Everyone knows that smoking tobacco is bad for your health. Smoking harms nearly every organ in the body. Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death in the US, killing more people than alcohol, car accidents, illegal drugs, complications of HIV/AIDS, murders and suicides combined.
People smoke to cope with stress in their lives. People smoke because they are addicted. People are addicted usually because they began smoking as a young person and nicotine is very difficult to quit. Addiction of any kind feeds the emptiness a person feels inside. People smoke because their lives are stressful and nicotine gives them feeling of pleasure. Adrenaline released by nicotine reaches the brain in ten seconds. For people experiencing stress, they can experience relief immediately, if only for a moment.
The stress of life never goes away completely, but mental health providers and behavioral health providers are uniquely positioned to save hundreds of lives each year by helping clients learn and practice more health promoting habits. Mental health professionals can bring up tobacco or any nicotine use and ask their clients to reflect on the role and meaning of tobacco in their clients' lives. Mental health providers can support their clients to learn healthier coping strategies and to start living tobacco and nicotine-free lives. Most current smokers want to quit (62%) and have tried to quit in the last 12 months (NM BRFSS). So, providers can give resources and encouragement that their clients need to give up tobacco.
For many clients, tobacco addiction is not the most pressing issue. They might be dealing with other substance use issues, depression, anxiety, or a host of other mental health concerns. The most stressful periods of one's life are not an optimum time to quit using tobacco or nicotine. Ideally, providers support clients over extended periods of time. This allows providers to support through crisis moments and reflection moments. Including counseling about tobacco and nicotine use can increase a client's self-awareness about their tobacco use and encourage more mindful decisions about tobacco's role in their life.
Big tobacco companies have spent millions of dollars subtly dissuading us from the reality that tobacco and nicotine addiction causes great harm. It is an addiction that harms people throughout their lives. Smoking takes off, on average, ten years of one's life . When mental health providers keep tobacco and nicotine cessation a priority in their counseling, they save lives.
Mental health agencies can make tobacco and nicotine cessation referrals even more convenient for clients and providers by setting up a fax or email referral system. These organizational policies can have a large impact on many people by creating structure and follow-through with referrals. The fax referral allows providers to easily enroll their clients in free cessation programs, thereby reducing barriers and increasing the likelihood the client will quit tobacco and nicotine.
What can mental health providers do?
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Q: When saving ModelFormSet it reads the whole underlying table? I don't know how to explain the problem in my title, so if someone knows how to better phrase the problem I'm going to describe, I hope there is a way to update the tile.
I have to say I already tried to search with google, for a solution, but I'm not able to find something useful
I tried to follow there video tutorial (after reading the official Django documentation of course)
Video 01
Video 02
I'm using an old version of Django, because I have to connect to MS SQL Database, and this mix of python+django+mssql-backend is the only combination found functioning (I tried with the latest version of Django and Python, but I had to mess around with the mssql-backend because there were a lot of error about deprecated function, for example ugettext_lazy instead of gettext_lazy and many more...)
I'm trying to create a small interface to an already existing MS SQL Database (so I can't change the structure of the database). I'm still learning Django, so I'm pretty sure the problem is mine, I have misunderstood something :(
Currenty I created a page to search the interesting rows in database table and a page to edit all the resulting rows from the previous search
When I submit the form with the search parameter, I'm able to create a queryset to show the correct form to edit (for example search by customer number, customer name and so on).
But when I edit something (for example I change the name of the customer...) and submit with the save button, the correct AnagraficheEditView (reported below) is "called" but I don't have the search filter anymore, so I can build the same queryset, the only thing I can do is
aefs = formset(request.POST or None, request.FILES or None)
The problem is: calling formset.is_valid() django tries to select from the underlying table all the rows (and I currently have about 16 millions rows in that table, so it's a little slow :) )
I think I'm missing something important here
Thanks for any suggestion
forms.py
from django import forms
from django.db.models import query
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _

from .models import Anagrafiche

class AnagraficheSearchForm(forms.Form):
    idbatch       = forms.IntegerField(required=True, label='ID Batch')
    iderrore      = forms.CharField(max_length=256, required=False, label='Errore')
    codiceclifor  = forms.CharField(max_length=64, required=False, label='Codice Cliente')
    denominazione = forms.CharField(max_length=512, required=False, label='Denominazione')
    cfisc         = forms.CharField(max_length=16, required=False, label='Codice Fiscale')
    piva          = forms.CharField(max_length=11, required=False, label='Partita Iva')

class AnagraficheEditForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model: Anagrafiche
        fields = ['idbatch', 'mandante', 'societa', 'codiceclifor', 'nome', 'cognome', 'ragsoc', 'cfisc', 'piva', 'codicedestinatariosdi', 'iderrore']
        labels = {
            'idbatch':               _('ID Batch'),
            'mandante':              _('Mandante'),
            'societa':               _('Societa'),
            'codiceclifor':          _('Codice Cliente'),

            'nome':                  _('Nome'),
            'cognome':               _('Cognome'),
            'ragsoc':                _('Ragione Sociale'),
            'cfisc':                 _('Codice Fiscale'),
            'piva':                  _('Partita Iva'),
            'codicedestinatariosdi': _('Codice SDI'),
            'iderrore':              _('Errore'),
        }
        widgets = {
            'idbatch':               forms.HiddenInput(),
            'mandante':              forms.HiddenInput(),
            'societa':               forms.HiddenInput(),
            'codiceclifor':          forms.HiddenInput(),
            }

Models.py
    from django.db import models
    from django.utils import translation

    # Create your models here.
    class Anagrafiche(models.Model):
        idbatch = models.IntegerField(db_column='IDBatch', primary_key=True)  # Field name made lowercase.
        mandante = models.CharField(db_column='Mandante', max_length=64)  # Field name made lowercase.
        societa = models.CharField(db_column='Societa', max_length=64)  # Field name made lowercase.
        codiceclifor = models.CharField(db_column='CodiceCliFor', max_length=64)  # Field name made lowercase.
        nome = models.CharField(db_column='Nome', max_length=256, blank=True, null=True)  # Field name made lowercase.
        cognome = models.CharField(db_column='Cognome', max_length=256, blank=True, null=True)  # Field name made lowercase.
        ragsoc = models.CharField(db_column='RagSoc', max_length=256, blank=True, null=True)  # Field name made lowercase.
#more fields here, removed for simplicity
        cfisc = models.CharField(db_column='CFisc', max_length=32, blank=True, null=True)  # Field name made lowercase.
        piva = models.CharField(db_column='PIVA', max_length=32, blank=True, null=True)  # Field name made lowercase.
        codicedestinatariosdi = models.CharField(db_column='CodiceDestinatarioSDI', max_length=64, blank=True, null=True)  # Field name made lowercase.
        iderrore = models.IntegerField(db_column='IDErrore', blank=True, null=True)  # Field name made lowercase.

        class Meta:
            managed = False
            #SQL Schemas :)
            db_table = 'enerp].[Anagrafiche'
            unique_together = (('idbatch', 'mandante', 'societa', 'codiceclifor'),)
            verbose_name = "Anagrafica"
            verbose_name_plural = "Anagrafiche"

        def __str__(self):
            if self.cognome != None:
                return self.codiceclifor + ' ' +  self.cognome + ' ' +  self.nome
            else:
                if self.ragsoc != None:
                    return self.codiceclifor + ' ' +  self.ragsoc
                else:
                    return self.codiceclifor

views.py
from django.db.models import Q
from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
from django.forms.models import modelformset_factory
from django.shortcuts import render

from .models import Anagrafiche
from .forms import AnagraficheSearchForm, AnagraficheEditForm

def ENERP(request):
    return render(request, 'index.html')

def AnagraficheSearchView(request):
    if request.method == 'GET':
        asf = AnagraficheSearchForm(data=request.GET)

        if asf.is_valid():
            if asf.cleaned_data['idbatch'] != None:
                qs = Anagrafiche.objects.filter(idbatch__exact=asf.cleaned_data['idbatch'])

            if asf.cleaned_data['denominazione'] != '':
                qs = qs.filter(Q(cognome__contains=asf.cleaned_data['denominazione']) | Q(nome__contains=asf.cleaned_data['denominazione']) | Q(ragsoc__contains=asf.cleaned_data['denominazione']))

            if  asf.cleaned_data['cfisc'] != '':
                qs = qs.filter(cfisc__exact=asf.cleaned_data['cfisc'])

            if  asf.cleaned_data['piva'] != '':
                qs = qs.filter(piva__exact=asf.cleaned_data['piva'])

            return render(request, 'AnagraficheSearchPage.html', {'AnagraficheSearchForm' : asf})
        else:
            return render(request, 'AnagraficheSearchPage.html', {'AnagraficheSearchForm' : asf})
    else:
        return render(request, 'AnagraficheSearchPage.html')

def AnagraficheEditView(request):
    formset = modelformset_factory(Anagrafiche, form=AnagraficheEditForm, extra=0)

    if request.method == 'GET':
        if request.GET.get('queryset') is None:
            qs = Anagrafiche.objects.all()

            if request.GET.get('idbatch') is not None:
                qs = qs.filter(Q(idbatch__exact=request.GET.get('idbatch')))

            if request.GET.get('denominazione') is not None:
                qs = qs.filter(Q(cognome__contains=request.GET.get('denominazione')) |
                               Q(nome__contains=request.GET.get('denominazione')) |
                               Q(ragsoc__contains=request.GET.get('denominazione')))

            if request.GET.get('cfisc') != '':
                qs = qs.filter(cfisc__exact=request.GET.get('cfisc'))

            if request.GET.get('piva') != '':
                qs = qs.filter(piva__exact=request.GET.get('piva'))

        aefs = formset(request.POST or None, request.FILES or None, queryset=qs)

        context = {'AnagraficheEditFormSet' : aefs}
        return render(request, 'AnagraficheEditPage.html', context)

    elif request.method == 'POST':
        aefs = formset(request.POST or None, request.FILES or None)

        if 'AnagraficheEditSaveButton' in request.POST:
            if aefs.is_valid(): # this become a select * from table with 16 million record
                aefs.save()

        context = {'AnagraficheEditFormSet' : aefs}
        return render(request, 'AnagraficheEditPage.html', context)

    else:
        asf = AnagraficheSearchForm()
        context = {'AnagraficheSearchForm' : asf}
        return render(request, 'AnagraficheSearchPage.html', context)

urls.py
from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.ENERP),
    path('AnagraficheSearch', views.AnagraficheSearchView),
    path('AnagraficheEdit', views.AnagraficheEditView),
]

Template AnagraficheEditPage.html
{% extends "layout.html" %}

{% block maincontent %}

        {% load crispy_forms_tags %}
        <form id="AnagraficheEditForm" action="AnagraficheEdit" method="POST">
            {% csrf_token %}

            {{ AnagraficheEditFormSet.management_form|crispy }}

                {% for aef in AnagraficheEditFormSet %}
                {{ aef.idbatch }}
                {{ aef.mandante }}
                {{ aef.societa }}
                {{ aef.codiceclifor }}

                            {{ aef.codiceclifor.value }} -
                            {% if aef.cognome.value != None and aef.nome.value != None %}
                            {{ aef.cognome.value }} {{ aef.nome.value }}
                            {% elif aef.ragsoc.value != '' %}
                            {{ aef.ragsoc.value }}
                            {% endif %}

                                {{ aef.cognome|as_crispy_field }}

                                {{ aef.nome|as_crispy_field }}

                                {{ aef.ragsoc|as_crispy_field }}

                                {{ aef.cfisc|as_crispy_field }}

                                {{ aef.piva|as_crispy_field }}

                                {{ aef.codicedestinatariosdi|as_crispy_field }}

                                {{ aef.iderrore|as_crispy_field }}

                                {{ aef.iderrore|as_crispy_field }}

                {% if forloop.last == True %}

                        <button id="AnagraficheEditSaveButton" name="AnagraficheEditSaveButton" type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Salva</button>

                {% endif %}

                {% empty %}

Nessun anagrafica corrispondente ai criteri di ricerca

                {% endfor %}

        </form>

{% endblock %}

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When we talk finances, we talk stewardship and that IS a part of the Word of God. We are called to be good stewards or managers over ALL things that God has given us (jobs, family, talents, gifts, etc.) In reality, ALL that we have is God's–we just manage it–and at some point, we will need to give an account of our work. You can read all about it in Matthew chapter 25:14-30 in the parable of the talents. I'm thinking we need to be like the servants who brought back a favorable report versus the last one whose lack of action ended him being cast into outer darkness.
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This study investigated level of awareness and extent of utilization of Online Public Access Catalogue by undergraduate students in Federal University Libraries in Northern Nigeria that have available and functional OPAC services. A Cross Sectional survey design was employed on a population of 18,712 undergraduate students. Data was collected using structured questionnaire from a sampled 392 students, descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Findings of the study revealed that majority (mean=3.22)of the undergraduate students were aware of OPAC services while slightly significant (mean=2.57) undergraduate students utilize the services to know the location of a document (mean=2.86) and the availability of the document (mean=2.98). The findings also showed that lack of orientation (mean=3.05), less number of OPAC terminals in the library and lack of library guide on how to use OPAC from library staff (mean=3.88) were the major challenges militating against the use OPAC in the federal university libraries. The result of the PPMC analysis showed that there is significant relationship between the level of awareness and extent of utilization of OPAC by the undergraduate students (r(312) = .661, n=314, p=.001) and rejected the null hypothesis. Hence, the study recommends that the libraries should organize orientation programmes on use of library OPAC, provide enough computers at OPAC terminals as well as publish library guide to the undergraduate students.
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Last year, VooPoo came from relative obscurity within the vaping world to release the Drag 2 mod. Emblazoned with the mod name down the side, the Gene chip powered dual 18650 mod was a massive seller, with the device still selling rather well to this day. It represented a company making a quality product that met user needs and thus, making waves within the vaping community as a result. Their follow up products didn't have the same impact unfortunately, so VooPoo came back after 15 months of research and development; 11 million Gene chips mined and 161 tanks tested to improve on their number one best-seller. The Drag 2 is VooPoo's aim to keep themselves at the top of the mod market and keep delivering that quality that they are now known for.
The Drag 2 is a dual 18650 battery mod capable of firing up to 177w. The device comes in at 88.3 mm by 51mm which is 2mm by 3mm smaller than the original Drag. It comes with a 510 spring loaded pin on the top and compatible with up to 26mm tanks without overhang with its slightly off centre pin. The device has a full-side resin design in a multitude of different colour options and on the opposite side features the trademark Drag logo. The device has a whole side magnetic battery door with top and bottom magnets to secure the door in place. The right side features a screen with a top round-fire button and 2 small navigation buttons underneath, with the USB featured at the bottom for firmware upgrading/battery charging (not recommended).
The Gene FIT chip represents the next evolution in VooPoo's chip set featuring the new FIT technology. It has 3 different options labelled 1/2/3, with each offering a different automated vaping experience. Option 1 features battery saver mode, option 2 is flavour mode and option 3 is cloud mode.
Navigating the device is made extremely easy with the use of the simplistic menu system. 3 clicks of the fire button takes you to the FIT options; another 3 into the temperature control (SS NI TI) and another 3 takes you back to power mode. 5 clicks of the fire button shuts the device off and holding the top navigation button with the fire button locks the device. There's a hidden additional menu which is found by holding the navigation buttons down for a few seconds, which gives you access to wattage memory pre-sets, chip information and firmware level as well. Finally holding the bottom navigation button and fire button simultaneously flips the screen.
This was my first experience with the Drag mods, so a lot of my positives come from a first time usage rather than simply a comparison piece. The size of the device is really comfortable in the hand, with just the right amount of weight added to it. The device is also really user friendly with the simple menu controls and lack of complex menu system to get lost in. This was a huge selling point of the original Drag so a major positive to see it remain in its successor. Overall, the device is just extremely easy to use on a day-to-day basis, combined with the weight and size, it makes the Drag 2 feel like a quality device at a mid-range price.
The biggest selling point for the Drag 2 is the performance of the Gene chip inside, still one of the best chip sets on the market for performance and battery life. You can get to around a day and a half battery life from your batteries which is fantastic, with quick firing and accurate power/temperature control included as well. Screen display is also fantastic, presenting only the relevant information for your average vaper. So similar to the lack of menu system, the simple display is easy to read and use effectively. The resin design on the device is stunning in a fair few different colour schemes, with more to come over the year similar to the original. The bold designs really make the device stand out from others and with a colour matched tank (or UForce) on top then it gives the whole set up a sleek elegant look.
Due to the new designed door of the device, the Drag 2 side panel can be a little loose on the touch when played around with. As the door now fits on, rather than in the device like the original, there can be a slight movement there when a little effort is made. However, this does seem to become rarer as the device gets used more over time. In my experience, there is no noticeable movement at all now.
The paintwork on the sides of the device can be a little prone to scuffs with general wear and tear I have found over my time with the device. It's a shame because it can make the device look a little shabby even with correct care taken; a cover may be the best option to preserve the looks of the device. It has to be said that the FIT options leave a lot to be desired as well, with the features acting more like pre-heat modes rather than genuine improvements to the vape. For example, the vapes feel quite underpowered in comparison to natural wattage vaping, with all 3 feeling like a significant power drop-age has occurred when vaping over 80W. The memory options being found in a different menu, as previously mentioned, is a little strange. It probably would have been better served within the main menu cycle itself. Other than that, there is very little to really critique the device on, not without really nit-picking into personal preferences.
The Drag 2 potentially could be the best mod of the year again. VooPoo have shown that sometimes improving the best is a much smarter choice than trying to offer something significantly different. The device is a joy to use and performs fantastically – as good if not better than any other device on the market right now.
How it differs from the original drag is up for debate, especially when talking about the unnecessary FIT options included, but the Drag 2 represents something fantastic for any vaper today. Despite not being a fan of box mods in general, the Drag 2 has been my go-to device since I got my hands on one back in November, and it has replaced many others as my go to device.
Looking at products being released since, the Drag 2 is seemingly the standard rather than the exception with many other similar devices being released off the back of the Drag's success over the past year. However, the Drag 2 really stands out as fantastic value for money and it will take something truly special in its price range to knock it from being the biggest selling device of 2019.


I was probably being too blinkered in thinking it was possibly a Scimitar part - of course it could be off pretty much anything!
It looks like part of a sump gasket to go between the bearing caps and the sump.
Well I've never rebuilt a Cologne but I can see from a diagram that there's cutouts in the sump at each end for the crank and these need a curved seal, so maybe that's the same system in a Pinto? The Essex sump is completely flat all round so no curved gaskets are needed.
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I have had another root today but can`t find the New quill drive Ian, sorry.
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Beginners Error! I fitted the sandwich plate, cam wheel and front cover today , everything went on fine, except one of the cover bolts wouldn't fit. The mistake I made was to assume that when the sandwich plate's retaining plate was fitted, all the bolt holes would naturally line up. Wrong! So the whole lot had to come off again including the cam wheel as it covers the retaining plate's bolts. I put the cover plate bolts in place to 'centre' all the holes before tightening the retaining plate bolts and everything was ok after that. I'll know next time, if there is one that is.
Autobox query - are the flex plate to torque converter bolts a special item? I ask as the ones in my kit of parts are 'modified' having been shaved down in the head (presumably to clear an engine back plate bolt) and shortened so's not to bottom out on the T/C body - a bit too short IMHO as the bolt can't currently reach to the bottom of the threads on the T/C brackets. Having said that, the person who disassembled the bits had a struggle in getting the bolts off (photo)!
I can make some 17mm headed bolts fit, but if there's a ready made item I'd prefer to use that.
If it's relevant, while the box is an A4LD, the T/C is a standard C3 one.
PS Can't get a photo to attach. Edit Now attached, at last!
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The ones I have taken out are special, they have a hollow stamped head with a raised groove round the outside.
Don`t suppose it matters what they are as long, sic, as they fit and are 8.8t or above.
And don`t forget to use threadloc on them, you don`t want a horrible rattling noise in a few months time.
Thanks for that Mark - and I'll definitely be using the threadloc!
A practical question this time. It's nearing the time for the engine to go in, but I'm unsure where the best place is to attach the engine leveller. The likely place looks like via the head bolts (heads off), but I don't fancy manhandling the heads on afterwards (although I've done that when I was a lot younger and fitter). But if the heads were on, what would be the attachment points)?
I would add the heads and inlet manifold first. The 4 carb attachment studs on the inlet manifold are ideal to lift on, being well balanced.
Hi, thanks for that. I can see the bit about balance, but is the alloy i/manifold beefy enough to take the weight of the engine?


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Survivor: Cambodia Episode 9 Review – Cambodian Witch Trials
In late 17th century colonial Massachusetts, twenty people, most of whom were women, were prosecuted and subsequently executed, after being accused of partaking in dark magic and malevolent sorcery; famously known as the Salem witch trials. The after effects of these trials were pivotal in shaping United States history. It highlighted the extreme dangers of false accusations and isolationism and virtually destroyed theocracy in America.
Last week, Ciera Eastin prayed for a miracle to take place at tribal council. Hours later, when all hope seemed lost, Kelley Wentworth cooked up a magic potion in the form of a hidden immunity idol, blindsided Andrew Savage, and left her fellow tribemates in shock and disbelief. Upon returning to camp, Wentworth was the woman of the hour and everybody wanted a piece of her. More importantly, they wanted to know how this badassery was possible. Up until that point, hidden idols had been something only talked about, not seen (kind of like Kelly Wiglesworth). To the Bayon Strong alliance, Wentworth playing an idol was not only unexpected but an impossibility.
But it wasn't long before the pitchforks came out. Kimmi quickly dubbed the trio of Abi-Ciera-Wentworth the "witches' coven", which sent Stephen on a riff about Macbeth and the fear of getting killed in the night by the deadly trio. Although, Stephen should probably be more afraid of upsetting his high school English teachers after misquoting Shakespeare. Rather than a "badass", Wentworth was now "trouble". Rather than scrappy, passionate players, Abi and Ciera were now "boil" and "toil".
It's part of Survivor gameplay to demonize other players to make them appear more threatening, but there was something about Kimmi's tone that was very "burn the witches!" It's Survivor isolationism; isolating yourself from the affairs of other players and alliances and being completely self-reliant. Again, that is understandable, but the truth is, the three girls haven't been particularly cut-throat or malevolent, they just happen to be underdogs fighting for their position. In Survivor: Caramoan, nobody called Eddie, Malcolm, and Reynold the "Warlocks" (although that would have been hilarious) or the "Satanists" or any other kind of evil entity; they were the "Three Amigos." It is just another example of Survivor's long history of demonizing women that speak out or play aggressively.
Kimmi and other members of the Bayon Strong alliance didn't want the three girls putting a spell on people and forming a new majority. Panic was prevalent all around the camp. Joe and Jeremy immediately set about idol hunting. While Joe's search was put to a quick stop by Abi and her urgency to poop at a specific tree, Jeremy had better luck later in the day when he went to "poop" at a specific tree. There was a lot of talk about how the idols were going to be difficult to retrieve this season. The ones hidden in the challenges definitely came with significant risk, but Jeremy's stroll down the beach at night to a lighted up area where he could pluck the idol off a clothesline seemed a little too easy. It was worth it though for the callback to Val's idols from San Juan Del Sur.
But while everyone else was in a frenzy about witches and idols, Stephen wasn't thinking about isolating the girls; he was thinking about utilizing them for his own benefit. "How do I get the witches to make the potion that's right for me?" Stephen has been possessed by the thought of a "big move" for weeks now, and Wentworth's big move in the previous episode only spurred on his desire to do the same. His strategy was to align with the outsiders and use them to take out a threat in the majority alliance. It's a strategy that he and his partner in crime JT used to brilliant effect in Survivor: Tocantins; flipping the vote each week by using different groups of outsiders. The problem for Stephen was that he needed to convince two of his fellow allies, Jeremy and Spencer, to flip with him.
Stephen has had a strange second chance story. He has cried about golden boys, failed to chop wood, and been yelled at by Jeff Probst for not sliding down a slide better. It is hard to tell whether this confusion is a result of poor editing or whether Stephen himself brings about such a topsy-turvy narrative. It could be because Stephen is too self-aware. He makes a living out of analyzing and discussing Survivor on a weekly basis. Stephen skews his game through the perspective of a Survivor "Know-It-All". It's why he has been the biggest proponent of the so-called "voting bloc evolution." He speaks in hyperbolic terms about game development and big moves because he understands the importance of building a Survivor resume to present to the jury at the end. I find it hard to believe that Stephen believes shifting voting blocs are unique to this season. But I can believe that Stephen is aware that crafting a narrative in both a game sense and a televisual sense is hugely important.
For the first time this season Stephen created some magic of his own. Not only did he convince the three girls to vote with him, but he managed to persuade his more reluctant allies, Jeremy and Spencer, into doing the same (oh, and he won the new game advantage!). The episode tried to tell us that eliminating Kelly Wiglesworth was a big move. After meditating for eight episodes, we were suddenly supposed to believe she had this stupendous social game. Whether Wiglesworth was a big move or not though is mostly irrelevant because Stephen and the edit sold it as such. As an epic thunder and lightning storm engulfed tribal council, Stephen, the man once nicknamed "The Wizard" by Benjamin "Coach" Wade, joined the forces of darkness and made his big move. Will he be demonized and put on trial by the betrayed Bayon next episode? Or has Survivor now become the devil's playground?
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Facial recognition is becoming more pervasive in consumer products and law enforcement, backed by increasingly powerful machine-learning technology. But a test of commercial facial-analysis services from IBM and Microsoft raises concerns that the systems scrutinizing our features are significantly less accurate for people with black skin.
Researchers tested features of Microsoft and IBM's face-analysis services that are supposed to identify the gender of people in photos. The companies' algorithms proved near perfect at identifying the gender of men with lighter skin, but frequently erred when analyzing images of women with dark skin.
The skewed accuracy appears to be due to underrepresentation of darker skin tones in the training data used to create the face-analysis algorithms.
The disparity is the latest example in a growing collection of bloopers from AI systems that seem to have picked up societal biases around certain groups. Google's photo-organizing service still censors the search terms "gorilla" and "monkey" after an incident nearly three years ago in which algorithms tagged black people as gorillas, for example. The question of how to ensure machine-learning systems deployed in consumer products, commercial systems, and government programs has become a major topic of discussion in the field of AI.
A 2016 report from Georgetown described wide, largely unregulated deployment of facial recognition by the FBI, as well local and state police forces, and evidence the systems in use were less accurate for African-Americans.
In the new study, researchers Joy Buolamwini of MIT's Media Lab, and Timnit Gebru, a Stanford grad student currently working as a researcher at Microsoft, fed the facial-recognition systems 1,270 photos of parliamentarians from Europe and Africa. The photos were chosen to represent a broad spectrum of human skin tones, using a classification system from dermatology called the Fitzpatrick scale. The research will be presented at the FAT* conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency in algorithmic systems later this month.
The image collection was used to test commercial cloud services that look for faces in photos from Microsoft, IBM, and Face++, a division of Beijing-based startup Megvii. The researchers' analysis focused on the gender detection feature of the three services.
All three services worked better on male faces than female faces, and on lighter faces than darker faces. All the companies' services had particular trouble recognizing that photos of women with darker skin tones were in fact women.
When asked to analyze the lightest male faces in the image set, Microsoft's service correctly identified them as men every time. IBM's algorithms had an error rate of 0.3 percent.
When asked to analyze darker female faces, Microsoft's service had an error rate of 21 percent. IBM and Mevii's Face++ both had 35 percent error rates.
was investing in improving its training datasets. "We believe the fairness of AI technologies is a critical issue for the industry and one that Microsoft takes very seriously," the statement said. The company declined to answer questions about whether its face-analysis service had previously been tested for performance on different skin tone groups.
An IBM spokesperson said the company will deploy a new version of its service later this month. The company incorporated the audit's findings into a planned upgrade effort, and created its own dataset to test accuracy on different skin tones. An IBM white paper says tests using that new dataset found the improved gender-detection service has an error rate of 3.5 percent on darker female faces. That's still worse than the 0.3 percent for lighter male faces, but one-tenth the error rate in the study. Megvii did not respond to a request for comment.
Services that offer machine-learning algorithms on demand have become a hot area of competition among large technology companies. Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Amazon pitch cloud services for tasks like parsing the meaning of images or text as a way for industries such as sports, healthcare, and manufacturing to tap artificial intelligence capabilities previously limited to tech companies. The flip side is that customers also buy into the limitations of those services, which may not be apparent.
One customer of Microsoft's AI services, startup Pivothead, is working on smart glasses for visually impaired people. They use the cloud company's vision services to have a synthetic voice describe the age and facial expression of people nearby.
A video for the project, made in collaboration with Microsoft, shows the glasses helping a man understand what's around him as he walks down a London street with a white cane. At one point the glasses say "I think it's a man jumping in the air doing a trick on a skateboard" when a young white man zips past. The audit of Microsoft's vision services suggests such pronouncements could be less accurate if the rider had been black.
Buolamwini and Gebru's paper argues that only disclosing a suite of accuracy numbers for different groups of people can truly give users a sense of the capabilities of image processing software used to scrutinize people. IBM's forthcoming white paper on the changes being made to its face analysis service will include such information.
The researchers who forced that response also hope to enable others to perform their own audits of machine-learning systems. The collection of images they used to test the cloud services will be made available for other researchers to use.
Microsoft has made efforts to position itself as a leader in thinking about the ethics of machine learning. The company has many researchers working on the topic, and an internal ethics panel called Aether, for AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research. In 2017 it was involved in an audit that discovered Microsoft's cloud service that analyzes facial expressions functioned poorly on children under a certain age. Investigation revealed shortcomings in the data used to train the algorithms, and the service was fixed.
Nearly three years after Google Photos labeled black people "gorillas," the service does not use "gorilla" as a label.
Prominent research-image collections display a predictable gender bias in their depiction of activities such as cooking and sports.
Artificial-intelligence researchers have begun to search for an ethical conscience in the field.


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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" (1) is the first line in the poem by Robert Frost. This poem consists of four stanzas and each stanza has five lines. His poem is a reflection of what we do every day and that is making decisions. In this poem, the reader takes us with him as he must make a choice in his life. He looks towards both roads and see that they are equally the same. He chooses one and says he will take the other another day, but doubts it will be possible. The reader continues on to say that in the future he will do this again, but with a different outcome. He will take the road less traveled by.
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood/And looked down one as far as I could/To where it bent in the undergrowth" (1-5). These are the starting sentences of this poem and open up the scene to tell you that it takes place during the fall. The reader says that he stopped at a fork in the road. He tells us that he wished that he could take both roads. Since he couldn't take both, he stood there trying to make his mind up. He looked down the roads as far as he could in attempt of making his decision easier.
"Then took the other, as just as fair/ And having perhaps the better claim/ Because it was grassy and wanted wear/ Though as for that, the passing there/ Had worn them really about the same" (6-10). The read is now making his decision and is deciding to walk down one of the roads hoping that the one he chooses will better than the other. He said they both were exactly the same; both having the same amount of use. He had chosen this road because the road was grassy and needed to be walked on more.
"And both that morning equally lay/ In leaves no step had trodden black/ Oh, I kept the first for another day/ Yet knowing how way leads on to way/ I doubted if I should ever come back." (11-15). The reader is still trying to see which road will be better. He says that...
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Bargarh: A doctor, who was alleged to be a quack, attempted suicide by slitting his throat after a woman patient died while undergoing treatment for a dental ailment in this town Tuesday.
The deceased, Labanga Sahu, is a native of Banabaspali on the town's outskirt while the doctor was identified as Subodh Sahu, a native of Bandutikra in Bargarh town. The incident spread shockwaves in the area.
Locals alleged Subodh is not a registered medical practitioner but a quack and carried out treatment of patients in the guise of a doctor. According to reports, Labanga visited Subodh's clinic accompanied by her family members when she experienced a tooth ache. The doctor administered her injection following which her condition deteriorated. She experienced a seizure.
Family members rushed her to the district headquarters hospital where doctors pronounced her brought dead. Her family members lodged a complaint against Subodh with the Town police station.
Police rushed to Sahu's clinic when the latter suddenly took out a knife from his drawer and slit his throat. The police rescued and rushed him to the hospital from where he was shifted to VIMSAR) after his condition worsened.


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As Hurricane Florence approaches, Waffle House activates 'storm center'
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How Waffle House can be a gauge of hurricane severity
Warner told CNN that Waffle House prepares for a storm's aftermath by having resources like generators, food, and staff at the ready outside (but close to) the impacted area so that it can reopen restaurants as soon as possible. If a Waffle House is closed because there's a disaster, it's bad.
CBS46 News got a tour inside the Waffle House "war room" Wednesday.
Tuesday, Waffle House announced its Storm Center was active and monitoring Florence.
With 1,500 locations, mainly across the South and along the Gulf Coast, that are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, it's a big deal when Waffle House closes its doors.
So remember, if you're in the middle of a natural disaster but you see an open Waffle House, you're actually completely and totally safe, and you should go have some waffles.
Waffle House's well-known sturdiness also serves as a monitor of sorts for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "After a storm, they're of route having a perceive to us to be there to inspire them out resulting from they're archaic to us being there the reduction of the year."Waffle House is headquartered in Georgia, and has extra than 2,000 intelligent areas, majority within the South".
It's called the Waffle House Index, or test, which uses the operating conditions of the resilient Southern restaurants as a barometer for how well an area will recover from a hurricane, tornado or other hazard.
Here's hoping all the residents of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, have evacuated the city: Their Waffle House just hit Code Red.
"The Waffle Condo check staunch would now not recount us how rapid a trade would possibly well well per chance rebound - it also tells how the easier personnel is faring", FEMA talked about in a 2011 weblog publish when Craig Fugate was administrator. We call it red. The sooner restaurants, grocery stores, and banks re-open - the sooner the local economy and recovery restart.
Thank you to the dedicated Waffle House employees who are there to help out! "After a storm, they're really looking to us to be there to help them out because they're used to us being there the rest of the year". If they're open but have a limited menu, that's yellow. He told National Public Radio in 2016: "They are open most of the time. You haven't found the bad stuff yet".
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Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz Make Plans for 3 Debates
Texas Senator Ted Cruz is set to take the debate stage against his Democrat challenger a number of times leading up to November. Maybe you're not as big a fan of his as you pretend to be if y'all ever thought Willie was a Republican.
Poland would vote against the imposition of European Union sanctions against Hungary
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Hurricane Florence Hits Near Wrightsville Beach
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Manchester City Announce £500m Club Record Revenues
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NASA Satellite Finds Winds Tearing Tropical Depression Isaac Apart
He said parts of North Carolina had seen storm surges - the bulge of seawater pushed ashore by the hurricane - as high as 10 feet. A Tropical Storm Warning means that tropical storm conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area within 36 hours.
Super Typhoon Mangkhut makes landfall in the Philippines
Known locally as Ompong, Typhoon Mangkhut left the Philippines and moved towards Hong Kong and southern China in the evening. In a worst case, the economic losses could reach 6.6 percent of the Philippines' GDP, or more than $20 billion, he said.
IPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max available to pre-order from today
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Rangers land veteran defenseman in trade with Bruins
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Watch Hurricane Florence Make Landfall in This Incredible Space Station Video
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Family gatherings can be wonderful, but getting to them (and back home again) can be a stressful experience, particularly if you travel by plane. If you're planning to hit the road during the upcoming holiday season, keep in mind these tips for surviving the trip.
1) Start your planning now.
According to the travel booking site Hipmunk, Thanksgiving travel may cost you less than travel around Christmas and New Year's Day—an average of $186 less, according to its 2014 analysis of flights to 30 major airports. So before you commit to visiting family for either holiday, check out prices for the two time periods to determine which better suits your wallet. And whatever you decide, book early: solo travelers and even couples can sometimes take advantage of last-minute deals, but if your travel party has more than two people in it, you'll have less flexibility, so booking early is definitely your best option.
2) Be flexible with your travel plans.
Depending on where you live, it may be cheaper to fly mom and dad to your location rather than for you to travel to where they live, so check prices for flights to both destinations. In addition, flights to remote locations or those serviced by only one or two airlines command a higher price, so be sure to consider airports located within a couple hours' drive of your final destination or closer (and don't forget to factor in the cost of a rental car when evaluating this option).
3) Get to the airport super early.
Air travel is stressful at any time of year. But when you're in the company of thousands of people who fly only during the holiday season and aren't familiar with travel regulations, it's wise to give yourself an extra hour (maybe two, if you're traveling internationally) to get from the check-in counter to your gate. Be prepared for long lines and delays as the travel novices argue with the TSA about trying to carry liquids in excess of what's allowed, take lots of time untying their shoes and removing several jackets, and are just generally confused by the entire process. Arrive early to preserve your sanity.
Hunger can make anyone testy, so bring food in case the airline runs out of food items for purchase (a not-infrequent occurrence these days, unfortunately). A good rule of thumb is to bring any food or drink that you absolutely need (such as food for young children and anything needed by someone with dietary restrictions) so you aren't inconvenienced—or worse—if the airline doesn't provide it.
5) Bring entertainment for everyone.
If possible, try to fly during your family members' usual sleeping hours so you don't have to worry as much about keeping everyone entertained during the flight. That's not always possible, of course, so always pack entertainment options for all ages in your group. Don't rely on in-flight movies and seatback magazines to hold their attention for the entire flight; bring your own media devices, reading materials, and other diversions.
6) Pay attention to the luggage.
If you bring the minimum amount of items you need so you don't need too many bags and if you follow all the TSA regulations for what you're allowed to bring, you'll keep both your baggage fees and your stress level down. If you're traveling with young children or older adults, at some point you're likely to be hauling their luggage as well, so do what you can to ensure that they pack appropriately (and minimally!) so you can get all the bags through the airport easily—and without straining your back!
7) Pause when you're feeling overwhelmed, angry, or upset.
No matter how much you love your family, being around anyone for an extended period of time can still be stressful. When you feel your hands clench and the hair on the back of your neck stand up, focus on taking deep breaths to help you disconnect from the stress. Start by counting to four as you inhale and to five as you exhale, then increase those counts to as high as you can go (without passing out!). After just a few minutes you'll be steadier and ready to get back to spending quality time with your loved ones.
Above all else, remember to have fun! It's your vacation after all, so make the most of your time off work! Enjoy your impending holidays.
A true renaissance woman, Grubb is passionate about traveling the world and spending time with her family. Originally from Indiana, Grubb currently lives in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Planes, Canes, and Automobiles is her first book. TravelwithAgingParents.com.
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"Listen, we don't know, but I've gotta believe that there's gonna be a standalone Black Adam movie before there's ever a movie with Shazam and Black Adam sharing the screen," The producer, Peter Safran had said.
It is no surprise that Black Adam will have his very own origin story movie before he clashes with Shazam!. The very future of DC Comics films will focus on telling character stories instead of an ensemble efforts.
"Yeah I think that is the goal, it is giving heroes their time to shine and not feeling like you have to shoehorn in some universal connection amongst them all," Safran had explained.
As the story goes, both Sandberg and Safran will come back to the Shazam! Sequel. Johnson has been an executive producer on Shazam! with Seven Bucks Productions team of Hiram Garcia and Dany Garcia.
"I have no warning shots to fire at Mr The Rock," Levi had said.
Shazam! will release on April 5.


There's an approach that we seek at Stelligent known informally as one-button everything. At times, it can be an elusive goal, but it's something that we often aim to achieve on behalf of our customers. The idea is that we want to be able to create the complete, functioning software system by clicking a single button. Since all of the work we do for our customers is on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, this often results in a single Launch Stack button (as shown below).
In this post, I describe the principles and motivation, user base, the scope of a complete software system, assumptions and prerequisites, alternative scenarios, and documentation.
Comprehensive. The goal is to orchestrate the full solution stack, not partial implementations of the solution stack.
Consistent. Works the same way every time. Documentation is similar across solution stacks. Once you require "one-off" implementations, it makes it susceptible to errors.
Simple.: Few steps and dependencies. Make it difficult to make mistakes.
The users of your one-button systems are often other engineers within your organization. A tired argument you might hear is that you don't need to create simple systems for other engineers since they're technical, too. I could not disagree more with this reasoning. As engineers, we should not be spending time on repetitive, failure-prone activities and put the burden on others–at scale. This belief doesn't best serve the needs of the organization as most engineers should be spending time on providing features to users who receive the value of their work.
Everything as code.: The application, configuration, infrastructure, data, tests, and the process to launch the system are all defined in code.
Everything is versioned.: All of this code must be versioned in a version-control repository.
Everything is automated.: The process for going from zero to a working system including the workflow and the "glue code" that puts it all together is defined in code and automated.
Client configuration is not assumed.: Ideally, you don't want users to require a certain client-side configuration as it presents room for error and confusion.
Given a version-control repository, the bootstrapping and the application must be capable of launching from a single CloudFormation command and a CloudFormation button click–assuming that an EC2 Key Pair and Route 53 Hosted Zone has been configured. The demo should not be required to run from a local environment.
So, it assumes that the user has created or, in this case, cloned the Git repository and that they've established a valid EC2 Key Pair and a Route 53 Hosted Zone. Given that, users should be able to click the Launch Stack button in their AWS account and launch the complete working system with a running deployment pipeline. In this case, the working system includes a VPC network (and associated network resources), IAM, ENI, DynamoDB, a utility EC2 instance, a Jenkins server, and a running pipeline in CodePipeline. This pipeline then uses CloudFormation to provision the application infrastructure (i.e., EC2 instances, connect to DynamoDB), etc. Then, as part of the pipeline and its integration with Jenkins, it runs tasks to use Chef to configure the environment to run Node.js and run automated infrastructure and application tests in RSpec, ServerSpec, Mocha, and Chai. All of this behavior has been provisioned, configured, and orchestrated in a way that anyone can initially click one Launch Stack button to go from zero to a fully working system in less than 30 minutes. Once the initial environment is up and running and the application is provisioning, configuration, deployment, and testing run in less than 10 minutes. For more on this demo environment, see below.
While you might create a system that's capable of recreating the system from a single launch stack button, it doesn't mean that you apply all changes from the ground up for every change. This is because building everything from "scratch" every time erodes fast feedback. So, while you might have a single button to launch the entire solution stack, you won't be clicking it all that much. This might sound antithetical to everything I've been saying so far, but it's really about viewing it as a single system that can be updated based on change frequency to logical architectural layers.
While you might have a single button to launch the entire solution stack, you won't be clicking it all that much.
For example, because you want quick feedback, you won't rebuild your deployment pipeline, environment images, or the network if there is only a change to the application or service code. Each of these layers might have their own deployment pipelines that get triggered when there's a code change (which is, often, less frequent than application code changes). As part of the application deployment pipeline, it can consume artifacts generated by the other pipelines.
As mentioned, one of the nice features of CloudFormation is the ability to provide a single link to launch a stack. While the stack launch is initially driven by CloudFormation, it can also orchestrate to any other type of tool you might use via the AWS::CloudFormation::Init resource type. This way, you can get the benefits of launching from a single Launch Stack button in your AWS account while leveraging the integration with many other types of tools.
For example, you might have implemented your using Ruby, Docker, Python, etc. In this scenario, let's imagine you're using CFNDSL (albeit, a little circular considering you're using Ruby to generate CloudFormation). In this scenario, users could still initiate the solution by clicking on a single Launch Stack button, which would launch a CloudFormation stack. The CloudFormation stack would configure a client that uses Ruby to run CFNDSL which uses the Ruby code to generate CloudFormation behavior. By driving this through CloudFormation, you don't rely on the user to properly configure the client.
The documentation provided to users and engineers should be simple to understand and execute and make it difficult to commit errors. Figure 2 shows an example from https://github.com/stelligent/cloudformation_templates in which an engineer can view the prerequisites, supported AWS regions, an active architecture illustration, a how-to video, and finally, a Launch Stack button. You might use this as a sample for the documentation you write on behalf of the users of your AWS infrastructure.
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This post by National Theatre Coordinator Stephen M Hornby continues our catalogue of Festival Theatre.
"A Very Victorian Scandal", the first piece of Festival Theatre in 2015, had been so succsseful that it invited further dramatisations of hidden histories. However, some important lessons had also been learnt. "A Very Victorian Scandal" was essentially three one act plays, all of which were performed only once. This severely limited access to the live performances and many people were disappointed not to be able to see them. Additionally, staging three different plays, with different casts, sets and costumes in three different non-theatre venues on three successive days was also a real logistics and stage management nightmare.
2016 saw a conscious decision to commission a small cast, one act piece and perform it in a short run to address these concerns. There was also a deliberate decision to choose a trans story and to ensure that the lead trans role was performed by an excellent trans actor. The "T" in LGBT has sometimes, in the past, perhaps not been given the same focus in LGBT History Month as other groups. Recent interest in the story of a North West, Victorian trans pioneer seemed like fertile ground for dramatisation and Abi Hynes was selected to research and write a piece telling his story.
Harry Stokes drowned in the River Irwell in 1859. When his body was examined, he was found to be biologically female, though he had lived as a man and married twice. The term 'Man-Woman' was used in Victorian reports of the case and was in usuage then, along with terms such as 'female husband'.
Based on the few records that exist, 'Mister Stokes: The Man-Woman of Manchester' is an insightful, colourful and moving play by Abi Hynes, which tells Harry's story and the stories of the women who called him husband. In a time when today's words did not exist to describe him, he managed to live a successful life in a hostile enivornment for many years. But, like many trans pioneers, he had been mostly forgotten….until LGBT History Month commissioned a new play based on his life.
'Mister Stokes: The Man-Woman of Manchester' was first performed in short run during February 2016 at the People's History Museum, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Martin Harris Centre in Manchester. Professor Stephen Whittle and Dr Emma Vickers were the historical advisers on the development of the script. Joey Hately played Harry Stokes and Jo Dakin played Harry's two wives and the woman charged with laying out his body. It was professionally filmed to enable wider audiences to enjoy it. The show was made possible with a grant from the Arts Council of England and the gnerous support of private patrons.
Schools OUT UK is registered in England as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (no. 1156352).


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August 26, 2012 by yorksranter 1 comment on "The reactionary Internet predates 't other un"
The reactionary Internet predates 't other un
Here's a post, first of a three-part series, from The Monkey Cage about inequality and power. The point Martin Gilens makes is that where a policy has broadly similar support across US income groups, its chance of being put into effect follows a well-behaved response curve with its approval rating. But a policy on which…
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August 24, 2012 by yorksranter 3 comments on "I commend these links to the House."
I commend these links to the House.
Why don't I subscribe to Steve Randy Waldman's blog? This piece is fantastic, on the competitiveness gap between southern and northern Europe, and makes up the best case I've yet seen for the view that prices, rather than wages, rose in Spain. The labour share of national income fell, while the prices of tradable goods…
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August 23, 2012 by yorksranter 0 comments on "How the Scottish Labour party got telecoms policy right in 1895"
How the Scottish Labour party got telecoms policy right in 1895
Via someone on twatter, Parliament debates telecoms regulation, in 1895. The superficial bit: there was a great distinction between telephones and such subjects as gas and water. Gas and water were necessaries for every inhabitant of the country; telephones were not and never would be. It was no use trying to persuade themselves that the…
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August 23, 2012 by yorksranter 1 comment on "The radical consensus"
The radical consensus
"Why the Olympic Games mean we should support my politics" is already a sizeable genre, as Chris Brooke pointed out, quoting Daniel Davies in plausibly deniable mode. However, one of the very few pieces in this line that is worth reading is this one by Will Hutton, using the British Olympic team as an exemplar…
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August 23, 2012 by yorksranter 0 comments on "Perhaps this could have been predicted"
Perhaps this could have been predicted
Ink Spots rips into what sounds like a truly dreadful TV belch, as well as one where the Stiftung's opinion would be worth having. Ackerman also has a go, specifically at former SACEUR Wesley Clark's role in it. Which reminded me. Back in 2004, in the circles of my MSc International Relations course, all sorts…
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