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Weekly Roundup: The good, bad, and the ugly
Bhuvanesh	on November 4, 2018
Hello podheads, here's the weekly roundup #14.
Are podcasts, well…bad?
Media critic Steven Smith penned a post on his thoughts about the medium of podcasting in the Folio Magazine. The article was ever so provocatively titled "Please Fix Podcasting Before It Jumps the Shark".
In the past couple of months, there has been a steady drumbeat of podcasting bubble articles, most of them utterly pointless. This article if not anything demands some self-introspection. Given the strong opinions the writer has expressed, I think you may either like this article or call it pointless. But one thing is for sure, it will make you think! Well, read on and make of it what you will.
I criticize because I love. Podcasting is one of digital media's great gifts to me. But I would rather it spent more time improving the genre and the infrastructure.
Please Fix Podcasting Before It Jumps the Shark – Folio: https://t.co/tCUuvdwwWT
— Steven Smith (@popeyesm) October 31, 2018
Some responses
What an adorably uninformed column from the magazine I used to work at, @foliomag. https://t.co/KnWwtSn6iL
— T. J. Raphael (@TJRaphael) October 30, 2018
Senior producer of the Slate Podcast Network
A harsh critique of podcasting. But before you launch into "nuh-uh!" mode, take the time to read, reflect, and understand this valid interpretation of our space as a whole. https://t.co/oGuhg8bIeQ
— Evo Terra (@evoterra) October 31, 2018
This original acolyte of on-demand audio is increasingly frustrated by its creaky mechanics, content clutter, mixed ad experience and sometimes borderline-hegemonic style.
In the same vein, Anthropologist and Author, Grant McCracken wrote a small post titled "Are podcasts an intellectual wasteland?" questioning the intellectual chops of podcast hosts.
Datawatch
Anchor released data on the top podcast listening apps last week and surprise, surprise, Apple Podcasts accounts for 52% of all listening. That's bigger than all the other apps put together. Here's the breakdown:
1. Apple Podcasts – 52%
2. Other apps – 21%
3. Spotify – 19%
4. Sticher – 4.6%
5. Overcast – 1.4%
6. Pocketcasts – 0.9%
7. Google Podcasts – 0.9%
The other apps category was the surprising one.
It struck us how big the "Other" category turned out to be. This category includes apps, websites, direct RSS feeds, cars, smart speakers, and many other experiences whose share of listenership is too small to be listed in the pie chart. But, in aggregate, they make up a huge portion of listening.
The other nervous thought I had was about Google Podcasts. It has been about 5 months since the app was launched and for a Google product, 0.9% is an awfully small listening share. But, it's a marathon and not a sprint. Fingers crossed! Spotify is now the de facto #2 podcast listening app. They have been making some smart moves when it comes to podcasts which do seem like they are paying off. We've covered their podcasting moves extensively in our earlier editions.
It will also be interesting to see what's in store for Pocket Casts now that it's part of the public radio collective.
Podcasts on wheels
Too lame a title? Anyway, Waze, the popular community-based GPS Navigation app last week announced the launch of its audio player. With this feature, Waze users can now seamlessly listen to music and podcasts while navigating without having to switch between the apps. How cool is that? The company is rolling out the feature to beta testers and said that it would be available to all users in a couple of weeks. The new feature is being launched with 7 audio partners: Pandora, Deezer, iHeartRadio, NPR One, Scribd, Stitcher, and TuneIn. This makes it 8 in total including Spotify with which the company had already partnered with.
Ironically, Google Podcasts wasn't part of the list considering the fact that the company is owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Go figure!
Why is this a big deal?
According to the 2018 Edison Podcast Consumer Report, 26% of all podcast listening took place in cars/trucks. The same report showed that 58% of the respondents said yes when asked have you ever listened to a podcast in a car or truck?
Waze also boats of a massive audience of over 100 million users. Having used Waze about 5-6 years ago when the app was still a work in progress, I can attest to the awesomeness of the app.
Google Maps, earlier in October had announced the integration of Spotify, Apple Music and Google Music.
Money well spent!?
Digiday had a piece on the ad measurement travails of direct-to-consumer brands. In 2017, DTC brands were the second biggest category of advertisers accounting for 16% of all ad spend just behind financial services brands which accounted for 18%.
This is nothing new. The ghost of ad measurement has haunted the podcasting industry ever since it started grabbing the headlines. But with newer players entering the space and the adoption of IAB 2.0 measurement guidelines, we are on the path of progress. Or…so I hope.
Luke Droulez, CMO at the bedding and bath company, speaking at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's first DTC brand summit, held this week in New York. "I was approached by 20 agencies today," he said. It's still hard for Parachute to judge how well podcasts perform, though, Droulez said.
Rumblings
Ok, this might be big news. Financial Times ran a story last week that Apple is exploring some kind of a partnership with debt-laden terrestrial radio giant iHeartmedia. If something substantial does pan out, it would be a lifeline for iHeartmedia which is in bankruptcy protection.
The article notes that the talks are still in the preliminary stage and so far haven't resulted in anything substantial. iHeartmedia is betting big on podcasts for its revival and acquired Stuff Media (How Stuff Works) recently.
iHeart top brass be like
This week we had a Q&A with Gautam Raj Anand, founder and CEO of Hubhopper. It was a fascinating conversation, check it out:
In The Spotlight: Gautam Raj Anand, Founder & CEO Of Hubhopper
Mini roundup
BBC finally launched the much hyped and much discussed BBC Sounds app. The Guardian has a nice write-up on this.
The Guardian launched its new flagship daily news podcast Today in Focus. The show hosted by political editor Anushka Asthana will delve into the biggest stories of the day.
ESPN podcasts had a record-breaking month with 39.9 million downloads vs the previous record of 36 million set in May 2018.
Slate had an interesting piece on the growing popularity of smart speakers. There was one surprising data point in the article:
68 percent of smart speaker owners admit to chatting with their Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri digital assistant just for fun, while 53 percent report a similar activity, asking their assistant "fun questions.
What is the world coming to?!
It was just a matter of time. Ever since the election of trump (moronically), there has been an intense debate around the world about the role of platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and others in amplifying hate speech and fomenting violence.
Now, it's the turn of podcasts. CNN ran a story titled "Podcasts help extremists get their message out"
Podcasts are one of the most understudied platforms, yet they affect political discourse in big ways, said Alice Marwick, an expert in extremism and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There's a sense of immediacy and authenticity with podcasts, she said.
This is a serious issue and deserves considerable introspection. As podcasts grow in popularity, the industry will have to grapple with dark side. Given how little we know about podcasts outside the US, their societal impact will become ever so relevant given the polarizing times we live in.
A profile of Curry Podcasts, by The Hindu.
Sam Esmail, director of the TV show Homecoming based on Gimlet's podcast of the same name talks to The Hollywood Reporter.
Category: Weekly Roundup
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A podcast junkie on a mission to make podcasts great.
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Q: How to get user information when they access my website I have a simple website in ASP.NET where I have loaded a DLL. I have published the site via IIS and I only want to show on the user side his Machine Name, logged in user and IP. I have tried the following:
My DLL:
namespace ClassLibrary1
  {
    public class Class1
    {
      public string getInfo()
      {
        IPAddress[] ips;

        ips = Dns.GetHostAddresses(Dns.GetHostName());

        string returns = null;

    returns = Environment.MachineName + Convert.ToChar(9) + Environment.UserName;
        foreach (IPAddress ip in ips)
        {
          if (ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
          returns += Convert.ToChar(9) + ip.ToString();
        }
        return returns;

    }
  }
}

And in the website:
public partial class _Default : Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ClassLibrary1.Class1 cl = new ClassLibrary1.Class1();
        Label2.Text = cl.getInfo();
    }
}

The output is not what I expected. In my machine, when I access the site i get
MyMachineName    Classic .NET AppPool    MyIp

And when anyone else opens it, they also get those informations, not their machinename, logged in user and IP.
So my question is how to retrieve their info?
Thanks in advance.

A: You are pulling the stats from the machine that is serving the website, not the visitor's machine. You should probably take a look at the HttpRequest.ServerVariables NameValueCollection instead.
Some of those "variables", particularly the ones you are interested in, are derived from the headers in each web request from the client. Keep in mind that you aren't actually talking to the client's machine, these are sent to you from the client. Consequently, there's no guarantee that they will be accurate (proxy, etc.), if they're even there at all.
That said, the ones you are probably interested in are:
var ip =      HttpRequest.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"];
var user =    HttpRequest.ServerVariables["REMOTE_USER"]; // Windows auth
var user =    HttpRequest.ServerVariables["LOGON_USER"];  // Non-Windows auth
var machine = HttpRequest.ServerVariables["REMOTE_HOST"];

Here's the list of variables to pick from.

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Over the past several months, I've reposted a series of excerpts from Pure Love: A 90-Day Devotional of Living God's Love Out Loud. As I was writing the devotional several years ago, I was struck by the depth and breadth of love, the variety of what it entails. It's so much richer and complicated than just one post can capture. I shouldn't be surprised. After all, God is love. And as consistent as God is, he is certainly diverse.
It depends on how we define love, what we want from love, and how we perceive someone's expression of love.
Love is a tension between grace and truth. It doesn't always feel comfortable. It certainly isn't easy much of the time. It challenges us, because love requires us to step into honesty and humility and a willingness to change.
But without authentic love, we live immaturely. We must be willing to live in the tension of both grace and truth. Love is both. Not either/or.


With the intoduction of the Majove and related "Mac Server 5.7.1" Apple has gutted their simple and inexpensive server platform…..
This is a major blow to all that have used the technology for years. We will be exploring options, but for the short-term, OS Sierra and Mac Server 5.6 is a viable answer.


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A young couple embrace each other as they look at the stage during a concert after a pro-European Union rally in the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.
Los Padres National Forest firefighters, from left, Michael Sheppard, Tyson Navarro and Alex Woodhull take a break while lighting a backfire along Highway 1 between Pfeiffer Ridge Road and the Big Sur Station in Big Sur, Calif.
Canada`s Rhian Wilkinson (7) kicks the ball past Brazil's Tamires Cassia, during a soccer match at the International Women`s Football Tournament in Brasilia, Brazil.
West Indies Kraigg Brathwaite cuts in front of New Zealand`s B J Watling on the first day of the third international cricket match at Seddon Park in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Prince Sultan bin Salman speaks during an interview, in Houston. Prince Sultan is in Houston to attend the opening of the nationally touring exhibition "Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia", at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
A large machinery melts snow as workers remove snow from parking lots at MetLife stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Herman Morgan of Florissant, Mo., takes advantage of the moderation in the weather, to dress up as Santa Claus and go for a ride through Alton, Ill., on his motorcycle.
President Barack Obama, right, gestures as he speaks to the media as he and first lady Michelle Obama meet with a group of mothers in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, to discuss how health care reform could benefit their families.
A foggy morning at Parliament House in New Delhi.
Author Lt. Cdr Abhilash Tomy and co-author Lynn De Souza presenting a copy of the book '151' to the President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
A policeman disperses students protesting against corruption in civil services in Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission Recruitment during a chakka jaam at NH2, in Allahabad.
Policemen detain a Left Party activist during a protest against the alleged mistreatment of New York based Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, near the US Consulate in Hyderabad.
Sunil James`s wife Aditi and mother during an interaction with the media at their resident in Mumbai on Thursday. James, jailed in Togo in July, has been released and is expected to arrive India by Friday.
Bangladeshi police detain activists who tried marching towards the Pakistani Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Visitors pose for photographs in front of Christmas decorations displayed in celebration of the holiday season at a shopping mall in Hong Kong.
Hashim Amla avoids a bouncer from India`s bowler Mohammad Shami during the second day of their cricket test match at Wanderers stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.
British singer Adele Adkins holds her MBE for services to music presented to her by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace in London.
A folk singer performs and a man dressed as Santa Claus waves as underprivileged children wear festive hats and hold placards during a sit-in demonstration demanding basic human rights in Kolkata.
Gay rights activists shout slogans during a protest against a recent Supreme Court verdict that upheld section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalizes homosexuality in Kolkata.

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Guilds are coming out tomorrow so get ready to get your asses a little mroe active or at least to login in order to accept the guild request! We need to finish up that emblem, tonight too. I'll increase the text size.
Awesome, unfortunately i dont think i will be able to log in but i will be active on the site.


The 2019 Clearlake Oaks Glenhaven Catfish Derby is now accepting entries!
The 2019 Catfish Derby will be held May 17-19 in Clearlake Oaks.
The tournament features fishing in separate divisions for adults and kids, The adult catching the largest fish wins $4,000, and the kids catching the largest fish win $100. Over $10,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded. There will be food and entertainment at Derby headquarters.
There will be two kids divisions, one for ages up to 10 years, and one for ages 11-15 years. The top five places in each kids division will win cash prizes.
The entry fee is $40 per adult if received by 11:00PM May 16 and $50 after that. The entry fee for kids is $10. KIds entering receive a free Derby t-shirt.
More information on the Catfish Derby and entry forms are available at www.clearlakeoaks.org/derby. Or call the Catfish Derby hotline at 707-596-0248.


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Non-MPO teachers continue agitation for fourth day
STAFF REPORTER, Dhaka
Teachers and employees of non-MPO educational institutions continue their demonstration in front of the National Press Press Club in the capital for the fourth straight day yesterday demanding enlistment of their entities under the Monthly Pay Order or MPO scheme. Independent Photo
Teachers and employees of non-monthly pay order (non-MPO) educational institutions continued their protests for the fourth consecutive day in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday (Saturday).
The protesters are demanding that all non-MPO institutions be nationalised and included in the MPO list. They also want to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The protesters, under the banner of Non-MPO Educational Institutions Teachers' and Employees' Federation, vowed to continue their agitation in Dhaka till their demands were met.
Federation general secretary Binoy Bhushan Roy said, "If the education minister gives a specific assurance on the issue after discussing it with the Prime Minister, the non-MPO teachers will go back to their classes. Otherwise, the protests on the streets will continue."
He said: "We had to go back from the streets after getting an assurance from the government last year, but eight months later, our demands have not been fulfilled yet."
Earlier, on June 25 last year, the non-MPO teachers started a hunger-strike demanding enlistment of their institutions under the MPO. After 17 days, in July last year, they withdrew their demonstration after an assurance from the government that their demands would be addressed.
As their demands have remained unfulfilled in the past eight months, they again launched their agitation on Wednesday. Meanwhile, some of the teachers have fallen ill on the spot. Shobha Rani, teacher of Sonartari Nimno Maddhomik School in Khulna, had to be taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on account of her illness.
Federation president Golam Mahmudunnabi Dollar said, "Her condition deteriorated last night. She was sent to the DMCH."
Teachers and employees of non-monthly pay order (non-MPO) educational institutions continued their protests for the fourth consecutive day in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday (Saturday). The protesters are demanding that all non-MPO institutions be nationalised and included in the MPO list. They also want to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The protesters, under the banner of Non-MPO Educational Institutions Teachers and Employees Federation, vowed to continue their agitation in Dhaka till their demands were met. Federation general secretary Binoy Bhushan Roy said, If the education minister gives a specific assurance on the issue after discussing it with the Prime Minister, the non-MPO teachers will go back to their classes. Otherwise, the protests on the streets will continue. He said: We had to go back from the streets after getting an assurance from the government last year, but eight months later, our demands have not been fulfilled yet. Earlier, on June 25 last year, the non-MPO teachers started a hunger-strike demanding enlistment of their institutions under the MPO. After 17 days, in July last year, they withdrew their demonstration after an assurance from the government that their demands would be addressed. As their demands have remained unfulfilled in the past eight months, they again launched their agitation on Wednesday. Meanwhile, some of the teachers have fallen ill on the spot. Shobha Rani, teacher of Sonartari Nimno Maddhomik School in Khulna, had to be taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on account of her illness. Federation president Golam Mahmudunnabi Dollar said, Her condition deteriorated last night. She was sent to the DMCH. BK
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Enable New Risk Management Opportunities for Fluid Milk: The 2018 farm bill should include provisions that would improve price risk management tools for all Class I Fluid Milk market participants, which includes processors, cooperatives, and dairy producers. Changing the Class I mover from the "higher of" Class III or Class IV to the simple average of Class III and IV plus a $0.74 per cwt. adjustor would allow market participants to use Class III and Class IV futures contracts to hedge their Class I price risk. Making this change will also provide other tangible benefits to the entire supply chain and could help reverse the declining per capita consumption of beverage milk products. The current authorization for forward contracting for classes II, III, & IV also needs to be extended.
Improve the Margin Protection Program: As part of the 2018 farm bill, farmers hope to improve the Margin Protection Program, a dairy farmer safety net. Dairy processors support improvements to the dairy farmer safety net in order to provide greater access to effective, non-market distorting risk management tools for producers.
Establish a SNAP Purchase Incentive Program for Dairy Products: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) should include incentives for the purchase of dairy products. This policy would encourage more Americans to consume the three servings of dairy a day recommended by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. These incentives could be structured similarly to the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentives (FINI) program or the Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP) program, both of which have shown that healthy food purchases can be successfully incentivized in SNAP.


When will The Walking Dead return on FOX?
The first half of season seven literally ended last night, but already we want more.
Thankfully, FOX is happy to provide the answer to the question on all of our lips after that series finale. The Walking Dead will be back on British screens on February 13, 2017 at 9pm.
That's exactly two months from today! Admittedly, it'll still be a bit of a wait after we watched Negan go proper insane all over again and Rick finally reclaim his balls, but at least we've got that Christmas thing to distract us.
This season was a mixed bag for The Walking Dead, achieving some of the show's highest ever ratings in the UK and a serious decline in the US.
Fans have criticised the use of gratuitous violence (yes, apparently even TWD fans have a limit), the slow pacing of recent episodes and the lack of characters featuring in each episode in season seven.
However, a brilliant season finale in which we saw what we all wanted to happen finally happen (and without any major deaths) might do something to turn recent fortunes around.
If you missed it, check out our review of the "shocking" and "brilliant" midseason finale "Hearts Still Beating".
The Walking Dead returns to FOX on February 13 at 9pm.
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Griffon Corporation Announces Pricing of $600 Million Senior Notes Offering
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2014-- Griffon Corporation (NYSE:GFF) ("Griffon") today announced the pricing of $600 million aggregate principal amount of its senior notes due 2022 in an unregistered offering through a private placement. The amounted offered represents an increase of $50 million from the previously announced offering size of $550 million. The notes will pay interest semi-annually at a rate of 5.25% per annum. The notes will be senior unsecured obligations of Griffon and will be guaranteed by certain of its domestic subsidiaries. The sale of the notes is expected to be consummated on February 27, 2014, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Griffon intends to use the proceeds from the offering (i) to repurchase any and all of its outstanding $550 million 7 ⅛% senior notes due 2018 (the "2018 Notes") in a tender offer, (ii) to pay any related fees and expenses, including any applicable tender premiums, redemption premiums and accrued interest on the 2018 Notes, (iii) to redeem the 2018 Notes, if any, that remain outstanding after the completion of the tender offer, and (iv) for general corporate purposes.
The notes and related guarantees are being offered in a private placement, solely to qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or outside the United States to persons other than "U.S. persons" in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes and related guarantees have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements.
This notice does not constitute an offer to sell the notes, nor a solicitation for an offer to purchase the notes, in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation would be unlawful. Any offer of the notes will be made only by means of a private offering memorandum. This press release is being issued pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 135c under the Securities Act.
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Patrick Ta | Biography, Age, Height, Net Worth (2022), Relationship, Family, Education, Facts, Wiki | American Make-up artist
About Patrick Ta
Patrick Ta is an American very Professional make-up artist known for doing the make-up of renowned personalities like Shay Mitchell and Kourtney Kardashian. He was born on February 12, 1991, in San Diego, California, USA. As of 2022, he is 30 years old with 5 feet 10 inches tall in height. He worked as a freelance artist for MAC cosmetics but now he is himself a brand and has launched an app named Flawless.
Patrick Ta has somehow managed to complete his high school education from a school in San Diego, California. He didn't pursue his University Education rather went to NewYork and took professional make-up and cosmetic classes.
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We invited 15 of Luca's friends to come and join us on the Sunday before his birthday and the weather was absolutely glorious for it.
The party starts with the kids being led through the woods to the clearing where the campfire is.
They started with a quick briefing of the rules, basically don't go out of the fenced zone, and then the games began.
A massive game of hide & seek was first up, with the seeker having to stay by a big tree to try and spot kids who had gone and hidden. But the kids hiding only had 10 secs to find somewhere to hide. They all thought it was hilarious and it was a great way for them to burn off some energy before they had to concentrate for the next part.
Fire lighting and wood shaving. Luca spent ages peeling his wooden stick, which they had to find themselves, before decorating it to become a magic wand. He didn't get around to fire lighting but he does this a lot at my parents' house anyway so wasn't that bothered.
After that the kids were free to go and explore what the woods had to offer with the promise of a rope swing if they looked hard enough. They all set off running to find the rope swing and once they had located it, with some help, they spent ages taking it in turns to swing over the ravine bit where the stream runs in wetter weather.
After that some of the kids peeled off to have a go at making a den which honestly, I think Ant enjoyed more than they did. No surprises there.
By this point, the campfire had been lit and it was time for some lunch cooked on it.
There was hot dogs and tortilla pizzas for everyone. And there was loads. All the adults that stayed for the party got some too which was a nice treat. No snaffling the leftover sausage rolls of their plate like you usually do.
Then for pudding they made s'mores on the campfire. And again, enough for adults to make some too. It was ace.
After the obligatory cake, singing and candle blowing they had a little more time to go and play in the woods before it was time to go home.
All his friends had a great time and Luca said he wants to do it again next year as well. And at £150 for 15 kids I'm more than happy to oblige. We all had such a fun time, it was such a relaxed party and the kids were engaged the whole time they were there. If you live in the Yorkshire area we would highly recommend looking into them.


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Physically Unable to Perform: A Week Two Preview
By gq.com
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_Each week, Jeff Johnson and David Roth will be covering the NFL, the healthiest professional sports league in America. Only, not everything is as healthy as it seems. Today, Jeff and David consider the ramifications of Week Two's games by making some highly specific, absolutely reasonable stipulations tied to each game. _
Oakland at Buffalo
**Jeff: **Ryan Fitzpatrick had 4 TD passes against the Chiefs. But his longest pass play only went 35 yards. I will have an old potbelly stove dropped on my groin from a second-story window if his longest completion this week against Oakland is less than 45 yards. I can wriggle free from that agony if the Bills defense sacks Jason Campbell 3 or more times or if he throws more than 10 incompletions. He didn't look too sweet against the Broncos, but he was only 13-22, whereas I thought he was like 4-29. If Kevin Boss (knee) plays, he needs to get at least 50 yards receiving and/or a touchdown, or I have to transcribe 180 minutes of a conversation between Jeremy Shockey and Courtney Love. It's mostly her talking about always having to turn down David Fincher for movie roles, and breaking Pepe Fanjul's heart over a canned Coppola champagne early one morning at Ruschmeyer's.
**David: ** If the color commentator on this game compares Raiders fullback Marcel Reece to a truck, a bull, a tank or a truck/tank being piloted by a bull, I need to break into Al Davis's sweatsuit vault and steal a pair of white pants.
**Jeff: **It is Kevin Harlan and Solomon Wilcots.
**David: ** Okay, I should start doing some agility ercises, then. Also if C.J. Spiller remembers to bring his helmet onto the field every time he's supposed to, I receive a gift certificate entitling me to a plate of loaded potato skins and a skilletfull of brandy at Buffalo hotspot DT Prime by Darryl Talley.
Carolina at Green Bay
**Jeff: **Cam Newton cannot throw an interception. If he does, I have to have a threesome with Newt Gingrich and his wife Calista. I'm safe, however, if he throws an interception but never gets sacked. He got sacked 4 times against Cardinals. If he throws more TDs than Aaron Rodgers, my magic wish is that I get to never hear any song by the band Boston again. Randall Cobb needs to get two or more TDs again for the Packers. If he doesn't, I have to take Muay Thai lessons with Chester Marcol and Randall "Tex" Cobb.
**David: **Jeff, Newt, and Calista is almost too vivid an image for me to come up with bets of my own here. It fills me with a combination of rage, awe., and delight that I imagine defines every waking moment of Todd Haley's life. But okay: if Steve Smith has a reception of over 90 yards but does not score on the play, I will get every one of his tattoos on my own body, but worse. If Jermichael Finley puts up more than 100 yards receiving, Packers FB John Kuhn will describe everything that happens in Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star to me in real time while I watch Apocalypse Now on mute.
**Jeff: **If Steve Smith of the Eagles' performance bests Steve Smith of the Panthers, I won't get beaten with an old belly-jiggling workout belt by the Russian mob at Coney Island.
**David: **And if Steve Smith of the Eagles puts up more total yardage than Steve Smith, I am dropped off at a Tony Roma's in Spartanburg, SC, handed a $10 bill, and am not allowed to leave until I convince someone at the bar that I am DeAngelo Williams.
Kansas City at Detroit
**Jeff: **A real inelastic, wet-house-based, pain-filled bet would be on Kansas City to win by 7 or more points on the road. So I will proudly do that and also say Dexter McCluster has to score at least once. Matt Cassel can do whatever he wants, but if he is ever shown during the telecast sitting on the sidelines, looking at pictures of formations, etc. with some coordinator, a school bus full of children goes off a cliff and I get framed for it. If the Lions score more than 38 points, I have to go camping in Vietnam for one month with Ryan O'Neal.
**David: **Dennis Hopper all skipping around your campsite. "What are they going to say about [Tony Scheffler], that he was a kind maaan? That he was a wiiise man?"
**Jeff: **O'Neal would be impatient, rage-filled, and then apologetic. "Let's get this over with." Then he would swear at a stewardess and throw a gin gimlet at her, and then weep silently until 18-hours later when the plane landed.
**David: **If the Lions don't cover the spread, I will fill Kyle Vanden Bosch's Escalade with boursin cheese, and then stand around until he opens the car door. "What do you think," I will ask him. "Should I put more Ritz crackers in the glove box?" I will also have to pay for my own medical bills.
Cleveland at Indianapolis
**Jeff: **Here's the deal: Kerry Collins has to throw for three TDs, but Cleveland has to win. I am off the hook on that if Josh Cribbs somehow throws a pass. If D'Qwell Jackson (best name in NFL) causes a fumble or knocks Kerry Collins out of the game then somehow Papa John Schnatter will elope with Scarlett Johansson. D'Qwell had ten tackles last week, my real bet is he breaks that.
**David: **I like everything about D'Qwell Jackson, but I would be very sad looking at those honeymoon photos of Papa John and Scarlett. If Dallas Clark puts up 20 or more fantasy points, I have to take everyone in his family to the Caribbean Cove water park at the Indianapolis Holiday Inn. Everyone gets as many hot dogs as they want, Cousin Gary included.
**Jeff: **I am thinking it would be better if Papa John had a fling with Kreayshawn. And there were special pizzas named after her. She'd get really baked and walk behind the counter at the Ecutive Papa John's and start throwing Honey Glazed Ham and Rock Shrimp Tempura on a 14" thin crust.
**David: **Love is complicated.
**Jeff: **He'd be all ruddy-faced, grinning, saying, "Let her do what she wants."
**David: **Firing off high-fives to nervous delivery guys. He fires a tight spiral off into nowhere.
Seattle at Pittsburgh
**Jeff: **Pittsburgh is currently a 14-point favorite. Seattle simply needs to beat the spread, if they don't, Guy Fieri is on all of NBC's primetime shows. If Tavaris Jackson somehow throws for 3 TDs, then everything that happens in all of the other games doesn't matter. But if Charlie Whitehurst plays more than five downs, I lose a foot.
**David: **I will take off my own foot if that happens. Either way, I think it would be fun to play "Contra" or "Narc" with Marshawn Lynch at a combination arcade/batting cage, back in the early 1990s. "I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz is playing, and you can hear the sound of pitching machines and bats on those spongy yellow batting cage balls in the other room. If we're playing "Narc," we'll high-five whenever we blow a guy up. I don't know how we could make this work, logistically. Just given Lynch's practice schedule and everything.
Chicago at New Orleans
**Jeff: **Earl Bennett has to get at least five receptions, and Jay Cutler has to get at least 10 rushing yards, otherwise I have to give Skip Bayless a 60-minute hot oil massage, and listen to Rick Reilly smilingly tell me how I'm not enjoying oysters properly for 45 minutes. I remember when Cutler first came to the Bears and everyone was all, "Bennett is going to be one of his favorite targets." Not lately. Marion Barber also needs to get one touchdown, otherwise I have to eat a swan, raw with only Plochman's mustard as a side. For the Saints, Darren Sproles can't get more than 50 return yards on kickoffs total, otherwise I have to eat a bottomless Caesar salad that has roaches camouflaged in its dark purple olives.
**David: **If Jay Cutler is sacked less than twice or rushes for more than 20 yards, I will co-host a party at Wet Republic in Las Vegas with Cutler and Audrina. The party will be sponsored by Blurt Energy Drink, and Jay and I will have to wear bathing suits the whole time. Audrina will wear an oversized Robbie Gould jersey and will spend the entire six hours in a loud argument with her stylist.
**Jeff: **I will log 15 consecutive 80-hour weeks at Rachel Uchitel's detective agency trying to solve "The Case of the Mystery" if that one LB on the Bears takes a week off from complaining about his contract. For no apparent reason, I also have to listen to all of the remastered Pink Floyd records with old Bears kicker Kevin Butler as he erratically drives a GMC Yukon in and out of strip-mall parking lots, running errands.
Tampa Bay at Minnesota
**Jeff: **Donovan McNabb has to get more than 150 yards passing and the Vikings have to win, otherwise he gets cut and Brett Favre comes out of retirement. Percy Harvin needs to get at least 2 TDs, otherwise, I cannot technically cheer for him anymore. I also think he should get married to Cat Power.
**David: **I will roadie on every gig in Florida and Georgia on the next Papa Roach tour if Jared Allen has multiple sacks. If a tight end other than Kellen Winslow scores for Tampa Bay, Jon Gruden and I will go on vacation together for two weeks.
**Jeff: **I think you will be roadie-ing. If Earnest Graham gets over 200 yards rushing, I feel like I am entitled to unlimited Dairy Queen until 11/01/2014.
Arizona at Washington
**Jeff: **Rex Grossman has to throw for 300 yards again and also throw for 50 more than Kevin Kolb. Otherwise I take a pellet from a pellet gun to the Adam's Apple. Neither team should win this game.
**David: **If the Redskins win: Entourage Season Four marathon with Rex G., Kyle Shanahan and Rep. Louie Gohmert on the FedEx Field jumbotron. If Kevin Kolb rushes for a touchdown, I receive three "private beard lessons" from Kurt Warner.
Houston at Miami
**David: **The good news: scientists have discovered a new species of dolphin. The bad news is that if Reggie Bush recovers his own fumble and is later photographed on the bench reading a magazine, I have to explain Inception to those Dolphins until it is clear that they not only understand it, but actually get it. Also if Matt Schaub's quarterback rating is above 103, I have to drive to David Carr's house, ring the doorbell, and then run away.
**Jeff: **I have no bets here, but an observation: All of Dan Marino's best receivers were 5'9". Actually here's a scenario: Larry Johnson needs to score a touchdown on a run of 7 or more yards.
**David: **If he does, we organize a rollerskating party for him. We set up a VIP section for him, where he can watch everyone else rollerskate and periodically have his bodyguards throw jeroboams of Cristal at us. Then one of us ghostwrites his autobiography.
Dallas at San Francisco
**Jeff: **Tony Romo has to have 0 turnovers, but San Francisco has to win, otherwise I lose a kidney.
**David: **If the 49ers beat the spread and Vernon Davis scores a touchdown, I share a crowded sauna with Mike Singletary for 15 minutes while he talks about Obamacare, loudly.
Philadelphia at Atlanta
**Jeff: **If any NBC announcer uses the word "homecoming" or "prodigal son" or "you can/can't go home again," I will be in a full body cast.
**David: **I will visit you while you are in your full body cast. I'll bring you some Capri Sun and some magazines.
Baltimore at Tennessee
**Jeff: **The Ravens need to sack Matt Hasselbeck (or any Titans QB) five times, otherwise something REALLY BAD HAPPENS! I can wriggle free if the Ravens get three turnovers. Also: Chris Johnson needs to get at least 125 yards rushing for Titans, or else he needs to retire.
**David: **If Ray Lewis gets 12 or more tackles, I will follow him around for a day recording everything he says. I will then transcribe it, have it translated into Latin, and put it on Ed Hardy-style motivational t-shirts. They will be made of linen. I will have gone insane by this point, but you'll come see me at the home where they've set me up, near-catatonic and long since disappeared into my own sadnesses, facing a weary sun obscured by fast-moving clouds. It's 4:46pm. "Dave, I brought you a t-shirt," you'll say, draping one of them on me. I'll blink, staring up at where the roof meets the ceiling. "Do you remember who made this t-shirt?" you'll ask. It's impossible to tell if I can hear you. "You made this," you finally say. "This is you. You did this." A single tear will roll down my face.
**Jeff: **I think Ed Hardy should make business suits now, in colors like weathered turquoise, with nonsensical phrases stitched down the sleeve: "Dream Epic Tattoo." And Anthony Kiedis' face embroidered across the back of the blazer.
**David: **I don't disagree with any of that. This is an idea that I am offering to General Motors for free: The 2012 Pontiac Kiedis. It's a hybrid sport-SUV.
**Jeff: **I can already hear the instrumental version of "Fight Like a Brave" as we see match-cuts of it rolling down different urban streets. It's basically the Aztec with new branding.
Cincinnati at Denver
**Jeff: **Kyle Orton has to have less than 10 incompletions. Willis McGahee must score, and can not, at any time, look like he is 47. Brian Dawkins can not be shown doing anything annoying after a play (unless they are losing by 10 or more points--if they show him celebrating then, I win).
**David: **If the Bengals commit fewer than three encroachment penalties, I have to listen to Bruce Gradkowski do impressions for two hours. Also the only impressions he does are Tom Brokaw and Snoop Dogg.
San Diego at New England
**Jeff: **No Wes Welker touchdowns, otherwise I have to guzzle a cow manure and cilantro smoothie. Also, the over/under is 54 points. Needs to be under, otherwise I have to get a tattoo of Norv Turner's face on my face, cut it off and give it to John Travolta. If the Chargers sack Tom Brady 4 times, I get a Kia Sorrento for a month from a New Jersey-area dealership. Also: Tedy Bruschi needs to chill.
**David: **Regardless of which team wins, Chargers GM A.J. Smith has to share a bathroom with Dog The Bounty Hunter for the rest of the season.
St. Louis at New York Giants
**Jeff: **Spags-Bowl. He and Kevin Gilbride have to hug at mid-field, but not before the game, after it, or during halftime. Preferably with 3:22 left in the 3rd quarter.
**David: **If Eli Manning throws more interceptions than touchdowns, I have to co-write the lyrics on Tom Coughlin's country-rock record. If someone I've never heard of catches a touchdown for the Rams, I will spend five days bidding up Torry Holt jerseys on eBay.
**Jeff: ** Eli's line for Sunday: 1 TD, 2 INTs.
Jacksonville at New York Jets
**Jeff: **I am going to stick with what I know: Announcer Dan Dierdorf will be disgusted with something, and there will be "no place for that" in the game. Also: Maurice Jones-Drew will get exactly 124 yards.
**David: **Let's make it interesting. Unless the Jets block a punt, I have to wash former Jets linebacker Bryan Cox's collection of neck-rolls with Woolite, while he yells at me for not "being careful." Also, Luke McCown and Josh McCown will sub in and out for each other, Parent Trap-style. No one will notice but Antonio Cromartie, but no one will believe him.
*Jeff Johnson whines almost hourly here, and is cruel to sportscards here and here.Â
David Roth co-writes the Wall Street Journal's Daily Fix blog, writes the sports column "The Mercy Rule" at Vice.com, and writes regularly for The Awl, among other places. He tweets here.
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Part One: Grokking Lisp

Printing, Strings, and Streams

## Chapter 1.2

# Printing, Strings, and Streams

> "There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."
> Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit---Will Travel

Now that you've got an idea of what Lisp is all about and you have your development environment configured to your liking, we can get moving on some real, practical code.

At the end of the day, no matter what the program you're working on does, at some point you will have to give something back to the user.  The more interactive the program, the more data will be going back and forth between the user and your program.  And users love interactivity---they like to know just how long a set of tasks will take, they want to see updates to data in real-time, they want feedback.

Since development in Lisp is so inherently interactive, it makes sense to think about your programs this way too.  So we will be starting our exploration of Common Lisp with the core language features that underlie input and output: printing, strings, and streams.

### Exercises:

* [Strings](/book/1-02-01-strings/)
* [More Strings](/book/1-02-02-more-strings/)
* [Unicode and Strings](/book/1-02-03-unicode/)
* [Characters](/book/1-02-04-chars/)
* [More Characters](/book/1-02-05-more-chars/)
* [Character Codes](/book/1-02-06-char-codes/)
* [Strings from Chars](/book/1-02-07-strings-from-chars/)
* [Printing](/book/1-02-08-printing/)
* [More Printing](/book/1-02-09-more-printing/)
* [Printing With prin1](/book/1-02-10-prin1/)
* [Printing With princ](/book/1-02-11-princ/)
* [A Brief Introduction to Format](/book/1-02-12-format/)
* [A Little Bit More on Format](/book/1-02-13-more-format/)
* [Pathnames](/book/1-02-14-pathnames/)
* [Streams](/book/1-02-15-streams/)
* [File Streams](/book/1-02-16-file-streams/)
* [Binary Streams](/book/1-02-17-binary-streams/)
* [Prompting Users](/book/1-02-18-prompting-users/)
* [Pretty-Printing](/book/1-02-19-pretty-printing/)

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Part 62: Turn 122
TURN 122
Since the Cardies and Feds can sign affiliation treaties with the Romulans, we have to assume they'll be able to strike our empire. We can no longer write them off. We'll take a morale hit for this, but we're in no position to go on the offensive.
The Federation declares war against the Romulans out of nowhere.
That should complicate things for them. We have spread out defense ships between Caldonia and Yridia so we can determine where the big Federation fleet is heading and defend one system or the other. It looks like their target is Yridia. But if they're no longer in an affiliation treaty with the Romulans, how can they get the range to attack us?
TURN 123. Looks like the Cardies really can't tell whether or not they want peace with us.
The Federation, it seems, has made up its mind about us. But it's unlikely they can war against us and the Romulans at the same time.
The Romulans have the smallest empire so their demands are the smallest. We'll pay them, because frankly we can't deal with attacks from invisible fleets at the moment.
The Federation fleet has pulled back, perhaps due to its loss of range. It has also shrunk in size. We only see medium-range ships now, so their short-range vessels may have been scrapped or something. Another real possibility is that the Romulans attacked the Federation fleet now that they're at war. We don't have enough scan strength to see the Romulan ships unless they're next door to our Starbases. Notably, the Federation has invented the Heavy Cruiser II. Their next invention will be the Defiant, presumably. It's a reminder that although we're inventing new stuff, so are the other empires. The Feds are best at research, but it won't be long before other empires are inventing ships like the Battleship II, Marauder II or Warbird II.
We have spotted our very first intergalactic traveler. It took a long time--123 turns! It is the Chodak Juggernaut. It's a menace, but not to our defended Starbases.
TURN 125. The threat from the Federation has passed, it seems. The Chodak Juggernaut wanders back into unscannable territory.
TURN 126. Picard is off his meds again, it's the only explanation.
The Cardassians send a small force by Mintaka, which the Romulans still have not colonized yet.
TURN 127. The four light ships head toward Yridia, which they obviously couldn't scan from their earlier position. It's time to remind the Cardassians how much things have changed.
Our ships and the Starbase all target them and open fire. The enemy run away like cowards.
We actually fail to destroy even a single one of their ships. But a victory is still a victory.
Because all the Romulan warships are cloaked, we have no way of measuring their strength. Out of nowhere, we see 3 decloaked Strike Cruisers. There are only two reasons the Romulans would decloak their ships: To do a planetary assault, or in response to a retreat. Whenever a cloaked ship retreats, it is automatically decloaked and sent to another sector. It appears a Romulan fleet may have been defeated in a major battle with the Federation.
TURN 128. The Cardassians' 4 light ships plus another 3 return to Yridia. Those other 3 came out of nowhere.
The enemy fleet is more willing to stick around this time.
We've done little damage to the little buggers, but we'll have a second chance.
We manage to squish a few bugs before they escape.
The Federation has come to its senses and signed a peace treaty with the distant Ferengi. Their Cardassian allies won't like this, but the Federation can't go on the offensive against such a remote target anyway.
The Klingon empire celebrates the completion of its very first Bird of Prey, the IKC Klag. May she see many glorious victories.
TURN 130. We've been getting attacked by Cardassian saboteurs again lately. If we didn't keep around extra structures, attacks like this would be a real pain in the neck. It's a disappointment, since until recently we had done a good job of repelling attacks with our present intel strength.
TURN 132. Volon finishes building its on Bird of Prey, the IKC J'Ddan. Our intention is to keep our Birds of Prey massed together in one fleet at all times to maximize the effect of its cloak attack round. Forming one solid fist of these ships is our best hope of being able to go on the offensive.
TURN 137. Our intel strength is up to 1789 points, but we'll need more to protect ourselves. Unfortunately this means staffing more intel centers on Qo'nos, one of only two systems we have that can build ships quickly. As always, the left-hand column's information is out of date, but we can count enemy systems. The Federation-Cardassian alliance has a total of 14 systems, and the Ferengi have 12.
We have always made sure we had fewer systems than the Ferengi so that we are not seen as the primary threat. The Ferengi's expansion and our loss of Mintaka mean it's about time we added a system or two to our empire.


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Il nuovo presidente della Libia 10.08.122012-08-16:17:43
La Reuters traccia il profilo di Mohammed Magarief, il primo presidente della Libia post-Gheddafi.
Magarief, seen as a moderate Islamist, will head the 200-member congress, which will name a prime minister, pass laws and steer Libya to full parliamentary elections after a new constitution is drafted next year.
Magarief, leader of the National Front party, is effectively acting head of state, but the true extent of his powers is yet to be determined. He beat a liberal candidate in the vote.
An economist and former Libyan ambassador to India who had lived in exile since the 1980s, Magarief was a leading figure in Libya's oldest opposition movement - the National Front for the Salvation of Libya - which made several attempts to end Muammar Gaddafi's rule.
The 72-year-old's National Front Party is an offshoot of the old opposition movement and won three seats in the July 7 poll - Libya's first free vote in a generation.
16:17 Res publica Mohammed Magarief Libia


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HomeNewsTennisUncategorizedTrick shots attracting fans as Roger Federer leads by example in the Big Apple
Trick shots attracting fans as Roger Federer leads by example in the Big Apple
September 1, 2010 by AlexWillis
By Alexandra Willis
Roger Federer is winning back fans alienated by his bitter demeanour at Wimbledon after producing another thrilling between-the-legs trick shot during his first round victory over Brian Dabul at the US Open in New York. The shot, which Federer pulled off against Novak Djokovic on the same court last year, came hot on the heels of the Swiss star appearing to serve a bottle off a man's head during a Gillette advert, and has prompted a wave of enthusiasm for the 16-time Grand Slam champion.
With comments ranging from "He's the best in tennis," to "Form is temporary, class is permanent," the exchange has been viewed almost 500,000 times on YouTube, and although it has some way to go to reach the 6 million views of the Gillette clip, it was the talk of the tournament on the opening day at Flushing Meadows.
Speaking about the episode afterwards in his post-match press conference, the world No.2 said, "I thought I was a bit late and had to give it one last push to get there but thought I could do this again. It's different [from last year] because Novak was at the net but I've only hit a few in my life and to do two on Centre Court in night sessions is amazing."
In fact, Federer's daring prowess has been so well received that other players are turning their hands to the trick shot trade. Victoria Azarenka, one of the hot prospects for the wome's singles title, ended her practice in Queens yesterday by trying out the hot dog shot herself, which used to be known as a "Sabatweenie." Sadly, it didn't go exactly like it did for Federer, the Belarusian getting her racket on the ball, but sending it skidding into the net instead of smartly into the far corner. "You can do it Vika!," cried one fan reportedly, as she persisted again, and again, and again. But another simply muttered, "She's no Roger Federer."
Santiago Giraldo of Columbia also wowed fans with an enthralling feat during his first round match, although his was perhaps not intentional. Trailing two sets to love against Feliciano Lopez of Spain, Giraldo smashed his racket on the court in disgust, only for it to bounce backwards over the 10-foot fence and land out of reach in the shrubbery at the back of the court. He received a code of conduct warning for racket abuse, and, to add insult to injury, had to borrow a linesman's chair to retrieve it.
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Freedom of speech critical says NZ blogger community so help offered to Fiji
9:05 am on 23 May 2007
The New Zealand blogger community says its members may come from across the political spectrum but they all agree that freedom of speech is critical which is why they've offered to assist bloggers in Fiji.
This follows the military in Fiji attempting to track down bloggers who are contributing anonymous articles to websites which oppose the coup and the interim regime.
A spokesperson for the New Zealand bloggers, Dr David Haywood, says they've offered to host articles or the blogsites themselves.
He says they've been motivated by the need for people in Fiji to keep open a window of communication.
"Although we come from across the political spectrum, we've got Kiwiblog on the right and we've got people like Just Left and No Right Turn on the left wing, and then PublicAddress and NZBC sitting in the centre, the one thing we can all really agree on, is that freedom of speech is really important anywhere in the world, and of course, particularly in Fiji at the moment."
Dr Haywood says it's important because the mainstream media in Fiji is having to self-censor because of threats from the military.


Leslie Van Duzer is a Professor of Architecture and the Director of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Originally from Berkeley, California, she came to the University of British Columbia in 2010 after teaching for two decades in architecture schools across Europe and North America.
She has lectured and written for numerous international venues and has published three books in collaboration with Kent Kleinman: Mies van der Rohe: The Krefeld Villas; Villa Müller: A Work of Adolf Loos; and Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision. A fourth book, co-authored with Maria Szadkowska, Adolf Loos: Works in the Czech Lands, accompanies a traveling exhibition.
Having just completed her most recent book, House Shumiatcher, the first in a series of building monographs on endangered West Coast modern houses, she is currently writing a new book: Double Climax: The Art of Deception in Architecture.
Our Westbank Salon Series featuring Leslie Van Duzer is on April 8, 2014, starting at 6:00pm in the Gesamtkunstwerk exhibition space.


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HomeThe MarketPorsche prices make news at RM Sotheby's London auction
Porsche prices make news at RM Sotheby's London auction
Low-mileage Porsches from a single collection sell very well
A trio of Aston Martins, with DB4GT in the middle | RM Sotheby's photos by Tim Scott
Although the more than $3.2 million paid Wednesday for a 1960 Aston Martin DB4GT represented the top sale of the event, RM Sotheby's believes it will be "the game-changing prices achieved for some of the Porsches which prove to be the sale's most potent legacy."
The sale was the 10th annual RM Sotheby's London auction of collector cars and follows by only a few weeks the company's record-breaking Monterey event, where records were set for pre-war, American, European and French vehicles at public auction.
"Our 10th anniversary London sale has been a game-changer for a number of reasons," Peter Wallman, RM Sotheby's managing director for Europe, said in a news release after the auction at Battersea Evolution.
"Clearly, the Porsche Collection generated some remarkable results, however, from the evening preview to the sale itself there was an energy that hasn't been seen in European auction rooms for a little while.
"This year's auction tally is within a whisker of RM's best ever, peak-of-the-market, London sale totals," he added. "We offered cars spanning 117 years and from £5,000 to £2,400,000, so the sale was representative of almost all areas of the market.
"Good cars, well presented with sensible estimates are selling strongly, and that is good news for the market as a whole."
Overall, the auction posted $29,000,012 in the sale of 65 vehicles, a 76 percent sell-through rate with 86 vehicles crossing the block. Another $23,517 was added to the overall total with one lot of "nostalgia," a 1992 Ferro Le Mans children's car. Bidders represented 33 countries and more than a third of those bidding were new customers for RM Sotheby's.
RM Sotheby's said the $3,226,720 sales price (including buyer's fees) was a record for a 1960 DB4GT, of which only 75 were produced.
But the big news, it said, involved the Porsches from a single collection of low-mileage cars, several of which set records, including a 1995 911 GT2 selling for $2,476,320 and a 1993 911 Turbo S Lightweight bringing $1,305,696.
The collection included eight Porsches, which when added together sold for more than $6.3 million, with four of the cars selling for record prices, which runs counter to the recent overall slump in Porsche prices.
Barn-found Iso Grifo triples pre-sale estimate
Yet another highlight of the auction was a 1967 Iso Grifo GL Series I offered in barn-found condition. The pre-sale estimated value of the car was $40,000 to $65,000 but it sold for $170,592.
Top 10 sales, RM Sotheby's London auction 2016
1960 Aston Martin DB4GT, $3,226,720
1995 Porsche 911 GT2, $2476,320
1960 Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Series II, $1,725,920
1993 Porsche 911 Turbo S Lightweight, $1,305,696
1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Sport Cabriolet, $1,275,680
1963 Aston Martin DB4 Series V convertible, $1,275,680
1990 Ferrari F40, $1,238,160
1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL roadster, $1,050,560
1967 Maserati Mistral 4.0 Spyder, $990,528
1993 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 3.8, $960,512
(Prices include buyer's premium.)
RM Sotheby's also announced that it will add an auction to its 2016 calendar with the sale of a private collection in northern Italy sometime this fall. The sale will offer 750 lots including automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, boats, bobsleds and automobilia.
The next event on the RM Sotheby's schedule is the annual Hershey auction October 6-7 in Pennsylvania.
Part of the array of cars on the docket for RM Sotheby's 10th London auction


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After taking bet on action based genre movies, director M Padmakumar this time opts for going easy with "Polytechnic" Malayalam movie. Unfortunately it is just a mix match of few past light humour films that Malayali's have seen many times. Nishad Koya's script fails to input that attraction of freshness and on verdict point, it is just a one time watch.....
Alright, Story is about Pauly (Kunchacko Boban) and his techniques to
survive the innings of his life. He is a good for nothing guy with political hand on left party and doesn't even care what will be his future. Here we have Pauly's friend Backer (Aju Varghese), who in turn put everything for his friend's need. On the other Pauly's mother has concerned about her son.
Adding more vibe to story, Pauly has his love interest in childhood friend Ashwathy (Bhavana), who is now a cop. But her father and Panchayath President Sukumaran Nair (Vijaya Raghavan) is strongly against their relation. Now as a twist, Pauly's family gets a good amount of money as compensation after his father's demise, who served the Army. With this fortune, focus shifts to setting up of a business and the problems, he come across during this procedure.
As we have already mentioned, director M Padmakumar chose the safe path, rightly so because of his previous few films haven't come up with expectations. The director should be the key source to develop this old fashioned story telling, but no one here have adjusted that. Scripting won't complement narration in needed manner, while humour saves the movie from being an annoying one. Cinematography was just stays at okay level. Same for the music of Gopi Sunder.
Kunchacko Boban has done as usual and doesn't tried too much of experimenting with his character. Bhavana showcased her typical style of rendering that she always known for. Aju Varghese opting for different sort of characters and this time he pulled of pretty nicely. Vijaya Raghavan, Hareesh Peradi, Niyas Backer, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Ambika, Thesni Khan and others have made their presence felt. Mrinalini Gandhi Cinema banner are the producer of this film.
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48 Eighth Graders Go Up
Twenty Eight Girls and Twenty Boys Will Graduate from Eighth Grade in Public Commencement
The largest number of graduates from the eighth grade ever known in Grundy county--48--will receive their diplomas at a public graduation exercise to be held in Grundy Center some time in June, the exact date to be set later. In addition this will be the first time Grundy county has ever held a public commencement for the eighth grade graduates of the county. This eighth grade commencement will be held during the day, so the country graduates can attend, and it will be quite an event in county school affairs.
To Miss Mabel Jorgensen, of Fairfield No. 4, belongs the exceptional honor of heading the class, her average being 92 for eleven studies, or three points ahead of her nearest competitor. In only two studies, writing and geography, did she fall below a grade of 90. Miss Marie Paulsen, of Cedar Falls, was her teacher.
To another pupil of Fairfield No. 4, Anna Sorenson, belongs the honor of the second position, Miss Anna getting a grade of 89.
For third honors, Esther Drake, of Colfax, Ina Crecelius, of Melrose, and Nellie Murphy of Grant, tied with a grade of 87.
Melrose has the largest number of graduates, the number being eight. It is interesting to note in this connection that Melrose is paying the highest average salary for teachers in the county, also she has more first grade teachers.
Another interesting feature is that twenty of the forty-eight graduates are boys.
Below are the garduates who will be given diplomas.
[Please see here for class roll]
--The Grundy Republican (Grundy Center, Iowa), 10 June 1915, pg 1
48 Receive Diplomas
Rural School Commencement Interesting Event
Forty-five young people who completed eight grade work in the rural schools of the county were given their diplomas by County Superintendent Earl at the close of the first rural school commencement program ever held in this county. Only three of the forty-eight graduates were uable to be present.
The exercises were held in the Gem Theatre in this city Friday afternoon and the opera house was filled with relatives and friends of the graduates and with others who are interested in rural school work. The graduates were all seated on the stage and they made an imposing group.
Prof. C. E. Walters from Cedar Falls delivered the address to the class. It was a most practical and sensible talk and it inspired the young folks for whose benefit it was given to go higher in their educational work which they have so well begun. The well selected music provided for the occasion gave a wholesome variety to the program.
More than half of the large audience were country people, many of whom drove from fifteen to twenty miles to attend the program. They were not disappointed with the exercises. The opinion seemed to be unanimous that it was one of the best commencement programs which they ever attended.
The visitors, some 150 of them took their dinner in the park. They not only enjoyed the dinner, but also the new acquaintances which were made during the dinner hour.
Exercises such as those which were held here Friday will have a far reaching effect. They are a big help towards stimulating an interest in educational work among the pupils of the country schools in the county and there is no place where this stimulated interest is more needed. The average pupil who gets his early training in the country school proves himself a better student when matched against the average boy or girl in town for the reason that he is physically stronger and that he has learned to work and that he has acquired more regular habits. Our country people in Iowa are better able to give their children a thorough school training than the folks in town and this more thorough school trainig will come if parents and children are awakened to the better apportunities that this training will open for them. To further awaken this interest in high school training was County Superintendent Earl's motive in holding county commencement exercises and the experiment has been satisfactory. A large share of the young people if not all who received their first school diploma last Friday are making preparations to enter some high school the coming fall and the most of those who enter the high school will remain until the course there is completed.
The success which accompanied our first rural school commencement is assurance that we will have similar commencements with larger classes and increased interest in the years to come.
--The Grundy Democrat (Grundy Center, Iowa), 1 July 1915, pg 1
Rural Schools Will Graduate Fifty-One
Eighth Grade to Hold Commencement in High School Building in Grundy Center
Wednesday, June 11, 1919, 2:30 P.M.
A Fine Program Prepared to Which the Public is Cordially Invited to Hear
The Eighth Grade of the rural schools of Grundy county will hold their annual Commencement in the High School building in this city on Wednesday afternoon, June 11th, 1919, commencing at 2:30 o'clock.
Supt. Earl has prepared a fine program and invites the public to come and enjoy it.
The address will be given by Frances E. Palmer, Superintendent of the College for the Blind, at Vinton. Supt. Palmer has had many years experience as an educator, having been at the head of some of the leading schools of the state. He has also lectured for the Vawter Chautauque System during the summer months.
Following is the program as it will be given:
Piano Solo ................. Selected Miss Lois Adams
Music ...................... Selected Male Quartette
Invocation ................. Rev. J. C. Curry
Vocal Solo ................. Prof. Earl D. Wallace
Address .................... Frances E. Palmer, Vinton
Presentation of Diplomas ... County Supt. D. R. Earl
Benediction ................ Rev. J. C. Curry
Class Roll
The class roll numbers fifty-one pupils and is as follows:
1752 Rural School Graduates During D. R. Earl's Term
There were 1752 rural school graduates in the schools of Grundy county during the twenty-year period that D. R. Earl served as county superintendent. Figures showing the gradual growth in numbers of rural school graduates were given by the county superintendent in his address given at the annual commencement held at high school auditorium in Grundy Center last Thursday.
Commencement exercises this year were attended by the largest group that ever assembled for a similar occasion to see diplomas awarded to the largest crop of rural school graduates ever completing the eighth grade in the rural schools of the county.
The figures below show the gradual increase from year to year in Grundy county rural school graduations:
Year Number Boys Girls
Totals 1752 807 945
--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 15 June 1933, pg 1
No Rural School Graduation in May
For the first time in history, there will be no commencement exercises this year for the 18 eighth grade graduates of nine rural schools in Grundy county.
In a recent letter to the rural school teachers, County Superintendent C. A. Morris stated that because of the small number of rural school eighth grade graduates, there will be no final examinations or commencement exercise.
Diplomas will be presented to the graduating eighth graders by a representative of the county superintendent's office on the last day of school, about May 10. In the past this ceremony was held in Grundy Center.
Morris also said there will be no spelling contest this year either. This institution of our county rural school system fell by the wayside two years ago.
The 18 eighth grade students attending rural school this year are:
--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 18 April 1957, pg 1


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Truth or Dare? Science and /or Faith?
The world of Science and the world of faith - Two seemingly separate worlds; are they in opposition or do they run parallel to each other?
As part of Organisations' Week (which will be held on campus from the 11th to the 13th of November), SCubed, MKSU (Moviment Kattoliku Studenti Universitarji) and inTV (InSite's online TV channel) has teamed up and will be upholding a debate which concerns the conflicts which usually arise between science and faith.
SCubed's role is to maintain unity amongst all students who are part of the Faculty of Science. A way in which we do this, is by holding the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
In this meeting, the current executive of the Science Students' Society will give a report on what was done by SCubed during the last years, and thus update the rest of the Faculty of Science about their doings. Also, the new executive for the following year will be chosen.
Anyone who is interested in joining the SCubed executive can collect a nomination form and send it back by the 4th of November.
Anyone who is a member of the Faculty of Science is invited to this Meeting.