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Good News France, Condoms Will be Free for Young Adults Aged 18-25
by Sam Amico December 13, 2022, 11:36 am 147 Views 0 Votes
The birth rate in France may be headed for a dip. At the very least, France seems to be putting together a plan that could make it happen — as it was announced condoms will be free for people ages 18-25.
All you need is an ID to prove your age and a willingness to show your actual face and ask for condoms. The former shouldn't be an issue; but for young people, the latter sometimes is.
Either way, French president Emmanuel Macron made the announcement and did admit that condoms are indeed free for that age group now, with the idea being to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Interestingly, this move follows France's decision to offer free birth control to all women younger than the age of 25. That decision was made so that those who fell into such an age group weren't discouraged from taking birth control if they couldn't afford it.
Condoms Will be Free for Young Adults Aged 18-25
Condoms had also already been reimbursed by the national healthcare system if prescribed by a doctor or midwife.
As a notable aside, Macron wore a facemask when making the announcement about condoms, as France has had a holiday rise in reported COVID cases. But there have been no mandates in that area and none seem to be on the way.
"Faced with the new spread of the epidemic… I think it's good to set an example because we don't necessarily want to return to overall mandates," he said of his decision to wear a mask.
For now, though, the face covering is just for added protection. Much like the other covering that brought him there in the first place.
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John-Michael Gariepy
Dungeons and Dragons: Fifth Edition
WotC announced they are working on the fifth edition of their game. But what does that mean?
There's been a split among D&D characters, and, as any good player will tell you "You don't split the party".
This is the message Wizards of the Coast has put out for us fellow adventurers. Since 4th edition, there's been grumbles from the core players. Then, after a few months, dissent lead to desertion. Dungeons and Dragons fourth edition, with all it's good points and bad was plagued over the past three years by a decision made in 2000 to have Third Edition be printed under an Open Gaming Licence. This allowed any company to make additional products for Dungeons and Dragons Third Edition using Wizards terminology without the threat of legal action looming over them. It strengthened the game, and the brand. Dungeons and Dragons was already the leader in Role Playing Games, but the OGL solidified Third Edition, turning it into an RPG Juggernaut.
And when Fourth Edition came out, it was hit head on by that Juggernaut, and is grinding under the gears of it. As of this writing, Paizo, the makers of the Pathfinder line of 3rd Edition D&D products is making more money from publishing 3rd edition products than Wizards is making off of 4th edition products. And that's one company. If you count Goodman Games, and all the other publishers of Dungeons and Dragons 3rd edition products, 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons is getting squeezed out of its own game.
That is why the announcement for 5th edition from Wizards sounds like a plea instead of a celebration. The good news is, that Wizards is very serious in it's desire to get feedback from players. Instead of looking at surveys and godbooks, then building a game based upon a design group's philosophy, they are soliciting responses from everyone. The makers of Dungeons and Dragons want to keep making Dungeons and Dragons, and we should support them when they ask for our help. The future of our game is at stake, and, to a lesser extent, so isn't table top roleplaying. Feel free to drop on over community.wizards.com/dndnext and give the makers of D&D a piece of your mind. [You know… after you get done reading my article. :D]
I don't get it. What's wrong with 4th edition that we couldn't patch it up and wait another 3 years to make 5th edition?
I suppose you're new to the game, Huh?
It's cool. I'm going to admit something that few people who play the game would. I like 4th edition. I think it empowers the Dungeon Master, and streamlines the game. Oh, I've got problems with it. I could write a book about the failings of 4th edition. No. Honestly, I could write an entire book about how4th edition failed to live up to people's expectations for what a Dungeons and Dragons experience should contain. I could write most of it off the top of my head. The holes in the game are so large, that you can't compare it to swiss cheese anymore. More like Swiss air with bits of cheese. Here's a quick run down of some changes that we may see because so many people will complain about them:
Stop it with the miniatures rules system! A lot of players play with miniatures on a grid, but many players don't, or, they may draw a map and put pieces on them, but they wouldn't be bothered to measure everything out. The fourth edition rules, however, are built assuming that everyone likes to play with miniatures. I suppose, from a marketing perspective that this makes sense. If miniatures are standard, then everyone needs to buy them, and Wizards makes miniatures, ergo…
That isn't how the real world works, however. If you tell a playgroup that they need to play with miniatures to play D&D, they will tell you that they, indeed, do not. If you build tactical warfare into the game in a way that it can not be separated, they will stop playing your game.
All these characters look the same! When 4th came out, the designers pulled a coup. They made a universal system with characters that had one of four different roles, and therefore played differently, but all worked using the same set of rules. It played great, and the game no longer had overpowered classes (i.e., The Wizard) and useless classes (i.e., The Bard). The problem with this? Players don't really want balance.
Oh, sure, balance keeps a game stable, and we can't tilt the scales too much to chaos. But if the Bard was so bad, how come so many players played Bards? If the Wizard or Ranger was so powerful, how come the entire party didn't consist of those characters? The reason? Well, one, because players in their individual games don't care about power level as much as game designers or people who spend too much time on message boards. But the other reason was that many classes could do something that other classes could not. The Thief was a skill master, and would get you past many traps. The Wizard could blast the most powerful spells, but his selection was limited. The party couldn't bounce back from a beating without a Cleric, and that 'useless' Bard was a Jack-of-all-trades, pretending to be whatever character the players didn't have at the time.
If you didn't have the right mix of classes, things could go terribly wrong for you, but that made each class feel special and important. Adding a pile of Minions to the game so that the Commander of the party feels like they are doing something doesn't make a person feel important. You're forcing the situation to make him feel special. That just isn't the same.
Every level feels the same! Again, when 4th edition came out, this was quite the coup. Players complained that it was too easy to die in the early stages of the game, and the late stages got too complicated to play. In the Myriad Games Podcast, we cited 7th – 12th level of 3rd edition as being the sweet spot, but your mileage may vary. Wouldn't you like a system where 1st level was as involved as 7th level, and 27th level just as complicated?
At the time, it sounded like a good idea, and the first few combats played out well. Almost exactly one hour combat each time you played! That's perfect! Just when the players are getting tired of combat, it ends and we do something else. By the tenth time you've had your perfect one hour of combat, however, players were jaded. Is this all there is?
Fourth edition advocates giving your players everything they want right now. This is good advice, but if you don't hold something back, everything is going to feel the same. Further, when it comes time to pass out treasure and magic items, they're going to lose a bit of mystery if the players can order them up like they're pulling them from a giant catalog. So stop formatting the books as if they are giant catalogs. Cripes.
Stop making supplements, and start making material! We talked about this in the Myriad Games Podcast, and when that cast goes live, I'll link it here. The basic idea, however, is that the current system does not work within the context of modern economics. Why should anyone bother to buy a Paladin's Handbook if they can go to Dungeons and Dragons Insider and sneak the relevant information from them? Or ask your friend who has Insider if they can look online for a few hours for what they need, and copy it down? Or even worse, download the information they need in an illegal torrent, then throw away the file?
The model of making money for Dungeons and Dragons by printing more and more supplements doesn't work anymore. One of the reasons why it used to work in the 70s and 80s is because D&D was originally printed as an incomplete game, and each book was a bit of a rules addendum. But Wizards has consolidated the game in a way that you don't need rules supplements anymore, just extra doo-dads for your characters and a few new monsters. And when you've had enough of that, you stop buying things. That may be great for our wallets, but it's terrible for the game.
So here's the easy solution: Make a flawed game. Make an open ended modular game which could go any number of ways. Some creative types will take that and personalize their own games and not buy any products from you. Wish them good luck… they weren't the customers that you were going to make a lot of money off of anyways. The rest of us will look forward to each new product as an expansion to the core of the game, with a new adventure, new rules, new minis chips and inserts to give to the players. In theory, since each level takes most play groups one month to complete, you can publish the new rules for each level once per month. By year's end, players will be purchasing the 12th level book, you can look forward to two more years of publishing success in the core game, and simultaneously launch the first level of Eberron or Ravenloft. How cool would that be?
Granted, you would lose a lot of people. Old school players won't like this new direction Dungeons and Dragons has taken, and will claim that Wizards has gone mad with power. Thank those people for their support all these years, and let them play Pathfinder. If this company is to have a future, we have to assume that the game is going to evolve and there will always be people who don't like the way the game is changing. Meanwhile, a modular, open-ended, roleplaying game has the ability to start fresh, and become greater than the original tree that lent its seeds to spring new life.
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5 thoughts on "Dungeons and Dragons: Fifth Edition"
heartspadediamondclub on January 11, 2012 at 3:02 am said:
Hi John Michael it's Tony. Great article and it hits on a lot of points I also feel about 4th edition. Coming from an equally big fan of MMOs and tabletop RPG I did like the role system of 4th, but it never had the mystic quality of past editions.
Heck, one of my favorite game masters of all time (besides yourself, of course) was a blind man. As you can imagine we didn't use miniatures, I would keep track with a loosely hand drawn sketch of where we were at the time, made him by him as he went along.
John-Michael Gariepy on January 11, 2012 at 4:10 am said:
Hey, good to see you Tony! We certainly have lost a bit of the mystery in our game. As the game matured, it stopped selling to the Dungeon Master and started selling toward the players. It's smart business when you think of it… there's more of them. Unfortunately, the backlash of that attitude is that we lose a lot of mystique that Dungeons and Dragons used to represent.
I have to admit, as Dungeon Master, there are advantages to this. I don't want to do all the legwork, and I've never been the most organized person among my friends. If some of my players desire to carry some of the load, then, by all means, go for it. But players buy products from Wizards with an eye toward what makes their character better, not what makes the communal storytelling experience better. It's why we don't deal with cursed items as much anymore. Players don't want those things! Why would they publish them in books? The fact that they create funny scenes and intriguing subplots is completely lost.
Hoju on January 11, 2012 at 7:34 am said:
I want cursed items.
You got it, Hoju. The next game I run, we'll have nothing but cursed items. I'll call it: The Ruins of Retrospect. The corridors will be filled with ducks.
Hoju on January 11, 2012 at 5:37 pm said:
looking forward to it! Also i am not picking up any of those ducks.
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Take a Look at this adventure family's favorite places in Sao Miguel.
Sete Cidades: The Volcanic Crater of Sete Cidades is the biggest attraction on Sao Miguel. The area consists of two lakes side by side, one green and one blue, appropriately named Lagoa Verde and Lagoa Azul and a charming village nestled in the valley. You can spend a full day exploring the area. It is convenient and cost efficient to set up a tour guide to take you to all the gorgeous sites while visiting the Western Side of the Island. You can drive yourselves but hiring a driver saves you lots of time turning around, pulling out maps and trying to park. Not to mention, some of these breathtaking views would be appreciated a little more with a glass of wine! No matter which way you visit, you will want to take in the views at Miradouro da Vista do Rei. There is an abandoned hotel here, you can climb to the top and get the best views on the Island. The spectacular walking path at Miradouro da Grota do Inferno is not to be missed and you can make this hike however short or long you would like it.
Once have taken in the views, it is time to descend into the Caldera and enjoy the Lakes. Lagoa de Azul is the larger of the two and where you will find your basic water activities such as Kayaking and paddle boarding. There is also a small beach for swimming, park areas for playing and a restaurant. The nearby town of Sete Cidades also has some quaint restaurants with lots of local flavors.
The Island of Sao Miguel has a rugged and gorgeous coastline. I recommend seeing some of that coastline from above and visiting some of the beaches nestled within. There are several great beaches all over the island, which one you visit ultimately depends on where you are staying on the Island. Two of my favorites are Praia Santa Barbara and Praia Vinha D'Areia. The water is typically a bit frigid but there are warmer beaches in some of the neighboring Azore Islands.
The Azores is one of the world's top whale watching destinations, with 28 different species of whales and dolphins have been sighted off the shores. Different species travel through The Azores at different times of the year, but Sperm Whales and a variety of Dolphin species stay for a significant portion of Spring and Summer. The majority of boats head out from Ponta Delgada but we loved our experience with the amazing company, Terra Azul out of Vila Franca do Campo. I like Terra Azul because their practices always have the best interest of the whales in mind and they really do follow their rules of sustainability and responsibility to the sea life. Whichever company you prefer, I definitely recommend going out on a small RIB boat rather than one of the larger whaling boats. It makes for far more exciting experience. if you are traveling with children who are good swimmers, Many of the companies also offer swimming with the dolphins in the wild. What an incredible experience!
This Islet is the result of an ancient submerged volcano. The Islet is now a nature reserve and is only accessible by a short 10 minute boat ride from the Marina in Vila Franca do Campo. The ferry leaves every hour, but they only sell 400 tickets per day. There are no facilities on the Islet except one public restroom, everything you bring to the Islet must be taken away. You can snorkel, swim in the warm waters, and explore the cliffs. Once a year Red Bull hosts a cliff diving competition here which is extremely impressive to imagine. When you have had enough of this little tropical paradise, you take the next ferry leaving back to the mainland every hour.
There are hot springs throughout the Island. Your best options for swimming in the Hot Springs are in Furnas and Caldeira Velha. The hotsprings in Furnas are located with the lovely little town of at the bottom of Furnas Valley. The whole area is worth a full or half day tour. Be sure to visit Terra Nostra, you can swim in the thermal swimming pool set in The Natural Botanical Gardens, there is a restaurant and spa on the Grounds. You can visit for the day for a relaxing experience or spend the night in the lovely Terra Nostra Garden Hotel.
For a more jungle experience, visit Caldeira Velha located near the breathtaking Lagoa do Fogo to swim under a warm waterfall located in the picturesque fern covered swimming hole. It is the perfect hot spring experience.
The Island of Sao Miguel truly is a perfect getaway for anyone who loves nature, wants to relax or is looking for true adventure, dislikes crowds and is interested in Portugese culture. Did I mention the fresh food and Wine! If this sounds appealing to you, Be sure to contact us to plan the perfect itinerary for you in The Azores.
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Julia Wolf is a British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics who was the 2016 winner of the Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society. She is currently a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.

Education and career
Wolf writes that her childhood ambition was to become a carpenter, and that she became attracted to science only after subscribing to Scientific American as a teenager.

She read mathematics at Clare College, Cambridge, earning a bachelor's degree there in 2004 and completing the Mathematical Tripos in 2003.
She remained at Cambridge for graduate study, and completed her PhD there in 2008. Her dissertation, Arithmetic Structure in Sets of Integers, was supervised by Timothy Gowers. She was also mentored in her doctoral studies by Ben Green, whom she met when he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge from 2001 to 2005.

Since earning her doctorate she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, Triennial assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey,
Hadamard associate professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris (earning a habilitation at the University of Paris-Sud in 2012),
and Heilbronn reader in combinatorics and number theory at the University of Bristol. She returned to Cambridge as a university lecturer in 2018, and was a Fellow of Clare College from 2018 to 2022.

Recognition
In 2016 the London Mathematical Society gave Wolf their Anne Bennett Prize "in recognition of her outstanding contributions to additive number theory, combinatorics and harmonic analysis and to the mathematical community." The award citation particularly cited her work with Gowers on counting solutions to systems of linear equations over abelian groups, and her work on quadratic analogues of the Goldreich–Levin theorem.

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Living people
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namespace inviwo {

class IVW_MODULE_QTWIDGETS_API InviwoFileDialog : public QFileDialog, public FileDialog {
#include <warn/push>
#include <warn/ignore/all>
    Q_OBJECT
#include <warn/pop>
public:
    InviwoFileDialog(QWidget *parent = nullptr, const std::string &title = "",
                     const std::string &pathType = "default", const std::string &path = "");

    virtual bool show() override;

    virtual int exec() override;

    virtual void setTitle(const std::string &title) override;

    virtual void setAcceptMode(inviwo::AcceptMode mode) override;
    virtual inviwo::AcceptMode getAcceptMode() const override;

    virtual void setFileMode(inviwo::FileMode mode) override;
    virtual inviwo::FileMode getFileMode() const override;

    /**
     * \brief sets the current directory of the file dialog to the parent directory of the given
     *   file name or, if it is referring to a directory, to the given path. The file will be
     *   selected when the dialog is shown.
     *
     * @param filename  path and name of the file (can be either a file name or directory name
     * including the full path)
     */
    virtual void setCurrentFile(const std::string &filename) override;
    virtual std::vector<std::string> getSelectedFiles() const override;

    /**
     * \brief set the current directory of the file dialog
     *
     * @param path  given path, must not contain a file name
     */
    virtual void setCurrentDirectory(const std::string &path) override;

    virtual FileExtension getSelectedFileExtension() const override;
    virtual void setSelectedExtension(const FileExtension &ext) override;

    virtual void addExtension(const FileExtension &fileExt) override;
    virtual void addExtension(const std::string &ext, const std::string &description) override;
    virtual void addExtension(const std::string &extString) override;
    virtual void addExtensions(const std::vector<FileExtension> &extensions) override;

    void addSidebarPath(const PathType &path);
    void addSidebarPath(const std::string &path);
    void addSidebarPath(const QString &path);

    void useNativeDialog(const bool &use = true);

    static QString getPreviousPath(const QString &pathType);
    static void setPreviousPath(const QString &pathType, const QString &path);

    static QString getPreviousExtension(const QString &pathType);
    static void setPreviousExtension(const QString &pathType, const QString &path);

protected slots:
    void filterSelectionChanged(const QString &filter);

protected:
    FileExtension getMatchingFileExtension(const QString &extStr);

    QList<QUrl> sidebarURLs_;
    QStringList extensions_;
    QString selectedExtension_;
    QString pathType_;
    QString currentPath_;

    FileExtension selectedFilter_;

    using FileExtMap = std::unordered_map<std::string, FileExtension>;
    FileExtMap extmap_;
};
}  // namespace inviwo

#endif

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MAF (Mission Aviation Fellowship), a faith-based, nonprofit ministry that brings aid and assistance to needy people in isolated and remote regions of the world, has been awarded a $1.7 million challenge grant to fund the full purchase price of a KODIAK, a new aircraft designed to meet the specialized needs of missionary bush flying.
A donor who has been a supporting MAF for many years and wants to encourage a significant gift to MAF is providing the grant with the condition that another donor commits to a grant in the same amount by the end of this year. Separately, MAF has received a second grant that matches dollar for dollar up to $750,000 toward completing the funding of a sixth KODIAK bush plane for the ministry's fleet.
"MAF is blessed to receive such generous financial support," said MAF President and CEO John Boyd. "We trust that others will be moved to contribute so that MAF can realize the full potential of these two valuable grants. The challenge grant essentially will provide two additional KODIAKs, if the challenge is met.
In 2009, MAF launched a multiyear initiative to replace many of its aging Cessna 206s with new KODIAKs. Designed by Quest Aircraft Co., with input from MAF and other Christian ministries, the KODIAK carries a larger payload and runs on readily available and much less expensive jet fuel.
Churches, individuals and foundations can Ghislaine Benney, director of ministry advancement, for information about how they can contribute toward the project to optimize the MAF fleet.
With its fleet of 58 bush aircraft – including the new Kodiak – MAF serves in 41 countries, enabling the work of some 1,000 organizations. MAF pilots transport missionaries, medical personnel, medicines and relief supplies, as well as conduct thousands of emergency medical evacuations in remote areas each year. MAF also provides telecommunications services, such as satellite Internet access, high-frequency radios, electronic mail and other wireless systems.


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Зубарево — село в Борисоглебском районе Ярославской области России. Входит в состав Высоковского сельского поселения.

География
Расположено в 15 км на северо-восток от центра поселения села Высоково и в 25 км на запад от райцентра посёлка Борисоглебский.

История
Церковь села Зубарева основана в 1820 году. Престолов в ней было три: святого и чудотв. Николая, препод. Сергия и св. Леонтия, Ростовского чудотворца.

В конце XIX — начале XX село входило в состав Кондаковской волости Угличского уезда Ярославской губернии.

С 1929 года село входило в состав Кондаковского сельсовета Борисоглебского района, с 1954 года — в составе Давыдовского сельсовета, с 2005 года — в составе Высоковского сельского поселения.

Население

Достопримечательности
В селе расположена действующая Церковь Николая Чудотворца (1820).

Примечания

Населённые пункты Борисоглебского района (Ярославская область)


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If you don't like something, work out why. Is it the texture (too crunchy/soft/firm), awkward to eat, does it remind you of a bad food memory (like the taste reminds you of that time you vomited black bean noodle?), are you aware that there's something wrong with the food (when preparing it, you dropped a bit on the floor and put it back in, so you keep thinking you can taste hair…), or, a common one – is it too hot or cold?
Have a fallback for your meals. If you made a crappy pasta sauce, try adding tomato or barbecue sauce to it. If your veggies are too dull and bland, try tossing them in grated cheese, breadcrumbs, a spot of melted butter, salt and pepper, and some crushed garlic (in any combination, but I do all at once and chuck it under the grill for a few minutes). If you bake a cake, think through ways to keep it interesting – like heated with ice-cream for dessert, when it gets a bit dry. In general, if something isn't tasty enough, try it with something which will add a bit of salt or sugar to it.
When cooking a meal, ensure that there is at least one vegetable which you know you'll scoff down. For instance, in a stir fry you can add mushrooms, mini corn cobs (buy them canned), etc.. Or, if a meal is predominantly vegetables, eg baked potatoes, chop up some nuts or meat (something you'll really enjoy getting to), to motivate your serving size.
Look at things you can have with your meal that will help you eat the boring bits. Some people always have buttered bread handy (lasagna sandwiches are the best), and if you make sandwiches you can add salad to them and be healthier. Some people like mashed potato, and mix it all up.. it's about finding what works.
Mashed potato is great for hiding things in. For every three spoons of potato, you can hide in about one spoon of mashed broccoli. Also, if you hate baked beans and need a cheap protein source, mash baked beans up with potato and it's delicious.
Generally, spreads or sauces aren't the best for you. Hummus, even, is high fat (and often high salt), so really get into reading the packet before you buy. What spreads and sauces are good for, however, is enticing you to eat boring things. This only works if they taste good with whatever you're eating.
If you need to eat, but aren't hungry, get involved with preparing your meal. Get excited about your food. Think about what you'll drink with it and get that ready too. If possible, cook it in a frying pan and smell it cooking – even reheated food. See if there's anyone around to share it with. You'll find yourself snacking on it before it hits the plate.
The biggest hurdle to eating often, well, and healthily, is pressure. Make it a joy to explore your tastes, ignore everything but your health, and you'll do fine.
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The proportion of bricks-and-mortar stores in Yorkshire at higher than normal risk of insolvency has risen from 24.1% in January to 30.2% in November.
This is slightly worse than the national picture, which saw a rise from 24.1% to 29.3%, according to R3.
The breakdown of different types of shops in Yorkshire shows that among the worst affected are clothes shops with 30% at higher than normal risk, and home furnishings stores with 29.2%. Shoe shops (24%) and book shops (26.2%) fared better.
The research from R3 follows the October ONS retail sales figures which showed a fall of 0.3% last month, compared with October 2016.
Retail growth in quarter three slowed to its lowest since quarter two of 2013, a year-on-year rate of 1.5%.
Online sales values, which now account for around 17% of all retail spending, increased by 11% year-on-year.
"Given that retail is often seen as the barometer of the economy as it reflects the confidence of consumers, it is extremely worrying to see this downward trend over the last nine months," said Eleanor Temple, chair of R3 in Yorkshire and a barrister at Kings Chambers in Leeds.
"Last month, the CBI reported that 50% of retailers had seen sales volumes decrease in October 2017 compared with the previous year whereas only 15% had seen a rise.
"There's no doubt that there has been a weakening in people's optimism in recent months and this, together with rising inflation, is likely to result in households cutting back on spending.
"However, inflation appears to be steadying following the Bank of England's first rise in interest rates in ten years last month, hopefully just in time for a busy Christmas shopping season on the high street.


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Officer Who Killed Philando Castile Fired from Police Force
The Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile last summer was fired from the St. Anthony Police Department last Friday after he was acquitted of all charges related to the shooting.
"The City of St. Anthony has concluded that the public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city," St. Anthony city officials said in a statement. "The city intends to offer Officer Yanez a voluntary separation agreement to help him transition to another career other than being a St. Anthony officer."
The terms of that agreement have yet to be negotiated, but in the meantime Yanez will not return to active duty.
Yanez was cleared of second-degree manslaughter in court, as well as two lesser charges related to endangering Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her young daughter, who were in the car during the shooting.
The officer pulled over Castile, 32, in July of last year for a broken taillight. When the driver informed Yanez he was carrying a firearm, the officer quickly pulled out his service pistol and fired into the vehicle five times, killing Castile.
Yanez's defense attorney said the officer "did what he had to do" during the trial, arguing Yanez feared for his life when Castile appeared to be reaching for his gun.
In recently released dash cam footage, Castile's girlfriend can be heard saying that Castile was, in fact, reaching for his wallet to retrieve his I.D., as the officer requested.
The shooting has been widely criticized as another example of police misconduct, an issue that has gained much traction since the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
According to the Star Tribune, Yanez had attended a police seminar called "The Bulletproof Warrior" in May of 2014, a series of classes that encouraged police officers to use their service weapon the second they feel they are in danger.
Critics have taken issue with the way many police officers are trained, arguing they are too quick to escalate situations to violence.
"Police training became very militaristic and it caused a lot of the problems that are going on in the nation," said Michael Becar, executive director of the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training.
An owner of the firm that provides the Bulletproof Warrior classes, Calibre Press, defended the company.
"Our mission is to save everyone's lives," said Calibre CEO Lisa Gitchell. "We go to bed every night knowing that we did the right thing. We train officers to treat people with dignity and respect."
Footage from a Bulletproof Warrior course is depicted in a 2016 documentary film entitled "Do Not Resist," wherein police trainer Dave Grossman gives his students a bit of extremely bizarre sexual advice, according to a report at the Washington Post:
In the class recorded for "Do Not Resist," Grossman at one point tells his students that the sex they have after they kill another human being will be the best sex of their lives. The room chuckles. But he's clearly serious. "Both partners are very invested in some very intense sex," he says. "There's not a whole lot of perks that come with this job. You find one, relax and enjoy it."
While officer Yanez attended classes taught by Grossman's business partner, Jim Glennon, the film excerpt raises questions about the training given to law enforcement officers and the way police respond to perceived threats.
Ironically, Philando Castile himself had taken gun safety courses with a Minnesota company called Total Defense in May of 2015. The course taught students to react calmly and to comply totally with with police in the case of a traffic stop with a firearm in the vehicle.
It appears both men were following their training, but only one of them walked away from the encounter.
Contributed by Will Porter of The Daily Sheeple.
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Now that Mourningtide is completed, I am turning my attention to its sequel, Kadesh. The plot itself is set (it is based on history, so there is not a lot of what we all 'wiggle room' for flights of fancy). I have about 2/3 of the battle itself written. The prelude, if you will - the events leading up to it - are underway. And it is a good thing that I have had this time to work on other things, since it has given me time to look into the characters.
I would like to have it ready by the end of 2016 but I will update this post as we go along I have The Orphan's Tale, book 2 to put out, with the final volume coming at some time after. However The Memphis Cycle has been neglected. In addition to Kadesh I have a collection of short pieces and a novella about the Crown Prince Amunhorkhepechef (Hori) and his second wife. I also have the fable about The Thirty Cubit Crocodile. One of those will comie out before the third volume of The Orphan's Tale.
Ramesses seemed to view Kadesh as the high point of his military career. I have an inkling that his ability as a battlefield strategist was somewhat wanting, but that he was a determined fighter. Even viewing things with a jaundiced eye, I have to admit that his survival of Kadesh was due in part to his own personal valor and, perhaps, his ability to listen to his commanders. The big mistake he made was to seize what appeared to be good news - the Hittites being far to the north, giving him a clear way to capturing the city of Kadesh, which had high strategic value - and outrun his own army only to discover the hard way that he had been duped. But mistakes were made on both sides.
The importance of this clash is the fact that it led to an international accord that was, quite possibly, the first in history.
I am more concerned with the campaign and its effect on various participants, from superbly confident Ramesses through his overconfident, arrogant son Rai. It has been enjoyable racing to put together a story with these features. I was able to succeed, even with a great deal going on right now.
Plans are made, people are tapped, logistics are considered, the family is mobilizing - and Ramesses' two queens have a few things to say. Characters are emerging, ones I had not considered, and the female contingent is a fascinating one.
Kadesh has a lot of conflicts (aside from the obvious political one), involving four brothers, their father, and their memories. I have been going from one focus to the next, and it's coming together. I have some complete chapters written, and completed notes on the outlines of other chapters. There is one in particular that I think I should enjoy filling in. It involves a sort of post-mortem on a treacherous attack. He who is conducting the post-mortem is not one to waste words, and his delivery of his findings is shaping up (in my fevered brain) as most enjoyable.


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Council Overwhelmingly Overrides Veto, Sustains Substantive Criminal Code Revision
Since Home Rule began in 1975, mayoral vetoes are rare. The Council's Legislative Information Management System (LIMS) records just 57 mayoral vetoes from 1989 through the present. Veto overrides are even more rare, with just seven attempts (six successful) over that same time period.
But when a comprehensive overhaul of a century's worth of the District's criminal code is at stake, fully sixteen years in the making, the Council determined by a 12-1 margin that a substantive override of a symbolic veto is both needed and justified.
At its most recent Legislative Meeting, the Council faced a fundamental question. The diverse participants in the Criminal Code Reform Commission (including prosecutors, defense attorneys, police, and criminal justice reform advocates) spent years coming up with a reform package that the Council then shepherded through the legislative process. Fully 95 percent of the reforms were truly consensus content, and completely uncontroversial. And none of the changes encompassed in the bill would take effect for at least three years in any case.
So, given all this context, which was the best path forward—allowing a mayoral veto of the bill to stand, essentially throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and leaving the future of the entire reform package in question? Or, would the better path be to capture the consensus 95 percent via a veto override, knowing full well that the remaining debate-worthy five percent would be addressed via subsequent legislation already in the pre-conception stage by the mayor and some councilmembers? The answer for most councilmemebers was clear.
Multiple councilmembers made the point at the most recent Legislative Meeting that decades of dramatic increases in incarceration have not been a solution to rising crime, and that mass incarceration creates its own intergenerational societal impacts. Councilmembers also emphasized that the severity of criminal penalties have no meaningful impact on crime, if for no other reason than those committing crimes are completely unaware of the penalties for the crimes they commit.
Hating crime is easy. Fighting crime is essential but insufficient. Preventing crime is the holy grail of a safe future. When the Council passed the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results (NEAR) Act in 2016, it was an effort to achieve the elusive goal of crime prevention through treating violence as a public health crisis. The bill was not fully funded until 2017, and according to a June 2022 report by the DC Auditor, implementation of the NEAR Act by the executive branch has been "uneven," and two NEAR Act initiatives have never been implemented despite claims to the contrary.
What comes next for the criminal code reform bill now that the veto has been overriden? As District residents are all too aware, all District laws must be transmitted to the Congress for a layover period during which, if a majority of each house of Congress votes to do so, and the President signs the measure, the bill in question will be overturned. Under the 1974 Home Rule Act which created the Mayor and Council of the District of Columbia, virtually all measures must be sent to Congress and sit for a layover period that lasts 30 legislative days. Given Congress' comparatively skimpy schedule of being in session, these 30 legislative days can stretch on for months. This is bad enough. But in the Home Rule Act, a separate, double-long 60-day layover period is established specifically for changes to the District's criminal code. Though, under the terms of the criminal code revision bill, none of the changes in the would take effect until 2025 anyway, this double-delay only rubs salt in the wound of our limited autonomy.
The aforementioned mandatory delay in all DC bills becoming law also played a part in the second primary piece of legislation approved at the most recent Legislative Meeting. Back in November, DC voters approved by a wide margin Initiative 82. This legislation, known as the District of Columbia Tip Credit Elimination Act, which gradually do away with the current system, whereby tipped employees can be paid at a sub-minimum wage level as long as their employer "makes them whole" and pays them the difference if their tips do not elevate their lower wage to the minimum wage.
As passed, the bill had the first scheduled pay bump (to $6 an hour) taking effect on January 1, 2023. But given that the bill remains in Congressional review limbo, this is not yet law, and therefore cannot be implemented. At its most recent Legislative Meeting, the Council, via emergency legislation, shifted the effective date for this first pay bump to May 1, 2023. The bill's second planned pay bump, to $8 an hour, set for July 1, 2023, is not affected by this delay. Subsequent annual pay bumps occurring on July 1 of each year are also not affected.
The Council's next scheduled Legislative Meeting will be held on February 7.


Discussion in 'Android Tablet Hacking' started by cottage1260, Feb 13, 2018.
Coincidentally I have got some trojan virus and I am unable to clean it from Android system. It is also impossible with e. g. Malwarebytes because the infection is also in system files and when I disable them manually then the problem persists.
I was trying to do Factory reset settings with deleting all data through Android software settings – no solution, then with using RST "hole" button – no solution and then finally I was also trying to make factory hardware reset in Factory mode (which is in Chinese) with using some setting with "MMC" issue – it is always restarting Android and updating applications and finally the system is again recovered with infected applications and files.
Many thanks for any advice or a suggestion!
There are some things that are not clear here, and we need more details.
1. What app is infected?
2. What anti-virus are you using?
3. When did the infection start?
4. Was this tablet purchased new or used?
5. Was this tablet rooted?
6. Was a custom ROM installed?
In general, unless the device manufacturer is a really dodgy sort, e.g. from China, a device will not have a virus on it. Also, running an anti-virus on Android is pointless and you should be running Malwarebytes instead. Lastly, if the tablet was rooted and/or a custom ROM installed, all bets are off. Conversely, if you are rooted, that will make removing the offending app a lot easier, since you can delve into /system/app and delete the offending app with a file manager like Root Explorer.


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Mum's baby won't stop crying and the reason behind it shocks her
Colic—infantile colic to be precise—is basically episodes of crying for hours on end every day for more than three weeks in a healthy infant between the ages two weeks to four months.
That was what Michelle Lalberte's daughter was diagnosed with, and for some weeks now her daughter has been crying almost nonstop.
"Every time my daughter would cry, I assumed I had eaten something that didn't agree with her, except this time was different," she said in her Scary Mommy story.
In fact, it seemed as if her day was going to be pretty peaceful at first; her daughter had not cried for two days.
Her husband even commented on it, saying how beautiful life was when it was quiet at home, but no sooner had he said it that their daughter began to fuss.
"This escalated into screams of pain. In fact, this continued for 48 hours, with 10 minute breaks in between," she said. "Unfortunately, it was the weekend, so I would have to wait until Monday to call the doctor."
She called the doctor first thing the following Monday and scheduled an appointment.
The doctor proceeded to do a routine check up on her daughter, but he didn't find anything out of the ordinary—just plain old colic.
"Oh, you'll survive the colic. It's almost over," he said. "Just hang in there."
While the doctor said his pep talk, Michelle spaced out, her eyes drifting down to her baby's feet.
That's when she caught sight of it.
On the baby's left foot, all but one toe looked normal; the rest were swollen and red. She pointed it out to her doctor, and when he wiggled the toes, the baby started wailing.
Suddenly the root of the problem was revealed.
"One of my long blonde hairs had entwined itself around the base of her four toes and the middle of her baby toe," Michelle said. "It was so hard to see, but it was so tightly wound, it cut off circulation, causing the swelling and discoloration. It also dug into her skin, leaving a mark where the hair resided."
Thankfully her baby is fine now not having sustained any lasting damage, but there could have been had they been late in noticing that one stray blond hair.
Michelle walked away from the ordeal having learned an important lesson, a lesson she wants all parents to know:
"Always examine your child, literally from head to toe!"
James Martinez
Baby won't stop crying: Furious man punches little baby causing kidney failure
A mum's heartbreaking wish: "I want my son to die."


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Image by Taste of Charleston Atypical competitions are a big part of the festival's big day on Sunday, namely the "Waiter's Wine Race" as seen here.
The 30th annual Taste of Charleston has come and gone, but for those of us who didn't have a chance to make it out to the final hurrah at Boone Hall Plantation yesterday, The Post and Courier has some solid post-event coverage and photo gallery.
Charleston's annual culinary celebration, Taste of Charleston, is back for a a three-day run beginning this Friday, October 8.
The celebration of Lowcountry cuisine is being hosted once again by the Greater Charleston Restaurant Association and will feature some of Charleston's finest, nationally-renowned chefs.
Events will be taking place all over town, but the main event will be going down at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant on Sunday ($12). This year, the main event will play host to officials from the Guinness Book of World Records, as the world's largest snow-cone will be prepared on-site in hopes of setting a new record.
Taste – Iron Chef Competition will be held Friday, October 8, at the Culinary Institute of Charleston's Palmer Campus in downtown Charleston and will showcase some of the best local chefs in a heated head-to-head battle in the Institute's state-of-the-art amphitheater kitchen. $20.
Taste of the Arts on Gallery Row will be held Saturday evening, October 9, at various art galleries in downtown Charleston. The art walk combines Lowcountry art with the culinary arts and will showcase the talents of local artists while offering guests a sampling of appetizers from a variety of Charleston's favorite restaurants. $20.
Tickets for all events can be purchased online by clicking here.
If you'd like to take a peek at the participating restaurants and menu selection for Sunday's event, hop over to this post at The Post and Courier. You can also check out the festival's Web site.


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Q: What is the value of $0 \choose 0$? It can be 0 according to $0 \choose n$ and 1 according to $n \choose 0$.

A: Since $\binom n k$ is the number of $k$-element subsets of an $n$-element set, you're asking about the number of empty subsets of the empty set.  There's exactly one, so $\binom00=1$.

A: Plugging straight into the factorial expression, you wind up with $1$. Combinatorically, I interpret this as "there is always one way to do nothing". Set-theoretically, you can interpret it as there being one function with codomain equal to the empty set, regardless of what the domain is.

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SFRS search and rescue dog Diesel stands ready for duty – kitted out in special booties and harness.
The springer spaniel relies on the protective footwear so that he can search collapsed buildings for casualties.
And two torches attached to his body ensure that he can properly see in the dark while a small bell alerts handler Gary Carroll to his location.
This clever dog is a vital member of the SFRS Urban Search and Rescue's National Response as he can detect trapped survivors in a fraction of the time it would take a human – thanks to his powerful nose and agility.
Experienced Gary is the SFRS K9 handler and a Crew Manager based at Portlethen, Aberdeenshire.
He said: "Diesel is a great asset in urban search and rescue due to the speed at which he operates – as it can take humans quite some time to locate injured casualties in a collapsed building.
"But Diesel can race over the top of the rubble and use his nose to achieve the same result in just a fraction of the time. Equally, he will let us know if there are no casualties, meaning we can quickly focus our search on other areas.
"Diesel is also far less likely to disturb anything or encounter any trip hazards whilst searching any structure that might collapse at any moment.
"He is therefore decreasing the time taken to effect rescues but - equally as important - he is increasing the safety of his firefighter colleagues by reducing the time they are required to operate within the risk area.
Diesel and firefighter Gary were part of a specialist UK International Search and Rescue team who went to assist the people of Nepal during a devastating earthquake in 2015. They formed part of the British Government's 60-strong UKISAR (UK International Search and Rescue) team.
The highly-skilled pair are now available to assist SFRS colleagues and other blue light services at emergencies across Scotland – including searches for missing persons as Diesel can also cover wide, open spaces to locate people at speed.
And the duo showed off their professionalism at a UK-wide ISAR training event at the SFRS National Training Centre and Headquarters in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire on Saturday, 9 April.
The event included Fire and Rescue dogs and their handlers from Fire and Rescue Services throughout Britain.
Together, the team searched collapsed building and vehicle wreckage simulations. Diesel also worked at height during a simulated rope rescue.
Gary, added: "Diesel has already been deployed around the world, most recently to Nepal following a major earthquake.
"But he can also be used to search wide, open spaces or through vehicle wreckage so he has a very wide range of skills that can be used to help protect the communities of Scotland. He has also been called upon to assist Police in locating a missing person.


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The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/2002/09/19/a-red-letter-day-that-turns-black/)
A Red Letter Day that Turns Black
Dear Black Francis (a.k.a. Frank Black),
I write to you as an admirer and as a concerned music consumer. I am of the generation lucky enough to go beyond Nirvana and discover the Replacements, the Ramones, and of course your own marvelous Pixies. Nearly ten years since the demise of the Pixies and you've been quite busy releasing album after album of solo material (with or without the Catholics). Recently I heard you've released not one but two new albums. As a devoted fan I bought them and must say you did great, Frank. Or maybe just "very well." The 29 new songs, as on your previous five or six albums, are all solid rock'n'roll recorded in your trademark fashion — live to two tracks with no overdubs. And I must say the Catholics are a fantastic backing band. There are enough surprises on these albums to feel I've gotten my money's worth. Your choice of opening and closing Black Letter Days with two covers of Tom Waits' "The Black Rider" is possibly one of the best and ballsiest moves ever, especially given that the Waits track is about as much a theatrical monologue as it is a song. Yet you pull it off with both the introductory fast paced rocker approach and the closing surf guitar version. The other 16 tracks on Black Letter Days are treats as well. I especially like the country-tinged numbers like the gorgeous "The Farewell Bend." Just between you and I, the Zeppelin-esque riffing on "1826" for 6 and a half minutes gets to be a bit excessive, but overall the album feels like a fine traverse of all that is found on a jukebox at a good bar. Remnants of Van Morrison on "Southbound Bevy", the Stones on "Chip Away Boy." Dylan, Petty, Lennon — all the big boys are here all done well with your wicked humor and great lyrics. Your voice is sounding better than ever, trading the yelping of the Pixies for a pleasant falsetto. On Devil's Workshop you return to the more rocking territory of Teenager of the Year. Less slide guitar, more distortion — here the Stones are mixed with the Ramones, instead of Gram Parsons. Damn Mr. Black; you've got quite an ear for melody. "Whiskey in Your Shoes" is such a catchy rocker. At 33 minutes, this is a great short album that sounds pretty similar throughout but is rescued by its brevity.
This brings me to my concern: the influence of the prolific artist such as yourself. Being prolific is a gift, but so is self-censorship. I mean the Pixies were so bad-ass precisely because there wasn't much out there that was simultaneously so noisy and so melodic. I understand you grow up and mature beyond yelling, but you can play classic rock beyond fantastic imitations of the Stones. Lock yourself in that studio for three years and come out with the record that will make people forever look at Doolittle as simply an immature first step. Remember your fan base consists of music lovers whose CD collections often exceed a 1000; it's mighty easy for a fine record to get lost in there and I'd hate for that to happen to the mighty Black Francis. It's time to make Frank Black a household name.
Nick Fazoli Minneapolis, MN
Archived article by Maxim Pozdorovkin
Sprint Football Opens Season at Rival Penn
The sprint football team kicks off its 2002 campaign tonight when it travels to resume its rivalry with Ancient Eight brethren Penn. The Red opens the season hoping to improve over last season's lackluster 2-4 record, which included two losses to the Quakers. After opening last season with a respectable showing in a 19-17 home loss to Penn, the Red completely fell apart in last season's visit to Franklin Field, falling 41-3. The Red will host Penn later this season, with a game on the evening of Oct. 25. Cornell will also play against Navy, Army, and twice against Princeton, which represent the other members of the Collegiate Sprint Football League. This year's team sports an experienced veteran roster, headlined by senior tailback Charlie Tam, who led the team in rushing yards last season. Cornell also welcomes 14 freshmen to this year's squad. Sprint football is a unique sport that affords smaller athletes the chance to play intercollegiate football. The sport follows the same rules as NCAA football, but requires that all players weigh no more than 165.9 pounds the Wednesday before each game. Archived article by Owen Bochner
South Africans Hold Teach-in
In a teach-in yesterday in Kaufmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith, South African social justice activists Mzonke Mayekiso and Sarah Mtembo addressed the various impacts of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank policies on post-apartheid South Africa. The program was part of a speaking tour called "Voices from the Global South." The sponsor of the tour, a national group called 50 Years Is Enough, arranged for the activists to speak at college campuses along the east coast in preparation for this weekend's upcoming anti-IMF/World Bank demonstrations in Washington, D.C. 50 Years Is Enough "tries to bring in grassroots organizers from various places around the world that are affected by IMF/World Bank policies in order to put the issues of the demonstrations into context," said CUSLAR Coordinator Dana Brown '02. The speakers' central message was that South Africa's current government, under the influence of the IMF and World Bank, has been implementing "neoliberal" policies, particularly privatization, that have resulted in economic hardship for "masses" of South Africans. The first speaker Mayekiso, who is the president of the National Association of Residents and Civics Organizations (NARCO) in Johannesburg, emphasized that black South Africans have experienced the bulk of the economic disadvantage. While the eight years since apartheid ended have witnessed "a steady improvement" in race relations in South Africa, Mayekiso said, the turnaround "did not address the fundamental economic inequality between whites and blacks." During this time, many affluent white people have migrated to the suburbs. At the same time, rural blacks have migrated to urban centers in search of employment, only to find job opportunities lacking as commercial industries follow whites to the suburban peripheries. As a result, Mayekiso explained, the cities, especially Alexandra, have become overpopulated, deprived of business, and dominated by poor, unemployed blacks. The government has failed to provide "necessary public services" to these urban areas. "There is a shortage of basic goods, such as electricity, water supply, housing, education, health care," Mayekiso said. He attributed the problem to the government's neoliberal tendency toward privatization, a policy which the IMF and World Bank actively encourage in developing countries. "They say that privatization of our social services increases efficiency, but it can't address the problems, and it keeps black communities poor," Mayekiso said. When "public assets" are privatized, he added, they are no longer in the hands of a democratically elected government, but are controlled by "international companies that are not accountable to local communities." According to Mayekiso, the net result of these practices is "uneven development" in South Africa. Mayekiso's organization is "trying to fight for a framework that can better represent the poor." Part of doing that involves communicating with people all over the world, including in the U.S. "Our struggle affects you. The taxes you pay go to policies that oppress us," he said. The second speaker, Mtembu, is the treasurer of NARCO and a founder of the Alexandra Action Committee (AAC), an urban activist organization. She told of her experiences in the struggle for justice in South Africa. "I have been in the struggle from 1986 until today," Mtembo said. "I organized with youth." She also opened her home to the community movement, she said. Between 40 and 50 people attended the event. Brown was pleased with the event overall, and impressed at the attendance and level of audience participation. "People seemed very interested. They read all of the information and asked lots of questions," Brown said. "It was a decent crowd for a Thursday afternoon, and it was pretty diverse, too; people came for lots of different reasons," she said. One student attendee was particularly affected by what she had learned. "I think it is truly unfortunate that the elected government of South Africa, which was supposed to represent the oppressed black majority, has started to turn its back on the people," Malkia Hutchinson '05 said. "I think too many Americans underestimate the continuing struggle in South Africa," she added. Several Cornell and Ithaca organizations came together to sponsor the program. These included the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR), the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy (CRESP), the Cornell Organization for Labor Action (COLA), and the United Progressives (UP).Archived article by Erica Gilbert-Levin


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DJ Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk: The Man, the Music, the Revenue Model
Jim Hopkinson
Gregg Gillis is a 27-year-old musician and his instrument is his laptop. He took home a 2007 Rave Award, but his fame has grown exponentially from the music scene to the mainstream. Wired Science readers can appreciate his former day job as a Biomedical Engineer, working in the experimental division of a company he refused […]
Gregg Gillis is a 27-year-old musician and his instrument is his laptop. He took home a 2007 Rave Award, but his fame has grown exponentially from the music scene to the mainstream.
Wired Science readers can appreciate his former day job as a Biomedical Engineer, working in the experimental division of a company he refused to name. Why so shy? His co-workers didn't know that he was a sad cubicle dweller by day, then would jump on a plane to Brussels or London to do a show with Beck over the weekend before rolling back into the office on Monday morning.
How was your weekend Gregg? Oh, it was OK.
But while many fans are consumed with the man and his music, Wired.com investigates the revenue model and potential mitigation. The laptop mixologist rips a page from Chris Anderson's "free" model, offering the same "pay what you want" format that proved wildly successful for Radiohead when it launched In Rainbows. The potential mitigation involves how he tiptoes the line of copyright law when he samples hundreds of songs to create his music -- a practice Gillis says falls under fair use.
One thing's for sure, the man can rock a house, the music is addictive and the revenue model is progressive.
For more on Gillis' revenue model and how he walks that copyright line, check out Episode 17 of The HopkinsonReport podcast on iTunes.
The Hopkinson Report is a weekly marketing podcast by Jim Hopkinson,
Wired.com's marketing guy. Every episode takes a fresh and funny look at the marketing trends that matter to Wired readers. From internet and new media to business and pop culture, Jim and his guests provide their unique perspective on marketing in the digital age.
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