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Media Literacy and Interpreting Political Messages
December 5, 2019 Marketing, Reviews and Commentary60 Minutes, advertising policy, Brain Hacking, Confucius Institute, cultural exchange with China, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, fake news, Josh Hawley, Mark Zuckerberg, mass communication, Media and Culture, media criticism, media literacy, political advertising, political memes, political reporting, political spin, politics, President Trump, propaganda, relative position, scale, social media, successful political ad, Trolling, trolls, unsuccessful political ad, Webster University, Webster University Journal, Webster University newspaperchasenfratz
In Mass Communication class this past fall, I wrote about the following propaganda techniques in my paper "How do we decide which media sources we can trust?" – Name Calling, Glittering Generalities, Transfer, Testimonial, Plain Folks, Card Stacking, Band Wagon, Impersonation, Emotion, Polarization, Conspiracy, Discredit and Trolling. I found some really interesting information about trolling that I saved in the extra links section below my paper for further study later. Recently in Media and Culture class, we watched a 60 Minutes video report titled "Brain Hacking" which inspired me to do a little experiment on social media the next day.
I saw a meme shared by a friend on Facebook that contained a false but somewhat plausible sounding claim about current political events. I shared it in my Facebook feed, which is public because I use it for marketing as well as other purposes, to see what kind of reaction I would get. I and others made some comments below it that I plan to investigate more and write up in a more polished way later. For now, one of the most important things I observed was that the meme drew comments from people I've been Facebook friends with for years (and friends in real life in some cases) who never respond to my more typical, much higher quality content. I can speculate on many reasons why this was so, some of which I may be able to prove and some I may not. One thing I can definitively assert however is the effect of the trolling on this blog, a separate channel from Facebook but with lots of cross-links back and forth. I posted the trolling meme on November 20, 2019 and here is a screenshot I took this morning of my blog stats.
Yes I'm a graphic designer and I could have easily faked this graphic – but I give you my word that I didn't, for what it's worth!
With more research I hope to understand more about how trolling works, but I think it's pretty clear why so many people do it – it gets attention!
In my current Media and Culture class, one of our recent assignments was to find and analyze examples of a successful political ad and and unsuccessful political ad. I found something really great – a successful political ad about political ads, very interesting for that reason alone, which was also a Facebook trolling experiment perpetrated by a presidential campaign.
Even though "trolling" is a word with negative connotations, I think this is a very successful example and in a way could be considered "good" propaganda as I consider my own trolling test to be. In both cases we tried to be somewhat ethical while trolling by eventually coming clean about what we were doing in order to raise awareness. Regardless of which candidate one supports, I think all can benefit from seeing and analyzing the Warren ad. In order to truly be able to interpret media messages it is a good media literacy skill to be aware of the ad policy on the channel on which you are viewing the content. It's a hot topic right now in the news as channels scramble to modify their ad policies to bring about the election results they want, appease users who fear "fake news" and trolls, and still get a slice of that fat advertising pie (according to Bloomberg over a billion in 2016 just for the dominant presidential candidates).
The original Warren ad led off with a shocking statement to get attention. After explaining the purpose of lying in the ad, the copy then makes accusations that would take research to prove or disprove which I'm not going to attempt here, but would probably be believed or dismissed by many depending on how the audience has been primed. The photo of Trump and Zuckerberg shaking hands will likely get an emotional reaction out of a lot of people. Even though a handshake is a standard beginning and end to a business meeting, the photo suggests they are partners. I don't know if the photo was purposely chosen to show eye contact between Mr. Zuckerberg and President Trump with the President appearing to be speaking and Mr. Zuckerberg listening, but it could be interpreted as trying to show the smaller, slighter, younger Zuckerberg as being under Trump's thrall.
Was the Warren ad effective? When I did research trying to find information about this ad, I learned that it inspired commentary and articles on NPR, CNET, CNBC, The New York Times and others. The media coverage I'm sure is something the campaign wants since their stated goal is to raise awareness of Facebook's current advertising policy. Based on a quick glance at Warren's Twitter feed, the amount of likes and shares this ad instigated was a very good result compared to normal results. The call to action at the end is a common feature of many good ads – it lets viewers do something right away if they are so moved.
There is a Facebook Ad Library that allows you to view current and past ads, even ones you were not otherwise shown because you were not the target audience. It's interesting to see what each campaign is running! Also if you do searches about a candidate (for example "Donald Trump") vs. those that are paid for by the Candidate's own committee (for example " Trump Make America Great Again Committee"), you can get very different results. Try it!
The photo in the troll ad reminds me of the Webster University Journal article we discussed toward the beginning of the class about Senator Josh Hawley and the Confucius Institute. A lot of photos could have been chosen to use in that article. It's interesting that most of the other articles I found have photos of activities at Confucius Institutes, Chinese people or Chinese culture, or some kind of protest. But the Journal article has a photo that could be considered kind of loaded, especially when you consider it in conjunction with the article's contents. Why do you think a photo from Cape Girardeau was chosen instead of one from the St. Louis area when Webster University and the Confucius Institute it hosts are in St. Louis County? Sometimes certain photos are chosen because they are available. Sometimes certain photos are chosen because they convey a latent message. Do you think there are latent messages in these two photos?
Photo from the Warren ad on the left, photo from the Webster University Journal on the right. What messages might be sent based on Scale? On Relative Position? Anything else?
After reading my paper "Production Elements and Messages in The Television Series The Crown" what do you think of the above two photos? Still photos and motion pictures use a lot of the same production elements. Following are some more questions I would ask the writer, editor and publisher of the Journal if I could.
Why was there no mention made that there was a Senate hearing on the issue with a member of the FBI giving testimony about why the agency was concerned?
Why was no mention made of other politicians from both major parties writing similar letters to colleges in their states? Some of the other Universities' actions were mentioned, but not what prompted them. Why is that?
Why was no mention made of the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs report? The excerpt below is from page 21:
"Over the last several years, members of Congress, U.S. government officials, and academics have raised a number of concerns about Confucius Institutes, including about academic freedom, contractual agreements, transparency, hiring practices, and self-censorship. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Foreign Relations Committees all held broad hearings that discussed China at which Senators heard from experts on U.S.-China relations, academic freedom advocates, and law enforcement officials. Additionally, members of Congress from several states issued public letters to U.S. schools with Confucius Institutes urging them to reconsider their arrangement with Hanban."
I am very much in favor of cultural exchange and the learning languages of other cultures. I think the more we and other nations understand each other the better off we will all be. I don't know whether the Webster University Chancellor made the right decision or not because I don't know enough about the legal and financial arrangements to judge. I could not detect anything false in the Webster Journal article, but on the other hand I don't think there was enough information in it to understand the actual issue. I am pretty sure I know what the Journal wanted me to think about it though. I think my analysis is an example of how we have to read all news stories to be informed and not just manipulated.
To see what I used as sources in analyzing the Journal article I put a link to the Journal article and other interesting articles on the topic I found, plus a link to the Senate report on this Confucius Institutes on College Campuses Pinterest board.
Play Review: The Lifespan of a Fact
October 21, 2019 Reviews and Commentaryartistic license, fact checking, fake news, fiction, journalistic ethics, live theatre, magazine publishing, mass media, media criticism, misinformation, misreporting, myth, non-fiction, play review, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Loretto-Hilton Center, The Rep, truth, Webster Groveschasenfratz
On October 17, 2019 I saw the play The Lifespan of a Fact at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Have you ever wondered how much of the media that you consume contains truth? Have you ever pondered how you personally define "truth"? Do you ever examine your own views on what kind of media you consume and whether or not you have different standards and expectations for how it presents supposed facts depending on the genre? How many artistic liberties are permissible to take with factual events in order to create a message that you think has merit? If you have ever thought about such matters or generally enjoy the kind of play that sparks discussions among your theatre-going party, I think you will love The Lifespan of a Fact.
There are three characters in the play, a writer, a magazine editor and a fact checker. They battle with each other as they negotiate what kind of finished product will end up in the magazine according to personal and industry standards of ethics. Will the finished product serve high art or the interests of the readers, the community, the advertisers or publishers? Can a compromise be reached? What would you decide if you were the editor?
Even though the play deals with serious issues and will give you a lot to think about, this production will not test your endurance or attention span. It's not long enough to require an intermission and is fast-moving and entertaining with humorous and emotionally touching passages. Even though one could obviously apply the ideas in the play to current political situations, there are no overt partisan political references so it's safe to invite your conservative or liberal friends – all should have a good time. The Lifespan of a Fact is showing through November 10, 2019.
Link to Repertory Theatre box office:
http://www.repstl.org/events/detail/the-lifespan-of-a-fact
Mass Society Theory Still Influences Media Use in the Contemporary United States
September 4, 2019 Marketingactivism, advertising, boycotting, consumer boycotts, fake news, journalism, limited-effects theory, Mass Communication Theory, mass entertainment, mass media, mass society theory, Media Communication, Media Diversity, media manipulation, media theories, misinformation, new media, old media, political consumer boycotts, postpositivism, Professor Robert Dixon, social science, Webster Universitychasenfratz
Here is my first paper for my Media Communication class, MEDC: 5000-01, with Professor Robert Dixon at Webster University.
The reason I chose this topic for my first paper is the authors of our textbook, Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future by Stanley J. Baran and
Dennis K. Davis said that Mass Society Theory does not hold up to scientific studies but it does resurface again and again during turbulent times. I will define Mass Society
Theory toward the beginning of the paper. This information is very interesting to me because I can think of many times in my life that I have behaved as though I believe in it even though I was not familiar with the name of the theory. My parents also behaved as though they fully accepted it. I did an informal un-scientific poll while I was working this paper by asking people in my life if they think the media has a major influence on our society. Some said they believed the effects varied depending on how you react to it but all I talked to agreed it had some influence and some thought it was a major influence. In the class I'm taking now we are not going to be doing our own data collecting, we are going to be using data already collected, but if data collecting and polls were part of this class I know some I'd like to do! I certainly know how to do online polls technically but I don't have any training in how to do them scientifically (yet).
This paper was difficult to wrap up because I kept finding more and more fascinating pieces of information and I couldn't fit them all in because it would take me off topic and make the paper too long for the assignment. After the paper, I'm including links to some of the interesting tidbits I found but did not use at this time in case you want to do some more reading. Some of these sources or ideas might be things I come back to in the future but either way they are interesting and I think anyone who enjoys the topic enough to keep reading after my paper might find them useful.
DISCLAIMER: The following is graduate student work. I'm uploading it after grading and corrections from the Professor. He had three formatting/citation changes he wanted me to do but the content was not changed before uploading. One of the main objectives of this class is to learn how to write at the graduate level in an academic style. I made a couple of minor formatting changes for online viewing, the printed version attempts to conform to MLA style. Comments on any of my blog posts are encouraged at any time and if you have any critiques that would help me write better I especially would welcome those.
When mass communication products and ready audiences were first brought together by industrialization in the Western world, the changes that occurred were examined by social theorists of the day. Some were optimistic about the potential for information to improve the human condition while others warned of resulting unrest and moral degeneracy. Many believed that people at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum were particularly vulnerable to manipulation by the popular media of the day, which included advertising and sensational journalism (Baran and Davis 20-21).
As the halfway point of the 20th Century approached, some researchers attempted to test mass society theory using scientific methods. Many of these researchers concluded that the data did not support mass society theory media after all. Their interpretation came to be known as limited-effects theory (Baran and Davis 22).
Postpositivist researchers, that is researchers who use scientific methods to gather data, left mass society theory behind as the century progressed in favor of newer media theories or other research fields entirely (Baran and Davis 14, 23). In addition, mass society theories lost favor in academic circles because they were associated with the Red Scare of the 1950s headed by Senator Joseph McCarthy in his attempt to prevent Americans from being influenced by Communist ideas (Baran and Davis 22).
Baran and Davis believe that mass society theory is not valid but acknowledge that it keeps popping up again and again as technology and society go through unsettling changes (Baran and Davis 20). Are there examples we can see in the recent history of the United States that show that many mass media consumers and creators still accept mass society theory as credible?
Baran and Davis compared the early 21st century to the late 19th century as times when new technologies spurred the creation of new media institutions (Baran and Davis 27). The technological revolution brought about by rapid adoption of the World Wide Web in the 1990s and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 occurred close together in history. Either of these injections of instability would by themselves be presumed by Baran and Davis to bring about the re-examination of media theories (Baran and Davis xvi).
A 2002 article by Robin R. Means Coleman, "Prospects for Locating Racial Democracy in Media: The NAACP Network Television Boycott" illustrates at that time some media users still accepted mass society theory enough to take some kind of action against the "old media" while others were examining how the "new media" might be more effective. Included in the article is an account of the early 2000s NAACP boycott of major television networks motivated partially on the grounds that under-representative or negative portrayals of African Americans in entertainment have a detrimental effect on the real-life conditions of African Americans (Coleman 25). The author includes quotes from members of the public obtained from a 2001 poll on the NAACP web site about whether such a boycott is worthwhile. Three individuals quoted are skeptical about whether it makes any difference while another is supportive but wants to explore ways to make the effort more effective (Coleman 26-27). It's not stated whether skepticism is the dominant opinion in the totality of the public's responses that were not highlighted. As the author points out in the footnotes, the comments were not obtained under controlled conditions (Coleman 30).
Does the NAACP still consider portrayals of African Americans in mass entertainment as significant? The NAACP current web site contains eight categories of issues of current interest. Media Diversity is one of the categories. On the Media Diversity page, the NAACP reminds readers that the organization has been fighting racial stereotypes since the notorious 1915 film "Birth of a Nation" (Media Diversity). In 1915 the mass society theory would have been the dominant theory as the limited-effects trend in mass communication theory did not start to take hold until the late 1930s (Baran and Davis 20-21). The mass society theory still seems to have some traction with the NAACP in 2019 as they maintain a Hollywood Bureau which promotes economic opportunities for African Americans as well as encouraging and showcasing positive images (Media Diversity).
The NAACP is not alone. There are many other instances of behavior that indicate activist media users are working hard to combat what they see as the detrimental effects of mass communication. Elites who incline toward mass society theory but have diverse political views have the following in common – they believe they know better than the average person what ideas are ok for public consumption (Baran and Davis 21). According to the article "The Business of Boycotting: Having Your Chicken and Eating It Too", boycotts can be used to coerce behavior by inflicting economic damage (Tomhave and Vopat 126). That is not the only motivation for boycotting. The aim behind some boycotts is to silence certain views (Tomhave and Vopat 125).
Searches for "right wing boycott list" and "left wing boycott list" on the search engine Bing performed on August 31, 2019 produced examples of lists of organizations that consumers are urged to boycott for political reasons.
Official Boycott List For Conservatives (Official Boycott List…)
List of Companies Supporting Right-Wing Causes To Boycott (Warde)
Regardless of whether the proposed boycotts bring about the desired outcome, the advocacy of such boycotts in recent history demonstrates that mass society theory still has traction among a non-scientific sampling of activists.
The consumer side of information also appears to still give some credence to mass society theory. Most Americans report that they have encountered fake or made up news and have modified their own information consumption habits to compensate (Pew Research Center 3, 21). 50% believe false news and information is a bigger problem for the United States than violent crime, racism, illegal immigration, terrorism and sexism (Pew Research Center 11). Americans consistently rate themselves as better than most other Americans at detecting misinformation in several categories (Pew Research Center 25).
It appears as though mass society theories are still considered useful to some consumers and those attempting to influence the masses. According to Baran and Davis this condition is to be expected when society and technology are changing at a rapid pace (20).
Baran, Stanley J. and Dennis K. Davis. Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future. Seventh Edition. CENGAGE Learning, 2015.
Coleman, Robin R. Means. "Prospects for Locating Racial Democracy in Media: The NAACP Network Television Boycott." Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring 2002, pp. 25-31. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=10512976&site=ehost-live. Accessed 31 August 2019.
"Media Diversity." NAACP, 2019, www.naacp.org/issues/media-diversity/. Accessed 31 August 2019.
Official Boycott List For Conservatives, 2018, www.boycottleftwingers.com/. Accessed 31 August 2019.
Pew Research Center. "Many Americans Say Made-Up News Is a Critical Problem That Needs To Be Fixed", 2019, www.journalism.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/06/PJ_2019.06.05_Misinformation_FINAL-1.pdf. Accessed 31 August 2019.
Tomhave, Alan, and Mark Vopat. "The Business of Boycotting: Having Your Chicken and Eating It Too." Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 152, no. 1, Sept. 2018, pp. 123-132. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3336-y. Accessed 31 August 2019.
Warde, Samuel. "List of Companies Supporting Right-Wing Causes To Boycott." Liberals Unite, 2016, samuel-warde.com/2016/05/list-companies-supporting-right-wing-causes/. Accessed 31 August 2019.
Unused interesting links: – food for thought, no promises made about objectivity or veracity.
Bad News – a game that lets you play media manipulator. Challenge your friends! Can't wait to try this!!!!
Republicans fear prejudice on campus – an experiment was done to test the political climate at the University where I am studying. This article was published on the campus newspaper web site.
You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?
Why do people believe the mass media, instead of their own knowledge and experience?
Teaching Media Literacy: Its Importance and 10 Engaging Activities [+ Downloadable List]
The "Nasty Effect:" Online Incivility and Risk Perceptions of Emerging Technologies
Law & Liberty
Flash Cards: Baran and Davis, Chapter 1
stlmedia.net
Why It's Prime to Boycott Amazon – they want to boycott Amazon and Whole Foods, and a box at the top says they want to stop Google from boycotting them – interesting!
Facebook flags users who try to 'game' fact-checking effort
Facebook to tighten political ad rules for 2019 elections
Wordplay persuades for customer reviews of truffles, but not laundry detergent
Online reviews: When do negative opinions boost sales?
Why You Should Stop Watching T.V. and What to Replace it With
Big Sponsors Drop Support of Tasteless Trump Assassination Play
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I've mentioned many times in the past that I'm a fan of odd and strange museums. When thinking of some that fit this description, a museum dedicated to french fries and another all about currywurst come to mind.
Then there's the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia and the even more shocking Kunstkamera in St Petersburg, Russia.


Background. This study compared the occurrence of psychiatric symptoms in a large group of community-residing participants enrolled in an Alzheimer's disease patient registry who met clinical diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease or multi-infarct dementia, as well as mixed Alzheimer's disease and multi-infarct dementia.
Methods. Psychiatric morbidity observed from a psychiatric examination of 514 patients with Alzheimer's disease, 135 patients with multi-infarct dementia, and 86 cases with mixed dementia was analyzed using analysis of variance comparing symptoms across groups and chi-square test for differences in frequency of occurrence. Associations between pairs of symptoms were also reported.
Results. The frequency of occurrence and patterns of psychiatric problems were similar in patients with Alzheimer's disease and multi-infarct dementia. Agitation was the most frequent symptom, followed by depression, apathy, and behavioral disorders. Patients with mixed dementia had significantly more psychopathology.
Conclusion. This study demonstrated that significant psychopathology occurs in individuals with Alzheimer's disease or multi-infarct dementia. The high levels of symptoms in mixed dementia suggest that the two conditions have a synergistic effect on behavioral problems. The prevalence of multiple symptoms is higher than previously reported.
Cohen, D., Eisdorfer, C., Gorelick, P., Paveza, G., Luchins, D. J., Freels, S., ... Hirschman, R. (1993). Psychopathology Associated with Alzheimer's Disease and Other Related Disorders. Journals of Gerontology, 48(6), M255 - M260.


Diabetes mellitus (DM) affects over 284 million people in the world, 20 million people in the US alone. Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is the primary method of managing diabetes. Many diabetics struggle to comply with physician orders to monitor their blood glucose levels 2-8 times per day due to the current requirement for painful finger prick techniques to obtain blood for testing. Noncompliance results in poorly controlled glucose levels which can lead to amputation, blindness, and even death. Economically, noncompliance has led to an estimated $300 billion burden on the US healthcare system in 2009.
Thus, the goal of our disposable Tear TOUCH Sensor is to reduce pain associated with blood glucose sensing by using tear fluid as the sampling medium.
Assay allows tear glucose concentrations (~100x lower than blood) to be measured with a LOD currently calculated at 43.4 uM glucose (0.78 mg/dL).
Daniel K. Bishop, Jeffrey T. La Belle, Stephen R. Vossler, Dharmendra R. Patel, and Curtiss B. Cook. A disposable tear glucose biosensor – part 1: design and concept testing. Journal Diabetes Science and Technology. 2:6, 299-306.
Jeffrey T. La Belle, Daniel K. Bishop, Stephen R. Vossler, Dharmendra R. Patel, and Curtiss B. Cook. A disposable tear glucose biosensor – part 2: system integration and model validation. Journal Diabetes Science and Technology. 2:6, 307-11.


This painting was inspired by a beautiful blue day at Bondi Icebergs. I have painted the swimmer wearing a coral red swimsuit which beautifully complements the cool blue pool water.
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It is December 18th and we are a week away from one of the most cherished holidays of the year. Hopefully you are sharing the spirit of the season with friends and family, and enjoying the food and festivities that come with it.
There are just a few things to update you on before the end of the year, beginning with an announcement for the Ladies Auxiliary.
Announcement: As of December 2nd, Beth (Weezie) Burrell is the new president of the Ladies Auxiliary –– please join me in congratulating her and supporting the efforts of the auxiliary. You are also encouraged to attend the meeting on January 6th, 2015 and that they need to have all nominations for Junior Vice President, Conductress, and Trustee #3.
Good Times: MOCA is issuing an "Egghead Challenge" to help raise awareness and funds for the Post. The event is December 28th and it should be a lot of fun… and a little messy for one un-lucky contestant. Please contact the post or Bill Talcott for more information.
Wellness Opportunity: The ASU College of Nursing will be offering a free 1-hour class at the VFW post 9400 on colon cancer prevention. The class is part of a study to help ASU understand how helpful a health class and follow up phone calls are in helping people decide to get screened for colon cancer. If you are 50-75 years old and interested in learning about what you can do to lower your chances of developing colon cancer, please contact Health Navigator, Britton Carter, at 602-496-0913 or via email at britton.carter@asu.edu.
As always, if you have any questions or would like to get involved, please stop by VFW Post 9400 or give us a call.


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Is Kylie going through a mid-life crisis?
Her girl next door looks and Antipodean charm have always ensured that Kylie Minogue is as much a national treasure here in the UK as she is down under. But when it was revealed last weekend that the 38-year-old singer was on holiday in Chile with a freind who happened to be a married father - the tide suddenly turned for the singer.
While Kylie claims that her friendship with Chilean film director Alexander Dahm is platonic (which in truth, it probably is) she has been heavily criticised.
Enjoying a sunset dinner and drinking wine and after dinner brandies, we wondered what on earth Miss Minogie was playing at. Alexander may just be a friend, but he is also a married father whose wife is eight months pregnant.
Perhaps she was just getting some tips for her next project. Others believe Kylie had an alterior motive and wanted to make Olivier Martinez, her ex boyfriend of four years jealous. The French actor stood by her during her breast cancer battle, only to leave her for another woman when she was given the all clear.
Sources tell me Kylie has made a series of emotional calls to the handsomeactor begging him to give their relationship another shot. If Kylie truly wants to win Olivier back, I can't imagine being photographed with a married man is the way to do it.
Email me your views - is Kylie unlucky in love?
We all love a good showbiz spat and trust Lily Allen (who has only just made up with Peaches Geldof) to get the ball rolling by getting her claws into Kate Moss.
I stopped in at the launch of her new Lily Loves line at New Look last week where the 22-year-old singer was unfortunately too busy to talk to anyone who had bothered to turn up.
Clearly not in the best of moods, Lily announced that she was all in favour of good role models 'unlike Kate Moss and that ****ing billionaire who's thrown a lot of money at her so we get to see what her wardrobe is like.' Miaoow!
On Wednesday night I was invited to the opening of Geales fish restaurant in Notting Hill. Once a rather modest haunt the restaurant has now been transformed into a rather posh fish and chips eaterie in Notting Hill. Debbie Arnold, the pretty actress recently linked to Chis Tarrant was there along with clothes designer Scott Henshall and his business partner Hofit Golan.
Debbie told me she is preparing to write a book about cosmic ordering in addition to working on a beauty website called Looking Gorgeous. 'It's going to be written by women for women and then I'd love to bring out my own beauty range,' Debbie told me.
As for nibbles it wasn't just battered cod on the menu: all kinds of sea food were on offer including large oysters and prawns in batter. Delicious!
On Thursday evening I popped along for the launch of the Bluebird restaurant on the King's Road, which is one of Kate Middleton's favourite eateries. The laid back glamour of the restaurant and it's chic adjoining cafe always make sure the place is a hit with celebrities.
After tucking into the canapes including miniature scallops with guacamole and lemon dressing it was on to a swanky party at Garrard Jewellers in Albermarle Street to launch their new collection of gems. Sadly I came away empty handed but fulfilled having enjoyed the company of my favourite interior designer, the perennial Nicky Haslam.
Sporting a dapper new grey hairstyle and black rimmed glasses he was the best dressed chap in the joint. Musician Jackson Scott was also there with his new girlfriend and tells me his ex , Sadie Frost, is a thing of the past. Read the column on Sunday to read about what Jackson is up to now.
Next week I'll be bringing you the gossip from the hottest parties in the capital while my deputy Louise tests the temperature in the Med at the Cannes film festival!
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I love reading your articles. You are the best thing in the Mail on Sunday. Keep up the great gossip please!
Posted by: Amanda | 15 May 2007 at 04:44 PM

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Finacard cardboard bedding is currently unavailable, so a new exciting product has replaced it.
Traditionally, for small animals the most common form of bedding/substrate has been woodshavings. They have been readily available and have been relatively inexpensive. Of recent, woodshavings have become a lot more expensive and questions have been raised regarding its suitability for small animals, especially soft wood pine shavings. Now various alternatives to shavings are available. One of the alternative is SoftaCARD shredded eggboxes animal bedding.
Thought of shredded eggboxes conjures up thoughts of broken eggs, egg yolk etc etc with in the bedding. No not with SoftaCARD. SoftaCard is produced from eggboxes which have not been used. They are as clean as possible with virtually no risk of contaminants. So sorry there will be NO egg yolk in SoftaCARD bedding.
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Bone-inspired microarchitectures achieve enhanced fatigue life
Ashley M. Torres, Adwait A. Trikanad, Cameron A. Aubin, Floor M. Lambers, View ORCID ProfileMarysol Luna, Clare M. Rimnac, Pablo Zavattieri, and View ORCID ProfileChristopher J. Hernandez
PNAS December 3, 2019 116 (49) 24457-24462; first published November 18, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905814116
Ashley M. Torres
aSibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;bMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;
Adwait A. Trikanad
cLyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051;
Cameron A. Aubin
aSibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;
Floor M. Lambers
Marysol Luna
ORCID record for Marysol Luna
Clare M. Rimnac
dDepartment of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7222;
Pablo Zavattieri
Christopher J. Hernandez
aSibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;bMeinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853;eHospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY 10021
ORCID record for Christopher J. Hernandez
For correspondence: cjh275@cornell.edu
Edited by Huajian Gao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and approved October 24, 2019 (received for review April 7, 2019)
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Microarchitectured materials, such as foams and lattice structures, can achieve high stiffness and strength while remaining extremely lightweight. Applying high-porosity microarchitectured materials to durable devices, such as vehicles, however, will require the materials to also resist failure during cyclic loading. Here, we identify an aspect of microstructure in cancellous bone that greatly influences failure under cyclic loading and show that the effect is generalizable to synthetic microarchitectured materials. Our findings demonstrate that a common design strategy to improve stiffness and strength of microarchitectured materials comes at the cost of impaired service life. Our findings are useful for the design and application of microarchitectured materials and additionally provide insight into human health in situations of osteoporosis.
Microarchitectured materials achieve superior mechanical properties through geometry rather than composition. Although ultralightweight microarchitectured materials can have high stiffness and strength, application to durable devices will require sufficient service life under cyclic loading. Naturally occurring materials provide useful models for high-performance materials. Here, we show that in cancellous bone, a naturally occurring lightweight microarchitectured material, resistance to fatigue failure is sensitive to a microarchitectural trait that has negligible effects on stiffness and strength—the proportion of material oriented transverse to applied loads. Using models generated with additive manufacturing, we show that small increases in the thickness of elements oriented transverse to loading can increase fatigue life by 10 to 100 times, far exceeding what is expected from the associated change in density. Transversely oriented struts enhance resistance to fatigue by acting as sacrificial elements. We show that this mechanism is also present in synthetic microlattice structures, where fatigue life can be altered by 5 to 9 times with only negligible changes in density and stiffness. The effects of microstructure on fatigue life in cancellous bone and lattice structures are described empirically by normalizing stress in traditional stress vs. life (S-N) curves by √ψ, where ψ is the proportion of material oriented transverse to load. The mechanical performance of cancellous bone and microarchitectured materials is enhanced by aligning structural elements with expected loading; our findings demonstrate that this strategy comes at the cost of reduced fatigue life, with consequences to the use of microarchitectured materials in durable devices and to human health in the context of osteoporosis.
microarchitectured materials
↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: cjh275{at}cornell.edu.
Author contributions: A.M.T., A.A.T., F.M.L., C.M.R., P.Z., and C.J.H. designed research; A.M.T., A.A.T., C.A.A., F.M.L., and M.L. performed research; A.M.T., A.A.T., C.A.A., F.M.L., M.L., C.M.R., P.Z., and C.J.H. analyzed data; and A.M.T., A.A.T., C.M.R., P.Z., and C.J.H. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no competing interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1905814116/-/DCSupplemental.
Published under the PNAS license.
You are going to email the following Bone-inspired microarchitectures achieve enhanced fatigue life
Ashley M. Torres, Adwait A. Trikanad, Cameron A. Aubin, Floor M. Lambers, Marysol Luna, Clare M. Rimnac, Pablo Zavattieri, Christopher J. Hernandez
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2019, 116 (49) 24457-24462; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905814116


Considering that we have members from a dozen or so European countries, North America, the Far East andthe Middle East no-one here need worry about their English.
To the point now, following are my tasting notes for those of the wines on your list that I have tasted.
Do you find the wine now at its peak, or beyond? and, do you think it will be drinkable during the next year or two?
what about the '95 vintage? do you have TN?
With re the 1989 Vaudesir, as I wrote: "Drinking beautifully but not meant for further cellaring. Drink now or in the next year or so. Score 95. (Re-tasted 26 Apr 2007)". In other words.....the wine is still holding its own very nicely but should not be held any longer as it will definitely be passing its peak in the near future.
With re the 1995, sorry, but I seemed to have missed that one. At a guess, however, having tasted several other of the Vaudesir Chablis wines of that year, I would suggest that the wine is at a stage where it is worth drinking in the very near future.


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Q: Windows 2003 Scheduled Task Cmdlet (v 1.0) Does anyone know of a powershell cmdlet out there for automating task scheduler in XP/2003?  If you've ever tried to work w/ schtasks you know it's pretty painful.

A: Ok, Pablo has sparked my interest in saying that the scheduler is accessible via COM.
In PowerShell you can do this:
$svc = new-object -com Schedule.Service

... and that gives you a handle to the task scheduler. You can see what members it has using:
$svc | get-member

One of its methods is NewTask, so I'd start there.
Edit: Some more info here. It's a VBScript example but it'll give you the gist.

A: You don't need PowerShell to automate the Task Scheduler, you can use the SCHTASKS command in XP.
According to Wikipedia, the Task Scheduler 2.0 (Vista and Server 2008) is accesible via COM.

A: This is a good article (be sure to read the other linked article in it) that discusses looking at th scheduled tasks on remote machines. It is not exactly what you were asking for but it should get you headed in the right direction.

A: Not "native" PowerShell, but if you're running powershell.exe as an administrator then you should have access to the "at" command, which you can use to schedule tasks.

A: @slipsec: I don't have access to a 2003 server to try, but googling "2003 server" SCHTASKS there are links related to questions about it. Perhaps you misspell the command?
Like Matt says, you also can use AT, but in this case you don't have access to the scheduled tasks via the Control Panel, only via the AT command.

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Finally, a one-stop resource for all the forms a teacher needs. From beginning-of-the-year checklists and customizable record-keeping forms to lesson-planning templates and substitute packets to reading strategy checklists and writing surveys, this resource is packed with reproducibles teachers use to gather information about students, plan instruction, document students' progress, teach content, and communicate with parents. Includes graphic organizers, rubrics, letters to parents, awards, and so much more! All forms are on the CD, many in a customizable format! For use with Grades K-5.
Giving constructive feedback to student writers is critical to their success. But finding the right words can be difficult…until now. In this guide, Ruth Culham provides 100 trait-specific comments that address essential writing skills. The comments are correlated to the all-new middle school scoring guides, according to six performance levels—rudimentary, emerging, developing, refining, strong, and exceptional—making it easy to pinpoint areas of need and target instruction. Spiral-bound, color coded, tabbed by trait, and printed on sturdy paper that will stand up to years of use. For use with Grades 6–8.
Books in this series aim to help children build their vocabulary in a target foreign language. This title presents 1000 entries for terms in Italian and English with corresponding illustrations to show usage. The illustrations invite conversation between children and their parents.
Given encouragement, kids enjoy reading because they accept the challenge to read as one more fun game to play. This book assists parents in giving their child extra help in reading. It begins with a list of 101 "non-decodable" words--that is, words that cannot be sounded out because they don't follow basic phonetic rules. Among them are words such as laugh, through, walk, would, and others containing letters that are not pronounced. The author advises parents on how to teach children to recognize these and other "non-decodable" words. Next, parents get tips on teaching phonetic rules that enable children to sound out "decodable" words, which are the majority of words they will encounter as beginning readers. Chapters that follow feature practice activities, games, and projects, all focused to enhance children's reading skills. Answer keys appear at the back of the book. The accompanying CD-ROM features games and activities that will help boys and girls learn to read.
An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system, 117 Days presents the harrowing chronicle of journalist Ruth First's isolation and abuse at the hands of South African interrogators after her arrest in 1963. Upon her arrest, she was detained in solitary confinement under South Africa's notorious ninety-day detention law. This is the story of the war of nerves that ensued between First and her Special Branch captors-a work that remains a classic portrait of oppression and the dignity of the human spirit.
More than 200 model narratives help teachers find the words for what they need to say on report cards. There are comments for every situation-for struggling students, for advanced ones, for kids who aren't living up to their potential, and for everyone in between. This big collection contains comments for student achievement in every content area as well as language for addressing behavioral and social issues. Complete with sentence stems, word lists, and report card writing tips. For use with Grades 1-6.
College is not easy. Staying in and studying when your friends are out having a good time is not easy. Giving up a summer on the beach for an internship is not easy. Getting a good job is not easy. For you as the parent of a college student, paying the bills is not easy. Seeing your child graduate with no direction and with few skills to function in today's highly competitive modern economy is not easy. Your child needs guidance, and you can provide it. This book is designed to be an easy to use, step-by-step guide to help you help your children use their college to prepare for a satisfying career.Here are the gruesome statistics: about 40 percent of students do not graduate from four year programs in six years; only 20 percent of employers say that college graduates are ready for the workforce; about 40 percent of those who graduate college get a job that will allow them to move out of the house permanently; and, less than 28 percent of American adults have a four year undergraduate degree.I 'm not going to sugar coat this information and tell you that little Timmy and Susie will find an excellent job with amazing benefits and stellar opportunity for advancement the moment the diploma is in their hands. That attitude is not going to help anyone and is the reason so many college graduates end up at home, living off minimum wage with little direction or prospect of career success. This book is a strong dose of tough love, which is exactly what I expect you will give your kids once you read the 20 ways to make your child's education pay off. You will become more than just the one who pays the bills or nags about grades. This book provides you with a rational approach which will reduce stress and anxiety for both you and your child over whether or not your huge financial and emotional investment will pay off.In discussing my previous book with parents, "10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College", I realized that writing directly to students was not enough. Students rarely bought the book; their parents and relatives did. Even more disconcerting was the frequent statement made by parents, "Let's see if I can get Johnny to read the book." Moreover, I realized that parents approached their children in a variety of counter-productive ways. It was as if they were at the race track, spending their money and watching from the sidelines.Their primary activity was cheering for high grades or letting go with a torrent of four letter words when the students appeared to be faltering. Parents have to become investors, rather than gamblers, in their children's college education. This book suggests a "no-nonsense" approach toward your child's college experience. You may find it difficult to pursue all of the book's recommendations. Like any self-help book, you can pick and choose from the advice provided here; however, following through on the specific guidelines provided throughout the book will make a huge difference in your child's success. As a main player in your child's college experience, your general goal should be to help your child use college to pursue two specific goals: to develop skills employers want and to explore a variety of career paths.Employers want skillful and hardworking people who have a sense of where they are going with their work life, and since they can't find them, success is practically guaranteed if your child is one of those savvy and determined people. The simplicity of the message is deceiving, but as Voltaire said, "Common sense is not so common." In my 40 years of teaching and advising students, I have found it very difficult to get students to focus on their skill development and career exploration. Students frequently ask me, "what should I major in" and I respond, "It doesn't matter as long as you get the skills and explore career options." Invariably, the next question from the student is "if I major in x, will I get a good job?" Students are so fixated on the degree and the GPA that they fail to understand that it's a general set of professional skills and some understanding of career options that will lead to career success.They look at me like I'm crazy, but suddenly, as they get great jobs right out of college and their friends don't, it magically makes sense. This book is not about finances, dealing with roommate problems, how to get good grades or how to get admitted to the best graduate schools. Many other books and web sites are available for such purposes, and I encourage you to check them out. This book is about how to help your children maximize their college experiences and gain the skills needed to pursue a satisfying career, with or without graduate school. The primary audience for this book is parents whose children are planning to attend a traditional four year undergraduate program; however, much of it can be applied to those planning to attend two year programs or vocational post-secondary programs.Using my 20 guidelines, you will give your children an advantage over those who are confused, discouraged and overwhelmed by the prospects of finding, let alone moving into, a satisfying career path. Those unfortunate students may eventually find a viable path, but not without greater cost, more anxiety and years of delay.
A timely and much-needed guide, 50 Ways demonstrates positive ways for both straight and gay people to respond to everyday discrimination and misunderstandings, bringing the world closer to the true meaning of equality.
A powerful call-to-action series, "Action Guides," was launched with the New York Times bestselling MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country, followed by NCWO's 50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives. The third book in the series—50 Ways to Support Lesbians and Gays—features 50 personal, inspiring essays with "Action Guide" sidebars collected by bestselling Meredith Maran and series editor Angela Watrous.
The most commonly used 510 Hebrew verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English pronunciation and translation, and presented in all forms. The book's additional features include common idioms with example sentences to demonstrate verb usage and a grammar review.
This book offers excellent test preparation when used alone, and also makes a fine companion to Barron's GRE with CD-ROM.
This book contains 85 complete lesson plans that cover all the essential English grammar. Are you a new teacher, perhaps going abroad? Are you a substitute teacher who is given a class at short notice? Are you a non-native speaker who needs help to explain grammar? Are you a more experienced teacher who doesn't want to prepare lessons anymore? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then this is the book you're looking for. The methodology is simple and effective. 1 Written lesson plan (for blackboard) 2 How to teach each lesson 3 Oral practice drills for each lesson 4 Homework suggestions 5 Daily review In addition, there are Oral Verb Drills and Written Verb Review exercises. This book, for teachers, can be used to teach beginner, intermediate and advanced students.
This hands-on activity helps students who are highly anxious cope with their stress by classifying social and emotional information and analyzing how best to act. Using this interactive process, the student places cards that list highly stressful situations into colorful pockets designating stress levels, ranging from 5-1, as the first step in changing the way he thinks about and responds to emotions such as anxiety, sadness and anger. Picture word cards make the activity suitable for students with communication challenges. The kit also includes suggestions for how to include the process as a part of an effective behavior assessment and a problem-solving activity.
Chauncey H. Cooke enlisted in the Union army in 1862 at only sixteen, after lying about his age. Like many soldiers, Cooke saw only limited action in battle, but his letters to family members paint a realistic and compelling picture of daily life in the Civil War. Alongside dramatic descriptions of encounters with Indians, comrades, rebel prisoners, slaves, and Southern whites, Cooke also describes the boredom of camp, the chaos of battle, and the suffering caused by illness. Cooke's emotional closeness to his family, especially his mother, also comes across strongly in his letters, and readers will feel an instant connection to the young soldier through his words.
Among other collections of Civil War writings, A Badger Boy in Blue stands out because of the wealth of rich detail included in Cooke's letters. Readers are presented with an accurate picture of a soldier's daily life through Cooke's commentary on everything from the food he ate, to the weather, to the kind of paper that he used for writing. In addition, Cooke's descriptions of battle are valuable in offering fresh insight into the often-overlooked midwestern armies and campaigns. His descriptions of the siege of Vicksburg and the Atlanta Campaign are especially thoughtful and unique. The letters also present empathetic and colorful portraits of the frightened, defiant, and curious civilians that the army encountered along the way.
William Mulligan, Jr., provides an introduction and annotations in A Badger Boy in Blue to add expert commentary and context for Cooke's letters. Four maps are also included to clarify locations mentioned in the text. History buffs, scholars, and general readers interested in the Civil War will appreciate this thorough volume.
A botched alchemical experiment tosses Hal Morgan—the scion of a wealthy Louisville family and perhaps a relative of Twain's Hank Morgan--into a whacky dimension, where the characters of Arthurian legend indeed exist! Hal soon finds himself involved upon a dangerous quest to save Arthur's court from the plotting of a mysterious black knight. Joined by a sprightly female warrior and a whimsical thief, Hal must confront a mangy werewolf, talking salmon, an exceedingly amorous Morgan Le Fay, belligerent giants, man-eating witches, a libidinous troll princess, walking eyes, a kelpie, and a dangerous magical forest before he can unmask and defeat Arthur's adversary. At times humorous, at times satirical, A Kentucky Colonel in King Arthur's Court is a fast-paced adventure in the style of that grand old fantasy magazine Unknown Worlds. Also included is The Swamp Maiden of Venus, a bittersweet tale of youthful romance and a boy's addiction to fantasy.
In this biography, James Humphreys takes a close look at Simkins as a man, to better understand him as a historian. He engages with Simkins's physical and mental eccentricities--his troubled health and career stresses--and explores the extent to which the historian was shaped by the values he learned during his childhood in segregationist South Carolina.
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.


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DETROIT — The Buffalo Bills brushed away all the distractions and buried the New York Jets under an avalanche of emotion and execution.
The Bills overcame a tumultuous week and a change of venue to clobber the hapless New York Jets 38-3 Monday night at Ford Field.
The game was originally scheduled for Sunday in Orchard Park, N.Y., but was postponed and relocated when more than five feet of snow fell in the Buffalo area.
"Our guys were ready to go," coach Doug Marrone said. "Whether we rallied around all the adversity or not, those are questions for them. Obviously, we talked about it. We wanted to give the people back in our region a chance to smile a little bit by the way we played."
The Bills (6-5) overwhelmed the Jets in every facet. Quarterback Kyle Orton threw two first-half touchdown passes while completing 24 of 32 passes for 230 yards.
Buffalo wide receiver Robert Woods caught a career-high nine passes for 118 yards and a touchdown. Running back Anthony Dixon scored on a 30-yard run and also blocked a punt.
The Bills defense held New York to 218 total yards and recorded seven sacks. Defensive end Manny Lawson recovered the blocked punt for a touchdown.
They are trying to reach the postseason for the first time since 1999.
"We came out and dominated from start to finish," Dixon said. "That's how we've got to be the next couple of weeks. We've all been talking about winning four in a row, five in a row, believing we're still in it. We know a lot of people are not giving us a chance but we believe and I know the people in Buffalo believe."
Perhaps the Bills should come to Detroit more often. They won for the second time this season at Ford Field. Buffalo, which snapped a two-game losing streak, defeated the Detroit Lions 17-14 on Oct. 5.
The Lions organization tried its best to make the Bills feel at home. The hosts even painted the Bills logo at midfield and encouraged the 56,044 fans, who got free tickets, to cheer for Buffalo.
"I don't think we would have been as prepared if they didn't open up their arms to us," Marrone said of the Lions.
While the Bills showed poise, the Jets looked like a team ready to pack it in.
Starting quarterback Michael Vick was sacked five times and intercepted once before getting pulled in the third quarter. He was replaced by former starter Geno Smith, giving New York another quarterback controversy.
"It's very frustrating," said Vick, who sidestepped questions about whether he should start the next game. "We never got into a rhythm, never got anything going. We just didn't do anything. It's that simple. We didn't make any plays."
Vick, who was kicked in the calf, was running for his life when he was on the field. Defensive end Mario Williams sacked him twice in the first half.
"That front four, they're vicious," he said. "Those guys do a good job of putting pressure on the quarterback and getting penetration. That's part of the reason we struggled."
Following a short punt after the Jets' first possession, the Bills drove 44 yards to take a quick lead. Woods caught a 16-yard pass during the drive and finished it off with a leaping 7-yard catch of a pass from Orton on third-and-goal.
Buffalo increased its lead to 14-3 late in the half with a methodical 13-play, 90-yard drive. Woods made three third-down catches on the drive, including a slick one-handed grab on his helmet.
"After I made the one-handed catch, (Orton) came up to me and said, 'I'm coming to you every time,'" Woods said.
Sacked on the previous play, Orton finished it off when he found tight end Scott Chandler over the middle for a 19-yard touchdown with 43 seconds left.
The Bills outscored the Jets 17-0 in the third quarter to make it a laugher.
NOTES: Buffalo's starting FB Frank Summers (neck), WR Marquise Goodwin (ankle) and DE Jarius Wynn (knee) missed the game. New York RB Bilal Powell (illness) also was inactive. … Ford Field also hosted the Minnesota Vikings-New York Giants game in December 2010 after the Metrodome roof collapsed. … The Bills lead the all-time series 57-51, including a 43-23 victory at MetLife Stadium on Oct. 26. … The Jets have not scored more than 25 points in any game this season.


from the shell does not return anything.
so, what is it with apm on the freerunner with debian? in 2007.2 calling "apm" returns sensible informations.
additionally is noted that there's a process [kapm] and starting apmd interferes with power management (sending to sleep seems to work only when apmd is killed again).
the kernel i use is from last weekend with no updates since.
so, how does apm work in this debian installation and how to make apm aware programs work?


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For Sale: 1994 Ferrari 348 Spider in Montreal, Quebec
The late '80s and early '90s was a glorious period for Ferrari. It seemed that Enzo knew he was close to the end of his life and pushed forward with tenacity in order to make his impact on the automotive world even greater. Truly breathtaking work was leaving the Maranello factory. Unforgettable machines like the F40, Testarossa and 288 GTO were all produced at roughly the same time! Much like any Hollywood blockbuster, it's easy to remember the stars of the show, but what about the supporting cast? These flagship models cast a shadow over the entire automotive industry, including some of their lesser appreciated brethren wearing the same badge. This being said, it's a little easier to forgive the general public when they tend to completely overlook important cars in the Ferrari history, like the 348. Replacing the 328 in 1989 and running until 1995, the 348 was the last V8 Ferrari developed under the supervision of Enzo, entering production after his death. The 348 played an important but overlooked role as the middle sibling between the old generation Ferrari V8's and the evolution towards newer high-performance cars like the F430.
Uniquely Italian 80's design prevails both on the outside and inside of this vehicle. Perhaps the most indicative clue of this car's production time frame is the gauges used throughout the vehicle. Using a uniquely 80's font and colour, all the information is easily visible. The seating is spacious and comfortable and all the leather remains in fantastic condition. The seatbelt design was commonly used during the time period and featured a dual buckle system, a manual lap belt and an automatic shoulder belt. The shoulder hardness is not permanent and can be left unfastened, removing some clutter from the interior. Overall the interior has been preserved with the utmost care and this 348 remains a beautiful time machine for those looking to throwback to an era when hair was big and Ferrari's still had manual gearboxes.
The 348 could host a masterclass on quintessential 80's design cues. The first thing you notice when looking at the 348 are those wonderful side strakes. The Testarossa, which was Ferrari's flagship model when this car was released is famous for its side strakes and this car has them too but not just on the side. Strakes are featured on the rear decklid and even placed over the tail lights! The second most prominent feature and the one that makes this a Spider is the convertible roof. Folding down in seconds, this car provides the best of both worlds offering that extra 30,000 feet of headspace whenever the mood suits. The last and perhaps most iconic 80's design cue are those wonderful pop-up headlights, perhaps the coolest of car features from a by-gone era. With just 7926 miles on the odometer, this 348 Spider is in like-new condition and, as even the most discerning eye will notice, has been treated with utmost care its entire life.
Moving on to what is perhaps the most under-appreciated aspect of the 348, the mechanical driving experience. The 348 gets overlooked probably because its production time frame is bookended by some of the most legendary V12's ever made, but have you ever tried to do your daily runabout in a V12 sports car? Trust us when we say a stiff clutch pedal and a massive engine that is as powerful as it is thirsty can make for a tedious and expensive commute. Here is where the fortes of the 348 really come into play. The smaller V8 is much more manageable while still hosting plenty of power (capable of doing 0-60mph in 6 seconds). The actual size of the vehicle is much more reasonable and the features and finish make for a much more comfortable experience when compared to the rawness of say an F40. All discerning petrol-heads shopping for a 348 will be aware of the infamous belt servicing requirements and will be delighted to know that this 348 has recently received its major servicing, eliminating the concern for any major and immediate mechanical work.
If you were to put a price tag on the ability to have access to a 6 speed, gated, open-top, classic Ferrari, most educated car enthusiasts will know that this is a six-figure pipe dream. We here at John Scotti Classics are here to put an end to the dreams and offer up a truly unique experience. As the market for ALL used Ferraris continues to rise, this car has seen only a small percentage of the fluctuation its stable-mates have enjoyed. Who's to say what the market will dictate next year? What can be said for sure is that this 1994 Ferrari 348 Spider might be one of the best values on the exotic sports car market today.
1994 Ferrari 348 Spider
Location:Montreal, Quebec
Make:Ferrari
Model:348 Spider
Exterior Color:Rosso Corsa
Interior Color:Nero Leather
Engine Size:V-8
Odometer:7926
Convertible:Yes
Stock Number:P16167
VIN:ZFFRA43A8R0098709
Title Status:Clear
Restoration History:Unrestored
Exterior Condition:Mint
Seat Material:Leather
Air Conditioning:Yes
AM/FM Radio:Yes
Cassette:Yes
Bucket Seats:Yes
Power Brakes:Yes
Power Steering:Yes
Alarm:Yes
Power Locks:Yes
Engine History:Original
Engine Condition:Running
Drive Train:Rear-wheel drive
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Ben Goldacre: Pharma industry has destroyed its own reputation
Ben Goldacre [Scott Hurst/Flickr]
EXCLUSIVE: The great tragedy for the pharmaceutical industry is that it keeps denying that it lobbies against transparency in clinical trials, says Ben Goldacre.
Ben Goldacre is a British physician, academic and author of the best-selling books Bad Science and Bad Pharma. He spoke to EurActiv's editor and publisher Frédéric Simon at the sidelines of the conference Transparency and public health - how accessible is scientific data?
What do you think of the EU's clinical trials regulation for example in terms of transparency?
Well, I think the regulation is positive in many respects and it feels unkind to talk about its shortcomings when it was so hard won. Even that is progress. But the fact remains, it does not deliver all the methods and results of clinical trials, of all the uses, of all the treatments which are currently being prescribed by doctors.
You're referring about the historical data issue?
It's historical data, but it also does nothing to improve access to methods and results of clinical trials on uses outside of the marketing authorisation of a drug. Even though we know that drugs are very commonly and very sensibly prescribed outside of their marketing authorisation; out there in the real world, of doctors' practices for patients across the whole of Europe, and the world. So it has several important shortcomings.
Lastly, I think there are very serious concerns around how all of these new changes are going to be implemented by EMA (the European Medicines Agency), because we know that they are going to be redacting clinical study reports on various different grounds such as commercial confidentiality and patient confidentiality.
Now that is reasonable in principle and the devil will be in the detail. Unfortunately, the only prior example we have to go on is what happened with AbbVie. In this case, even protocol changes had been censored from the clinical study reports on their drug Humira. It's very widely used.
I cannot see how that can be commercially confidential information; a change in a protocol. But I can see that a change of a protocol is very important for any doctor or researcher trying to interpret the results of a clinical trial, because who knows what has happened with these protocol changes? Protocol changes can sometimes be done because somebody doesn't like the way a trial is going. Perhaps they switch the way they are measuring an end point. Who knows what's in there?
As a basic principle, protocol changes is something which doctors and researchers need to be able to see on any trial in order to understand what was done. In order to understand whether it was a fair test of the treatment or not. So from the very first example we have had about how EMA had dealt with actions, there are good grounds for concern.
I think there are also grounds for concern in the secret meetings that we know now the industry has had with the EMA. We have to accept that lobbyists… It's an ugly truth. They will have meetings with elected politicians. But for a statutory body like EMA, I think it's very concerning to hear that they have had meetings which are un-minted and inaccessible. We can't know what was discussed.
The meetings that took place about the pro-active transparency policy?
This is correct. The ones that have been complained about by Jim Murray (EU health blogger and former director general of the European Consumers' Organisation) in his latest complaint to the EU Ombudsman.
There's a mention in the new clinical trials regulation which says that clinical trial information can be withdrawn from reports if they can be considered as commercially sensitive. We did hear today though at the conference that the concept of commercially-sensitive information is pretty vague. How much of a concern is this to you?
I think it would be naïve to imagine that if the Parliament was to give a clear definition of what commercially confidential information then that would suddenly resolve all the disputes. I think it would open up a whole new raft of legal arguments, but I think it would at least be a step forward.
So I think it's problematic that there's not a clear definition of that. I have to be clear: there are many commercial aspects of a drug have absolute no interest for doctors, researchers or patients. It's boring, banal and nobody cares.
However, sometimes people try to say that if a competitor has applied for information about clinical trials that must by definition be the kind of commercial activity that we should automatically regard as unacceptable.
I think that that's mistaken, because sometimes the people who are in best place to spot shortcomings in your trial design, or perhaps even risk signals in your data, are your competitors. They are best placed because they have the same academic skills set that you have so they are able to spot methodological shortcomings or risk signals in data. They are also highly motivated to spot those adverse signals.
But that's not going to happen…
That's not commercially confidential information. That's absolutely fine. Some people say that they are very angry that drug companies have applied for other drug companies' clinical study reports. I say "well, fine". Very often drug companies spot or give a platform to concerns about side effects of their competitors' drugs. That is perfectly acceptable within their rich ecosystem of public discussion.
They would probably have an interest in not doing that publically?
I think if a motivated and capable group of people are interested in spotting risk signals of side effects in another company's information then that sounds like a very sensible use of everybody's time. The whole point of science is about replication and reviewing it. It's about showing your're working.
Unfortunately, we live in a world in which people are able to obfuscate the shortcomings of their trial design. They are able to obfuscate signals of harm from their drug. They do that for commercial reasons.
If you are asking me to suddenly feel upset that now there's going to be a group of people who for commercial reasons are going to be enabled to help spot those risk signals which others have sought to hide, I would say that sounds fine to me. It's a very different category of competitive commercial use of data to the things we can all agree on are unacceptable, like, for example, downloading one company's clinical study report and then going to a developing country and getting a marketing authorisation for the same molecule. That is obviously unacceptable. And it's very straightforward to put legal framework in place to stop that happening.
Similarly, I don't think that we need to share any information in the discussion between a company and a regulator necessarily where they are saying "We're thinking about applying for a marketing authorisation on x or y", but if there's clinical trials data that is germane to that commercial decision, then that trial data is also germane to treatment decisions being made by doctors and patients. So that should be made available.
A company's commercial interest, I have absolutely no interest in. A company's manufacturing methods, I have no interest in. But methods and results of clinical trials must always be in the public domain.
A number of concerns were being raised today at the conference about the ongoing EU-US free-trade negotiations. Do you think it's going to shape heavily the way that clinical trials transparency is being done in the future ,or are we sort of safe now that there is a regulation in place?
No, no, quite the contrary. I think the big risk here is that bear traps will be laid in the woods so that there will be catchall phraseology used in TTIP. I can certainly envisage a situation where these bear traps will be laid with apparently neutral wording that will seem sensible and then that will be used as the foundation of subsequent derailment of positive developments within the clinical trials regulation.
So, yes, I think it's a real threat and I think it's an interesting example. I think there's inequality of arms. Every word in a document like that has been thought over and in many cases by a large number of motivated, highly-educated individuals who can see significance in every word. Losers like me are not as capable at either being heard or analysing risks of the wordings of those documents.
What do you make of the argument of personal data privacy?
I wouldn't like to say anything about any individuals, but it is increasingly clear to me that this is being used as a deliberate rhetorical tactic to derail a serious discussion around how to share individual patient data, and it is remarkable not just here but everywhere to see organisations, which report to patients, that as soon as trials transparency is mentioned, there's no serious discussion of the mechanics of how we can positively work towards delivering it. There's no serious detailed discussion of the huge benefits, especially for people with orphan diseases. It leads immediately to this idea that patients can be re-identified. That is of course a risk, but it's a risk we have been managing in the world of epidemiology for generations now.
Nobody is suggesting that medical records should be posted openly on the Internet. Everybody is very clear that you need to have an application process. You have to demonstrate that you are a serious researcher with a serious question. You have to ensure that patient privacy is protected. When you see people repeatedly raising this, apparently not having heard the reassurance that came earlier in the conversation, to me that looks like it's strategic, rhetorical derailment rather than a serious attempt to engage in a discussion.
It's very worrying to see that coming from patient groups, especially when we have already seen the leaked memo from pharma and EFPIA in which they talked under the heading advocacy strategy of how they would in their words "mobilise patient groups" to raise concerns about privacy.
I think there are a lot of people with good intentions in industry and some people with not so good intentions of course. But one thing I find very disappointing is when people imagine that they can get away with being disingenuous in public. I find it tiresome that people would say "We haven't lobbied against transparency" when it's clearly true. It just doesn't seem to me that it gets us anywhere.
It's hard to have respect for people who do that. I'm not even sure it achieves what they hope. It just looks incredibly bad. It's the great tragedy of this whole area. The pharmaceutical industry makes products that save lives on a biblical scale. There's this huge prize of public gratitude that is waiting to be claimed by them and they managed to shoot it all away with this incredibly seedy behavior by paying patient groups, by cover secret behavior and suing regulators to hide information.
I don't think the benefits of that behavior are as great as the downsides. The downsides are a long game and they are collective for the whole industry. For an individual company it may seem attractive in the very short term to behave as badly as you can get away with by the letter of the law, but I think in the bigger picture, they have destroyed the reputation of the industry in which should be one of our most prized. They should be up there with teachers. It's just extraordinary that they have managed to do that. It's extraordinary that they have managed to do it before your very eye.
Turning to the EMA and its role as a regulator, are they not in an awkward position asking for documents to be handed over to them, but also running the risk of being sued? What is your feeling about the agency's role generally and its job as a regulator?
I think it's very interesting how everybody is stepping up and becoming critical of EMA. I think that makes things very uncomfortable for them. I think big and well-paid organised lobbying organisations can do a better, slicker job of talking in a very collegial fashion about their colleagues in the regulatory profession and be lovely to and about them while encouraging them to do what they want.
I'll just say that it's not good enough what they are doing. To an extent I think we should remember that EMA in particular over the past few years, after Guido Rasi has taken over, has made enormous leaps forward and very clearly against the hailstorm of anti-transparency lobbying from industry which they have ridiculously denied.
As a regulator, you are paid to be in that mediating position of dealing with people with conflicting demands. All I would say is that frameworks and principles have to put have to put public health first. Especially when it's absolutely clear that transparency doesn't conflict with commercial success. Nothing that I ask for undermines a company's ability to make money.
http://www.euractiv.com/sections/health-consumers/ben-goldacre-pharma-industry-has-destroyed-its-own-reputation-309355?