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St. Paul's Minimum Wage Ordinance Could Look a Lot Like the One Passed in Minneapolis
Given the political pressure and the composition of its city council, it's hard to see St. Paul passing a minimum wage that includes a tip credit.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was unequivocal during last year's mayoral campaign in supporting a local minimum wage without a tip credit. (Photo by David Erickson/CC)
Peter Callaghan
In 2014, when Minneapolis began a lengthy process of debating a local minimum wage, the outcome was in doubt — not just the details, but whether there would be an ordinance at all.
Not so in St. Paul. Six months after Minneapolis adopted its citywide minimum wage rule, no one is predicting that the capital city won't become the second in Minnesota with a minimum wage in excess of the state's. But there is skepticism as to whether minimum wage activists won't once again dominate the details, as they did with the debates over St. Paul's paid leave ordinance and Minneapolis' wage and paid leave rules.
Still, everyone involved appears ready to let the process play out over the coming months. St. Paul, after all, has an in-bred reluctance to look like it is simply following Minneapolis' lead.
So there will be process. Probably lots of process.
Part of that includes what is being called a "scoping project," which is being done by the Citizens League and paid for by the St. Paul Foundation, and involves doing research and talking to people in the community as a precursor to a broader effort around the issue.
Citizens League executive director Pahoua Yang Hoffman told city leaders this week that much of the project should be completed by the end of January, allowing the council to decide then how it wants to proceed.
While St. Paul City Council President Amy Brendmoen concedes that the odds are extremely high that the council will approve a local minimum wage — probably in the fall — she pushed back on claims that the details are a fait accompli. Even the decision on whether to allow a tip credit, the most controversial aspect of the wage issue, has not been made, she said. "I think the votes are there to raise the wage," she said of the council. "The question is where do we lie on the details — how much, how fast, will there be any carve outs. Those things I don't have any sense of where we'll land."
A tip credit — or as opponents refer to it, a tip penalty — would allow employers of tipped workers to count some tip income against the local minimum wage. That is, an employer would have to guarantee a tipped worker at least $15 an hour but could pay the state minimum and then hope the worker makes enough in tips to cover the difference between the state minimum and $15.
Minnesota, however, is one of seven states that does not permit a tip credit in calculating the state minimum wage. That fact, as much as anything else, was cited by Minneapolis city staff when it recommending against including a tip credit in that city's ordinance.
Advocates, led by $15 Now, a coalition of labor and social justice organizations, also say they aren't taking the result for granted, and will use the issue to activate interest groups and recruit workers. The Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a national organization that advocates for restaurant workers and opposes tip credits, has placed an organizer in Minnesota. Another group, Restaurants Advancing Industry Standards in Employment, has begun organizing restaurant owners in the state who want to change the economic conditions of their employees.
Meanwhile, the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce has also said it will play an active role in the issue. And as was the case in Minneapolis, the National Restaurant Association and its affiliates in Minnesota will also be out in force. Jennifer Schellenberg, a Minneapolis bartender who was a leader of the group of servers supporting a tip credit and is one of the founders of a national organization called Restaurant Workers of America, has also been organizing servers in St. Paul to seek a tip credit in St. Paul, arguing that the lack of one hurts restaurants' — and servers' — bottom line.
But will any of it matter? As Brendmoen noted, one of the loudest complaints from employers during the debate over paid leave was that for all the task forces, listening sessions and public hearings, in the end none of it changed the details of the ordinance.
Skepticism about process
Unlike the Minneapolis city council last year, St. Paul is taking up the issue in a non-election year. Even so, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter was unequivocal during last year's mayoral campaign in supporting a local minimum wage without a tip credit. "We can't be the type of city where people who work full time are stuck living in poverty," Carter said during a mayoral forum late in the campaign.
And last March, he told the Midway Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Summit that, "As someone who has worked for tips before, I don't support a tip penalty."
Lisa M. Schmid, an attorney who is an expert in minimum wage and leave ordinances, said there's no reason to think anything has changed since then when it comes to Carter's stance. "I don't think he can back away from those promises even though there's going to be more resistance in St. Paul than there was in Minneapolis," she said. "I suspect though that just like Minneapolis, St. Paul will adopt a $15 an hour minimum wage. It may look different but in the end there will be an ordinance."
Given the political pressure on Carter and the composition of the St. Paul City Council, Schmid said, she also doesn't see St. Paul passing a minimum wage that includes a tip credit. "They will listen — in quotations — but I don't think they are going to get many more favorable outcomes than they did in Minneapolis," she said.
St. Paul Chamber of Commerce President and CEO B Kyle said she is suspending disbelief and taking Brendmoen and Carter at their word about have a deliberate process, despite her disappointment around how the city handled paid leave.
Her predecessor in the job, Matt Kramer, devoted a lot of time to co-chairing the paid leave task force, only to see that the work had little impact on the final ordinance. "I don't feel that is happening here," Kyle said. "They have specifically said, 'Yeah, we didn't do a good job last time.'"
Kyle said she said she thinks the city will listen to business concerns because the health of business translates into good jobs for residents. "I think we are invited into a conversation to see how do we navigate through to address concerns," Kyle said.
City's efforts watched by national groups
Ginger Jentzen was the campaign manager for the $15 Now campaign in Minneapolis and watched it evolve from a fringe issue to one that resulted in a near-unanimous vote in favor of a citywide minimum wage. Now leading the effort in St. Paul, she sees the current effort as the next step in building support for $15 an hour across the Twin Cities region.
St. Paul has higher levels of poverty than Minneapolis and one in four workers are currently paid less than $15 an hour, she said. "Low-wage workers are demanding the strongest proposal possible," she said.
That includes defending what is called One Fair Wage: a single wage rate for workers regardless of whether they receive tips. While she doesn't dispute that political momentum has shifted in favor of advocates, she said they are taking nothing for granted. "Minneapolis really proved that it is absolutely necessary to build a strong grassroots movement that is … led by working people."
Saru Jayaraman spoke to minimum wage supporters Wednesday in St. Paul about the work of ROC and her research into the minimum wage and tipping. (Photo by Peter Callaghan)
Jentzen said she also sees the issue in a broader national context, with efforts by business interests to reduce protections for working people by rolling back current laws and regulations. She said she expects business to not only fight the St. Paul ordinance but also to take another run at getting the Legislature to bar cities from being able to pass their own wage and work rules, an effort known as preemption.
As with the Minneapolis battle, St. Paul's debate over minimum wages will be closely watched by national organizations with an interest in the issue.
Saru Jayaraman, the co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), which works to improve wages and working conditions for restaurant workers across the country, spoke to minimum wage supporters Wednesday in St. Paul about the work of ROC and her research into the minimum wage and tipping.
Restaurant and retail jobs are the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S., she said, but they are also the lowest paid. In many states and under federal law, tipped workers receive a lower wage than other workers ($2.13 at the federal level) under the theory that tips will make up the difference between that and the regular minimum wage. While some servers and bartenders earn far more, the median wage for tipped restaurant workers nationally is $9.50.
"The fact that we are proliferating and growing the lowest-paid jobs in America impacts the entire economy, impacts our own industry because we are reducing the ability for people to consume, to eat out, to impact the (gross domestic product)," said Jayaraman, recently accompanied actress Amy Poehler to the Golden Globes as part of the #TimesUp protests.
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Tipping, Jayaraman noted, has long been rejected in Europe, even though it was from Europe that the practice was imported to the United States. Following the Civil War, it become a centerpiece of minimum wage law, when former slaves working as servers and porters were paid only in tips.
Now, tipped workers are predominantly women and often people of color, she said. And, based on surveys and polling, they also face higher likelihood of sexual harassment on the job. That behavior, Jayaraman said, still exists, but is less predominant in states like Minnesota that lack a lower-wage-tier for tipped workers.
"We're not just here to get $15 in St. Paul," she said Wednesday. "We here to actually have restaurant workers have a voice in the state of Minnesota in the long haul because I know that's been needed for a long time."


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Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
DNF @ p. 51
The idea of a trashy mid-2000s chick-lit about the magazine industry sounded incredibly appealing given my current mood. I've been devouring trashy reads like a trash hurricane whirling through my bookshelves. Even better, it's set in Ireland, where I've finally been, so now I feel like I can appreciate the descriptions and the setting even more, because I've actually been to Dublin! Whee!
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It's about three characters: Clodagh, a beautiful girl turned reluctant mom and housewife; Ashling, an eager beaver who enjoys her job until she meets her bitch boss; and Lisa, the bitch, who will do anything to claw her way to the top with her manicured talons. The last character is named Jack Devine, head of the new magazine and a dick, which, given when this was made, probably made him the love interest because that's when dicks were all the rage.
I'm not really feeling the characters and there isn't a lot happening. Plus, I don't really get the title. Not a single mention of sushi or beginners. I'm sure the connection happens later but I don't really care to read to the end. It's not a bad book but it's so slow, and I am just remembering that I took this book with me on the airplane to Ireland, and ended up leaving it in my bag and sleeping instead, so that probably should have been the sign I needed that this was no good. RIP, attention span.
R's Rue June 17, 2020 at 9:36 AM
Thanks for the review.
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Bucking Beijing
An Alternative U.S. China Policy
By Aaron L. Friedberg
ARON L. FRIEDBERG is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the author of A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia. From 2003 to 2005, he served as a Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs in the Office of the Vice President.
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In contrast to its Cold War strategy of containment, Washington's current approach to China is not the product of a deliberate planning process. It is nowhere codified in official documents. Indeed, it does not even have a name. Still, for the better part of two decades, the United States has pursued a broadly consistent two-pronged strategy combining engagement and balancing.
U.S. presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama have worked to engage China through diplomacy, trade, scientific cooperation, and educational and cultural exchange. Since the mid-1990s, successive administrations have also taken steps to maintain a favorable balance of
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This week on the Storyline Blog we're launching our first ever case study. Yay! In a nutshell, in the summer of 2018 we were brought onboard JCC Payment Systems' massive online rebranding campaign. Our job was to write JCC's new corporate website. But as we soon found out, writing content is never far from making content work. To do that, we had to reconceive JCC's whole website structure, its products and its core audiences.
JCC is an instantly recognisable name in Cyprus. When we think of JCC, we think of the little icon on the Point of Sale machine while we're paying by card in a shop, or of JCC Smart, the popular online payment portal. But JCC is actually a lot more than end-to-end payment solutions. They offer many other services like ATM management and hi-tech data protection and management schemes for banks and businesses locally and abroad, and they've been offering them for years.
So in the summer of 2018, when JCC hired us to restructure and rewrite the content of their soon-to-be relaunched corporate website, we knew we had a challenging project on our hands. It wasn't just the huge amount of content JCC had accumulated on their website over the years. JCC was now facing actual competition from other financial services providers who had recently entered the local market. They needed a complete makeover of their online voice so that they could stay relevant, and a more streamlined user experience so all those new users they were hoping to capture could easily find what they were looking for.
The first thing we found was that JCC, like many established companies whose original websites had been set up eons ago, had a corporate website that was suffering from a pretty bad case of content sprawl. Our discovery process turned up pages of content written over the years by many different employees with varying levels of communication skills. None of that content was particularly user-friendly, compelling or engaging, and none of it was organised in a way that told JCC's story. This was a shame because JCC actually had a great story to tell and it was getting lost in the static.
Please don't turn up your noses at posterboard. A giant piece of plain white, 100-gram, completely low-tech paper actually saved our lives—that and enough sticky notes to open up a stationery shop.
The first thing we did was take JCC's content requirements (the list of sections they wanted on their new website) and write them all down on sticky notes. Once we had all that soon-to-be-content laid out in front of us, we started putting it back together again, but with two questions in mind: What is each section trying to communicate to users and where does it belong in the overall structure of the new website?
After we had a rough idea of where everything should go, we went back and did a deceptively challenging two-step exercise. First, we renamed the sections so that they were more intuitive and up-to-date and better reflected JCC's current services. Then we arranged our content by organisational priority and audience.
This was the difficult part, but it was absolutely essential. Because if we really wanted to create a more intuitive and efficient user journey for JCC, first we needed to know who they wanted to talk to. That meant identifying the specific audiences JCC needed to reach.
We quickly discovered that rewriting JCC's corporate website wasn't just going to mean pruning and reorganising literally hundreds of pages of accumulated content. While we were putting all that content back together, we realised that JCC actually had two distinct audiences it wanted to reach: small businesses and, well, huge businesses.
The first group was pretty straight-forward. JCC had a lot of clients who were merchants looking for payment tools for their shops or online businesses—and JCC offers plenty of solutions for small business owners. But the second group included local banks who needed cutting-edge data protection and management solutions or were thinking about opening up branches abroad. This was a whole new kettle of fish.
Despite this new layer of complexity, identifying our audiences was a big breakthrough for us because it meant that we now we had an underlying philosophy for the structure of our website. Now that we had our user groups, we could also give whole sections of the website the right spin. The boring, not-very-descriptive "Other Services", for example, was rebranded as "JCC Partners", a place where local big businesses and financial institutions could find the tools they needed to enter the global market.
Likewise, the rigid and technical "POS Payments" now became "JCC in Your Shop", a friendlier, instantly recognisable spot on the website that welcomed small business owners.
The upshot? From a UX perspective, we could be sure that a client who owned a clothing shop and was looking for a simple in-shop payment solution would never wander over to advanced data protection schemes or ATM management.
Critically, it also meant we could start thinking about how we wanted to speak to our users, which brings us to the all-important question of voice.
Voice is always tricky, but one thing was clear to us. We wanted to move away from official, corporate-sounding, technical language that was talking at the user and move towards direct, accessible language that embraced the user and demystified the vast range of services JCC offered. More importantly, we felt that if JCC wanted to tell their story in a way that connected with both segments of their audience, they needed a new narrative. JCC's new story would reflect their decades-long tradition of excellence, innovation and reliability, but it would also position JCC as a modern, agile company that could go head-to-head with any of its younger competitors.
Now we were finally ready to write. Our go-to starting point when we write websites is the homepage, which makes sense. This is a website's front door and welcome mat. The flow and wording of the homepage is also a microcosm of the rest of the website. Once you settle on a voice and style here, you're pretty much locked in, so you need to get it right before you proceed.
But we had one more factor to consider: core audience. We had to decide who we would speak to first, the small businesses or the financial institutions, or something in between. After some back and forth, and plenty of coffee (beer), we went with the businesses—for a reason. Most of JCC's customers aren't banks. They're local merchants looking for simple, efficient, reliable payment solutions. So it was only natural that JCC would give them the most valuable real estate on their website: the homepage banner.
With the finished sitemap (the website's new structure) and homepage approved, we got to work on drafting (and editing!) the rest of the content. This was the most rewarding part of the process: carrying out an open dialogue with department heads at JCC, deciphering the institutional lingo and repackaging it into content that would revitalise JCC's online brand and create the shortest path between users and the submit button on the contact form.
We're word people and would love to tell you how we did all that, but you can actually see for yourselves. Check out JCC's brand new story, and everything in between, live at their new website.
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On March 28, a fellow fan page owner woke up and her 7 month old had unexpectedly passed away in her sleep. Like most of us in today's economy, the family already lived paycheck to paycheck. To help, myself and other page owners have created a fundraiser. 100% of the winning bids will go to this heartbroken family. Baby Blu leaves behind a sister, a father, and a mother.
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Queen's Nurse honour for child health specialist Clare
1 comment, 05/12/2017 , by Shetland Times, in Headlines, News, ST Online
Shetland nurse Clare Stiles has been awarded the title of Queen's Nurse – the first time the honour has been made in Scotland for almost 50 years.
Clare Stiles (right) receives her award from Prue Leith. Photo: Lesley Martin courtesy of QNIS
Ms Stiles is the team leader for child health and was one of 20 to get the title. She was selected earlier this year to take part in a nine-month development programme run by the Queen's Nursing Institute Scotland (QNIS).
She oversees a group of health visitors, school nurses and children's nurses looking after all children across the Islands.
"I want our nursing to be excellent," said Ms Stiles. "To be the very best it can possibly be, and to make a difference to people's lives.
"Being a Queen's Nurse is challenging me to think about how I achieve that, and pushing my boundaries creatively.
"It's been an incredible experience and I feel it's been a real honour to be selected for the QNIS programme. It has taken me on a momentous journey of learning which I look forward to sharing with my team who have supported me throughout."
She is keen to attract new nurses to Shetland, acting as an ambassador to inspire them.
After completing the QNIS programme she has earned the right to use the Queen's Nurse title which dates back to the late 19th century when nurses trained at institutes across Scotland until 1969.
She is among 20 community nurses that were presented with a certificate and badge by Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith during the QNIS awards ceremony in Edinburgh on Friday.
Others within the group to receive the title include a midwife caring for asylum seeking mothers in Glasgow, a nurse in police custody, practice and district nurses, school nurses, a mental health nurse, a care home and a parish nurse.
Clare Cable, chief executive and nurse director of QNIS, said: "These 20 exceptional individuals can be deservedly proud of being awarded this prestigious title.
"From the late 1880s, Queen's Nurses were social reformers who were taking public health into people's homes to help families take better care of themselves. The modern Queen's Nurses are building on this proud heritage – sharing this pioneering spirit to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities of Scotland."
Clare Stiles
Prue Leith
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Mary Reddaway
December 5th, 2017 16:23
This is wonderful news. Congratulations to Clare Stiles, you richly deserve this honour. Working in the community to improve health outcomes for all is vital work that isn't always valued or recognised – I say this because I have worked as a health visitor myself for many years. The community nursing service in Shetland is fortunate to have you leading the team.


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Festival Baltimore Concert 2: Mendelssohn, Milhaud and Martinu Viola Sonatas
All Events, Arts, Music / By Bryan Barnes
Sunday, June 16, 7:30 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
The second concert of Festival Baltimore features violist Michael Klotz and pianist Asiya Korepanova performing a colorful set of four rarely performed viola and piano sonatas:
• The two viola sonatas by Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Op. 240, were written in 1944 at Mills College in Oakland, California, where Milhaud was on the composition faculty. Both of them are short but extremely vivid.
• The Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959) viola sonata was written in 1955 when the composer was reaching the end of his life. Beautiful in its clear lines, it has two movements. It's titled "Sonata No.1," even though the second was was never composed.
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) composed his viola sonata in C minor, MWV Q 14, in 1824, when he was only 15 years old — but the magnitude of his talent is already obvious in this meticulously detailed work.
Tickets are $0–25, available through Festival Baltimore here.
UMBC is located about 10 minutes south of the Inner Harbor along I-95. For this event, free visitor parking is available in Lot 8, directly adjacent to the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, where Linehan Concert Hall is located — please see here for additional information.
This event is a production of Music for Minds, Inc., a non-profit organization.


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by admin|Published April 12, 2020
A 42-year-old man is in custody after police mobilized the Emergency Response Team for a commercial break and enter alarm downtown Sunday morning.
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Blu-ray Reviews: Corpse Bride
Last updated 6 April 2010
2005 - Warner Home Video Pty Ltd
Director: Tim Burton/Mike Johnson
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant and Christopher Lee
Corpse Bride (HD DVD)
Originally published in Sound and Image, July/August 2007, v.20#8
Well, a short review for a short movie is appropriate. Still, in view of the fact that every single one of the hundred thousand plus frames of this movie was an individually shot digital photo, I think we can forgive the movie makers for keeping it down to 77 minutes.
Story: timid young man from neuvo riche family is to marry into aristocratic, but impoverished, family. Instead he accidentally marries a corpse. All this is captured as puppet movements in a stop motion process that provides such wonderfully natural motion, it's easy to mistake it for CGI.
The sound is in the format very common on HD DVD, Dolby Digital Plus (which the player kindly decoded to 5.1 channel PCM), apparently with the EX extensions for a surround rear channel. You should be able to access this when you have full HDMI v1.3 connections. Lip sync was immaculate, which is quite an achievement in view of the manner of production.
As for the video, with so much of the movie shot in dark hues, the clarity of the HD DVD killed the DVD. Marvelous.
There are a stack of featurettes on the disc, which really ought to be viewed for an insight into how this mini-masterpiece was created. And one odd feature is a disc-based 'Zoom', which allows you to double, quadruple, or octuple the picture size, and pan around it with the arrow keys.
Picture: 1.85:1 anamorphic, 1080p24, VC-1
Sound: English, French, Spanish: Dolby Digital Plus EX 3/2.1 @ 640kbps; Music Only Track: Dolby Digital Plus 3/2.1 @ 640kbps
Subtitles: English, English for the Hearing Impaired, French, Spanish
Extras: 2x, 4x & 8x Zoom; HD DVD Promo (2 mins); Featurette: 'The Animators: The Breath of Life' (7 mins); Featurette: 'Danny Elfman interprets The Two Worlds' (5 mins); Featurette: 'Inside the Two Worlds of the Corpse Bride' (4 mins); Featurette: 'Making Puppets Tick' (7 mins); Featurette: 'Tim Burton: Dark vs. Light' (4 mins); Featurette: 'The Corpse Bride: Pre-Production Galleries' (13 mins); Featurette: 'The Voices behind the Voice' (8 mins); Featurette: 'Voices from the Underworld' (6 mins); Trailer (2 mins)
Blu-ray Addendum: Corpse Bride (Blu-ray)
Warner Bros pictures started the HD home entertainment business with an agnostic view as to Blu-ray and HD DVD. It released some titles in only the latter, but most of its releases were in both formats. Until, that is, shortly before the plug was pulled on HD DVD. Warner Bros decision to go Blu-ray exclusively was one of the last few straws on the camel's back.
When I started doing my reviews, the plan was to do two HD DVDs and two Blu-ray discs for each issue of Sound and Image. That came to an end with the exit of HD DVD, so now it's four Blu-rays each issue. But I actually had both the Blu-ray and HD DVD of Corpse Bride at the time I did the review. I chose HD DVD to fulfill the quota.
So what can I say about the Blu-ray version?
First, the special extras are identical in every way, except that the zoom feature and the HD DVD promo clip are missing from the Blu-ray. These days, as extras have improved (all the extras are in SD), I'd probably only give 3 or 3.5 stars for them.
Second, the sound is pretty much the same. The HD DVD gets Dolby Digital Plus, whereas the Blu-ray gets Dolby Digital EX. Both are delivered at 640kbps and both give 3/3.1 sound, except for the Music Only clip on the HD DVD which makes do with 3/2.1 sound.
As for the video, they are identical. Absolutely, completely and indistinguishably. I explain how I've shown that right here. What it boils down to is that when I digitally extracted matching frames from both versions, they proved to be bit perfect matches. Any differences in the picture quality are either in the head of the viewer, or due to differences between the playback platforms.
Now, here is my review of the Blu-ray version, written for Australian HI-FI.
Corpse Bride (Blu-ray)
Originally published in Australian HI-FI, March/April 2009, v.40#2
Tim Burton's 2005 dark fairy tale (he has made plenty of them) is a truly impressive technical achievement. He 'filmed' this 77 minute piece entirely with digital still cameras, using puppets, physical scale-model sets, and stop motion animation.
Unlike much movie animation (which often runs at 12 frames per second), each of the 24 frames per second of this movie depict movement. So we are talking about over one hundred thousand photographs of finely adjusted physical objects. The result is the best stop motion animation I've ever seen.
The story concerns an inept young man who accidentally marries a dead girl. The story and characters are nicely engaging and the movie is a full-blown musical, with several decent set-piece songs. The underworld number is especially good.
This Blu-ray has been around for a while and released at the same time as a HD DVD version (Warner Bros went both ways on the new formats for the first eighteen months). It is almost identical in almost all ways. The special feature set is the same, except that the Blu-ray lacks the HD DVD's zoom feature. The VC1 video encode is the same for both versions. By the same, I mean absolutely identical. I extracted a number of frames from both discs and compared them. They were bit-perfect identical.
Where they possibly differ is in the sound standards. Both offer three languages -- English, French and Spanish -- and a fourth Music Only audio track. On the HD DVD all four use Dolby Digital Plus -- one of the new audio standards supported by Blu-ray and HD DVD -- while the Blu-ray gets standard Dolby Digital. In both cases the tracks get the EX 6.1 channel treatment except, oddly, the Music Only HD DVD track, which makes do with 5.1 channels.
Although Dolby Digital Plus remains a lossy format, on Blu-ray it can be delivered by a bitstream of up to 1,700kbps, so it's tempting to think that the HD DVD may enjoy better sound. But in fact the sound is delivered in both formats at 640kbps. I couldn't tell the difference. Both sound excellent.
I suspect that at its lower bitrates, Dolby Digital Plus is no more than a relabelling of Dolby Digital.
Video: 1.85:1 anamorphic, 1080p24, VC-1 @ 18.43Mbps
Sound: English, French, Spanish, Music Only Track: Dolby Digital Plus EX 3/2.1 @ 640kbps
Extras: Featurettes (all 4:3, 480i, MPEG2, DD 2.0 @ 192kbps): 'The Animators: The Breath of Life' (7 mins); 'Danny Elfman interprets The Two Worlds' (5 mins); 'Inside the Two Worlds of the Corpse Bride' (4 mins); 'Making Puppets Tick' (7 mins); 'Tim Burton: Dark vs. Light' (4 mins); 'The Corpse Bride: Pre-Production Galleries' (13 mins); 'The Voices behind the Voice' (8 mins); 'Voices from the Underworld' (6 mins); Trailer (2 mins)
The following video bitrate graph was generated by BDInfo 0.5.3:
Comparison: HD DVD and Blu-ray vs PAL DVD
Here are some comparisons between the PAL DVD and the HD DVD version of this movie. As explained here, the HD DVD and Blu-ray versions carry identical video.
At the top of each is the full frame (suitably shrunk down) used in the comparison, with a 250 pixel wide detail from the frame underneath. The left side is from the PAL DVD. The image was captured digitally from the disc, scaled up from its native 720 by 576 resolution to 1,024 by 576 (to present in the correct aspect ratio), and then, in order to be comparable to the HD DVD version, from that to 1,920 by 1,080. The detail is from that last scaled version, and has not been rescaled again. The right side is from the Australian HD DVD. This has not been scaled at all. Different applications were used to capture the two frames, so I am not comfortable comparing the colour between the two, merely the detail and sharpness. For those visitors from NTSC lands, generally the PAL DVD is just a touch sharper than the NTSC DVD.
A dead giveaway of a recent high definition release is the titles at the start of the movie. The photography may vary in focus, but the immaculate clarity of titles is lovely with Blu-ray/HD DVD. Look at those little twirls at the top of the 'O' and the left of the 'A':
This is what it's all about. Look at that neck tie, it almost looks velvety with the Blu-ray. Look at those MPEG artefacts with the DVD:
Just look at the small vase. Only on the Blu-ray does this have sufficient detail to reveal naturalistic highlights and reflections, thereby acquiring a three dimensional appearance:
More resolution provides, amongst other things, more detail. More detail provides, amongst other things, more texture. That skull looks a lot better with its rock-like surface visible:
And we'll finish with another couple from a rather colourful underworld:


My plan is to post as regularly as I can over the coming weeks, so I'm starting with a bit of a throwback post today. Yes, I'm travelling back to August...before my summer holiday to Cannes (I'll feature the outfits and fashion from this soon) and after my very special bridesmaid OOTD, which you can read about here.
As you know by now, I regularly visit London and plan to do so even more now that one of my loveliest friends Jen is living there. So just before my summer holiday, I flew solo to London to catch up with her for a day of shopping, fizz and gossip. It ended up being a trip with fashion at the centre; without even trying to be!
We started off in Victoria's Secret (Pink knickers an essential purchase!!) then ended up in Fenwick on Bond Street, with a visit to the Bond Street Kitchen for a brunch of scrambled egg on toast and bottomless Prosecco. Now I must add here that it was about 1230pm-and that bottomless for me is usually two glasses; its definite value for money if you go all out but as I'm a lightweight it would've probably worked out cheaper if I'd just bought a glass of fizz! Nevertheless it was a wonderful treat from Jen and one which I wasn't expecting-plus it was the perfect setting to offload some gossip!
Once refuelled and ready to go, we headed towards Regent Street, taking in lots of shops along the way. I had a holiday almost upon me, so I used the day to actively encourage Jen to spoil herself; she got herself a few treats-including some divine red Christian Louboutin nail polish from Selfridges. It's always fun to spend time in Selfridges on Oxford Street; the time seemed to run away as we took in all of the amazing shoes, clothes and handbags we were lusting after.
We were heading slowly towards Burberry on Regent's Street, the flagship, the mothership, my favourite place on Earth! You may remember I had breakfast there with Natalie at Christmas (here) and thought it would be the perfect place to take Jen for a mid-afternoon cake date. Jen had never been to this Burberry before; and she absolutely loved it. It's my favourite London landmark-I love to share it!!
The history of the trench coat-the famous Burberry staple-was being celebrated with a mini exhibition in-store.
Thomas's is an amazing place to eat; I hope to one day visit for afternoon tea! This time, a cake and a coffee was top of the list-Millionaire's Cheesecake for me and a classic Cherry Bakewell for Jen, served with some delicious coffee to wash it down-yum!
A quick stop off at Waterstone's, and time spent at the biggest selection of fashion books I've ever had the pleasure of coming face to face with (I opted for Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn in case you were wondering!), we strolled along to Burlington Arcade. Most of the shops were closed by this point but I was really excited to see all of the Vogue 100 covers still hanging pride of place. A perfect camera moment!
I also loved the Camellia's in the window of Chanel!
Apart from a quick bite before I boarded the train, our last stop of the day was a walk along Bond Street again, to visit Alexander McQueen and to window shop. From a visual merchandise point of view, the windows on Bond Street are by far some of the best in London-particularly if you love high-end fashion like me!
I really loved seeing fashion on all floors at Valentino!
LOVE Thomas's, it's like a secret destination.


[:en]On Sunday 29th we went to the Fería del Café [Coffee fair] in Frailes de Desamparados. According to our research this activity is traceable to 2003. When neighborhoods of the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help came together to collect some money for the parish. During the first years the fair was a small activity. Been more about neighborhoods sharing methods and experiences and offering a percentage of their earnings to the parish than a real fair.
Here are some photos of the activity and amazing sunset of the day.
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How Iran Could Wage a Cyber War Against America
March 28, 2020 Topic: Security Region: Middle East Blog Brand: Middle East Watch Tags: IranCyber AttacksIRGCHackingPropaganda
And it would get ugly.
by Michael Esfahani
Tehran, its allies and sympathizers have returned to launching a diverse array of cyberattacks targeting U.S. interests.
These attacks began reemerging in May 2018 following the Trump administration's unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Until that moment, Iran-aligned hackers had significantly reduced their cyber operations on the U.S. and its allies since the agreement was signed by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) in July 2015.
Washington's subsequent implementation of the "Maximum Pressure" campaign—embodied by economic sanctions and military operations—further galvanized Iran and its friends to confront the American challenge in cyberspace (among traditional domains).
Indeed, Washington's recent assassination of IRGC Qods Force General, Qassem Soleimani, via drone strike on January 2 accelerated the number of Iran-aligned cyber attacks targeting government institutions (federal, state, and local), critical infrastructure, and financial organizations of the United States and its Middle East allies.
For example, within a week of Soleimani's assassination, Texas's state government alone detected a surge of 10,000 attempted attacks per minute on statewide infrastructure believed to originate from Iran.
Absent a diplomatic breakthrough, Tehran's record in the cyber domain suggests that the Iranians, their vast network of regional allies and sympathizers will continue attacking U.S. interests in cyber space in alignment with the Islamic Republic's larger military doctrine of imposing a cost on Washington for its crippling sanctions and military escalations.
So how does Iran deliver such costs to the United States in cyberspace?
According to a history of well-documented attacks, Iran-aligned hackers have already begun to engage in most of the following five forms of cyber operations (ordered from least to most destructive).
1. Online Vandalism
During times of great tension between the United States and Iran, hacktivists sympathetic to the Islamic Republic deface American websites and social media profiles with political messaging. The purpose is to cause embarrassment, confusion, and cosmetic damage onto the targets.
A slew of Iran-aligned online vandalism occurred within twenty-four hours of Soleimani's assassination when hacktivist groups began attacking hundreds of webpages of organizations associated with the U.S. government.
The Iran Cyber Security Group, for instance, successfully defaced the Federal Depository Library Program site (fdlp.gov); a program operated by the U.S. federal government to provide public access to government publications. The attack was the most notable of recent defacements as it highlighted the hackers' ability to penetrate federal cyber defenses in order to compromise a US government domain (.gov).
In the FDLP defacement—like many others—hackers posted Islamic Republic propaganda on the homepage praising Soleimani's martyrdom, and an image of President Donald Trump bloodied by a punch from an IRGC guardsman.
Although the damage caused by website defacements is generally negligible, Iranian online vandalism does have the ability to cause short-term monetary damage.
In April 2013, for example, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA)—a group widely-believed to have been developed by, and closely partnered alongside, Iranian government cyber operatives—hacked AP's Twitter account and falsely claimed two explosions hit the White House and injured former U.S. President Barack Obama. As a result, the U.S. stock market briefly dipped by $136 billion.
2. Ransomware
Of course, Iranian hacktivists will not limit their attacks to online vandalism if they can allocate their efforts toward operations that yield financial benefit.
Ransomware is a kind of cyber attack where the hacker infects a target's computer(s) with malware that encrypts its data making it inaccessible for the user. The attacker then blackmails the target by threatening to delete their sensitive data, or publish it online, if they choose not to pay the ransom using cryptocurrencies, mainly Bitcoin.
Iranian hackers are exceptionally skilled at ransomware attacks. In an almost three-year campaign beginning in December 2015, two independent Iranian hackers released the notorious SamSam ransomware on over 200 American organizations; seizing more than $6 million in ransoms and causing over $30 million in damages.
The hackers' most notable breaches include local governments, like the City of Atlanta; critical infrastructure, like the Port of San Diego; as well as prominent hospitals and universities.
Tehran may have leverage in increasing the number of ransomware attacks on U.S.-aligned organizations by demonstrating (tacitly or otherwise) that it will turn a blind eye on such hacktivist-led attacks. Independent hackers would then have free-reign to compromise the infrastructure of U.S.-aligned organizations and seize their funds without fear of punishment.
But the Iranian government can launch its own ransomware attacks given how inexpensive the kind of malware is to purchase on the dark web, let alone develop on their own. According to some analyst reports, the recent Snake ransomware that emerged in late 2019 can be attributed to Iranian state-sponsored actors.
The attack targets critical infrastructure via hacking industrial control system (ICS) technology. Bahrain's national oil company, Bapco—a target of previous Iran-aligned attacks given the country's close relationship with the U.S.—is believed to have been hit by Snake. If the reports are true, it would mean Iran-aligned hackers may be capable of holding some critical infrastructure of U.S.-aligned states for ransom.
3. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
Historically, however, Iran's most financially destructive cyber attack against U.S. institutions is that of denying major American financial institutions the ability to operate online.
Using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, hackers flood the bandwidth of public-facing servers—the very infrastructure supporting online exchange between the institution's online services and its customers—thwarting their ability to carry out necessary business transactions.
Between 2011–2013, Tehran launched a major DDoS operation against nearly fifty major financial institutions, including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Citigroup.
The operation disabled their online services for a relatively short period of time, but resulted in tens of millions of dollars in remediation costs alone for the affected institutions and an even greater unknown sum of value in lost business transactions.
4. Targeted Intrusion
Perhaps the Iranian government's most utilized cyber operation is its espionage activities via targeted intrusion. Hackers leverage targeted intrusions to penetrate an organization's infrastructure and maintain anonymity inside for long periods of time. From within the victim's ecosystem, hackers monitor, seize, and destroy data.
According to cyber security company, Cylance, Iran is the "new China," in terms of global cyber espionage, with operations spanning across various industries around the world.
One of the most notable Iran-aligned targeted intrusions took place in fall 2012 when the Iranians appeared to hack into the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI); the US Navy's unclassified administrative network, where they spied on the network for nearly four months. NMCI is the world's largest corporate intranet with over 800,000 users and 2,500 sites.
The following year, IRGC-aligned hackers penetrated the industrial control systems of a New York dam and obtained information related to controlling water levels and flow rates.
Looking ahead into post-JCPOA operations, cyber security company, CrowdStrike, identified an uptick in activity from Islamic Republic-aligned hacking groups since summer 2019. Much of Iran's targeted intrusions appear to be discovered by private cyber security firms working with affected organizations and are not public knowledge.
Therefore, great uncertainty remains in understanding both the quantity and severity of organizations compromised by Iran-aligned espionage activities.
5. Wiper
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of targeted intrusions is that once hackers are inside the target's IT environment, they can launch a wiper; a kind of malware destroying large swathes of data and infrastructure by overwriting (or wiping) the hard drive of the infected computers.
Wipers are perhaps Iran's most destructive cyber threat publicly known. In 2012, Iran-aligned attackers launched one of the most destructive wiper attacks on Saudi Aramco; Shamoon. The attack destroyed approximately 35,000 computers and caused dozens of hours in downtime—leading to millions of dollars in damages and lost revenue.
Then in May 2018, following President Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, a new variant of the Shamoon destroyed files on approximately ten percent of Italian company Saipem's computers that were supporting Saudi Aramco's drilling and pipeline operations.
Wiper attacks continued into 2019 and today with the likes of ZeroCleare and Dustman. Both target multiple energy companies of U.S. allies in the Middle East resulting in unknown financial loss likely in (at least) the tens of millions of dollars range.
What is important to note in all these instances is that the wiper was employed at the tail-end of existing espionage campaigns. Therefore, given that Iran-aligned actors are already clandestinely rummaging through the environments of dozens of major organizations around the world, when Iran decides to respond in cyber space, it likely has its pick of company, industry, and country it chooses to employ a wiper.
The Trump administration's unilateral withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal and subsequent implementation of the Maximum Pressure campaign galvanized Iranians, their vast network of regional allies and sympathizers to respond in cyberspace. Such Iran-aligned actors looking to impose a cost on the United States for its economic sanctions and military escalations will increase their diverse set of attacks in the absence of a diplomatic breakthrough.
Michael Esfahani is an independent Middle East security analyst focusing on geopolitics, military dynamics, and cyber warfare in the region. He has an M.A. in Strategic Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS). He currently works for a prominent cyber security software company in Silicon Valley. All views are his own. Follow him @mesfahan.


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UMass Amherst's Lila Gierasch Elected to National Academy of Sciences
By BusinessWest Staff May 2, 2019 1262
AMHERST — The U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced the election of 100 new members to the academy in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. They include Lila Gierasch, distinguished professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry at UMass Amherst.
The NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research. Gierasch's research focus for decades has been protein folding — that is, how amino-acid sequence determines the three-dimensional structure of a protein. She is particularly focused on how proteins fold in the cellular environment and the role of molecular chaperones in ensuring high fidelity in the folding process.
"I am thrilled by this honor," she said. "The recognition of one's contributions over a career by colleagues is truly gratifying."
Added John McCarthy, UMass Amherst provost and senior vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, "this is a richly deserved honor for one of our stellar faculty members. Lila Gierasch is part of what makes this university great."
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology. Scientists are elected by their peers to membership in the NAS for outstanding contributions to research.
Gierasch's honor is the latest in a recent series of recognitions she has earned from research peers and professional societies. Last year, for example, she received the American Chemical Society's Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry for "her seminal contributions to peptide structure and function, peptide models for protein folding and function, and roles of peptide and protein aggregation in disease."
In 2016, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. That same year, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology named Gierasch editor in chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the society's flagship journal, for a five-year term.
In 2014, Gierasch was named to the National Institutes of Health Council of Councils, established to advise the NIH director on policies and activities of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, which includes making recommendations on research that represents important areas of emerging scientific opportunities, rising public-health challenges, or knowledge gaps that deserve special emphasis or would otherwise benefit from strategic planning and coordination.
Most recently, she was recognized for her "outstanding contributions to peptide science" by the American Peptide Society. She will formally receive its lifetime achievement honor, the Merrifield Award, at a ceremony at the society's annual meeting in Monterey, Calif. in June.
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Moods founders buy back the shop
Some of the founders and employees of the bankrupt Norwegian retail clothing chain Moods of Norway have submitted the highest bid to buy back the chain's bankruptcy estate with the aim of starting over. Their purchase includes warehouse and store inventory, units like Moods USA and Moods Sverige, "the brand, of course, everything," Moods' chairman Jan Egil Flo exclaimed to local newspaper Fjordingen on Wednesday.
Moods of Norway's trademark tractor may roll again through the streets of Stryn, if the Moods founders succeed at their comeback attempt. PHOTO: Moods of Norway
News bureau NTB reported that Flo, founder Simen Staalnacke and a group of employees intend to keep the company's headquarters in the mountain town of Stryn. Employees who haven't already found a new job since Moods of Norway went into bankruptcy last month can get their old jobs back.
Plans call for reopening Moods' stores this weekend for clearance sales through the end of the year. "After that we need to find out what kind of operation we'll have and how we'll organize it," Flo said. "The number of stores we'll have in the future, for example, is uncertain."
Details of the plan were sketchy but bankruptcy administrator Asbjørn Løvik said several potential buyers were interested in Moods' estate. "Several submitted bids and the group that had the the highest bid got it," Løvik said. The deadline for filing claims against the estate was set for October 18.
Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) reported shortly after the bankruptcy filing in September that the Moods founders built up sizeable fortunes during the years when Moods was successful. Tax returns for 2016 show Staalnacke, for example, with a taxable fortune of NOK 14.1 million, while his own company had capital of NOK 25.7 million. Flo's fortune was much bigger, at NOK 46.9 million and share capital in his private firm of NOK 27.6 million.
They had also managed to borrow another NOK 5 million from the public sector business development agency Innovation Norway as late as February. Innovation Norway, which offers financial support to both entreneurs and and companies trying to expand, is now a creditor but reportedly has some secured assets in Moods' inventory.
Now Flo and Staalnacke seem to be putting their own money into Moods. "We have to save the company, we still have faith in it," Flo told DN. He wouldn't say what the group paid for Moods' estate, but he told DN there were three other bidders. Flo, Staalnacke and the employee group also won the support of the local bank in Stryn, Sparebanken Sogn og Fjordane, which had prompted the bankruptcy when it stopped extending credit ot Moods. "It's the bank we've always used," Flo said. It also has some security in Moods' inventory, according to DN.
Flo claimed the group had learned from their mistakes, and there would be no efforts to open 20 stores in the US again, "that's for sure!" He claimed they had done "a lot of right things, too, so when we've spent a month cleaning up and having clearance sales, we'll figure out how we'll move forward from the New Year." He expected Moods stores to resume operations until Christmas, with its remaining store in Los Angeles likely to operate until its lease runs out in July next year.
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Sheffield Steelers' Ryan Martinelli is dejected as Dundee Stars celebrate a goal in their 6-1 victory (Picture: Derek Black).
YOU wait four years and three months for a win over the Sheffield Steelers – then two come along at once.
Dundee Stars head coach Omar Pacha liked the feeling of finally getting the better of his bogey side so much – he had come off second-best to the Steelers in all 29 previous encounters as a coach – he decided to repeat the feat, following up a 6-3 win in South Yorkshire on Saturday with a 6-1 trouncing of Tom Barrasso's team on home ice 24 hours later.
A four-point weekend for the Stars meant a zero return for the troubled Steelers who, due to a combination of seeing their losing streak extended to five games and results elsewhere, are now second-bottom in the Elite League standings and two points off the top eight play-off spots.
There is still plenty of time for Barrasso's team to ensure they make the post-season – 23 games in fact – but that does not disguise the fact these are worrying times.
Chief of the concerns will be the shortage of defensive options, Josh McFadden joining Davey Phillips on the injured list ahead of last night's trip to Tayside, while loanee defenceman Jonas Fredriksson has gone back to parent club Sutton Sting.
It meant the Steelers had just four recognised defencemen in Dundee in a game that was effectively lost before the halfway mark when they found themselves 4-0 down. Goals from Brian Hart and Matt Bissonette along with two from former Steelers' forward Matt Marquardt put the visitors on the back foot with just 27.10 on the clock.
Josh Pitt quickly replied, but the Stars restored their four-goal lead through a second for Bissonnette at 36.16. Josh Corcoran rounded off the scoring on the power play with a little over 11 minutes remaining.
It all made for a rather miserable 48 hours for the Steelers – a complete contrast to the mood in the other changing room and in particular that of Pacha.
The 32-year-old had endured a nightmare run against the Steelers going all the way back to the 2014-15 season when he took over as player-coach of Hull Stingrays.
His misery finally came to an end at Sheffield Arena on Saturday when a Favrizio Ricci hat-trick saw his team complete a deserved victory, the Steelers having clawed their way back from a 3-1 deficit only to concede three unanswered goals in the third period.


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from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy

from flask_debugtoolbar import DebugToolbarExtension
from logging import Formatter, getLogger
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from catalog.views.home import home
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