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Duh doesn't want to start a savings account for his brat with part of their tax return because his parents didn't do the same for him. Uhh, isn't that what people are supposed to do? Give their kids what their own parents couldn't give to them? My guess is setting aside a few bucks from the tax return might eat into Duh's potential spending habits like video games, cigs, booze, pot, takeout, a new computer, and so on.
Oh, but of course he's a Great DadTM. Mmhmm sure, a great dad who doesn't want his kid to have a college fund. I can honestly say I have never heard of someone who could afford to open a savings account for their kid and refused to.
https://old.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/mldc7d/savings_for_the_baby/
We just had a baby in November. I told spouse I was going to use the tax return to pay of some of the hospital bills. I said today I'd also like to take a little bit and open an acount for daughter and just have it there and make deposits when we can so there's a little fund for her for the future. Maybe college? Maybe if she wants piano lessons or something? Idk just to have for her and only her. He shot it down. Said we're not wealthy enough to do that?? And "I didn't get shit from my parents." I'm not talking like a ton of money just a little bit from the tax return and then add to it when and what we can.. Idk. I think I'll do it anyway. Just frustrated me he doesn't want to have something like this for her. (We're not married)
I'm sure this happened.
https://old.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/mkyqnn/my_pregnancy_is_over_but_my_grief_continues/
Today my toddler said, "[babys name] is dead mommy. The baby in your tummy is gone."
We are 4.5 months out from a TFMR. I'm so devastated.
My husband refuses to try for another. I'm 39.
Grateful for my living child but feeling like the world has ended.
What the fuck's a TFMR? I had to look it up and it stands for "termination for medical reasons." Basically means the fetus was FUBAR and had what doctors often refer to as a "condition that's incompatible with life."
And I very seriously doubt that a toddler has the sense to point out that the fetus is dead because toddlers have no idea what dead is. If they did, they wouldn't do shit that could make them dead like stick forks into electrical sockets, eat everything except edible foods and swan dive down the staircase wearing a Peppa Pig blanket because they want to be Superman.
But with how much Moos go on and on and ON about their dead clumps, I wouldn't be surprised if the kid is just being a little mynah bird and repeating back to the Moo what it heard its handlers say. Duh probably doesn't feel like dealing with this whiny horse shit from her for another five months minimum, which is why he's saying no more.
And orly, if you're so grateful for your existing child, why are you making such a fuss over one that never got born? God I can't fucking stand these whiny moaning heifers who mourn for years over a clump loss like they're going to wind up childless spinsters when they've all got at least one live child. Can you imagine how the living children in such scenarios must feel while their Moos lay there and wail for months on end about their dead clumps? Like WTF are their living breathing kids? Chopped liver?
Wow, the new car smell hasn't even faded on the baybee yet and he is already refusing to open a savings account in the baybee's name.
Way to go, no savings Dud. He sounds completely not resentful about having a baybee, does he not?
Here I go again, being snippy and judgmental, but I noticed at least half of these women bred with a "partner," not a spouse, which could suggest oopsies or a lack of planning. But even so, a fair number of them are calling this Dud irrational.
Get this stellar response. Do these women all breed with the same guy? By all means, let's HAVE A KID with a guy who is financially irresponsible. These are the same women who will be bitching they are broke or homeless when their partner decides he no longer wants to pay for the kid.
I'm not married to my partner so it might be a little easier for me but I take some money here and there and I contribute it to a 529 for our son and my own emergency savings account. He doesn't know about the 529 or my fund, and my mom is the emergency person on both accounts. My partner isn't a bad person, he is just terrible with money and I don't want him to have access or even know about these accounts because he has tried to make me feel guilty for hoarding money before when he needs help paying his % of the bills. Although he wouldn't need help if he didn't blow his checks on video games or fishing gear...
I've never understood how these manchildren aren't good enough to marry, but fine to get knocked up by.
Moomy can't understand why husband is checking out emotionally and thinks it's from having to work night shift. I'm sure that's part of it, but I'm also sure it can't possibly be from having to support SIX boat anchors in a non-spanking household. Why didn't this dumbass get snipped?
I don't know what to think.
My husband and I have 5 kids, and we've been married 14 years. We met, married, and had kids young.
Husband has been NOT dealing with his depression and ADHD our whole marriage. I've struggled with depression as well. I've taken meds, gone to therapy, and tried to manage my depression through diet and lifestyle. Covid has obviously been tough, because my kids were home until just recently. Husband is an essential worker who works night shift, which added extra stress when the kids were home for a year. I haven't worked since we had our first baby.
Husband has been withdrawn lately. Absorbed in a video game on his phone. Very impatient with the kids. Hardly smiles or makes eye contact with any of us anymore. He is not having an affair (as far as I know— but I'm friends with a lot of his work friends and trust they would tell me). He has been looking for a new job (for day shift) and has had quite a few interviews, but no new job yet. He just isn't happy. Ever.
We have been in marriage counseling since last fall when he said he wanted a divorce because he wasn't happy. I have worked really hard to not be so controlling and a few months ago he said he didn't want a divorce anymore. He has worked hard on controlling his temper and regulating his emotions better, so he's not as angry but still grouchy all the time.
BrMoms, he's not happy. Is it me? I want to bring it up in our next marriage counseling but I'm afraid to hear the answer. I don't know what else I could be doing. I've been trying to connect and he just is apathetic towards me and the kids. He's apathetic towards everything right now.
I'm also angry because I feel like he has put so little effort into being a better parent. He was raised in a yelling, spanking household and while he doesn't spank, he goes from not paying attention to the kids to yelling at them. He doesn't want to talk to them, doesn't want to hear from them. I get it— I've been with the kids every day for 13 years! But that doesn't mean it's okay for him to act like their an inconvenience on his life.
I'm lost and hurting and angry. What do I do?
So far the clueless responses have been to blame it on night shift.
https://old.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/mloi61/husband_just_doesnt_want_to_be_part_of_the_family/
She is always going to be broke with this guy unless she takes 100% control of the money and gives him an allowance (like a parent instead of a partner) and then cue the resentment from the duh. Financial irresponsibility is hard enough if you're childless/child free in a relationship and nearly impossible for parents. Relationships are ended based on financially irresponsible behavior. If it is really bad it can limit employment.
Reference Night Shift Dud: I am so fucking glad that I always had my own money and a way to support myself and therefore I'm not having to twist myself into knots to make someone stay with me who clearly does not want to be there. So many of these women are unable to support themselves, therefore they are trapped and subject to the whims of some guy.
And a guy who wants a divorce and then suddenly decides to stay? I GUARAN-DAMN-TEE you that he was having an affair and figured out that a divorce would break him financially and it wasn't worth it. (Although he can still get his tail on the side.)
This guy will probably leave he minute the kids turn 18 and he's no longer liable for chyld support.
And ITA with the sentiment, why the fuck didn't this guy wrap it up or get snipped? I have a hard time believing someone got oopsed FIVE FREAKING TIMES. BED. MADE. LIE. Now deal with these kids you made so you don't fuck them up.
Yeah I seriously doubt it's work that's got the night shift Duh so fucked up. A lot of men start looking forward to going to work once sproggen come along because work is an "escape" from screaming kids and nagging wives and they get paid for it. If all I had to look forward to going home was half a dozen brats, I'd check out mentally too. Probably doesn't want to get on meds because he figures it's not worth bothering with it or he thinks it's not manly to be on anti-depressants or some shit. But hey, he can't be so naive that he doesn't know where babies come from, so I don't feel sorry for him. You don't want a gaggle of brats and you're a guy, you either wrap it, snip it or keep it in your pants. Or get a sex change if you're feeling particularly adventurous.
Moo needs to quit going to therapy and trying to single-handedly fix her marriage. Counseling works when both people are willing to work at it, but when one is shouldering the work and the other gives no fucks, all it will be is a big waste of time and money. It's great that he's improved a little for whatever reason, but it's painfully obvious he hates his life and everyone in his house. You can be depressed and love your wife and kids, but the fact that he's so short with all of the other inhabitants in the house makes it pretty obvious he hates his life and he's taking it out on the kids and the Moo because he resents them for "making" his life the way it is.
What you fucking do is get the divorce, or at least get a separation. Stop living together. Maybe he'll be a better parent if he and Moo don't live together, or maybe the kids will be better off with no father than one who treats them like crap and screams at them constantly.
Just a big thread about the morons these women married who need to have their hands held through the most basic things and need to be told where towels and clothing go in their own homes. Some of the Moos mentioned it already in the comments, but I highly suspect a lot of these asshats just pretend to be ignorant and incompetent so Moo will just do the chore for them.
I'd bet a good chunk of them weren't so useless when they were single and figure the whole point of settling down was to get a little wifey to do all this crap for them like mommy used to do for them. And I get that some guys are just plain not good at domestic crap like cooking or sewing, but consider the terrifying fact that the brain-dead men these women are describing hold down jobs, made new human beings, have licenses to operate vehicles and I imagine at least a few attended college. But they don't know where their own clean underwear go.
And these men can't be asked or told to do shit because then they get upset over being treated like the morons they are or they accuse the Moo of nagging. I really don't think it's possible for someone to be so genuinely ignorant about the layout in their own home. I suspect a lot of these fools play dumb on purpose so they can put forth as little effort as possible. They do it with chores, they do it with childcare, they do it with everything that isn't sex or video games. Sadly, Moo ceasing do do things for them doesn't work a majority of the time because these idiots they marry will gladly live in filth, wear dirty clothes, leave food out to go bad, neglect their children and spend money on takeout every day (instead of washing dishes) before they'd ever consider doing chores or being active parents.
I really, really want to know what attracts these women to these types of men because this is a prevailing theme on that sub. Like were they this helpless when they were still dating? I imagine they didn't all have shotgun weddings, so what about these men who can't fold a towel or scoop a litter box without detailed instructions got these women all frothy in the loins?
https://old.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/mm5tyj/do_they_do_this_on_purpose/
Another dumbshit who didn't want kids, but had them anyway because her husband said he'd only stick around if she gave him two kids (which was negotiated down to one). After tons of fertility treatments and scheduled sex for a wholly unwanted child, Moo gets PPD and finds out Duh is a crappy partner.
Why is it so hard to grasp that if you really do not want kids and your partner really does, you are incompatible as a couple? It doesn't mean let's have a kid anyway! It's not fair for a kid to be born into a home where only one of the parents wants it because I can assure you, the parent who did not want to be a parent can only mask their resentment for so long before it becomes too exhausting to keep it up and they just blame the kid for their shite life without subtlety. STOP HAVING KIDS YOU DON'T WANT.
https://old.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/mmbvp4/did_i_take_the_red_pill_or_blue_pill/
I had a kid 2 years ago with my husband. Is this all I can expect in life now? Because this is not what I signed up for nor expected. I can see there are 75,500 members of this group so I can't be the only one who is thinking, "what the fuck is this shit?!?"
I did not want kids. I said that to EVERYONE, for so many years, because I knew I wanted my career and independence. I married a man after dating for 8 years because I was not ready to commit to him. The ultimatum came from him, the only way he would marry me is if I had kids. He wanted 2. All my family and friends encouraged kids -- be like Marissa Mayer from Yahoo. Okay, so I negotiated for 1 kid. Once upon a time, I truly loved this man....
We endured infertility treatment for 3.5 years. The happy times were squashed under planned sex, infertility drugs, hormones, and sperm samples. The whole time, not one single person said to me, "hey, maybe this is a sign that you should not have kids". Nope, down the rabbit hole I went thinking life is going to be good again after this.
I developed Postpartum Depression early on after having my kid. I am out of it now. However, the reason why I got PPD was because I realized my life was never going to be "care-free" again. My kid started showing signs of Autism and my husband turned out to be a shitty life-partner. I had a hard time accepting that my old life was over. I grieved the loss of my old life. I wished I could get it back, and wishing for it only made mourning its loss that much more.
Like other women here, adult responsibilities are not evenly distributed in our house. I am the primary income; I always have been. My husband is a good Dad; that's about it. I haven't had sex with him in over a year because I just resent him so much.
Why do people encourage having children as if family life is an amazing joy?!? Life with children is REALLY HARD mentally, financially, socially, and emotionally. Do I love my child? Yes, absolutely. I hate being a mother, though. I have no independence, no freedom, no choice, no sanity. Every weekday is the same routine. Every weekend is the same exhaustion of chores and extra-curricular responsibilities. This can't be all there is to life! Why did I sacrifice good years of my life to be a slave to my kid and husband? Why are women constantly stuck in this hell by our society?? Who the fuck does Marissa Mayer (who's worth $600 million) think she is by telling women to "lean in"??
LOL, it was Sheryl Sandberg and not Marissa Mayer who used the term "lean in." I guess these women are too busy attending to brats to keep up with current events.
The responses to the Formerly CF Woman Who Caved (FCFWWC) should be required reading for anyone with CF leanings. The woman with the five year old was enough to make my introverted soul shrivel.
Make her breakfast! Even though I just want to be sleeping, relaxing, alone. Get her ready for school! Tell her 50 fucking times to get dressed while she scampers around ignoring me and I try to remain patient. Brush her hair! The biggest battle of all. Then I work all day, no breaks, rushing out in the middle to pick her up. But I still have to work! So she's home, chattering away and I need to do my work and she needs 50,000 SNACKS and needs to tell me every thought in her head. It would be cute but I CAN'T WORK while someone is giving me a non-stop verbal stream of consciousness download.
That would annoy the shit out of me, but isn't this the nature of children? They try to get their parunt's attention with the lookitme stuff. It's not fair to have a kid then be surprised at all this.
The FCFWWC puts the blame on her ex?-husband for giving her an ultimatum that he would not marry her unless she agreed to have kids. While ultimatums are not ideal, the reality of relationships is that people have bottom line, non-negotiable things and he was being upfront about his. It's a shame they dated for eight years and presumably went through the idiocy of continuing a relationship with fundamental incompatibility. Why do humans do stupid shit like this? Particularly Breeders, when there are PLENTY of men and women who want to breed.
Still, someone could have been the Adult in the Room and ended the relationship or stopped it before it got that far. And if she didn't want kids, she should have dumped him.
She acts mad at him when the reality is, her extreme self-betrayal would be hard to get over.
Thanks to feminism and living in the First World, this woman had many choices, yet she didn't feel like she could be self-determinant and choose the one that would have made her happy. I do not get it.
It baffles me when people who really seem to be CF just cannot follow through. Earth won't fall off its axis if a woman (or man) decides not to breed. You may get some shit for it, but who THE FUCK cares what other people think? All the choices and freedom in the world won't matter if you cannot stop enslaving yourself to cultural expectations. Fuck that shit.
Speaking of feminism, I wonder if this woman is the type who says "Oh, I'm not a feminist," when feminists first launched the idea that women could do things other than get married and breed. And as much as everyone in that thread is ranting about Not Knowing The Truth, how many of these bitches are assauging their cognitive dissonance by doubling down on the "Being A Mooother Is the Greatest Thing I've Ever Done" rhetoric, when they are miserable inside? And how many of them are trashing CF people and places like this site?
I bet a lot of them are.
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This one is upsetting. Moo somewhat glosses over the fact that her husband bullies and abuses their 2-year old. The Duh provokes the 2-year old and then punishes them when they lash out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/mm5xmu/why_are_men/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Why are men
Yep that's the title. Just why
Two things I need to rant about.
One, this morning I was in a great mood, I made everyone breakfast and I was going to sit down and watch a movie and eat. Well my son (2) decided he didn't want to eat what I made, no biggie. As I'm trying to figure out what he wants his dad is in the background picking on him to get him to cry more. I told him to stop and he said "why? It's funny" he then did it one more time and my son threw his whole plate on the floor, his dad spanked him and put him in time out. Well I'm still trying to figure out what he wants to eat so I go get something else and his dad tries to block me in the kitchen saying no he can wait. I told him to move out of my way bc I'm just seeing what he wants to eat and don't tell me what to do. He then says that I'm spoiling him by going to see if he's ready to eat something else. I then say "Actually I'm communicating with him, surprise kids can have feelings and all that too, I'm not going to let him watch everyone else eat and him not get to" He tried to argue with me about the spoiling thing but I don't believe that
Then the second thing..
We're getting a new couch today so we have to move our old one out and clean up and make space for the new one. Well he's cleaning up the backyard and painting the kitchen. FOR WHAT???? The couch isn't even going past those rooms wtf.
I'd bet a good chunk of them weren't so useless when they were single and figure the whole point of settling down was to get a little wifey to do all this crap for them like mommy used to do for them. [/u]
Yes. I married one that did just that. Was living on his own and was very responsible. Once married everything became my responsibility and he turned into a slob overnight. Marriage ended a couple of years later but not soon enough.
Since then I've figured out for him the dating was the audition (dating is lots of work for him because he has to hide his true self) and he sees marriage as a relief, as it doesn't involve pretense and he has much less to do overall.
Most people see marriage as lots of work. Some are responsible prior to marriage and some become responsible when marrying.
I think there is an unknown element to marriage BUT there is divorce and if bad behavior emerges then it is sensible to refrain from having childrun!
I really dislike this "we're all in this together" mentality being communicated by ultra-wealthy womben. It is nauseating. Other than bodily functions and basic human DNA most womben have absolutely nothing in common with these ultra-wealthy womben. Just because an ultra-wealthy womban breeds doesn't mean she can understand what the plebes face. If you can afford round the clock nannies you can't relate, even if you foolishly choose not to have nannies. And gender bias? Womben with C level roles may have experienced it but clearly they were able to beat it, other women find it difficult to impossible to do this.
Ultimately she made the decision and she needs to own that instead of giving her power away and then blaming others for her decisions. And I agree, she betrayed herself in this situation!
I will also never understand the mentality of, "Oh you don't want kids? Well we should have one anyway!" from the person making the ultimatum in such situations. If you yourself want kids so bad, why the fuck would you want to have them with someone who does not want them? Seems like they'd make pretty poor parents, but if you've been with the person for several years and this crops up, I think it can become a matter of settling and the supposedly CF person caves and feels their partner is worth breeding for. That is never the case 100 percent of the time. No one is worth having unwanted kids for, and this never becomes more true than when both people attempt to raise said child together because there will almost always be conflicts of schedules, division of care, parenting styles and so on.
Funny, when you hear about someone like this who has kids they don't want for their spouse, there is almost always major regret and the relationship often ends. But on the rare occasion when someone gives up a desire to have kids out of overwhelming love for their partner, there is usually only mild regret, at worst. Could it be because whether they are wanted or not, having kids is far more miserable than not having them?
A long time ago, I moved in with a long-term partner who had some shared- custody kids.
Knowing that I am mainly child-free and independent, I thoroughly discussed beforehand expectations surrounding kids and housework.
Within weeks, those agreements went out the window and the expectation became that I would be free domestic labour.
Eventually, kid issues and the desire to not be a free domestic labour is what broke that relationship.
Partners often think once you're married or move in together they can do what they want and there is nothing you can do about it. This might be enough of a hold if breeding has occurred but not for us independent and sassy ones!
That doesn't surprise me. They probably figured they'd just lie through their teeth to secure the relationship and once you were all moved in and settled, they no longer had to uphold ny promises because they figured once you were there, it would be easier to adjust to their expectations than to call it quits and leave. Kinda like how people lie on a resume to get a job and hope employers will just keep them and train them instead of spending time interviewing more candidates.
Generally speaking, single parents will say and do anything to get a non-childed person to get with them and if they manage to snag the person, any promises made disappear. It's just lip service because they seem to think that once you're there, you're "trapped." They fail to understand that you have neither a financial, biological or emotional obligation to their brats and can leave without repercussion.
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I guess a SLIGHTLY more positive interpretation is that the childed person ASSUMES that you will come to luuuvv and be dedicated to their golden cum trophies!
8 year old girl that cannot stop masturbating and rather than doing it in private, will just have her hand in her pants 24/7. Telling the kid to do it in her room falls on deaf ears and she'll just do it wherever and whenever she feels like it. Trying to make her stop or redirecting her results in arguments and whining. I presume this is a brat that has been raised with no boundaries and Moo trying to enforce them now is ineffective.
Is is normal for a prepubescent child to masturbate, or to masturbate this frequently? Of course, some people suggest she might be an awtard because isn't that always a suggestion? Others are suggesting a yeast infection, which I think would cause itching and underwear tugging and not so much pleasuring oneself.
Everyone's also suggesting walking on eggshells about it to avoid body shaming the kid, but maybe she needs some shame to make her knock that shit off. Adults who don't jack off on the bus refrain from doing it because of shame. Is Moo prepared for her kid to get expelled from in-person school because she's fingerblasting herself during math class? I also don't know why she hasn't hauled the kid to a doctor. Usually when kids are hyper-sexual like this, it's the result of abuse. Maybe Moo doesn't want a professional finding evidence of sexual abuse?
And I'm sure, in typical child fashion, this little perv doesn't wash her hands after playing with herself. Moo ought to try dipping the little bastard's fingers in tabasco sauce if she's not going to listen to reason. I bet she'd stop masturbating once she felt that.
https://old.reddit.com/r/breakingmom/comments/mrl9n4/8_year_old_daughter_constant_has_her_hands_down/
My 8 year old daughter won't stop masturbating around other people. Thankfully just in our house so far, but she asked me once if she could do it in church.
I have been having conversations with her about it for close to a year. I have been very careful to assure her that it's totally ok to touch yourself, it's not a bad thing, but it's something that we only do in private. At first, when I'd see her with her hands in her pants, I'd gently bring her attention to it, and suggest she go in her room or the bathroom if she wanted to continue. When it seemed to have no effect, I explained to her that any time were doing anything that includes private parts (dressing, bathing, going to the bathroom, etc), we do it in private. Still catching her with her hands down her pants several times a week.
When I asked her why, she says that it feels so good that she can't help it. Again, I told her that there's nothing wrong with that, but if she feels like she wants to touch herself, she has to go to a private place. I've had these same conversations with her a dozen times or more. I've explained that it can make other people uncomfortable to see that when they don't want to or aren't expecting it.
This morning, I came downstairs, and she was sitting in front of the TV with her brothers, and she had her hands in her pants and was all glassy eyes and red faced. Thankfully, the boys were oblivious and didn't seem to even notice, but I was just at my wit's end. I yelled at her. I feel bad about it, because I don't want her to feel like it's wrong, but damn it, it's inappropriate to masturbate in the middle of the living room in front of your siblings!
What the hell do I do here? She sees the school counselor once a week because she was having trouble with frustration and temper tantrums in the beginning of the school year. The kids are doing virtual school, and she has a low frustration tolerance with technology. It seemed to help talking with the counselor about ways to manage her anger. Do you think I should mention this to the counselor? I don't know if that's the best idea. I just don't know how to handle this since nothing I've tried had worked.
She's going back to in person school in the fall, and the last thing I want is to get a call from the school saying she's masturbating in class.
Kid needs to be examined by a physician and counselor. Classic behaviors for a child who has been molested.
With a background of many child normal and abnormal psychology classes and working with young offenders, the majority of whom were sexually abused, I completely agree with Thom.
The abuser is very likely to be a person of trust who has close access to the child.
Another vote for the kid getting serious professional help. Some prepubescent kids do figure out how to masturbate and that's normal. But this kid is clearly troubled and has likely been sexually abused.


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October 3, 2016 • Joseph Thornley • Buzzfeed, New York Times, WhatsApp, Wired
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Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman and Joseph Thornley are back with another episode of the Inside PR podcast.
#IPRMustKnows
Martin Waxman's Social Media Marketing for Small Business is on Lynda.com
Yes, this is a shameless plug. But since it's Joe writing this, Martin doesn't have to be embarrassed. In fact, I think Martin is as smart about social media as anyone I know. And now Martin is sharing this knowledge on Lynda.com. Martin tells us about his trip to California to record a video course, Social Media Marketing for Small Business.
Buzzfeed News isn't entertainment
Buzzfeed separated its Buzzfeed news operation from the Buzzfeed entertainment operation. Prelude to a possible sale of Fuzzfeed News. Buzzfeed News Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith says no.
WhatsApp shares user data with Facebook
As happens so often with privacy concerns, after an initial spate of bad press, public protestations about Facebook's decision to share user data from WhatsApp with Facebook seems to have died down. Our concern with privacy is something that spikes occasionally. But then we put it out of mind as we enjoy the experience of social media.
Wired tells us about teens and social media
A few things in Wired's profile of teens and social media caught Gini's eye. There are a lot of do's and don't's. It's not about understanding young people. It's about looking at the social mores being established by a cohort that doesn't have the baggage of previously shaped expectations and behaviour, a cohort that can lead the way in assessing new channels and defining norms of behaviour on them. As Martin says, "One generation's romantic is another generation's lurker." (Apologies to John Cusack.)
The NY Times on Facebook
Liz Spayd, The New York Times Public Editor, recently offered her take on the content that The Times has been creating for Facebook. In her analysis, Facebook Live: Too Much, Too Soon, she states
"…here's the problem. After watching countless hours of live video in the past few weeks, I have hit upon many that are either plagued by technical malfunctions, feel contrived, drone on too long, ignore audience questions or are simply boring, by I imagine most anyone's standards.
"Too many don't live up to the journalistic quality one typically associates with The New York Times."
This leads Martin, Gini and I into a discussion of the nature of content appropriate to social media. It's not always going to stand up to The Times' traditional standards. But it will be effective in its new place, for different reasons.
Also worth noting in this article is something I hadn't seen before. The New York Times has a contract to produce video content expressly for Facebook.
"While the terms of the deal are secret, the transaction requires Facebook to give The Times a guaranteed sum (reported to be $3 million a year) in return for a prescribed amount of video (so far it's averaging upward of four a day). Neither Times officials nor Facebook would discuss the deal, citing confidentiality. Several other media companies, including BuzzFeed, Huffington Post and Mashable, have also signed on. Their job: to stock Facebook's pond with high-quality video so it can compete in the rapidly growing market for live-stream video."
The Times as content creator for Facebook. That's something different from The Times posting its stories on Facebook. Different even from The Times posting its stories natively on Facebook. It is instead The Times creating content to meet Facebook's needs. That is different – and worth watching.
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Pesňary (bělor. Песняры́) byla běloruská hudební skupina založená Vladimirem Muljavinem v Minsku v roce 1969. Široce známá byla v bývalém Sovětském svazu kvůli písním Kasiu Jaś kaňušinu, Bělovežskaja pušča, Bělorussija a dalším...

Základy hudby byly brány z běloruského folkloru. Skupina vytvářela aranžmá lidových písní, vlastní původní texty věnovala skupina dějinám a kultuře Bělorusů.

V roce 1998 skupina ukončila činnost, Muljavin zemřel v roce 2003.

V současné době existuje pět skupin, které zpívají písně skupiny a používají v názvu slovo Pesňary.

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 Pesnyary.by, web jedné ze skupin, které usilují o následnictví po originálních Pesňarech
 Historie skupiny Pesňary na tomto

Hudební skupiny založené v roce 1969
Běloruské hudební skupiny

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Sarah Harlock is a regular visitor at the holiday park.
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You know the image of Darth Vader or the xenomorph in Alien from the movies. Now you can see what they looked like in a parallel universe - behind the Iron Curtain.
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The Board of Directors approves the Quarterly Financial Report at 30th September 2016. Confirmed growth of all economic indicators
Sales revenues of 421.8 million Euro, a 7.8% increase, compared to 391.3 million Euro in the previous year (+7.9% at constant Euro/USD exchange rates)
Growth in EBITDA, +25.5%, at 66.6 million Euro, compared to 53.1 million Euro in 9M 2015 (EBITDA Margin now 15.8%, up from 13.6%)
Net profit of 40.9 million Euro, a 34.4% increase, compared to 30.4 million Euro in 9M 2015
Net financial debt equal to 37.6 million Euro, compared to 54.8 million Euro as at 30th September 2015
Third quarter highlights an improving trend in the key economic indicators: revenues +4.6% to 139.9 million Euro and EBITDA +15.6% to 21.7 million Euro compared to the 3Q15
Bologna, 11th November 2016 - Datalogic S.p.A. (Borsa Italiana S.p.A.: DAL), a company listed in the STAR Segment of the Italian Stock Exchange managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A. ("Datalogic"), a global leader in Automatic Data Capture and Industrial Automation markets, and world-class producer of bar code readers, mobile computers, sensors for detection, measurement and safety, vision systems and laser marking equipment, approved today the Quarterly Financial Report at 30th September 2016.
Results for the first nine months confirm sharp growth of all economic indicators and continuation of the positive trend recorded in the first half of the year. Specifically, EBITDA recorded an improvement of 25.5% to 66.6 million Euro, with the margin up from 13.6% to 15.8%, despite the return to a more sustained level of investment in R&D in the third quarter and net profit rose to 40.9 million Euro, up by 34.4%.
The Chairman and CEO of the Datalogic Group, Romano Volta, commented: "We are very satisfied with the results achieved during the first nine months of the year, during which the Group's profitability has been at its highest levels in the last decade. Despite the seasonal nature of the third quarter and the tipical pre-electoral uncertainties in the United States, which has partly slowed growth in revenues, margins continue to benefit from measures to contain operating costs. During the quarter, investments in research and development returned to our physiological levels, optimal for the development of new products with high innovative content, such as the latest initiatives in the mobile segment, DL AXIST, Joya Touch and the new Shopevolution 7 software, which are receiving excellent feedback from our customers and which we expect to have a positive impact on sales. Implementation of the new process for reorganisation by verticals - Retail, Manufacturing, T&L and Healthcare - was also launched during the quarter, bringing us closer to the needs of our customers and further optimising our production processes, taking full advantage of market potential."
Sales revenues amounted to 421.8 million Euro, up by 7.8% compared to 391.3 million Euro in the first nine months of 2015 (+7.9% at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates). The booking amounted to 426.2 million Euro, up by 5.2% compared to the same period in 2015.
Gross Operating Margin, was up by 6.4% in absolute terms to 194.5 million Euro, compared to 182.7 million Euro the prior year (+6.5% at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates), while its impact on revenues decreased from 46.7% in the first nine months of 2015 to 46.1% in 2016.
Operating costs, equal to 140.5 million Euro, were essentially in line with the corresponding nine months of 2015 in absolute terms, while they showed a sharp improvement in terms of impact over turnover from 35.9% to 33.3%. This trend reflects measures aimed at containing general administrative expenses, to the benefit of the increase in Research and Development expenses, which grew by 5.4% to 36.6 million Euro and 8.7% of revenues. These costs highlight a higher impact on turnover during the quarter, equal to 8.8%, compared to 8.3% in second quarter of 2016, indicating a recovery of the postponement observed in the first part of the year. Also showing improvement were distribution expenses in terms of impact on turnover, declining from 19.1% in the first nine months of 2015, when they were influenced by higher investments due to strengthening of the distribution network in North America, to 17.8% for the current period, and essentially in line in terms of absolute value.
EBITDA grew by 25.5% to 66.6 million Euro, compared to 53.1 million Euro in the first nine months of 2015 (+25.7% at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates). The impact on revenues (EBITDA margin) was up by over 2 percentage points to 15.8%, compared to 13.6% in the first nine months of 2015.
EBIT was up by 38.5% to 52.8 million Euro compared to 38.1 million Euro (+38.7% at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates).
Following financial expenses of 2.6 million Euro, down compared to the 4.0 million Euro recorded in the first nine months of 2015, and exchange rate losses of 0.5 million Euro, compared to gains of 2.4 million Euro in the corresponding period of 2015, the Group's net profit amounted to 40.9 million Euro, up by 34.4% compared to 30.4 million Euro in the first nine months of 2015.
Net financial debt as at 30th September 2016 amounted to 37.6 million Euro, compared to 21.0 million Euro as at 31st December 2015 and 54.8 million Euro as at 30th September 2015.
Trade working capital amounted to 76.3 million Euro as at 30th September 2016, compared to 58.8 million Euro as at 30th September 2015.
QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE
Sales revenues in the third quarter of 2016 amounted to 139.9 million Euro, up by 4.6% compared to the third quarter of 2015 (+4.8% at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates) and down by 4.5% compared to the second quarter of 2016, confirming the Group's positive performance despite the seasonal nature of this period of the year and the political uncertainty in the United States. The booking (already acquired orders) for the quarter is equal to 138.1 million Euro, up by 3.5% compared to the third quarter of 2015.
The impact of new products on turnover during the quarter was equal to 20.4%, compared to 27.4% in the second quarter.
EBITDA is equal to 21.7 million Euro, up by 15.6% compared to the third quarter of 2015 and down 17% compared to the year's second quarter, which benefited from higher growth in revenues and from the postponement of a number of R&D costs.
Comparison between third quarter 2016 and third quarter 2015
Comparison between third quarter 2016 and second quarter 2016
PERFORMANCE BY DIVISION
(*) With the purpose to better report the operating sectors economic performances, it was deemed appropriate to highlight the Divisional EBITDA as monitoring KPI.
The ADC (Automatic Data Capture) Division, specialized in the design and production of fixed retail scanners, professional handheld readers and mobile computers, recorded a turnover of 292.7 million Euro, up by 9.3% (+9.4% at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates) compared to the first nine months of 2015 and 97.9 million Euro in the third quarter, up by 8.4% (+8.6% at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates) compared to the third quarter of 2015. The double-digit growth trend in North and South America continued during the nine months, driven by the sale of fixed retail scanners with imaging technology and mobile computers.
EBITDA is up by 20.1% to 71.9 million Euro, with a margin of 24.6%, an increase of 2.3 percentage points compared to 22.3% during the corresponding period of the previous year, confirming the division's excellent performance as a result of improvement in operational leverage and containment of costs.
The Industrial Automation Division, specialized in the design and production of automatic identification systems, safety, detection and marking solutions for the Industrial Automation market, reported a turnover of 112.9 million Euro, up by 9.2% compared to the first nine months of 2015 (unchanged increase at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates) and 37.2 million Euro in the third quarter of 2016, highlighting slight growth compared to the third quarter of 2015. Net of the results of the Systems Business Unit, which was the subject of a spin off on 1st October, the Division's revenues increased by 5.4% to 99.1 million Euro (unchanged increase at a constant Euro/USD exchange rates).
In terms of revenues, double-digit growth was observed in Europe, thanks to the highly positive performance of bar code readers in the industrial segment and of safety light curtains.
EBITDA is up by 51.5% to 7 million Euro, with a margin of 6.2% (8.3% net of the Systems BU results), for an improvement of 1.7 percentage points compared to 4.5% in the first nine months of 2015.
Informatics reported a turnover of 18.6 million Euro, compared to 22.1 million Euro in the first nine months of 2015, down 15.9%. This performance was impacted by the recent organisational changes and the shift to a new business model that focuses on long-term services.
PERFORMANCE BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA
Looking at the geographical areas, the first nine months of the year showed highly positive performance in sales on the European market, including Italy, which is driving the trend, with revenues of 216.2 million Euro (+9.5%), while the North American market is growing at rates above the market, up by 8.0% to 126.4 million Euro.
PERIOD EVENTS
There are no relevant events to report.
EVENTS OCCURRING AFTER THE END OF THE QUARTER
The spin-off of the Systems Business Unit became effective on 1st October 2016. This operation involved the establishment, by Datalogic Automation Inc. (US subsidiary of the Company), of a newco - Solution Net Systems, Inc., with headquarters in Quakertown, Pennsylvania (USA) - into which all of the Systems BU's assets were transferred. Starting from said date, therefore, Solution Net Systems, Inc. will provide customers of the Datalogic Group with integrated solutions for automated distribution in the postal and retail segment, previously provided by the Systems Business Unit of the Industrial Automation division.
On 18th October, Alessandro D'Aniello was appointed new Group CFO and Manager responsible for drawing up the company's financial statements within the Datalogic Group.
A project was launched during the quarter with the aim of redefining all customer-oriented corporate processes of the Datalogic Group, with a view to becoming increasingly Customer Driven. Consequently, customers will benefit from maximum quality in terms of product and effectiveness of the services offered. We expect this project to render the corporate structure of the Datalogic Group more effective, thus improving Customer Satisfaction. The Project is indicatively expected to go live on 1st January 2017.
OUTLOOK FOR CURRENT YEAR
The results of the first nine months confirm the Group's positive performance. In particular, the ADC Division continues to boast steady growth in fixed retail scanners and mobile computers across all geographical regions. The Industrial Automation Division benefits from growth beyond expectations in Europe, while it is impacted by a continued reflective trend in the American market.
The Group will continue to make significant investments in R&D (already 8.7% of turnover), confirming innovation as a key pillar for Datalogic's future, rewarded by the growth in turnover from new products.
The positive nine-month booking performance and the traditionally positive trend of the last quarter makes us confident on the year-end results in terms of revenues, essentially in line with the growth trend of the first nine months.
Please note that the Interim Management Statement at 30th September 2016 is not audited and that it is available in the Investor Relations section of the company's website: www.datalogic.com.
The manager responsible for preparing the company's financial reports – Alessandro D'Aniello – declares, pursuant to paragraph 2 of Art. 154-bis of the "Testo Unico della Finanza", that the accounting information contained in this press release corresponds to the document results, books and accounting records.
Reclassified income statement at 30th September 2016 – Euro/1.000
Reclassified Balance Sheet at 30th September 2016 ([2]) – Euro/1.000
Net Financial Position at 30th September 2016 – Euro/1.000
[1] EBITDA - - Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
The EBITDA is used by the Management to monitor and assess the operational performance of the Group and is not identified as an accounting item within IFRS. Given that the composition of this measure is not regulated by the reference accounting standards, it is not subject to any audit procedure by the Independent Auditors.
[2] The reclassified Balance Sheet shows measures used by the Management to monitor and assess the financial performances of the Group. Given that the composition of these measures is not regulated by the reference accounting standards, even if they are directly reconcilable to the IFRS statements, they are not subject to any audit procedure by the Independent Auditors.
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Q: GCP: Duplicate an existing project in Google Cloud Platform Is there a way to duplicate an entire project?
The project contains:
2x Cloud SQL: main + backup
1x Cloud Storage
4x Google Compute Engine
We have an exactly the same project already built up and configured, so it would be much easier for us if we could just make a copy of those.
The projects are not under the same account.

A: There is no such a way to replicate as-is a project.
However, you can use Terraformer starting from your current project: this CLI tool will generate Terraform template files starting from the existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform). Then, you can use these files to re-create the target resources within a second GCP project in a programmatic fashion (see https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-on-gcp-with-terraform).

Disclaimer: Comments and opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

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Wakandan Med Table
18 Jan 2021 by Christopher Noessel
When Agent Ross is shot in the back during Klaue's escape from the Busan field office, T'Challa stuffs a kimoyo bead into the wound to staunch the bleeding, but the wounds are still serious enough that the team must bring him back to Wakanda for healing. They float him to Shuri's lab on a hover-stretcher.
Here Shuri gets to say the juicy line, "Great. Another white boy for us to fix. This is going to be fun."
Sorry about the blurry screen shot, but this is the most complete view of the bay.
The hover-stretcher gets locked into place inside a bay. The bay is a small room in the center of Shuri's lab, open on two sides. The walls are covered in a gray pattern suggesting a honeycomb. A bas-relief volumetric projection displays some medical information about the patient like vital signs and a subtle fundus image of the optic nerve.
Shuri holds her hand flat and raises it above the patient's chest. A volumetric display of 9 of his thoracic vertebrae rises up in response. One of the vertebrae is highlighted in a bright red. A section of the wall display displays the same information in 2D, cyan with orange highlights. That display section slides out from the wall to draw observer's attentions. Hexagonal tiles flip behind the display for some reason, but produce no change in the display.
Shuri reaches her hands up to the volumetric vertebrae, pinches her forefingers and thumbs together, and pull them apart. In response, the space between the vertebrae expands, allowing her to see the top and bottom of the body of the vertebra.
She then turns to the wall display, and reading something there, tells the others that he'll live. Her attention is pulled away with the arrival of Wakabe, bringing news of Killmonger. We do not see her initiate a treatment in the scene. We have to presume that she did it between cuts. (There would have to be a LOT of confidence in an AI's ability to diagnose and determine treatment before they would let Griot do that without human input.)
We'll look more closely at the hover-stretcher display in a moment, but for now let's pause and talk about the displays and the interaction of this beat.
A lab is not a recovery room
This doesn't feel like a smart environment to hold a patient. We can bypass a lot of the usual hospital concerns of sterilization (it's a clean room) or readily-available equipment (since they are surrounded by programmable vibranium dust controlled by an AGI) or even risk of contamination (something something AI). I'm mostly thinking about the patient having an environment that promotes healing: Natural light, quiet or soothing music, plants, furnishing, and serene interiors. Having him there certainly means that Shuri's team can keep an eye on him, and provide some noise that may act as a stimulus, but don't they have actual hospital rooms in Wakanda?
Why does she need to lift it?
The VP starts in his chest, but why? If it had started out as a "translucent skin" illusion, like we saw in Lost in Space (1998, see below), then that might make sense. She would want to lift it to see it in isolation from the distracting details of the body. But it doesn't start this way, it starts embedded within him?!
The "translucent skin" display from Lost in Space (1998)
It's a good idea to have a representation close to the referent, to make for easy comparison between them. But to start the VP within his opaque chest just doesn't make sense.
This is probably the wrong gesture
In the gestural interfaces chapter of Make It So, I described a pidgin that has been emerging in sci-fi which consisted of 7 "words." The last of these is "Pinch and Spread to Scale." Now, there is nothing sacred about this gestural language, but it has echoes in the real world as well. For one example, Google's VR painting app Tilt Brush uses "spread to scale." So as an increasingly common norm, it should only be violated with good reason. In Black Panther, Shuri uses spread to mean "spread these out," even though she starts the gesture near the center of the display and pulls out at a 45° angle. This speaks much more to scaling than to spreading. It's a mismatch and I can't see a good reason for it. Even if it's "what works for her," gestural idiolects hinder communities of practice, and so should be avoided.
Better would have been pinching on one end of the spine and hooking her other index finger to spread it apart without scaling. The pinch is quite literal for "hold" and the hook quite literal for "pull." This would let scale be scale, and "hook-pull" to mean "spread components along an axis."
Model from https://justsketch.me/
If we were stuck with the footage of Shuri doing the scale gesture, then it would have made more sense to scale the display, and fade the white vertebrae away so she could focus on the enlarged, damaged one. She could then turn it with her hand to any arbitrary orientation to examine it.
An object highlight is insufficient
It's quite helpful for an interface that can detect anomalies to help focus a user's attention there. The red highlight for the damaged vertebrae certainly helps draw attention. Where's the problem? Ah, yes. There's the problem. But it's more helpful for the healthcare worker to know the nature of the damage, what the diagnosis is, to monitor the performance of the related systems, and to know how the intervention is going. (I covered these in the medical interfaces chapter of Make It So, if you want to read more.) So yes, we can see which vertebra is damaged, but what is the nature of that damage? A slipped disc should look different than a bone spur, which should look different than one that's been cracked or shattered from a bullet. The thing-red display helps for an instant read in the scene, but fails on close inspection and would be insufficient in the real world.
This is not directly relevant to the critique, but interesting that spinal VPs have been around since 1992. Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Ethics" (Season 5, Episode 16).
Put critical information near the user's locus of attention
Why does Shuri have to turn and look at the wall display at all? Why not augment the volumetric projection with the data that she needs? You might worry that it could obscure the patient (and thereby hinder direct observations) but with an AGI running the show, it could easily position those elements to not occlude her view.
Compare this display, which puts a waveform directly adjacent to the brain VP. Firefly, "Ariel" (Episode 9, 2002).
Note that Shuri is not the only person in the room interested in knowing the state of things, so a wall display isn't bad, but it shouldn't be the only augmentation.
Lastly, why does she need to tell the others that Ross will live? if there was signifcant risk of his death, there should be unavoidable environmental signals. Klaxons or medical alerts. So unless we are to believe T'Challa has never encountered a single medical emergency before (even in media), this is a strange thing for her to have to say. Of course we understand she's really telling us in the audience that we don't need to wonder about this plot development any more, but it would be better, diegetically, if she had confirmed the time-to-heal, like, "He should be fine in a few hours."
Alternatively, it would be hilarious turnabout if the AI Griot had simply not been "trained" on data that included white people, and "could not see him," which is why she had to manually manage the diagnosis and intervention, but that would have massive impact on the remote piloting and other scenes, so isn't worth it. Probably.
Thoughts toward a redesign
So, all told, this interface and interaction could be much better fit-to-purpose. Clarify the gestural language. Lose the pointless flipping hexagons. Simplify the wall display for observers to show vitals, diagnosis and intervention, as well as progress toward the goal. Augment the physician's projection with detailed, contextual data. And though I didn't mention it above, of course the bone isn't the only thing damaged, so show some of the other damaged tissues, and some flowing, glowing patterns to show where healing is being done along with a predicted time-to-completion.
Stretcher display
Later, when Ross is fully healed and wakes up, we see a shot of of the med table from above. Lots of cyan and orange, and *typography shudder* stacked type. Orange outlines seem to indicate controls, tough they bear symbols rather than full labels, which we know is better for learnability and infrequent reuse. (Linguist nerds: Yes, Wakandan is alphabetic rather than logographic.)
These feel mostly like FUIgetry, with the exception of a subtle respiration monitor on Ross' left. But it shows current state rather than tracked over time, so still isn't as helpful as it could be.
Then when Ross lifts his head, the hexagons begin to flip over, disabling the display. What? Does this thing only work when the patient's head is in the exact right space? What happens when they're coughing, or convulsing? Wouldn't a healthcare worker still be interested in the last-recorded state of things? This "instant-off" makes no sense. Better would have been just to let the displays fade to a gray to indicate that it is no longer live data, and to have delayed the fade until he's actually sitting up.
All told, the Wakandan medical interfaces are the worst of the ones seen in the film. Lovely, and good for quick narrative hit, but bad models for real-world design, or even close inspection within the world of Wakanda.
MLK Day Matters
Each post in the Black Panther review is followed by actions that you can take to support black lives.
Today is Martin Luther King Day. Normally there would be huge gatherings and public speeches about his legacy and the current state of civil rights. But the pandemic is still raging, and with the Capitol in Washington, D.C. having seen just last week an armed insurrection by supporters of outgoing and pouty loser Donald Trump, (in case that WP article hasn't been moved yet, here's the post under its watered-down title) worries about additional racist terrorism and violence.
So today we celebrate virtually, by staying at home, re-experiening his speeches and letters, and listening to the words of black leaders and prominent thinkers all around us, reminding us of the arc of the moral universe, and all the work it takes to bend it toward justice.
As you honor my father today, please honor my mother, as well. She was the architect of the King Legacy and founder of @TheKingCenter, which she founded less than three months after Daddy died. Without #CorettaScottKing, there would be no #MLKDay. #MLK #BelovedCommunity pic.twitter.com/cLvgTjeUwE
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) January 18, 2021
As we reflect on the contributions of Dr. King, let us build on his legacy by securing the promise of justice for all.
By ensuring our voices were heard in the streets and at the ballot box, we renewed our fight to make the dream a reality. But the work continues. #MLKDay
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The intersection of american law enforcement and white supremacy is very real.
The past isn't even past. https://t.co/lNs2B8tkD6
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Masked up and leading forward.
King Center CEO, @BerniceKing, and Senator-Elect @ReverendWarnock at our #MLK #BelovedCommunity Commemorative Service. #MLKDay #MLKDay2021 pic.twitter.com/sLGEt6tvBW
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With the Biden team taking the reins on Wednesday, and Kamala Harris as our first female Vice President of color, things are looking brighter than they have in 4 long, terrible years. But Trump would have gotten nowhere if there hadn't been a voting block and party willing to indulge his racist fascism. There's still much more to do to dismantle systemic racism in the country and around the world. Let's read, reflect, and use whatever platforms and resources we are privileged to have, act.
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Routing Board
29 Oct 2019 by Christopher Noessel
When the two AIs Colossus and Guardian are disconnected from communicating with each other, they try and ignore the spirit of the human intervention and reconnect on their own. We see the humans monitoring Colossus' progress in this task on big board in the U.S. situation room. It shows a translucent projection map of the globe with white dots representing data centers and red icons representing missiles. Beneath it, glowing arced lines illustrate the connection routes Colossus is currently testing. When it finds that a current segment is ineffective, that line goes dark, and another segment extending from the same node illuminates.
For a smaller file size, the animated gif has been stilled between state changes, but the timing is as close as possible to what is seen in the film.
Forbin explains to the President, "It's trying to find an alternate route."
A first in sci-fi: Routing display 🏆
First, props to Colossus: The Forbin Project for being the first show in the survey to display something like a routing board, that is, a network of nodes through which connections are visible, variable, and important to stakeholders.
Paul Baran and Donald Davies had published their notion of a network that could, in real-time, route information dynamically around partial destruction of the network in the early 1960s, and this packet switching had been established as part of ARPAnet in the late 1960s, so Colossus was visualizing cutting edge tech of the time.
This may even be the first depiction of a routing display in all of screen sci-fi or even cinema, though I don't have a historical perspective on other genres, like the spy genre, which is another place you might expect to see something like this. As always, if you know of an earlier one, let me know so I can keep this record up to date and honest.
A nice bit: curvy lines
Should the lines be straight or curvy? From Colossus' point of view, the network is a simple graph. Straight lines between its nodes would suffice. But from the humans' point of view, the literal shape of the transmission lines are important, in case they need to scramble teams to a location to manually cut the lines. Presuming these arcs mean that (and not just the way neon in a prop could bend), then the arcs are the right display. So this is good.
But, it breaks some world logic
The board presents some challenges with the logic of what's happening in the story. If Colossus exists as a node in a network, and its managers want to cut it off from communication along that network, where is the most efficient place to "cut" communications? It is not at many points along the network. It is at the source.
Imagine painting one knot in a fishing net red and another one green. If you were trying to ensure that none of the strings that touch the red knot could trace a line to the green one, do you trim a bunch of strings in the middle, or do you cut the few that connect directly to the knot? Presuming that it's as easy to cut any one segment as any other, the fewer number of cuts, the better. In this case that means more secure.
The network in Colossus looks to be about 40 nodes, so it's less complicated than the fishing net. Still, it raises the question, what did the computer scientists in Colossus do to sever communications? Three lines disappear after they cut communications, but even if they disabled those lines, the rest of the network still exists. The display just makes no sense.
Before, happy / After, I will cut a Prez
Per the logic above, they would cut it off at its source. But the board shows it reaching out across the globe. You might think maybe they just cut Guardian off, leaving Colossus to flail around the network, but that's not explicitly said in the communications between the Americans and the Russians, and the U.S. President is genuinely concerned about the AIs at this point, not trying to pull one over on the "pinkos." So there's not a satisfying answer.
It's true that at this point in the story, the humans are still letting Colossus do its primary job, so it may be looking at every alternate communication network to which it has access: telephony, radio, television, and telegraph. It would be ringing every "phone" it thought Guardian might pick up, and leaving messages behind for possible asynchronous communications. I wish a script doctor had added in a line or three to clarify this.
FORBIN
We've cut off its direct lines to Guardian. Now it's trying to find an indirect line. We're confident there isn't one, but the trouble will come when Colossus realizes it, too.
Another thing that seems troubling is the slow speed of the shifting route. The segments stay illuminated for nearly a full second at a time. Even with 1960s copper undersea cables and switches, electronic signals should not take that long. Telephony around the world was switched from manual to automatic switching by the 1930s, so it's not like it's waiting on a human operating a switchboard.
You're too slow!
Even if it was just scribbling its phone number on each network node and the words "CALL ME" in computerese, it should go much faster than this. Cinematically, you can't go too fast or the sense of anticipation and wonder is lost, but it would be better to have it zooming through a much more complicated network to buy time. It should feel just a little too fast to focus on—frenetic, even.
This screen gets 15 seconds of screen time, and if you showed one new node per frame, that's only 360 states you need to account for, a paltry sum compared to the number of possible paths it could test across a 38 node graph between two points.
Plus the speed would help underscore the frightening intelligence and capabilities of the thing. And yes I understand that that is a lot easier said than done nowadays with digital tools than with this analog prop.
Realistic-looking search strategies
Again, I know this was a neon, analog prop, but let's just note that it's not testing the network in anything that looks like a computery way. It even retraces some routes. A brute force algorithm would just test every possibility sequentially. In larger networks there are pathfinding algorithms that are optimized in different ways to find routes faster, but they don't look like this. They look more like what you see in the video below. (Hat tip to YouTuber gray utopia.)
This would need a lot of art direction and the aforementioned speed, but it would be more believable than what we see.
What's the right projection?
Is this the right projection to use? Of course the most accurate representation of the earth is a globe, but it has many challenges in presenting a phenomenon that could happen anywhere in the world. Not the least of these is that it occludes about half of itself, a problem that is not well-solved by making it transparent. So, a projection it must be. There are many, many ways to transform a spherical surface into a 2D image, so the question becomes which projection and why.
The map uses what looks like a hand-drawn version of Peirce quincuncial projection. (But n.b. none of the projection types I compared against it matched exactly, which is why I say it was hand-drawn.) Also those longitude and latitude lines don't make any sense; though again, a prop. I like that it's a non standard projection because screw Mercator, but still, why Peirce? Why at this angle?
Also, why place time zone clocks across the top as if they corresponded to the map in some meaningful way? Move those clocks.
I have no idea why the Peirce map would be the right choice here, when its principle virtue is that it can be tessellated. That's kind of interesting if you're scrolling and can't dynamically re-project the coastlines. But I am pretty sure the Colossus map does not scroll. And if the map is meant to act as a quick visual reference, having it dynamic means time is wasted when users look to the map and have to orient themselves.
If this map was only for tracking issues relating to Colossus, it should be an azimuthal map, but not over the north pole. The center should be the Colossus complex in Colorado. That might be right for a monitoring map in the Colossus Programming Office. This map is over the north pole, which certainly highlights the fact that the core concern of this system is the Cold War tensions between Moscow and D.C. But when you consider that, it points out another failing.
Later in the film the map tracks missiles (not with projected paths, sadly, but with Mattel Classic Football style yellow rectangles). But missiles could conceivably come from places not on this map. What is this office to do with a ballistic-missile submarine off of the Baja peninsula, for example? Just wait until it makes its way on screen? That's a failure. Which takes us to the crop.
The map isn't just about missiles. Colossus can look anywhere on the planet to test network connections. (Even nowadays, near-earth orbit and outer space.) Unless the entire network was contained just within the area described on the map, it's excluding potentially vital information. If Colossus routed itself through through Mexico, South Africa, and Uzbekistan before finally reconnecting to Guardian, users would be flat out of luck using that map to determine the leak route. And I'm pretty sure they had a functioning telephone network in Mexico, South Africa, and the Balkan countries in the 1960s.
This needs a complete picture
SInce the missiles and networks with which Colossus is concerned are potentially global, this should be a global map. Here I will offer my usual fanboy shout-outs to the Dymaxion and Pacific-focused Waterman projection for showing connectedness and physical flow, but there would be no shame in showing the complete Peirce quincuncial. Just show the whole thing.
Maybe fill in some of the Pacific "wasted space" with a globe depiction turned to points of interest, or some other fuigetry. Which gives us a new comp something like this.
I created this proof of concept manually. With more time, I would comp it up in Processing or Python and it would be even more convincing. (And might have reached London.)
All told, this display was probably eye-opening for its original audience. Golly jeepers! This thing can draw upon resources around the globe! It has intent, and a method! And they must have cool technological maps in D.C.! But from our modern-day vantage point, it has a lot to learn. If they ever remake the film, this would be a juicy thing to fully redesign.
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David Lloyd, The Intern Group, UK
Posted on Aug 22, 2014 by Amy Baker
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After experiencing first-hand the logistical difficulties of organising an internship abroad, David Lloyd co-founded The Intern Group. As Managing Director of the company which last year placed 1,000 interns, he spoke to The PIE about the global demand for work placements and the group's plans for expansion.
The PIE: How and why did you decide to launch The Intern Group?
About Amy Baker
Amy Baker is a founder of The PIE and worked as a journalist for many years covering the international education sector. She was the recipient of the IEAA Award for Excellence in Professional Commentary in 2014 and speaks at industry events around the world.
"And what I've realised recently is, it's a huge phenomenon in China and China's actually our quickest growing market"
DL: I set up the company because I myself faced the challenges of trying to find accommodation, trying to find a work placement and trying to make friends in Argentina in 2007. All three elements were very difficult without the support of a full-time organisation and logistics which a company can bring, and so I set it up so a lot of people could have that sort of experience that I had.
The PIE: Why were you in Argentina?
DL: I wanted to learn Spanish. I travelled, I'd done a small trip through a few countries but my favourite country by a mile was Argentina, and I decided I wanted to learn a second language for business but also just personal-wise I wanted to not be a monoglot English!
The PIE: So you just decided to go back and find a job or an internship?
DL: Exactly, and it was incredibly difficult to even find a short-term internship. I wrote to a lot of companies and in the way Latin America works it's always through some random connection, and eventually that came off. But I probably wasted multiple days writing to in excess of 30 people just to do a short-term placement.
The PIE: Did you start off in Chile?
"Our current focus on growth is on university relationships; we want to complement our online presence with more real world stuff"
DL: No, we started in London but we were selected by Startup Chile and so now we have offices in all of the places where we work but we're keeping Chile as an administrative hub and we have quite a few people lacerated there because it's a good time zone for the States and it's just a really good place to do business.
The PIE: How did you start getting the word out? Was it all online?
DL: It was all online. All was driven by coming very high up on organic Google searches; that was helped by us getting a lot of good PR, and that gave our website a lot of page authority; we showed up immediately in the top three results for searches like "internship London", "internship Colombia", "internship Madrid". We expanded with advertising on third-party websites like Milkround in the UK, but our current focus on growth is on university relationships, so we want to complement our very strong online presence with more real world stuff.
The PIE: Are all your interns university age?
DL: We have a full range; we even had a 48-year-old career changer the other day who went to Colombia to work for one of the biggest sports teams there. They had done a lot of marketing and corporate and they wanted to do sports marketing, so they applied to our programme and now they're in Colombia working for the second largest football team there. They come from all ages. Our bulk is in university, just graduated, but we want to expand that for people who take a year out before university, MBA students, especially from the States, and more and more career changers as well.
The PIE: Do you think there are countries where the understanding of doing an internship and the benefits of that is better appreciated than others?
"We had a 48-year-old career changer the other day who went to Colombia to work for one of the biggest sports teams there"
DL: A lot. I think the US is by far ahead in this. I think in the UK we're catching up but it's still a long way to go, and I'm seeing Australia very much mirror the attitude in the US, that it's a thing everyone needs to do. And what I've realised recently is, it's a huge phenomenon in China and China's actually our quickest growing market. We are having a huge amount of interest from Chinese students.
The PIE: Do they all want to do English medium internships so they can have good English?
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Study abroad bangalore says:
As i am into study abroad thing i know what it is….good job.
Internships are best way to get into the market being able to show skills and getting an opportunity to get a better experience just right for the market.
not only that students could get a chance to test their skills and compatibility to the particular job and career. they can try various options and get a good grip of what lies ahead.


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ACLU Issues "Travel Advisory" for Texas Because of Anti-Sanctuary Law: Your Texas Roundup
Plus: The bathroom bill circles the drain in the House, Houston gets recognized for its diversity, and Chicago dumps on San Antonio's River Walk.
Leif Reigstad
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/aclu-issues-travel-advisory-texas-anti-sanctuary-law-roundup/
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—Carson Huey-You to WFAA. Carson is a senior at Texas Christian University and will soon graduate with a degree in physics. He's fourteen.
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No Sanctuary
Following Texas's new sanctuary city ban, the American Civil Liberties Union issued a "travel advisory," warning "anyone planning to travel to Texas in the near future to anticipate the possible violation of their constitutional rights when stopped by law enforcement," according to a news release. The ACLU also promised a legal battle over the law, which was signed by Governor Abbott on Sunday. "We plan to fight this racist and wrongheaded law in the courts and in the streets," Terri Burke, executive director of the ACLU of Texas, said in a statement. "Until we defeat it, everyone traveling in or to Texas needs to be aware of what's in store for them. The Lone Star State will become a 'show me your papers' state, where every interaction with law enforcement can become a citizenship interrogation and potentially an illegal arrest." On the same day the ACLU announced its travel warning, the Texas Association of Business also came out against Senate Bill 4, worrying that it could lead to boycotts that would hurt the state's economy. "I think what this bill brings with it is the perception that Texas's welcome mat comes with qualifiers," Cathy Stoebner DeWitt, vice president of governmental affairs for the TAB, told the Texas Tribune. "And businesses looking to come to Texas look at things like that. So it causes us great concern." We also have our first official lawsuit filed against Texas over SB 4. According to the Tribune, Maverick County and the tiny border town of El Cenizo, in Webb County, are the first to issue a legal challenge to the sanctuary city ban, arguing that SB 4 does not properly define what a sanctuary city actually is. The federal suit claims that Maverick County and El Cenizo—both of which have been sanctuaries since 1999—"are safer when all people, including undocumented immigrants, feel safe when their local law enforcement officers can be trusted for reporting crimes or just speaking with them about issues in the community." It's the first of what is expected to be many more lawsuits challenging SB 4.
MEANWHILE, IN TEXAS
It seems the Texas House's bathroom bill is a bit backed up. According to the Dallas Morning News, House Bill 2899 is circling the drain after it failed to make it out of committee, and because of deadlines approaching this week, the bill "realistically is dead as of Monday." But conservative lawmakers remain hopeful that in the remaining three weeks of the 2017 legislative session, they'll find a way to push it through. The author of the bill, Representative Ron Simmons, a Republican from Carrollton, indicated that while the bill itself may be dead, he may attempt to attach it to another piece of legislation. "The bill… will in all likelihood not move forward," Simmons told the Houston Chronicle. "There's always parliamentary strategies that could change that, but in all likelihood, it will not be voted out. So now what we have to do is look for an amendment opportunity." Even Governor Greg Abbott has stepped in, attempting to unclog HB 2899 by personally pushing religious leaders to pressure the House into passing some form of bathroom legislation, according to the Texas Tribune.
The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy feature on Tuesday about Houston's diversity, praising H-town as "the most diverse place in America." The Times is a just a little late to the party here—Houston has been, statistically speaking, the most diverse metro area in the nation since at least 2010. But it was still mostly a very good and nice story, accurately portraying Houston as the beautiful mosaic of peoples and cultures that we've known it to be for quite some time. But the California paper apparently couldn't help itself from taking a cheap shot at us Texans. The online headline originally read, "Houston has become the most diverse city in America. Deal with it, Texas," before that last part was magically removed. The headline change is preserved in perpetuity here on Twitter by Houston Chronicle reporter Bobby Cervantes. It's unclear what prompted the Times to make such a stereotypical dig, but the story does devote some space to placing Houston's diversity against a backdrop of a bigoted, xenophobic Texas, pointing to the state's recently passed anti-sanctuary city law that would most affect minority-heavy cities like Houston.
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Duties and Responsibilities: Draft manuscripts using text, graphs, and figures provided by scientists and engineers for internal and external publications. Keep authors informed of funding agency and publisher requirements and formats. Confer with authors to suggest revisions and reorganizations to clarify and/or improve readability. Make final changes and edits per authors' revisions. Review, edit, and proofread technical and scientific reports, proposals, publications, and other documents. Ensure correctness of organization, format, clarity, spelling, punctuation, consistency, completeness, and suitability for publisher. Develop schedules for timely completion of these documents.
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Built in 2015, the modern premises comprise a glazed showroom, 2 offices, customer WC, rear workshop/showroom, staff facilities and separate storage unit. Externally there is a tarmac forecourt (15-20 cars), customer car park and staff parking area.
Suitable for a range of uses – subject to planning.
Substantial Commercial premises spread over 3200 sq ft.
Generous tarmac forecourt for up to 20 cars, additional concrete parking to side and rear.
Bright, modern showroom with glazed frontage.
2 glazed offices with electricity and telephone points.
Public WC with disabled access.
3 bay workshop with roller doors to the rear.
Staff facilities including WC and Canteen.
Separate 2 bay workshop or storage unit.
Oil fired heating. Range of lighting. Alarm system. CCTV – subscription required.
Suitable for a range of uses – subject to planning consents.
Excellent location just a short walk from the Main Street with excellent footfall, easy access to Nutts Corner Roundabout and all main arterial routes.
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Glazed frontage with sliding aluminium door and side pedestrian door. Tiled floor. Pendant and natural lighting. Suspended oil fired heating/air conditioning unit. Wall mounted heating controls. Fire alarm panel. Ample power sockets. Access to workshop.
Glazed frontage and door. Suspended ceiling with fluorescent lighting. Power sockets. TV point. Radiator. Carpeted flooring.
Glazed frontage and door. Suspended ceiling with fluorescent lighting. Power sockets. Radiator. Carpeted flooring.
Wash hand basin with mixer tap. WC. Hand drier. Extractor fan. Light. Radiator. Tiled floor. Disability Alarm.
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Pedestal wash hand basin. WC. Extractor fan. Light. Tiled floor.
Storage cupboards. Formica work surfaces and Breakfast Bar. Stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap. Power sockets. Lighting. Radiator.
2 electric roller doors. Power sockets. Fluorescent lighting.
Tarmac forecourt for 15-20 cars including customer parking area. Concrete front boundary wall with 10 ft wire fencing to front and right, wooden boundary fence to the left, steel fence to the rear. Security gates. Flood lighting across forecourt.
Side and rear parking area sectioned off by wooden sliding gate and fence. Sump system for water drainage. Cold water tap.
High quality CCTV system – subscription required.
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