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newswire article coverage united states 10.Jan.2005 17:59
corporate dominance | economic justice | human & civil rights
Social Security Isn't Broken
author: Doug Orr
Is the Social Security Fund really in trouble or is Bush's move to privatize it just another move to transfer assets from the working class to the rich. If Bush has his way, over 50% of those over 65 will be living in poverty in this nation.
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/1104orr.html
So Why Does Greenspan Want to Fix It?
BY DOUG ORR
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress earlier this year that everyone knows there's a Social Security crisis. That's like saying "everyone knows the earth is flat."
Starting with a faulty premise guarantees reaching the wrong conclusion. The truth is there is no Social Security crisis, but there is a potential crisis in retirement income security and there may be a crisis in the future in U.S. financial markets. It's this latter crisis that Greenspan actually is worried about.
Social Security is the most successful insurance program ever created. It insures millions of workers against what economists call "longevity risk," the possibility they will live "too long" and not be able to work long enough, or save enough, to provide their own income. Today, about 10% of those over age 65 live in poverty. Without Social Security, that rate would be almost 50%.
Social Security was originally designed to supplement, and was structured to resemble, private-sector pensions. In the 1930s, all private pensions were defined-benefit plans. The retirement benefit was based on a worker's former wage and years of service. In most plans, after 35 years of service the monthly benefit, received for life, would be at least half of the income received in the final working year.
Congress expected that private-sector pensions eventually would cover most workers. But pension coverage peaked at 40% in the 1960s. Since then, corporations have systematically dismantled pension systems. Today, only 16% of private-sector workers are covered by defined-benefit pensions. Rather than supplementing private pensions, Social Security has become the primary source of retirement income for almost two-thirds of retirees. Thus, Congress was forced to raise benefit levels in 1972.
What has happened to private-sector defined benefit pensions? They've been replaced with defined-contribution (DC) savings plans such as 401(k)s and 403(b)s. These plans provide some retirement income but offer no real protection from longevity risk. Once a retiree depletes the amount saved in the plan, that pension is gone.
In a generous DC plan, a firm might match the worker's contribution up to 3% of his or her pay. With total contributions of 6%, average wage growth of 2% a year, and an average return on the investment portfolio of 5%, after 35 years of work, a retiree would exhaust the plan's savings in just 8.5 years even if her annual spending is only half of her final salary. If she restricts spending to just one-third of the final salary, the savings can stretch to 14 years.
At age 65, life expectancy for women today is about 20 years, and for men about 15 years, so DC savings plans will not protect the elderly from longevity risk. The conversion of defined-benefit pensions to defined-contribution plans is the source of the real potential crisis in retirement income. Yet Greenspan did not mention this in his testimony to Congress.
No Crisis
Opponents of Social Security have hated it since its creation in 1935. The first prediction of a Social Security crisis was published in 1936! The Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute are home to many of the program's opponents today, and they fixate on the concept of a "demographic imperative." In 1960, the United States had 5.1 workers per retiree, in 1998 we had 3.4, and by 2030 we will have only 2.1. Opponents claim that with these demographic changes, revenues will eventually be insufficient to pay Social Security retirement benefits.
The logic is appealingly simple, but wrong for two reasons. First, this "old-age dependency" ratio in itself is irrelevant. No amount of financial manipulation can change this fact: all current consumption must come from current physical output. The consumption of all dependents (non-workers) must come from the output produced by current workers. It's the overall dependency ratio—-the number of workers relative to all non-workers, including the aged, the young, the disabled, and those choosing not to work—that determines whether society can "afford" the baby boomers' retirement years. In the 1960s we had 1.05 workers for each dependent, and we were building new schools and the interstate highway system and getting ready to put a man on the moon. No one bemoaned a demographic crisis or looked for ways to cut the resources allocated to children; in fact, the living standards of most families rose rapidly. In 2030, we will have 1.27 workers per dependent. We'll have more workers per dependent in the future than we did in the past. While it is true a larger share of total output will be allocated to the aged, just as a larger share was allocated to children in the 1960s, society will easily produce adequate output to support all workers and dependents, and at a higher standard of living.
Second, the "demographic imperative" ignores productivity growth. Average worker productivity has grown by about 2% per year, adjusted for inflation, for the past half-century. That means real output per worker doubles every 36 years. This productivity growth is projected to continue, so by 2040, each worker will produce twice as much as today. Suppose each of three workers today produces $1,000 per week and one retiree is allocated $500 (half of his final salary)—then each worker gets $833. In 2040, two such workers will produce $2,000 per week each (after adjusting for inflation). If each retiree gets $1,000, each worker still gets $1,500. The incomes of both workers and retirees go up. Thus, paying for the baby boomers' retirement need not decrease their children's standard of living.
So why the talk of a Social Security crisis? Social Security always has been a pay-as-you-go system. Current benefits are paid out of current tax revenues. But in the 1980s, a commission headed by Greenspan recommended raising payroll taxes to expand the trust fund in order to supplement tax revenues when the baby boom generation retires. Congress responded in 1984 by raising payroll taxes significantly. As a result, the Social Security trust fund, which holds government bonds as assets, has grown every year since. As the baby boom moves into retirement, these assets will be sold to help pay their retirement benefits.
Each year, Social Security's trustees must make projections of the system's status for the next 75 years. In 1996, they projected the trust fund balance would go to zero in 2030. In 2000, they projected a zero balance in 2036 and today they project a zero balance in 2042. The projection keeps changing because the trustees continue to make unrealistic assumptions about future economic conditions. The current projections are based on the assumption that annual GDP growth will average 1.8 % for the next 75 years. In no 20-year period, even including the Great Depression, has the U.S. economy grown that slowly. Each year the economy grows faster than 1.8%, the zero balance date moves further into the future. But the trustees continue to suggest that if we return to something like the Great Depression, the trust fund will go to zero.
Opponents of Social Security claim the system will then be "bankrupt." Bankruptcy implies ceasing to exist. But if the trust fund goes to zero, Social Security will not shut down and stop paying benefits. It will simply revert to the pure pay-as-you-go system that it was before 1984 and continue to pay current benefits using current tax revenues. Even if the trustees' worst-case assumptions come true, the payroll tax paid by workers would need to increase by only about 2%, and only in 2030, not today.
If the economy grows at 2.4%—which is still slower than the stagnant growth of the 1980s—the trust fund never goes to zero. The increase in real output and real incomes will generate sufficient revenues to pay promised benefits. By 2042, we will need to lower payroll taxes or raise benefits to reduce the surplus.
The Real Fear: An Oversupply of Bonds
So why did Greenspan claim cutting benefits would become necessary? To understand the answer, we need to take a side trip to look at how bonds and the financial markets affect each other. It turns out that rising interest rates reduce the selling price of existing financial assets, and falling asset prices push up interest rates (see "How Does the Bond Market Work?" p. 15).
For example, in the 1980s, President Reagan cut taxes and created the largest government deficits in history up to that point. This meant the federal government had to sell lots of bonds to finance the soaring government debt; to attract enough buyers, the Treasury had to offer very high interest rates. During the 1980s, real interest rates (rates adjusted for inflation) were almost four times higher than the historic average. High interest rates slow economic growth by making it more expensive for consumers to buy homes or for businesses to invest in new infrastructure. The GDP growth rate in the 1980s was the slowest in U.S. history apart from the Great Depression.
But high interest rates also depress financial asset prices. A five percentage point rise in interest rates reduces the selling price of a bond (loan) that matures in 10 years by 50%. It was the impact of the record-high interest rates of the 1980s on the value of the loan portfolios of the savings and loan industry that caused the S&L crisis and the industry's collapse.
Greenspan is worried because he sees history repeating itself in the form of President Bush's tax cuts. In his testimony, Greenspan expressed concern over a potentially large rise in interest rates. This is his way of warning about an excess supply of bonds. Starting in 2020, Social Security will have to sell about $150 billion (in 2002 dollars) in trust fund bonds each year for 22 years. At the same time, private-sector pension funds will be selling $100 billion per year of financial assets to make their pension payments. State and local governments will be selling $75 billion per year to cover their former employees' pension expenses, and holdings in private mutual funds will fall by about $50 billion per year as individual retirees cash in their 401(k) assets. Private firms will still need to issue about $100 billion of new bonds a year to finance business expansion. Combined, these asset sales could total $475 billion per year.
This level of bond sales is more than double the record that was set in the 1980s following the Reagan tax cuts. But back then, the newly issued bonds were being purchased by "institutional investors" such as private-sector pension funds and insurance companies. After 2020, these groups will be net sellers of bonds. The financial markets will strain to absorb this level of asset sales. It's unlikely they will be able to also absorb the extra $400 billion per year of bond sales needed to cover the deficit spending that will occur if the new Bush tax cuts are made permanent. This oversupply of bonds will drive down the value of all financial assets.
In a 1994 paper, Sylvester Schieber, a current advisor to President Bush on pension and Social Security reform, predicted this potential drop in asset prices. After 2020, the value of assets held in 401(k) plans, already inadequate, will be reduced even more. More importantly, at least to Greenspan, the prices of assets held by corporations to fund their defined benefit pension promises will fall. Thus, pension payments will need to come out of current revenues, reducing corporate profits and, in turn, driving down stock prices.
It's this potential collapse in the prices of financial assets that worries Greenspan most. In order to reduce the run-up of long-term interest rates, some asset sales must be eliminated. Greenspan said, "You don't have the resources to do it all." But rather than rescinding Bush's tax cuts, Greenspan favors reducing bond sales by the Social Security trust fund. Doing that requires a reduction in benefits and raising payroll taxes even more.
Framing a question incorrectly makes it impossible to find a solution. The problem is not with Social Security, but rather with blind reliance on financial markets to solve all economic problems. If the financial markets are likely to fail us, what is the solution? The solution is simple once the question is framed correctly: where will the real output that baby boomers are going to consume in retirement come from?
The federal budget surplus President Bush inherited came entirely from Social Security surpluses resulting from the 1984 payroll tax increase. Bush gave away revenues meant to provide for workers' retirement as tax cuts for the wealthiest 10% of the population.
We should rescind Bush's tax cuts and use the Social Security surpluses to really prepare for the baby boom retirement. Public investment or targeted tax breaks could be used to encourage the building of the hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices that aging baby boomers will need. Such investment in public and private infrastructure would also stimulate the real economy and increase GDP growth. Surpluses could be used to fund the training of doctors, nurses and others to staff these facilities, and of other high skilled workers more generally. The higher wages of skilled labor will help generate the payroll tax revenues needed to fund future benefits. If baby boomers help to fund this infrastructure expansion through their payroll taxes while they are still working, less output will need to be allocated when they retire. These expenditures will increase the productivity of the real economy, which will help keep the financial sector solvent to provide for retirees.
Destroying Social Security in order to "save" it is not a solution.
Doug Orr is a professor of economics at Eastern Washington University. He is a regular speaker on the issues of private sector pensions and Social Security and has published articles on these issues in national and international journals. His e-mail is dorr@ewu.edu.
ResourcesDean  Baker and Mark Weisbrot, Social Security: The Phony Crises, University of Chicago Press, 1999; William Wolman and Anne Colamosca, The Great 401(k) Hoax, Perseus Publishing, 2002; Sylvester J. Schieber and John B. Shoven, "The Consequences of Population Aging on Private Pension Fund Saving and Asset Markets," National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 4665, 1994.
How Does the Bond Market Work?
A bond is nothing more than an IOU. A company or government borrows money and promises to pay a certain amount of interest annually until it repays the loan. When you buy a newly issued bond, you are making a loan. The amount of the loan is the "face value" of the bond. The initial interest rate at which the bond is issued, the "face rate," multiplied by this face value determines the amount of interest paid each period. Until the debt is paid back, events in the financial markets affect the bond's value.
If market interest rates fall, prices of existing bonds rise. Why? Suppose you buy a bond with a face value of $100 that pays 10%. You then collect $10 per year. If the current interest rate falls to 5%, newly issued bonds will pay that new rate. Since your bond pays 10%, people would rather buy that one than one paying 5%. They are willing to pay more than the face value to get it, so the price will be bid up until interest rates equalize. The price at which you could sell your bond will rise to $200, since $10 is 5% of $200.
But changes in bond prices also affect interest rates. If more people are selling bonds than buying them, an excess supply exists, and prices will fall. If you need to sell your bond to get money to pay your rent, you might have to lower the price of the bond you hold to $50. Because the bond still pays $10 per year to the owner, the new owner gets a 20% return on the $50 purchase. Anyone trying to issue new bonds will have to match that return, so the new market interest rate becomes 20%.
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Thanks for post this 11.Jan.2005 09:43
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Thanks for posting this information. We continue to be under attack by corporates that know no country. The US is being drain of the coffers that support the working class. The social Security fund is the single biggest pot of public money. Interest in the pot is used to support elders, the disabled, public hospitals, nursing facitilies, public health programs. It is the best example of a fund well managed for the benefit ALL the people of America. Once it is gone we will see the complete tumble of the culture and society of America. People will be at the beck and call of the corporates. Our nation will operate as one big company town. We will be enslaved to a degree that there will be no doubt in our minds that we the People of America own nothing, not even our futures.
The money will be stolen and used to make war on the world. At some point there will be a pay back. Even if you don't care about the elderly and the disable, you must begin to care that this money will be used to move us toward a world war that will be fought in this land, this place.
what can you do. Stop feeding the corporates. Buy nothing new. The only real vote we still have is our money. Every cent you spend is being used fuel the fascist state. Stop buying corporate stuff. Keep the money as local as possible. Buy everything used. There is tons of stuff all around you. Look on Craigs list when you think you have to spend money. Go to garage sales. Go to the Portland Saturday market, to farmers markets and second-hand stores. Let very little leak to the corporates. Start thinking of what you can barter or sell to the local community.
Do not think that communication with our sElected officicals will do anyting at all. Wyden and Smith are corporate shills. If you have to vote. Vote for local elections only. Vote Green. Become a candidate for the green party. Attend neighborhood and city council meetings. Vote with your voice and your heart.
This Social SecurityTax scheme 11.Jan.2005 20:08
will bleed us dry link
Social Security first was voluntary then became mandatory. The confiscatory social security taxes are not put into a real trust fund but rather the money just pumps into the general fund. So we can't be running out of social security funds. If they were really concerned about the funding then attention would be directed towards the illegal Iraq operation that is draining the general fund.
The Bush regimes' attack on social security will go into full swing when benefits are opened up to all foreigners who ever worked in the US; legally or otherwise. The construction of US social security offices in foreign countries are underway--so their citizens can apply for benefits with as little as two years work in the US.
Confiscatory taxation of the working citizens of America will soon be funding the world's poor.


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Q: How to trap SIGINT and SIGTERM (basically when Ctrl+C tapped) in CLI tool with Swift Package Manager I'm creating a CLI (executable product) for macOS using Swift Package Manager
My worker process some data and write the output to a file. I need to trap SIGINT, SIGTERM or any signal indicating that the command has been quit, so that I can inform my worker to clean things up.
Anyone has an idea how I can do it in a Swift Package target?
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I was in the south two weeks ago, at the Amalfi coast, and got this dress which is like a classic style at the south of Italy.
This time I wore it in Verona last weekend. I've been traveling so much and have taken like a million photos but really not much of fashion.
I leave you with these, in a relaxed look.
Estuve en el sur hace dos semanas, en la costa Amalfitana y compre este vestido que es como un estilo clasico en el sur de Italia.
Esta vez lo lleve a Verona el fin de semana pasado. He estado viajando mucho y he tomado como un millon de fotos pero realmente no muchas de moda.
Los dejo con estas en un look relajado.


Can Life Really Be Fun Without Video Games?
When you quit gaming one of the biggest issues you run into is feeling bored. You want to quit because you want to start living your life, but can life really be fun without video games?
When you quit gaming it can be scary. Gaming is how you have fun and it's easy to find other activities to be boring, and even though this happens for specific reasons, it's common to wonder if life without video games is really even fun.
What Other Activities Should I Do After I Quit Playing Video Games?
When we quit playing video games, we need to think about what we're going to do with all of this new time we have. This is a common obstacle to go through, because gaming is what we know. So when we quit, we tend to still gravitate towards them, when that's kind of missing the point.
The point of quitting video games isn't to continue playing games, it's about putting ourselves in a position where we have no choice but to learn how to interact (and entertain) ourselves without using gaming as our crutch.
The thing is, a big mistake people make is that they focus too much on video games and forget that this is really about much more than that.
Games are an outlet for us whenever we feel bored. But to us we have a choice, we can use games to help us escape that boredom… or we can choose to be present in the moment and not need to escape from it.
This isn't even really about games.


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Q: Jingle on Android and XMPP We are trying to build a PTT (push to talk) app. The idea is to send an audio file over the air from one device to another. Is Jingle the only logical choice, if so does anyone have any pointers on how to get this setup in an Android environment? + XMPP Or is there a better solution?
Worse case scenario I was thinking of having a C2DM push notification fly from one device to another and with every push payload notify the device where the audio file is on the server and have that unit stream the audio file, but it seems too flaky to do it this way, since the push notifications may not always be guaranteed, or it might take some time till it reaches the device, etc. The idea here is to have a real live experience and as fast as possible.
Any help is kindly appreciated.

A: Not sure if this suits for PushToTalk, but for realtime is really simple and usable. Draft of Jingle Nodes Setup Guide

A: Make sure you follow the Jingle Nodes Standard. That way, not only can a user of your server talk to each other, but they could talk to other existing clients on the desktop and on other platforms.


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Q: how can i find the coordinates of intersection between 2 line segments C++ I am very new to c++ programming language i just need to know how can i declare a set of line segments given their start and end points? is there anything like that in C++?
I have this code which reads the starting and ending points of the line segments from a text file and divides the input into 4 vectors : X_start, Y_start, X_end, Y_end.
I need to know how to use these vectors to define line segments? any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm> // for std::copy#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <fstream>
#include <math.h>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm> // for std::copy
using namespace std;

int main()
{
std::ifstream is("D:\\Task1.txt");
std::istream_iterator<double> start(is), end;
std::vector<double> numbers(start, end);
std::vector<double> X_start(start, end);
std::vector<double> Y_start(start, end);
std::vector<double> X_end(start, end);
std::vector<double> Y_end(start, end);
std::vector<double>::iterator i;
std::vector<double>::iterator j;
float left, top, right, bottom; // Bounding Box For Line Segments
left = 12;
top = 12;
right = 0;
bottom = 0;

std::cout << "Read " << numbers.size() << " numbers" << std::endl;
std::copy(numbers.begin(), numbers.end(),
        std::ostream_iterator<double>(std::cout, " "));
std::cout << std::endl;

for (vector<double>::iterator i = numbers.begin();
                       i != numbers.end();
                       ++i)
{
for(int j = 0; j < numbers.size(); j = j+4)
{
std::cout << "elemnts of X_start " << numbers[j] << "  " <<std::endl;
X_start.push_back(numbers[j]);

}
for(int k = 1; k < numbers.size(); k = k+4)
{
std::cout << "elemnts of Y_start " << numbers[k] << " " <<std::endl;
Y_start.push_back(numbers[k]);
}
for(int l = 2; l < numbers.size(); l = l+4)
{
std::cout << "elemnts of X_end " << numbers[l] << " " <<std::endl;
X_end.push_back(numbers[l]);
}
for(int m = 3; m < numbers.size(); m = m+4)
{
std::cout << "elemnts of Y_end " << numbers[m] << " " <<std::endl;
Y_end.push_back(numbers[m]);
}
getchar();
}
}

A: I use the following function. Just modify it to meet your requirements.
class Point
{
    public:
    float x,y;
};

class LineSegment
{
    public:
    Point top;
    Point bottom;
};

Point* getIntersectionPoint(LineSegment line1,LineSegment line2)
{
    float s1_x, s1_y, s2_x, s2_y;
    float p1_x = line1.bottom.x,p1_y = line1.bottom.y;
    float p0_x = line1.top.x,p0_y = line1.top.y;
    float p3_x = line2.bottom.x,p3_y = line2.bottom.y;
    float p2_x = line2.top.x,p2_y = line2.top.y;
    s1_x = p1_x - p0_x;     s1_y = p1_y - p0_y;
    s2_x = p3_x - p2_x;     s2_y = p3_y - p2_y;

    float s, t;
    s = (-s1_y * (p0_x - p2_x) + s1_x * (p0_y - p2_y)) / (-s2_x * s1_y + s1_x * s2_y);
    t = ( s2_x * (p0_y - p2_y) - s2_y * (p0_x - p2_x)) / (-s2_x * s1_y + s1_x * s2_y);

    if (s >= 0 && s <= 1 && t >= 0 && t <= 1)
    {
        Point *intsPoint = (Point *)malloc(sizeof(Point));
        intsPoint->x = p0_x + (t * s1_x);
        intsPoint->y = p0_y + (t * s1_y);
        return intsPoint;
    }

    return NULL;
}

A: "I am very new to c++ programming language"
How new to C++? Do you understand the maths involved in what you're trying to do first?


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namespace Shopware\SwagDefaultSort\Test\Components\ORMInflector;

use Shopware\Components\Test\Plugin\TestCase;
use Shopware\Models\Article\Article;
use Shopware\SwagDefaultSort\Components\ORMReflector\InflectorResult;
use Shopware\SwagDefaultSort\Components\ORMReflector\Map;
use Shopware\SwagDefaultSort\Components\ORMReflector\ORMReflector;

class ORMReflectorTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var ORMReflector
     */
    private $ormInflector;

    public function setUp()
    {
        $this->ormInflector = new ORMReflector(Shopware()->Models());
    }

    public function testReverseMapper()
    {
        $this->assertInstanceOf(
            InflectorResult::class,
            $this->ormInflector->getTable('s_articles')
        );
    }

    public function testResult()
    {
        $result = $this->ormInflector->getTable('s_articles');

        $this->assertEquals(
            's_articles',
            $result->getTableName()
        );

        $this->assertEquals(
            Article::class,
            $result->getClassName()
        );

        $this->assertContains(
            'main_detail_id',
            $result->getFieldNames()
        );

        $this->assertContains(
            'mainDetailId',
            $result->getPropertyNames()
        );
    }

    public function testMap()
    {
        $map = $this->ormInflector->getTable('s_articles')->getMap();

        $this->assertInstanceOf(Map::class, $map);

        $this->assertEquals(
            'main_detail_id',
            $map->getDbValue('mainDetailId')
        );

        $this->assertEquals(
            'mainDetailId',
            $map->getOrmValue('main_detail_id')
        );

        $this->assertArrayHasKey(
            'main_detail_id',
            $map->getOrmIterator()
        );

        $this->assertArrayHasKey(
            'mainDetailId',
            $map->getDbIterator()
        );
    }
}

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Utah Medical Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:UTMD): The Best Of Both Worlds
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Simply Wall St. April 11, 2019
I've been keeping an eye on Utah Medical Products, Inc. ( NASDAQ:UTMD ) because I'm attracted to its fundamentals. Looking at the company as a whole, as a potential stock investment, I believe UTMD has a lot to offer. Basically, it is a company with great financial health as well as a an impressive track record of performance. In the following section, I expand a bit more on these key aspects. For those interested in digger a bit deeper into my commentary, take a look at the report on Utah Medical Products here .
Flawless balance sheet with solid track record
Over the past few years, UTMD has more than doubled its earnings, with its most recent figure exceeding its annual average over the past five years. This illustrates a strong track record, leading to a satisfying return on equity of 21%, which is an optimistic signal for the future. UTMD's ability to maintain an adequate level of cash to meet upcoming liabilities is a good sign for its financial health. This indicates that UTMD has sufficient cash flows and proper cash management in place, which is an important determinant of the company's health. UTMD currently has no debt on its balance sheet. This implies that the company is running its operations purely on off equity funding. which is typically normal for a small-cap company. Therefore the company has plenty of headroom to grow, and the ability to raise debt should it need to in the future.
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Google claimed it's ratcheting up the fight against fraud in online advertising, disclosing Friday that it has bought Spider.io, a London company specializing in ad fraud detection technology.
The social network's march to a mobile-first mindset and delivery mechanism has been persistent and widely recognized, but Facebook is rising to the video occasion with a more deliberate rollout.
Marketing budgets are set to grow this year as marketers look to embrace content marketing in earnest, according to the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI).
Socialbakers, a social media analytics company from the Czech Republic that tracks online conversations, has raised $26 million (£15 million) in a move that values the business at close to $200 million.
After spending billions to acquire a series of marketing-related software companies, Oracle is now undergoing the process of creating a unified suite it can take to battle against competing offerings from the likes of Salesforce.com and Microsoft.
Australian shoppers are leveraging digital channels to make purchasing decisions even if the final sale is conducted in-store, a new report claims.
Microsoft is about to make a fresh run at its CRM (customer relationship management) rival Salesforce.com with new capabilities for marketing automation, customer support and social media monitoring.
The UK's Arcadia Group, which owns popular brands such as Topshop, Topman and Dorothy Perkins, has signed a £50 million deal with Oracle to boost its investment in digital technologies and platforms.
Philips is piloting an intelligent supermarket lighting system that can help shoppers find their groceries based on their location in the store, the company said Monday.
A growing number of brick-and-mortar businesses, eager to learn more about what goes on inside their walls, are turning to new technology to gather data from people's mobile phones.
Although UK supermarket chain, ASDA, sees mobile as a disruptive force to its business model, the retailer's head of insight and pricing believes that if too many different players make a 'land grab' for the customer it could kill all future interaction.
Japan's Rakuten will acquire instant messaging and calling app developer Viber Media for US$900 million, the e-commerce giant said Friday, highlighting its moves to penetrate new markets.
A Ford executive told U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) that the automaker does not collect or share location data from cars without the operator's explicit permission.
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David Jones has highlighted solid online and store sales growth in its latest financial results and announced new Webstore payment capabilities for its loyalty customers. The positive news comes during an otherwise tumultuous time for the retailer operationally, which has included share-trading controversy, the departure of its board leaders, the resignation of its CEO and news of a failed merger with Myer.
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Herbert Butler Powell, 94, a retired four-star Army general who served as ambassador to New Zealand from 1963 to 1967, died April 3, 1998at a health-care facility at Williamsburg, Virginia. The cause of death was not reported.
General Powell, who lived in Williamsburg, retired from active Army duty in 1963. The Oregon native began his military career with the Oregon National Guard in 1919. He received his Army commission in 1926 after graduating from the University of Oregon.
During World War II, he served in Europe, where he became chief of staff of the 75th Infantry Division, participating in the struggle for France, the Rhineland and Central Europe. After participating in the Battle of the Bulge, he eventually served in the delegation that made contact with Soviet Red Army units in Prague near the war's end.
During the Korean War, he commanded the 17th Infantry Regimental Combat Team, the only U.S. unit to reach the Yalu River. Later assignments included tours as commander of the 25th Infantry Division, the Infantry Center at Fort Benning, Ga., and the Third Army, based at Fort McPherson, Ga.
Over the years, he had directed special Army panels that studied military justice reforms and that worked on plans for an advanced Army rifle. He also served as Army commander in the Atlantic during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was cited by President John F. Kennedy for contributions he made to the mission.
His last assignment was as commanding general of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, where he directed more than half the Army's 960,000 regular soldiers and more than 1 million reservists.
His military decorations included the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantryman's Badge.
His first wife, the former Beryl King, whom he married in 1927, died in 1989. Survivors include his wife of four years, the former Grace Tuggle, of Williamsburg; three stepchildren; seven step-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren.
General Powell is to be buried with full military honors in Section 11, Grave General Powell will be in Section 11, Grave 536-2 of Arlington National Cemetery, with his first wife, on 11 April 1998.
General Herbert Butler Powell, a former chief of the Continental Army Command and former ambassador to New Zealand, died on Saturday, April 3, 1998, at a nursing home in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was 94.
Powell joined the National Guard in his native Oregon and retired 43 years later, in 1963, as a four-star general. At the time, he was in command of six armies and their equipment and training throughout the continental United States, responsible for 315,000 military personnel, 69,000 civilian employees, and 1.7 million Reservists and members of the National Guard.
He and his aides at the Army command, at Fort Monroe, Virginia, were also entrusted with the task of drawing up contingency plans for mobilization and training, ranging from full call-ups in case of war to limited build-ups for lesser confrontations overseas.
President John Kennedy rewarded him for his services in the Cuban missile crisis by appointing Powell ambassador to New Zealand in 1963. He served in the post in Wellington until 1967.
Powell was born in Monmouth, Oregon. He joined the Oregon National Guard in 1919, rose from private to sergeant and was commissioned into the regular Army in 1926 after his graduation from the University of Oregon. He was also a 1941 graduate of the Command and General Staff School and a 1949 graduate of the National War College. He reached flag rank by 1960.
In World War II, he first was a general staff officer at the War Department, working in operations and training at Army Ground Forces headquarters. Then he served as chief of staff of the 75th Infantry Division as it fought its way across France, through the Battle of the Bulge, into the Rhineland and central Europe.
In the Korean War, he commanded the 17th Infantry Regiment in an advance that reached the Yalu River, on the border with China. He also sat on a high-level commission that considered the cases of American prisoners of war who made false confessions to war crimes, like germ warfare, after months of interrogation by their North Korean captors -- the so-called brainwashing issue.
Powell returned to manpower control at the Army General Staff in the early 1950s. He then commanded the 25th Infantry Division, the U.S. Army Infantry School, and the 3rd U.S. Army, his last assignment before taking charge of the Continental Army Command in 1960.
He qualified as an Army aviator. His decorations included the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with two oak leaf clusters, and the Air Medal.
Powell's first wife, Beryl King Powell, died in 1989 after 61 years of marriage. He is survived by his second wife, Grace Tuggle Powell; three stepchildren; seven step-grandchildren; and four step-great-grandchildren.


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Фердинанд Фердинандович Шпицнагель (1757/60 — 1826) — российский  и  немецкого происхождения, доктор медицины и хирургии, заслуженный профессор и декан медицинского факультета Императорского Виленского университета; статский советник.

Биография

Фердинанд Шпицнагель родился в 1757 году в Саксонии. Образование получил в Венском университете, где защитил степень доктора медицины, затем был назначен окружным врачом в городе Вене.

В 1792 году Фердинанд Фердинандович Шпицнагель был приглашен в Вильно в Главную литовскую школу на кафедру естественных наук. Одновременно руководил ботаническим садом, который в 1799 году передал под начало Станислава Бонифацы Юндзилла. В 1800 году Ф. Шпицнагель был перемещён на кафедру терапии, в 1803 году, по преобразовании школы в Императорский Виленский университет, был назначен профессором медицины и токсикологии, в 1807 году избран деканом факультета и эту должность исполнял почти десять лет; он читал лекции на латинском и польском языках, он знал все основные европейские языки, а также владел турецким. Кроме того, Ф. Ф. Шпицнагель заведовал университетским госпиталем.

С 1807 по 1817 год Шпицнагель был избираем в председатели комитета ученых наблюдений и в 1826 году уволен от должности по болезни.  Фердинанд Фердинандович Шпицнагель скончался в 1826 году в Вильно.

Самое известное его сочинение: «De rerum medicarum contradictionibus apparentibus».

Примечания

Литература

 «Dziennik Wileński» 1826, т. I стр. 149.

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Glasgow 2014 tickets to go on general public sale next week
By Emily Goddard
October 31 - Glasgow 2014 is urging the public to "Remember, remember, the fifth of November" as this will be the day when all remaining tickets for next year's Commonwealth Games go on general public sale.
With the exclusive sale period for registered applicants now over, the tickets - available in six sports including rugby sevens and weightlifting - will be available for purchase on a first come, first served basis from 10am GMT next Tuesday.
There is also still a chance to see the Glasgow 2014 Opening and Closing Ceremonies as tickets for these go on sale next week, albeit with limited availability.
"We have been so delighted with the phenomenal demand for tickets so far," Ty Speer, deputy chief executive of Glasgow 2014 said.
"Scotland's biggest ever party is guaranteed, so if people want to be a part of it, I'd urge them to get in quick as we put on sale our few remaining tickets.
"There are still limited tickets available to experience great sport in Glasgow, and we'd love you to join us."
Following what Glasgow 2014 calls "unprecedented demand for tickets", it says it will release more information on the sales so far, including a detailed breakdown of the tickets still available, ahead of the general sale.
Tickets can be bought online here or via the ticketing hotline on 0844 8262014.
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Q: I can't get clinfo to show gpu or cpu I am running Ubuntu 18.04 and have an RX 580 amd GPU. I installed the pro drivers (19.10) and I installed opencl, but when I run clinfo it shows 0 platforms. How can I make it detect my GPU.
I had this issue with ubuntu 16.04 as well and I was unable to get it to work with any of the AMD pro drivers or the regular ones.

A: Ok I just ran "sudo apt install mesa-opencl-icd" and it fixed it. Hope this helps someone.


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Yodiz brought a lot of structure that we didn't have in past. Allowing us to achieve our goals with lot more certainty and structure.
Yodiz simplifies a lot of our work and once again, for us it's no brainer that it's right tool for our team. Best part is the team embraces Yodiz and every one enjoys using it now.
Discussion with Checkout CTO and Founder on how Yodiz is helping their teams to become better organized.
The reality is, today we are more precise then ever in our ability to deliver feature for our sales people, or clients. Simply because we are able to estimate better and calibrate properly, that's been main benefit of agile for us.
What role Yodiz plays in your Agile journey?
Yodiz brought a lot of structure that we didn't have in past. Allowing us to achieve our goals with lot more certainty and structure. The collaboration within the team has improved greatly. If somebody is facing challenges and get little bit slower, people come to help them. Comments allow them to be lot more interactive. We have asked people now to try document as much as possible through Yodiz, add their questions, and upload files in Yodiz. We have much deeper use of the system then we had in the past.
Yodiz boards are very visual and it is very easy to follow progress of sprint and each team member. It allows us to see how well the team is progressing, but more importantly it's generating a good community feel. We have global teams, so developers who are working in one region of the world now easily feel that they are part of the bigger picture. People are more part of the projects this way then they are if they work on a feature and don't see rest of the features. When you are able to see everything that is going on and you have access to interact with other people, it generate lot of positive energy and there is no question that Yodiz is helping us to achieve it. This interactive way of working is actually boosting moral of team, which is very important.
We clearly have seen some of the stunning improvements in the Yodiz platform in last few months. The way you have integrated the bug tracker, there are lots of things that are actually really nice. There is a big challenge for me now as I the interim CTO, in a sense to keep pushing my developers to use all the tools that you are actually developing for them through the Yodiz platform. It's about challenging them a little bit. We can clearly see that you are using your own tool to develop it further.
Yodiz is self-driven, I just give access to the management in London and they can log in to see the sprint completion and what we are doing. Overall it allows us to be more structural then in the past. I think that's the key benefits. Structure brings efficiency, and it ultimately makes the whole cost of technology lower.
It's also a lot of pleasure to look at all the sprints that we have already done. It's a good way to keep track of everything that we have achieved. We like to just go and browse through all the user stories and sprints that have been done; it does generate some form of satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Have you used any other Agile tools?
I can tell one thing that Yodiz is extremely friendly to use. Because I have used JIRA in the past and it was not friendly, something which is very common problem about it. JIRA does keep a log of everything you have done, buts its just not friendly to use. Its been used by many developers, they know how to use it but from overall user experience prospective, to be honest, its not something that I really enjoyed using. We used lot of different services in the past we used Planbox before we were using Yodiz. Planbox didn't have issue tracker, had poor metrics in terms of monitoring the quality of sprints. When we decided to come to Yodiz it was an educated decision.
Yodiz simplifies a lot of our work and once again, for us it's no brainer that it's right tool for our team. Best part is the team embraces Yodiz and every one enjoys using it now. People feel they are more efficient, its bounding people from different parts of the world. We have good team spirit, for me it's strengthening the team.
Originally what really drew our attention to Yodiz is its ability to combine issue tracker with Agile, as that was very poor in Planbox. Having QA team to work on same tool as rest of the team was something really important for us. Over the last 12 months, Yodiz released a lot of powerful features and they are really pleasant to use. Especially on the dashboard, there are lots of metrics. It gives you a quick view where you are in the sprint; I don't need to go and deep dive in my sprint or US to see what's the status. So from management stands point, this is something which most of the tools didn't have.
Another tool that I am not using personally but I know other people are using it is pivotal tracker. It is easier to use but again their metrics are very weak. I was comparing it with other CTO, who is also from Scandinavia, he lives and breathes by Pivotal Tracker and I was showing him my stats, the level of granularity, and information is lot higher in Yodiz.
Even though one want to be pro active and want to forecast as much as possible, its very difficult to have a too much of a long term view. As we are getting more mature as a company, we are able to have better time lines. We are really able to know what we are building up till end of this year. And we try to document this in Yodiz. It's like having a macro view of where we stand in terms of development and where we want to go and that is really great for us.
Before we were not using Epics inside Yodiz, but we started to use it a lot more now .We also started using releases but its not completely adopted by people at this point. I very much believe in continuous releasing, so I don't like to release too big chunk of features at once. I am from school of thought where every sprint should be converted to product update release. This way you can track your issues a lot easier when they go live. And if you take a step back, its not affecting too much of the other features. So at this point of time, we are not heavily using the releases. Our releases are very often aligning with the sprints, it might change in future, but it's not in the short-term plan.
We do daily scrum meetings, like 5-10 mins. We also constantly put ourselves in question, what we did wrong, what we did right. We actually keep a master post mortem sheet at the end of every sprint. And we try to review this every quarter. To see if actually we are improving over time.
Let me just take it as disclaimer, because you release a lot of features and our developers do not have the time to go and look at everything you are doing. It's the project manager, or ultimately myself who try to have a look at every 2-3 months what you release. And how we can implement this in our day to day. Also once again it has to be easy to adopt. Because, as I was saying earlier that people are averse to change. Even if they love agile now, if you try to change too much things when they are used to a certain procedure, changing it is always a bit more difficult.
One thing we definitely will be using is Yodiz Grab. Today we are using heavily another SW called redbend, it's a great SW. but now that we have Yodiz grab I have to start using it my self, get used to it, and I am almost sure we will stop using redbet.
Yodiz team keeps developing the tools and features that allow us to keep most of the things we are doing in one portal. With this Yodiz Grab you honestly be our main interface for anything that is development related.
I would say keep up the good work, even as a company and also for the developers, it's a lot easier for me to set my developers to use Yodiz. When they see you keep developing and releasing new features, it makes my life a lot easier.
Obviously your performance over loading time and everything is lot better then in the past. This release is a lot better then the previous one and a lot faster.
My opinion as a developer and as a CTO is that, there is no point in developing too many features because performance is equally important to the features that you develop. Then having a completely seamless interaction with the system. If you built too much features not every one is using them. So sometimes its question of the 80/20 rule and focusing on what's adding value.
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Everton loanee Conor McAleny discusses his career so far, Max Power picks his 'One to Eleven' whilst chairman David Sharpe assesses his first year in the job.
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DNR orders hit on 2 fawns with pink, orange collars; Forest Lake, Minn., residents outraged
MINNEAPOLIS When Jeff Carpenter heard gunfire outside his rural Forest Lake, Minn., residence before sunrise Saturday morning, he raced outside to find a man holding a shotgun. "I was just glad I didn't go out there with my gun. This thing could ...
When Jeff Carpenter heard gunfire outside his rural Forest Lake, Minn., residence before sunrise Saturday morning, he raced outside to find a man holding a shotgun.
"I was just glad I didn't go out there with my gun. This thing could have got deadly," said Carpenter, who had been burglarized recently and at first didn't realize that he was looking at a city police officer.
On the ground nearby, Carpenter said, were two fawns that he and his wife, LeeAnn, had been feeding.
"They both had huge holes in them," he said Monday. "They were neighborhood favorites. Everybody loved them."
But to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), they were a potential danger. For weeks, the agency had been receiving reports of two deer with colorful collars -- one pink, one orange -- running in the vicinity of North Shore Trail near Forest Lake's border with Scandia in northern Washington County.
"To have somebody put a collar on a wild deer, two of them in fact, I've never heard of it," said Capt. Greg Salo of the DNR's enforcement division.
The DNR, thinking the deer were escapees from a private game farm and could introduce disease among wild deer, ordered a hit on them. The agency notified Forest Lake police in early January that the deer must be shot on sight, Salo said.
Early Saturday morning, a Forest Lake police officer was patrolling near the Carpenter residence at 10010 North Shore Trail when he nearly struck the two collared deer with his squad car, said Capt. Greg Weiss. The four-year officer, a member of the department's special response team, killed one deer 10 yards from the road with a 12-gauge shotgun, Weiss said. The second one was shot dead at least 50 yards from the Carpenter residence, the captain said.
Carpenter tells a different story.
"He stood in our front yard and blasted the first one point blank," Carpenter said. "He walks around the back yard and blasts that one just a few feet from the deck."
The Carpenters discovered the fawns in June when one took refuge in their doghouse. Then the other appeared, bleating for their mother. The doe never appeared, he said, which confirmed to the Carpenters that the fawns were orphans.
"They came and went as they pleased," Carpenter said. "I don't care what the DNR says, these deer were perfectly healthy."
But Salo said nobody should assume that young deer are left motherless. In this case, he said, the deer were well on their way to becoming adults, no longer fawns. "The first big problem we have is him taking in these fawns when they were young," he said. "The second big mistake was putting big flashy collars on them and telling nobody about it."
It's illegal in Minnesota to seize wild deer for captivity, Salo said, but he doesn't know if the Carpenters did that. He said he would refer the case to the Washington County attorney's office but emphasized the Carpenters haven't been charged with a crime.
Carpenter said he wondered if a "rookie rogue cop" shot the deer and said he wants to know who at the DNR authorized the shootings. "There were a hundred different ways this thing could have been reconciled without incident. Wouldn't you think they would knock on the door? How this was handled was ludicrous and outrageous."
Weiss declined to identify the officer but said he killed both deer a safe distance from the house. An online photograph shows a carcass near the Carpenter's home, but it was dragged there after it was shot so a conservation officer could haul it away, Weiss said. The Forest Lake officer identified himself as such to Carpenter, the captain said, and wore a badge, a police patch and a gun belt.
Police didn't know that it was the Carpenters who had put collars on the deer, but as a matter of routine don't notify homeowners when dispatching" animals, Weiss said.
"There should be no reason to be knocking on somebody's door asking if they own a wild deer," he said.
"The unfortunate thing," Salo said, "is they were destroyed in the very yard of the guy who put the collars on them. I feel for the guy. "
Distributed by MCT Information Services
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The Barricade è un film muto del 1921 diretto da William Christy Cabanne.

Trama
A New York, nell'Est Side, Jacob Solomon e Michael Brennon lavorano in società, proprietari di una tabaccheria. Dopo la morte di Michael, suo figlio Robert viene adottato da Solomon che, indebitandosi, lo fa andare all'università. Diventato medico, Robert lavora nel quartiere, diventando un professionista di successo. Conosce e s'innamora di Jane Stoddard, una ragazza della buona società che, dopo il matrimonio, lo spinge a lasciare i quartieri poveri per aprire uno studio sulla Quinta Strada. Il vecchio Jacob ha il cuore spezzato quando il figlio adottivo lo snobba, vergognandosi di lui e non gli rivela di aver ipotecato la casa per farlo studiare.

Robert in seguito litiga con la moglie quando i loro amici vengono a sapere che lui è il figlio adottivo del vecchio ebreo. Ritorna da Jacob e scopre che il padre ha perso tutto. I due uomini si riappacificano e Robert torna a lavorare nel povero quartiere ebraico. Jane, che riconosce di aver sbagliato, si riconcilia con il marito.

Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dalla Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation.

Distribuzione
Distribuito dalla Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation, il film uscì nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi il 2 ottobre 1921.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film drammatici


A working life spent reading SF, Fantasy, and horror short stories sounds like a dream come true. Are there down sides to being an editor? Do you have any advice for aspiring editors?
ED: I've always loved short stories, so working in the short fiction field is indeed the perfect job for me. It's hard to find time to read outside the genres in which I'm currently working. I mostly read short fiction for work, so picking novels that I hope I'll enjoy is the challenge. They usually have to be dark/horror so I can cover them in my annual Best Horror of the Year. The administration is a pain: sending out contracts, paying royalties to a hundred writers is onerous (even with Paypal). But everything else is great. I love the whole editing process, from soliciting new stories that would not exist except for me asking; working with my authors on story revision (if necessary); and even the line edit.
In the article Michalakis discusses his work through The Science and Entertainment Exchange, "which connects film and TV producers with scientists." He's consulted on Ant-Man, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and other shows.
"It's a shame when I see films that inadvertently forgo scientific accuracy for added drama. For instance, in the movie Gravity when Sandra Bullock's character grabs hold of George Clooney's character while they're both floating out in space, he tells her she has to let go of him, otherwise both of them are going to fly off and die because he's pulling her farther and farther away from the space station. The trouble is, they're so far away from Earth that, in reality, nothing would actually be pulling them.
(3) OHH-KAYYY…. The Washington D.C. public library has an idea for drawing attention to oft-challenged books. Is it innovative, or over-the-top?
Every year, libraries around the country observe Banned Books Week, to remind the public that even well known and much loved books can be the targets of censorship. This year, Washington D.C.'s public library came up with a clever idea to focus attention on the issue: a banned books scavenger hunt.
Now, readers are stalking local shops, cafes and bookstores looking for copies of books that are hidden behind distinctive black and white covers. There is no title on the cover, just a phrase — such as FILTHY, TRASHY or PROFANE — which describes the reason why some people wanted the book banned.
….Every democracy genuinely needs conservatives. And not so we can have someone to argue with. We need them for their perspective; we need them for their call for individual hard work, which is always a good thing in itself, when people can find it; we need them for the reluctance at least some of them show to get engaged in wars that squander blood and treasure. And we need them to be skeptical of our schemes.
We need them to push back.….
This website, Tangent Online, relates to the science-fiction field, and so do I. From time to time the sf field has been storm-lashed by political controversies, essentially conservative vs. liberal and vice versa. Going back, it cuts both ways: back in the day, Donald Wollheim and Fred Pohl and Judith Merril and others were slagged by conservative sf writers and editors for leaning left. Now the pendulum has swung way, way the other direction and certain reasonable conservatives amongst science fiction writers and critics are sometimes being over scrutinized, even punished, for outspokenness and some fairly normal speech tropes—most recently, Dave Truesdale was actually ejected from the Worldcon for having declared on a short story panel, in the space of a few minutes, that science fiction was being unfairly truncated by politics, and free speech gagged by political correctness emanating from the left. I listened to a tape of the remarks and could find nothing that broke any convention rules. Some defending the convention fall back on claims that his use of the term "pearl clutchers" is sexist, is hateful to women. But in my experience the term does not apply to women, particularly—it's about people who are making a drama of nothing, probably just to get attention. Underlying the con committee's action was, I suspect, emotional fallout from the "Sad Puppies" Hugo Award controversy. But people shouldn't let emotions dictate their interpretation of the rules.
(6) RICK RIORDAN PRESENTS. Disney has announced a new Rick Riordan Presents imprint reports Publishers Weekly. Riordan will curate a line of books that introduces selected writers of mythology-based novels.
Rick Riordan has gotten a variation on the same question from his fans about a zillion times: When are you going to write about (fill in the blank): the Hindu gods and goddesses? Ancient Chinese mythology? Native American legends?
Now, he has an answer – of sorts: Disney-Hyperion is launching Rick Riordan Presents, an imprint devoted to mythology-based books for middle grade readers. The imprint, which will be led by Riordan's editor, Stephanie Owens Lurie, hopes to launch with two books in summer 2018. The books will not be written by Riordan, whose role will be closer to curator than author.
There's also this: "I know he feels that, in some instances, the books his readers are asking for him to write are really someone else's story to tell," Lurie said.
(7) MAJOR SF ART EXHIBIT. The IX Preview Weekend Popup Exhibition will take place at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE from September 23-25. Tickets required.
Imaginative Realism combines classical painting techniques with narrative subjects, focusing on the unreal, the unseen, and the impossible. In partnership with IX Arts organizers, the Delaware Art Museum will host the first IX Preview Weekend, celebrating Imaginative Realism and to kick off IX9–the annual groundbreaking art show, symposium, and celebration dedicated solely to the genre.
Imaginative Realism is the cutting edge of contemporary painting and illustration and often includes themes related to science fiction and fantasy movies, games, and books. A pop-up exhibition and the weekend of events will feature over 16 contemporary artists internationally recognized for their contributions to Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Marvel, DC Comics, Blizzard Entertainment, and Wizards of the Coast, among others.
There will be workshops by two leading sf artists as well.
Workshop with Bob Eggleton: Seascapes Sept 24 @ 10:15 am – 12:15 pm and 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm During this hands on demonstration and group painting salon, Bob Eggleton will walk participants through creating a seascape in acrylic paint with a nod to the ocean as 'character'. Incorporated into the illustration storytelling aspect of this demonstration will be construction of the ocean as narrative using elements, from the subtle to the extreme, like sea monsters, antique ships, rocks, waves, clouds, lighting, and odd bits of flotsam and jetsam debris. Bob will share his own experience as well as that of his heroes, classic 19th and 20th century illustrators and fine art Masters. Pre-registration required. Supplies: Attendees should bring preferred acrylic painting setup, including brushes, paints, and paper/panels/boards.
Drawing Workshop and Lecture with Donato Giancola: Compositional Drawing Sept 25 @ 10:15 am – 12:15 pm and 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Donato will share his knowledge and approach to producing skillfully drafted drawings. From sketch to finish, the aesthetic and technical decisions the artist makes will be laid bare for observation and comments offering wonderful insight into the foundations of creativity of a modern artist. The four-hour workshop is for the artist who aspires to pursue further development and refinement of their skills in composition and as storytellers. Attendees of all skill levels are welcome as the focus of the workshop is upon creative problem solving, not technical execution. Pre-registration required. Supplies: Attendees should bring along their own preferred drawing utensils (pencils, paper,sketchbooks, etc) as well as a few favorite images/photos of themes they wish to create work upon. Alternative drawing supplies will also be available for use.
(9) NOT LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG. Mary Robinette Kowal posted a photo of what's in the suitcase she's taking to the Writing Excuses Workshop.
A suitcase of things I need for the Writing Excuses Workshop.
To stop without a charger near.
When I pressed DRIVER OVERRIDE?
When viewed upon my tablet screen.
For just another hour's sleep.
Got out and left my loyal car.
To travel where the hooves of deer had.
And besides, it voids the warranty.
Because I clicked on I AGREE.
And miles to go while fast asleep.
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Standback (directly, and Petréa indirectly): Since the question has come up, I thought I would discuss what my aims are in covering certain stories and individuals.
It's been over a year since I "downshifted" from reporting everything I could find people saying about the Hugo controversy and changed my focus to reporting just the Puppy links that shared something significant about their plans and tactics that might have an impact on the award or efforts to change the rules. I expect to keep that up, especially since we've been promised another round of Sad Puppies, and I don't know why Vox would stop what he's doing with the Rabids.
However, in the course of my daily reading I sometimes see something by, for example, Sarah Hoyt or Amanda Green that I consider interesting and worth quoting in its own right. Nearly every time I do that, however, people would assume I must be holding the item up for criticism. Or for many commenters, if the source is a Puppy, their experience has conditioned them to have a negative response. In other words, I've found I need to give these items a heavy-handed recommendation or else they get treated like raw meat even though that isn't my intention.
I suppose if I were fully consistent, that might help. I admit I'm not. I might have an impulsive emotional reaction to what someone wrote online (humor, anger) and just go with that. But one personal rule I try hard to stick to is not to cover statements by people I feel have simply lost touch with reality — because who does that help? Sometimes a commenter will introduce a quote or link to such material, and I'm not barring others from doing so, though I find it happens much less often when I'm setting a different example.
Lastly, sort of like the Mule in Foundation, people will unpredictably show up here and write comments to outrage regular commenters and satisfy their need for attention. My feeling is that every wrong statement does not need a reply, especially about things that have been threshed out dozens of times before. There are others, though, who feel every misrepresentation of history etc. must be answered lest the blog's audience be misled. And that's why it's easy for someone to "rattle people's cages". And these episodes also lend a false impression that we're seeking to recycle the rage.
I don't think File 770 is limited to that, or ever has been. Surely it's mostly aimed at fans/readers, not primarily at professionals and would-be professionals who want useful tips about business and craft. However many pros and would-be pros are among the ranks of fans.
And many fans who aren't writers are still friends or relatives* of professional (or would-be) writers, and may therefore still be interested in writing-related topics.
And that's why it's easy for someone to "rattle people's cages".
It just occurred to me both that expression and "yank someone's chain" imply the target of the activity–which is not always a bad thing–is a prisoner.
Of what? Good question. Their own emotions? Their own preconceptions? Their own biases? Something like that, but I'm not sure precisely what.
Your AUNTIE MELISA? As in C. Michaels? Well, hot damn. I have all the Skyrider books, some in battered paperbacks, picked up in used bookstores throughout the years. I also have both her Faerie books. I always thought of Melacha (however you pronounce that–I never have figured that out) as a cooler Han Solo.
I've always visualized both "yank s.o.'s chain" and "rattle s.o.'s cage" as referring to the discredited practice of tormenting physically-restrained non-human animals in order to find entertainment in their impotent reactions. E.g., jerking the chain of a "dancing bear" to make it perform. Or for an SFF-context example, Dudley Dursley banging on the cage at the snake exhibit to try to get a reaction from the python, for an example of "rattling a cage".
@Heather Rose Jones: I'd bet you're right on etymylogically. But they've easily made the transition to humans. Now I'm wondering whether it implies the humans are captives or that they're animals. Or both. Or if I'm overinterpreting. I do that a lot.
ETA: Anyone lacking proof that I'm a bad person, consider this: I first thought your abbreviation "s.o." meant "significant other".
EATA: I bet "jerked around" has the same etymology.
EATAPEACH: I love that record! How did I only discover it this year?
I think you do a tremendous job curating items for the File. I've definitely noticed the "downshift" in what makes a post File-worthy, and I think you're doing an absolutely terrific job striking that balance. I've also definitely noticed and that you spotlight good posts by Puppy-affiliated authors, and that's worthy of appreciation.
File770 is a marvellous space and community, and that is something you've created, tended, and groomed. We do sometimes devolve into bouts of repetative puppyflaming. That's a part I'm less fond of, but it's also part and parcel of, well, how the Internet works.
And these episodes also lend a false impression that we're seeking to recycle the rage.
I don't really know any way to stymie that dynamic; part of why it's so powerful is that any one spark can ignite reactions and counter-reactions and keep growing. And you can't keep everybody from sparking ever.
@Joe H.: Sorry for the late reply; I was out of town this weekend. Thanks for the reminder about the Tor.com Kurtz re-reads – I followed along online for the first trilogy. I didn't have time to re-read as it went, but I know the books well, so it was fun/interesting anyway to read Tarr's posts and see the comments on her posts. Looks like I need to catch up on her latest posts!
Like you, I had Leckie first – but I'm happy with Jemisin's win. This is something that Buis and others seem to forget – how the voting works. Her original claim made no sense in part because instant-run-off tallying of votes makes any winner a consensus winner (to paraphrase the Hugo Awards web site, the least disliked book wins). So it's not necessarily the absolute fave of the majority of voters, however the majority of voters are groovy with it as a winner (else they'd've put it under No Award or left it off their ballot).
Oops, I thought I ticked the box, but apparently not.
Heh, please accept this belated No-Prize, and treat it with all the respect it deserves.