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Nestor Aparicio
Orioles Tragic…feel it happen!
By Nestor Aparicio
Baltimore Positive Podcast Audio Vault January 17, 2021 0
So, the 2008 Orioles season is upon us, and alas, here we go again!
It's another March.
And another spring training of obvious less than mediocrity.
This just in: the team is REALLY going to stink this year.
And the team is spending yet ANOTHER spring training in that slum in Fort Lauderdale while their other minor league facility remains a distant three hour trip across Alligator Alley in Sarasota.
And it's been yet another spring training where a 22-year old pitcher loses a season to something or another having to do with his pitching arm.
And now reports are that No. 1 starter, Daniel Cabrera, has decided to blame the media for the fact that he can't throw a strike.
Where have you gone Sir Sidney Ponson?
It's another March with broken promises, no hope, endless and blind hope for the few left who are still imbibing the orange Kool Aid at the hands of the misguided ownership group apparently led more these days by John Angelos than by Peter.
Buy media. Control the message. Ban anyone who has a legitimate question. Get rid of Aparicio and Forrester. Make Steve Davis and Peter Schmuck's lives miserable. Blah, blah, blah.
It's just fundamentally wrong and against every principle of free speech this country was based on, but who's arguing anymore.
Certainly not me. I'm almost done being angry, actually. I just feel sorry for them and I honestly pray for them. And I truly pray for any of the businesses in this community – many just a few blocks from that desperately empty, beautiful ballpark that should be the pride and joy of our community – that have struggled beyond belief because of Angelos' ineptitude and inability to make anyone in the city care about the team.
I really do pray for them.
And talk about uniquely marketing this young, seemingly hopeless group of young Birds of 2008, seems to be as absent as any hope of this sham ever coming to resemble anything any of us would refer to as BALTIMORE Orioles baseball.
Even the Baltimore Business Journal poked at them the other day for their zero-ambition policy of marketing the team to the community that is supposed to "love" and "support" the home team.
So, this morning, Drew decided to "ban" them from his airwaves from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on WNST AM 1570. I'm sure they're laughing at the Warehouse and maybe some of you who hate us are laughing, too.
But we've been trying. We've always tried, even LONG after we said we wouldn't any more.
We've attempted to contact them at least 100 times this year. We've made calls, we've written letters, we've appealed to MLB to get involved.
Hell, I'm STILL trying!
I sent Greg Bader a text a few months ago. He responded with a "who is this." I responded "Nestor from WNST" and then it was a like a scene from a movie where the phone is hanging, dangling in the phone booth.
And there I am, in that tiny voice, saying:
"Helllooooo. Helllloooo. Is anybody there? Hey Greg, it's me, Nestor Aparicio – the guy who's covered the team since 1986 with a press pass. Yeah, the guy who has covered 12 World Series and 13 All-Star Games? Yeah, the ONLY guy who used to self-STAFF American League playoff games every October with reports from the field. Yeah, the ONLY guy in Baltimore to go to spring training and set up remotes from the team hotel from 1993 through 2005, when your organization all but chased us away from the franchise with its arrogance, insolence and downright mean-spiritedness. I'm the guy who loves baseball more than anyone!"
But – in an homage to Bob Haynie, who I must say has probably the healthiest perspective of anyone in the marketplace on what the Orioles are these days — I digress…
Sure, I'm a little wound up today.
I've managed to avoid the Orioles like the plague most of the offseason.
The other purple birds that people in the city actually care about had – errr, ahem – a little "turmoil" the past few months. They've been keeping us plenty busy and I've got better things to do running WNST than bitching about the pathetic Orioles twice a week.
We've been busy working, doing Baltimore sports better than anyone else.
Meanwhile, the Orioles' manager made exactly zero appearances anywhere in Baltimore during the offseason. It's like an organization of freaking ghosts.
If Dave Trembley walked through White Marsh Mall I bet he'd walk a LONG way before anyone would stop him and say: "Hey, aren't you the manager of the Orioles!"
Let's recount the offseason in a paragraph or two.
Let's see: they traded their two best players for a bunch of whos, maybes and might bes. Their last remaining worthwhile tradable player and All Star is BEGGING to get outta here and the Chicago newspapers light up almost weekly wondering when Brian Roberts will be a Fuzzy Cubby.
Yet VERY few people ever discuss the Orioles with me and not many call the radio station to talk about the team. I don't think most Baltimore sports fans could name their starting rotation right now. And even as recently as last week, they were boning their only bonafide hope as a "star" player with an insulting "industry" contract, no doubt pissing him off, which will cost them later (as someone wrote in The Sun last week, that's an Orioles specialty, pissing off their players, employees and business partners).
I don't know Nick Markakis at all. I think I might've had him on the show the week he was drafted. (There's actually A DIFFERENT Nick Markakis in Baltimore…a guy who always called and emailed BEFORE the Georgia Nick Markakis was drafted…strange?)
I sense he's a quiet kid, wants to be left alone, doesn't have much to say.
But I'm PULLING for him now. I'm pulling for him in that "Major League" us vs. them kinda way. Peter Angelos screwed him last week. Basically, Angelos bet AGAINST Markakis, instead of "on" him.
I hope Nick Markakis hits 50 home runs and drives in 132 runs this year. And I'll root for him with every at bat just because he's in that long list of us who have been screwed by Angelos' reign of terror as Orioles fans.
Now, Aubrey Huff is a whole different story.
What he did this offseason in calling Baltimore a "horseshit" town on a national radio show while he was clearly not thinking in a lucid fashion…well, that's just about the worst thing any athlete can possibly do while earning upward of $8 million per summer playing a boys' game in our city.
Talk bad about us behind our backs. Pull into town on April Fools Day and make sure you have your bags packed on Labor Day for the moving trucks. And go down to Florida and count your money and play golf and chase girls and order porn online and "jack off" (his word, not mine) 'til your heart's content.
But don't call Baltimore horseshit. Not now. Not on the radio. Not to a newspaper writer.
Not ever ANYWHERE except when you're playing poker somewhere and we don't know about it.
It's bush league. It's callous. And that "apology" delivered on the Anita Marks show was just pathetic.
And worse, yet, it's just WRONG! Baltimore was NEVER a bad place to play baseball.
This was the BEST city in BASEBALL to play. Ask ANYONE who watched the game in the 1980s and early 1990s anywhere in the league and the writers, the umpires, the players, the coaches, the media – they'd ALL say BALTIMORE!
The crab cakes. The love of baseball. The traditions of Earl Weaver, Brooks and Frank Robinson, Jim Palmer and the transfer to Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken. We lived it here but the traveling insiders of the game of baseball – the people who comprised the game of baseball on every level at MLB – thought Baltimore was the greatest baseball city of them all.
And in actuality, maybe Aubrey Huff is right. If he can call the town "horseshit" and no one even CALLS him on it, maybe it IS horseshit.
He called our city and hometown "horseshit" on national radio and is going to roll in here in three weeks, put on the same jersey that Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripken wore, make $8 million this summer, and people are actually going to CHEER for him.
And Andy McPhail, Peter Angelos and the entire organization is basically ENDORSING his return!
For this alone, they should be ashamed beyond words.
This might be the lowest of the low (and they've done some stupid stuff over the years). Click the FREE THE BIRDS banner on the top to see the list of the transgressions that have led to an empty stadium and a downtown ghost town on summer nights.
Of course, this is being done to a "ghost-like," dwindling fan base who are the same people who cheer for a team that REFUSES to even ACKNOWLEDGE that BALTIMORE EXISTS!
So, the town's fans that the privileged player is calling horseshit is too horseshit to even care that the team won't put its own CITY'S NAME on the road jerseys, the letterhead or the website.
What gives? Wasn't it not long ago when we were all better than that and prouder of our city and our Orioles than that? Don't we go ballistic at the mere mention of Cleveland or Pittsburgh football fans?
And to see the Red Sox and Yankees fans march into Baltimore every few weeks and take over the city like the Vikings taking over ships at sea.
The signs hang downtown like "get well soon" cards in a hospital ward:
RED SOX FANS WELCOME!
YANKEES FANS WELCOME!
So, then, what is Aubrey Huff left to internalize about his "experience" as a "Baltimore" Oriole.
(Take a few second to think about it…)
Yeah, exactly.
Either way, the whole thing is a travesty that makes me sick to my stomach.
At every turn, they seem to manage to bring out the worst in the city, because the city ignores them and stays away in droves.
All of the purple passion of the fall and offseason somehow seems to have a leprosy effect in that parking lot.
Think they'll have John Harbaugh throw out the first pitch?
I know one thing: if we at WNST ENDORSED it, it'd be the last thing on earth they'd do!
So, there. They SHOULD have John Harbaugh throw out the first pitch.
Now let's see what happens!
Either way, I'll be here.
I'll be watching the team play, riding out another 162 games of the imperfect storm, another season of meaningless, hopeless and joyless baseball, our 11th in a row.
Maybe they'll celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the 0-21 start with a "Fan Appreciation Night" on May 1st when Tampa Bay comes to town for a 12:35 start.
"It was 20 years ago today…"
Opening Day is just days away.
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Ted Venetoulis. Don Hutchinson. Dennis Rasmussen. Jim Smith. Don Mohler. All led by Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger on Capitol Hill with a frank and open conversation about the future of America after a White Nationalist assault on democracy. Leadership matters.
To dance – or not to dance – on another team's logo?
Luke Jones and Nestor psychoanalyze the latest salvo in the simmering Ravens and Titans feud after the purple defense led by Marcus Peters taunted...
Carucci discusses ways Bills can stop Lamar Jackson in Buffalo
NFL historian Vic Carucci joins Nestor from Buffalo to preview Bills and Ravens on a winter Saturday night in Orchard Park.
The rituals of Ravens fans during the Festivus indoor home tailgate
We're used to being at the games. Or having friends over. Or being at an awesome place like Franco's in Catonsville. But what happens when tacos win and wings lose? Anyone else as superstitious about Ravens game day food spreads?
Todd Schuler and Nestor discuss an incredible Ravens playoff win – and the future of democracy in America. It's been that kind of week...
Jimmy Smith says these Ravens "very eerily similar" to 2012 team
The veteran cornerback is one of the few holdovers left from the Super Bowl XLVII champions.
Hockey and Buffalo and the Caps and a Rich history
Let Newsday sportswriter and Caps historian Ted Starkey preview us on the NHL season while discussing his years as a Buffalo Bills fan – and front office member.
Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray talks baseball at 2000 All Star Game as Rick Sutcliffe busts in on Nestor
During his stint at Sporting News Radio, Nestor broadcast live from the field in Atlanta's Turner Field at the Major League Baseball All Star...
I wanna love you the best that I can
With a little peace and some harmony...
Always one more, you're never satisfied...
George Thorogood moves it on over to chat bourbon, scotch, beer and baseball with Nestor
Lonesome George was a regular on the I-95 circuit even before Nestor chatted with him as a music critic in the 1980s. This one is more modern. A 2015 visit with the leader of the Delaware Destroyers coming to Pier Six.
Reading, writing and rock and roll all the way to Japan with my favorite teacher's daughter
Continuing our Teacher Appreciation Month with an homage to Miss Carolyn Houk, the best reading teacher ever! And you'll get some awesome Jinokoya music and tales of the Far East in this one from Melissa Houk...
Josh Todd discusses the danger and evolution of the music of Buckcherry
They came along a little late for Hammerjacks but six albums into the Anaheim native's journey, Nestor caught up with one of the great front men in rock.
Transportation and the future for Maryland with Ben Cardin
What ever happened to the Red Line?
Mohler and Aparicio discuss genesis and purpose of Baltimore Positive
On May 2nd, we'll be launching our Baltimore Positive initiative in Essex at Pizza John's with Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger and swabbing for There Goes...
One pandemic, no solutions…
Lock down? Open up? Wear a mask. Go to school. Stay at home. Avoid science. Believe science. Ignore science. We all know someone with a different belief on these significant social issues. Bill Cole and Nestor discuss agreeing to disagree about pandemic solutions during election season. They do agree you should vote!
Wilson explains how COVID has affected Morgan State students
The impact of COVID on education has been extraordinary. We'll be chatting with college and university leaders here...
Don and Nestor celebrate a couple of hundred Baltimore Positive chats and the "why" of our mission
So just how did this whole "Baltimore Positive" thing begin...
Dr. Branch talks Baltimore County Covid-19 safety and your health during pandemic
Educating ourselves about the virus and the risks
Learning the history of Lexington Market at Faidley's Seafood
On the 4th of July holiday, take a crab cake break and learn the history of the oldest market in the United States of America and why Lexington Market still rocks!
Marchiari-Alexander says online love of Walters Art is still a click away
The Executive Director and C.E.O. of The Walters Art Museum tells us how to stay in touch during this crisis during Arts Week at Baltimore Positive
Hametz brings urban design into perspective for Baltimore's future
Ever wonder how urban development works and how neighborhoods change via design and civic engineering?
O'Doherty and Gallagher join Don and Nestor to handicap race for Baltimore mayor
Lots of opinions and candidates on the eve of the election
Where will local government invest after the pandemic?
Mikulski says Baltimore's many assets must be emphasized for improvement
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The legend of Stacey Abrams and winning Georgia
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Art Donovan explains the virtues of an all-Spam and baloney sandwich diet to Nestor
They had a lot of fun over the years but it was never more educational than hearing Artie describe what he ate and why he ate it.
Brooks Robinson talks Orioles baseball with Nestor at Hooters
It was the spring of 1995 and Major League Baseball was recovering from an awful strike and Brooks Robinson was sitting at Harborplace talking about a new day in the game.
Back when Derek Jeter checked into Nestor's show from the World Series
When the Ravens were new and baseball mattered, the launching pad in Atlanta was the place to be on the night of the Jim Leyritz home run that changed Yankees history.
Flacco talks about the mental recovery from a major injury
After the Super Bowl MVP limped off the field in 2015, we talked about the long road to getting back on the field and trying to be better than ever.
The first time Nestor met Brian Billick and asked him if he was taking the Ravens job
Before Living Classrooms and WNST, there was that time when Nestor flew to Minneapolis for the NFC Championship Game to meet the guy who would become the first Super Bowl-winning coach of the Baltimore Ravens.
The time when Bob Eubanks celebrated Nestor's marriage with some Newlywed hijinks
Back in 2003 when he was celebrating his final days as a bachelor, Nestor got a surprise visit from the man who knows the role of whoopee in any game show or good marriage.
John Steadman talks about AFL-NFL merger and Jets disaster in Super Bowl III
Early in his career, Nestor was always fishing for the real history of sports. No better place to find it than from a guy who was at the pool with Joe Namath in Miami in 1969.
Tony Gwynn tells Nestor about a life in baseball chasing a World Series
With less than a month left in his Hall of Fame career, Nestor visited his favorite baseball player one last time at The Murph for a lengthy chat.
Lead singer of Kansas Ronnie Platt joins Nestor again to discuss the Point of Know Return
When classic rock bands stay on the road and change members, sometimes it can be bumpy. This is an incredible tale of a band that Nestor discovered at "Leftoverture"...


Tired of starving yourself in order to squeeze into your swimsuit by summer? Check out our nine ways to slim down without dieting.
"Bikini". How can a word jiggling with so much glee and sunshine fill me with so much dread? Truth be told, even a one-piece bathing suit with a skirt scares me right now. To make matters worse: I refuse to go on a diet.
I don't have to and neither do you, but we do need to be realistic. So here are nine ways to make friends with Lycra without making food your enemy.
1. Break a sweat often. Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day, six to seven days a week, advises fitness expert Karen Andes.
2. Strength train two times a week. Muscle burns more calories than fat. Add three pounds of muscle to your frame and you'll speed your metabolism by as much as 7 percent. At first, focus on doing the weightlifting exercises properly, says Andes. Then take the intensity up a notch so you aim for failure. In other words, work your muscles until you can't do another rep.
6. Minimize it; don't super size it. Eat frequent, small meals. 400 to 500 calories at each meal if female, 500 to 600 each if male. Eat more, even in the form of non-fat food, and your body will probably store it as fat, warns Pat Booth, assistant director of the Nutrition Services Department at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. Active women can eat 1,500 to 2,500 calories a day. Active men can eat 2,000 to 3,000, depending on size and how active you are. Ideally, every time you eat, your plate should have a little protein, a little fat and a little fibrous bulk to ensure you feel full and satisfied.
8. Become a water baby. Don't forget to drink those eight glasses of water a day (some doctors actually even suggest as much as 10 glasses). People who exercise need to drink even more to replenish lost fluids.
9. Don't call it quits with carbs. No-carb diets are a fettuccine Alfredo binge waiting to happen, says Andes. But while you needsome carbs for energy, it's a good idea to lighten up on carbs at dinner. Eat half your normal portion of rice, potatoes or pasta. Fill up instead on all the vegetables you want.


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package com.psalgs.tree.bt.misc;

/**
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 * @author djoshi
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 * http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/double-tree/
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 * Convert Tree to Double Tree
 *
 * To create Double tree of the given tree,
 * create a new duplicate for each node,
 * and insert the duplicate as the left child of the original node.
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 * Time Complexity O(n)
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public class DoubleTree {

    static class tNode {

        int data;
        tNode right;
        tNode left;

        tNode(int d) {
            data = d;
            left = right = null;
        }
    }

    tNode root;

    private void printInOrder(tNode node) {
        if(node == null) {
            return;
        }

        printInOrder(node.left);
        System.out.print(node.data +" ");
        printInOrder(node.right);
    }

    // Do the postorder traversal and then attach node to left
    private void doubleTree(tNode node) {

        if(node == null) {
            return;
        }

        doubleTree(node.left);
        doubleTree(node.right);
        /* duplicate this node to its left */
        tNode temp = node.left; // store the address of current left node to temp
        node.left = new tNode(node.data);  // add new node to left of existing node
        node.left.left = temp; // point left of new node which left.left of old node to next left node
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        /* Constructed binary tree is
              1
            /   \
           2     3
         /  \
        4    5
        */
        DoubleTree tree = new DoubleTree();
        tree.root = new tNode(1);
        tree.root.left = new tNode(2);
        tree.root.right = new tNode(3);
        tree.root.left.left = new tNode(4);
        tree.root.left.right = new tNode(5);
        System.out.println("Original Inorder traversal of Tree");
        tree.printInOrder(tree.root);
        System.out.println();
        System.out.println("Make double tree" );
        tree.doubleTree(tree.root);
        tree.printInOrder(tree.root);
        System.out.println();
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}

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Andre Audet
1 Biographical Information
3 Resources and articles
3.1 Related Sourcewatch
" Mr. Audet was formerly a Vice-President at BMO Nesbitt Burns specializing in private portfolios and mining investments from 1989-1999; he was also a Financial Advisor at Midland Doherty and Royal Trust from 1987-1989. Mr. Audet graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Major in Finance) from the University of Ottawa in 1982. Mr. Audet is a Certified Investment Manager (CIM) and possesses more than twenty years of experience in the financing of public companies. Mr. Audet was one of the founders of Orezone Resources Inc., a mining company whose shares are publicly traded on the TSX as well as on AMEX. Mr. Audet is the Chairman of the Board of Majescor Resources Inc. & Adventure Gold Inc. as well as a Director of Mazorro Resources Inc., three publicly-traded junior mining exploration companies. Mr. Audet is also a Director of Pediment Exploration Inc., a publicly-traded mining exploration company."[1]
Chair, Everton Resources
↑ Everton Resources Board, organizational web page, accessed May 31, 2013.
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Can I Ignore a base.<Method> call?
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FAKE_GLOBAL API is not supported with overloaded global functions.
Now after doing this we encountered another problem which is: "Cannot find PDB for: c:\windows\system32\mfc140ud.dll".
Isolator++ needs the PDB file to find and fake the function.
Now we've had success before with setting the env var: set _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srv*c:\symbols*https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols to prompt the MS EULA to download the necessary PDB files.
For some environmental reason, it didn't work for me.
So I used a PDBDownloader to download the PDB and placed the PDB directly in the build output directory: "$(TargetDir)".


I've been promising myself and others that I would commit some time to writing a blog about management learning. For a while now I've been making notes - lots of them - about things I've been reading or observed in a somewhat chaotic manner - clips from newspapers, handwritten notes in various notebooks, scribbled notes in the margins of books and articles and Word documents. Donald Clark, through his 'Plan B' blog, pointed me in the direction of Evernote and it has really helped pull my note taking together into one place. There is still a fair bit of catching up to do but things are heading in the right direction.
I'm interested in the notion of learning in practice. This is partly about learning through doing since this seems to be where most of our learning is taking place. Even though this practical, practice based idea of learning makes sense to me I'm also a bit cautious about giving something a label because of the risk of me, and others, trying to generalise by putting learning in practice into a box, alongside other notions like action learning, coaching and so on. It's as if that, by so labelling, the concepts have boundaries that both contain but also gloss over the fine-grained details of what is being done and how, what's being experienced and what is it that there is to be learned about in any given setting.
So, first and foremost, my interest is in placing everyday practice centre stage so that it can then be treated as a source of knowledge and reflection that's as valuable in its own right as formal knowledge that's taught in business schools or published in books and articles.
Self Managed Action Learning - action learning sets without a facilitator. I rather like Revans challenge that learning sets should be self managed. Current practice tends to rely on a facilitator being present. Why? What's being taken for granted by their presence?
Social media - by and large this is a personal phenomenom and it has little traction in corporate learning. There is a social media of sorts that's being organised through open source tools like Moodle but, in my view, the interactivity of these is still quite limited and usually come with strong corporate branding and an authorised spoon-feeding of content. Whose decides what's in and out? How do we encourage people to follow their own learning interests?
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Le canton de Vibraye est une ancienne division administrative française située dans le département de la Sarthe et la région Pays de la Loire.

Géographie
Ce canton est organisé autour de Vibraye dans l'arrondissement de Mamers. Son altitude varie de 71 m (Dollon) à 199 m (Lavaré) pour une altitude moyenne de 117 m.

Histoire

De 1833 à 1848, les cantons de Bouloire et de Vibraye avaient le même conseiller général. Le nombre de conseillers généraux était limité à 30 par département.

Administration

Conseillers généraux de 1833 à 2015

Le canton participe à l'élection du député de la cinquième circonscription de la Sarthe.

Conseillers d'arrondissement (de 1833 à 1940)

Composition
Le canton de Vibraye comptait  en 2012 (population municipale) et regroupait six communes :
 Berfay
 Dollon
 Lavaré
 Semur-en-Vallon
 Valennes
 Vibraye

À la suite du redécoupage des cantons pour 2015, toutes les communes sont rattachées au canton de Saint-Calais.

Contrairement à beaucoup d'autres cantons, le canton de Vibraye n'incluait aucune commune supprimée depuis la création des communes sous la Révolution.

Démographie

Voir aussi
 Liste des cantons de la Sarthe
 Liste des conseillers généraux de la Sarthe
 Communauté de communes du Val de Braye
 Canton de Saint-Calais

Notes et références

Liens externes
 La carte des communes du canton (archive Wikiwix du site de l'Insee)

Vibraye

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BEIJING—A first impression of China's capital from the train is of a Los Angeles or Dallas jacked up on steroids—an endless parade of ever more inventive skyscrapers of every conceivable shape and size marching off into the distance. This distinctive, stunningly compelling urban landscape, sprawling outward from Tiananmen Square, Mao Zedong's tomb, and the Forbidden City, past a succession of six ever-larger ring roads, is relieved only occasionally by a warren of ancient hutongs. These single-story urban communities have become, in only one of many ironies of this nation, at times a desirable encampment for the gentrified Chinese upper class, a prime tourist magnet, and a place where street people ply quiet, sad, and ugly trades.
Which is to say that lurking, only just below the surface, are far more undercurrents—economic, social, cultural, and especially political—than any western metropolis. It is also a media universe at the center of virtually every debate on China and the future of its people—all 1.3 billion of them.
Hu Shuli has spent her entire life navigating these currents, dancing on the knife's edge. The editor-in-chief of the second major media empire she's built in her lifetime, she quite literally explodes into a room to greet her guests, a ball of energy that has few counterparts in this nation where every emotion is so carefully measured and controlled.
Two years ago, hounded out of business as head of her Caijin media empire by a sensitive government-party paranoia over the rocks she'd been carefully turning over to uncover the seamiest corruption of Chinese business, finance, and their political nexus, she quickly (at least by Chinese standards) turned right around and debuted Caixin. Like her first endeavor, this also consists of business and financial magazines (one in Chinese, another in English), two websites (same languages), but this time, soon to be launched, an entire television network for which she is busily recruiting anchors in both languages to debut later this month.
This maze of possibilities indeed represents the new China—tantalizing challenges, lined up cheek by jowl with a host of perils, as the Communist Party leadership seeks to navigate treacherous waters. Today, these are carrying the nation from full state-controlled communism to a free-market capitalism, buffeted at the same time by strong headwinds from a profligate Europe and a conflicted America over which it has little control.
Indeed, Hu's life has been a succession of efforts to make lemonade out of lemons—a life whose story is that of this nation over the past half century. The daughter of a distinguished family of journalists and public intellectuals, she was inevitably swept up in the Cultural Revolution that engulfed the nation for nearly a decade beginning in 1979. When she was 16 years old, she was sent to the countryside—an experience that scarred many of her generation, but in her case, injected determination and steel into her already determined character. So when China's convulsion began to wind down, she was able to return to Beijing and begin her studies in journalism.
It's here that Hu began to make the contacts—and find a husband—that have helped her maneuver the scoops that began almost immediately to come her way. Her husband, Miao Di, the distinguished professor at Beijing's Communications University of China, has trained many of the luminaries of the nation's media firmament. Along the way, the young up-and-coming party cadres she met, interviewed, and befriended, came to respect and protect her. At the same time, the corrupt officials she unveiled, the mysterious murders she solved, the explanations behind the tragedies that have engulfed a China struggling to emerge into the modern world all began to attract an audience that could not be ignored.
Still, that's what many among China's top leadership would still very much like to do. Which is what another young professor at Tsinghua University is whispering in their ear should not be done. Ignoring such problems can mean passing up enormous opportunities.
Prof. Steven Dong, who runs both the global journalism and public relations programs at Tsinghua University, dances on the other side of the same knife-edge as Hu Shuli. "We need to improve the media literacy of Chinese [political] leaders and Chinese corporate leaders," he tells a visitor.
While Dong and Hu would appear to be on opposite sides of a very high fence in today's China, in fact they share so much of the same DNA. Dong, too, describes himself as a child of the Cultural Revolution, though he is a half-generation younger than Hu. "During the Cultural Revolution, my grandfather was sentenced to jail for 30 years," he recalls, observing that he was just four years old at the time. "For two reasons. One, he was too influential. He'd studied in Japan, and that was the second reason, these people thought he was a spy." In 1981, his grandfather was released after serving two years in three different prisons, but never returned to his earlier job running China's largest steel plant.
Still, Dong believes that this horrific convulsion was essential to China's emergence as a modern economic and political power. "We needed that transition period," he says. "By the end of the 1960s, which is about 20 years after the organization of the Peoples' Republic, the companies became very big and were run by the government, by the party." Ministers in Beijing decided not only what should be produced, but how to produce every widget. The same, of course, was true of the media, controlled, then as now by a shadowy entity known as the Central Propaganda Office. So while some aspects of Chinese business, finance, even the media, are freer than at any moment in this nation's history, others are most certainly not.
Indeed, the reason my Twitter followers haven't heard from me for the past two weeks is that Twitter in China is blocked. Yet microblogs, as they are known here, are the most widely exercised means of communication in today's China. Once banned as a malevolent form of social media whose servers lie entirely outside government control or even surveillance, the Chinese leadership realized it was a genie that they could not put back in the bottle, so they tried simply to put a fence around it. Voilà Weibo, China's answer to Twitter that's already ballooned to a subscriber figure variously estimated at 200 million or 400 million subscribers, while the party's leading newspaper, People's Daily, wallows around five million.
As for Steven Dong, he spends much of his life trying to explain to a Chinese leadership still mired in the post-Cultural Revolution age, why social media can represent an opportunity to be seized, not a force to be shunned. But it's taking baby steps to get there. "The unwary can find themselves engulfed in a maelstrom of criticism," screamed the front-page banner headline in Monday's China Daily, effectively an English-language mouthpiece for the nation's rulers.
"I am on Weibo now as well," Dong says proudly. "When we say something, people can hear it. And they can help as well" to build a national dialogue or a consensus. The fact is that the new China—the party apparatchiki, the media monitors, those who would regulate control and steer this economic and political behemoth—can hardly ignore any of the forces that are attempting to harness progress as the nation lurches into its future.
"We are mouse, they are cat," smiles Hu as we wind up our conversation. "Imagine Tom and Jerry. We do whatever we can do. And finally, if Tom comes, Jerry has to run away. Jerry created some things and maybe they forgot that. It's a learning curve. I think Chinese authorities were not ready in the media sector before Internet challenge was made. It took time for them to get used to that. Finally, it's a compromise from each side. Then new technology comes, then new compromise." And the cycle begins again, rings expanding outward.
David A. Andelman, editor of World Policy Journal, is winding up the final leg of a five-week expedition through Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and China.
To read the first nine dispatches from his trip, please visit the Notes From the Expedition homepage here.


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Jimmy McLaughlin: Creating a fictitious matriarch befitting of QMU history
Tony McGuire
1:22 pm May 10, 2017
In the many years Jimmy McLaughlin served pints and peanuts at Glasgow University's Queen Margaret Union, he served up a side of ridiculous fiction that became legend on campus.
Most will recognise Jimmy from maintaining order in the first-floor Games Room, but his involvement in the former ladies' Union activities extended much further than pouring a perfect pint.
Tens of thousands of Glasgow University students have passed through his bar during his tenure and gained the respect of dozens of QMU staff. For a time he even lived in one of two flats on the fourth floor of the famous venue. He dressed up as Santa at Christmas, a pantomime dame and a natural Master of Ceremonies.
"That was a weird and wonderful time," he recalls, "as I say, what bar job would you get 9-5? It's like office hours."
Jimmy calls this period the "golden years of unions" – footfall was up, business was booming and drinks were steadily pouring from open til close.
"Term time brings a fabulous energy and all of it comes from the students.
"I can remember some 12-hour Cheesy Pops at one or two in the morning – I'd open my living room window and I could hear the music still pumping and I'd be thinking, 'yeah, good… they're still having a good time'."
Glasgow University Queen Margaret Union
"Of course, you'd then go on duty at 8am and people would be falling asleep in the corners."
Campus superstar DJ Toast's pop classics weren't the only thing going bump in the night.
"I remember one time after a '12-hour' – it must have been about 11 o'clock, so most people had drifted away by this time. We'd done a building check – nobody in the building – next thing I hear the lift.
"Now, I have a very vivid imagination and there's so many stories and legends, I thought, 'could it be this ghost I've heard so much about?'"
The lift arrived, the doors opened and to Jimmy's horror it appeared totally empty, but then the limp body of a girl rolled across the lift floor, stared up at him and said, "Hullo Jimmy".
The napping reveller was helped onto her feet, fed and watered and opted for a refreshing walk home.
Ghosts aside, Jimmy knows a thing or two about legends of the QMU.
Former QMU President Gary R. Brown (2006-7) produced a book as part of his year in charge, entitled 'Ladies First: The history of the Queen Margaret Union of the University of Glasgow'. In it, Jimmy was asked to write an essay on the origin of 'Matron', and how she came to be so well-known among union members.
Jimmy McLaughlin at his home
The omnipresent Matron was borne from an act of kindness extended to a poorly student Jimmy was attempting to cheer up. The barman joked he would "go and get Matron", but the student declined any fuss.
From that moment of inception, the fictitious, no-nonsense nurse repeatedly crept into Jimmy's conversations. He painted her as a Guinness-drinking, cigar-smoking, fry-up-after-the-gym kind of woman, who developed a taste for drinking whisky and ether "in the trenches".
For years, Jimmy told students that Matron lived in a flat on the fifth floor and not once was he called out on it: "Most of the time they'd say, 'Wow – I never knew there were flats up there', completely overlooking the fact there only was four floors."
Matron became the same clandestine lie as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Here though, students in their late teens and early twenties shrugged off their teenage cynicism and bought into her existence on various levels. Word of her exploits spread through campus and her narrative evolved into a complex work of fiction, not of books and films, but word-of-mouth alone.
Her well-being was asked after, her advice was sought and her wrath was promised to those that crossed the line. Students shared tales of her exploits and she would call to find out how they had done in exams. Occasional 'sightings' only added fuel to the fire in an endless game of chinese whispers.
On one occasion, Matron was 'caught' in the science building's back stairwell sharing her lethal concoction of ether and whisky with "that" professor. Tsk.
To Jimmy's delight, her legend took flight when other eyewitnesses reported seeing an old stern woman keeping the peace around the union.
The view along University Gardens
"Matron actually gained some street cred at a battle of the bands show," says Jimmy.
"I was keen to hear how some of the students had got on the next day when a very despondent young chap comes in."
The cynical student begins grilling Jimmy over his relationship to Matron and questions his tale's authenticity but before the legend is unravelled, three embattled bands join them at the bar.
To Jimmy's relief, one of the band members recalls seeing Matron with his own eyes, claiming 'some old cow' ejected some of his band's rowdy fans after they ran amok in the backstage area.
"You know," said Jimmy, counting his blessings, "that sounds like Matron to me."
Laughing about it now, he says: "Bearing in mind that the average age of the students coming out with these phrases was between 18 and 19, the 'old cow' they were talking about was the then-Entertainments Manager who was 35 years of age."
Many students past the age of believing in Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny bought into the fiction wholeheartedly. If the stories alone weren't enough to get students intrigued by Matron, Jimmy's delivery left no room for doubt.
For those struggling with living away from home for the first time, the steep learning curve of academia or the constant revolving door of relationships, Jimmy's Matron was a welcome breath of fresh, absurd air in an echo chamber of intense, accumulating pressures.
The Legend of Matron is just one essay in Ladies First: The Story of the Queen Margaret Union of the University of Glasgow, edited by Gary R. Brown.
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Fall Camp has seen its fair share of success. Several true freshmen have used the opportunity availed them to shine, though all anyone can talk about these days is Igbinoghene. The Auburn betting odds for this college football season are suddenly looking even better than anticipated.
Do not expect to forget the name 'Igbinoghene' just because you're having a hard time pronouncing it. Noah has left a lot of analysts speechless with the waves he has been making.
Keep in mind the 7 other true freshmen on offense each one of whom has the capacity to astound and impress. And yet all anyone seems to care about is Noah Igbinoghene, and for good reason.
Everyone agrees that Noah will be playing in the fall. It isn't even a debate. More importantly, it would be shocking if Noah failed to land a significant playing role. Noah came into the picture as the lone true receiver in the 2017 signing class. And he did not just meet expectations in the fall camp. Whatever Noah did was enough to get the coaching staff on his side, to the point where no one has made mention of a redshirt.
Remember, Auburn still has eight scholarship receivers. Head Coach Gus Malzahn threw his weight behind Noah. He admitted that the young athlete caught his eye almost immediately. Gus could not ignore the skill set on display, not with the explosive performance Noah delivered.
Gus sounded pretty convinced when he suggested that Noah Igbinoghene would probably be one of the most important players at Auburn this year and that the athlete would play a role in helping the Tigers' achieve their objectives.
Gus is eager to have Noah acclimate to the atmosphere. The sooner he becomes one of the guys, the better. Noah wasn't without his challenges but the coaching staff chocked that up to a lack of experience, an issue that can be remedied.
Noah is fortunate because he is eager to learn and he works really hard to protect the ball. The athlete has even made an impact on his fellow players. Eli Stove behind whom Noah has been working described him as a little brother that seemed to bring the same skill set to the table as he did; only Noah had the advantage of speed and agility.
Eli feels like he can relate to Noah because of their similar approaches to the game, specifically when it comes to their shifty performances.
Things couldn't look better for Noah Igbinoghene than they do right now. The absence of John Franklin III worked in his favor, giving Noah the room to breathe and to express himself on the field.
Receiver Coach Kodi Burns commended Noah for showing an incredible ability to plug into the team. Kodi also thought the player showed a lot of toughness and courage. No one ever blames freshmen for showing fear and apprehension when they first arrive.
Noah did not seem to have any of those problems. He did what he was told to do when he was told to do it, and he seemed to do it well. Noah will go very far so long as he keeps making progress. The worst thing he can do is stagnate.
This kid is making all the right moves. Let's hope it keeps up!


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Ivy Book Bindings: 2012 End of the Year Book Survey!
So basically. YES to everything! I like that you put Australian contemp (I should have done that! And you've read all of Marchetta's works?!) I was gonna put Bitterblue on my list but I decided to go with Easy. I gave Bitterblue a 4.5 but Easy got a 2...so yeah. Great survey girl! And first comment!
Merry Christmas Keertana!! I hope you enjoy the presents your Secret Santa got for you :D.
Yay for Wanderlove and The Raven Boys! They both my list! Oh and Cinder made it on there too lol. I still haven't gotten around to read The Piper's Son, but I will soon!
It is ridiculously sad the number of books I haven't read that you've gushed about Keertana!! I seriously have to get my hands on ALL of these books. I remember picking up the first book of Megan Whale Turner's series, The Thief, but I don't think I continued on with the series. This will be remedied in 2013 for sure! I've only heard endless gushing about this series from multiple people, including you, so it MUST be good.
Also, confession: I haven't read anything my Melina Marchetta yet. *hides face* It is absolutely going to happen sometime! I'll have to see if my library has any of her books. Which would you recommend that I try out first?
I agree about Bitterblue, that was definitely underwhleming for me. I am a HUGE fan of Graceling and Fire, and was pretty disappointed by Bitterblue, which I just expected to be better than it was, although I did enjoy it. I was just expecting something a little better, especially because I basically stalked ALA Midwinter just to get my hands on an ARC of it.
Fabulous list Keertana! You absolutely MUST go to an author signing or event of some sort, they are unbelievably fun. Meeting authors is like the coolest thing ever, although it's really difficult not to completely fangirl.
I just love tha you loved The Scorpio Races as much as you did, it's really unforgettable. I've started The Storyteller but could never quite force myself to keep reading, so I got stuck at pg. 100 or so. It's just so dark, dark, dark, much darker than, say, Sanctum. Hopefully I'll grow a backbone soon and pick it back up.
And the quotes you chose are just wonderfu. The last one from Quintana ripped my heart to pieces. I just love them both.
So glad to see you give lots of love to Saving Francesca! I know a lot of people don't really like it or don't bother even finishing it and that makes me sad.
Also yay for mentioning the friendship in Code Name Verity - KISS ME QUICK!
And you might go to BEA?!! Me too, maybe!! I'll be over in the USA at that time so yay, i hope we both go!
Okay this post just excited/frustrated me because it means I have to a ton of new books to my TBR. BUT I also agree with you about anything on this list that I've also read. I can't believe that you read THE QUEEN'S THIEF series this year too. I've just started aCoK and enjoying. And I'm feeling the same way that you are about JUST ONE DAY. LOVE these posts. If I find some time I'll do one too.
Also, I'm reading Angelfall tomorrow and I'm SOOO excited (can't believe I haven't read it yet!) I expect to love it - no pressure on you, book.
Lastly, the quotes you shared are spectacular. :) The writing in Tiger Lily especially made me swoon... some of the passages I just wanted to eat up.
Clearly I need to read both the Fever and Kate Daniels series - I need more UF in my life and you ranked them so highly.
And I need to get on reading more Melina Marchetta.
Lots of great suggestions in your list here - definitely adding a bunch to my TBR list!
It's so great to see a lot of my favorites up in there! I completely agree, Melina Marchetta is a GODDESS. The wait for Quintana has been torture.
I'm sad to hear about Bitterblue.. I loved Graceling and Fire as well but haven't had the chance to start on Bitterblue.
I also loved Maggie's novel especially The Scorpio Races! The Raven Boys was pretty exciting too. You have some favorites that I haven't read yet like The Diviners and Karen Marie Moning's books. They're on my wishlist so hopefully I'd be able to have them on my shelf by next year. :) Btw, if you haven't read Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy, I highly recommend that you do!
Awww, sad day that you didn't like Bitterblue. Cashore is one of my favorites as well and while I really liked Bitterblue, I kind of see why you didn't since it's definitely way different than Fire and Graceling. I think it was a miss for quite a few of her fans.
Gosh, I don't know how I missed this post last month! December is CRAZY at my house is my only explanation, sorry!
Totes agree on Days of Blood & Starlight and The Scorpio Races being the most beautifully written books! I'm totally stuck and having a hard time reviewing Days because the book is just so PERFECT.


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Studies that have evaluated tobacco and alcohol portrayals in films have mainly focused on US films. Our aim is to describe tobacco and alcohol portrayals in nationally produced films from six European and two Latin American countries, and compare them with US produced films.
A sample of 337 nationally produced and 502 US produced films, consisting of top grossing films from 2004 to 2009 in each country, was content coded for presence of tobacco or alcohol and seconds of tobacco or alcohol use. Logistic and linear regression models were estimated for all films and youth-rated films (Ages 0–14) to assess cross country differences in tobacco and alcohol content, with US films as the reference category.
Domestically produced films from several countries were more likely than US films to contain any tobacco use both overall (Iceland (OR = 9.29, CI: 1.22–70.89), Italy (OR = 3.58, CI: 1.72–7.43), Argentina (OR = 5.06, CI: 2.13–12.03), Mexico (OR = 4.87, CI: 2.17–10.90)) and for youth-rated films (Germany (OR = 2.24, CI: 1.21–4.16), Iceland (OR = 13.79, CI: 1.80–105.5), Italy (OR = 5.31, CI: 2.54–11.1), and Argentina (OR = 6.9, CI: 0.88–1.34)). Models for alcohol showed few differences compared to US, regardless of rating.
Linear regression models for seconds of use in films with tobacco indicated that only Argentine films had more seconds of smoking than US films, regardless of the rating category. For films with alcohol use, Mexican films had higher seconds of alcohol use than US films.
Smoking was more commonly depicted in films produced outside the US, however there were few differences in the means for smoking screen time in films that contained smoking. This may be partly explained by the prohibition of tobacco product placement in the US. Countries should consider banning paid placement of both products and eliminating subsidies for films with content that promotes tobacco and alcohol use.
Films are a source of popular entertainment and a powerful promotional vehicle for products and behaviors [1, 2]. Studies in Europe [3–6], the United States (US) [7–9], India , and Mexico [11, 12] have found that exposure to onscreen film smoking promotes adolescent smoking. Similar findings have been found for film alcohol portrayals and adolescent drinking in the US [13–15] and Europe [16–18]. Most film exposure to tobacco and alcohol among adolescents in the US, other Western countries, and Latin America comes from Hollywood films, partly because US films dominate theater exhibitions and DVD/Blu-ray sales [19, 20]. In spite of the dominance of Hollywood films in many markets, nationally-produced films may nonetheless meaningfully influence youth smoking and drinking, as some evidence suggests that cultural similarity of youth and film actors enhances the impact of exposure [7, 21]. Furthermore, some policies to reduce youth exposures to film drinking and smoking, such as prohibiting government subsidies for films with tobacco , are more likely to influence nationally-produced films than foreign films. Because nationally-produced films may both have a greater effect on youth risk behaviors and be easier to regulate, it is important to monitor their content.
The only study to assess the impact of non-US, nationally-produced films (i.e. Bollywood) found an association between exposure to film smoking and smoking behavior among Indian adolescents . Studies in Europe [5, 17] and Mexico [11, 12] have assessed the effects of youth exposure to tobacco imagery in both US- and nationally-produced films; however, these studies have not reported on the extent of alcohol or tobacco content in nationally-produced films. Only three other studies of which we are aware analyzed the content of non-US films, describing alcohol and drug use portrayals in Brazilian films , alcohol brand appearances in UK produced films , and substance use portrayals in Nigerian films . Further research on nationally-produced films is necessary to inform policy actions to limit youth exposures to film portrayals of tobacco and alcohol, including policies prohibiting brand appearances and subsidies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends  and that would have a greater influence on national film production than on the production of imported films, including Hollywood films.
The current study aimed to describe and compare tobacco and alcohol portrayals in films released from 2004 to 2009 and produced in the US, six European countries (i.e., Germany, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, UK) and two Latin American countries (i.e., Mexico, Argentina). We hypothesized that US-produced films would be less likely to contain tobacco than films from other countries, because paid tobacco product placement in Hollywood films was prohibited in 1997 and because film portrayals of tobacco use declined over the observation period [26, 27]. Prohibitions against tobacco product placement in other countries were mostly implemented more recently. Because we know of no product placement restrictions for alcohol, we had no expectations about differences across countries.
This study incorporated data from the following three projects: Smokefree Movies Europe , Cinema and Youth Smoking in Latin America, Dartmouth Media Research Laboratory ongoing media content analysis project . All three projects included an analysis of films released between 2004 and 2009 and that were commercially successful in their respective countries. Successful European films (n = 220) were determined by box office data on the 50 most successful films within each country from 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, and the 25 most successful films from 2004 and 2009. Mexican and Argentine films (n = 117) were selected from the 100 most successful films from each year from 2004 to 2009. Nationally produced films were defined as films that were mainly produced by the country in which box office data were collected. A comparison sample of US-produced films (n = 502) consisted of films that were already coded by the Dartmouth Media Research Laboratory and were commercially successful from the time period of 2004 to 2009 in at least one of the eight comparison countries, according to the same box office data used to select nationally produced films.
Film ratings were found through the Internet Film Database for European and US films, and through government entities in Argentina (i.e., Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) and Mexico (i.e., Dirección General de Radio, Televisión, y Cinematografía). Rating systems use age thresholds that vary across countries (Fig. 1), and a rating for ages 0–14 was created for cross-country comparisons of "youth-rated" films.
Film content coding was based on a validated system . Since the study incorporated data from three different projects, each project used slightly different methods for coding films. Tobacco and alcohol in European films (n = 220) was coded by occurrence, where an occurrence was recorded every time there was use or implied use of tobacco or alcohol. For Latin American and US films, tobacco and alcohol were coded based on seconds of appearance on screen. However, for analytic purposes European occurrences were transformed into seconds using a linear regression equation with slope and intercept values obtained from models that regressed tobacco or alcohol occurrences on tobacco or alcohol seconds for the same 20 films. In order to determine inter-rater reliability, a small percentage of films per country (10 % US, 20 % Latin America, 20 % Europe) were double coded (r = 0.92–0.99 for tobacco; r = 0.93–0.99 for alcohol).
Data were analyzed using STATA version 13 . The prevalence of films with any tobacco or alcohol use was calculated for all films, then for youth-rated films in each country, because WHO recommends using youth ratings to reduce youth exposures to risk behaviors in films . For films that contained alcohol and/or tobacco, means of alcohol and/or tobacco seconds were assessed. Logistic (prevalence) and linear (seconds) regression models were estimated separately for alcohol and tobacco for all films and for youth-rated films, using dummy variables for country of film production with US-produced films as the reference group.
Since this study was based on a secondary analysis of data from three different projects and data were manipulated for analytic purposes, a sensitivity analysis that utilized original data was conducted. Separate linear regressions models were estimated for 1) occurrences for European countries, using the UK as the comparison group; and 2) seconds for Latin American countries using US films as the comparison group. The UK was chosen as the comparison group for European countries due to the similarities in percentages of films with tobacco and alcohol between the US and the UK and the fact that many nationally produced UK films were co-produced with US companies. The main models that included seconds for all nine countries were also estimated using the UK as a comparison group.
When comparing the percentage of films with tobacco across all countries, the Netherlands had the lowest percentage of films with tobacco (58 % of all films; 53 % of youth-rated films) and Icelandic films had the highest (94 % of all films, all youth rated). Of US-produced films, 62 % contained tobacco, with 52 % of youth-rated films containing tobacco (Fig. 2a). In logistic regression models with all films, films from Iceland, Italy, Argentina, and Mexico were more likely to contain tobacco than US films. In logistic regression models with only youth-rated films, films from Germany, Iceland, Italy, and Argentina were more likely to contain tobacco than US films (Table 1).
Mean seconds of tobacco use in movies that contained tobacco were compared for all countries. Linear regression models indicated that only Argentine films had significantly more seconds of smoking than US films for both all films and youth-rated films (Table 1). The means were 210 (all films) and 202 (youth-rated films) for Argentina compared to 116 (all films) and 76 (youth-rated films) for the US (Fig. 2b). On the other hand Italy had significantly less seconds of smoking than US films for all films (Table 1).
The prevalence of films containing alcohol was generally higher and less variable across countries than for tobacco (range = 76 % in Netherlands to 97 % in Italy, with US = 84 %, see Fig. 2c). Similarly high percentages were found in youth-rated films (range = 70 % in Mexico to 100 % in Poland, with US = 83 %). In logistic models predicting the presence of alcohol, whether considering all films or youth-rated films, only Italian films were more likely to contain alcohol than US films (Table 2).
Screen-time alcohol imagery in films that contained alcohol ranged from 211 s in US films to 298 s in Mexican films (Fig. 2d). Linear regression models for all films indicated that only Mexican films had higher screen time alcohol presence than US films (Table 2). For youth-rated films seconds of alcohol screen time ranged from 126 in Polish films to 266 in Italian films. Linear regression models indicated that youth-rated Italian films contained more alcohol content than US films.
The sensitivity analysis yielded similar results and found no differences between European countries in number of tobacco or alcohol occurrences for all films or youth-rated films. Models that only considered seconds of tobacco or alcohol use for Latin American and US films yielded the same results as for models that included seconds for all nine countries.
This study finds that alcohol and tobacco are present in most films, regardless of the country of production. Results were similar when examining only youth-rated films. Moreover, youth-rated films appear just as likely to contain alcohol as all films produced in about half of the countries examined, partly because most nationally-produced films receive youth ratings. If rating films for youth increases the likelihood of youth exposure to alcohol and tobacco portrayals, then countries should consider their inclusion in rating systems, as recommended by the WHO to prevent youth tobacco use .
Policies that prohibit product placement may help explain differences in content across nationally-produced films. For example, relatively lower levels of tobacco in US films are likely due to the 1997 prohibition of tobacco product placement, after which tobacco portrayals in US films declined [27, 30]. The European Union's (EU) 2003 Tobacco Advertising Directive prohibited tobacco product placement in films, which EU countries should have adopted into national legislation by 2005 . The Netherlands, the UK, and Poland had all adopted these policies by 2005, which may explain why the prevalence of tobacco was not significantly different from US-produced films. On the other hand, Italy and Germany were referred to the European Court of Justice for not adopting this measure. In 2008, Italy had implemented a ban but Germany had not , although the Italian ban is unlikely to have influenced films considered here (i.e. released 2004–2009) because of the delay between film shooting and screening. As a non-EU member, Iceland was not required to, nor did it, prohibit tobacco product placement in films during the study period. The same applies to Mexico and Argentina. Our study found that films produced in countries without policies prohibiting tobacco product placement were more likely to include tobacco than US films, suggesting that these policies have influenced film production.
Even in countries where tobacco product placement policies have been implemented, more than half of films contain tobacco. To further decease tobacco portrayals and its consequences, other measures that the WHO recommends may be necessary, including giving adult ratings to films with tobacco, certification of no payoffs from the tobacco industry, and prohibition of tobacco in government subsidized films . Because nationally-produced films are often subsidized by the government , this measure may be particularly effective for influencing locally produced films. Indeed, policy makers are more likely to influence nationally-produced films than foreign films.
There is no clear country-specific pattern to the data on alcohol, although its presence is universally very high, albeit highest in Italy. Even though exposure to alcohol imagery through entertainment media appears to promote youth alcohol use [13–18], to our knowledge, no country considered here has implemented policies to reduce alcohol use in films. The WHO encourages prohibition of alcohol marketing in cultural activities, sponsorships and product placement, including new marketing strategies (e-mails, SMS, podcasting, social media) . Some European countries have restricted promotion of alcoholic beverages  but policies to restrict alcohol product placement in movies has not and should be considered. However, the case of tobacco indicates that additional policies, like those recommended for tobacco, may be necessary to substantially reduce alcohol content in films. Nevertheless, countries have been slow to adopt WHO-recommended policies for tobacco, in spite of tobacco's detrimental health impact at any level of exposure and its devastating public health impact. Such policies may be even more difficult to advance in the domain of alcohol because of widespread beliefs that alcohol consumption can be safe and even healthful at moderate levels. However, the scientific data that supports these beliefs has been questioned [35–39], and the negative social and public health impacts of excessive alcohol use are clear. To be successful, global public health stakeholders, such as the WHO, and civil society organizations will likely need to organize around this issue to provide clear recommendations like those advanced for tobacco, while also anticipating counterarguments and resistance against these policies .
This study has several limitations, including not examining the context of tobacco or alcohol use and the small number of nationally-produced films for some countries. Because US films dominate the markets considered in this study, they likely account for a higher percentage of tobacco and alcohol exposures amongst youth, even though US-produced films are less likely than nationally-produced films to include tobacco use. Further research is necessary to determine relative contribution and impact of substance use portrayals in entertainment media from national- compared to foreign-produced films, as well as from different media modalities (e.g., television, Internet, films). These and other potential weaknesses of the current study are counterbalanced by the very large sample of films from multiple, diverse countries that we analyzed. To our knowledge, this is largest international study of substance use in nationally-produced films. Future research should provide a more nuanced portrait of the context of substance use across countries and whether the effects on youth risk taking differ by context of use or country of production.
Smoking and drinking were highly prevalent in nationally-produced films, however for many countries only the percentage of nationally-produced films that contained tobacco was consistently different than the percentage of US-produced films. Nationally produced films may exert an important impact if the cultural similarity of film characters and audiences enhances their effects, as has been found for some studies [7, 21]. To reduce such effects, countries could consider WHO-recommended policies of prohibiting tobacco use in films that receive government subsidies , as these films often represent the majority, if not all, of nationally-produced films. Future research should examine the effects of tobacco and alcohol portrayals in films, as well as the efficacy of policies that aim to reduce youth exposures to these portrayals.
Coding of US films was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant NIH CA 077028). Coding of the European films was supported by the European Commission, Ministry of Health of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the UK Medical Council (MC_UC_A540_0041). Coding of the Latin American films was funded through the Fogarty International Center at NIH (grant R01 TW009274-01).
We thank Rosaura Perez-Hernandez, Paola Morello, Lorena Peña, and Sandra Braun for coding the Latin American films and obtaining movie ratings data.
Designing the study: JFT, JDS, RH. Collecting the data: all authors. Data analyses: IB, CKC. Drafting the initial manuscript: IB, CKC, JFT. Manuscript revision: all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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STOP PRESS: The Private Prosecutors Association (PPA) has published the first edition of the Code for Private Prosecutors. The Code of Practice is voluntary but members of the PPA have committed to abide by it. See LNB News 18/07/2019 75. This Practice Note is being updated to reflect this development.
The Prosecution of Offences Act 1995 (POA 1985), s 6(1) permits private individuals to institute and conduct private prosecutions. A private prosecution is one brought by a private individual, company or organisation who is not acting on behalf of the police, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) or other public prosecuting authority.
The statute preserves the position from common law, and has been referred to over time by the courts as an important right, see Lord Diplock, at p 498 of Gouriet:
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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - The No. 16 Texas Tech softball team picked up their second straight win in Waco, after defeating the Bears 11-2 on Saturday afternoon.
Coach Gregory's team jumped out to an early lead. Baylor would tie the game at two in the fifth inning before Texas Tech would plate nine runs in the sixth inning.
Erin Edmoundson picks up the win (15-2), after tossing six-innings, giving up two runs off of three hits, and striking out four Baylor Bears.
With the win, Texas Tech is 32-8 on the season and will close out their three-game series with Baylor on Sunday - first pitch is slated for 1 p.m.


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Barbarians at the Gates
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Publisher: Compass Games
Solitaire Suitability: Medium
Era: Ancient
Designer(s): Kris van Beurden
Barbarians at the Gates, The Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire 337 – 476, is a card-driven game by game designer, Kris van Beurden (whose credits include Europe in Turmoil) for two players set during the final century of the Western Roman Empire. The Roman player commands the Roman legions loyal to the failing central authority and those Germanic peoples who have settled peacefully inside the Roman Empire, while the Barbarian player leads Usurper Emperors, and controls the migrations of the savage Germanic peoples, who are the Barbarians at the Gates.
The game is played on a point-to-point map of the Western Roman Empire, divided into 11 diocese (administrative districts) such as Gallia Belgica, Caledonia or Italia Suburbicaria, each composed of spaces such as Roma, Massilia or Nova Carthago. These spaces are connected to each other through the network of Roman roads, rougher connections (mostly in uncivilized territory) or river connections (mostly the Donau and the Rhine).
Players take turns playing cards in order to activate Generals (Loyalist Roman generals such as Aetius, Usurper-Emperors like Magnentius and Barbarian leaders such as Atilla or Alaric) for movement and/or sieges, bring new Barbarian invasions into play, recruit new Legions, lead barbarian bands raid across the border into the Roman interior, settle formerly hostile tribes on Roman soil, or even successfully usurp the Imperial Throne from its previous occupant! As leaders move, they will encounter enemy armies and battle, earning eternal glory or an unrecognized grave. Barbarian tribes will probe the fortified border for weaknesses, while the outnumbered Legions have to use interior lines (and the excellent Roman road network) to face each threat to the unfortified Italian, Iberian and Gallic diocese.
From the days of Valentinian I and the first Vandal and Frankish migrations through Theodosius I and the Gothic invasions to Attila and the Huns, Barbarians at the Gates will allow players to vie for the future of Western Europe. Will enough of Roman civilization remain to eventually spark a Renaissance, or will Europe remain forever in the Dark Ages?
Will this series of events play-out according to the history?
337 AD: Death of Constantine the Great leaves the bereft Western Roman Empire in the hands of two of his three sons, Constans and Constantine II.
364 AD: Following the extinction of Constantine's line, Valentinian I ascends to the purple.
410 AD: Rome is sacked for three days by the Visigoths under their leader Alaric.
476 AD: Romulus Augustulus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Flavius Odoacer, ending Roman rule in the West.
Find out in Barbarians at the Gates!
Time Scale: +/- 10 years per turn
Map Scale: point-to-point of Western Roman Empire
Unit Scale: about 5-10 thousand troops per CU
one map (22 x 34) mounted
one rulebook
one playbook
2 distinct player aid cards
110 strategy cards (two separate decks of 55 cards each for the Roman and the Barbarian player)
4 sheets of counters – large with rounded corners
one box and lid set


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