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Adam Zuchetti
07 November 2019 3 minute readShare
Business owners are being warned about director loans contributing to personal bankruptcies, as creditors chase business owners for outstanding funds during liquidation.
Stewart Free, a partner and the NSW trustee at insolvency firm Jirsch Sutherland, revealed that his firm has seen a substantial spike in the number of insolvency cases involving director loans, and that many business owners may not be aware of the risks and ramifications associated with them.
"Used wisely, director loans can be useful. However, there are some circumstances where they present a major risk. One particular circumstance is during a liquidation," Mr Free said.
"Many business owners use debit loan accounts to mitigate tax or improve cash flow during tough times, but the issue is that if the company gets into strife, the owner can get caught out because they are responsible for the debt. I'm seeing a lot more people become bankrupt as a result of this."
He told My Business that his firm typically manages between 400 and 500 bankruptcies at any given point — with over 100 cases under his direct control, and he estimated that, historically, between 10 and 20 per cent had involved director loans.
"We're [now] seeing on average 20 to 30 per cent have got loans back to companies, which either might be in liquidation or are still active," Mr Free said.
"They have been there in the past, it's just that there just seems to be more and more of it, as people are using it as effective[ly a] tax minimisation strategy, but get caught in the back-end unfortunately."
Asked why this issue may be flaring now, Mr Free said that he believed it is "a combination of factors".
"I think people are more aware that this strategy — which is a legal strategy — is there and you can use it, it is valid. But there are implications at the back-end.
"And people are also under cash flow pressures in business, with discretionary spend down, consumer confidence [down] and wage increases almost non-existent... it's all creating almost a perfect storm."
Mr Free also warned that it is small, family businesses which are most likely to be suffering from the fallout of director loans.
Are director's loans directly causing insolvencies?
The insolvency specialist said that rather than being the direct cause of business insolvencies, director loans are increasingly becoming part of the factors contributing to these difficulties.
"But more and more, it's becoming a bigger factor," he said.
"It's that old adage that business owners look at bank balances, but bank balance is not profitability. So they look at the bank balance, take some money, that goes against Division 7A loan; if work turns down, they can scale back.
"But if there are any creditors left unpaid and they come after them, and all of a sudden it's got this big Division 7A loan, which a liquidator treats just like any other asset of the company, it's almost like a cash-at-bank type of thing, so it's due and payable."
Should business owners simply avoid director's loans altogether?
Asked whether, given these risks, he would advocate against the use of director's loans, Mr Free said emphatically that, no, he wouldn't, but rather he urges business owners to be fully aware of the implications for drawing down business funds under a director's loan, to minimise the risk of being caught out with a personal bill owing to creditors of the business should it fail.
"Just go in with your eyes wide open about it," he said.
"Often, they use the company bank account for groceries and school fees and all that sort of stuff, and it all goes to a Division 7A loan."
The very fact that his firm is seeing more cases of director's loans involved in liquidations and personal bankruptcies is suggestive of a lack of awareness as to the risks associated with director's loans.
"Not knowing what the potential downside of it is," he said.
'Look at the figures'
According to Mr Free, business owners should refrain from viewing their tax returns as simply an act of compliance, but take in and use the data that it provides to understand the workings of their business.
"Actually look at the figures — look at the risk profile in there," he said.
"If there is a shareholder's loan, what is the strategy that the directors are going to implement to get that down if things are not looking crash-hot."
He also advised that anyone with outstanding loans "do whatever they can to ensure those loans are repaid, over a short to medium time frame".
"Because if you're concerned about the Tax Office and concerned about creditors chasing you, but you think you're going to be able to hide behind what's already a diminishing corporate shield, the Division 7A just punches straight through it, and gives creditors via a bankruptcy trustee access to your personal assets. So, it's almost like you're operating like a sole trader."
Mr Free's comments come amid separate figures revealing a concerning increase in the number of business insolvencies and payment defaults.
Last Updated: 07 November 2019 Published: 07 November 2019
Adam Zuchetti is the former editor of MyBusiness and a senior freelance media professional, specialising in the fields of business, personal finance and property. In 2020, he also embarked on his own business journey – inspired in part by the entrepreneurs and founders he had met through his journalistic work – with the launch of customised pet gifting and subscription service Paws N' All.
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THE JAMESON IRISH WHISKEY HISTORY
Take a scroll through our history.
We might be a short drink, but our story is a long one. We advise you find your favourite armchair and get comfortable. We're taking you back in time.
Our Story: 1780 – 1804
The original John Jameson (Or just John back then)
Long ago, in a time before selfies, we were founded by that man, John Jameson. Born in Alloa in Scotland in 1740, he came to Dublin in the late 1770s. Four of his sons followed him into distilling in Ireland, setting up a family dynasty that was to last for generations. He died on the 3rd December, 1823 at the ripe old age of eighty-three. Now take a look at the number of times 3 appears in that last sentence. It's no wonder we still distill three times to this very day. It's a number very special to us.
Jameson Bow St. Distillery Up And Running. Boom Town
In 1780, Dublin was a bustling city, full of opportunity — the second largest city in Britain and Ireland; only London was larger. During this period, over one hundred breweries and distilleries were operating in Dublin.
Competition was fierce, but John Jameson established a good name for himself, and the whiskey he made rose above the rest by embodying the spirt to 'Live a bit more and fear a bit less!' By the 1880's Bow Street stretched over almost 6 acres of Dublin city centre.
Malt Tax
Tax. We know. Bear with us. Between 1785 and 1825, the distiller paid duty on malt as well as on spirit, so naturally it was desirable to use less malt. John, keen to get one over on the taxman, began experimenting with mash bills of malted and unmalted barley. The public soon came to prefer this type of whiskey, so much that imported malt Scotch whisky was difficult to sell in Dublin, and any Dublin distiller making malt whiskey had trouble selling it.
Next on the throne
John Jameson II
Another John to carry the mantle. He took over the reins at Bow Street from his father in 1804 and went about sowing the seeds for the growth that Jameson experienced in the nineteenth century. He left us a series of pocket notebooks with his own individual mash bills (recipes) for Jameson whiskey.
Next to wear the crown
John Jameson III
The third John Jameson to run Bow Street. Another tradition that served us well. John was a Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff and a prominent member of Dublin society. He studied at Trinity College, and lived in St Marnock's Portmarnock, County Dublin, with his wife, Anne.
A City within a City
By 1870, the Bow Street Distillery was literally a city within a city, employing hundreds of workers, including coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, painters and stone masons — and some cats too! The surrounding Smithfield area is still full of craft to this day.
Long live John:
John Jameson IV
Known as Jack he followed his father's footsteps in more ways than one. Like him, a Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Dublin, he was also one of the Commissioners for Irish Lights, the body charged with managing lighthouses around the Irish coast. He married twice, to Elizabeth Banfield and Mary Haig, but had no children.
An Original Label
John Jameson & Son was incorporated as a limited company in 1891, and from then on the word "Limited" featured on the labels. The neckstrap was modified in 1891 to reflect the company's status as a limited company (one for all the lawyers out there).
A Star Label
The Star System, denoting age was used on the distillery's seven-year-old whiskey in some markets as far back as 1885. And to this day if you look closely there's still a star shining bright.
The Hot Wall
The exterior distillery walls radiated heat from the distilling process, attracting some locals who were down on their luck to find warmth here.
Edward VII Royal Arms
King Edward VII ascended to the throne of England in 1901, and mid-way through his short reign, John Jameson & Son was granted a Royal Warrant.
Back at the Helm:
Andrew Jameson
One of the giants of the world whiskey distilling, the Rt Hon Andrew Jameson held many positions in local government, and was a well-known patron of the arts. An internationally respected businessman, he counted US President Teddy Roosevelt amongst his close friends. In recognition of his worth, Andrew Jameson was made a Senator in the first Irish Senate after the Republic was declared. There he served alongside the poet WB Yeats who was an old family friend.
Sniper on Roof
In 1916, the Easter Rising took place in Dublin, and the Bow Street Distillery—positioned in one of the key corridors of conflict—provided an ideal vantage point for a volunteer sniper, who oversaw the intense fighting on North King Street, (a whiskey distillery isn't the worst place to be holed up in for a few days). The distillery and its workforce survived the Rising relatively unscathed.
Coal Shortage
A coal shortage due to WW1 affected over 800,000 people. At the same time, a deadly influenza virus broke out, which significantly impacted the distillery's production and delivery capabilities.
Corn Shortage
For a drink that prides itself on smooth, this was one rough year. The Jameson Distillery was closed from 1917 to 1918 to the war-caused corn shortage.
Piggery Yard
The distillery outgrew its original Smithfield footprint and absorbed a piggery yard, where bacon was cured. Even though the pigs were gone, the name stuck.
After war restrictions were lifted in 1919, the distillery was granted permission to produce once again, resulting in 34 distilling cycles—the largest to date. Spirits were up again.
American Prohibition
From 1920 to 1933 prohibition was enforced throughout the United States, closing off one of our most promising markets almost overnight. Six years after prohibition, World War II broke out, which saw a transatlantic shipping ban introduced, severely hampering our distribution.
The Barrelman
If you look closely at our bottle, you'll see a Barrelman icon embossed on the glass. They represent the hard workers past and present who built our whiskey from the ground up. The 'Barrel Man' emanates from the renowned early 20th-century London advertising agency W. S. Crawford. The famous graphic designer and artist Edward McKnight Kauffer worked for Crawford's in the late 1920s and created artwork for the John Jameson Whiskey campaign.
Barrelmen Foot Label
The Barrelmen first made their appearance in an advertising campaign in Great Britain in 1927. In 1928, it was decided to add a foot label featuring the Barrelmen for large-sized bottles. From 1930, this was applied to all export bottlings.
Bootleg Whiskey
Damage from Bootleggers and unscrupulous publicans who cut Jameson whiskey with water created long-lasting effects by tarnishing the Irish Whiskey category and its reputation for quality.
Taking the lead:
George Lionel Jameson
A great-grandson of our great great founder, as well as being a distiller, he served as a Captain in the Royal Engineers and saw action in South Africa during the Boer War. Married to Anne Dunn, they lived in Malahide, County Dublin.
Multiple Generations of families worked at the Jameson Distillery in Bow Street. The various jobs—carpenters, blacksmiths, millwrights, painters etc.—were handed down from father to son, and once hired, employees generally had a job for life.
Man With A Plan:
Alexander C Crichton
The last direct descendent of the founder of Bow Street to head up the company, it is said that Aleck Crichton was also the last person to make use of the sleeping quarters left on site for the Distiller on night duty. Chairman and Managing director of John Jameson & Son, he oversaw the firm's amalgamation with two other distilleries in 1966 to form Irish Distillers Limited.
Bottling at Bow Street
It's hard to believe but we did not bottle our own whiskey until 1963. The first Jameson whiskey bottled at Bow Street was launched as Crested Ten. Back then, Jameson was available in 68 markets worldwide, exporting 15,000 cases annually to the United States. Now was the time to control our own grain to glass story.
Crested Ten
For years, Jameson had a bottling operation in London to serve export markets, but the Irish trade had always been in casks to bonders. Jameson Ten was the first distillery-bottled whiskey from Jameson. A year after the introduction of Jameson Ten, it was renamed 'Crested Ten' and remained so until 2016. You can now enjoy a glass of Crested at JJ's Bar! Thankfully, there's no need to worry about those scrupulous bartenders anymore.
The Last Drops
On 5th June 1970, the last drops of pot still whiskey were distilled at the Jameson Distillery in Bow Street, ending nearly 200 years of whiskey production in Dublin 7. It would later become our spiritual home. And later home to millions of visitors. But we're jumping ahead.
1970 Label
This label design enjoyed a long shelf-life and featured until 1987.
Distillery Closed
The emergence and growth of Irish Whiskey meant we needed a larger home for making our whiskeys. In 1975, we moved from Bow Street to Midleton, County Cork. To this day every drop of Jameson enjoyed around the world hails from here.
This label was designed by Minale Tattersfield of London. It reintroduced the Barrelmen, who have remained a core part of the bottle ever since.
Disrepair and Fire
The distillery remained closed, and fell into disrepair, and later a fire ravaged the site. We still find it hard to talk about it.
Return to Glory
The Old Jameson Distillery reopened as a visitor centre in 1997 and received further upgrades following a major renovation in 2007.
After pressure from a number of sailing enthusiasts at Jameson, the ship on the crest was redesigned in 2006 to feature two sails, making it a more accurate representation, which if developed to life-size would be a better sailing design.
Awarded World's Leading Distillery Tour
Now we're not ones for blowing our own trumpets but in 2018 we were prouder than just our whiskey. And that's saying something. Jameson Distillery Bow St. was awarded the 'World's Leading Distillery Tour' at the 25th World Travel Awards. A nice nod to all our Bow St. barrelmen.
You made it. Hopefully that hand can now pick up a glass of Jameson after all that scrolling.
A Living Legacy
Our most recent renovations focus on celebrating John Jameson's living legacy and the stories of the barrelmen who helped build it. And, naturally, we also honour the people who are continuing to innovate the future of the worlds best Irish whiskey in Midleton.
Our Distilleries
Now that we've sufficiently whetted your appetite, we'd love to welcome you to our homes to show you more.
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Love, loss and ice cream in Beacons at the Park Theatre
Anne Cox | March 15, 2016 | What's On | No Comments
Tessa Peake-Jones, Paul Kemp and Emily Burnett star in Tabitha Mortiboy's new play, Beacons, at London's Park Theatre from next Tuesday.
Directed by Philip Wilson, Attic Theatre's magical new play tells of love, loss and midnight ice cream sundaes under the starlit skies of the South Downs.
Julie sells ice cream on the cliffs at Beachy Head and searches for love online. Her friend Bernard walks the clifftops and can't seem to settle.
When sixteen-year-old Skye arrives for the summer and decides to stay, the lives of all three become unexpectedly entwined. But when memory takes hold, will their buried fears force them apart?
Tessa Peake-Jones (Julie) is best known for her role as Raquel in the award-winning BBC series Only Fools and Horses and can currently be seen in ITV's Grantchester. Tessa's theatre credits include Home and Brimstone and Treacle (Arcola Theatre), The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder (National Theatre), as well as The Park, Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors (RSC).
Paul Kemp (Bernard) was recently in Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC), Ghost Stories (Arts Theatre, West End), To Sir With Love (Royal & Derngate/UK tour), Seven Year Twitch (Orange Tree Theatre), The Lady in the Van (Hull Truck/UK Tour) and Woman in Mind (Vaudeville, West End). His television credits include Life on Mars, Black Books and The Trial of Tony Blair.
Emily Burnett (Skye) was recently seen in First Love is the Revolution (Soho Theatre). Her television credits include Sweet Sixteen (BBC Wales) and The Sparticle Mystery (CBBC).
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It's hard, of course, to imagine anyone holding a four-course luncheon complete with fine Portuguese wines to celebrate the opening of, say, a new coal or gas-fired power plant. But the solar power plant's appeal – for the government, the developers and the towns of the Alentejo region – are clear: Despite the substantial power it produces, the Serpa station is all but invisible. The panels take up considerable acreage but are only chest-high and make nary a sound. In fact, the plant looks more like a modern art installation than an industrial facility, blending in with the agricultural landscape of this grape and olive-growing region. Imagine dozens of such PV solar power stations spread across rural Europe – the EU this month ordered greenhouse gas emissions be reduced 30 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 – and you can why the future looks bright to PowerLight and GE Energy Financial Services.
Great to see an alternative to our based fossil economy. Here in the U.S., we are against a powerful entrenched Oil and Car sector of our economy.
There is no incentive for Exxon to stop drilling for oil;Exxon made $40 billions in profits in 2006.
Plus our society believes, Big is better. Thus all the massive V-8 trucks been developed. The profits for trucks is bigger than for cars.
Finally, in the U.S, we have this individual mentality, I made it. The emphasis is on making money not thinking about what is good for the country. In fact, that is the mentality, if I make money regardless of the consequences, that is good for the country.
Too bad the article is unreadable due to an ad covering it up on my system.
I got solar panels on my roof. I can't change what exxon is doing.
Great to see a gov't committed to the environment. Too bad we (the U.S.) are lagging, as long the GOP continues to be at the oil industry's bec & call we will lag the industrialized world.
Solar is good and we must have more. However, 11MW is hardly anything to brag about!!! Also I hope the system to which the grid is connected produces reliable electricity by conventional sources as well,not only when the sun is shining.
Government subsisies are helping solar big time.GE is smart to take some of the government money!!!
Europe, as the US and Asia have found, must turn to nuclear sooner rather than later.
Bravo for Portugal! Unbelievable that we, in the US, haven't figured out how to install major grid-tied photovoltaic systems. Instead, we subsidze agribusiness to grow more corn so that we can drench it in fossil fuel based fertilizer to make inefficient ethanol.
We gotta get with it sooner or later.
What about energy independence? What about incentivating the average citzen to use their roofs and produce some percentage (if not 100%) of the eletricity he consumes? What about feeding the energy he produces back to the grid (Guerrilla Solar)?
Government (if tehre is to exist one at all – long live the anarchists) should be supporting THIS kind of iniciative. It should be giving special credit for citzens interested in generating their own clean renewable energy.
God save the libertarian technology!!
Great on the solar roof. There is one more thing You can do. vote.
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A dire prediction
Dr. John E. Morgan, Pastor-Collinsville Baptist Church
By Dr. John E. Morgan
Pastor–Collinsville Baptist Church
My wife's mother died yesterday.
We had been warned that this was coming. She was a hospice patient.
Does that word hospice scare you? I stayed a couple of times in a monastery guest house. It was called a hospice. A place of hospitality. But that is not what most of think when we hear the word hospice.
Several years back my sister called me to let me know that my mother was going in a hospice. To die. She would be there for a week before she did die. Most people now think a hospice = death. Hospices help to ease the pain at the end of life.
My mother-in-law, who everybody called Granny, was a hospice patient. We learned the medical definition of a hospice patient is someone who a doctor feels is within six months of death. So a doctor told Granny and all of us that she was within six months of death. Several times.
Granny was first told she had six months or less to live about twenty-five years ago. That doctor was wrong. She beat the cancer that was threatening her. By the medical care of Mayo Clinic. And the care of her children. And her unbelievable strength. And, she would tell you, it was the Lord. And she did testify to that over and over.
Years went by. She got a terrible infection. It did not look like she would make it. But she did.
About two and a half years ago, a doctor told her she had less than six months. He was the first one to say she was a hospice patient. He was wrong. She got better. The hospice had to tell her she could not be treated there anymore.
And one last time a doctor told her she was a hospice patient. He was wrong. She made it about eight months not six. She went to the hospice facility last Friday. And she died yesterday (Tuesday).
She spent much of her time these last years at our house. She could not get around without help. But she would sit and read her Bible. Or watch Christian TV. Or sing hymns with my wife or anyone else. She loved church. She loved singing and music. And she loved her family. How she cherished her three children. But even more her grandchildren. And little pleased her more than being with her great grandchildren. On January 6, she celebrated her 96th birthday with family and friends.
She did not spend much time thinking about being a hospice patient. She did think a lot about Jesus. After all, Jesus had allowed her to make a lot of doctors look silly.
Last Friday, January 15, she left our house to go to Shepherd's Cove Hospice whose workers had been helping her at our house for months. We thought Granny would be back here at home. But she will not be. Instead, she has truly gone home.
Granny was a hospice patient. But she never will be again. Yesterday she died. Yesterday she left death and pain behind her.
Would it scare you if a doctor told you that you had become a hospice patient? You are. We all are. For most of us it is death will not come in the next six months. But for all of us it is coming. Death. You are a hospice patient.
That does not scare Christians. We know what comes next. It is all in His hands. It is something to be excited about. Granny knows a joy none of us has ever known. But we will.
Paul, near the end of his life, said, "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain…My desire is to depart and be with Christ." Philippians 1:21, 21
Granny is departed. She did it. Hallelujah.
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Russell dropped the Valentine's card into the internal mail on the third attempt, his hand shaking.
"Jesus, Fenella. Give it a rest. You nag like my ex-wife." The thought of Valerie made Russell shiver; he banished it by thinking of Esme.
That evening, he watched the cafeteria door, his meal in front of him untouched. It had been a long time since Russell was this excited about a woman; his first date with Valerie was all he could bring to mind and that was ancient history.
Esme walked in; Russell waved. Usually she would smile and wave back but this time she kept her gaze ahead of her. She took a tray to the dispensers and then sat down next to one of the other IT guys.
Later, in the corridor, he caught up with her.
"Hey, I was waving at you to come over," Russell said. He smiled through the anxiety chomping away behind his stomach.
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"Did you get any Valentine's cards today?" he asked.
She looked up at him with wide eyes and bit her bottom lip. Nudging him aside, shaking her head, she walked away.
Esme had arrived at the base the month before as maternity cover for the IT team. Russell had been standing next to her in the cafeteria queue on her first night. When she smiled at him he had noticed that one of her canines was shorter than the other. Russell was a muscle guy, burning company logos into the moon's surface; he wasn't usually in the habit of noticing canines.
Since then it had been a month of longing looks and awkward small talk with no progression. Russell had thought a Valentine's card was the perfect way of taking things forward without an embarrassing conversation, but as he paced his room he was starting to doubt himself.
"I don't get it," he said to Fenella. "You're sort of a girl. Have I broken an unwritten etiquette code?" He threw himself down on his bunk and punched the mattress.
"Thanks a bunch, Fenella." He shook his head and covered it with a pillow.
The base computer's "Malleable Front" design meant it presented a different voice and personality to each employee. It selected from a large database of coded "people traits" and selected those most likely to make that employee feel comfortable. It was based on the company psychiatric profile that all employees sat before starting their assignments. Russell often wondered if his post-divorce self doubt had somehow over-influenced the system because Fenella was all tough love. The only trait of hers that really made Russell feel good was her voice.
"So you definitely delivered my card?" he asked.
He decided to ask Esme directly. Fenella tried, unsuccessfully, to convince him out of it.
Esme answered her door in a robe. Russell's heart lurched and for a moment he wished he was the sort of man who could just kiss a girl when the mood struck.
"Did my Valentine ruin things?" he asked.
Esme dressed and met Russell at his room.
"She's never been right," Russell said.
"Listen, you don't know anyone who is both possessive and deceptive at all do you?" Esme asked.
"Don't touch him," Fenella said.
"Fenella, open the door," Russell said. Nothing happened.
"You got yours?" Russell asked.
As soon as the door shut he ripped open the envelope and read the card.
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Maeda is expected to make his next start April 23 in the Dodgers' series opener against the Cubs at Wrigley Field, Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports.
Ryu (groin) will start Saturday at the Brewers, Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports.
Hill (knee) will make one more rehab start before returning to the big-league rotation, Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports.
Bawcom signed a minor-league contract with the Dodgers on Thursday, J.P. Hoornstra of the Los Angeles Daily News reports.
Seager is back in the lineup, hitting second and playing shortstop against the Brewers on Thursday, Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports.
Turner (ankle, hamstring) is starting at third base and hitting third Thursday against the Brewers, Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times reports.
Hill (knee) tossed four scoreless frames (54 pitches) in his rehab start Wednesday for High-A Rancho Cucamonga. He gave up two hits and issued no walks while striking out eight.
Though Ryu (groin) appears ready to return from the 10-day injured list, he's uncertain to enter the rotation during the Dodgers' four-game series with the Brewers that begins Thursday. The Dodgers currently list Julio Urias, Ross Stripling, Clayton Kershaw and Kenta Maeda as their probable starters for the series.
Turner (ankle, hamstring) made a pinch-hit appearance in the Dodgers' 3-2 win over the Reds on Wednesday.


Today's post features the wonderful work of Mary Blair and her 'It's a small world" creation. Her iconic designs are currently pleasing a new wave of fans through various different licences on products such as wall decals, teapots, and stationery. Mary created the designs for Walt Disney in 1964 and this year sees it celebrating 50 years with a talk of a full length movie being made. Licensees for the brand include Whitbread Wilkinson (W2) who have designed some wonderful 3D tableware, Zak designs who have plastic plates, cups, and cutlery, LeSportSac who have created bags and Basq who have produced a collection of toiletries. Here are some of my picks starting with snaps shots taken in the showroom window of W2 in London.
I spotted the creative letter writing set in the Royal Festival Hall shop and it is also on Amazon UK or Amazon USA.
below : various Disney pieces such as teapots, plates, and mugs.
Below : plastic tableware from Zak Designs.
Wall decals from Whitbread Wilkinson and around the web.
And here are some of Mary Blair's original illustrations.
If you are inspired to study more of Mary's Blair's work you may want to get hold of this book 'Magic Color Flair - The world of Mary Blair which can be found on Amazon UK and Amazon USA.
Hi Craig - just checked out your post - wow, great research and lots of beautiful images included. Well done - would recommend it to all Mary Blair fans.


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"""
Bagelbot script for checking for attendance for an upcoming bagelbot meeting.
"""
import logging
import sys
import time
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from config import ATTENDANCE_TIME_LIMIT
from utils import YES, NO, initialize, nostdout, download_shelve_from_s3, upload_shelve_to_s3

def check_attendance(store, sc, users=None):
    """Pings all slack users with the email address stored in config.py.

    It asks if they are available for today's meeting, and waits for a pre-determined amount of time.
    If all users respond, or if the time limit is reached, the script exits
    and writes today's upcoming meeting to the store.

    Args:
        store (instance): A persistent, dictionary-like object used to keep information about past/future meetings
        sc (SlackClient): An instance of SlackClient
        users (list): A list of users to ping for role call (overrides store['everyone'])
    """
    start = datetime.now()
    todays_meeting = {"date": start.date(), "available": [], "out": []}
    if not users:
        users = store["everyone"]
    user_len = len(users)
    messages_sent = {}

    if sc.rtm_connect():
        for user in users:
            logging.info("Pinging %s...", user)
            message = sc.api_call(
                "chat.postMessage",
                channel="@" + user,
                as_user=True,
                text="Will you be available for today's ({:%m/%d/%Y}) :coffee: and :bagel: meeting? (yes/no)".format(
                    todays_meeting["date"]
                ),
            )
            message["user"] = user
            messages_sent[message["channel"]] = message

        logging.info("Waiting for responses...")
        while True:
            try:
                events = sc.rtm_read()

                for event in events:
                    logging.debug(event)

                    if (
                        event["type"] == "message"
                        and event["channel"] in messages_sent
                        and float(event["ts"]) > float(messages_sent[event["channel"]]["ts"])
                    ):
                        lower_txt = event["text"].lower().strip()
                        user = messages_sent[event["channel"]]["user"]
                        logging.info(
                            "%s responded with '%s'", user, event["text"].encode("ascii", "ignore")
                        )

                        user_responded = False
                        if lower_txt in YES:
                            user_responded = True
                            todays_meeting["available"].append(user)
                            sc.api_call(
                                "chat.postMessage",
                                channel=event["channel"],
                                as_user=True,
                                text="Your presence has been acknowledged! Thank you! :tada:",
                            )
                        elif lower_txt in NO:
                            user_responded = True
                            todays_meeting["out"].append(user)
                            sc.api_call(
                                "chat.postMessage",
                                channel=event["channel"],
                                as_user=True,
                                text="Your absence has been acknowledged! You will be missed! :cry:",
                            )

                        if user_responded:
                            # User has responded to bagelbot, don't listen to this channel anymore.
                            messages_sent.pop(event["channel"])
            except:
                logging.exception("Something went wrong reading Slack RTM Events.")

            all_accounted_for = (
                len(todays_meeting["available"]) + len(todays_meeting["out"]) == user_len
            )
            if (
                datetime.now() > (start + timedelta(seconds=ATTENDANCE_TIME_LIMIT))
                or all_accounted_for
            ):
                if not all_accounted_for:
                    # Move any remaining users over to 'out' at the end of the time limit - assuming they aren't available
                    todays_meeting["out"] += [
                        u
                        for u in users
                        if u not in todays_meeting["available"] and u not in todays_meeting["out"]
                    ]

                logging.info(
                    "Finished! These people aren't available today: %s",
                    ", ".join(todays_meeting["out"]),
                )
                # Store this upcoming meeting under a separate key for use by generate_meeting.py upon actual meeting generation.
                store["upcoming"] = todays_meeting
                break
            else:
                time.sleep(1)
    else:
        logging.info("Connection Failed, invalid token?")

def main(args):
    """
    Initialize the shelf, possibly sync to s3, then check attendance, close
    the shelf and maybe sync the shelf again.

    Args:
        args (ArgumentParser args): Parsed arguments that impact how the check_attandance runs
    """
    if args.s3_sync:
        download_shelve_from_s3()

    if args.debug:
        logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.DEBUG, format="%(message)s")
    else:
        logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, level=logging.INFO, format="%(message)s")

    store, sc = initialize(update_everyone=True)
    try:
        check_attendance(store, sc, users=args.users)
    finally:
        store.close()
        if args.s3_sync:
            upload_shelve_to_s3()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import argparse

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description="Check to see if any Slack members will be missing today's meeting."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--users",
        "-u",
        dest="users",
        metavar="P",
        nargs="+",
        required=False,
        default=[],
        help="list of people to check in with (usernames only)",
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--from-cron", "-c", action="store_true", help="Silence all logging statements (stdout)."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--debug", "-d", action="store_true", help="Log all events bagelbot can see."
    )
    parser.add_argument(
        "--s3-sync",
        "-s",
        action="store_true",
        help="Synchronize SHELVE_FILE with AWS S3 before and after checking attendance.",
    )
    parsed_args = parser.parse_args()

    if parsed_args.from_cron:
        with nostdout():
            main(parsed_args)
    else:
        main(parsed_args)

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Q: Decreasing the size of integers in a multiset while maintaining the total order on sums of subsets Consider a multiset $S$ containing $n$ positive integers $\{s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_n\}$. For the purpose of this question, assume that (some of) the integers are very large with respect to $n$, i.e. much larger than $2^n$ such that the number of bits to describe them is not polynomial in $n$. I am interested in whether we can reduce the size of the numbers in $S$ without changing the total ordering on the sums of subsets of $S$, or more formally:
Given such a multiset $S$, does there exist a function $f : S \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ such that for all subsets $S', S'' \subseteq S$ it holds that $\sum _{x \in S'} x \leq \sum_{x \in S''} x$ if and only if $\sum _{x \in S'} f(x) \leq \sum_{x \in S''} f(x)$, and such that the number of bits needed to represent the numbers $f(s_i)$ is polynomial in $n$?
If such a function $f$ exists for all multisets $S$, can we compute $f$ in time polynomial in the bitrepresentation of $S$?
It is not hard to verify that if we take $S$ to be the sequence $2^0, 2^1, 2^2, \ldots, 2^n$ then we cannot shrink these numbers any further: the smallest possible number we may assign is 1, so $f(2^0) \geq 1$. Then $f(2^1)$ needs to be strictly greater than $f(2^0)$, so $f(2^1) > f(2^0) \geq 1$ hence $f(2^1) \geq 2$. Now $f(2^3)$ must be strictly greater than $f(2^0) + f(2^1)$ so $f(2^3) > 1 + 2$ so $f(2^3) \geq 4$; and so on, and so on.
Thanks in advance for any insights. Since I am new to this area, it would also be nice to get some pointers to the literature, if related questions have been studied.

A: Here is a much expanded answer. the old answer is below.
There are some very interesting questions here. What I say here is far from answering them completely but does go a certain distance. The sequence A009997 in the OEIS and its references turns out to be very relevant. I suggest looking for books and articles about Threshold Logic (perhaps a hotter topic before 1980 than after). My remarks grow from a paper of mine Maximal Intersecting Families European Journal of Combinatorics  Volume 16, Issue 5, September 1995, Pages 491-501.
Indulge me in some terminology first (skip to the next paragraph if you wish) : A voting scheme consists of a set $S$ of $n$ elements (voters) and a way to decide for each partition $S=A \cup B$ into disjoint sets (coalitions) which of $A$ or $B$ wins. (If $A$ wins then each set containing $A$ should also win). To specify this it is enough to know the minimal winning coalitions, those $A$ which beat their complement, but fail to do so if any one voter changes sides (these form an intersecting antichain.) One way to specify a voting scheme is to assign each voter an integer weight with the total weight odd and taking weighted majority rules. Up to 5 voters, every voting scheme is of this type (for  $n \ge 6$ only some are). Before I go on let me say that the question here is more structured, I might say that it concerns voting systems where some voters can abstain (just not every last voter) and if the remaining voters form two coalitions one must be the winner (As asked, one could perhaps have ties between sets but I think that small pertubations would only make it harder without changing the existing orders.) With 5 voters and no abstentions there are 5 weight functions: 10000 (dictator) 31111 (near dictator) 21110 32211 22111 and 11111(pure democracy). For 6 voters there are 30 voting schemes (up to isomorphism) of which 21 can be obtained by weights. The most complicated is 543221. There is a sense in which these are the optimal integer weight functions: The $2^n$ subsets can be identified with the corners of the standard cube of side 1 in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The corners corresponding to the  winning coalitions in a voting scheme (or any other family of subsets) span a convex polytope of affine dimension $n$ or less. A voting scheme can be given by a weight function exactly if all but one of the supporting hyperplanes of this polytope are also supporting hyperplanes of the hypercube. Then the weight fuction can be given by the components of the appropriately scaled normal vector to that hyperplane.
I will take the problem as this: suppose that we have a linear order on the power-set of a given $n$ element set which respects set containment and that some weight function gives that order, find an efficient weight function achieving this.  Here are ad hoc results up to $n=5$ then thoughts on a method.
In case $n=2$  use weights 21. For $n=3$ use either 421 or 432.  for $n=4$ there are 3 voting schemes with weight functions 1000 1110 and 2111. This becomes 14 cases with abstentions allowed and the minimal weight functions are 7653, 8421, 8432, 8542, 8641, 8643, 8654, 8742, X432, X632, X742, X762, X843, X863 (here X stands for 10). Doing a massive number of random integer weight assignments for $n=5$ lead me to suspect (and later confirm from the OEIS) that there are 516 orders arising from weights. Finding the minimal weight assignments (just by looking at all cases of $0<e<d<c<b<a<32$ ) lead to these frequencies for the largest weight:
$$[13, 2], [14, 8], [15, 5], [16, 62], [17, 21], [18, 47], [19, 32], [20, 97]$$ $$ [22, 91], [23, 18], [24, 42], [25, 17], [26, 46], [28, 14], [30, 14]$$
The numbers 2,14,516 were enough to go to the OEIS and that lead to      Number of comparative probability orderings on all subsets of n elements that can arise by assigning a probability distribution to the individual elements. Maybe the references there will help find out about the weight/probability distributions which leading to these orders.
It seems that one might be able to do the following: First find the minimal winning coalitions as described above and find the integer weight function giving them, it determines a hyperplane. A parallel hyperplane contains  maximal losing coalitions. Take the plane parallel to these and running through the center of the cube. Now we want to slightly tilt it but not so much that it strictly crosses any corner of the cube. To do this, look at the subsets of one (or more) of the minimal winning coalitions. We have a linear order on them and a smaller voting scheme, find a weight function which works there and use it to perturb the weights (say multiply all the old weights by some factor and add in the new weights.) There are a hyper-exponential number of (isomorphism types) of voting schemes so we can't list them all, let alone the linear orders. Still it might be easy to process any one (though saying this is less convincing than doing it.) Alternately, set aside the lightest (or heaviest as seems easier) element. Solve the problem for the other $n-1$ elements. Then adjust to give a weight to the missing element.

old answer You have a system of inequalities which you could solve by linear programing getting rational weights. Then you have the problem of efficiently scaling to integers. The information is highly redundant. Maybe something like this could work: Looking at the order on singleton sets you can find the lowest weight. Set it aside. Solve the problem for the other n-1 weights. Now try to assign an appropriate weight to the minimum .
Another idea and an interesting question in itself is this: assume for now that no set is equal in weight to its complement. Then the inclusion minimal sets with this property are pairwise intersecting but none contains any other. These are the minimal winning coalitions in some voting scheme. Find weights which do this.

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How often have you had to call a locksmith out to your home (or an auto locksmith out to your car) because you inadvertently left your keys at home or locked them somewhere unreachable? For so many people across the country, keyless entry and keyless ignition vehicles have become a blessing because you can simply toss your keys into your purse or pocket and get going. Well, if you're one of those people who relies on your keyless ignition to keep from calling the auto locksmith every few weeks, why haven't you invested in a keyless entry system for your home?
As with so many electronic items, keyless door locks only work as well as their power source. Fortunately, this is the most common issue to face with keyless entry systems and it's a pretty easy fix. When you call your local locksmith to get your keyless entry system installed, ask them to show you how to change the battery. Your locksmith should also be able to give you guidance about how long your keyless door lock's battery should last (for most, you're looking at a range of 3 to 5 years between replacements). In addition, most keyless deadbolts offer a light or signal of some sort when the battery is running low so you don't have to worry about coming home to a dead door lock. If you've recently replaced the battery in your keyless entry system and it's already giving you the low-battery signal, call your locksmith to come check your system as there may be a manufacturer's defect affecting your system – though, thankfully, the instances of this happening are very few and far between.
The other big thing that can affect how well your keyless deadbolt is functioning is it's connection to the internet, if applicable. Many keyless entry systems connect to the internet via wifi so you can change codes and see access logs remotely. However, you may see problems if your internet connection goes down. If this is a concern for you, be sure to ask your locksmith what the keyless entry's default response to a lack of connection is. Generally, a short-term lack of connection isn't a problem as it will continue functioning as normal with the already-programmed codes.
If you're ready to get a keyless entry system installed on your home or vacation rental and ditch those keys, call Destin Locksmithing! Our expert team can give you guidance on which keyless deadbolt will be best for your needs and get everything installed for you. Schedule your installation today!


Ghanaian hip-life artiste, Wendy Shay went live on her Facebook page to entertain her fans by squeezing her "tomatoes" and also doing some dance moves.
Touted as the next Ebony reign, she is gradually trying hard to capture the attention of the public with these kind of moves.
In the video, she was seen showcasing her curvy body just as ebony did when she was alive.


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English Home > Policies > Secretariat of the International Peace Cooperation Headquarters, Cabinet Office > Search by Chronology > Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste > International Peace Cooperation Assignment in East Timor
International Peace Cooperation Assignment in East Timor
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
(Gained independence from the Republic of Indonesia in 2002)
Capital:Dili
Republic of Indonesia
Capital:Jakarta
The popular consultation to ascertain whether the East Timorese accepted or rejected a proposed constitutional framework providing for special autonomy within Indonesia was organized by the UN Mission in East Timor ( UNAMET ), and the direct ballot took place on August 30, 1999. In response to a request from the UN , Japan dispatched three civilian police officers to UNAMET .
Civilian Police Officers
UNTAET 's headquarters
From July to September 1999, two civilian police officers were stationed at the UNAMET headquarters in Dili, and one was stationed at the UNAMET office in Jakarta. Their duties were to collect information on incidents in East Timor and give advice to the Indonesian police, who were responsible for maintaining law and order in East Timor. The officers shared rental housing with liaison and coordination personnel and other Japanese government officials taking part in UNAMET and purchased food and other supplies locally.
Liaison and Coordination Personnel
Engaging in coordination
In order to support the civilian police officers sent to UNAMET , three liaison and coordination personnel dispatched from concerned agencies, including the Prime Minister's Office and the National Police Agency, were on duty at all times to facilitate communications and coordination between the civilian police officers and relevant organizations.
Deployment of Civilian Police


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When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Comedy
Studio: David L. Wolper Productions
Keyword: chocolate, factory worker, based on novel or book, candy, tv addicted person, overweight child, grandparent grandchild relationship, factory, musical, single, teacher, based on children's book, poor kid, eccentric man, grandfather grandson relationship, candy bar
Cast: Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Leonard Stone
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a...
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired...
Doctor Dolittle
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a...
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in...
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young...
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have...
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find...
Cool Hand Luke
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or...
Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin....
Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from...
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they...
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he...
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial...
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to...
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career...
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides her closest friend the owl. When she comes...
The Thin Red Line
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about...


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Q: How do I integrate Bokeh with Angular 4? I have bokeh plot being generated in the backend, which I want to embed onto an already existing angular 4 webapp.
Currently I've use the bokeh.components function which yields the following two html tags.

as well as

which I can embed onto a small boilerplate:
<!DOCTYPE html>

            <meta charset="utf-8">
            <title>Bokeh Scatter Plots</title>

            <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.bokeh.org/bokeh/release/bokeh-0.12.6.min.css" type="text/css" />


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Killswitch Engage announce new album release date
Killswitch Engage has announced that they will be releasing their new album this fall. Check out a statement from frontman Jesse Leach.
There's an intensity to it. There'll be no punches pulled. We want to show people the best of Killswitch, and this is a return to form, if you will. I can see a different energy there. I think they'd all hit a wall by touring so much. But this? This is really energetic, really fast stuff. When the guys were playing me the demos before I had rejoined, I remember looking them and laughing, saying, 'It doesn't matter who sings over this stuff, this album is going to be killer!'
Newer:Magic Wands' Debut Album Released This WeekOlder:
TagsKillswitch Engage, Adam D, Howard Jones, Jesse Leach


The March 25-31, 2019, edition of Brian Cormier's Weekly Update is out!
– Do certain noises drive you into a rage? You may have misophonia!
← The March 18-24, 2019, edition of Brian Cormier's Weekly Update is out!


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The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
First Line: Just after eleven o'clock on a bright spring morning, the sort of day when the sunshine is almost white and promises a warmth that it doesn't quite deliver, Diana Cowper crossed the FullhamRoad and went into a funeral parlour.
Diana Cowper went into a funeral parlor and made arrangements for her own funeral. Six hours later, she was dead. Enter Daniel Hawthorne, a disgraced former police detective and absolutely brilliant investigator who's now called in to consult on cases by Scotland Yard.
Hawthorne is looking for a ghostwriter to document his life-- a Watson to his Holmes. He's looked around and has chosen Anthony Horowitz for the job. Horowitz rather unwillingly agrees and immediately finds himself drawn into an investigation-- and a story-- he cannot control. Hawthorne is impossible to work with, but this latest case of his with all its twists and turns is irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership in an attempt to solve this most convoluted of cases.
At first, I was hesitant to pick up The Word Is Murder, for fear that "author-as-character" was simply a gimmick. I can now attest that, even if it is a gimmick, it works brilliantly. I loved this book!
As the Watson in this partnership, Horowitz deftly blends fact and fiction in letting us glimpse into his life and the worlds of publishing, acting, screenwriting, and television. Horowitz is much more accessible than Hawthorne, who's so uncommunicative that he puts his ghostwriter directly into the path of danger. (Perhaps he didn't expect Horowitz to become so involved in the investigation.)
Like Sherlock Holmes, Hawthorne can be extremely annoying; in fact, I think he has Holmes beat. My jaw dropped when Hawthorne broke into Horowitz's important meeting, and it was around this time that his behavior reminded me of stepping in something. No matter how much you twist and drag your foot, that something refuses to dislodge itself. That's Hawthorne when he wants something. (When Horowitz needs something, it's a completely different story.)
But when you put two wonderful characters together and then add a plot that resembles Russian nesting dolls on a massive dose of steroids, magic happens. I figured parts of the mystery out but came nowhere close to knowing the whole thing. Small details of appearance, of speech, of family history, of job history-- and more-- play their parts in the mystery. One small event can have implications for all those that follow, and there are always consequences. It's just a marvelous piece of storytelling.
I read that The Word Is Murder is the first in a series, and I couldn't be happier. I can't wait to see what Horowitz has up his sleeve next!
Century Books © 2017
Private Investigator, #1 Hawthorne & Horowitz
Rating: A+
Source: Purchased at The Poisoned Pen.
by Cathy at Tuesday, June 05, 2018
Labels: Anthony Horowitz, Book Reviews, England, Hawthorne & Horowitz, Private Investigator
Mac n' Janet June 5, 2018 at 6:14 AM
I read it and really liked it too. Glad it's a series.
Cathy June 5, 2018 at 7:51 AM
So am I!
Kay June 5, 2018 at 6:51 AM
I'm really liking the things that Anthony Horowitz writes. Of course, I've loved his TV involvement for years. I have this book and will get to it soon. Wasn't sure how that 'author in the actual story' would work, but it seems it's done well.
TV, books... he's pretty much golden as far as I'm concerned!
Pepper Smith June 5, 2018 at 7:36 PM
Cool. I'd wondered about this one...
Intriguing. What's the time period?


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Question: Where Did Peeing On A Jellyfish Sting Come From?
What happens if you get stung by jellyfish?
How long does a jellyfish sting last?
Can you touch the top of a jellyfish?
Do jellyfish die after they sting?
Why you shouldn't pee on a jellyfish sting?
What does a man o war Sting look like?
How painful is a jellyfish sting?
What is the best thing for a jellyfish sting?
Should you kill jellyfish?
Why do they say to pee on a jellyfish sting?
Do you pee on a man of war sting?
Are jellyfish good for anything?
Do jellyfish try to sting you?
How do you neutralize a jellyfish sting?
Can a Portuguese man of war kill a human?
Does Benadryl help jellyfish stings?
What attracts jellyfish?
What happens if you don't treat a jellyfish sting?
Which jellyfish are safe to touch?
Is meat tenderizer good for jellyfish stings?
Can you touch a Man O War?
The long tentacles trailing from the jellyfish body can inject you with venom from thousands of microscopic barbed stingers.
Jellyfish stings vary greatly in severity.
Most often they result in immediate pain and red, irritated marks on the skin.
Some jellyfish stings may cause more whole-body (systemic) illness..
Jellyfish stings cause immediate, intense pain and burning that can last for several hours. Raised, red welts develop along the site of the sting, which may look like you have been hit with a whip. The welts may last for 1 to 2 weeks, and itchy skin rashes may appear 1 to 4 weeks after the sting.
The long tentacles of the jellyfish are what produce the sting. You can touch the top of the jellyfish without being hurt. … The long tentacles of the jellyfish are what produce the sting. You can touch the top of the jellyfish without being hurt.
A jellyfish releases a venom when they sting their prey, which will paralyze them. … Even if the jellyfish is dead, it can deliver a good sting. Though a jellyfish's sting is painful, generally they are not emergencies. In addition to the pain, the average sting will also cause red marks, itching, numbness and tingling.
For starters, don't pee on yourself or your friends if there's a stinging incident. Urine does contain urea, which helps with tentacle removal, but your pee is too diluted for it to work. Plus, the salt in the urine might trigger more nematocysts to fire into the skin.
Man-of-war tentacles have coiled stingers that have a very powerful and painful venom. … After a sting, the tentacles leave long, stringy red welts on the skin. The welts last from minutes to hours. There is local pain, burning, swelling, and redness.
While jellyfish stings are painful, most are not emergencies. Expect pain, red marks, itching, numbness, or tingling with a typical sting. But stings from some types of jellyfish — such as the box jellyfish (also called sea wasp) — are very dangerous, and can even be deadly.
Most jellyfish stings can be treated as follows: Carefully pluck visible tentacles with a fine tweezers. Soak the skin in hot water. Use water that's 110 to 113 F (43 to 45 C).
Most aren't lethal, but a few are: some species, including the box jellyfish (most commonly found in and near Australia), can deliver a sting strong enough to kill a human in just a few minutes. If you're in an area where it is known that jellyfish like to hang out, skip the swim altogether.
Urine can actually aggravate the jellyfish's stingers into releasing more venom. This cure is, indeed, fiction. … Scratching it, though, can make the pain worse, because rubbing activates the nematocysts, which release more venom. Jellyfish stings are painful, but they are rarely life-threatening.
A new study suggests urine, sea water and lemon juice all do more harm than good on painful stings. Jellyfish stings hurt, and some of them can even be deadly. … Those tests revealed that some common recommendations, like applying urine to the sting or scraping off the tentacles, just made things worse.
Yes, jellyfish are very important animals in the ocean. We should definitely respect and not harm them. They are food for a number of marine animals such as large fish and turtles. … They can also protect the small fish from being eaten by predators with their stinging cells.
Jellyfish can sting if they brush against you when you're swimming in the ocean. You also can get stung if you step on a jellyfish, even a dead one. Usually, jellyfish stings will hurt, but are not emergencies. Most cause pain, red marks, itching, numbness, or tingling.
Chesapeake Bay Jellyfish (Sea Nettle) – Baking Soda Rinse To Stop The Stinging:Rinse area with a mixture of sea water and baking soda for 15 minutes.This stops the stingers from stinging if still attached to the skin.Then, remove small stingers with scraping or shaving.Caution: Do not use vinegar rinse.
The Portuguese man o' war, (Physalia physalis) is often called a jellyfish, but is actually a species of siphonophore, a group of animals that are closely related to jellyfish. … While the man o' war's sting is rarely deadly to people, it packs a painful punch and causes welts on exposed skin.
Treat pain with an over-the-counter pain reliever. If pain is severe, see a doctor for more effective relief. Treat itching with an over-the-counter anti-itch cream and/or an antihistamine, such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl®). If itching is severe, see a doctor for a stronger preparation.
Jellyfish go with the flow. They float with the current, which means that if the current comes to shore, jellyfish may come too. Stormy weather and strong winds can also bring jellyfish to shore, and they can end up on the beach.
Most jellyfish stings are painful but not dangerous. A few jellyfish, however, release powerful venom into the skin. The stings of these species, if left untreated, can be dangerous or even deadly. Prompt jellyfish sting treatment can quickly alleviate pain and prevent a sting from getting worse.
Aurelia auritaAurelia aurita The venom of Aurelia is harmless for humans and this jellyfish can be touched (in China it is a popular dish) even though, like all jellyfish it is very delicate and contacts can damage it. Aurelia lives in all oceans of the northern hemisphere, where it can be very abundant.
Jellyfish venom is protein-based and the papain enzyme in meat tenderizer breaks down those proteins, helping decrease the itching and burning. While this works, it is better to treat the jellyfish sting before it reaches this point.
Man-of-war fish have stinging cells that are still active and capable of stinging even after the creature is dead and washed up on shore. So don't touch it.
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If you are suffering from a slow digestive system there are ways to fix the problem. Here we will reveal why you got this way, and tell you a few slow digestion remedies that will fix your problem.
Nutrition and diet are subjects that western doctors don't know too much about, so when we seek help in these matters they usually prescribe a drug to help us deal with the symptoms as we get them. So much for our health care system.
We need to look at ways to cure our problems instead of using drugs as a temporary band-aid. Our modern western diet in general has caused many of our modern and very common health problems, specifically digestive disorders.
Why are some rural populations in such places like Africa and Asia free form obesity and most of our every day common diseases? It's not the amount of food eaten, it's the type of food. Those populations don't eat highly processed foods full of toxic and dangerous man-made chemicals like our western modern society.
The liver plays a major role in many of our body's primary functions and digestion is one of them. When too much fat gets into the liver it gets clogs and can cause fatty liver disease which can lead to many disorders.
Eat fruit – eat more grapefruit, kiwifruit, and apples. These furies specifically help to cleanse the liver, as well as the colon and can regulate blood sugar and stave off certain food cravings which will help you crave more junk food.
Start walking more. It sounds too simple, you don't even need to break a sweat. Two prominent physicians in the 1970's discovered that a slow, steady walk for about an hour a day will reset your body's weight set point. Our body was made to walk and most of us simply don't do it enough.
As mentioned earlier about the low quality processed food diets many of us eat, there is little to no dietary fiber in these foods that have had these nutrients refined right out of them. Sure they taste good but they aren't giving us the required fiber to keep our digestive system functioning properly.
There are many more things you can do to for slow digestion remedies but these are the most important few things to get your digestive system back on track to being more balanced. If you suffer from slow digestion your system is very out of balance and you need to start here.
A good start for anyone looking to improve their digestive system, including slow digestion, constipation and other intestinal disorders is including the kiwifruit in your diet. The kiwifruit has been proven to aid digestion along with many other health benefits.
Check out the full story on the health benefits of the kiwifruit, the most nutrient-dense fruit available anywhere.


I was going to write about all the new parenting studies that tell us we are bad parents. You know the ones that scare us, chastise us, and go against the last instinct that we have managed to hold onto despite every media organisation, Facebook link and bitchy parent in the schoolyard telling us we are wrong.
Last month we killed babies with swaddling, gave them ADHD by taking Tylenol, hurt their horomones by using plastic; we didn't give them grit and worked them too hard. We over-managed their homework and taught them bad math. We texted too much, they texted too much. We gave them dumb names.
We do everything wrong. And if there is a moment when you think you did something right, someone, somewhere is ready to refute you.
Yes, the article is satiric. No such study exists. But it could, couldn't it?
They get passed around Facebook pages and discusses on the schoolyard, no parenting theory or parent is immune from the sounds of contradictory evidence.
... they began a protocol of recovery. They cancelled their Facebook accounts, and they go online only when absolutely necessary. If they leave their house, they wear horse blinders, which Waterson's husband, an inventor, has adapted for human use, and which can be purchased on Waterson's Web site. Upon greeting other parents, they hand out pre-printed cards (also available on their Web site) that read, "Please do not talk to me about my children or your children, or children, or schools, or schooling, or learning, or Tae Kwon Do, ballet., etc. Also, please ignore the horse blinders.
We could all use a pair of those blinders.


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2018 Kia Stinger GT Deserves The Name It Received
Sadly, a Kia Stinger manual does not exist
By Safet Satara
January 11, 2017 September 29, 2020
It's a name like a missile – the Stinger, and when we laid our eyes on it, it did not feel cheezy. At all. It carries the name as no other car can. It deserves it. This is the 2018 Kia Stinger. Most performance orientated Kia car ever. We like it a lot and cannot care less about the Kia-badge stigma anymore. A badass car this is, Kia or not. Well done.
Developed on the Nurburgring, designed by a very inspired and courageous lot and graced with RWD, the latest from Kia shines at the Detroit Motor Show. Four door saloon measures big. It gets 190.2 inches in length and 73.6 inches in width. Handsome numbers which give it a somewhat unique position on the market. See, the Stinger is bigger than usual A4, 3 series cars and it almost dwells into the path of the E-class or the Lexus GS. But, it'll be a bit cheaper compared to the premium regardless of its rwd reality.
Detroit unveiling gave us two versions of the Stinger. The, err, Stinger and the Stinger GT. Former has smaller wheels (18 inch), a bit less flamboyant outside and slightly less loaded up cabin. Also, it has a smaller engine – two-liter turbocharged unit developing close to 255 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque. It all goes to the back via eight-speed automatic. Some aren't really satisfied with the lack of a manual, but let's get real. For 1 percent of people who'd bought a manual Stinger, the production line would need a gazillion dollar investment. And with it, maybe the whole business case about the Stinger would be in jeopardy. So, no manual. Big deal. Still, we have RWD and a Stinger GT as well.
The 2018 Kia Stinger GT is the big deal here. The biggest deal. As the most performance oriented Kia of all time, the car had its suspension dialed up at the 'ring. Available as AWD and RWD car, the Stinger and the Stinger GT come with the limited rear-slip diff (for RWD). The AWD, although heavily rear axle bias, received a newly developed Dynamic Torque Vectoring Control system. Both, the RWD and the AWD will undoubtedly have a chance to prove their doings at the Nurburgring. Until then, let us introduce you to the Stinger GT 3.3 liter V6 Biturbo engine. Top spec engine guise out 365hp and 376 lb-ft of torque! Not enough!? Well, consider AMG 43 line of cars, or Audi S line of sedans. The Stinger GT certainly falls in the category, although it's a much bigger and roomier car.
The performance speaks only so much. 62 mph cracked in 5.1 seconds and a top speed of 167 mph offer good fun with the Stinger GT. The Stinger is not so potent tough, but it isn't a slouch either.
As far as grand tourers go, the Stinger GT should be a peak of all Korean efforts ever. Not only does it have the tech, but it looks the business. Sure, Panamera…ish inspired poise is only a win, especially with smart rear sad lights slightly giving a throwback to the Maserati GranTurismo. The inside is equally dramatic and refreshing. Simple design partially interrupted by round vents and advanced infotainment system display with G-force measurement and the like gives the Stinger GT a somewhat premium feel and touch. Yes, we said it – premium and Kia in the same sentence. At least on the pictures, this car looks the part. As expected, the Stinger introduces a host of new technologies for the car. First of all, it comes with electronically adjustable suspension (five modes). It also has under seat mounted subwoofers and a Driver Attention Alert system.
As for the sale details, we'll have to wait a couple of months. This is a series production car – which is the most important thing – and now, we only have to wait.
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About Safet Satara
I do not have spare time. All there is is car time. 12 years and counting. I am a Central European gearhead, but you are probably thinking - aaa a disposable Borg drone! Well, actually, I like to dress up like James Bond too. The only thing I need to be him is an Aston Martin (and I love DBS more than DB5 because, reasons). That's something I guess.


"Breakfast in the morning, breakfast in the evening, breakfast at suppertime…" I could seriously eat breakfast food all day long. And I do, frequently. It's been one of those pregnancy cravings – anything that involves sausage, egg, and cheese is pretty much what I want. But I don't have the time to always be cooking eggs. That's why I am so thankful to have Jimmy Dean frozen breakfast bowls and sandwiches in my life. I can heat them up in the microwave, scarf them down, and be on my way! My favorites are the sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast bowl and the sausage, egg, and cheese crescents. Both taste fresh and delicious, even if I'm eating them at 11:00 PM while writing a blog post, as happens sometimes.
Another craving of mine have been mango green tea smoothies, which pair up nicely with my Jimmy Dean breakfast treats. These are absolutely delicious and healthy, and you can add some protein to turn it into a protein shake.
Then all you do is throw it in the blender for a few minutes and treat yourself to a seriously delicious smoothie. I love anything with green milk tea powder in it – you can find it at international markets or sometimes in the international section of your local grocery store. I love the lightness of this smoothie paired with my sausage, egg, and cheese Jimmy Dean goodness!
I find awesome deals on Jimmy Dean at Publix. Make sure you check out Jimmy Dean's Pinterest page for more great ideas on how to breakfast all day.
That smoothie sounds delicious! Where do you get your green tea powder?
I love new breakfast ideas. Espeically ones that are reasonably healthy! 🙂 I found you on The Blogger Life. Love your pics and writing style. I tweeted ya out.
This breakfast looks so good… and that smoothie, yum! Thank you for sharing!!
I could eat breakfast anytime as well!


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Joshua Reviews Chaitanya Tamhane's The Disciple [NYFF 2020]
The history of Indian cinema is a long and profoundly important one. Giving life to some of cinema's great artists and great pictures, it has also been something of an overlooked filmmaking economy here stateside, even among prestigious film festivals.
That even extends to the more globally-minded ones like the New York Film Festival.
However, that does appear to be changing, at least with this year's festival edition. Marking the first Indian film featured as part of NYFF's main slate since 1996, director Chaitanya Tamhane's sophomore effort The Disciple tells the story of Sharad (Aditya Modak), over the span of many years, chronicling his journey to become a star in the Indian music scene. Specifically highlighting the meditative raga genre, the film navigates the life of a man living in Mumbai, as he attempts to live up to the legacy of his legendary father, himself a titan in the Khayal music tradition. Clocking in at just a pinch over two hours, this is an epic feature through and through, a step forward for its up and coming director and one of the more fascinating deconstructions of art, performance and legacy seen on a big screen in some time.
Steeped heavily in the musical tradition of the region, The Disciple is, above all else, a film of and about the artistic experience. The relatively simple log line of a man's life being more or less about living up to his father isn't all that new. However, what makes this second feature from director Tamhane so engrossing is its uncanny ability to not just expound upon the evolutionary nature of art but doing so in a manner that feels entirely experiential and almost verite-like. The film soars when it allows the musical performances to play out, taking a genre of music known for its improvisational style and using that to starkly heighten the emotional resonance of each scene.
With Alfonso Cuaron aboard as an executive producer, one can draw subtle comparisons to the works of the beloved auteur, particularly in Tamhane's ability to make the minor moments of a life play out in almost operatic sequences. Viewers watch as Sharad deals not just with a familial legacy far beyond his own talents, but also familial pressures from members of his unit who see his aspirations as little more than folly. Building his entire life around this music, Sharad's life becomes less about finding the artist within him as the highly emotional music genre he works in would have one believe, instead being boiled down here on screen into little more than a mundane routine.
That's where the film's true impact lies. Instead of making Sharad a force to be reckoned with, Tamhane always leaves the viewer at a distance, as he does Sharad himself. Sharad's clearly a talented performer, but instead of taking the world by storm, the film shifts mutes itself both visually and narratively, realizing that he may just not have it in him. A quiet, lyrically paced film, The Disciple is, in this way, less about the artist himself and more about the experience of a performer in a world less interested in craft and heart. This only escalates once a contestant on a television talent show comes into the fray, subsequently upending Sharad's life to the point where it truly could never come back from.
Gorgeously quiet in its compositions, this film elevates the relatively static frame by enveloping it in a melancholic atmosphere. The photography is utterly breathtaking, particularly during the lavishly shot musical sequences, and as the film's narrative evolves so does the visual language. As meditative in his own directorial approach as his characters are in there creative ones, Tamhane consistently places Sharad in relation to other people, be that family, critics or, more importantly, audiences watching him, embracing the larger idea of an entire art form passing him by with thrilling intimacy and physicality. Instead of romanticizing the life of an artist, Tamhane's camera plays it far less rosy, portraying a world losing sight of creativity and artistic expression in loo of commercialism and simplicity. Maybe a bit too stoic for some, there's simply nothing quite like The Disciple, a true cementing of a new filmmaking talent on the world stage.


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Q: FFMPEG - [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified I'm having an issue using the FFmpeg package.
Here's my code :
import ffmpeg_streaming

from ffmpeg_streaming import Formats, Bitrate, Representation, Size

_360p  = Representation(Size(640, 360), Bitrate(276 * 1024, 128 * 1024))
_480p  = Representation(Size(854, 480), Bitrate(750 * 1024, 192 * 1024))
_720p  = Representation(Size(1280, 720), Bitrate(2048 * 1024, 320 * 1024))

hls = video.hls(Formats.h264())
hls.representations(_360p, _480p, _720p)
hls.output('C:/Users/juled/Videos/testStreaming')

Quite simple as you can see, found it on the web.
And here's the error message I have:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\PACT\streamingMultimedia\streaming.py", line 50, in <module>
    hls.output('C:/Users/juled/Videos/testStreaming')
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\site-packages\ffmpeg_streaming\_media.py", line 93, in output
    self.run(ffmpeg_bin, monitor, **options)
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\site-packages\ffmpeg_streaming\_media.py", line 121, in run
    asyncio.run(self.async_run(ffmpeg_bin, monitor, **options))
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\asyncio\runners.py", line 43, in run
    return loop.run_until_complete(main)
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 583, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\site-packages\ffmpeg_streaming\_media.py", line 112, in async_run
    self._run(ffmpeg_bin, monitor, **options)
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\site-packages\ffmpeg_streaming\_media.py", line 105, in _run
    with Process(self, command_builder(ffmpeg_bin, self), monitor, **options) as process:
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\site-packages\ffmpeg_streaming\_process.py", line 58, in __init__
    self.process = _p_open(commands, **options)
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\site-packages\ffmpeg_streaming\_process.py", line 29, in _p_open
    return subprocess.Popen(shlex.split(commands), **options)
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\subprocess.py", line 800, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Users\juled\OneDrive\Bureau\Informatique\WPy64-3760\python-3.7.6.amd64\lib\subprocess.py", line 1207, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

I've been checking every file quoted in the error message, but only one of them is "my" code, the others are FFmpeg and Python libraries codes.
I'm using IDLEX for Python 3.7.6 on Windows by the way.
I've tried to change some of the FFmpeg library code, especially where subprocess.Popen appears, by putting a shell=True in the parameters. New Error Message, different this time.
I've added FFmpeg to the PATH, no change.
I've reinstalled FFmpeg to be sure, but no change. I'm using this version: python-ffmpeg-video-streaming-0.1.14.
Do any of you have a solution I could try ?
Oh and a friend has the same issue on MAC.

A: This is a PATH environment variable issue. Based on this link, you could try:
import os
path = 'the path you want'
os.environ['PATH'] += ';'+path

to add the path to ffmpeg.exe to your system path (and also to check if your python instance is really looking at the correct path), and you can also change pythonpath,
import sys
sys.path.insert(0,'path/to/ffmpeg')

Note how these two are totally different. However, I find that the easiest way with programs like ffmpeg, which are self-contained executables, that you can just copy them to the working directory of your script and then run it, which is what solved your problem.


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Harley plans new launches, cost cuts in turnaround push
Harley Davidson motorcycles are displayed for sale at a showroom in London, Britain. (Reuters pic)
BENGALURU: Harley-Davidson Inc said on Monday it would cut costs, launch new models including smaller light-weight motorcycles and revamp its dealer network in a plan to revive flagging sales in the face of rising global tariffs.
Harley is scrambling to steer through a year-long slump in US demand as it grapples with an aging customer base and it is aiming to boost sales of its motorcycles overseas.
The company said it expects to spend US$675 million-US$825 million on these initiatives and expects the new plan to generate more than US$1 billion of incremental annual revenue in 2022 as compared to 2017.
"The accelerated strategy will require significant investment to change the trajectory of the business globally, and the company plans to fund it entirely through comprehensive cost reduction and reallocation of previously planned investment and resources," the company said.
Harley said it plans to develop a more accessible motorcycle with a small-displacement engine of between 250cc and 500cc for Asia through an alliance with a manufacturer in the region.
The company will continue to develop improved touring and cruiser motorcycles and launch new modular 500cc to 1250cc middleweight platform of motorcycles, starting with a 1250cc custom model and a 975cc Streetfighter model in 2020, it said.
Harley has also been spending on product development and marketing, including promoting its learn-to-ride academies at showrooms and developing electric motorcycle technology.
The company plans to launch its electric motorcycle in 2019.
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Videos Are Helping the NYPD Solve More Cases, But is Crime Perception Now Off?
By Dean Meminger New York City
PUBLISHED 8:31 AM ET Jul. 11, 2019 PUBLISHED 8:31 AM EDT Jul. 11, 2019
NEW YORK - People beat up, shot and killed - all caught on video. On a daily basis the NYPD puts those violent videos on its social media and also gives them to news outlets.
"Overall I would argue that the proliferation of cameras, the videos that are sent to us have been a major contributing factor of catching perpetrators at times and making the city a safer place," said NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea.
But the NYPD admits some people don't feel safe despite crime statistics showing violence in New York has drastically decreased over the years. A part of the perception of being unsafe could be the very videos police use to catch criminals.
"Something that we use quite frequently in our investigations. Not a thing goes on it seems in New York City that is not captured on video. It is almost like a double edged sword. We are partly responsible, we are spreading this information out on social media," Shea said.
Police say they will continue to release the videos because they are a valuable tool in getting criminals off the streets.
Last year when a gang killed 15-year-old Junior Guzman-Feliz in the Bronx, it was captured on video and it was very disturbing.
Chief Shea says by releasing that video it moved a record number of people to give up information about those responsible.
"That was a viral video obviously and when that first hit we wound up putting extra people on the phones because that 's how much the call volume was," Shea added.
Then there are phone apps like Citizen that allow people to stream videos of crimes or emergency incidents in progress.
"I think that is a good thing, You take the good with the bad. There's a number of apps available today," said Shea. "Whether it is a car accident, whether it is a dispute or something more serious it is captured. How do we get that information how do we get it into the hands of the investigators that need."
Community activist Josmar Trujillo says he's concerned some people have the perception that crime is out of control because of an over saturation of violent videos.
"Now we have social media that is also scaring people and making people feel that there is chaos and mayhem at every turn," said Trujillo. "That's a problem when you have calls for more policing in communities that are already being over policed. You will have a sense that there is more crime so people will call for more policing and that is not necessarily the answer."
Both Chief Shea and Trujillo admit there's no turning back now when it comes to technology, but just a matter of how you use it in fighting crime.