E-democracy.org has 16 years of experience in creating and hosting online civic forums via email and the web.
It led to a lively exchange, but it left me unsatisfied. "Measure" and "metrics" create a kind of tunnel vision, focusing attention on what's easy to count on the web (hits, number of posts per day, number of posters, pageviews, unique visitors), and away from our understanding and experience of online forums.
As it happens, Steve Clift, the founder of e-democracy, recently reported the results of a grant to create four online forums centered on a number of towns in rural Minnesota.
A discussion about new regulations regarding the handling of household wastewater led the county's director of planning to reconsider regulatory language.
Discussions in a second forum generated stories in the local newspaper.
Participants used a third forum to get advice on how to fight the city's withdrawal of their permit to raise chickens in their backyard.
Participants in another e-democracy forum, not covered in this report, used it to organize their response, including meetings with city officials, to a mugging near a transit stop. The transit agency's community outreach staffer joined the forum, and then the discussion, based on their actions. The president of the local neighbors group participated as well.
The report also noted that local government websites had linked to some of the forums and, in one case, the local government had sponsored the start-up of the forum.
How many local government officials are forum members? What percentage of all local government officials are members?
How many of these post, and how often do they post? How many of these posts reflect concrete changes in behavior (meetings scheduled, agenda items added or changed for official meetings, changes to legislation or regulation)?
How many discussions have been used to organize meetings in the community or with government officials?
How many discussions have received links from local or regional newspaper websites?
The forum received 500 pageviews from 200 unique visitors per month.
It had a membership of 128 at the end of the year.
The average length of a visit was 3.5 minutes.
The average visit includes 4 pageviews.
Two of the five members of the city council became members of the Issues Forum. One joined after a discussion of the city's response to last winter's monstrous snowfalls erupted in the forum and led to a delegation of forum members testifying before the council about ineffective snow plowing.
One councilperson posts at least once a week. Three times over the course of the past year, she has responded to questions in the forum or asked for further information. She also introduced an amendment to a local zoning ordinance based on concerns raised in the forum.
A dozen forum members from Smallville South used the forum to organize a meeting with the transportation department to discuss the pothole problem on local streets. They are using the forum to follow-up on the meeting, and an official from the transportation department posts updates on actions taken relating to potholes at least once a month.
The Smallville Gazette has used the forum to solicit feedback on its coverage of the city council.
On average, one out of four of its weekly online issues include a link to one or more Forum discussions.
Which would be more likely to persuade you that Smallville's online forum had actively engaged the community?
Don't ask "how do I make the business case for Gov2.0?"; tell us about your agency's relationships, and the case will become obvious.
and … crickets – a kiss of death for the conversation. You may get some well-meaning feedback from others who have confronted the same challenge, but the thread runs out pretty quickly. It seems that no on can help you.
What happened? You've focused your readers towards technology (Twitter? Youtube? Maybe a wiki?) and generalities ("communication is good"; "crowdsourcing rocks!"), and away from the relationships, mission, history, and other specifics of your organization that would give you and your readers the raw materials to create the business case.
Worse, we've all become distracted from your unique role in this conversation: you know the agency's goals, its current challenges, what keeps senior management awake at night, what appropriations they're looking forward to, and what headlines they're dreading. You know that, or ought to. The rest of us don't.
Your readers from the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be typing their suggestions before they've finished reading your post.
The success of PatientsLikeMe will be mentioned as a model for supporting the wounded warriors you serve.
Someone else might point you to Healing in Community Online, a sort of Second Life for patients and their families.
The question of metrics would become easier as well: TRICARE already surveys its beneficiaries regularly to determine how they perceive the accessibility and quality of care (and if you didn't already know that, rest assured someone would tell you). Surely you could work some questions into that to evaluate your Gov2.0 initiative?
Now, with your help, your readers are brainstorming how your agency can accomplish its mission and deal with its challenges.
So, tell us about your agency's key relationships, inside and outside government, and the ones that are most troubled, and watch the conversation explode.
Returned earlier today from a useful Twitter 101 session hosted by CAP's Alan Rosenblatt at the Internet Advocacy Roundtable. It was great. The next one could be even better, if we could learn more about what the presenters knew in their bones (see bottom).
Like many discussions on how to get started with social media, the conversation bounced around.
Tech: twazzup, übertwitter for blackberry , and hootsuite were new to me and look interesting. Much more on Twtter resources here, courtesy of Shaun Dakin.
What would have made today's session even better?
One of the presenters crystallized this for me when he insisted that the social – non-technical – aspects of using twitter could only be discovered in practice, not taught, and that it was more art than science. But there are more than a few art schools, and though you can't teach inspiration, you can teach craft.
How do you insert yourself in conversations and get heard?
What are your rules of thumb for getting started on a new campaign?
When you "listen" to Twitter, how do you do it, what do you listen for, and when and how do you respond?
When you've "fallen off the horse" in your use of Twitter, how do you get back on?
I'm sure that the presenters did their best to tell us all they knew how to say, but I doubt they told us all they knew how to do. I'm hungry for more.
The Recovery Accountability And Transparency Board (RATB) is sponsoring a public, web-based dialogue on promising IT to support transparency and accountability of the Administration's Recovery Act spending. It is groundbreaking. However, seeming parallels with Digg, Slashdot, and other social media sites are misleading. Indeed, they obscure steps that could still be taken to make this effort, and future efforts, highly effective models of citizen engagement and transparency. Clay Shirky is a wise observer of the rise of easy online collaboration processes for large groups. His work provides us with a framework to clarify the ways in which the Recovery.gov effort is fundamentally unlike many more familiar social networks and to suggest tweaks that would help it realize its unique potential.
For instance, Delicious.com's promise is that it provides personal value – storing your bookmarks and making them accessible from anywhere – from the get go. The tagging component of Flickr provides a tool that makes it easier for members to connect with other participants who have posted similar photos, famously, of the Coney Island mermaid parade. And the bargain for Flickr's "Black and White Maniacs" group requires that participants who have posted a photo immediately comment on at least two other photos, in order to keep an interaction going.
How does the National Dialogue website fare on Shirky's criteria?
our economic recovery is the most transparent and accountable in history….
Participants can refine these ideas in open discussion, and vote the best ones to the top.
The results of the dialogue will be reviewed for the most innovative suggestions around making Recovery.gov a more effective portal for transparency.
Upon the close of this dialogue on May 3rd, 2009, the President's Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board will review the results of this discussion.
The promise is vague, but might be glossed as "you can put your proposal in front of us – the government – and we will review it carefully".
Unlike the first promise of Delicious, thenationaldialogue.org does not promise to serve the participant in a direct or tangible way, nor to connect him or her with other participants.
Further, the central part of the promise – "we will review it carefully" – in fact happens mostly outside of the tool, indeed, out of sight.
The website seems adequate for the first part of the promise – participants can submit proposals quite easily and there is a tutorial as well. There is little to go on to determine how well the tool serves the review process. Since proposals can be sorted by average user rating and number of comments and the invitation states that participants can vote the best ideas to the top, we can infer that these criteria will be used to select the proposals for review. But, again, it's vague – the top 10 ideas? The top 10%?
An even bigger question is whether voting and commenting by fellow participants are appropriate features, given the promise and purpose. Digg and Slashdot are misleading models for thenationaldialogue.org: they support lateral communication between participants. For Digg or Slashdot, the reading audience is also the voting audience.
Thenationaldialogue.org supports, instead, vertical and asymmetric communication – from participants up to RATB IT staff. These ultimate "idea consumers" are as far as we know not the voters or commentators on the site. Thus, it's plausible and even reasonable that Federal IT staff will evaluate and adopt ideas with low ratings or few comments. So, how will participant ratings of ideas be helpful to them?
Further, one could imagine situations where voting is actively counterproductive – if a small company or one person firm proposes an idea that is feasible and valuable but contrary to the interests of a large IT company whose employees are participating in force on the site, the behemoth could easily and conclusively vote down the dangerous (to them) idea. It is to the credit of the participants that this doesn't appear to be happening, but it does raise the question of why voting is a feature on this site.
With only one week allotted for the current discussion, thenationaldialogue.org is not yet in a position to benefit from an evolving bargain – there's no time for it to develop.
I've worked with the Federal Government, notably on an early web-conference in support of then Vice President Gore's Reinventing Government initiative – similar in some respects to this effort – , and I'm fully aware that the perfect can be the enemy of the good.
It is remarkable that this site exists, and I think it provides a great foundation for future efforts. It also makes sense to view this event in a broader context and consider additions and changes that build relationships not only for this event, but also for similar events in the future. So I'd like to focus on where RATB could take it from here.
RATB should recognize that some of the lessons from Digg, Slashdot, and similar social media sites do not apply, to the extent that this site is for asymmetrical communication between developers and idea-mongers on one side and Federal IT staff on the other and tune the explicit promise with this in mind.
RATB should clarify whether each idea will be reviewed and, if not, how comments and ratings will be used to prioritize ideas for review, and announce this clarified promise on the site and in email in the coming days.
At this point, it seems likely that the total number of ideas will come to less than 600.
It would not be unreasonable for participants to expect that each idea will get at least one thoughtful comment. In any case, RATB should be explicit, transparent even, about this.
To fulfill the promise of careful review for ideas, RATB could require that its IT reviewers use this site for comments and votes on the ideas, rather than doing the review offline and out of view. Comments and votes could be anonymous, if necessary. But thoughtful feedback, on the substance of the ideas, their feasibility in the ARRA context, and on the way participants presented them, could be a huge win for participants. And it would be a tangible fulfillment of this site's promise.
For future events, RATB and others in the Administration should consider whether voting and rating is appropriate, given the differences in social context between Digg and these events.
Shirky reminds us that the bargain develops, organically and implicitly, over time.
If you look carefully, you'll see that the content of the earlier Health IT dialogue from October 2008 is still present on www.thenationaldialogue.org. From what I can tell, the profiles and userids of the previous event are entirely disjunct with this event.
I'd suggest that future dialogues break the precedent of discontinuity and, instead, build explicitly from this event. RATB should invite current participants to continue to follow the development of recovery.org via a specific feed (email, twitter, blog). People arriving in a week or a month or a year should of course also be invited to join, but current participants should be treated, welcomed, and celebrated as "early adopters" and pioneers.
In addition to using the site to present Federal IT staff comments and ratings, it could also be used for new ideas, initiated either by RATB or by ordinary participants. The need for new ideas and the inevitable generation of new ideas surely won't stop on May 3rd.
Keeping the site "hot" would jumpstart subsequent dialogues and build a base of participants who are wise both in the use of the tool itself, and in the issues and constraints involved in Federal IT issues.
First, as of 3pm ET on Friday afternoon, Google reveals that 13 of the roughly 400 ideas have received comments from participants who are designated "dialogue catalysts", notably one person from the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. A tweet from @Natldialogue describes the catalysts' role as trying "to ask focusing [questions and ] add detail [to] discussions; they promote further exploration w/o a particular POV". A review of the catalysts' comments suggests that they are meeting their goal, typically encouraging the author of the idea and asking in specific ways for more information. But why for only 3% of the ideas?
The Dialogue has brought forth lively discussion on how to make Recovery.gov a place where the public can monitor the expenditure and use of recovery funds. The growing number of users and ideas posted on the site in just a few days illustrate how interested the IT community is in impacting the operation of Recovery.gov….
Now with three days left in this week-long Recovery Dialogue, we are receiving some interesting and thoughtful submissions. However, there are a few key concepts around which we need your ideas and approaches.
This could be read as a direct reaction to the ideas posted, but given its vagueness, it's equally plausible that this email was drafted before the Dialogue began.


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Child Is Father to the Man is the debut album by Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in February 1968. It reached number 47 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart in the United States.

History
As a teenager, Al Kooper went to a concert for jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and this experience inspired Kooper to start a rock band with a horn section. Originally in a band called The Blues Project, Kooper left after band leader Danny Kalb rejected his idea of bringing in a horn section. He then left for the West Coast and found bassist Jim Fielder who believed in the songs that Kooper wrote. Though Kooper had big ideas for his next project, he didn't have the money to bring his ideas to fruition. He then threw a benefit for himself and invited several musicians he previously worked with, such as Judy Collins, Simon & Garfunkel, David Blue, Eric Andersen and Richie Havens. Although the performances sold out, the owner of the Cafe Au Go Go added such numerous expenses to the gross receipts that the net receipts after the performance were not enough to get a plane ticket or a taxi to the airport.

He later called Fielder and convinced him to come to New York. He also asked Bobby Colomby, Anderson and Steve Katz, who was his bandmate in his former band The Blues Project. Colomby called Fred Lipsius and the band placed an ad in The Village Voice for more horn players. Within a month, the band assembled an eight piece which also contained Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss and Dick Halligan. Kooper then asked John Simon to produce them, after being fresh off from producing Simon & Garfunkel's album Bookends. The album was recorded in two weeks in December 1967. Simon asked all of the members to record their material in one take so he could study songs and make useful suggestions to the arrangements. After a brief promotional tour, Colomby and Katz ousted Kooper from the band, which led to Child is Father to the Man being the only BS&T album on which Kooper ever appeared. The band would later have two number one albums and several Grammys, although Kooper felt they were playing music that he didn't agree with. Despite being asked to leave Blood, Sweat & Tears, Kooper felt everything worked out well for him and the band.

Commercial performance
In the United States Child Is Father to the Man peaked at #47 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. It failed to generate any Top 40 singles, although "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" and "I Can't Quit Her" found some play on progressive rock radio.

In 2012, the album was ranked number 266 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The title is a quotation from a similarly titled poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, slightly misquoting a poem by William Wordsworth called "My Heart Leaps Up".

The album was re-released in the UK in 1973, entitled "The First Album" on Embassy Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records (catalogue number EMB 31028) with an identical track listing and the same picture on the front of the sleeve. The rear had new sleeve notes written by English DJ, Noel Edmonds.

Reception
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Writing for AllMusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote of the album:"Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements (including strings and horns), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work. This is one of the great albums of the eclectic post-Sgt. Pepper era of the late '60s, a time when you could borrow styles from Greenwich Village contemporary folk to San Francisco acid rock and mix them into what seemed to have the potential to become a new American musical form... This is the sound of a group of virtuosos enjoying itself in the newly open possibilities of pop music. Maybe it couldn't have lasted; anyway, it didn't."

 Track listing

 Personnel
Blood, Sweat & Tears
 Al Kooper – organ, piano; lead vocals (tracks 2, 4-7, 9-12); ondioline (track 8)
 Fred Lipsius – piano, alto saxophone
 Randy Brecker – trumpet, flugelhorn
 Jerry Weiss – trumpet, flugelhorn; backing vocals (track 4)
 Dick Halligan – trombone
 Steve Katz – guitars; lead vocals (tracks 3, 8); backing vocals (tracks 3); lute (track 6)
 Jim Fielder – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
 Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion; backing vocals (tracks 4, 10)

Additional musicians
 Anahid Ajemian – violin
 Fred Catero – sound effects
 Harold Coletta – viola
 Paul Gershman – violin
 Al Gorgoni – organ, guitar, vocals
 Manny Green – violin
 Julie Held – violin
 Doug James – shaker
 Harry Katzman – violin
 Leo Kruczek – violin
 Harry Lookofsky – violin
 Charles McCracken – cello
 Melba Moore – choir, chorus
 Gene Orloff – violin
 Valerie Simpson – choir, chorus
 Alan Schulman – cello
 John Simon – organ, piano, conductor, cowbell
 The Manny Vardi Strings

 Production
 Producers: Bob Irwin, John Simon
 Engineer: Fred Catero
 Mixing: John Simon
 Mastering: Vic Anesini
 Arrangers: Fred Catero, Al Gorgoni, Fred Lipsius, Alan Schulman, John Simon
 Art direction: Howard Fritzson
 Photography: Bob Cato, Don Hunstein
 Packaging: Michael Cimicata

 Charts
Album - Billboard (United States)

 Later Samples
 "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know"
 "Maria" by Wu-Tang Clan from the album Wu-Tang Forever Covers
 In 2015, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" performed by Italian singer Luca Ronka in Soul Man'' album
 In 2013, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" on the album Seesaw by Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa
 In 2008, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" on the album Bad for You Baby by Gary Moore
 In 1973, "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" on the album Extension of a Man by Donny Hathaway

References

Blood, Sweat & Tears albums
1968 debut albums
Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
Albums produced by John Simon (record producer)
Columbia Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Irwin
Albums conducted by John Simon (record producer)
Jazz-rock

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Fun and Cozy Knit Fox Hoodie!
As we entered the holiday season, my sister asked me to make a hooded fox cowl for Georgia, her 5 year old niece, for Christmas. She had seen some pictures on Pinterest and thought it would make a great gift. She asked if I was up to the challenge and, hello, of course I was. Hoodies of the cutest woodland creatures are adorable!
We found a pattern on Etsy that we both agreed would be super cute if it turned out. "The Failyn Fox Cowl" designed by The Velvet Acorn (Heidi May) www.thevelvetacorn.etsy.com is absolutely fantastic and the instructions are well written and easy to follow. Heidi offers a wide ranges of sizing as well from 12-18 months to teens and adults. I made the child size which was the perfect size for Georgia. The fox hoodie went on as soon as she ripped open her gift, it was a hit!
Having made two of these hoodies in different sizes and ending up with fantastic results both times, I am loving this pattern. I added a listing to my Etsy shop for custom orders ~ it's wonderful when you can work with a pattern that gives consistent results.
My niece took one look at the pictures of Sarah posing in her fox hoodie and shades and asked me to make her one that looked like a wolf, so I'll be switching up the colour to a grey blend. Stay tuned for pics of the wolf!
This holiday season just reinforced my love of all things warm, cozy and woolly and sharing it with loved ones. My hands are happily tired from all the hooking and knitting but it was well worth it.
Of all the items made over the last couple months, my number one gift to give was the Macchiato Slouchy Hat designed by LittleMonkeysCrochet. This hat is a fantastic accessory for the winter, a great gift for hat lovers. Rebecca has once again picked the perfect yarn for this project – Lion Brand's Scarfie. The ombre effect is gorgeous and yes, the one ball can make two hats (just). It is by far my favourite slouchy hat for winter and, pictured below, worn by one of my favourite people.
I've also made it in black and white with a weathered red button for some "wow!" effect. I love the splash of colour against the white and black.
I have one more ball of Scarfie in black and dark raspberry pink – can't wait to make a couple more!


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Adīmī (farsi ادیمی) è una città dello shahrestān di Zabol, circoscrizione di Posht Ab, nella provincia del Sistan e Baluchistan in Iran. Aveva, nel 2006, una popolazione di 2.974 abitanti. Si trova a nord-est di Zabol.

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An efficient data exchange between different trades and software systems e.g. with external planning offices, master computers in the plant, ERP- and logistic systems in terms of Open BIM has long been a matter of fact in precast plants.
Therefore, we have been actively involved in the "BIM in Precast Parts Construction" initiative since 2011, a specialist group within the deutscher Bundesverband Bausysteme e.V., in order to develop standards and processes for the industry.
As an innovative supplier of BIM software solutions for the precast concrete industry, we are member of the German-speaking chapters of buildingSMART.
buildingSMART is an international network of experts within the AEC-industry driving the transformation of the built asset economy through creation & adoption of open, international standards. The network advocates for the open data exchange and the certification of data model standards. These certifications are known as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC).
At the work group IFC4precast we are shaping actively the future standards of the precast concrete industry and, therefore, offer our customers highest skills when dealing with topics like interoperability and open interfaces according to OpenBIM.


Z-Wave Danfoss Link HC5 Hydronic Controller for 5 Outputs is a programmable, wireless control system for heating systems in residential buildings.
The Danfoss Link HC5 Hydronic Controller is part of the wireless Z-wave control system for heating systems in residential homes, that controls hydronic floor heating systems.
The Danfoss HC allows the control of warm water floor heating systems and offers a wide range of extended functionalities for optimal comfort and energy saving with individual room temperature control.
The Danfoss HC includes among other: 5 short circuit safe outputs for 24V actuator drives NC or NO, relays for pump and boiler control, self-testing program, regulation by ON/OFF- or PWM-principle (pulse width modulation) etc.
The system can consist of up to three Danfoss Link HC, offering a possibility of up to 30 outputs for even larger systems. The Danfoss Link HC has easy connection directly to 230 V power supply without the need for further transforming, supplying all actuator outputs with 24 V.
Automatic self-diagnosis providing an indication of several error possibilities like missing wireless connection or missing/non-functional actuator on output, etc.


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… information, inspiration and illumination for midwives, birth folk, women and families …
Group B Strep Explained
What's Right For Me?
Birthing Your Placenta
101 Dissertation Tips
Why birth-related decision making is trickier than ever…
A number of features of our modern culture have made making birth-related decision making trickier than ever. Our TV, cinema and computer screens are filled with dramatic and unrealistic portrayals of birth, which often make it out to be 'risky' and cause people to feel scared of it. Such programmes also give people unrealistic ideas about labour and birth. A good example here is how, in TV and films, labour is often shown as being much shorter than it is in real life. This can then make it difficult for women who do not realise that they may spend a good many hours in what midwives call 'early labour' before their labour is considered to be 'established' or progressing. Some of these women will end up with intervention that they did not want, which they probably didn't need and which might have been prevented if they had been able to gain a more realistic sense of what labour and birth can be like.
Social media feeds can easily become full of negative images, judgements and people telling others what to think and do. We live in a consumer culture and there exist people and companies who have an interest in perpetuating fear and persuading people to make the choices that are right for the company, because it benefits them personally or financially. And we have created centralised and standardised health care systems, which tend to offer a 'one size fits all' approach. In such systems, people can feel they are on a conveyor belt and professionals feel overworked and unable to give individualised care. Such systems leave many people feeling disrespected, dissatisfied and hurt, not to mention physically and/or emotionally traumatised.
Other challenges for birth-related decision making
A related issue is that nowadays many women don't have confidence in their own bodies. For too long, women have been told that their bodies are the wrong shape and size, that they're too hairy, too dirty, too smelly, too old, too fat and that they don't work properly. We hear and see constant (though often very subtle) messages telling us that we are 'inadequate' and deficient and that we grow the wrong sized babies. We have been convinced that our bodies aren't trustworthy enough to be allowed to labour without being closely monitored and watched; even though being monitored and watched can slow down our labours. We hear that we don't go into labour at the right time, that we don't labour quickly enough or well enough and then, when our babies do come out, we're told that we then don't have enough milk to feed them. Somewhat paradoxically, and despite all these criticisms, we also receive the message that a woman's body is for the enjoyment of others rather than herself. Is it any wonder that many women don't know how to trust their bodies or have a sense that decisions about their body are theirs and theirs alone to make?
In the months and years after they give birth, many women say that they wished that they had explored different options or had had more information about other paths that might have been available to them. Some women, for instance, wish they had chosen a different kind of caregiver or a different place of birth. Or that they had not agreed to something that was offered. Or that they had asked for something else.
Others are really happy with the choices that they made. The reality is that, for healthy women who live in high income countries today, many birth decisions are equally safe and appropriate. We know, for instance, that most women and babies are just as safe no matter whether birth takes place at home, in a birth centre or in hospital (Birthplace in England Collaborative Group 2011). We are also learning that, even when research tells us that one option may be slightly safer than another on a population basis (that is, when we consider what works for large numbers of women and babies across the board), that doesn't necessarily make it better for an individual woman or baby. We also often see that, even when there appears to be a relative difference between two possible courses of action (or inaction), the absolute difference between these options turns out to be quite small.
I've written loads about birth-related decision making in "What's Right For Me?" Click here to find out more.
But these nuances and complexities often get lost when we reduce everything to likes, comments and retweets and when rushed conversations take place in what can feel like a noisy, crowded marketplace. It's clear that we need to find a way to get away from the noise so that we can talk about these issues, and to help people think about things before they make some of the most important decisions of their lives.
That is, in a nutshell, why I wrote 'What's Right For Me? Making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth'. It looks at many aspects of birth-related decision making. If you'd like to, you can find out more here. And I'd like to send a huge thank you to all of those who have sent lovely messages since the publication of the book.
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The decisions that we make about our pregnancy and childbirth journeys can shape our experiences, health and lives, as well as those of our families. But those decisions can be complex. This book is a guide to the different perspectives and approaches that exist, and it offers tips, tools and ways of thinking which will help you make the decisions that are right for you.
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Q: dynamic reference to javascript file I have a master page with a reference to javascript file that is js folder.
Both File and masterpage are in the root directory.
Many of my forms are in different folders Like
  Root>first>abc.aspx
  Root>second>def.aspx
  Root>second>anotherFolder>def.aspx

I kept the reference like this
      <script type="text/javascript" src="js/Check.js"></script>

I also tried src="<%= Page.ResolveUrl("~/js/Check.js") %>" and src="~/js/Check.js". While using Page.ResolveUrl and Server.ResolveUrl page shows error.
What i need to do so that any form in any directory get the reference of the file.
I dont want to do ../ and ../../ in every form.

A: <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/Check.js"></script>

you can use "/" --> web site root

A: If you're running your Visual Studio's internal server for debugging then firstly remove the virtual folder it insists on using.
Do this by selecting the root of your site in VS Solution explorer, then right-click and choose "Properties Window" - in the properties change "Virtual Path" from your "AppName" to /
This virtual path plays havoc with all sorts of paths..I find that if i don't make this change in VS then when I DO get all my paths working they won't work when I put the site on a live server that isn't using a virtual site.
Then set your JS reference to <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/Check.js"></script> - using the root / in your src.
UPDATE
If you really want to keep the virtual folder then you can try this - using ResolveClientUrl():
First, add Runat="Server" to your <head>
<head runat="server" id="myhead">

<script type="text/javascript" src='<%=ResolveClientUrl("~/js/check.js") %>' />

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Get the latest Choom Holdings Inc (ORO) real-time quote, historical performance, charts, and other financial information to help you make more informed trading and investment decisions Choom Holdings Inc. operates as an integrated cannabis company. The Company provides cannabis via its retail stores. Choom Holdings serves in Alberta and British Columbia. Address. Suite 350 - 409. Choom Holdings Inc. SEC filings breakout by MarketWatch. View the CHOOF U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting information Choom is a Canadian retail cannabis company with their brand inspired by Hawaii's Choom Gang, a group of buddies in Honolulu during the 1970's who loved to smoke weed. Here are some highlights: - Q2 2021 rev 350% YOY growth. - 15 stores in 3 provinces. - Management has over 100+ years of experience. - 425k + customer transactions in-store and. Choom Holdings Inc. Under the Choom brand name, Choom Holdings has numerous retail locations throughout Canada, supplying licensed cannabis flower through wholly-owned subsidiary Medi-Can Health Solutions Ltd. In addition to cannabis-derived products, they also sell branded accessories. The company's headquarters is located in Vancouver.
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VANCOUVER, BC and SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 16, 2020 /CNW/ - Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: CHOO)(OTCQB: CHOOF) (Choom) and Phivida Holdings Inc. (CSE: VIDA) (Phivida) are pleased to announce the completion of the acquisition of Phivida by Choom, originally announced on June 3, 2020, pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement (the Plan of Arrangement) Aurora Cannabis Inc. (Aurora or the Company) (TSX: ACB) (OTCQB: ACBFF) (Frankfurt: 21P; WKN: A1C4WM) announced today that it has closed its previously announced $7 million investment in Choom Holdings Inc. (Choom), whereby Aurora received 9,859,155 common shares from Choom's treasury, priced at $0.71 per share, representing a 6% ownership interest NetworkNewsBreaks Choom Holdings Inc.s: NetworkNewsWire: 06/17/2019 4:22:23 PM 63 NetworkNewsBreaks Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: NetworkNewsWire: 06/14/2019 4:34:56 PM 62 NetworkNewsBreaks Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: NetworkNewsWire: 05/21/2019 3:41:58 PM 61 NetworkNewsBreaks Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: NetworkNewsWire: 04/29/2019 3:01:25 P Toronto, Ontario-(Newsfile Corp. - le 8 juillet/July 2021) Choom Holdings Inc. Warrants (the Warrants) have been approved for listing. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Each whole Warrant shall entitle each Warrantholder thereof, upon exercise at. VANCOUVER, BC, May 25, 2021 /CNW/ - The following issues have been halted by IIROC:. Company: Choom Holdings Inc. CSE Symbol: CHOO. All Issues: Yes. Reason: At the request of the Company Pending News. Halt Time (ET): 2:09 PM IIROC can make a decision to impose a temporary suspension (halt) of trading in a security of a publicly-listed company
Choom Holdings, Inc. / CHOOF - A Look at Goodwill to Assets Ratio Hi Everyone, It's Tuesday night and I was just reviewing the most recent Choom Holdings, Inc. quarterly report to see how the Goodwill line item for this most recent quarter might relate to Current Assets, Non-Current Assets, and Total Assets... because math Choom Holdings is trading at 0.0525 as of the 10th of July 2021, a -3.31 percent down since the beginning of the trading day. The stock's lowest day price was 0.0458. Get the latest Choom Holdings detailed stock quotes, stock trade data, stock price info, and performance analysis, including Choom OTC Stock investment advice, charts, stats and more Choom Holdings Inc. (CHOOF) Stock Quotes - Nasdaq offers stock quotes & market activity data for US and global markets Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 3, 2020) - Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: CHOO) (OTCQB: CHOOF) (Choom) and Phivida Holdings Inc. (CSE: VIDA) (Phivida) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement dated June 2, 2020 (the Arrangement Agreement) pursuant to which Choom will acquire all. Choom Holdings Inc, formerly Standard Graphite Corp, is a Canada-based company engaged in the alternative medicine sector. The Company is engaged in the business of cultivating and selling cannabis for medical purposes and re lated products under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR). Choom Holdings Inc has one reportable operating segment being that of the cannabis.
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VANCOUVER, BC, June 28, 2021 /CNW/ - Choom Holdings Inc. ( Choom or the Company ) (CSE: CHOO) (OTCQB: CHOOF), a fast-expanding Canadian retail cannabis company, is pleased to announce that. Find the latest news headlines from Choom Holdings Inc. (CHOOF) at Nasdaq.com
Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: CHOO) is leading Canadian retail cannabis company. They have opened new retail stores across Canada in Vancouver and Toronto. I just recently visited their instagram page u/CHOOMBRAND and I really like the content they post. While they do publish info related to investing, they do broadcast a lot of info about the. | July 31, 2021. All news about CHOOM HOLDINGS INC. 07/08: CSE BULLETIN: New Listing - Choom Holdings Inc. Warrants (CHOO.WT Company Name: Choom Holdings Inc, Stock Symbol: CHOO, Industry: Cannabis, Total Posts: 2, Last Post: 12/1/2020 11:22:03 A Choom Holdings Inc. Completes Acquisition of Phivida Holdings Inc. Published: September 17, 2020. Choom Holdings Inc. and Phivida Holdings Inc. announced the completion of the acquisition of Phivida by Choom, originally announced on June 3, 2020, pursuant to a court-approved plan of arrangement.The Plan of Arrangement was implemented pursuant to the terms and conditions of an arrangement.
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Potential Canadian marijuana market upside estimated at $22.6 billion Choom™ strategy is soil-to-shelf integration through cultivation, branding and retail marketing Company seeking phase 1 and 2 revenue growth in Vernon and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: CHOO) (OTCQB: CHOOF) is focused on the recreational marijuana market in Canada and is projecting Choom Holdings Inc. CHOOF Stock Message Board: Choom Shareholder Update, September 2020 Choom Holdings Inc. (CNW Group/Choom Holdings Inc.) According to the American Pet Products Association, U.S. pet owners are estimated to have spent over $70 billion in 2018 on pet supplies. Date: June 8, 2021. Jurisdictions: Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan. e-Letter Template Tel: 604 899-6500 Fax: 604 899-6506 Toll Free: 1 800-373-6393 www.bcsc.bc.ca P.O. Box 10142, Pacific Centre, 701 West Georgia Street Vancouver, BC, Canada V7Y 1L2 RECEIPT Choom Holdings Inc. This is the receipt of the British. Choom Holdings Inc. Cultivation & Retail. Hot Pot Stocks: Choom Holdings Up +77% and Climbing . Mar 12 Chelsea Roh. Making a break for it in the hot pot stocks category is Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE:CHOO) (OTCQB:CHOOF), up +77% in the last 30 days on the CSE. Why has this stock catapulted all of a.
Choom™ Holdings Inc. (CSE: CHOO) (OTCQB: CHOOF) is building a friendly entry into the country's growing legalized cannabis industry as it awaits final stage approval of its Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) license and application to serve the anticipated recreational marijuana market once full nationwide. Choom Holdings Inc () Stock Market info Recommendations: Buy or sell Choom Holdings stock? Wall Street Stock Market & Finance report, prediction for the future: You'll find the Choom Holdings share forecasts, stock quote and buy / sell signals below.According to present data Choom Holdings's CHOOF shares and potentially its market environment have been in bearish cycle last 12 months (if exists) Find the latest SEC Filings data for Choom Holdings Inc. (CHOOF) at Nasdaq.com
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Choom Holdings, Inc. engages in the retail of cannabis. The company was founded By Craig D. Schneider on September 18, 2006 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Moody's Rating Choom Holdings stock price prediction is an act of determining the future value of Choom Holdings shares using few different conventional methods such as EPS estimation, analyst consensus, or fundamental intrinsic valuation.The successful prediction of Choom Holdings' future price could yield a significant profit
Learn about ORO (XDUS) with our data and independent analysis including price, star rating, valuation, dividends, and financials. Start a 14-day free trial to Morningstar Premium to unlock our. Choom Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the retail of cannabis. As of June 30, 2020, the company operates two medical and two coaching clinics under the name Concord Medical Centre; and 13 retail stores. The company was formerly known as Standard Graphite Corporation and changed its name to Choom Holdings Inc. in November 2017 Canadian cannabis retailer Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE:CHOO) (OTCQB:CHOOF) said Tuesday that its revenue grew by 147.94% year-over-year hitting $5.1 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2021.. The.
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Choom Holdings Inc. announced Choom has completed the acquisition of the retail... Choom Growth Continues with 15th Alberta Location. by PR Newswire. March 9, 2020. 0. Choom™ announced the opening of a licensed cannabis retail... Choom Announces Expansion in Ontario. by PR Newswire Choom Holdings Inc. (CHOOF) Nasdaq Listed. Nasdaq 100. Data is currently not available. Add to Watchlist. Add to Portfolio
Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: CHOO) (OTCQB: CHOOF) is rapidly positioning itself to become the premier recreational cannabis brand in Canada and capture a significant portion of this newfound cannabis bonanza. Choom™ is a high-quality hand-crafted cannabis brand created exclusively for the Canadian recreational market Shop products on Choom. HEY VANCOUVER and NIAGARA! Try our FAST, FREE, same day deliver A brief financial summary of Choom Holdings Inc as well as the most significant critical numbers from each of its financial reports. In addition, some financial ratios derived from these reports. VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Choom Holdings Inc. (Choom or the Company) (CSE: CHOO; OTCQB: CHOOF), a fast-expanding Canadian retail cannabis Company, is pleased to.
Choom Holdings Inc (OROC:DEU) company profile with history, revenue, mergers & acquisitions, peer analysis, institutional shareholders and more Choom Announces Recapitalization Transactions: 03/23/2021 08:00 AM EDT: GlobeNewswire : PLATFORM(WD) Advances Choom's Digital Strategy with New Website: 09/23/2020 08:45 AM EDT: Canada Newswire : Choom Secures 4th Retail Location in Vancouver: 09/16/2020 08:45 AM EDT: Canada Newswire : Choom Holdings Inc. Completes Acquisition of Phivida.
Choom Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the retail of cannabis. As of June 30, 2020, the company operates two medical and two coaching clinics under the name Concord Medical Centre; and 1. Choom Set To Debut In Toronto With New Store In July Canadian cannabis retailer Choom Holdings Inc. (CSE: CHOO ) (OTCQB: CHOOF ) said Thursday it intends to launch its first Toronto flagship in. Adopted from Choom Holdings Inc. Choom™ (CSE: CHOO; OTCQB: CHOOF), one of the Canada's leading recreational cannabis retailers, is pleased to announce the opening of their next licensed cannabis retail store in Calgary, AB. The store, opening in the bedroom community of Shawcliffe, is the first Choom retail stor Choom Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the retail of cannabis. Choom Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. Choom Holdings operates under Drug ManufacturersSpecialty Generic classification in the United States and is traded on OTC Exchange. Instrument Choom Holdings Inc. Completes Acquisition of Phivida Holdings Inc. Canada NewsWire. VANCOUVER, BC and SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 16, 202
Choom™ is an emerging adult use cannabis company whose mission is to establish one of the largest retail networks in Canada and the United States. The Choom brand is inspired by Hawaii's Choom Gang—a group of buddies in Honolulu during the 1970's who loved to smoke weed—or as the locals called it, Choom About Choom Holdings Inc. The Choom brand is inspired by Hawaii's Choom Gang- a group of buddies in Honolulu during the 1970's who loved to smoke weed—or as the locals called it, choom. Evoking the spirit of the original Choom Gang, our brand is synonymous with cultivating good times with good friends Detailed price information for Choom Holdings Inc (CHOOF) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades The latest analysis released by Oneup Business Insights on Pet CBD Market Outlook 2021 Survey results sheds light on how investment and competitive landscape is impacted due to significant changes in the Industry.. This research examines the global and regional markets for different type (),application (), and geography ().Leading Companies who are pursuing a variety of organic and inorganic.
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Choom Holdings Inc. (Choom™) (CSE: CHOO; OTCQB: CHOOF) (Choom), an emerging adult and medical use cannabis company that has secured one of the largest national retail networks in Canada , is pleased to announce that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Better Choice Company, Inc. for the exclusive Canadian distribution rights to Better Choice's cannabidiol. Vancouver, British Columbia and San Diego, California--(Newsfile Corp. - September 10, 2020) - Phivida Holdings Inc. (CSE: VIDA) (Phivida or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has obtained a final order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia approving the plan of arrangement with Choom Holdings Inc. (Choom), pursuant to which Choom will acquire Phivida by way of plan of. Home Tag Choom Holdings Inc. Tag: Choom Holdings Inc. Choom-branded Cannabis Retail Store Licensed to Open in Westlock, Alberta. by Canada Newswire. September 27, 2019. 0. Choom announced that an Alberta provincially approved cannabis retail... Choom-branded Cannabis Retail Store Licensed to Open in Drumheller, Alberta Stock analysis for Choom Holdings Inc (ORO:Frankfurt) including stock price, stock chart, company news, key statistics, fundamentals and company profile News for Choom Holdings Inc. Monday, November 12, 2018. 06:55 AM ET. Pot companies to reveal earnings less than a month after Canadian legalization MarketWatch. Saturday, October 20, 2018. 11:21 AM ET. Marijuana stocks to watch: Aurora Cannabis investments may be more valuable than its pot MarketWatch. Wednesday, September 26, 2018. 08:23 AM E
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President Benigno S. Aquino III huddles with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), led by its chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, for a group photo souvenir during the Courtesy Call at the President's Hall of the Malacañan Palace on Thursday, March 27, 2014. Malacañang Photo Bureau
ILIGAN CITY, Philippines — The next president of the country must be able to nurture the gains of the peace process that the administration of President Benigno Aquino has achieved with Moro rebels to ensure continued security and stability in Mindanao.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) made this call in a statement released on the eve of the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB).
"If the new president does not follow through with the achievements of the peace process and genuinely adopts a policy of empowering the MILF and henceforth the Bangsamoro Government, then the future is truly bleak," the group said.
"This is the reason why the 2016 presidential election is truly material to the future of the Bangsamoro," the MILF stressed.
The principal bargain for the MILF's agreeing to end its four-decade rebellion against the Philippine state is the establishment of the Bangsamoro government, an autonomous entity with far greater political and economic governance powers than the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Based on an agreed roadmap, this entity must be fully entrenched by noon of June 30, 2016, the same day Aquino steps down from office.
To make this happen, Congress has to enact the Basic Law that will serve as charter of the future Bangsamoro, which will then be subjected to a plebiscite in the areas proposed to comprise its administrative territory.
Aquino has vowed to make a negotiated deal with the MILF one of his legacies. But expectedly, many of the measures that need to be done to build peace in Mindanao go beyond his term of office.
The MILF acknowledged that some of its fears about reversal in the momentum of the peace process "is compounded after the exit of President Aquino in 2016."
"We can only hope that those who run for president will adopt a policy of fully supporting the Bangsamoro and not to undermine it in any manner or form," the MILF said.
After abandoning the armed struggle, the MILF has said it will transform itself into a social movement while also building a political party as vehicle for its members to participate in governing the region.
Part of the deal is for it to decommission its own army alongside the pursuit of a host of complementary measures to normalize the situation in once conflict-affected communities.
Throughout the implementation of all agreed measures, the peace panels of both parties continue to exist to oversee the efforts while a third-party body, composed of a mix of international and domestic entities, monitor the actual achievement of the detailed milestones.
The peace panels are only disbanded once an Exit Agreement is forged between the parties, signaling the full implementation of their respective commitments as embodied in the CAB.
"This achievement is one for a lifetime… By any stretch of imagination, this hard, complex, and almost futile exercise cannot be repeated in a generation," the MILF said.
It said that to make the agreement truly work for attaining peace in Mindanao, the parties "must nurture" their partnership "through to the end."
"This partnership has to be real and genuine. Gone are the days when mistrust and reservation are the rule between negotiators whose motive is to outwit the opponent in order to win. Both sides especially their negotiators have to open up with each other and must continue to undertake problem-solving approaches," the MILF explained.
"Moreover, both sides have to help one another. Needless to say, the MILF has to be helped to stand on its feet so that it is fully capacitated to stave-off the challenges ahead," it added.
"Only two capable partners can ensure the success of their peace endeavor," the group emphasized.
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If you were like me pre-healthy lifestyle days, you will probably go – What is Acai? (pronounced ah-sigh-ee). The açaí berry grows on palm trees native to the Amazon rainforest, and its taste is a blend of wild berries and dark chocolate. The açaí fruit has up to 10 times more antioxidants than blueberries, is a great vegan source of essential fats, and helps to control cholesterol. It's high in fibre, and low GI, not spiking the blood sugar. Açaí is also high in antioxidants, omegas 3, 6 and 9 (anti inflammatory!) and high in fibre. And Project Açaí serves Sambazon organic açaí, which grows in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest where the berries are hand harvested by local family farmers.
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Ingredients of the acai bowl! Picture from: projectacai.com.
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Where my chocolate Abs? smoothie is super yumz!!! I am so glad to see our superfoods scene livening up! A great place to grab a pre-meal smoothie (always drink your juices/smoothies which are fast digesting food before your main solid meals) or full sized acai bowl as a meal! Will definitely be back. Will be even more awesome if they made all their fruits organic!


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FCC's Wheeler says retaining net neutrality rules maintains a forward path
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler noted how internet ISP investments have increased since the order was passed in 2015, and argued that "open networks invite innovation."
As current FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler gets ready to step down from his post this Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump takes office, he made one last case to defend the net neutrality rules that he championed during his three-year tenure with the regulator.
Speaking during his final speech (PDF) on Friday at the Aspen Institute on Future of Broadband series, Wheeler said that maintaining net neutrality rules is a move forward for the telecom and IT industries.
"Tampering with the Open Internet rules means taking away protections that consumers in the online world enjoy today," Wheeler said. "What some describe as free market economics cannot simply mean freeing incumbents of their responsibilities."
Wheeler added that a "hands off approach to network oversight is more than a shift in direction, but a decision to remove rights and move backwards."
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Wheeler cited how internet ISP investments have increased since the order was passed in 2015 "because open networks invite innovation."
Specifically, investment in internet-related activities has risen 35% at the edge and in core networks since the rules were finalized in 2015.
Wheeler cited how Randall Stephenson told President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting about job creation has made large investments of capital since 2012.
"The CEO of AT&T reportedly told the president-elect that his company has been the leading investor of capital for each of the last five years," Wheeler said. "This of course includes two years since the adoption of the open internet rules."
AT&T is also reaping the benefits of lower network construction costs.
Wheeler cited how John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president for AT&T Technology and Operations, said earlier this year that it will deploy 250% of the capacity it deployed in 2013 and 2014 for 75% of the cost.
"This investment makes sense," Wheeler said. "Innovative new products and services have the effect of driving up usage of the internet and with this increased usage ISP revenue is up."
Given the capital that has been invested in AT&T and others networks, Wheeler said the incoming Republican administration should look at the benefits that the Open Internet Order has created since it was passed.
"Where's the fire? What has happened since the Open Internet rules were adopted to justify uprooting the policy?" Wheeler asked. "As I said a moment ago, network investment is up, investment in innovative services is up, and ISPs revenues—and stock prices—are at record levels. So, where's the fire?"
Consistent, Continuing and Comprehensive
As Wheeler sees it, the FCC's passing of the net neutrality rules are based on three main concepts that are designed to ensure a fair and open network:
Comprehensive: Limiting the definition of net neutrality to blocking, throttling and a ban on paid prioritization does not carry much weight if it does not protect consumers against gatekeepers that control what users can access over their broadband connections.
Continuing: Since it's unclear what the future of the internet will bring, the FCC can offer consumers a general conduct rule. Similar to a referee on the field, the FCC will have the ability to act when it needs to "prevent anti-consumer and anti-competitive practices."
Consistent: This is a consistent standard so that an ISP, edge provider or consumer has a clear definition of what constitutes fair access to the internet.
"Passing legislation or adopting regulations without these key provisions and calling it net neutrality would be false advertising," Wheeler said.
Wheeler added that consumers' ability to connect to an open internet is "essential to the 21st century economy."
Driving edge provider benefits
Wheeler also noted how edge providers like AT&T are using interconnection to deliver services.
AT&T recently launched its DirecTV Now service, one that allows consumers to stream programming on any device, including tablets and smartphones, over a wireless or an existing broadband connection.
In order for the DirecTV service to work in any location, AT&T's customers will need access to a network, be it an existing wireless network or another wireline cable and DSL network provider.
"When AT&T—in its role as an edge video provider—is assured access to the broadband networks of Comcast and Charter for its competitive cable-like DirecTV Now service, it is proof that the Open Internet rule is working," Wheeler said. "One only has to remember the interconnection and porting debates that hindered the access of over-the-top (OTT) video providers pre-Open Internet-rule to appreciate the importance of an open internet to everyone—even its opponents."
Wheeler added that "the porting and interconnection problems that existed pre-rule have been eliminated without heavy-handed regulation," Wheeler said.
Over the past two years, a number of the large OTT providers like Netflix and their internet backbone providers like Cogent and Level 3, have garnered interconnection agreements with not only AT&T, but also fellow telcos Verizon and CenturyLink.
As more of these interconnection deals have gone through since the net neutrality rules were passed, interconnection pricing between last mile providers and edge providers like Netflix and their partners have declined.
"The mere fact that the FCC declared interconnection a Title II activity under the rules—but chose not to regulate—has produced an upswing in interconnection agreements and a downturn in interconnection pricing," Wheeler said. "This is a significant development because it shows how the Open Internet order is successful simply by being watchful."
Net neutrality's days look numbered
Regardless of Wheeler's pleas to maintain, it's clear that the incoming Republican administration will work to overturn the net neutrality rules. While incoming President-elect Trump has not revealed specific details about his technology plans, he has named a number of conservative members for its technology transition team.
Just last week, Trump's transition team named Carolyn Tatum Roddy, an Atlanta-based telecom attorney, as the latest member of President-elect Donald Trump's FCC transition team.
Roddy becomes the fifth member of Trump's FCC transition team. Other members of the team include David Morken, co-founder of Republic Wireless and Bandwidth, and American Enterprise Institute Fellows Jeffrey Eisenach, Mark Jamison and Roslyn Layton.
Trump's FCC transition team, according to a Multichannel News report, has adopted a measure to realign the FCC in a way that reflects the conservative, light regulatory principles supported by the regulator's Republican commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly. Pai and O'Rielly will be two of the three Republican leaders on the commission.
One of the proposals calls to restructure FCC as way to reflect the realities of today's communications market while moving what it says are "duplicative" functions it like competition and consumer protection, to other agencies like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Meanwhile, Ajit Pai told attendees in a speech (PDF) he gave in Cincinnati last September that he wants to focus the FCC's on finding ways to extend more broadband services to economically challenged areas by providing financial incentives for Internet service providers to deploy gigabit broadband services in low-income neighborhoods.
Pai would also advocated methods to simplify the obligations required by service provides to build out wireline and wireless broadband services in rural areas.
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Last week we spent a wonderful four days in the company of a large group of awesome people. We had lots of great activities that were fun for both kids and adults. I will probably post about them occasionally throughout the next few days/weeks, as I sift through pictures and gather my thoughts. For now, here is the outcome of one such activity :-).
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After leading the 2008 success with the reform to SC's bicycle traffic laws, the PCC partnered with Peter and Bike Law to lead over a dozen bicycle safety workshops for law enforcement and implement other efforts within communities around the state. In 2010, the Project Team set their sights on a long-term strategic bicycle safety campaign for South Carolina, and so Safe Streets Save Lives was born. Peter and Bikelaw's engagement in this project was inspired by his participation in the Liberty Fellowship and its mission to transform South Carolina.
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Top 10 books about intelligent animals
From Watership Down to Animal Farm, here are 10 novels filled with anthropomorphic frailties and fantasies
Wed 26 Mar 2014 09.10 EDT First published on Wed 26 Mar 2014 09.10 EDT
'Watership Down has the science-fiction pleasures of inventive world building as well as a struggle against invasive totalitarianism'. Photo: Juniors Bildarchiv GmbH/Alamy
Charlotte's Web was first read to me by my mother. I can still remember the moment when, having caught the tremor in her voice, I looked up, saw her face, and realised with great shock that clever, generous Charlotte might die. It was the first book in which I experienced the death of a character; I don't think I'd understood such a thing was even possible and I know I couldn't have managed Little Women, much less the relentless Tess of the D'urbervilles, all those years later if Charlotte's Web hadn't toughened me up. Of all the responses I've gotten to We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, I was most pleased by a reviewer who identified Charlotte's Web as its progenitor. The tradition of great non-human characters has always been a potent oneand it was and continues to be an important book to me.
Of course, I must be careful insisting on Charlotte's non-human character. Children's books are filled with humans in animal guise. They take bedtime baths, hear bedtime stories, and kiss their parents goodnight. They play peaceably, predator and prey, in the great fictional kingdoms, or sometimes, as in Charlotte's Web, they try very hard not to be killed and eaten. Perhaps as a result, it's been easy for our culture to think of sympathy for our fellow creatures as a childish thing. You grow up, and however you might wish it otherwise, fewer and fewer of the books you read feature non-human characters. Of those that do, some remain more human than others.
As a quick aside , I note that the great writer Jonathan Lethem, in reference to Dickens' Dombey and Son, has encouraged the reader to imagine Dickens' characters as though they were animals – "clever, eccentric badgers", wily foxes and cats – and all in Victorian costume. The only thing that prevents Dickens from being the greatest animal novelist of all time, Lethem argues, is the lack of animals.
Here is my list of some favorite books with animal characters, in roughly the order in which I encountered them.
1. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Chosen not only, (but mostly) for Mr Toad – the character who thinks well of himself for reasons inexplicable to those around him – but also for the philosophical Ratty and the gentle Mole. The book begins slowly, but ends in fisticuffs!
2. The Once and Future King by TH White
Merlin's tutelage consists of lessons in which young Arthur becomes a series of other animals – birds, ants, fish – in order to learn about ethics and politics. The creatures Arthur meets in his childhood are all there, advising and encouraging, at the transcendent moment when he pulls the sword from the stone.
3. Watership Down by Richard Adams
An epic rabbit adventure with a cast of remarkable characters: Fiver, the oracle, Hazel, the thinker and leader, and Bigwig, the warrior. Adams employs many of the science-fiction pleasures of inventive world building as well as a struggle against invasive totalitarianism. For a while, I had a certain fluency in the Lapine language, but this has grown rusty with disuse.
4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
I am including this because it is a great and consequential book, though it really has little to do with non-humans and is full of pig slander.
5. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Perhaps the greatest non-human character book of all time. Funnier than I expected when I finally read it after years of pretending I already had. The white whale functions in the book as many things to many people, including the implacable and mindless maw of nature, but its final reckoning with the Pequod at least leaves open the possibility of intelligent self-preservation or even a focused revenge.
6. Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller
Women all over the world are turning into animals – orangutans, bears, and snapping turtles – but the central character of Emshwiller's book, Pooch, is a dog becoming a woman. This picaresque follows the adventures of an innocent abroad in a dangerous world. Comic, magical and ultimately extremely big-hearted.
7. Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
I've chosen this book to represent the many in which animals solve mysteries, in this case, the murder of a shepherd is slowly unraveled by the flock of sheep he left behind. Admirable efforts are made to keep the logic sheep-like throughout.
8. Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
A capacious and audacious novel about the world of horseracing, which includes several horse narrators – Froney's Sis, Epic Steam, Residual – but my favorite is Justa Bob, a gelding with a good attitude despite his long, hard fall down.
9. Fudoki by Kij Johnson
A story within a story, as an elderly princess in Heian-era Japan recounts the more adventurous life of a cat who becomes for a time a cat-like woman. Johnson deals often with non-human characters, but this a particularly lovely example of her work, and contains wonderfully imagined, if unlikely, details of cat culture.
10. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
A loose retelling of Hamlet, but set on a dog breeding farm in Wisconsin in the 70s. The role of Ophelia is taken on very touchingly by the gifted canine and occasional point of view character, Almondine. A review in the Chicago Tribune identified Wroblewski's book as "easily the best work of fiction ever written about dogs". A bold claim, but also a defensible one.
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Springtime means artichokes, a vegetable I've gotten familiar with these past few years, but this spring marks the first time I've ever made baby artichokes.
Baby artichokes are a smaller, fully mature variety of the globe artichoke. The fun part about them is that there's no choke to be found in these little guys, so with a little bit of trimming, the whole thing is edible. I guess they should really be called artis?
Pizza is one of my favorite dinners, especially when it gets warmer out, but when you eat as much pizza as we do, you have to mix it up a bit. One of my favorites, caramelized onion and ricotta pizza, was out because I was out of onions (gasp!), but I liked the idea of a white pizza and had two packs of baby artichokes in my fridge, so this pizza was born.
Now, if it would only stop raining here in NYC so we could enjoy our pizza and a nice glass of wine on the roof!
Feel free to melt some mozzarella or parmesan cheese on top of the artichokes, which would be a nice addition, but we loved it as-is.
Preheat oven to 550 degrees, or as high as it goes. If you have a pizza stone, use it (I don't)!
Zest the lemon into a bowl, cut it in half and squeeze the juice of half the lemon into the bowl. Mix in the ricotta and add salt and pepper.
Squeeze the other half of the lemon into a large bowl, fill halfway with water, and set aside.
Clean, trim and slice artichokes, reserving them in your prepared bowl to prevent browning.
Spread the ricotta mixture evenly over the pizza dough. Drain and dry artichokes and sprinkle over the cheese.
Bake for 10 minutes, or until the edges of the crust begin to brown.
Remove from oven, sprinkle arugula over the pizza, drizzle with olive oil, and return to oven for another minute.
Crack some black pepper on top, cut and serve immediately.
Yum!! and wow such cute littleu00a0artichokes:) great photos!
Yum!! and wow such cute little artichokes:) great photos!