals to institute a preferential voting system so as to avoid the Rob Ford follies in the future in Toronto. No one can figure out why this no-brainer didn't take off at Queens Park, since obviously the Liberals would like to get rid of Ford and prevent that happening again.
So why all the foot dragging? Simple, there is a very good chance that a preferential system would not be to the advantage of Liberal incumbent mayors such as Joe Fontana, who might be ousted pretty quickly under such a system.
Ontario has been economically mismanaged.
Ontario is Canada's most populous have-not province.
Thank goodness for Ontario that Canada has an equalization process.
However becoming a have-not province is not some goal that a province sets out to achieve.
Eventually though collectively we all have to pay our bills.
And the sooner the better.
THE LIBERAL RECORD: 10 YEARS OF MISMANAGEMENT
That's not my feeling at all. No one was accussing Jack Layton of being Adolph Hitler because he theoretically turned down a National Daycare Program
Maybe not Adolf Hitler, but there are similarities, such as the NDP being accused of letting a "good" Liberal government fall for partisan gain only to hand the election over to the conservatives, and in each case it's not clear that holding off an election would have made a difference on that front anyways. I also get the sense of Horwath being a bit slow out of the gate at the start, as was Jack in 2005.
The fact that some people to this day continue to blame Jack Layton for Stephen Harper's ascension is another matter, but that is a topic for a different thread.
That's the spin Conservatives are currently spinning but here are the plain facts:
Federal Underfunding of Ontarians
Since 2006, the federal government has taken more than 110 unilateral actions that have hurt people and businesses across Ontario and undermined the Province's fiscal plan. Each and every year, the share of federal revenue raised in Ontario is higher than the share of federal spending in Ontario. This results in an $11 billion gap according to most recently available figures. In 2014–15, Ontarians will be contributing $4.5 billion more to Equalization than the Province is receiving in payments. While this money could be used in Ontario to fund more hospitals, nurses or public transit, it is redistributed to other regions of Canada to subsidize programs and services that Ontarians themselves may not enjoy.
According to the Mowat Centre, the people of Ontario contributed $11 billion more to the federal government than they received in return in 2009–10 (the year with the latest available data). This represents about $850 per Ontarian.
"Ontarians transfer approximately $11B on net to the rest of Canada. This transfer is equivalent to 1.9% of the province's GDP. This can be referred to as the gap between what Ontarians contribute to the federal government and what is returned to the province in the form of transfers and spending."
Noah Zon, "Filling the Gap: Measuring Ontario's Balance with the Federation," Mowat Centre, (2013).
The difference between what the people of Ontario will pay into the Equalization program through federal taxes and what the Province will receive from the program is $4.5 billion in 2014–15, and has reached $43 billion over the last 10 years.


It's a January morning at the Salton Sea in southern California. Red and orange rocks dominate the terrain. A refinery bellows smoke on the opposite side of the now dried up sea, which spans across the horizon. A "Breaking Bad" style RV rests in a parking lot under the baking sun, having just made the three hour trip from Los Angeles. One hundred yards away, a six foot hole has been dug on a sand dune. A homemade metal door sits perfectly on top of it. To the right is a homemade tree, constructed from real branches, soaked in papier mâché and painted brownish grey. Burrowed in the branches is a GoPro camera, aimed at the hole. Cinematographer Matthew Stenerson stands above the hole, a camera rig resting against his chest. Below the dune, six people stand and watch.
Mike Gioscia bursts out of the hole in a leather jacket and thick-framed glasses. A big, grey beard hangs off his chin. He somersaults out of the hole and looks around in awe, taking in the fresh, warm air. He runs back and forth, waving his arms in delight. Stenerson weaves around him, capturing the scene. Suddenly, Gioscia extends his head towards the sky, like he sees something. He crouches in fear and bolts for the hole. He leaps halfway in before yelling "CUT!" Gioscia looks at St. Thomas; they both nod their heads in approval.
Gioscia's work is not done yet; they have more takes to shoot. He has to leap out of the hole, run in circles and jump back in three more times before he is satisfied with what they filmed. He is exhausted. His jacket is covered in dirt and brown smears run up and down his pant legs. But still, his job is not over. Between gulps of water, he tells Stenerson where to set up the equipment next, and then walks into the RV to grab his big binder of production notes.
Gioscia's job is never over on set because he is the man in charge. Not only is he the lead actor in his third feature film, a post-apocalyptic thriller titled "The Last", but he is also the writer, producer, and co-director with longtime collaborator and friend, Kurt St. Thomas. They met in Boston in 1992 while working together on WFNX, an alternative rock radio station. Sparked by their mutual love of movies, they decided to pursue filmmaking. The first of their three films, a black and white thriller titled Captive Audience, received multiple awards. The honors included the President's Award for Best Picture at the Nashville Independent Film Festival, Best Screenplay at the Toronto Independent Film Festival, and Best Picture at the Magnolia Film Festival.
As Mike Gioscia's nephew, I was lucky enough to accompany him on the set at the Salton Sea, and was able to get a first-hand look at what it means to be a film director, even though I was drafted as set assistant (a.k.a. painter). A year later, I was able to sit down with him in his suburban Massachusetts home to ask him some questions about how a low budget film is produced.
Gioscia's latest film is one he knew he could show on a limited budget. It also helps that he is passionate about its topics.
The film follows a lone freedom fighter named Mars Flavian Blair, played by Gioscia, who relays broadcasts of freedom against an all-powerful corporation out of his post-apocalyptic bunker. He is running out of food and water but can't leave because a team of female assassins are closing in on his location. It is a race against time to get his message out to the largest crowd of people possible.
"I'm concerned like a lot of people about the state of the world, like climate change, never- ending wars, political corruption. I find writing to be very therapeutic; the writing gets out my thoughts. And the film gets my thoughts to the people." Like Mars, Gioscia is a man working against the opposition, desperately trying to get his message out to the people. He's working underground and won't let the all-powerful Hollywood stop him.
A small, one-room building rests behind St. Thomas's back porch at his Glendale, California home. This room is usually where St. Thomas broadcasts his real radio channel, but for months it was home to Mars's post-apocalyptic bunker, a set St. Thomas had been building for months. Black papier mâché walls hung against the real walls. An old, dusty leather chair swung back and forth in the center of the room, facing four out of date televisions covered in a rusty orange. Behind those TVs was Mars's mainframe—a suspended black wall cluttered with knobs, tubes, and buttons. This futuristic equipment was actually a collection of plastic dishes, soda bottles, Red Bulls, and Home Depot tubes painted pure black and hot glued to the wall. The orange rust on the television (and everything else for that matter) was a small coating of cinnamon. A homemade ladder, also just wood painted black, was tucked in against two papier mâché walls that led up to the metal door and into the Salton Sea where Mars Flavian Blair, after consuming a futuristic psychedelic drug, escapes through to perform his reconnaissance trip. And that metal door was actually a piece of wood painted black, with scrabble pieces uniformly glued to the top in neat rows. This is the magic of low budget cinema.
A year later, Gioscia still has his glasses, still has the big, grey beard, and is currently working on submitting the finished product to film festivals such as Screamfest LA, Coney Island Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival. Gioscia explained to me how simple the submission process has become: it is as easy as paying the fee (usually between thirty and sixty dollars), linking a private Vimeo copy for the committee to watch, and waiting for a reply. More than two years after writing, shooting, and editing, the film is finally ready for release.


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With wayward fastball, Mets starter Johan Santana crushed by Washington Nationals
Updated: Apr. 01, 2019, 4:08 p.m. | Published: Apr. 12, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
By Andy McCullough/The Star-Ledger
William Perlman/The Star-LedgerJohan Santana gave up five runs in five innings on Sunday.
NEW YORK – Look. When your changeup flattens and your fastball wavers, bad things happen. Walks happen. Grand slams happen.
That would be the consensus diagnosis for the ails of Mets ace Johan Santana, who looked lost early and left early in a 5-2 loss to the Washington Nationals on Sunday. Pitching on an extra day of rest, he surrendered a bases-loaded homer to Josh Willingham in the first inning. He left after the fifth inning.
"They jumped right ahead and scored some runs," Santana said. "And that was the whole ballgame."
With the rest of the rotation in flux, the Mets rely on Santana. He didn't execute on Sunday. Here's why: His fastball kept cutting by accident, darting when it should have stayed true. His changeup didn't break like it normally does. The Nationals walloped him because of it.
Despite the eight-figure contract, the two Cy Youngs and the devastating changeup, Santana is like most every other pitcher. He needs fastball command. The fastball sets up the changeup. Without that, he becomes ordinary.
Behind the plate, Rod Barajas saw the difference.
"He just didn't have the right feel," he said. "From what I've seen, he's never been that erratic with the fastball. The ball was cutting on him. He just didn't have the feel for it."
The danger began with the first batter. With the count full, Nyjer Morgan laced a triple over Gary Matthews, Jr.'s head in center field. Willy Taveras, who walked 18 times in 102 games last year, took first on five pitches. Adam Dunn coaxed out a walk to load the bases.
Josh Willingham stepped to the plate and worked the count to 2-1. Santana threw a changeup that "didn't do anything," he said. Willingham waffled it to deep center field and off the wall for a replay-corrected home run.
In the third, Willingham hurt the Mets again. He pounded a double back through that right-center alley.
Santana said he will not ask to throw again on regular rest for his next start. The team has Monday off as they travel West for a tough six-game set against Colorado and St. Louis.
"We've just got to go out there and build our strength and our confidence," Santana said. "It's good to see everybody going out there."

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6/15/2011 Analysis of June 7-14, 2011 CAV Opinions
5/31/2011 Analysis of May 31, 2011 CAV Opinion
5/10/2011 Catching Up With the Court of Appeals
4/26/2011 Analysis of April 26, 2011 CAV Opinions
4/5/2011 Analysis of April 5, 2011 CAV Opinions
3/24/2011 Analysis of March 22, 2011 CAV Opinions
2/15/2011 Analysis of February 15, 2011 CAV Opinions
2/8/2011 Analysis of February 8, 2011 CAV Opinions
2/1/2011 En Banc Rulings Illustrate CAV's Philosophical Spectrum
1/18/2011 Analysis of January 18, 2011 CAV Opinion
12/5/2010 Analysis of November 30, 2010 CAV Opinion
11/3/2010 Analysis of November 2, 2010 CAV Opinions
11/1/2010 Analysis of October 19 and 26, 2010 CAV Opinions
10/5/2010 Analysis of October 5, 2010 CAV Opinions
9/28/2010 CAV Grants Rare Sua-Sponte En Banc Rehearing
9/14/2010 Analysis of September 14, 2010 CAV Opinions
9/12/2010 Analysis of August 31 and September 7, 2010 CAV Opinions
7/20/2010 First-Impression Ruling on Representational Standing
7/12/2010 CAV Refuses Actual-Innocence Petition
6/23/2010 Analysis of June 22, 2010 CAV Opinion
6/16/2010 Important Jurisdictional Ruling from CAV
6/8/2010 Analysis of June 8, 2010 CAV Opinion
5/4/2010 Analysis of May 4, 2010 CAV Opinions
4/30/2010 Supreme Court Approves Comprehensive Appellate Rule Changes
4/9/2010 Appellate Notes of the Week
3/15/2010 Recap of an Eventful Week
3/5/2010 IDC Set to Defund Appellate Defender
3/2/2010 Senate Confirms Keenan for Fourth Circuit
2/25/2010 Analysis of February 25, 2010 Supreme Court Opinions
12/8/2009 Analysis of December 8, 2009 CAV Opinions
12/1/2009 Analysis of December 1, 2009 CAV Opinion
11/10/2009 Summary of November 10, 2009 CAV Opinions
10/27/2009 Analysis of October 27, 2009 CAV Opinion
9/15/2009 Analysis of September 15, 2009 CAV Opinion
9/8/2009 Analysis of September 8, 2009 CAV Opinions
8/27/2009 Analysis of August 25, 2009 CAV Opinions
8/6/2009 Revisiting de Haan v. de Haan
7/8/2009 Analysis of June 30, 2009 CAV Opinions
6/16/2009 Analysis of June 16, 2009 CAV Opinions
4/1/2009 Status Report on CAV Cases
3/10/2009 Analysis of March 4/10, 2009 CAV Opinions
7/8/2008 Analysis of July 1 and 8, 2008 CAV Opinions
6/3/2008 Analysis of June 3, 2008 CAV Opinons
5/13/2008 Analysis pf May 13, 2008 CAV Opinion
4/29/2008 Analysis of April 22/29, 2008 CAV Opinions
4/1/2008 Analysis of April 1, 2008 CAV Opinion
3/25/2008 Analysis of March 25, 2008 CAV Opinion
3/13/2008 Analysis of March 4/11 CAV Opinions
6/26/2007 June Brings Mixed Results for CAV Criminal Appellants
4/10/2007 Reversal for Limitation of Cross-exam
3/28/2007 Analysis of Feb. 28-March 4 rulings
3/20/2007 Two En Banc Criminal Rulings
3/7/2007 Double Jeopardy Bars DUI 2nd Charge
2/14/2007 US v. Love is in the Air
1/24/2007 Self-Endangerment Gets a Makeover
11/28/2006 New Ruling in Same-Sex Adoption Case
10/26/2006 Suspended Atty. Costs Litigant Her Appeal
9/26/2006 CAV Issues Anti-Spam Ruling
4/4/2006 Luginbyhl — En Banc CAV Avoids Central Issue
2/8/2006 New Criminal Rulings
12/15/2005 Two Criminal Convictions Reversed
11/29/2005 CAV Affirms 9/11 Death Benefits
9/27/2005 Rehearing Granted in Blood Certificate Case
8/16/2005 CAV Affirms 2 Criminal, 1 Domestic
6/15/2005 Two En Banc Criminal Rulings from CAV
6/13/2005 CAV Rulings on Eq. Distrib. & Administrative Fi
5/11/2005 E Pluribus Unum — Not the Other Way Around
4/20/2005 Inadequate record in res judicata appeal
4/13/2005 CAV Issues Three New En Banc Opinions
3/23/2005 CAV Issues 2 Domestic Relations Rulings
3/22/2005 CAV Reopens Moore v. Commonwealth
3/9/2005 Equitable Distribution Opinion from CAV
2/25/2005 Four Opinions from CAV in Criminal Cases
2/3/2005 Rulings on Immunity, Hearsay


1. Find speed when, distance is 142 km and time is 2 hours.
2. Find out the distance covered when, speed is 960 km/hour and time is 1 hour 50 minutes.
3. Determine the time taken when, distance is 7150 km and speed is 780 km/hr.
4. If distance travelled by a train is 495 km in 4 hours 30 minutes, what is its speed?
5. A cyclist covers 950 m in 5 minutes. Find his speed in km/ hour.
6. The speed of the train is 72 km per hour. Find its speed in metre per second.
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8. A man runs at the speed of 10 km/hr. How much time will he take to cover 750 metres?
9. Aaron ran 500 metre in 100 Seconds. Find the speed in km per hour.
10. A cyclist travels at a speed of 20 km/hour. How far will he travels in 50 minutes?


Hey, anyone listening at Codemasters?
Been having repeated issues with game feel, so I bit the bullet and tinkered around with the game save files to force a Steam resync and obliterated the Steam Cloud backup.
Haven't had an issue since, although probably only four or five hours gameplay. No stutter, I can host OK, Discord works fine, GFE records. Kind of like F1 101.
So, what is in the save game files? I see a Stats file (which seems pretty obvious), Ghost laps in the Ghost folder (genius, I know), some kind of monolithic career / game save with a backup file that looks identical (except for filename). And a much smaller file with a similar name.
Possible some variables or corruption or game patch cruft that means the save is useless once the game is patched? And then Steam just reintroduces it for you no matter how many times you reinstall the game, drivers or in my case, change every bit of hardware chasing a ghost in the machine? Until you obliterate it, it would seem. That's my ten cents. Now it's up to you bods.
I can upload my old saves (I backed them up before obliterating) you can have as much dxdiag as you like.
Think there's also a crashdump in there as well.
You can also have my new save files too.
Game is still working fine.
Thanks for reaching out. Sorry to hear about the issues you are having too!
Thank you for providing all the info on how you resolved it too. Can you DM me about your dxdiag, when you get a few minutes?


As a nod to Houston's long history with the railroad, the Houston Astros new MLB stadium was built on the site occupied by the city's historic Union Station. Outside Minute Maid Park's left-field wall sits a full-size vintage locomotive running along 800 feet of track. Inside, the Union Station Lobby serves as the grand entranceway to the park. Originally constructed in 1911, the lobby has since been restored and is now home to The Shed, the Official Astros Team Store, and a café.


Hi everyone, Landon here with some exciting news!
I, alongside my colleagues at SpotX (Ben Storrie and Jack Chapa) will be presenting at Spark + AI Summit 2019. It's an exciting opportunity to share what we've learned over the last year or so – particularly in the realm of Spark Streaming applications.
At SpotX, we have built and maintained a portfolio of Spark Streaming applications — all of which process records in the millions per minute. From pure data ingestion, to ETL, to real-time reporting, to live customer-facing products and features, continuous applications are in our DNA. Come along with us as we outline our journey from square one to present in the world of Spark Streaming. We'll detail what we've learned about efficient processing and monitoring, reliability and stability, and long term support of a streaming app. Come learn from our mistakes, and leave with some handy settings and designs you can implement in your own streaming apps.
The Spark Listener interface provides a fast, simple and efficient route to monitoring and observing your Spark application – and you can start using it in minutes. In this talk, we'll introduce the Spark Listener interfaces available in core and streaming applications, and show a few ways in which they've changed our world for the better at SpotX. If you're looking for a "Eureka!" moment in monitoring or tracking of your Spark apps, look no further than Spark Listeners and this talk!
When I wrote the abstract submissions for this year's summit, I had little expectation of either of them being accepted, let alone both. So for my part I'm proud to have the opportunity to share the exciting developments we've celebrated at SpotX with the wider Big Data community.
For those of you that have been reading this website for a time, you know that my biggest goal has been to democratize the spread of helpful, technical big data knowledge and breakthroughs to engineers around the world. Having these sessions at Spark + AI Summit 2019, and shared freely on YouTube afterward, is a huge step in that pursuit. I couldn't be prouder.
If you'll be there, definitely drop by the sessions! I'd love to meet you. Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn and we can sync up.
Adding users to a Hadoop cluster can be a little time-intensive.
I've managed Hadoop clusters for just a little while now and I've discovered the user management factor of Ambari is a little rough around the edges. Specifically, there's no easy way to manage Ambari LDAP users from within Ambari despite LDAP being a very popular way to provision and manage user access.
There is the command ambari-server sync-ldap [--users user.csv | --groups groups.csv] for adding users or groups but that can be an issue if access to the ambari user or server is limited. Additionally, the command line utility doesn't innately have any control over HDFS directories (either creating or deleting) upon a user- or group-sync, creating extra steps in the user creation process.


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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS (August 28, 2018) – EPIcenter, the City of San Antonio, CPS Energy, San Antonio Water System, the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, OCI Solar Power, Go Smart Solar and CyberSecurity San Antonio are joining forces to encourage local businesses to establish and test their own resilience plans so that San Antonio will be better prepared to face a disaster – like Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall one year ago in Texas on August 25, 2017. Businesses and organizations of all sizes are asked to participate in the social media conversation about their resilience plans or experience with resilience using #satxresilience during San Antonio Resilience Week, October 8 – 12.
EPIcenter's Summit in May 2018, called Disaster Disabled | Resilience Reinvented, focused on the technologies that enable a business to stay in operation after a disaster. To extend the conversation past the Summit, San Antonio District 8 Councilman Manny Pelaez and EPIcenter CEO Kimberly Britton announced Resilience Week, inviting local businesses to focus on and prepare their own resilience plans.
As of August 28, the following businesses and organizations are participating in Resilience Week. A complete list of participants will be on the EPIcenter website.


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Puerto Rico cautiously welcomes first cruise since COVID-19, Carnival's biggest ship yet
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Carnival Mardi Gras docked Tuesday in Puerto Rico — the first time a cruise ship has visited the U.S. territory since the pandemic began.
Some cautiously celebrated the arrival. It comes as Puerto Rico has reported an increase in COVID-19 cases blamed on the delta variant but also as it seeks to restart its crucial tourism sector, which depended largely on record numbers of cruise ship passengers in recent years.
Carlos Mercado, executive director of Puerto Rico's Tourism Company, told The Associated Press that the government took several precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including allowing only those who are fully vaccinated to disembark.
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He said the ship was traveling at 70% capacity, with some 4,500 people aboard, and that he estimates a total of 3,500 will disembark. Mercado noted that 95% of the ship's passengers are vaccinated, with children younger than 12 making up the majority of those who have not been inoculated.
The visit was expected to generate some $360,000 during the nine hours that the ship is docked in the historic part of Puerto Rico's capital known as Old San Juan.
"This is incredibly important for us," Mercado said, noting that Puerto Rico's hotel and aviation sector has boomed in recent months. "This is what we were missing."
Some 1.9 million cruise ship passengers visited Puerto Rico in 2019, a record for the island, said tourism spokeswoman Astrid Rolón.
The Carnival Mardi Gras departed Port Canaveral, Florida, and Puerto Rico was its first stop.


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We've Reached Peak Outrage—Now What?
Between Nicki, Taylor, Rihanna, and Drake, July 2015 saw outrage culture in pop explode. How can we have meaningful conversations that go beyond picking sides?
By Aimee Cliff
Taylor Swift photography Carrie Davenport / Getty Images. Nicki Minaj photography Theo Wargo / Getty Images. Drake photography Justin Sullivan/ Getty Images. Meek Mill photography Neilson Barnard / Getty Images.
Back in the '90s and early '00s, the British indie music press was known for changing its opinions—fast. Guardian and VICE journalist Sam Wolfson recently called this phenomenon "buttocking," or "Building Them Up To Knock Them Down"; magazines like The NME would create buzz around a band on the come-up, then cut them down the moment they became popular. Take Razorlight, indie darlings of your dad's CD collection, whose second album was given an 8/10 by the publication upon its release in 2006, only to be nominated for "Worst Album" at the NME Awards the following year.
Now that music journalism has moved online, though, an artist doesn't have to release a sub-par album to receive a backlash; everything they do is up for grabs. And whenever something headline-worthy happens, there seems to be some sort of an unwritten rule that every publication has to declare whether they're down with it or over it. In July alone, it felt like this cycle of praise and outrage reached a peak. When Rihanna released her "Bitch Better Have My Money" video at the beginning of the month, Refinery29 declared it "Not Safe For Work, Or Feminists," but The Guardian hailed it as the "return of the ingenue." When Taylor Swift misconstrued a Nicki Minaj tweet about music industry racism as a personal jibe and responded pretty tastelessly, Flavorwire declared a moratorium on all pop feminism, while Glamour UK asked, "WHEN will someone make [Swift] PM [Prime Minister]?" As Minaj herself pointed out, "white media" were quick to pit her against Swift personally instead of interpreting her wider comments as being about racism in the industry; the media's lust for a "feud" narrative quickly turned the issue into one you had to take a side on, using inflammatory headlines and confrontational images like the one at the top of this piece.
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In the midst of Meek Mill and Drake's feud over the former's allegation that the latter uses ghostwriters, Twitter was overrun with people claiming Meek had committed "career suicide." Even in the context of an accelerated media climate—where outrage against outrage and backlashes against backlashes are common—it was a lot to take in. You'd be forgiven for deactivating your Twitter for a while.
But even in a world where everybody's talking, it can feel like more nuanced and diverse perspectives about pop culture are passing us by. It's like a modern-day iteration of German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Numan's spiral of silence—a 1974 communications theory suggesting that people are more afraid of isolation than anything else, and that's the main factor that governs their public voicing of opinions. People who believe their opinions might be in the minority are way less likely to speak up, and so a monopoly of opinion takes hold. Ever watched a sexist TV show with a group of men and decided not to bother voicing how sexist it is? Nobody wants to be the killjoy or the outcast.
There's a general belief that the internet has created a more even playing field for unpopular opinions or marginalized voices. In reality, one study by the Pew Research Center in 2014 found that the spiral of silence theory actually applies even more to online self-expression than off. Of over 1,800 Americans studied, those who were willing to discuss a political issue IRL were less than half as likely to want to post about it on social media.
Of over 1,800 Americans studied, those who were willing to discuss a political issue IRL were less than half as likely to want to post about it on social media.
Even in an era where everybody has the opportunity to weigh in, it's still the voices backed by major media platforms that get amplified the loudest. Still, in the midst of July's perfect outrage storm, a peculiar trend stood out: some columnists have begun to speak from the perspective of the marginalized. Writing for the New Statesman, Helen Lewis began her criticism of "BBHMM" with a lament: "Apparently, unlike all other artistic output ever, writers are not supposed to respond to Rihanna's video." Janice Turner at British newspaper The Times, meanwhile, complained that she had been "silenced" when she attempted to critique the video's "misogyny." Piers Morgan wrote a disgusting Daily Mail column on Nicki Minaj in which he positioned himself as an underdog, up against the "bile" of "Black Twitter." While it is likely true that all of these writers received some online backlash for their opinions, their words suggest that they are fighting a brutal, bitter battle to speak their minds. In reality, all write for major publications, and thereby possess a very real sway over popular opinion. They don't have to shout to be heard.
Still, even as mass media outlets attempt to out-yell one another with "for" and "against" arguments, we're surrounded by people standing up on smaller online soapboxes in order to challenge majority ways of thinking. GHE20G0THIK founder Venus X responded to the Meek Mill and Drake story by raising uncomfortable questions about society, tweeting: "This @MeekMill vs @Drake beef speaks on so many more issues than we might want to accept. Issues of privilege, access, race, class." When other tweeters called her "stupid as fuck," and accused her of "reaching" and being "fake deep," she replied: "SAYING FAKE DEEP IS A WAY FOR PPL WHO CANT EXPLAIN THEIR POPULAR OPINION TO TRY & SHUT DOWN PPL WHO CAN EXPLAIN THEIR UNPOPULAR OPINION." Whether or not you agree with Venus, she's got her own ideas to back up what she's saying; rather than pick a side, she's attempted to start a wider conversation on the implications of this headline story. "You sound like you don't formulate your own opinions," she wrote in response to another commenter; it was such a succinct, perfect put-down that it gave me pause. How many people, in an age where you can literally see which views are popular by glancing at what's trending, can truly say they formulate their own opinions?
This @MeekMill vs @Drake beef speaks on so many more issues than we might want to accept. Issues of privilege, access, race, class.
— VENUS X (@VENUSXGG) July 26, 2015
Elsewhere, Mykki Blanco criticized the use of "Hashtag activism" to promote not fully thought-out opinions or stances. In a series of tweets concerning police brutality against Native Americans and high suicide rates on reservations, Blanco called for black activists to also support Native Americans and other people of color within the purview of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. "If you opened your eyes theirs not a NATIVELIVESMATTER hastag because those people are even more silenced than you could ever IMAGINE," the NYC rapper wrote. "The social consciousness of this current generation and political climate is a blessing. But...some of yall wanna BARK without being INFORMED."
Blanco is right: the potential for social media to drive activism and justice is huge. In New York magazine's new cover story, showcasing the narratives of numerous alleged victims of sexual assault by Bill Cosby, one woman—Tamara Green—sums that potential up in a line: "It's 2015, we have social media now. We can't be disappeared." This month, Texas authorities opened a new investigation into the death of Sandra Bland after more than 31,000 people tweeted her name. This week, Instagram users simply refused to allow Sandra Bland to "be disappeared" by the platform, insisting that the company lift the restrictions it had placed on the #SandraBland hashtag (Instagram, for its part, says it did this to limit hate speech). But Blanco is also spot-on in suggesting that it's all too easy to support a hashtag, and harder to form opinions that go deeper than reactive, knee-jerk tides of public opinion. Perspectives like Blanco's and Venus X's are disruptive, difficult to process, and frequently unrepresented in a mainstream mass media that's obsessed with quickly digestible content. But these are the kinds of unpopular opinions that we need to drive culture forward.
To acknowledge the reality of the most silenced is not in my opinion a "pitting of opressions"
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) July 29, 2015
So what comes next? A moratorium on thinkpiece culture, and the spirit of outrage that fuels it? As Spencer Kornhaber noted in The Atlantic earlier this year, "the attacks on online culture have become at least as histrionic and imprecise as the outrage they're targeting." Anti-outrage is not only just as exhausting as outrage culture itself; it fosters an environment in which those with complicated or agenda-challenging opinions become even more discouraged from voicing them from before.
By way of a solution to this Catch-22, Kornhaber suggests that everyone just needs to to quiet down a little—"If anyone is policing anyone's speech, it should be each of us to ourselves...out of common courtesy." To that, I'd say that those of us with the most visible platforms need to slow down and listen harder, and those without them need to be encouraged to speak louder.
At the end of the day, the world will only benefit from a dynamic, conversational culture; there's plenty to be outraged about, and that power can be channelled for good. And if we're feeling mistrustful of think piece culture these days, it's not because we're over-saturated with analysis and critique; it's because we don't really have enough of those things. To simply declare something amazing or terrible seems like little more than a shadow of an old journalistic trick. When we rush to pick a side on an issue, we skip over all the shades of grey that make that issue political meaningful. We build people up just to knock them down.
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Art as a catalyst for cultural connections
By: Michelle Brownridge December, 2012
Engage - Volume 3, Issue 1 Winter 2012
Arts First Nations Multiculturalism
First Nations Métis art artist collaboration community engagement education engaging youth multicultural outreach partnerships schools students youth
Art and creativity can be a powerful tool to bring people together and help them to learn from one another. This concept is something that the MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG) in Regina has recognized and has been working with for several years. Each year, the MAG leads a program that has been very successful in bridging First Nations, Francophone and newcomer students. Up to this point, the project has involved students from Kahkewistahaw First Nation, École Monseigneur de Laval (a French language school) and ten other community schools.
"It is such a positive program," says Wendy Winter, gallery educator, MAG. "It's so rewarding to watch the students get to know each other and really open up." She adds, "By the second or third visit to the gallery, it's often as if they come without any inhibitions at all and they are really able to have fun."
Students involved in the program have the opportunity to come together at the MAG to tour exhibitions with gallery facilitators and engage in discussion and interactive, collaborative art projects. Workshop leaders are brought on board to work with students to instruct them in many different mediums including creative graffiti, photo transfers and sculpture among other things. The groups of students meet several times a year.
Field trips have often been a component of the program with students travelling from École Monseigneur de Laval to Kahkewistahaw First Nation. For some students, either visiting a First Nation or meeting a Francophone person is a first, and a great opportunity for learning.
"The project helps to bring Aboriginal cultures into schools that may not know a lot about them in a very personal and positive way," says Winter. Students from Kahkewistahaw also have the opportunity to learn about Francophone culture. Winter notes, "It's about encouraging the students to interact and connect with someone they might not ordinarily have a chance to meet in their everyday school life."
A couple of years ago, Winter began to notice a changing demographic at Laval. "There were a growing number of newcomers whose first language was French. The MAG saw this as another opportunity to bring together multiple cultures in a learning environment. With the addition of a newcomer perspective to the program, the MAG was able to extend its ideas of collaborative learning even further. "It is sometimes easy for newcomers to pick up on and adopt negative stereotypes of Aboriginal people that are unfortunately so prevalent in our society," says Winter. "We hope that through our program, we can play a part in eliminating these misconceptions."
The culmination, of all of the hard work by students and workshop instructors, is an exhibition of all of the collaborative artwork produced throughout the duration of the program MAG. All of the participants are invited to come together once more for an exhibition reception to celebrate their efforts, connections made and the amazing art that was created along the way. "It is a great opportunity to have a part of the program that is open to the public," says Winter. "When people come into the gallery and see the exhibition, it is an opportunity to see the changes that are happening in our communities from the perspectives of youth from many different backgrounds."


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Hassan Jumaaa- "Sports aside, I make great chapatis"
Hassan Jumaaa, KTN's sports reporter has a drawl to his name
and fans love it!
Meet Hassan Jumaa, the KTN sports reporter with a drawl to his name. He tells Sylvia Wakhisi what he's all about.
The way you pronounce your name in your news reports has got people talking. So, is it Juma or Jumaaa......?
(Laughs)Many of my viewers tend to think it's an exaggeration or some form of swag. But the truth is that it's actually my real name. I am a Digo and in our community, am not just called Juma like any other, but the name has several AAA's at the end. It has to be mentioned differently than the normal Juma and this has been the case since childhood. It's my identity.
Has it ever landed you in problems?
As much as some people would make fun of it, others didn't like it. Even my bosses didn't receive it positively. But after doing some research, they realised it's my true identity and have lived to appreciate and embrace it. The name has now become a popular brand and that makes me happy. People should not be worried about the name, but the content of the story.
You have been in the industry for many years. Did you always aspire to have a career in TV?
I joined KTN in 2006 as a trainee reporter and have risen through the ranks to my current position as a Senior Reporter. I must say it has been the best experience ever. When I was young, I dreamt of venturing into either three of these careers- journalism, law or become a pilot. I am contended because I got into journalism and so far so good.
You were voted the best TV journalist during the 2010 KPL footballer of the year awards. For the past nine years, you have become a unique brand in sports reporting. What would you say has carved your success in journalism?
Since I was a young boy, I loved telling stories. I would gather my friends then we would sit in a circle and I would tell stories of my day-to-day experiences. Back in school, I used to take part in debate contests and I guess that even raised my confidence to a higher level to speak in front of people. I am happy that am now telling other people's stories through TV. I do what I do because of my audience.
Give us a little sneak peek into your early life.
As I mentioned earlier, I am a Digo, which is part of the greater Mijikenda ethnic group and was born in the South Coast of Mombasa in Kwale County. I started my schooling in Bamburi Primary School in Mombasa and later joined Mother of Apostles Secondary school in Eldoret. I then enrolled at United States International University – USIU for my undergraduate degree in Journalism and International Relations.
What was the experience like studying in a seminary school?
There is this misconception that students in seminary schools just want to be priests. That is not true. I was the only 'Hassan' in that school and I got to interact with a lot of people from diverse backgrounds and in the process, learnt a lot. I learnt about religious tolerance and that religion does not embrace violence. That is something I always live with.
What has been the highlight of your career?
I covered the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil. That was an eye opener and interesting time in my life. I met people from all walks of life, some of whom I never imagined I would meet.
What is the most embarrassing moment of your career as a journalist?
I once went out with some friends at some joint to unwind then all of a sudden a lady, who had spotted me at a corner, rushed to hug me and we tumbled. You can imagine all the blank stares we got from people. It was embarrassing. But it's part of the baggage that comes with being in the public domain. Sometimes you just want to lead a quiet life but you can't because of your fans. As much as I appreciate my fans, I love my private life and try as much as possible to be incognito.
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What don't people know about you?
I am not a snob. I love to interact with others and pick my calls whenever they come in. I love cooking. The kitchen is my second love after Manchester United (laughs). I like trying out new recipes. I can make tasty chapatis. On the other hand, I love mentoring young people. I visit schools and talk to students on various issues including making the right career decisions. It's my small way of giving back to the community.
What next for Hassan Jumaa?
I currently produce and host a Kiswahili sports show, 'Utesi Ugani Show' on KTN every Sunday at 6.30pm. I would want us to one day have a TV station that airs only sports. There are so many opportunities in the world of sports especially with the devolved government. I might consider going back to Kwale and start something in sports. I would also want to become a journalism lecturer.
Are you married, single?
I am dating.
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Whistler is located on Highway 99, the scenic Sea to Sky Highway, just a two-hour drive from the Vancouver International Airport. For those of you who are joining us from the south, we are a comfortable four and a half-hour drive from Seattle.
The spectacular two-hour drive along the Sea to Sky Highway (99 North), from Vancouver to Whistler, offers awe-inspiring, scenic views, and was rated the 'Most Romantic Road in the World' in the Prestigious Robb Report Magazine in 1998. For a safe and enjoyable journey along a mountain highway, such as Highway 99, drivers need to be alert at all times. Maximum speed is 80 km/h (50 mph), which is actively enforced by police, and the use of safety belts and child car seats are required by law in British Columbia.
There are now more non-stop direct flights than ever to Vancouver International Airport from dozens of domestic and international destinations, with connections from hundreds of cities worldwide.
Whistler Mountaineer offers passenger trains from Vancouver's North Shore to Whistler's Creekside Village. Reservations are required. Tickets may be purchased from the conductor (cash only) on a space availability basis only. Whistler train station has free connecting bus service to the main Whistler Village.
Transportation between the main YVR terminal and Helijet and between Whistler Heliport and Whistler Village is provided.


I'm the guy who never recognizes the celebrities that walk by when everyone else apparantly has their eagle eyes out and is buzzing about them. I keep my head down and move forward, or something. Hey, did you just see Nicolas Cage sitting next to you at breakfast? "Where? Really? Where'd he go?". Hey, wasn't that Gillian Anderson we just walked by? "It was?". So when Jane Fonda walked by our table at Cafe Pasquale in Santa Fe, New Mexico last week, all I noticed was a refined older woman with dark sunglasses on and 70s-style feathered hair, and only when the waitstaff started tittering at our table did I get the sense that it might be someone of note. Oh right - I guess that was Jane Fonda.
It reminded me that I've got a very fine collection stickers about Ms. Fonda that I'd like to share with you. I just scanned these for you now - part of my "conservative cranks of the 1970s" collection, which also includes an awesome "Ayatollah Assaholla" t-shirt I bought on eBay. Enjoy!


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Robinhood Launches New Media Outlet Sherwood Media
Digital investment platform Robinhood is launching a new media arm called Sherwood Media, which will cover the markets, economics, business, technology and the culture of money, the company said last week. The fintech firm joins the growing list of companies that are entering the media business in a bid to gain exposure, sell more products and become more profitable.
Sherwood Media, which will operate as a subsidiary of Robinhood, will be led by media entrepreneur and technology editor Joshua Topolsky and will build on the company's successful daily newsletter, Robinhood Snacks.
Robinhood Snacks is a three-minute newsletter that aims to give subscribers "a daily dose of financial news." It's meant to be "the most fun business news you can get" and easily digestible to the everyday person. Previously known as MasterSnacks until the company was acquired by Robinhood in 2019, Robinhood Snacks has amassed a significant readership, totaling 36 million email subscribers in June 2021.
Robinhood Snacks homepage, Source: snacks.robinhood.com
Topolsky, the founder and former editor-in-chief of tech news network The Verge; co-creator of its parent company Vox Media; and a former chief digital content officer at Bloomberg, will serve as the editor-in-chief and president of the newly formed entity.
He will be in charge of overseeing the entire operation, including product development and the hiring of editorial and sales talent, Topolsky told American news website Axios in an interview. Dozens of employees are expected to be hired this year, including reporters, editors and social media content creators, he said.
Sherwood Media will house Snacks, the company said, and a suite of new editorial offerings are expected to be launched throughout 2023 focusing on news updates and analysis, original reporting, social-first content, as well as live events. New newsletter products centered around specific verticals related to business and finance could also be introduced in the future, Topolsky said.
While Robinhood had in the past made no effort to monetize Snacks, Sherwood Media will provide advertising opportunities to select partners, Robinhood said.
Moreover, because Sherwood Media is being established as an independent company, the media outlet will be able to cover Robinhood "where and when it makes sense, with disclosures obviously," Topolsky said, something Robinhood Snacks wasn't able to do "to avoid any real or perceived conflict of interest."
Topolsky compared the move to that of Bloomberg, which started out as a financial software provider before expanding to consumer media and becoming one of the world's leading news agencies.
Robinhood is one of the increasing number of companies that are either creating or acquiring news and media companies to build their brand, acquire new customers and increase customers retention.
HubSpot, a publicly traded marketing software company, acquired in 2021 The Hustle, a media outlet focused on business news that clocks close to two million newsletter subscribers. The deal reportedly valued The Hustle at around US$27 million.
JP Morgan, the world's largest financial services institution, acquired The Infatuation, a publisher that offers reviews and recommendations on restaurants across the US and internationally.
Last year, Pipe, a US trading platform for recurring revenues, acquired Purely Capital, a media and entertainment financing company. Pipe said in a statement that the deal was meant to help Pipe expand into other sectors, furthering its mission to becoming the trading platform for any company with recurring revenues, regardless of industry.
Other organizations, meanwhile, have opted instead to build their own media platforms. This is the case for Coinbase, which rolled out in 2021 a new blog called Fact Check to hit back at negative press coverage and "misinformation".
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A Family Health Team is a group of health care providers who work together to help keep you and your family healthy and to coordinate the best possible care for your health needs. A team approach offers you better access to appropriate health care in your own community.
In addition to family doctors, the team is developing to include Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Dietitians, Social Workers, and other healthcare providers. Some of these positions are referred to as "Allied Health Professionals" which are people who have expertise in specific areas that help support the efforts of your doctor in caring for your health.
How does the team-approach work?
The team works together, with you, to offer health education and promotion, illness prevention, disease diagnosis as well as management and rehabilitation. The team works with other health care organizations to address the particular needs of the people in its own community.
Will I still have a family doctor?
Yes. Each patient signs up with a doctor and becomes part of the roster of the Family Health Team. You will continue to see your doctor during regular office hours. You may also be referred to other health care providers as appropriate.
Please contact our Family Health Team directly at 705.862.7991.
Can I participate in the health promotion programs/workshops offered in the community, if I'm not a patient of one of the Espanola Family Health Team physicians?
Absolutely! Our community programs and workshops are available to anyone living in Espanola and the surrounding municipalities.
Absolutely! Depending on the nature of your need you can be booked in with another member of the team. That is one of the many benefits of a team.
Outside of regular clinic hours, patients may contact 1-866-553-7205 to connect to the Telephone Health Advisory System. This phone number will connect you to a registered nurse who will assess your concerns. If it is determined that you should see a physician, or if your problem is of a more urgent nature, we request that you go to the nearest Emergency Department.
Please bring your health card to every appointment and give it to reception when you arrive. If you have changed your address or your telephone number, please notify reception.
Check the expiry date on your card and arrange for a new one before it expires. You must notify the OHIP office if your card is lost, stolen, you have a change of address or your card has expired. Please call the ServiceOntario, INFOLine at 1-888-376-5197 to book an appointment to renew your health card or for any other inquiries.
Contact your pharmacy and request they fax a refill request to your primary care provider's office. They will review, and in most cases sign off the request and it will be faxed back to your pharmacy.
How are diagnostic tests booked?
If you need to have diagnostic tests booked, our reception staff will either make the appointment for you and let you know when and where to go, or provide you with the necessary information to arrange for your tests. If you cannot go at the appointed time, you must call the diagnostic lab to change your appointment. We will call you if we need to follow up on your tests with information or an office visit.
If your doctor refers you to a medical specialist, in many cases, our reception staff will make your appointment and let you know when and where to go. Some specialists require that patients themselves make the call to arrange the appointment. In this case, our reception staff will ensure that you have the information you need to make the appointment. We will send any information needed ahead for you. If you cannot go at the appointed time, please contact your specialist's office to reschedule. Please do not miss specialists' appointments as they often take weeks or months to schedule and they may charge you for a missed appointment.
Who should have a screening test for colorectal cancer?
If you are between the ages of 50 and 74, or have a history of colorectal cancer in your family, you should have screening for colorectal cancer. This is a simple test which involves easily collecting a very small stool sample. A colorectal check every 2 years could save your life!
The Espanola Family Health Team has established other preventative care strategies to ensure you achieve optimal health outcomes including, well baby checks, well women screening and influenza vaccinations.
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Gout is one of the various recognized types of arthritis, which can be treated with and a proper arthritis gout diet along with regular exercise and a healthy lifestyle. Gout is a result of having excessive uric acid in the bloodstream.
Order to treat gout, one has to have an arthritis gout diet that can regulate the uric acid levels, but this does not mean that you can not eat desserts anymore. In fact, here are two desserts that you can try: the Cinnamon Crusted Strawberry Flan and also the Cinnamon Carrot Pancakes.
The ingredients for the crust of the Cinnamon Crusted Strawberry Flan tend to be rolled oats, whole grain pastry flour, sugar, ground cinnamon, baking soda, canola oil, and fat-free plain yogurt. Are you aware that filling, you will need strawberry all-fruit spread, vanilla extract, and hulled strawberries. The crust will be baked like a normal piecrust, and then it will be filled with strawberries. It will then be covered with a mixture of melted fruit spread and vanilla draw out brushed on the surface of the strawberries. This will then be refrigerated until the spread will be jelled. Since cherries are also known for managing gout naturally, you may substitute strawberries with canned cherries or fresh cherries.
The next dessert recipe is the Cinnamon Carrot Pancakes, which can be created using pancake mix, cinnamon, raisins, carrots, and nutmeg as the main elements. You will also need brown sugar, salt, and cloves. Combine the pancake mix with water plus an additional bowl, combine the remaining ingredients. The second mixture will then be gently folded in the pancake batter. This will then end up being cooked like any other pancake.
So whoever said that you couldn't eat yummy desserts if you have gout and if you are under an arthritis gout diet?
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Campus rape
Gang rapes were a 'bonding' experience for Baylor football players, lawsuit alleges
A new federal lawsuit filed against Baylor University in Texas contains a number of shocking claims, drawing the beleaguered school back into the spotlight over its handling of campus sexual assault. According to the new suit, brought against the school by a former Baylor volleyball player, members of the football team routinely participated in gang rapes and even went so far as to record the attacks on video. The lawsuit also alleges the players would also stage dogfights as part of the team's hazing rituals. The former volleyball player, identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, says she was raped by at least four players after attending a party in 2012, where she believes she had been drugged. After the attack, the woman alleges, players burglarized her apartment and subjected her and her family to harassment.
The woman says she told her mother about the incident, who then alerted the head football coach at the time, Art Briles, and athletic director Ian McCaw, about the incident. The woman's mother even provided the coach and A.D. with a list of players names, but she never received a response from either of them, the suit says. Eventually, the woman left the school.
The lawsuit goes on to paint a disturbing portrait of a depraved culture fostered by the Baylor football program. According to allegations, freshman players were ordered to bring female students to the parties held by the team. The young women would then be drugged, the lawsuit alleges, and gang-raped. "The gang rapes were considered a 'bonding' experience for the football players," the lawsuit says, adding that the plaintiff has confirmed the existence of at least one video that shows a group of players gang-raping two women students. The video was then allegedly distributed among players on the team.
Briles, the head coach, was fired last May as accusations about his program mounted, though he has maintained he's done nothing wrong. In all, more than a dozen women have sued Baylor over sexual assault allegations and many of the stories they've told have been strikingly similar.
Read the full story at The Associated Press.
Woman who resigned after leading sexual assault investigation at Baylor University breaks her silence


Business development can be challenging and sometimes you need someone to give you guidance, resources, or to just listen to your ideas or roadblocks. Entrepreneurial coaching can provide you with a trained, impartial coach that can be a sounding board for your ideas, share time-saving resources, and sharpen your focus on reaching business goals. Coaching provides a deeper, more productive conversation with the clear goal of helping you launch or grow your business idea. The University of Maryland Extension has trained business coaches that know the ins and outs of agricultural and food-related businesses.
If the time investment of sitting in a coaching session seems burdensome with so many other things demanding your attention; then perhaps a virtual coaching session, scheduled to fit your day, is right for you.
The University of Maryland's Entrepreneurial Coaching Team for farm and food entrepreneurs has lunchtime and evening appointments available online. Each appointment is scheduled for 45 minutes in a virtual meeting room using WebEx. When you register for your appointment, you will be asked to complete a brief questionnaire so your coach can be better prepared to discuss your unique situation. You will also receive instructions how to join your scheduled meeting.
A Virtual Entrepreneurial Coaching session is free of charge and all individuals interested in growing their businesses are invited to participate. To schedule a virtual coaching session please complete the following form - https://go.umd.edu/coachingform. The form will provide us with additional information about you, your business and selecting a time and coach that matches your needs. We look forward to working with you!
You will receive a link to join Webex. There are visual resources to share with you so we prefer you to log in on your computer or phone app. However, if for some reason this isn't working for you, you may use the call-in option below. Webex does require software, so if you plan to use your phone you will need to download their app. Their app can be obtained by going to Apple Ap Store or Goggle Play. If you use your computer, click link to join Webex, you will be prompted to download their software. A high speed internet connection, speakers and microphone (or phone) will be needed to have a successful coaching experience.
Windows-If you plan to join the meeting using Internet Explorer, we recommend having ActiveX enabled. If you plan to join the meeting using Firefox or Chrome, we recommend having Java installed and enabled in your browser.
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Colombo Stars to meet Jaffna Kings in LPL final today
The Colombo Stars team qualified for the finals of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) cricket tournament Yesterday (22).
In the third semi-final of the tournament, the team defeated Kandy Falcons by 6 wickets.
Meanwhile, according to the Duckworth Lewis method, the Jaffna team qualified for the finals. The team won by 24 points in the match held against the Kandy team on the 21st.
Accordingly, the final match between Jaffna Kings and Colombo Stars will be held at 7.30 pm tonight at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
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Report: Southend United 2-3 MK Dons Under-18s
Young Dons start 2023 off with a victory…
John Bitting's boys claimed victory on the road in their first game of 2023 against Southend United.
After suffering back-to-back league defeats, the young Dons claim three points against the Shrimpers. Last Saturday's success has resulted in MK Dons being three points adrift the top three places within the EFL Youth Alliance Group C table.
Edwin Daffern's brace and Joshua Adepoju's composure from the penalty spot secured the win in a tight contest at the Boots & Laces Training Ground.
Both sides had a strong start to the first 45 minutes, but it was John Bitting's boys who opened the scoring. High pressure from the visitors allowed a quick turn over of possession, the ball then found its way to Ed Daffern, who made no mistake as he blasted a strike into the roof of the net. 0-1
A set-piece routine from the hosts saw the game level, once again. An outswinger delivery located Fiddes, the Southend United player then converted from close-range. 1-1
Both teams were unseparated, and the score-line remained level at 1-1 as they headed into the break.
Seven minutes following the interval, MK Dons were awarded a penalty after Corvell Pickering was fouled in the opposition's box. Adepoju stepped up to take the set-piece and the young Don made no mistake as he composedly finished the spot-kick past the Shrimpers' number one. 1-2
The hosts adapted to a more attacking style of play since going behind for the second time during the clash. However, this saw them exposed as the travelling team increased their lead to three.
Callum Tripp glanced up and picked out Daffern in a dangerous area, the forward player then claimed his brace whilst increasing MK Dons' advantage to 1-3.
Southend were then awarded the second penalty of the match. Fiddes joined Daffern as both players from either side claimed a brace within the first fixture of the new year. 2-3
15 minutes remained after the Blues cut their deficit to one, but the score-line remained unchanged for the rest of the league battle, which meant that the young Dons claimed the spoils and cemented their fourth-place position.
When asked about the first game of 2023, Lead Professional Development Phase Coach John Bitting had this to say "I'm really pleased for the group.
"They've trained really hard under different circumstances over the Christmas period, but they were spot on today. Their attitude, grit and determination, as well as the product in the final-third was spot on."
MK Dons: Stacey, Scholtz, Boyce (Clark-Anderson 84), Bombo (Matthews 65), Stirland, Wood, Adepoju, Tripp, Olaleye (Guzynski 90+1), Daffern, Pickering (Blennerhassett 65)
Subs: Silver
Goals: Daffern 16,60 Adepoju 52
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Report: MK Dons Under-18s 0-2 Sutton United
MK Dons Under-18s suffered their fifth straight EFL Youth Alliance defeat after they travelled to the VBS Community Stadium to face Sutton United
Report: Watford 5-1 MK Dons Women
MK Dons Women were eliminated from the quarter-final of the FAWNL Cup following a 5-1 defeat to Watford.
Report: Under-18s 3-1 Cambridge United
MK Dons Under-18s booked their place in the EFL Youth Alliance Cup Final courtesy of a 3-1 victory over Cambridge United.
Report: MK Dons 0-2 Exeter City
A brace from Jevani Brown saw MK Dons beaten 2-0 by Exeter City at Stadium MK.


Telecasted on channel DD Podhigai, Chippikkul Muthu is a talent hunt show offering a platform to people across the country. Premiered on 8th Feb, 2017, the program will be telecasted every Wednesday at 9:30 P.M. Produced by K.K.Vision; the program serves as a platform for those people who don't get a chance to showcase their talent to the world. This program is known to provide a stage to talented people by encouraging and promoting them. The name of the show Chippikkul Muthu means a Pearl in an oyster.
The organizers try their best to extract pearls from the oysters, i.e., they work hard to pick talented people from the crowd and show their abilities to the world. The name of the program completely justifies its format of giving an equal opportunity to people having different talents from various parts of the country. The participants have to get registered and provide details about them. After the initial screening, they will be called to perform on TV in front of millions of audience. Be it sports, music, swimming, dancing, acting or any other god-gifted ability, the program encourages record holders from various genres to enlighten their future.
Viewers from all over the world love watching this show due to its unique concept. One of the most watched episode showed how a B.Tech student learned to play a musical instrument along with his studies. He also narrated the difficulties faced by him to pursue his talent along with college. He revealed that it was his passion and hard-work which allowed him to take out time for all activities. For pursuing a talent, one needs to remain focused, passionate, creative and determined. Also, time management is the key to success.
One has to take out time from the routine to excel in a field. One of the guests on the program quoted a similar example, who despite his physical disability followed his passion of playing music. This episode showed how a man, who lost his hands in a tragic accident, plays drums with burning sticks. He says that his urge to convert his weakness into strength has always been the driving force behind his talent. One of the most watched episodes with a high view count showed Juggler Masthan. He explained how he has been passionate about juggling and has mastered the art to perfection. Inspired by football tricks on YouTube, he learned to balance the football by practicing it thoroughly. To know more about your favorite Tamil programs, log on to channel DD Podhigai on YouTube.
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Q: How to a precreated prefab convert to transparent object in Unity? I installed a 3d model from internet. I add it to unity scene.But I try to convert transparent model. To do it, I create a material and change A channel(RGBA) in inspector panel.
By the way, I generate a transparent material. I drag it to model gameobject. Now, the model is transparent but it doesn't include rgb datas.
How to a model convert to transparent model with rgb datas?

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Q: Find all vectors **v** such that the resultant is parallel to the **x-y** plane Find all vectors v such that the resultant of $\langle2,3,0 \rangle$, $\langle0,6,1 \rangle$, $\langle2,0,-4 \rangle$ and v is parallel to the x-y plane.
For these vectors' resultant to be parallel to x-y  plane, we want
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which is possible only when v = $\langle a,b,3\rangle$ where $a,b\in R$
Is this correct?