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Paolo Pasimeni
Dr. Paolo Pasimeni
Senior Associate Researcher
Paolo.Pasimeni@vub.be
Dr. Paolo Pasimeni is an economist, specialised in international macroeconomics, with experience in research and policy making. His main field of expertise is the macroeconomic analysis of the Single Market and of the economic and monetary union (EMU). Expert on monetary, fiscal and structural policies, he has been working on the proposals for EMU reform, in particular on the design of a stabilisation capacity. He has also bee working on labour market analysis, as well as on the conception of the EU multiannual budget.
He started his career as a researcher on the Italian industrial districts (2000), then as a market analyst in Millward Brown (2001-2002). In 2002 he was economic analyst in the Italian Embassy in Cuba; then he became associate researcher at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), where he specialised on research policies and innovation systems (2003-2006). Since 2006 he has been working as an economic analyst in several departments of the European Commission: Regional Policy, Employment and Social Affairs, Budget, and Economic and Financial Affairs. He joined the IES-VUB in 2017 as Senior Associate Researcher. He holds a PhD and MPhil in applied economics from the University of Seville (Spain) and a MSc in economics from the University of Modena (Italy).
Nikolov P. and Pasimeni P. (2019) Fiscal Stabilisation in Monetary Unions, VOXEU.org, CEPR, December 11, 2019.
Nikolov P. and Pasimeni P. (2019) "Fiscal Stabilisation in the United States", Bank of Finland Economics Review - 6/2019.
Pasimeni P. (2019) "The Case for Public Investment in the EU". IES Policy Brief, 6/2019.
Nikolov P. and Pasimeni P. (2019) "Fiscal Stabilisation in the US: lessons for Monetary Unions", Levy Economics Institute - Working Paper nº926.
Pasimeni P. and Riso S. (2018) "Redistribution and Stabilisation through the EU Budget". Economia Politica - Springer.
Acocella N. and Pasimeni P. (2018) "The Political Trilemma of the Economic and Monetary Union". IES Policy Brief, 1/2018.
Acocella N. and Pasimeni P. (2018) "The Uncovered Inflation Rate Parity Condition in Monetary Union". Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies Working Papers, Nr.28. IMK 2018, ISSN: 2512-8655.
Pasimeni P. (2018) "The Relation between Productivity and Compensation in Europe". European Economy – Discussion Paper 079.
Pasimeni, P., and Riso, S. (2017). The redistributive function of the EU budget, VOXEU.org, CEPR, January 19, 2017.
Andor L. and Pasimeni P. (2016) A European Unemployment Benefit Scheme for the Euro Area, VOXEU.org, CEPR, December 13, 2016.
Pasimeni, P., and Riso, S. (2016). The redistributive function of the EU budget (No. 174-2016). IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
Pasimeni P. (2016) "Assessing the Europe 2020 Strategy" in Bruno Dallago, Gert Guri, John McGowan (Eds): "A Global Perspective on the European Economic Crisis" – Routledge, New York.
Pasimeni P. (2016) Inter-regional and inter-temporal stabilization in the EMU. European University Institute, Florence, Italy, May.
Pasimeni P. (2016) Instability and Stagnation in a Monetary Union. Institute for New Economic Thinking – INET, New York, USA, April.
Pasimeni F. and Pasimeni P. (2016) "An Institutional Analysis of the Europe 2020 Strategy". Social Indicators Research, Springer. Volume 127, Issue 3, pp 1021-1038.
Pasimeni P. (2015) "The Economic Rationale of an EMU Fiscal Capacity". Proceedings of OeNB Workshop Toward a Genuine Economic and Monetary Union. Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna.
Pasimeni P, Lessaer B, Pouliakas K, Sekmokas M. (2015) "Supporting Skills Development and Matching in the EU", in Report on Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2015. Publications Office of the European Union. November 2015.
Pasimeni P. (2014) "An Optimum Currency Crisis". European Journal of Comparative Economics. European Association for Comparative Economic Studies, Vol.11, No.2.
Pasimeni P, Peschner J, Velikonja M. (2014) "Investing in human capital and responding to long-term societal challenges", in Report on Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2014. Publications Office of the European Union. November 2014.
Pasimeni P. (2012) "Measuring Europe 2020: a new tool to assess the strategy". International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development. Inderscience. Vol. 4, No. 5.
Pasimeni, P. (2011). "The Europe 2020 Index". Social Indicators Research, Springer. 110(2), 613-635.
Pasimeni P. (2011) "Politiche per l'occupazione: una prospettiva europea", Osservatorio sulle Strategie Europee per la Crescita e l'Occupazione, Roma, 2011.
Pasimeni P, Boisard A-S, Arvanitis R, Rodriguez R. (2007) "Towards a Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Space: Ideas for Research and Policy Making". CONCORD Conference on Corporate R&D. Institute of Perspective Technological Studies JRC, European Commission.
Pasimeni P. (2007) "Social Capital, Culture and Innovation: a different perspective", in Landabaso M, Kuklinski A, Román C: "EUROPE – Reflection on Social Capital, Innovation and Regional Development: The Ostuni Consensus"; REUPUS, April 2007.
Pasimeni P. (2006) "La Política de Cohesión de la Unión Europea en España. Recursos, Reparto, Impactos y Futuro". Comisión Europea, DG Política Regional. Bruselas, Bélgica, Octubre 2006.
Pasimeni P. (2006) "Contribución a la creación del Espacio Euro-Mediterráneo de Innovación". Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Economía Aplicada y Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, España, Enero 2006.
Rodriguez R, Pasimeni P. (2004) "Universidades, Investigación e Innovación", Foro de la Innovación y de la Modernización en Andalucía, Junta de Andalucía, España, Diciembre 2004.
Pasimeni P. (2003) "Sistemi di Innovazione nella Knowledge-based Economy", Università di Lecce, Italia, 2003.
Pasimeni P. (2002) "L'economia cubana: potenzialità di sviluppo ed opportunità per gli investimenti esteri". Ambasciata d'Italia all'Avana, Ufficio Commerciale, Cuba, Agosto 2002.
Pasimeni P. (2002) "L'industria dello zucchero a Cuba: crisi ed opportunità". Ambasciata d'Italia all'Avana, Ufficio Commerciale, Cuba, Luglio 2002.
Pasimeni P. (2000) "Nuove ICTs nei distretti di piccole imprese: la fiera virtuale Mobilexpo.it/Furniturexpo.it". Università di Modena, Italia, Dicembre 2000.


IFN-conditioned dendritic cells for the therapy of melanoma: what is missing?
Targeted gene silencing of TLR4 using liposomal nanoparticles for preventing liver ischemia reperfusion injury.
Cutaneous sarcoidosis and malignancy: An association between sarcoidosis with skin manifestations and systemic neoplasia.
On the missing link between inflammation and cancer.
Prevention of hyperglycemia-induced myocardial apoptosis by gene silencing of Toll-like receptor-4.
Safety evaluation of allogeneic umbilical cord blood mononuclear cell therapy for degenerative conditions.
Combination stem cell therapy for heart failure.
Nutraceutical augmentation of circulating endothelial progenitor cells and hematopoietic stem cells in human subjects.
The lysosomotropic agent, hydroxychloroquine, delivered in a biodegradable nanoparticle system, overcomes drug resistance of B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells in vitro.
The next generation of burns treatment: intelligent films and matrix, controlled enzymatic debridement, and adult stem cells.
Feasibility investigation of allogeneic endometrial regenerative cells.
Inhibition of intracranial glioma growth by endometrial regenerative cells.
Allogeneic endometrial regenerative cells: an "Off the shelf solution" for critical limb ischemia?
Immune effects of mesenchymal stem cells: implications for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Placental mesenchymal and cord blood stem cell therapy for dilated cardiomyopathy.
Endometrial regenerative cells: a novel stem cell population.
Cell membrane fatty acid composition differs between normal and malignant cell lines.
Intravenous ascorbic acid: protocol for its application and use.
Cytotoxicity of ascorbate, lipoic acid, and other antioxidants in hollow fibre in vitro tumours.
Improved microplate fluorometer counting of viable tumor and normal cells.


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The mission of Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia (GSHG) is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts of the USA was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912. GSHG is a leadership development organization serving 122 counties in the state of Georgia, two in South Carolina, and one in Alabama.
After a national merger in May 2008, six Girl Scout councils merged into one to become Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia. The reorganization came with difficulties: figuring out how to best serve the new, expanded community took some time.
Based in Savannah, the birthplace of J.G. Low and the very heart of the Girl Scout movement, GSHG had to reach out to thousands of households to inform them about the variety of programs that the local girls and their families could attend. Some of the Girl Scouts lived in rural areas, and having a way to share that information with them quickly was crucial.
What GSHG did was create a large Program Guide that contained all the activities on offer, but they still needed to figure out how to distribute it to every household.
Plus, it wasn't just the families within their council that GSHG needed to communicate with. Every year, Girl Scouts from across the country come to visit J.G. Low's birthplace and want to see what events they can attend in the area. It's important for them to find and access the Guide easily, too.
The Program Guide was a document at least 80 pages long, so shipping it to every single household was not only difficult to arrange, but also costly. Each publication had to be designed and printed in color, with lots of pictures and text, and then mailed to 13,000 households.
GSHG couldn't really email the publication either, simply because it was too heavy to fit in as an attachment. Embedding it on the website as a PDF also wasn't a way-out: loading the guide would have taken forever, and rural areas had slow Internet connection.
The first step toward making the guide available to everyone was getting funding. Tara Nobles, Director of Community Engagement at GSHG, came up with a smart solution. Why not insert some ads into the Program Guide? That would help GSHG break even and offer more choices for the girls. And afterward, the organization would find a more accessible and interactive format to present the Program Guide in.
GSHG started looking for an online tool to present their Program Guide and saw FlippingBook in use by another organization. Immediately, they felt it was the right software for their Guide, so they put it on the budget for the following year. With it, they could publish documents of any size and all in one convenient format.
The new publishing tool allowed them to link all the ads to the providers' websites, make the Program Guide interactive, and provide information to any Girl Scout within the state and beyond. Even though the Program Guide was link-, design-, and content-heavy, it still loaded quickly in any browser.
GSHG documents are accessed not only by Girl Scouts, but also by the volunteers that support the organization, mentor the girls, or provide other services. Scattered throughout the state, all of different age and background, they can now view FlippingBook publications easily.
Today, the Program Guide is available in print, sent as a link via email, and embedded on the GSHG website. Girl Scouts across the council and out-of-state visitors can always find relevant information online on any device. Sharing the publication on social media is a great way to reach out to the GSHG volunteers as well.
As an added bonus, ads displayed in the Program Guide cover printing and shipping costs for the physical publication. The 2018 Program & Resource Guide alone included 41 ads. Tara sells advertising for about three months out of the year and then creates a neat, interactive publication for all the Girl Scouts, their parents, and volunteers to enjoy.
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1 Galileo (IRE) 121 19 16% 10 25 16 5 4 388
2 Dubawi (IRE) 19 5 26% 2 5 2 3 0 50
3 Teofilo (IRE) 44 5 11% 2 5 1 4 0 218
4 Dark Angel (IRE) 51 4 8% 2 4 3 3 0 199
5 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 66 3 5% 10 4 3 4 2 277
6 Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 23 3 13% 2 3 2 2 0 107
7 Sea The Stars (IRE) 20 3 15% 1 5 2 2 1 63
8 Big Bad Bob (IRE) 49 2 4% 2 3 1 0 0 255
9 Bushranger (IRE) 57 2 4% 0 2 2 0 0 290
10 Cape Cross (IRE) 35 2 6% 0 4 2 0 1 109
11 Dylan Thomas (IRE) 21 2 10% 0 2 0 1 0 91
12 Exceed and Excel (AUS) 28 2 7% 2 2 1 2 0 118
13 Fast Company (IRE) 34 2 6% 1 4 2 0 1 140
14 Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 60 2 3% 1 2 0 0 0 281
15 Jeremy (USA) 36 2 6% 0 2 2 0 0 147
16 Shamardal (USA) 35 2 6% 6 3 1 3 0 153
17 War Front (USA) 29 2 7% 6 2 2 4 0 84
18 Zoffany (IRE) 36 2 6% 1 3 1 2 0 156
19 Arakan (USA) 10 1 10% 0 1 0 1 0 52
20 Arcano (IRE) 29 1 3% 0 1 0 0 0 149
21 Beat Hollow (GB) 2 1 50% 0 1 1 0 1 6
22 Byron (GB) 4 1 25% 0 1 1 0 0 36
23 Captain Rio (GB) 25 1 4% 1 1 0 1 0 110
24 Choisir (AUS) 12 1 8% 3 1 0 3 0 50
25 Dansili (GB) 23 1 4% 2 1 0 1 0 96
26 Duke of Marmalade (IRE) 25 1 4% 1 1 1 0 0 115
27 Elusive Quality (USA) 5 1 20% 0 1 0 0 0 15
28 English Channel (USA) 7 1 14% 0 1 0 1 0 28
29 Equiano (FR) 8 1 13% 0 1 1 0 0 42
30 Footstepsinthesand (GB) 31 1 3% 0 1 1 0 0 138
31 Hernando (FR) 2 1 50% 0 1 0 0 0 11
32 Intikhab (USA) 28 1 4% 0 1 0 0 0 114
33 Invincible Spirit (IRE) 37 1 3% 1 2 0 0 0 143
34 Kitten's Joy (USA) 8 1 13% 1 1 0 0 0 22
35 Lope De Vega (IRE) 28 1 4% 4 2 0 3 0 109
36 Manduro (GER) 12 1 8% 1 1 0 0 0 50
37 Medicean (GB) 20 1 5% 2 1 0 1 0 61
38 Oratorio (IRE) 9 1 11% 0 1 0 1 0 59
39 Pour Moi (IRE) 15 1 7% 0 1 1 0 0 54
40 Power (GB) 8 1 13% 0 2 1 0 0 30
41 Shantou (USA) 3 1 33% 0 1 0 1 0 10
42 Showcasing (GB) 9 1 11% 0 1 0 0 0 38
43 Street Cry (IRE) 11 1 9% 1 1 1 0 0 27
44 Tamayuz (GB) 16 1 6% 0 1 1 0 0 74
45 Vocalised (USA) 26 1 4% 0 1 1 0 0 92
46 Wootton Bassett (GB) 3 1 33% 0 1 1 0 1 9
47 Gio Ponti (USA) 3 1 33% 0 1 0 0 0 11
48 Acclamation (GB) 45 1 2% 4 1 1 3 0 203
49 Scat Daddy (USA) 2 1 50% 0 2 1 0 1 5
50 Ad Valorem (USA) 10 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 52
51 Alderbrook (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
52 Alfred Nobel (IRE) 11 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 52
53 Alhaarth (IRE) 4 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 12
54 Alkaadhem (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 8
55 Amadeus Wolf (GB) 8 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 48
56 Antonius Pius (USA) 6 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 21
57 Approve (IRE) 26 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 119
58 Aqlaam (GB) 7 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 30
59 Arch (USA) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 17
60 Archipenko (USA) 4 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 18
61 Areion (GER) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 8
62 Aristotle (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
63 Art Connoisseur (IRE) 20 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 78
64 Artan (IRE) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 15
65 Artie Schiller (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
66 Ashkalani (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 12
67 Ask (GB) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 29
68 Astronomer Royal (USA) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 6
69 Atraf (GB) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
70 Auction House (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
71 Aussie Rules (USA) 15 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 59
72 Authorized (IRE) 10 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 33
73 Avonbridge (GB) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 9
74 Azamour (IRE) 28 0 0% 2 0 0 2 0 93
75 Bach (IRE) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 4
76 Bachelor Duke (USA) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 16
77 Bahri (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 14
78 Balmont (USA) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 12
79 Baltic King (GB) 6 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 22
80 Barathea (IRE) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 19
81 Basanta (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
82 Bated Breath (GB) 4 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 20
83 Bellamy Road (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
84 Beneficial (GB) 5 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 8
85 Bernardini (USA) 4 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 8
86 Bernstein (USA) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
87 Bertolini (USA) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 13
88 Bienamado (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
89 Big Brown (USA) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 13
90 Birdstone (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
91 Black Sam Bellamy (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
92 Born To Sea (IRE) 7 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 21
93 Brian Boru (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
94 Buzzword (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 6
95 Camacho (GB) 7 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 32
96 Captain Gerrard (IRE) 5 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 37
97 Captain Marvelous (IRE) 5 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 18
98 Casamento (IRE) 12 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 40
99 Caspar Netscher (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 6
100 Catcher in the Rye (IRE) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 11
101 Celtic Swing (GB) 4 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 11
102 Central Park (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
103 Champs Elysees (GB) 11 0 0% 2 0 0 1 0 56
104 Chevalier (IRE) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 19
105 Chineur (FR) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 22
106 City Zip (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
107 Clodovil (IRE) 19 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 69
108 Close Conflict (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 3
109 Compton Place (GB) 7 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 29
110 Country Reel (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
111 Craigsteel (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 3
112 Creative Cause (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
113 Daaher (CAN) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
114 Dalakhani (IRE) 9 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 34
115 Dandy Man (IRE) 40 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 167
116 Danehill Dancer (IRE) 21 0 0% 3 0 0 2 0 85
117 Danroad (AUS) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 6
118 Daylami (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 4
119 Definite Article (GB) 7 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 23
120 Delegator (GB) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 8
121 Desert King (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
122 Desert Style (IRE) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
123 Diamond Green (FR) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 10
124 Diktat (GB) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 9
125 Discreetly Mine (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 9
126 Distorted Humor (USA) 4 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 10
127 Dr Fong (USA) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 17
128 Dragon Pulse (IRE) 8 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 20
129 Dream Ahead (USA) 20 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 68
130 Dubai Destination (USA) 4 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 17
131 Dutch Art (GB) 23 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 73
132 Dynaformer (USA) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
133 Echo Of Light (GB) 10 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 39
134 Efisio (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
135 Elnadim (USA) 8 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 39
136 Elusive City (USA) 10 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 64
137 Erewhon (USA) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
138 Evasive (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 8
139 Excellent Art (GB) 26 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 118
140 Exit to Nowhere (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 3
141 Expelled (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 13
142 Fairly Ransom (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
143 Falco (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
144 Fame And Glory (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
145 Famous Name (GB) 10 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 24
146 Fasliyev (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
147 Fath (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 4
148 Firebreak (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 3
149 First Defence (USA) 6 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 13
150 First Samurai (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
151 Flemensfirth (USA) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 6
152 Foxwedge (AUS) 3 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 8
153 Frankel (GB) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
154 Fruits of Love (USA) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 4
155 Gamut (IRE) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 9
156 Generous (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
157 Getaway (GER) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
158 Giant's Causeway (USA) 3 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 26
159 Glory of Dancer (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 7
160 Gold Away (IRE) 2 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 5
161 Golden Snake (USA) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 17
162 Goldmark (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
163 Grandera (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 8
164 Great Exhibition (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 10
165 Great Palm (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 3
166 Haafhd (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
167 Haatef (USA) 10 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 65
168 Halling (USA) 5 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 17
169 Harbinger (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
170 Harbour Watch (IRE) 7 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 18
171 Harlan's Holiday (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 3
172 Hat Trick (JPN) 1 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 1
173 Hawk Wing (USA) 5 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 17
174 Heliostatic (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
175 Helmet (AUS) 8 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 23
176 Henrythenavigator (USA) 13 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 55
177 Heron Island (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
178 High Chaparral (IRE) 30 0 0% 2 0 0 1 0 101
179 High Rock (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
180 Houmayoun (FR) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
181 Hurricane Run (IRE) 9 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 37
182 Iceman (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
183 Iffraaj (GB) 27 0 0% 1 0 0 1 0 93
184 Indesatchel (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 14
185 Indian Danehill (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
186 Indian Haven (GB) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 6
187 Intense Focus (USA) 49 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 223
188 Invasor (ARG) 3 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 4
189 Irish Wells (FR) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
190 Ivan Denisovich (IRE) 4 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 24
191 Johar (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
192 Jukebox Jury (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
193 Kahyasi (IRE) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
194 Kalanisi (IRE) 8 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 30
195 Kamsin (GER) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
196 Karinga Bay (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 5
197 Kayf Tara (GB) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
198 Kendargent (FR) 2 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 2
199 Key of Luck (USA) 1 0 0% 0 0 0 0 0 1
200 Kheleyf (USA) 13 0 0% 1 0 0 0 0 66
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Sonora, CA...From TCSO..."The man found deceased has been identified as 45-year-old Matthew Dale Bryan of Sonora. Matthew was reported missing by his family on December 10, 2018. Cause of death is pending as an autopsy is being conducted but foul play is not suspected at this time. We send out sincerest condolences to Matthew's family and friends."
Earlier on this case....Sonora, CA...A death investigation is underway after the body of a man was found over the weekend. Late Friday evening our office received a report of a deceased person in a remote unincorporated area between Jamestown and Sonora. Deputies searched the area but did not locate anyone at that time due to darkness. At daybreak on Saturday, with additional resources, Deputies found the body of a deceased man in a wooded area South of Gibbs Tower.


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Q: Have Bluetooth socket reconnect (in Python) after BT switched off and on again I connect a bluetooth device in a python (3.10) program like this:
import socket
serverMACAddress = '00:07:80:e0:a4:fc'
port = 1
size = 1024
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.BTPROTO_RFCOMM)
s.connect((serverMACAddress,port))

In the main loop I have this:
try:
    while 1: #main loop
        data = s.recv(size)
        if data:
            data_received( data )
        else:
            try:
                s.????
            except:
                print("no data")
except:
    print("Closing socket")
    s.close()

Everything works fine unless the bluetooth device is switched off and then switched on again. I am trying to solve how to have the bluetooth device re-connect with the logic in the try-statement (s.????) within the loop, but I am unable to come up with a solution.
I am a beginner in BT and Python, but this should be pretty straightforward, right? I must be missing something very obvious. Any suggestions out there?
Modified version based on the suggestion by ukBaz:
try:
    while 1: #main loop
        try:
            data = s.recv(size)
        except socket.error():
            connected = False
            s = socket.socket
            while not connected:
                #attempt to re-connect
                try:
                    s.connect((serverMACAddress,port))
                    connected = True
                except:
                    time.sleep(5)
        if data:
            data_received( data )
except:
    print("Closing socket")
    s.close()

After adding clientSocket.send:
while True: #main loop
    # attempt to reconnect, otherwise sleep for 2 seconds
    if not connected:
        try:
            # configure socket and connect to server
            clientSocket = socket.socket(
                socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.BTPROTO_RFCOMM
            )

            clientSocket.connect((serverMACAddress, port))
            connected = True
            print("Connection successful")
        except socket.error:
            print("No connection, retrying")
#            time.sleep(2)
    # attempt to send and receive, otherwise reset connection status
    else:
        data = clientSocket.recv(size)
        if data:
            data_received( data )
        # Use send to check if scale is connected
        try:
            clientSocket.send(b"x")
        except socket.error:
            print("connection lost... reconnecting")
            # set connection status
            connected = False

A: I ran the following connecting to a remote HC-06 module on an Arduino. I tested the code below with Python 3.10 (Windows) and Python 3.8 (Linux) and it worked as expected on both.
It has a continuous while loop that if it is connected sends & receives data. If it is not connected, then it tries to connect. It uses except socket.error to detect there is an issue with the connection.
import socket
from time import sleep

host = "00:00:12:34:56:78"
port = 1
chunks = 1024

# keep track of connection status
connected = False

while True:
    # attempt to reconnect, otherwise sleep for 2 seconds
    if not connected:
        try:
            # configure socket and connect to server
            clientSocket = socket.socket(
                socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.BTPROTO_RFCOMM
            )

            clientSocket.connect((host, port))
            connected = True
            print("Connection successful")
        except socket.error:
            print("No connection, retrying")
            sleep(2)
    # attempt to send and receive, otherwise reset connection status
    else:
        try:
            print("sending data...")
            clientSocket.send(b"Test")
            print("Reading data..")
            message = clientSocket.recv(chunks).decode("UTF-8")
            print("Recv'd", message)
        except socket.error:
            # set connection status
            connected = False
            print("connection lost... reconnecting")

If the socket is only doing read, then a timeout needs to be set so that it raises an exception. The value of the timeout might need to be tuned for your particular situation. As an example:
import socket
import time

import select

serverMACAddress = "00:00:12:34:56:78"
port = 1
size = 1024

# keep track of connection status
connected = False

def data_received(info):
    print(info)

while True: #main loop
    # attempt to reconnect, otherwise sleep for 2 seconds
    if not connected:
        try:
            # configure socket and connect to server
            clientSocket = socket.socket(
                socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.BTPROTO_RFCOMM
            )

            clientSocket.connect((serverMACAddress, port))
            clientSocket.settimeout(5.5)
            connected = True
            print("Connection successful")
        except socket.error:
            print("No connection, retrying")
            time.sleep(2)
    # attempt to send and receive, otherwise reset connection status
    else:
        try:
            data = clientSocket.recv(size)
            print("Reading data..")
            if data:
                data_received(data)
        # Assume connection lost if read timeout raised
        except socket.timeout:
            # set connection status
            connected = False
            print("connection lost... reconnecting")

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Indianapolis, Indiana (April 2007)- Beginning with the fall 2007 semester, University College will put a greater emphasis on the importance of integrating diversity and multicultural components into its learning community classes. The 11th Annual University College Learning Communities Colloquium will take place May 11, 2007 from 9:00am–3:30pm on campus in Lecture Hall 102 for members of all learning community instructional teams. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss methods for effectively infusing the curriculum with multicultural components.
Recently on the IUPUI campus, cultural and diversity issues have come to the forefront. School administrators have been encouraged to incorporate a greater emphasis on multicultural perspectives in the curriculum. University College will emphasize the importance of this topic in the learning community classrooms. Participants of the Learning Communities Colloquium will learn teaching methods to enhance that process.
Events planned for the Learning Communities Colloquium include an announcement of a common reader; a presentation by the University College Theatre Troupe of a thought-provoking piece called "Into the Wild," followed by a facilitated discussion of the diversity issues it illustrates; and two concurrent sessions devoted to best practices for incorporating diversity throughout the learning communities.
Learning communities at IUPUI are first-year seminars led by an instructional team made up of a faculty member, a librarian, an advisor, and a student mentor. The classes are designed to help freshmen transition successfully from high school to college.


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Leaving the Band
by Dave McKenna January 20th, 2006 August 29th, 2020
Snyder's move threatens—thankfully—to kill off AM sports yak.
Dan Snyder's latest move toward becoming a sports-radio mogul was to sign up Bennett Zier. He's the guy who ran WTEM-AM—SportsTalk 980—billed as D.C. radio's first and only sports station.
Zier became general manager of that station in 1992, the year it was founded, and has stayed with the station through several ownership changes and corporate mergers. Last week, he left a management position with Clear Channel, WTEM's current owner, to become CEO of Red Zebra Broadcasting, a company under Snyder's wing.
Rumors are that Red Zebra, which is yet another step in Snyder's "if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em" media-domination scheme, will soon purchase multiple radio stations in the area to serve as a Redskins broadcasting network, with other sports programming filling up the rest of the schedule. Zier says it could be as long as "another month" before Red Zebra makes any announcements regarding scheduling specifics or which stations it will buy.
"I can tell you we will do some format that is compatible with the audience that likes the Washington Redskins. That basically means anybody in town," Zier says. "You need to research and give the listener what they want."
Whether or not WTEM has given sports fans what they want during Zier's years of overseeing the station is a matter of debate. Some radio watchers think his SportsTalk stewardship has left the D.C. market wide open for the kind of sportscentric radio venture he will now run for Snyder.
"There is room here for another sports talker," says Dave Hughes, founder and webmaster of dcrtv.com, an Internet site that has become a destination for most media types in the area thanks to years of tracking who's buying what local station and who's banging the morning anchor. "Particularly, an FM sports talker could do really well and put WTEM out of its place really quick."
For years, the city's only all-sports station has seemed openly hostile to D.C. sports fans. WTEM was launched as "the Team," a counterpart to WFAN-AM, New York's groundbreaking all-sports station known as "the Fan." At its founding, WTEM served as the flagship station for Redskins games. But the Team dropped the team after just three years. And now, with the exception of the Washington Wizards, none of the area's marquee teams are broadcast on the station.
Maryland football is the only area college program anybody cares about, but Terps games are on WMAL-AM; WTEM listeners instead get Virginia Tech, a school whose campus is a mere five hours outside the Beltway. The Washington Capitals now have the greatest athlete in the city, Alexander Ovechkin, but unless he gets arrested and the Washington Post writes a story about it, Ovechkin will have to buy airtime—like Virginia Tech does—to get a mention on WTEM. Caps fans are calling Ovechkin's hat trick in the team's 3-2 overtime win against Anaheim on Jan. 14 a performance for the ages, but they weren't surprised that Ovechkin's deeds didn't rate much air on the sports station.
"The Caps don't get much coverage from anybody here, but [WTEM] is the worst," says Lottie Ignacio, a board member of the Washington Capitals Fan Club, echoing a sentiment held by essentially all diehard puckheads. "I think they hate hockey. I can't even listen to the station anymore, they upset me so badly."
The baseball coverage put up by Zier's station has spawned even more venom. Months after the city got a baseball team for the first time in three decades, WTEM announced it had reached a deal to air Baltimore Orioles games. Zier wouldn't discuss the relationship between WTEM and the Orioles, but it's believed that Peter Angelos bought the airtime to continue giving his team a presence in the Nats market. That left the Nationals with a low-powered, unheard-of station, WFED-AM, as its flagship.
WTEM's baseball coverage was relegated to a brief show on Saturday mornings, a spot on the broadcast schedule typically reserved for discussion of which local food banks are holding fundraising drives or some other sort of white-noisy public-affairs programming. With the steroid hearings on Capitol Hill, there was more talk about baseball on C-SPAN radio during the Nats' inaugural season than there was on the area's only all-sports station.
Nationals fans have trouble forgiving WTEM for not landing the hometown team.
"I love the Nats being here, but we got the shaft on the radio and in coverage in general," says "Baseball" Bill Holdforth, a legendary Hawk 'n' Dove bartender and a guy known as the No. 1 fan of the area's last baseball team, the Washington Senators, before the franchise became the Texas Rangers. "I can pick up the Yankee games on radio better than I can the Nats game. In your car, you gotta make a turn and go down three blocks to pick up the station that has the Nats. You get no local sports from WTEM. For a sports station, WTEM relies too much on national coverage instead of Nationals coverage."
Nobody can accuse Zier, however, of depriving listeners of Tony Kornheiser. At the station's founding, a show was built around Kornheiser as a D.C. counterpart to WFAN's Imus in the Morning. All these years later, no station in this market, AM or FM, devotes anywhere near as much energy to a single personality as WTEM does to Kornheiser. During football season, a tape of Kornheiser is played during the station's pregame shows. Kornheiser phones in live during morning drive time the day after Skins games, and a tape of that performance is repeated for the evening drive time. Every weekday, he's live from 9 to 11 a.m., and then those two hours are repeated on tape immediately afterward. Tuesday through Friday evenings, Kornheiser phones in for a live spot during The Sports Reporters, the show hosted by Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban that is the jewel of the station's programming schedule.
But Zier's fixation with Kornheiser reached its peak when the station began airing an audio-only version of Kornheiser's ESPN television show, Pardon the Interruption, each evening. When Kornheiser goes on vacation, the station airs at least four hours per day of shows that have already been replayed.
The reliance on Kornheiser tape seems to be a part of a decision to not develop any new talent at the station during Zier's tenure. While local hero John Thompson kills time on weekday afternoons, a show featuring relative youngster Bram Weinstein has for years been relegated to Saturday mornings and irregular evening fill-in duty. Weinstein's recurring faux football-handicapping segment, where phony touts give their picks and agree to suffer severe personal humiliations should they steer bettors wrong, is usually good for several bellyaching laughs per week and deserves a bigger audience.
In Zier's defense, the cult of Kornheiser has reached outside the station: The Washington Post puts his picture in the paper every day, an honor accorded no other sportswriter. Hollywood tried to make a sitcom of his life (CBS's Listen Up). A like-new-condition copy of The Baby Chase, an out-of-print 1983 memoir about Kornheiser's adopting a child, goes for more than $100 on Amazon.
But there's been no obvious benefit to Zier's Kornheiser-overload strategy. In 1998, WTEM jumped from its original frequency at 570 AM, where it was a measly 5,000-watt station, to the 50,000-watt frequency at 980 AM. WTOP-AM is the only station in this market with as powerful a signal. But any improvement in listenership since taking on the extra wattage has been negligible. In every Arbitron book before or after the move, WTEM has been crushed in the ratings not only by the city's other blowtorcher, WTOP, but also by WMAL, a 5,000-watt station that has for years targeted fascist listeners and had management turnover at a rate normally suffered only by college stations.
In the last five Arbitron books, WTEM has finished no higher than a three-way tie for 17th place in the market, well behind weak newbie "Spanish Tropical" station WLZL-FM.
But Zier makes no apologies for WTEM's programming during his reign. The Arbitron numbers for total listeners, he says, are deceiving, since his station never went after everybody.
"WTEM is a station for males," he says. "And for men between 30 and 60, the station dominated."
If Zier focuses Red Zebra's efforts on the FM band, that domination could end soon.
"The top AM station, WTOP, now is going to FM [in March]," says Hughes. "That leaves only WTEM and WMAL on the AM dial. With satellite taking off, AM radio is practically dead here already. Pretty soon, listeners might have no reason to punch up AM."—Dave McKenna


Was getting about 30 down and 8 up on Sky fibre and was happy with that beens I'm about 700 metres from the cabinet. After the recent storms I had several losses of power which obviously affected the Openreach kit. My speed dropped to 19 down 7 up.
Now I had seen after a few power cuts before the speed drop and new it would come back slowly overtime or until I called Sky.
The copper cabinet only feeds approx 100 properties and I was the first customer in the fibre cabinet back in July.
Is this all correct and nothing can be done?
Can't be definitive but it is possible it is cross talk slowing you down - many people who are early adopters will see faster speeds at first and then get slower as more lines are connected.
It is also possible that due to the power cuts the DLM has kicked in and lowered your line rate for stability. If that is the case then Sky may be able to got wholesale to reset it - you could ask them if they can get the DLM reset and see what happens.
Is there line management of fibre? I didnt think there was?
You have me thinking now but I am sure there is DLM on FTTC (it is the VDSL part that uses DLM) - FTTP doesn't need DLM.
That depends what yu mean by "line management".
There is an Openreach DLM running in the FTTC cabinet DSLAM, and on BT Wholesale services, (i.e. all except Sky and TalkTalk), there is also an IP Profile of 0.9769 imposed by BT Wholesale.
Individual ISPs may also have their own line management.
So who decides or what equates the new estimated speeds?
Estimated speeds are by Openreach and relate to the connection speed, (sync), not the data throughput (speed test) speed. The BT Wholesale checker gets its data from Openreach.
Is it possible a fault scenario can cause the estimate to drop.


PFI Director Agnieszka Odorowicz and Polish Filmmakers Association President Jacek Bromski were in Venice to host a poolside party in honour of the PFI productions and co-productions participating in the Venice Film Festival.
The guest of honour was British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, whose film Nightwatching is a Polish co-production with Gremi Film Production (www.gremi.pl) and is screening in the main competition. Greenaway shot the entire film in HD4K format.
The canny PFI also backed Ken Loach's It's a Free World, another Venice competition film which is a co-production with Poland's SPI International (www.spiintl.com). Justyna Nowak's Wazki (Dragonflies) was screened in the short film section. Sztucki (Tricks) -- directed by Andrzej Jakimovski, produced by Opus Film (www.opusfilm.com) and backed by the PFI -- is screening in the Venice Days sidebar.
"We look for interesting opportunities for collaboration and it works," said Maciej Karpinski, deputy director of PFI (www.pisf.pl) about this year's co-production successes. "You can see it here. We are not bankers. We look for good projects that use Polish talent."
But perhaps the most visionary decision of PFI was a project it backed that was not to be seen at the film festival at all. Internationally acclaimed Polish artist Lew Majewski's masterpiece Blood of a Poet was selected to participate in the Biennale Art Exhibition. Its 33 interrelated video art features, which form a feature-length film, is screening nightly in its own theatre on the island of Giudecca, from June until Sept. 30.
The Venice Festival itself rolled out with a huge and refreshingly democratic gala opening dinner on the beach of the Excelsior Hotel, where festival director Marco Mueller greeted guests that included Kiera Knightly to enjoy the finest in Italian cuisine and to watch a stunning display of fireworks.
The programme of the festival in general had nothing for Central Europeans to celebrate, with no films from the region in the main programme. The only other country with a feature film from the region besides Poland was Estonia with Sügisball (Autumn Ball), produced by Kuukulgur Film (www.kuukulgur.ee) and directed by Vieko Öunpuu. Sügisball screened in the Horizontal Days sidebar.


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Treebeard: "I always like going South, somehow it feels like going downhill." - Is it really?
In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002 movie), Treebeard says:
I always like going South, somehow it feels like going downhill.
Is there a difference in elevation or something that can justify Treebeard's feelings, or is this just some random feeling he feels? Saying something like this sounds very strange unless it is somehow rooted in reality in one way or another.
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I always assumed that is was a joke about south being "down" on a map. – Verdan Mar 25 '18 at 16:17
@Verdan Haha, I never thought of that. I guess that makes sense. Disappointed that I did not get a 100 pages long answer about how this is somehow the work of the valars or something. – OptimusCrime Mar 25 '18 at 17:44
Keywords: "it feels like"; Doesn't mean it is. – BCdotWEB Mar 25 '18 at 17:45
@BCdotWEB In fact, very much means it isn't. – Misha R Mar 25 '18 at 18:38
Really? Rooted? I can't with the puns.... – Anoplexian Mar 26 '18 at 17:08
This was ad-libed by John Rhys-Davies, the voice actor for Treebeard
It is stated by Peter Jackson in the commentary track of The Two Towers Extended Edition that John Rhys-Davies would often throw in ad-libbed lines that sounded quite nice. This is an example of one.
Peter: The line at the end of this scene was an ad-lib of John's, when he says, "I always like going down south, it feels like going downhill," which was just something he threw into the end of the recording session that we did; but he often comes up with those really nice little lines that…
The Two Towers Extended Edition Commentary Disc 2 - Transcript
However to answer your question of whether his statement had any basis:
The land does indeed slope downwards
If you rewatch the film, you will see that Fangorn forest seems to be on a bit of a slope leading down to Isengard. (Video below). However, that was not why Treebeard said what he did, as @Verdan says, it was merely a joke made by Treebeard given that South is at the bottom of the map.
From the video, at 00:43 you can see that behind Treebeard, where he has just been walking from, there seems to be hills and mountains sloping upwards. At 00:36 you can see that Saruman is down below where they are now, therefore there was some evidence to what Treebeard said.
In the books, there's no such line, but there may be some evidence for the above.
The Ents go on a bit of an adventure, climbing up ridges and down into valleys, Isengard is indeed in a valley (Nan Curunír, the Valley of Saruman) and the Ents did in fact end climbing down into the Valley.
"At last they stood upon the summit, and looked down into a dark pit: the great cleft at the end of the mountains: Nan Curunír, the Valley of Saruman."
The Two Towers: Book III, Chapter 9 - Flotsam and Jetsam
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This is certainly the best answer - it's supported by canon. – Mal Mar 26 '18 at 2:57
I don't think this is the best answer: why would anyone say "somehow it feels like going downhill" while actually going downhill? – molnarm Mar 26 '18 at 12:58
@Edlothiad sorry, let me rephrase: I value your research and if we read the question strictly as "was he really going downhill", then of course it is correct. However, I understood it more like "why would he say that" like the other answerers, in which case a joke would not make sense if it was literally true - besides, we already know that this has an out-of-universe explanation. – molnarm Mar 26 '18 at 13:26
How was it a joke in-universe? There's no indication of humor in the way he says it (unless I'm misremembering) and it sounds more like some inner thought he wanted to share with them. – Arturo Torres Sánchez Mar 26 '18 at 14:21
In universe — even in the PJ version of Arda, — why do we take for granted that Treebeard ever witnessed a map, much less had need to use one? – can-ned_food Mar 26 '18 at 20:05
Classically, south-facing gardens get the most light (in northern hemisphere gardens, that is). Treebeard is referring to being drawn by the increased sunlight coming from that direction.
Update from the comments: the effect known as phototropism (thank you Edlothiad) has plants growing in the direction of their light source. So the Ents would seem to be naturally inclined to head South, the direction of the greatest amount of light.
"For a photosynthetic organism, facing towards light may result in receiving more energy (especially if they have better / more light processing surface in the front). In which case, going toward tight will result in less net loss of energy per time, which may feel similar to using less energy going downhill. – Misha Rosnach" (thank you Misha Rosnach for clarifying the point I was trying to make, down in the comments).
For Treebeard, it would be a relief to follow his natural inclination to move southward, feeling like one were going downhill, rather than struggling against his natural urges, which would feel like going uphill.
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This is interesting. For a photosynthetic organism, facing towards light may result in receiving more energy (especially if they have better / more light processing surface in the front). In which case, going toward tight will result in less net loss of energy per time, which may feel similar to using less energy going downhill. – Misha R Mar 25 '18 at 18:42
This is called phototropism, there is 0 indication that that is what's happening here. Especially as growing towards the sun wouldn't make the ground he's walking on slope... – Edlothiad Mar 25 '18 at 19:12
Yes but he say he's actually going down hill, just that it feels like going down hill. This could be an allusion to more energy due to better sunlight. That's the thing about the arts it's full of metaphor and allegory and other such devices. – Sarriesfan Mar 25 '18 at 20:37
As for this answer, it is highly conjectural, I'm afraid. It reminds me of the scene in Fight Club — the one which culminates with "I understand: In death, a member of Project Mayhem has a name. His name is Robert Paulsen." If I had my copy of the book handy, I could quote it better: point being that someone takes something, construes it with a seemingly reasonable but certainly unintended meaning, and then popularizes it. – can-ned_food Mar 26 '18 at 19:28
I like this idea, and will steal it for one of my fictional worlds, but I don't think it answers the question … – can-ned_food Mar 26 '18 at 19:29
John Rhys-Davies, the actor who lent his voice to Treebeard, has gone on record stating that the line was actually an ad-lib. He just thought it would be the strange, almost non-sensical sort of thing that Treebeard might say.
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Welcome to the Sci Fi Stack. Do you have a source you could add to this answer? That would strengthen the reliability of your answer. – Odin1806 Mar 26 '18 at 5:00
According to this transcript Peter Jackson says it in the commentary for disc 2 of The Two Towers ("Peter: The line at the end of this scene was an ad-lib of John's, when he says, "I always like going down south, it feels like going downhill," which was just something he threw into the end of the recording session that we did; but he often comes up with those really nice little lines that… We can always try to find places for them in the film.") – tardigrade Mar 26 '18 at 10:10
Yes, but this answer purports to quote John Rhys–Davies. I've been searching the interwebs, but I cannot locate any such quote as yet. Noizetoys, is there a chance that you misremembered where you heard this? – can-ned_food Mar 26 '18 at 22:11
It's very possible. I can't claim to remember what I had for breakfast. Which may have been a Ent, or an ant, or nothing at all... I have no reason to refute Edlothiad's answer, seems pretty much right on... – noizetoys Mar 26 '18 at 23:12
Is it really?
No, it is probably not — not even in the Peter Jackson version of Arda.
Why was such a thing said at all?
Peter: The line at the end of this scene was an ad-lib of John's, when he says, "I always like going down south, it feels like going downhill," which was just something he threw into the end of the recording session that we did; but he often comes up with those really nice little lines that… We can always try to find places for them in the film.
To put it another way:
An ad-lib was made by John Rhys–Davies at some time while he was recording lines written in the script. Then, during editing of the movie — when raw video and audio are trimmed, sequenced, combined, and post–processed, — the editors and producers were looking for somewhere to insert that particular line. Alas, however, we don't know how much time they spent deciding that, nor their exact considerations made during that decision.
So, we need to make an educated guess as to what happened.
What could've been John Rhys–Davies' inspiration or motivation for inventing the line?
Well, we lack much of the situational information which could be gained if we were either present at the aforementioned session or had access to the unedited audio recorded thereat.
I can best figure that it was a technique actors will use to help themselves embody a character. I never learned a proper name for it — probably a Method thing, for those who are curious, — but it consists of saying lines which were never written but which emerge from your understanding of a character. We could call it 'emulation'. If it is indeed Method, then it involves an actor inventing character from means other than script analysis or the like. Voice actors do it occasionally during warm–ups. It has other uses too, but that's enough about that.
Of course, John could've said the whole thing in jest or in a moment of silliness.
Either way, it seems that he was attempting to emulate lines like these:
But if I had seen you, before I heard your voices — I liked them: nice little voices; they reminded me of something I cannot remember — if I had seen you before I heard you, I should have just trodden on you, taking you for little Orcs, and found out my mistake afterwards.
I can see and hear (and smell and feel) a great deal from this, from this, from this a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lind-or-burúmë. Excuse me: that is a part of my name for it; I do not know what the word is in the outside languages: you know, the thing we are on, where I stand and look out on find mornings, and think about the Sun, and the grass beyond the wood, and the horses, and the clouds, and the unfolding of the world. What is going on? What is Gandalf up to?
Both are quotes from Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings, book 3, chapter 4.
What does it actually say?
Let's analyze the line. It begins by saying
I always like going south
which tells me that this is something Treebeard has, and did when speaking, felt or believed. In other places than when he mentioned it the scene.
Again, although we lack context for the line originally, Peter Jackson on the commentary told us that it was not purposed for the scene in which it was placed: it was simply something that John Rhys–Davies said and which Peter, Philippa, or Fran wanted to insert into a scene as if it were 'additional dialogue recording'.
It continues with
Somehow,
Which is to say that Treebeard has not discovered how exactly it does, but simply that it does.
it feels going downhill
What would an Ent feel while going downhill? Unfortunately, I know of nothing which would give us much information there.
Because I know of nothing which would imply that John Rhys–Davies was an eminent scholar of Tolkienology, I cannot suppose otherwise than to say that the line was mostly gibberish.
Meaning no discredit to John, of course. If anything, the blame lies on the editor who inserted that line into the finished movie. (Of course, that's my personal take on all this.)
So, to conclude this answer:
Is there a difference in elevation or something that can justify Treebeard's feelings, or is this just some random feeling he feels?
Probably the latter. The rendition of Treebeard in the Peter Jackson version of the story seems to imply that he is rather — shall we say, senile.
I mean, maybe it was included so as to help explain why Treebeard would believe Merry's rather ludicrous request that he carry them south at all.
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This answer was going swimmingly until you ended with a statement of utter and complete personal opinion, phrased as if it were incontrovertible fact. To steal (with sliiiight adjustments) a quote from a wise wizard in a different book, "Of course it's [silly], Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it [doesn't belong in the movie]?" – Martha Mar 27 '18 at 1:58
@Martha Huh — you know, I didn't see that until now. I thought it was necessary to tie things up. Well, I could explain why I think the way that I do, but that would simply bloat up the answer and would stray from the topic of the question. Edited; thanks for your comment! – can-ned_food Mar 27 '18 at 2:15
Let's look at the map of Middle-earth, paying particular attention to the Misty Mountains:
Being them a mountain range, walking away from them means, basically by definition, also going downhill.
It is clear that the Misty Mountains run from North-East to South-West. So if you are on their right side (where Fangorn is placed), going North and West means going uphill, and going South and East means going downhill1.
Of course, going directly South-East means losing altitude more quickly, but going directly South equally brings you on a lower terrain position. We must also consider that very probably Treebeard did't mean South as a precise direction as determined by a compass, but in a broader sense to indicate a generic Southwards direction.
This terrain conformation is depicted also in the maps from Barbara Strachey's Journeys of Frodo, where to contour lines clearly show the morphology of the terrain:
1. Granted, Fangorn is placed on a part of the Misty Mountains that has an almost North-South direction, but we can consider the general course of the whole range to be valid even here.
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Inspectas > News > Cancer > Shipyard workers urged to speak up as Barrow asbestos deaths are treble national average
The widow of a shipyard worker who died from lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure wants to know why more wasn't done to protect him as figures predict fatality rates will peak by 2018.
Kay Eccles from Broughton lost her husband Sam, 85, in February following a year long battle with lung cancer.
At the inquest held in Barrow on September 14, a coroner ruled that the painter and decorator's cause of death was industrial disease sparking an appeal from his family who are now urging former Vickers Armstrong employees to come forward and speak up about asbestos.
The appeal has come just as new figures released by the Office for National Statistics revealed that mortality rates in Barrow are almost three times the national average for mesothelioma deaths.
According to the ONS, there are 4.51 deaths for every 100,000 people – in Barrow this figure is 11.57. Mrs Eccles said:
"Sam was always a fit and active man and was in great health until early 2015 when he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
The diagnosis took us all by surprise and it was extremely hard for us to see his health deteriorate as he battled against the disease.
We want to know why more wasn't done to protect him from the risks asbestos posed to his health by Vickers Armstrong and hope that taking legal action will help us secure justice in Sam's name."
Mr Eccles spent more than 20 years on board ships and submarines, often for long periods of time.
His wife explained that many other tradesmen such as joiners and laggers were also in the dusty environments where asbestos was used to insulate pipework.
The family hope other workers can come forward and share any information relating to Mr Eccles' exposure to asbestos or the safety measures put in place by the firm, and the warnings provided to staff about the health risks associated with asbestos.
Neil Sugarman, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers said:
"Areas such as Barrow, which has a high rate of deaths from mesothelioma, are no doubt seeing the effects of past industry where workers were negligently exposed to asbestos.
People went to work and came home with a death sentence because their negligent employers exposed them to asbestos. It's a national tragedy."
Posted on 28th October 2016 Categories Cancer Tags Barrow, Cumbria, Mesothelioma, Shipbuilding, Trades
Union warns many Northampton schools still likely to contain asbestos


"Come Into My Parlour: An Evening of Victorian Ghost Stories" opens tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 25th, at 8pm at the Newman Wine Vaults, 436 Water Street. Tickets are $15 per person. Seating is limited.
Friday, October 28th - 4 tickets!
Advance tickets (CASH SALE ONLY!) are available at Britannia Teas and Gifts, 199 Water Street, and will be on sale until 6pm before show time. If tickets are left, they will also be available at the door, but some nights may sell out in advance, so buy yours now to avoid showing up the night of the show and being disappointed.
You are welcome to come in Victorian, Gothic, or Steampunk attire!
Come join me, storyteller and author Dale Jarvis, for an evening of Victorian ghost stories, perfect to get you into a suitably macabre mood for Hallowe'en!
The show will be about an hour long, by candlelight!
Tickets are now available at Britannia Teas and Gifts, 199 Water Street, St. John's.
Tickets are $15 each, first come, first served, CASH SALE ONLY!
HFNL and The Rooms kick off the Tales of Town series this Wednesday night, at 7pm. I'll be sitting down with three engaging locals: businesswoman Margaret Dunn, music shop owner Gordon O'Brien, and author Lisa Moore. We'll be sharing memories and stories about growing up in St. John's, and hope you will join us!


Clarke Nicklin has received a second consecutive award from the 2020 Innovation Group. Having scooped the accolade of 'Most Innovative Firm' at the 2007 awards, Clarke Nicklin partner Andrew Baggott has been recognised as 'Business Consultant of the Year 2008', reinforcing his commitment to advising and assisting the firm's vast client portfolio. Speaking after the event Andrew said: "All of the Clarke Nicklin team are thrilled with this award. Even though it is in my name it is the efforts of all partners and staff who work incredibly hard to remain at the forefront of innovation in our industry. We are immensely grateful to have this recognised by our peers, colleagues and, of course, the 2020 Group."
He continued: "The focus of the practice from standard accountancy services to business guidance is evident in recent years and we are really pleased that this has been picked up by the judges. Working with my fellow partner Steve Humphries we have helped clients to think strategically about their operations and capitalise on external opportunities, thus adding value beyond the financial forum." The 2020 Group provides superior marketing, management and strategy solutions to more than 1,300 member firms. Its second annual awards ceremony was held in Coventry last week and was presented by Sir Jack Charlton. It was attended by more than 400 professionals from the industry. Clarke Nicklin, was also short listed for the accolade of 'Best Managing Partner' and 'Best Marketing Manager' at the awards.


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My name is Vishal srivastava and I am working as a Branch Manager in Vijaya Bank a Government undertaking bank. I have completed my B.A.. I grew up in a Upper Middle Class class, Joint family with Traditional values.
My name is Gaurav Bhola. I come from a Upper middle class, Nuclear family with Moderate Values. I have completed my Graduation and currently work in the Private Sector as an Accounts / Finance Professional.
I am looking for a well educated girl with strong family values for my son. He is a computer engineer by profession. Having being brought up in Delhi, his choice of life is simple. He loves cooking, travelling, reading and an ardent news follower.
My name is Lalit Kumar and I am working as a Entertainment Professional in the Private sector. I have completed my B.A.. I grew up in a Middle Class class, Nuclear family with Traditional values.
My name is Manish and I am working as an IA , at Goa Airport Government sector. I have completed my B.A.D.ed. I grew up in a Middle class, Nuclear family with Moderate values.
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A top U.S. general in Afghanistan was fired Friday for making disparaging remarks about Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government.
Maj. Gen. Peter Fuller, deputy commander of the NATO training mission in Afghanistan, made the remarks in an interview with Politico that was published Thursday.
Fuller told Politico that major players in the Afghan government are "isolated from reality." Fuller reacted angrily to claims from Karzai that Afghanistan would side with Pakistan if it were to go to war with the United States.
"These unfortunate comments are neither indicative of our current solid relationship with the government of Afghanistan, its leadership, or our joint commitment to prevail here in Afghanistan", Allen said.
Fuller is not the only loose-lipped general to sink his own ship. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, once the commander of ISAF, was fired by President Obama himself after the Rolling Stone published disparaging remarks he and his staff made about members of the administration.
Murray said part of the motive in hyping up the threat of Islamic terrorism in Uzbekistan through forced confessions was to ensure the country remained on-side in the war on terror, so that the pipeline could be built.
The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline is slated to be completed in 2014, with $7.6 billion in funding from the Asian Development Bank.
Murray was dismissed from his position as ambassador in 2004, following his first public allegations that the British government relied on torture in Uzbekistan for intelligence.


If you scroll down the right side of my blog you will see a list of blogs, blogs that belong to people who inspire me, and make me think, and re-think, and be creative and do what I think I sometimes can't. Dana at Old Red Barn is one of those people. She is super talented, lives a charmed life with her hubby and two beautiful girls and is one of the most generous people I have come across on the big ole world wide web. I just love this woman's blog.
She's having a quilt giveaway. Ahhh quilts, just the word makes me think of comfort and home. Dana's not giving away one quilt, or two quilts, oh no, she's giving away three of the most beautiful quilts you have ever laid your eyes on.
If you are like me and you love quilts and would be over the moon to win one, then high tail it over there and try to win one. If you not the 'quilty' type of person, I still want you to enter so if you win you can give it to me! Good Luck!!


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package org.stagemonitor.web.monitor.spring;

import javassist.CtClass;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerExecutionChain;
import org.stagemonitor.core.Stagemonitor;
import org.stagemonitor.core.instrument.StagemonitorJavassistInstrumenter;
import org.stagemonitor.requestmonitor.RequestMonitor;
import org.stagemonitor.requestmonitor.RequestMonitorPlugin;
import org.stagemonitor.web.WebPlugin;

public class SpringMvcRequestNameDeterminerInstrumenter extends StagemonitorJavassistInstrumenter {

	private static WebPlugin webPlugin = Stagemonitor.getConfiguration(WebPlugin.class);
	private static RequestMonitorPlugin requestMonitorPlugin = Stagemonitor.getConfiguration(RequestMonitorPlugin.class);

	@Override
	public boolean isIncluded(String className) {
		return className.equals("org/springframework/web/servlet/DispatcherServlet");
	}

	@Override
	public void transformClass(CtClass ctClass, ClassLoader loader) throws Exception {
		ctClass.getDeclaredMethod("getHandler")
				.insertAfter("org.stagemonitor.web.monitor.spring.SpringMvcRequestNameDeterminerInstrumenter" +
						".setRequestNameByHandler($_);");
	}

	public static void setRequestNameByHandler(HandlerExecutionChain handler) {
		if (RequestMonitor.getRequest() != null) {
			String requestName = "";
			if (handler != null) {
				requestName = SpringMonitoredHttpRequest.getRequestNameFromHandler(handler,
						requestMonitorPlugin.getBusinessTransactionNamingStrategy());
			}
			// requests with empty names don't get monitored
			// requestNames with non null values don't get overwritten and avoid GetNameCallback#getName to be called
			if (!requestName.isEmpty() || webPlugin.isMonitorOnlySpringMvcRequests()) {
				RequestMonitor.getRequest().setName(requestName);
			}
		}
	}

	public static void setWebPlugin(WebPlugin webPlugin) {
		SpringMvcRequestNameDeterminerInstrumenter.webPlugin = webPlugin;
	}
}

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I've come to the conclusion that outdoor mime artists are complete hypocrites. They stand there all day miming about getting trapped in an invisible box and walking errant invisible dogs. But as soon as I walk up to them and mime pretending to get out a bulging wallet and placing a pretend £10 in their receptacle, I'm the most un-funny person in the world. I tell, you, it's one rule for mute, over-exaggerating street artistes and one for the rest of us!
Anyone who has been to a Rising Sun Tribute Night will already know the deal. Every three months we pay homage to a much-loved band or artist. Everyone picks a song or two, practices them for a bit, then gets together again on Tribute Night to play them to a crowd - always with fascinating results. The next Tribute Night's hero is announced at the end of the evening. It's a simple but winning formula and is silly amounts of fun.
Kylie's singing career has its roots in the songbook of another recent Tribute Night artist, with an impromptu Neighbours cast performance of Carole King's The Loco-motion during a charity event in 1987. This led to an Australian single release of the same song, bringing her to the attention of PWL Records in the UK and a prolific partnership with the omnipresent production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Kylie opted to step off the SAW conveyor belt in the early '90s, and after a somewhat uneven period she re-emerged at the dawn of the 21st century with a shiny new sound that firmly established Kylie as the people's pop princess.
We'll be open at 8pm and as usual, there's no charge on the door, but we suggest you keep £5 or more aside for when the friendly people with hats circulate the room, the bar, the hallway, the porch, the little bit of pavement out the front, and the smoking pen out the back.
A monthly collaborative event for writers, artists, musicians, and everyone in between! The premise is an extension of the traditional 'open mic', however the focus is on words and collaboration. We want people to come and showcase their art in a safe and comfortable environment. If you're an artist, bring your work early on so we can hang it around. If you write – poetry, prose, songs, plays – bring a piece or an excerpt. Actors – come and practice for auditions! If you play an instrument, bring it along! Think of the evening as a cross-creative spectrum jam night.
We're open at 7pm and it's absolutely FREE!


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Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA
In 2020, Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA had a population of 180k people with a median age of 40.7 and a median household income of $51,756. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA grew from 179,469 to 180,194, a 0.404% increase and its median household income grew from $48,629 to $51,756, a 6.43% increase.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are White (Non-Hispanic) (60.8%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (33.5%), White (Hispanic) (1.81%), Other (Hispanic) (1.25%), and Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (1.16%).
4.01% of the households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
98.5% of the residents in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are Georgia Military College (1,968 degrees awarded in 2020), Georgia College & State University (1,892 degrees), and Fort Valley State University (454 degrees).
In 2020, the median property value in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was $139,100, and the homeownership rate was 72%.
Most people in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 26.5 minutes. The average car ownership in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was 2 cars per household.
Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA borders Heart of Georgia Altamaha Regional Commission (North & West) PUMA, GA, Bibb CountyMacon City PUMA, GA, Houston & Pulaski Counties PUMA, GA, River Valley Regional Commission (Outside Muscogee & Chattahoochee Counties) PUMA, GA, Three Rivers Regional Commission (East) PUMA, GA, Northeast Georgia Regional Commission (East) PUMA, GA, Walton, Morgan & Jasper Counties PUMA, GA, and Central Savannah River Area Regional Commission (West & Outside Richmond & Columbia) PUMA, GA.
Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA is home to a population of 180k people, from which 98.5% are citizens. As of 2020, 2.55% of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA residents were born outside of the country (4.59k people).
In 2018, there were 1.82 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (109k people) in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 60k Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) and 3.24k White (Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
The most common non-English languages spoken as the primary langauge in households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are Spanish (4,723 households), Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or Other Austronesian Languages (317 households), and Tagalog (Incl. Filipino) (218 households).
As of 2020, 98.5% of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA residents were US citizens, which is higher than the national average of 93.4%. In 2019, the percentage of US citizens in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was 98.4%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been increasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The 3 largest ethnic groups in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA
Black or African American (Non-Hispanic)
60k ± 454
3.34% of the people in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are hispanic (5.98k people).
The following chart shows the 7 races represented in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA as a share of the total population.
1,386 ± 910 people
In 2020, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was Mexico, the natal country of 1,386 Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA residents, followed by Guatemala with 446 and Philippines with 350.
As of 2020, 2.55% of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA residents (4.59k people) were born outside of the United States, which is lower than the national average of 13.5%. In 2019, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was 2.82%, meaning that the rate has been decreasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or Other Austronesian Languages
Tagalog (Incl. Filipino)
4.01% of the households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
In 2020, the most common non-English language spoken in households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was Spanish. 2.76% of the households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA reported speaking Spanish at home as the primary shared language between all members living in the household.
Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 2.14 times greater than any other conflict.
The economy of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA employs 70k people. The largest industries in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are Restaurants & Food Services (5,049 people), Elementary & secondary schools (5,037 people), and Construction (4,214 people), and the highest paying industries are Computer Systems Design ($166,795), Not specified retail trade ($109,433), and Household appliances & electrical & electronic goods merchant wholesalers ($104,727).
Males in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA have an average income that is 1.38 times higher than the average income of females, which is $44,108. The income inequality in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA (measured using the Gini index) is 0.462, which is lower than than the national average.
The workforce of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA in 2020 was 70,022 people, with 48.5% woman, and 51.5% men.
The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA.
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From 2019 to 2020, employment in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA grew at a rate of 0.784%, from 69.5k employees to 70k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA, are Driver/sales workers & truck drivers (2,261 people), Cashiers (2,166 people), and Elementary & middle school teachers (1,936 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA.
Data is only available at the state level. Showing data for Georgia.
This chart shows weekly unemployment insurance claims in Georgia (not-seasonally adjusted) compared with the four states with the most similar impact.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA, are Restaurants & Food Services (5,049 people), Elementary & secondary schools (5,037 people), and Construction (4,214 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA, though some of these residents may live in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2020 are Information ($53,654), Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($48,897), and Public Administration ($48,565).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2020 are Information ($63,571), Wholesale Trade ($39,438), and Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($36,994).
As of May 2021, there are 145M people employed in Georgia. This represents a 8.45% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.
The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in Georgia.
Domestic production and consumption consists of products and services shipped from Georgia to other states, or from other states to Georgia.
In 2020, the top outbound Georgia product (by dollars) was Motorized vehicles with $68.9B, followed by Mixed freight ($63.5B) and Electronics ($51.2B).
The following chart shows the share of these products in relation to all outbound Georgia products.
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2020 Value in Georgia
Projected 2050 Value in Georgia
In 2020, total outbound Georgia trade was $626B. This is expected to increase 108% to $1.3T by 2050.
The following chart shows how the domestic outbound Georgia trade is projected to change in comparison to its neighboring states.
Interstate trade consists of products and services shipped from Georgia to other states, or from other states to Georgia.
In 2020, the top outbound Georgia domestic partner for goods and services (by dollars) was Florida with $57.7B, followed by Tennessee with $34B and North Carolina and $30.2B.
The following map shows the amount of trade that Georgia shares with each state (excluding itself).
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are the senators currently representing the state of Georgia. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
Georgia is currently represented by 14 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.
US Senators from Georgia
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Senator from Georgia2
Elected to the seat to succeed Kelly Loeffler, who had been appointed to the seat following the resignation of Johnny Isakson.
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are the senators currently representing Georgia.
The following chart shows elected senators in Georgia over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.
US Representatives from Georgia
Georgia is currently represented by 14 members in the U.S. house.
Members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms, and the following chart shows the how the members for Georgia have changed over time starting in 2008.
In 2020, universities in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA awarded 4,314 degrees. The student population of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA in 2020 is skewed towards women, with 6,227 male students and 11,226 female students.
Most students graduating from Universities in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are White (2,403 and 56%), followed by Black or African American (1,386 and 32.3%), Hispanic or Latino (245 and 5.71%), and Asian (77 and 1.8%).
The largest universities in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA by number of degrees awarded are Georgia Military College (1,968 and 45.6%), Georgia College & State University (1,892 and 43.9%), and Fort Valley State University (454 and 10.5%).
The most popular majors in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA are General Studies (674 and 15.6%), Pre-Nursing Studies (311 and 7.21%), and General Business (240 and 5.56%).
The median tuition cost in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA for a public four year colleges is $6,210 for in-state students and $14,786 for out-of-state students.
University Masters Colleges and UniversitiesAll
In 2020 in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA, the percentage of applicants admitted was 78.3%, while the percentage of admitted who enrolled was 29.6%. The number of students enrolled in 2020 was 17,453 (35.7% men and 64.3% women).
Universities Masters Colleges and UniversitiesAll
In 2020 there were 17,453 students enrolled in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA, 35.7% men and 64.3% women.
By race, the largest number of students enrolled was concentrated in White with 8,913 records, of which 64.2% were women and 35.8% men.
Associates DegreeBachelors DegreePostbaccalaureate CertificateMasters DegreePost-Masters CertificateResearch DoctorateProfessional Doctorate
Pre-Nursing Studies
In 2020, the most common concentation for Associates Degree recipients in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was Pre-Nursing Studies with 311 degrees awarded.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a Associates Degree from schools in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA according to their major.
Georgia Military College
Georgia College & State University
Fort Valley State University
In 2020, the institution with the largest number of graduating students was Georgia Military College with 1,968 degrees awarded.
In 2020, 1,484 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA, which is 0.524 times less than the 2,830 female students who received degrees in the same year.
In 2020 the most common race/ethnicity group awarded degrees at institutions was White students. These 2,403 degrees mean that there were 1.73 times more degrees awarded to White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Black or African American, with 1,386 degrees awarded.
Public, 4-year or above ($6,210) is the sector with the highest median state tuition in 2020.
Public, 4-year or above ($1,892) is the sector with the highest median state fee in 2020.
Public, 4-year or above ($1,500) is the sector with the highest average net price of books and supplies.
In 2020, 0.818% of men over 25 years of age had not completed any academic degree (no schooling), while 0.685% of women were in the same situation.
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA in 2020 were High School or Equivalent (51.5k), Some college (34.2k), and Secondary Education (24.7k).
The median property value in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was $139,100 in 2020, which is 0.605 times smaller than the national average of $229,800. Between 2019 and 2020 the median property value increased from $126,100 to $139,100, a 10.3% increase. The homeownership rate in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA is 72%, which is approximately the same as the national average of 64.4%.
People in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA have an average commute time of 26.5 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
Median household income in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA is $51,756. In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was Fulton County (Northeast)Johns Creek City PUMA, GA with a value of $128,680, followed by Cobb County (Northeast) PUMA, GA and Forsyth County PUMA, GA, with respective values of $118,030 and $112,834.
The following chart display owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA the largest share of households pay taxes in the < $800 range.
The chart underneath the paragraph shows the property taxes in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies.
In 2020, 72% of the housing units in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA were occupied by their owner. This percentage grew from the previous year's rate of 71.7%.
This chart shows the percentage of owner in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
Fulton County (Northeast)Johns Creek City PUMA, GA
Cobb County (Northeast) PUMA, GA
Forsyth County PUMA, GA
In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was Fulton County (Northeast)Johns Creek City PUMA, GA with a value of $128,680, followed by Cobb County (Northeast) PUMA, GA and Forsyth County PUMA, GA, with respective values of $118,030 and $112,834.
The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
In 2020, the median household income of the 68.5k households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA grew to $51,756 from the previous year's value of $48,629.
The following chart displays the households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $75k - $100k range.
2020 Wage GINI in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA
In 2020, the income inequality in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was 0.462 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 1.07% growth from 2019 to 2020, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat less even. The GINI for Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA was lower than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2020, 83.9% of workers in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (9.38%) and those who worked at home (3.71%).
Using averages, employees in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA have a shorter commute time (26.5 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.9 minutes). Additionally, 2.9% of the workforce in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA have 2 cars.
18.6% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA (31.9k out of 172k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 12.8%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 18 - 24, followed by Males 18 - 24 and then Females 25 - 34.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA is White, followed by Black and Hispanic.
88.8% of the population of Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA has health coverage, with 44.9% on employee plans, 15.3% on Medicaid, 14% on Medicare, 12.6% on non-group plans, and 2% on military or VA plans.
Per capita personal health care spending in Georgia was $6,587 in 2014. This is a 5.41% increase from the previous year ($6,249).
Primary care physicians in Georgia see 1508 patients per year on average, which represents a 1.31% decrease from the previous year (1528 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 1921 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 691 patients per year.
Showing data at the state level for Georgia. Hospitalization data for some states may be delayed or not reported.
This chart shows the number of COVID-19 daily new cases by date in Georgia, as a 7-day rolling average, compared with the four states with the most similar number of confirmed cases.
Patient to Primary Care Physician Ratio in Georgia
Primary care physicians in Georgia see an average of 1,508 patients per year. This represents a 1.31% decrease from the previous year (1,528 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Georgia in comparison to its neighboring geographies.
This chart presents movement trends over time in the state of Georgia across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
Between 2019 and 2020, the percent of uninsured citizens in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA declined by 4.93% from 11.8% to 11.2%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Middle Georgia Regional Commission (North & Outside Bibb County) PUMA, GA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
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