The best camera is not the one you have with you. It's the one you want to have with you.
I finally had an opportunity to get down to a store and put my hands on a few mirrorless camera bodies. The selection was limited and a few of the options I wanted to try were unavailable. If anything, I learned that Futureshop and Best Buy are not photography stores.
Regardless, my wife and I tried a Sony A7 and spun a few wheels before determining it was too big for our liking. We moved on to a Sony A5000 only to realize it was below the quality we were looking for. We even looked at a few DSLRs — that was a waste of time.
We stumbled into the Olympus section before too long and put our hands on an EM-1, an EM-5 and an EPL-5. I put the EM-1 and EM-5 up to my eye and was pleasantly surprised with their electronic viewfinders. The EPL-5's size was impressively tiny.
"But these are all Micro Four Thirds cameras," I told my wife. "I've read that we're supposed to stay away from these."
We meandered through the TV section and the appliance section. My wife fantasized for a few seconds about those minimal Dyson Tower Fans. We probably had a conversation or two.
Why hadn't I stumbled across the EM-5 during my research?
Why did the EM-5 stand out?
Why is Micro Four Thirds not adviseable for someone like me?
Could Micro Four Thirds actually be pretty good?
We ended up going back to the Olympus section to ponder the EM-5. It's the perfect size for both of us. It has enough power-features to keep me learning and on my toes and it is simple enough for my wife to pick up and fire away. It has a big, bright screen with a big, bright viewfinder. And it feels super solid.
I became giddy. This is the kind of camera that I want to use. It's the kind of camera my wife wants to use. It's the kind of camera we want to buy. It's the kind of camera that will make both of us happy.
So, how incredibly fortunate were we to learn that Olympus just released a new OM-D mirrorless camera that virtually replicates the EM-5? Sure, the EM-10 doesn't come with weather sealing or the extra image stabilization features. But it's the same camera that drew our gaze a few days ago. And it even has "the wifis". It may be assumptive to immediately accept the EM-10 after playing with only the EM-5, but if the tiny differences between the two are enough for us to fall out of live with the EM-10, then we can grab our first love.
I was given some incredibleadvice after posting my initial research last week. Conor and Ben both pointed me to Fujifilm's awesome mirrorless cameras. The results speak for themselves: Fuji's lenses are razor sharp and their camera bodies have (potentially) the best sensors in mirrorless bodies today.
In complete contrast, Micro Four Thirds cameras don't deliver the same image quality and they are certainly held back technically by their 2x cropped sensors. I don't think there's any denying that Micro Four Thirds cameras are not capable of doing the best portraiture.
We don't care though. We just want to take some photos and we want those photos to be pretty nice. We aren't professionals. We won't make photobooks for anyone but ourselves.
So in that sense, any Micro Four Thirds body probably fits us better than other systems. Micro Four Thirds lenses are cheaper and are more abundant than other mirrorless lenses. The camera bodies are smaller and are very popular. If wielded properly, any Micro Four Thirds system can take some pretty sweet photos. And Olympus' offerings truly blew us away.
Pick a camera and a lens that you love and use it. Make a lot of photos. Give the photography game a few weeks, months, or years, and then you can start playing with extra bodies, fast lenses, and professional lighting.
The Olympus EM-10 appears to be meant for us. It's the camera we want. At the price we want. And we fell in love with the OM-D line the moment we picked one of them up.
Contrary to popular belief, the best camera isn't the one you have with you or the camera with the best specifications. It's the camera you know you want to use — the camera you know you want to buy. Before someone jabs the "best camera mantra" down your throat, remember that photography needs to be enjoyable. And the camera that makes it enjoyable is the best camera there is.


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The AMO Board approved the terms of reference for a new task force dedicated to the modernization of policing activities. The Task Force will develop recommendations for the AMO Board of Directors' consideration on the methods for the delivery of core and non-core activities, while considering the safety and security to people and property and those in the service. This includes what can be done differently and how, considering the diversity of Ontario's communities – from large urban to smaller communities.
The Board endorsed the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) Three Principles for Community Consultation in regards to the transition of mail delivery to community mailboxes as part of Canada Post's recent Action Plan. Canada Post needs to work with communities to ensure that the locations of community mailboxes meet the community needs, that they are responsible for the upkeep of their infrastructure or compensate municipalities for this work, and that any changes to mail delivery need to align with local strategies aimed at fostering and supporting age/disability friendly communities.
The Board approved the submission of the 2013 Gas Tax Fund Interim Annual Expenditure Report to Infrastructure Canada. In 2013 municipalities spent $516 million from the federal Gas Tax Fund on 1,489 active projects worth almost $4.5 billion. The Board had an update on the AMO/LAS/CHUMS initiative to help municipalities of all sizes invest their Gas Tax Funds in the pooled investment program to achieve a better rate of return prior to its need for a capital project. Learn more at www.amo.on.ca/Invest.
Enbridge made a presentation to the AMO Board emphasizing their preventative action programs, such as design standards and maintenance to reduce the likelihood of future pipeline related incidents. As well, they described their disaster planning practice, their training processes with first responders and how they participate in the spills management process. The Board Members asked many safety-related questions and Enbridge committed to future discussions with AMO and our members.
In anticipation of the provincial election, the EDA commissioned a report to look at a delivery model to proactively tackle possible provincial directions. This report was presented to the EDA Board on June 19th. The EDA member reaction to the model, "Project Greenlight" was strongly positive. The model promotes the "shoulder to shoulder" configuration for local distribution companies and allocation of Hydro One assets to LDCs. Remote rural areas would be run by a co-op of LDCs. The AMO Board referred "Project Greenlight" to the AMO Energy Task Force for their review and recommendations back to the AMO Board of Directors.
The Blue Box Arbitration is now halfway through its scheduled 30 hearing days. It started in April and is to conclude in July with the Arbitrator's decision expected in October 2014. While the arbitration is occurring, arrangements have been made for interim payments to municipal Blue Box programs on the regular quarterly payment schedule. If the Arbitrator orders any additional funding to be paid by the Steward Obligation for 2014, it will be included in the December and March payments. The AMO Board was also briefed that the allocation of arbitration costs, which AMO has incurred on behalf of municipal Blue Box programs, are to be taken from the June and September interim payments. (Details conveyed in previous membership communications.) Recently, the Waste Diversion Ontario board approved this recovery process.
The Board was updated on the LAS LED streetlight retrofit program which is a complete turn-key solution that includes design, procurement, installation, project management, utility interface, incentive applications, finance, measurement and verification, plus integration with LAS' electricity procurement service. Federal Gas Tax monies can be used for the LED streetlight retrofit program. A demo on LED lighting and controls will be held at the AMO Conference on Sunday at 10:00 p.m. at the end of the City of London's Welcome Reception at the King Street entrance to the London Convention Centre.
The AMO Conference is only 58 days away. Have you registered for the Conference? Booked your hotel and made your travel arrangements? Have you decided between the Monday Afternoon Study Tours or Out Trips – if not, do it now to beat the deadline.
Visit the AMO Conference Page to get registration information; learn more about the program and access the Municipal Delegation Request Form (note July 11th deadline to submit requests).


Why do people put apostrophes in plural words?
Because there is no difference in pronunciation among, for example, friends, friend's and friends'.
It can be argued that the apostrophe is utterly useless in 99% of its applications. Would any of us mispronounce cant, wheres, theyd, didnt, or youll if the apostrophe were missing?
Because people are retarded and that portion of our school system is non-operational.
"Cant" is pronounced differently to "can't" in quite a bit of England... Cant is a short a (as in pan), Can't is a long a (as in Mars).
I'm all for the correct use of apostrophes. Actually makes me shudder slightly when I see it misused.
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used inappropriately and, seemingly interchangeable.
Apostrophes help differentiate possessive, plural and conjunctions. The "s" in Friends is plural, friend's denotes singular possessive, friends' is plural possessive, while can't is a conjunction. The first three sound the same in speech, but in reading these are three different things.
We don't use that word in American English. I'd wager that more than 99% of our people have no idea what it means.
And by the way, the few of us in America who actually use the noun "cant" pronounce it the same as "can't."
I'm all for the correct use of apostrophes.
Well sure. I make a living as a writer and/or editor, so I feel the same way. But I also recognize the fact that the apostrophe causes most Americans more grief than service.
Apostrophes help differentiate possessive, plural and conjunctions. The "s" in Friends is plural, friend's denotes singular possessive, friends' is plural possessive. . . .
Yet there are no apostrophes in the spoken language, and nobody ever misunderstands those homophones.
. . . .while can't is a conjunction.
No, it's a verb... or to be precise: a contraction of a verb with an adverb.
The first three sound the same in speech, but in reading these are three different things.
They mean three different things in speech too. Somehow we seem to distinguish homophones.
And by the way, the few of us in America who actually use the noun "cant" pronounce it the same as "can't.
That's 'cos you don't speak the Queen's English - or BBC English - or Received Pronunciation etc.
Studies have shown that when reading we can also quickly understand words that have had their letters jumbled, as long as the first and last letters are as in the correct spelling. So quickly, in fact, that it might not actually slow down your reading!
So if I wtore taht tihs seetnnce is an emlxape of taht, you mghit uerndtsnad.
The brain is a funny thing in how it can make sense of things without any apparent effort.
Often to our detriment (e.g. illusions) in making things seem as they are not.
And here we are, wondering or concerned about the value of apostrophes in the written language.
I have seen no reports on the results of these tests when the words include apostrophes.
"Cant" is pronounced differently to "can't" in quite a bit of England... Cant is a short a (as in pan), Can't is a long a (as in Mars)."
And by the way, the few of us in America who actually use the noun "cant" pronounce it the same as "can't."Well sure. I make a living as a writer and/or editor, so I feel the same way. But I also recognize the fact that the apostrophe causes most Americans more grief than service.Yet there are no apostrophes in the spoken language, and nobody ever misunderstands those homophones.No, it's a verb... or to be precise: a contraction of a verb with an adverb.They mean three different things in speech too. Somehow we seem to distinguish homophones.
I don't know if I'd agree that 99% have no idea what it means. I know cant as an oblique angle (or to set at an angle) and as a private language. I know of the private language definition from RPGs. I'd say some don't realize cantilever is from cant+lever, but I'm not sure how many people know what cantilever is.
But, the dictionary does list the pronunciation as kant/kahnt. It's the same with some people pronouncing ant & aunt differently. I'm a can't, cant, ant, aunt all sounding the same kind of guy. And now I'm wondering how the kahnt people pronounce cantilever.
And now I'm wondering how the kahnt people pronounce cantilever.
But then I also pronounce grass and pass with a long 'a' but mass with a short 'a'.
And 'aunt' is a like 'ant' but with a long 'a'.
I know cant . . . . as a private language.
Specifically, it's a deliberately modified version of a normal language used by a group to thwart understanding by outsiders. The slang of criminals, with numerous words having special meanings, is a perfect example, and one whose purpose has been largely sabotaged by movies about criminals.
The cant most studied by linguists is Shelta, the speech of the Irish Travellers, who are sometimes referred to as gypsies although they seem not to have the correct DNA for that. It is based on English, with many Gaelic words substituting for English words, also including a number of Roma ("Gypsy") words, and in addition many phonetic tricks such as interchanging consonants within a word. "Bloke" is a Shelta word.
The best-known cant is Pig Latin, or "Ig-pay Atin-lay." It is so well-known that it fails in its duty to thwart understanding by anyone over age ten--at least here in the USA.
The vast majority of Americans use the "short A" pronunciation (e.g.,"ant") in all of those words. Only in a few communities with roots going back beyond the 19th century, such as Boston, will you hear what the rest of us regard as the British pronunciation--or in families with roots in those communities.
Since the end of World War II, when radio receivers became universal in all American homes, and a few years later TV sets did the same, the hybrid Hollywood-Manhattan accent (the two network broadcast centers) that dominates the air waves has been replacing regional accents. Another vector in this phenomenon is the increased mobility of the population as people change jobs more often.
You can still hear a different version of American English in the South, but it's understandable. It was not like this in the 1950s. For me, in those days, understanding a Southerner was almost as difficult as understanding an Englishman.
I have known adults in the US who seem unable to understand Pig Latin even after it is explained.
In the 1950s and now some find most Southerners much easier to understand than most people in or from Bahsten or Noo Yawk.
You have to grow up with it. Like "real" languages, it's much easier to learn in childhood.
The most common reason that people from other regions find New Yorkers difficult to understand is that they speak much faster than most of us. This is especially true of Southerners, who generally speak more slowly than most other Americans.
Bostonians from old families often retain a few phonetic traits from their British ancestors. Non-rhoticism, for example: "I didn't weyah shawts to the potty," instead of "I didn't wear shorts to the party." I notice that producers of TV shows set in Boston (Ally McBeal, etc.) are careful to avoid having any of their characters speak that way.
Why do people say coo-operate & zoo-ology?
"Zoology" looks like it was derived from "zoo," so we pronounce it the same way. Ironically, it's the other way around: "zoo" was derived from "zoology": an abbreviation for "zoological park." Well-educated people are more likely to pronounce it correctly: zoh - ology. Especially scientists, and of course all zoologists.
Obviously the word "zoo" must be pronounced as a monosyllable "zu," and people think this gives them license to carry the phonetics over to any word that begins with "zoo-".
As for "cooperate," I have never encountered the pronunciation you present. Everyone I've ever known pronounces it as koh - operate.
The "co-" prefix is so common in English that we tend to recognize it as a prefix and pronounce it as one.
But "zo-" is not a prefix. We realize that the first syllable in "zoning" and "Zoroastrian" is an integral part of the word, not a prefix.
Today a TV news reporter said "Charges are not being filed against her because she is coo-operating with police".
I meant to have coo-ordinate in there too.
Wow, I've never heard that one.


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"Vacationing" in Wichita Falls, Guatemalans claim after traffic stop, Fourth smuggling arrest made
by: Courtney Delaney
Posted: Jul 6, 2022 / 01:55 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 6, 2022 / 10:34 PM CDT
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The fourth man to be charged with human smuggling in five days is being held in Wichita County Jail on a $50,000 bond and a detainer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
William Carlos-Baran, 36, was stopped by a Wichita County deputy just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 5, for rolling through a stop sign on the US 287 access road and Highway 25 at Electra.
Deputies said seven immigrants from Guatemala were in the SUV he was driving.
RELATED: Another human smuggling arrest made in Wichita County
They said Carlos-Baran said they were traveling from Las Vegas, NV, to Houston to do roofing jobs, and he did not know any of the passengers by name.
William Carlos-Baran Wichita County Jail mugshot
They said later he told them he had met an unknown person at a casino in Nevada who told him he would be paid $100 per passenger to take them to a location in Houston.
The deputy said each of the Guatemalans told him they were all on their way from Las Vegas to a week's vacation in Wichita Falls and then would return to Las Vegas. They said they had each pitched in $30 to pay for the excursion.
The third person charged with human smuggling in Wichita County since Friday remains jailed on a detainer warrant from ICE.
Brandon Hernandez -Jimenez's address is listed as Denver, Colorado but told DPS says he is from Mexico.
He was stopped on US 287 Monday morning, July 4, with four passengers he could not give names for, and said they were friends he was taking to Dallas after a party in Denver.
DPS said the passengers all said they were born in Texas, but two had I.D. papers from Mexico one from Guatemala, and the other had no form of I.D.
RELATED: Man charged with smuggling of 5 people
They said Hernandez-Jimenez told them he was paid about $300 from the passengers
for gas.
Of the other two suspects charged with human smuggling since Friday one had five passengers and the other had four.
Neither could give the names of their passengers and all were stopped by DPS on US 287.
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Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
Why We Work
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Biological agents neither recognize nor respect political or geographic boundaries. Naturally-occurring and self-replicating, they pose a unique threat to global security.
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When establishing the Global Partnership at the 2002 Kananaskis Summit, Leaders recognized the risks associated with biological weapons and highlighted the importance of cooperative solutions to address biological threats.
Consistent with the Kananaskis Principles and Guidelines, biological security has become a core priority for the Global Partnership, with members working to prevent the deliberate use of biological agents and to address unique biological security and safety challenges around the world.
Strengthening Global Biological Security
A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY
Secure and account for materials that represent biological proliferation risks
Develop and maintain appropriate and effective measures to prevent, prepare for, detect and disrupt the deliberate misuse of biological agents
Strengthen national and international capabilities to rapidly identify, confirm/assess and respond to biological attacks
Reinforce and strengthen the BTWC and other biological disarmament and non-proliferation obligations, principles, practices and instruments
Reduce biological proliferation risks through the advancement and promotion of safe and responsible conduct
Member countries of the Global Partnership (GP) are committed to implementing concrete projects around the world to combat biological-related terrorism and proliferation. The GP has identified strengthening biological security as a key priority for collective programming efforts, and pursues activities that aim to:
These GP " Deliverables", which aim to build global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to deliberate disease threats, are consistent with and mutually reinforcing of other international initiatives and conventions, including the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA).
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The unprecedented pace of global scientific development, the dual-use nature of biological materials and technologies, combined with the stated aim of terrorist groups and/or states of proliferation concern to launch biological attacks, contribute to the significant international security threats posed by biological proliferation and terrorism.
Although less-publicized and under-addressed compared to other WMD concerns, biological weapons and materials pose a significant and growing threat to global security.
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Michael Jordan's 'Last Dance' documentary: Scottie Pippen's beef with Jerry Krause highlights first episodes
The anticipation for "The Last Dance" documentary chronicling Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls through the 1997-98 season, with plenty of flashbacks and backstory, was already nearing peak levels when it was originally set to debut in June during the off days of the NBA Finals.
But now that everyone is stuck at home without any sports to watch, people were drooling for this thing. The launch of the 10-part series was pushed to Sunday night, and the collective excitement and nostalgia was through the roof as the communal viewing experience re-entered the sports world's consciousness.
Twitter was ablaze as the first two episodes set the table for what is shaping up to be a remarkably unvarnished look at maybe the single-most fascinating athlete, and by extension team, in sports history. Below are nine major things we learned from the first episodes.
1. 'The Last Dance' almost never happened
Early on in Episode 1, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf detailed why — on the heels of winning the 1997 NBA championship, their fifth in seven years — he and his staff were really considering getting out of the immediate championship-chasing business to turn their attention to the future.
"After the fifth championship, which was 96-97, we were looking at this team and we realized, other than Michael [Jordan], the rest of the guys were probably at the end of their high productive years," Reinsdorf said. "We had to decide whether to keep the team together or not. And we realized maybe this was the time to do a rebuild and maybe not try to win a sixth championship."
Jordan was set to be 35 years old during the 97-98 season. Scottie Pippen was going to be 32. Dennis Rodman, 37. Ron Harper, 34. Toni Kukoc was just shy of 30. But remember, the league was collectively older back then and these guys had just won a championship. Jordan, recounting his feelings from the time, was obviously not happy about the idea of a Chicago rebuild being floated.
"We had just finished winning our fifth title," Jordan said. "There was a lot of uncertainty. Management started talking about the franchise is going to change or we're going to rebuild. I thought it was unfair. I would never let someone who's not putting on a uniform and playing each and every day dictate what we do on a basketball court."
When Jordan says he would never let "someone" who not putting on a uniform dictate his basketball destiny, it is no secret who he's talking about. Which brings us to point No. 2 …
2. Krause looks even worse in hindsight
Jerry Krause, who was the general manager of the Bulls at the time, has become one of the more unpopular sports executives and was duly loathed in Chicago as something of an adversary against his own team and star player. But time has a way of smoothing out our memories. The documentary resurfaced all the bumps of what was, frankly, a destructively rocky relationship between the team and the front office.
For starters, Krause was itching to get rid of coach Phil Jackson. Can you imagine? The guy had just won five championships in seven years. The first episode didn't do a whole lot to explain why Krause had it out for Jackson, but the portrayal of Krause is one of a highly insecure man so desperate for his slice of the credit that he wanted to, in effect, tear down an empire to prove he could rebuild it with different pieces. In the second episode, Krause's falling out with Pippen, who he also tried to get rid of, is detailed in great length (we'll get to that).
"Jerry had the little man problem," Mark Vancil, author of Rare Air, said during the doc. "He grew up a little, fat kid. Not a lot of money. He was always the underdog. And he just couldn't control that part of him that needed credit."
Reinsdorf recounts how he hired Krause in the first place, and notes that Krause's reputation in the sports world, as Reinsdorf conducted his due diligence, wasn't exactly sparkling.
"Jerry Krause was a scout for the White Sox," Reinsdorf said. "He was there when I bought the White Sox in 1981. After I bought the Bulls, he came to see me. He said he'd like to be the general manager of the Bulls. I asked around the league, and everybody I talked to said 'don't touch the guy'. He had a way of alienating people."
One story is recalled about Krause's open courting of then-Iowa State coach Tim Floyd to replace Jackson. In the summer following Chicago's fifth championship, basically the entire Bulls' organization, along with Floyd, was invited to his stepdaughter's wedding. Jackson was the notable exception. When you are the GM of a team that has won five of the last seven championships and you invite everyone but the coach of that team to an event, that is not by accident.
"I recall that," Reinsdorf said of the wedding incident. "And I think that was bad form on Jerry's part. … It was sad that there was such an acrimonious relationship because Jerry Krause started Phil Jackson's NBA coaching career. Jerry Krause brought [Jackson] to Chicago as an assistant coach. If that hadn't happened, you never would've heard of Phil Jackson."
Reinsdorf, to be fair, defends Krause as much as he acknowledges his, shall we say, interpersonal shortcomings, calling him "one of the nicest, kindest, sweetest men I've ever known." But sometimes he would love people who didn't really love him back. And it would disappoint him.
The people who clearly didn't like Krause were the biggest names in the franchise. Jordan famously picked on him, mocking his weight in public. There was no way Krause could ever get rid of Jordan, but Jackson, he felt, was another story. This is amazing. Jackson might have been the biggest jerk in the world, who knows, but when you have a dynasty going, your job as the GM is to swallow your pride and let the stars shine.
If you're Krause and you don't like the way you're being treated or portrayed, leave. That's your decision. You don't break up a dynasty so you can feel better about yourself. Jackson was clearly the right coach for the team, end of story. Jordan even went so far as to say: "I said from Day 1, if Phil's not coaching, I'm not going to be a part of rebuilding."
After the 1997 championship, still in his uniform, Jordan said: "Phil should be the head coach, and I shouldn't be put in a position to have to make a choice to play for another coach other than Phil Jackson. … Sadly, as it may be, I have choices. And I will not choose to play for another coach."
This is Michael Jordan! He's saying he will not play for another coach, and you're thinking about … bringing in another coach? This is madness. Still, Krause was so adamant he could not work with Jackson anymore that even after Reinsdorf stepped in and got a one-year, $6 million deal done with Jackson, Krause told reporters that the 1997-98 season would indeed be the last one Jackson would spend on the Chicago sideline.
"Jerry called me in his office and said this is going to be your last year, I don't care if you win 82 games in a row," Jackson recalled during the documentary. "So I said 'fine' and I walked out of the room. And that was the only words that were exchanged."
To say this, even in private, to a coach who has led your franchise to five championships and whose team has shown absolutely no indication of falling off is crazy. But to then say it in public?
"Phil is the coach, Jerry's the owner. Those two needed to talk," Krause told reporters. "And we got [the contract] done and we're very happy to have it done. This will be Phil's last year as the coach of the Bulls. At the conclusion of the year, we'll look toward the future."
A future, as it turned out, without Jordan, who retired the next summer only to return three years later for two final seasons with the Washington Wizards. Nice call.
3. Olajuwon, the Olympics, and the importance of size in 1984
Given the opportunity, Rod Thorn, who was the general manager of the Bulls in 1984, admits he would've taken Akeem Olajuwon (now Hakeem) over Jordan had the Bulls had the No. 1 pick.
"Olajuwon would've been first by anybody who picked, including me," Thorn said.
In 1984, Olajuwon was indeed considered the best player in the draft, and make no mistake: The Rockets hit aces on their pick. "There was no one alive, not [North Carolina] coach [Dean] Smith, not Rod Thorn who drafted him, no one, none of the experts thought [Jordan] would become what he became."
On the other hand, Olajuwon was a can't-miss prospect who wound up delivering the Rockets two championships (both coming in the years Jordan went on his baseball sojourn). Hindsight is 20-20, but at the time Olajuwon was, at the very least, an extremely defensible pick, and probably the right pick.
Now, the Blazers taking Sam Bowie, a seven-footer out of Kentucky with a severe injury history? That was probably a bad call at the time, and over the years it's come to look even worse. Portland had Clyde Drexler, who played the same position as Jordan, and back then the NBA didn't play the same position-less style that's played today, which not only encourages but in many ways necessitates having multiple wings with Drexler and Jordan's size and skill.
In 1984, it was a big man's game. It was no coincidence the first two players drafted were seven-foot centers. Even after Jordan was drafted, Rod Thorn quipped to the media: "We wish he was 7-1, but he isn't." The footage of former Knicks star Walt Frazier questioning Jordan's ability to be a franchise player is telling.
"Michael's got to realize he's not seven foot, so he's not going to carry a team in the NBA," Frazier said at the time.
Again, it was a big-man's game. Even when Magic Johnson took the league by storm in leading the Lakers to a title in his rookie season of 1979-80, he played the Finals as a center. He was 6-foot-9, as was Larry Bird. Jordan, meanwhile, was listed at less than 6-foot-6.
Still, it's possible none of that would've mattered had the draft been held just a few months later, after the 1984 Olympics, in which Jordan led the U.S. to a gold medal while putting on a show worthy of U.S. coach Bob Knight calling him "the best basketball player that I've ever seen play."
"The reality is, we were lucky the draft was before the Olympics," Thorn said in the documentary. "Michael became the most popular amateur basketball player in the world because of the Olympics."
The Bulls got him a few months before everyone found that out.
4. The North Carolina years
One of my favorite stretches of the first episode was when it skimmed through Jordan's North Carolina years. At one point, Jordan's mother, Deloris, reads a note Michael wrote to her during his freshman year at UNC in which he asks for money because he only has $20 in his account.
This is a particularly telling lens to look back through as the idea of the paying college athletes, who generate millions of dollars for their coaches and tens of millions for their universities and hundreds of millions for the NCAA, for their services has become an increasingly controversial topic.
But Jordan wasn't worried about that at the time. What he was worried about was becoming the best player to ever play at North Carolina. From current UNC coach Roy Williams:
"Michael Jordan tells me one day he wants to be the best player to ever play [at North Carolina]. I said, 'well you've got to work harder than you did in high school.' He said 'I worked as hard as everybody else,' and I said "oh, excuse me, I thought you just told me you wanted to be the best player to ever play here, and he said 'I'm gonna show you, nobody will ever work as hard as I work. … Michael Jordan is the only player that could turn it on and off, and he never frickin' turned it off."
The footage of Dean Smith talking about how Jordan not only took every drill seriously, but then had the ability to take what he learned and apply it, is the truest measurement of potential. Working hard is always romanticized, but it doesn't matter if that work doesn't yield results. Stephen Curry and Ben Simmons can work on their jump shot the same amount of time, with the same kind of dogged persistence, and the bottom line is Curry has the natural shooting talent to turn that work into results.
Jordan had every God-given basketball talent imaginable, but it was his drive to be the best that ultimately separated him from the small handful of players who had, perhaps, somewhat similar talent.
"After about 2 1/1 hours of hard practice, I'm walking off the floor like drenched-sweat tired, and here comes Michael pushing me back on the floor wanting to play a little one-on-one, wanting to see where his game was," James Worthy, Jordan's teammate at North Carolina, recalled.
"I was better than he was, for about two weeks. … He wanted to learn, he wanted to grow quickly. Month to month, game to game, he was soaking up information. Once he got something, and added it to the raw talent he already had, it was really explosive to see. By the time we got to the National Championship Game, he was a great player."
5. The shot that turned 'Mike' into Michael
Speaking of that National Championship Game, you had to love Jordan recalling the story of Dean Smith, with the Tar Heels trailing 62-61 with 32 seconds to play, having the confidence in a freshman — when freshman were not typically trusted like that back in those days, and certainly not by an experienced, fundamental coach like Smith — to hand him the potential game-winning shot.
"[Coach Smith] was drawing up a play for James [Worthy] and he says [to James]: 'When you get the ball, swing it back, swing it around, Michael should have a shot.' He looked at me and said, 'If you get the shot, take the shot. He gave me the green light."
"I got it in total rhythm," Jordan said. "They had no clue that I was going to take that shot. … That [shot] turned my name from Mike to Michael Jordan. It gave me the confidence I needed to start to excel at the game of basketball."
6. Jordan details drug, party atmosphere of 1980s NBA
Jordan was 21 years old when he got drafted. He was a relatively small-town kid, having grown up in Wilmington, North Carolina and stayed near home for college. There was no social media — meaning not only were young people more sheltered by nature, but also high-profile people could get away with doing things that today would land them in a PR storm.
"Whatever somebody else might've been doing off the court, whether it was partying or whatever, that wasn't part of what he was doing," Jordan's former Bulls teammate Rod Higgins said. "Orange juice and seven up, that was his go-to [drink]."
Jordan recounted one story where he was introduced the hard-partying ways of the NBA.
"I had one event, preseason, I think we were in Peoria," Jordan recalled. "It was in a hotel, so I'm trying to find my teammates. So I start knocking on doors. I get to this one door, and I knock on the door, and I can hear someone says, 'shh, someone's outside.' And then you hear this deep voice, someone says, 'who is it?' I says 'MJ.'
"… So they open up the door. I walk in, and practically the whole team was in there. And it was like, things I've never seen in my life as a young kid. You got your lines [of cocaine] over here, you got your weed smokers over here, you got your women over here. So the first thing I said, 'Look man, I'm out.' Because all I could think about was if they come and raid this place, right about now, I'm just as guilty as everybody else that's in this room. And from that point on, I was more or less on my own."
Another contributor to the documentary noted Jordan's unassuming, "regular" townhouse, in which Jordan says he was usually "just hanging out, playing cards, watching movies."
"I wasn't going to the clubs, I don't smoke, I don't do [cocaine] lines, I didn't drink at the time," Jordan said. "I was looking to just get some rest, get up and go play."
There's obviously a lesson to be learned here for young athletes with the world, seemingly, at their fingertips. For the first time in many of their lives, they have a lot of money and fame and endless opportunities to take advantage of both. It's not to suggest young athletes can't, you know, be young and have fun and enjoy the opportunities their talent has afforded them, but put the reason for those opportunities first.
Jordan, even as a youngster, put basketball first on his priority list, and he kept it there throughout his Hall of Fame career, even as we know he became a guy who, shall we say, liked to gamble and play golf and enjoy a cocktail here or there. Nothing ever never compromised the basketball — not just because he was an otherworldly talent, but because his worth ethic and competitiveness and drive to improve and be the best never changed with success.
7. Jordan recognized Pippen's value, but Bulls didn't
Through the prism of today's salaries, it's laughable to think that Pippen, one of the 50 greatest NBA players in history and the No. 2 player on five-time championship team, was on a seven-year, $18 million contract. That made him the sixth-highest paid player on the Bulls roster, and the 122nd highest-paid player In the NBA.
In 1997-98, Pippen was in the last year of that deal. Understandably, he wanted to be paid in accordance with his value, and Phil Jackson agreed with him.
"It was embarrassing because he was maybe the No. 2 player in the NBA," Jackson said. "His value was immense."
Problem was, Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf was adamant that he wasn't going to renegotiate with a player currently under contract. That just wasn't his style. It's hilarious to think about this with what we know about player empowerment now. These days, owners and GMs would be begging a player of Pippen's value to renegotiate a long-term deal.
But the Bulls wouldn't do that, and so Pippen, who had been injured the previous season, decided to put his toe surgery off and "enjoy" his summer and rather than getting it done right away to be ready for the start of the 1997-98 season. Jordan was left to carry the team through the first few months of the season, and he understood how tough that was going to be as he was the first one to point out how much Pippen — whom he called his "greatest teammate" — had meant to him and his career.
"I never won [championships] without Scottie Pippen," Jordan said. "I would never be able to find another partner like Scottie Pippen."
Jordan didn't think Pippen handled his injury and contract situation appropriately in trying to force — through his absence, which, again couldn't been avoided by having surgery earlier — the Bulls' management to recognize his value.
"Scottie was wrong in that scenario," Jordan said. "Scottie was trying to force management to change his contract, Jerry wasn't going to do that."
Again, that is hilarious to think about now. But the Bulls stood firm and wouldn't deal with Pippen, and Krause began exploring ways to trade him. After five championships! Krause felt like Pippen was a free agent the next season and they could lose him anyway, but again, just sign the guy to a long-term deal and that's not a problem.
The truth is, Krause wanted to move on. He didn't want to sign Pippen to a long-term deal. As noted already, he didn't want Phil Jackson around anymore. And Pippen understandably took offense to that. Is this where we need to note again that Pippen had helped the Bulls win five championships and was still one of the best players in the NBA?
Nope. Krause was done with him. Tried to trade him, wanted to trade him, until Reinsdorf — who isn't exactly innocent in stiff-arming Pippen's pretty reasonable salary wishes — stepped in and blocked it from happening.
"That really is what tarnished my relationship with Jerry [Krause]," Pippen said. "He tried to make me feel so special, but yet he was still willing to try to trade [me]. He would never tell me that to my face. I felt insulted. I took the attitude of disrespecting him to some degree."
To some degree? Jackson and former Bulls big man Bill Wennington detailed just how blatant Pippen's disrespect for Krause became, with talks of Pippen firing insults at Krause and cursing him out from the back of the team bus as Krause sat up front.
"Pippen started berating Jerry Krause in front of the team," Jackson said. "We had to say, 'hey, hold it down.'"
In late November of 1997, Pippen officially demanded a trade. This is where second episode ended, and just as with the first episode, it doesn't end with Jerry Krause looking very good.
"Jerry did a phenomenal job with the team. He made great trades, made great free-agent signings. He deserves a lot of credit," former Bulls player and current Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "But he couldn't get out of his own way."
So now, for the record, Krause has tried to get rid of Jackson and Pippen after five championships. Neither happened, and the Bulls went on to win a sixth championship. After that, those two guys did leave, along with Jordan. Krause stayed. And the Bulls haven't won a championship since. You do the math.
8. Jordan refused to let Bulls tank
When Jordan broke his foot early in his second season, he believed that the Bulls saw it as an opportunity to improve their draft position. The lottery, at that point, was not weighted by record as it is now. Every team that missed the postseason had an equal chance at the No. 1 overall pick, so missing the postseason would have given the Bulls a chance to add a top young prospect.
Jordan missed 64 games, and when he returned, the Bulls put him on a strict minutes-restriction. It was so severe that, with 14 seconds left in a close game, coach Stan Albeck refused to put Jordan back into a one-point game because he had played his allotted minutes and he feared for his job if he overplayed his young star.
Let's just call this what it was. The Bulls were tanking before there was a cool word for it. They wanted to lose. They did not want to make the playoffs. Jordan, suffice it to say, was not down with this. He only knows one way to play, and that's to win. That he went behind management's back and worked a deal with Albeck to make sure his 14 minutes were given to him at the most pivotal times, and used those minutes to go so nuts that he still catapulted Chicago into the playoffs, is one of the all-time statements of dominance and disses of management.
Problem was, it sounds like it was the beginning of Jordan souring on Bulls management.
9. Jordan storms onto the postseason scene
Despite the aforementioned minutes restriction, Jordan managed to get the Bulls into the 1986 playoffs, where heir first-round opponent was the 69-13 Boston Celtics, arguably one of the greatest team in NBA history. That didn't bother Jordan, who scored 49 points in Game 1.
Amazingly, he was even better in Game 2, dropping an NBA record 63 points. Larry Bird would later describe the performance by claiming it was "God disguised as Michael Jordan." The Bulls couldn't capitalize on the performance, losing the game in overtime and giving Boston an insurmountable 2-0 lead in the series.
Everyone knew Jordan was coming at that point. He just needed some time to get the right pieces around him, and the NBA was never going to be the same.
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The discovery has been dated at about A.D. 63.
In our earlier piece, using several news items as sources, we characterized the find as "the first archaeological reference to the Lord." We now believe that our previous descriptive was imprecise, and we have revised that article to harmonize with the information in this update.
Subsequent to the distribution of our article, a kind reader in Germany directed our attention to an earlier source that cited yet another discovery that contained the name "Jesus" — one that pre-dated this latest find by two decades.
The essay detailing this earlier discovery was published in The American Journal of Archaeology (October-December, 1947, LI.4, pp. 351ff.) This prestigious magazine is the official periodical of The Archaeological Institute of America, located at Boston University. At the gracious courtesy of the Institute, we have been provided with a copy of the full report. The following details doubtless will be of interest to our readers.
In September of 1945, an ancient tomb was discovered in the area of the Talpioth suburb of Jerusalem. The small burial chamber (approximately 11 × 11 feet), had been carved out of the soft limestone of that region. The tomb was excavated by officials affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Antiquities located at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The tomb contained fourteen ossuaries (numbered in that sequence), along with miscellaneous pottery fragments, e.g., lamps and bowls. The article that described the find was prepared by Professor Eliezer L. Sukenik of Hebrew University, one of the tomb's excavators, and also one of Israel's leading archaeologists. Working with Sukenik was a colleague, N. Avigad, of the Museum Staff.
On some of the ossuaries were carved inscriptions, along with, in a few instances, writings done with charcoal. Here is what the discovery revealed.
On ossuray #1 was the name "Simeon Barsaba." Professor Sukenik believed the family name, "Barsaba," might well be related to the New Testament references to "Joseph Barsabas" and "Judas Barsabas," both of whom are mentioned in the book of Acts (1:23; 15:22) — these two men possibly having been brothers. It is thus known that members of this family became identified with the Christian movement in the days of the first-century church.
On ossuary #7 there is this inscription, written in charcoal: Iesous iou, which Professor Sukenik suggested should be rendered "Jesus, woe!" — the latter term being interpreted as an expression of grief.
On the flat cover of ossuary #8 was this carved inscription in Greek, Iesous aloth, which again reflects the name "Jesus," along with a presumed exclamation of mourning (p. 363).
The name "Jesus" is not to be associated with any of the remains interred within the tomb. Sukenik noted if the inscription "had pointed to the name of the person buried in the ossuary, we should expect after the name Jesus, the name of the father" — which was conspicuously absent. The professor thus argued that it must be concluded that the term aloth was not a name, but an exclamation of "woe" (p. 363).
"There can be no doubt that the presence and the size of the crosses on ossuary no. 8 suggest that they were placed there with some definite purpose. They were apparently drawn by the same person who wrote the words Iesous iou on the other ossuary [#7]" (p. 364).
The renowned archaeologist suggested that these crosses may be a "pictorial expression" for "He was crucified" (p. 365). While it once was claimed that the "cross" did not appear as a symbol of Christianity until the late second century A.D., further discovery has shown that the time frame for this symbol now must be pushed back into the first century (Sukenik, p. 365).
This tomb has been dated in the first half of the first century A.D. (cir. A.D. 42/43), based on pottery fragments therein, as well as a coin belonging to the administration of Herod Agrippa I (cf. Acts 12:1) that was among the rubble.
"All our evidence indicates that we have in this tomb the earliest [extra-biblical] records of Christianity in existence. It may also have a bearing on the historicity of Jesus and the crucifixion" (p. 365).
Both of these discoveries (1945 and 2002), therefore, join in their testimony relative to historicity of the person so revered in the New Testament — Jesus Christ.
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Q: Find $m>1/2$ that minimizes the area of the triangle formed by lines $y=10-2x$, $y=mx$, $y=-x/m$ I am tackling this problem below:

A triangle is formed by the three lines
  $$\begin{align}
y &=10-2x \\
y &= mx \\
y   &=-\frac{x}{m}
\end{align}$$ where $m>\frac{1}{2}$. Find the value of $m$ for which the area of the triangle is a minimum.

My thoughts are these:
I tried to draw the three graphs nothe rectangular coordinate, and since $m> \frac{1}{2}$, $-\frac{1}{m}>2$, but after that how can I decide the area of triangle formed?

A: Let $\ell_1$ be the line with equation $y = 10-2x$, let $\ell_2$ be the line with equation $y = mx$, and let $\ell_3$ be the line with equation $y = \frac{-x}{m}$.  Then the lines $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ intersect at
$$P = \left( \frac{10}{m+2}, \frac{10m}{m+2} \right),$$
and the lines the lines $\ell_1$ and $\ell_3$ intersect at
$$
Q = \left( \frac{-10m}{1-2m}, \frac{10}{1-2m} \right).
$$
If $O = (0,0)$, then the line segments $\overline{OP}$ and $\overline{OQ}$ are orthogonal, which means that the area of the triangle is given by
$$
A = \frac{1}{2} \left|OP\right| \left| OQ\right|
= \frac{1}{2} \left( \frac{10 \sqrt{1+m^2}}{m+2} \right) \left( \frac{10 \sqrt{1+m^2}}{1-2m} \right) = \frac{50(1+m^2)}{(m+2)(1-2m)}.
$$

A: Although an answer is given, I want to add my answer too, which is less tedious.
It is clear that the lines $y=mx$ and $y=\frac{-x}{m}$ are perpendicular and their point of intersection is the origin.
The other side is $2x+y-10=0$
Since we need to calculate the area of the triangle, we can always use $\frac{h×b}{2}$ instead of coordinates. Perpendicular distance on the line from origin is $\frac{10}{\sqrt{5}}=2\sqrt{5}$.
Now we use that our triangle is right triangle. It is trivial from here. The minimum area is $(2\sqrt{5})^2=20$.

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Episode 161: What High Voltage Companies Have in Common (ft. author & economist John List)
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Jeremy Goldman is the author of Going Social and Getting to Like, a former Inc. columnist, and the founder of digital consultancy Firebrand Group. In addition to FUTUREPROOF. he serves as the Director of Marketing & Commerce Briefings at Insider Intelligence.
John A. List is the Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. John joined the UChicago faculty in 2005, and served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 2012-2018. List was the first Chief Economist at Uber and the founder of its Ubernomics Team. Now he is the Chief Economist for Lyft.
We wanted to talk to John because of his new book, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale, which just hit bookshelves. It identifies five measurable warning signs that a scalable idea must avoid, and offers proven strategies for preventing voltage drops and engineering voltage gains. It's backed by decades of field research, so we're really excited to have him here today.
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A beacon of hope and health care rises in Frisco
Published on: December 03, 2019 By: Rick Press
UTSW patient Ralph Cousins (center) was given the honor of cutting the ribbon at the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Frisco facility while surrounded by UT Southwestern executives and members of the UTSW and Frisco communities.
UT Southwestern marked the beginning of "a new era" on Tuesday, Dec. 3, with the opening of a specialty care facility in Frisco – one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S.
Almost two weeks earlier, hundreds of community leaders, physicians, faculty, and staff gathered for a dedication ceremony of the new UT Southwestern Medical Center at Frisco, the 120,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art medical building that many have watched rise on a former hay farm since 2017.
"It is a bright new day for us, a new era, and we feel privileged to be part of the community of Frisco," said Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, President of UT Southwestern, speaking to an overflow crowd at the Nov. 21 ribbon-cutting ceremony. "We are deeply honored that the patients of this community will now share with us their trust of their most precious concern, their health and the health of their families."
UTSW President Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky addresses attendees during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney called the medical campus, which is visible from miles around, "a beautiful beacon of hope for Frisco." He also said the city and the academic medical center are a perfect match.
"You all are innovators and ranked nationally for your research and specialty programs, and we've received numerous accolades on a national basis, including the No. 1 city in the U.S. to live," Mayor Cheney said. "This is a natural fit. And the true winners here are the residents who are going to get extraordinary health care."
Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney addresses attendees at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The 20-acre medical campus, located just north of Eldorado Parkway on the Dallas North Tollway, represents a first-of-its-kind collaboration between UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources, which will operate a 325,000-square-foot, 73-bed hospital just across the breezeway from UT Southwestern's specialty care building. In its facility, UT Southwestern Frisco will provide innovative specialty care for adults and children in a dozen areas, including orthopedics, sports medicine, spine care, neurology, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, plastic surgery, and more. Texas Health Hospital Frisco will offer 24/7 emergency care, inpatient and surgical services, and neonatal care, among many other medical services vital to the community.
UTSW Frisco officially opened Dec. 3, followed by the hospital to open next on Dec. 16. UT Southwestern physicians will have full privileges at the hospital and the facilities will share medical records as well, creating a seamless experience for patients.
On December 3, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Frisco opened its doors to clinical care in a new 120,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art medical building.
"This collaboration is an outstanding example of our common dedication to promote the health and well-being of the community of Frisco and the surrounding areas," said Brett Lee, President of Texas Health Hospital Frisco.
Following the dedication ceremony, primary care physicians and health professionals from the community mingled with UT Southwestern Frisco specialists and took tours of the building. Many people remarked on UT Southwestern Frisco's contemporary design, dynamic original artwork, and many patient-focused features, including a large rehabilitation gym and a colorfully designed pediatric waiting area.
The MCATs, a UTSW community jazz band, entertained the crowd during the celebration.
The building also includes lab and imaging services and a retail pharmacy on the first floor.
Dr. Isha Mannering, a pediatrician who practices in nearby Plano, said she is excited her patients will have easy access to UT Southwestern specialists and subspecialists.
"When my patients need a specialist, they want answers quickly. So having that level of care and convenience so close to home, that's going to be huge," said Dr. Mannering, who was a resident at UT Southwestern before entering private practice. "I love that our patients will have access to this facility and the best subspecialists in the region."
Frisco joins a growing roster of UT Southwestern medical centers in Fort Worth, Las Colinas, Richardson/Plano, and the Park Cities and is part of a continuing commitment to provide access to expert care throughout North Texas, said Dr. John Warner, Executive Vice President for Health System Affairs at UT Southwestern.
"About 1 out of every 8 patients that are seen at UT Southwestern now come from this area," Dr. Warner said. "So we are looking forward to doing what we always propose to do, which is meeting our patients and their families where they are with team-based, compassionate care."
UT Southwestern Frisco will also deliver on the institution's promise to forge innovation through research, Dr. Podolsky said.
"Beyond what is available today in terms of cutting-edge care," he said, "UT Southwestern Frisco will partner in our research mission to provide access to the care of tomorrow."
Dr. Podolsky holds the Philip O'Bryan Montgomery, Jr., M.D. Distinguished Presidential Chair in Academic Administration, and the Doris and Bryan Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Medical Science.
Dr. Warner holds the Jim and Norma Smith Distinguished Chair for Interventional Cardiology, and the Nancy and Jeremy Halbreich, Susan and Theodore Strauss Professorship in Cardiology.
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Singapore's offshore support solutions provider Pacific Radiance has appointed a new independent director of the company and announced changes to the Remuneration Committee.
Pacific Radiance said last Friday that Yong Yin Min, currently a non-executive director of the company, has been named as the new independent director, effective April 28.
He took over the role from Choo Boon Tiong who retired from the board without seeking re-election at the annual general meeting also held last Friday.
Pacific said that the company's Nominating Committee chose Yong as an independent director due to his ability to exercise objective and independent judgment on the company's affairs.
As a result of his retirement, Choo had to be replaced as the chairman of the Remuneration Committee (RC) of the company, a position he also relinquished at the conclusion of the AGM. Yong will replace Choo as the chairman of the RC as well.
Choo Boon Tiong was appointed as the group's independent director in October 2013. He has been a director of Kyra Capital and CEO and chairman of Personnel Link Job Hub since 2004. He is currently an independent director of Craft Print.
Yong Yin Min was appointed as the group's non-executive director in November 2006. He is a veteran in the financial sector with more than 20 years of experience from 1981 to 2004. Yong held various positions of responsibility in Chase Manhattan, NZI , Standard Chartered, Keppel Bank, GE Capital, and KBC.
Also, another independent director of the company, Goh Chong Theng, was named as a new member of the RC. He will join the new RC chairman Yong and Ng Tiong Gee, the company's lead independent director.
Posted on May 1, 2017 with tags Pacific Radiance.


15,818 acres. This state park in east-central Minnesota preserves a historic 6-mile portage route between the West and East Savannah Rivers, connecting two important watersheds. It's an area of hills, some large bogs, and a number of lakes, with wildlife which includes deer, bear, moose, coyote, and wolf.
Activities: There are 22 miles of easy to moderate trails for hiking and backpacking. Sixteen miles of trails are used for cross-country skiing in winter, and 10 miles are open to mountain biking. Canoeing is possible on the rivers and lakes, and canoes may be rented. Fishing is available along two of the lakes.
Camping Regulations: The park has six backpack camping areas. Primitive camping is restricted to these designated sites.
For Further Information: Savannah Portage State Park, HCR 3, Box 591, McGregor, MN 55760; (218)426-3271.


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Three fangirls, one awesome, bookish blog!
We've been nominated for the Liebster Award by Demi @ Books Traveller. You should check out her blog! It's great! She does some really nice bookish posts, and her memes and tags are great too!
There's a lot of Liebster Award posts out there, all with different sets of rules and formats, so we're just going to do what Demi did in her post.
V: I don't have one particular favourite, just many likes. I love elephants, especially the cute baby ones! I also think zebras and giraffes are pretty cute. Recently I discovered the existence of pangolins, and I just think they are the most adorable little animals! I don't have a pet, but if I did, I'd probably like a ferret, or a snake, or some sort of lizard.
L: I love all animals too, but I would have to say cats and red pandas just because they are adorable. I also love tigers too because they're also really cute.
2. What's your favourite book and why?
V: The hardest question you could ask any bookworm. It's like choosing your favourite children. Ummm I think either Carry On by Rainbow Rowell or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (by JK Rowling of course).
M: Tough one. This changes practically every week, but at the moment I'd say it's probably Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare. It's such a good book- so funny and also so dramatic!
L: This is almost impossible. Sorry for being annoying but I honestly don't have any favourite books. There are so many unique and wonderful books out there that I could never compare with each other, so I really don't know.
3. What's your favourite movie?
V: I'm not really a movie person, but I have to say I loved the movie for Scorch Trials. I also really like Jurassic World, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. The movie for Paper Towns was amazing. I went to see it with two of my friends, and we cracked up when they suddenly burst into song, singing the Pokemon theme. Oh, and also, *spoilers for movie*, the cameo. Oh my god, when Augustus Waters came on as the petrol dude, I swear in that moment, the whole cinema was willing to scream and fangirl. Actually, there were three girls behind us, who literally started freaking out.
M: As I have a younger sister (aged 8) most of the films I watch can be quite dull- PG's and U's. But when I have the chance (e.g. when she's at a friends house/fine to bed early) then I can watch a more grown up film. However, that happens quite rarely so I haven't seen many films. I'm going to say either The Fault In Our Stars (I cried and cried) or The Scorch Trials. I also really want to see Paper Towns.
L: Okay sorry for being like this again but I also have no favourite movie. I've watched too many (just like I've read so many books) to really decide. I don't even have a few favourite movies, I just love too many.
4. What's the most recent happy event in your life?
M: I had a big party recently which was amazing! All my friends and relatives were there and it was the best day of my life.
L: Well if you know me, you'll know I'm an otaku. So going to Japan in April was absolutely amazing! I had so much fun there, and experienced what Japan was really like, plus there was a lot of anime stuff as well.
5. Pepsi or Coca Cola?
V: Am I allowed to say neither? I don't really like any fizzy drinks, if I'm honest…also I can't taste between the two drinks so I'll just say both!
M: I am proud to say that I have never tried either. My parents are kinda big on avoiding fizzy drinks and juice after my cousin had to get 4 fillings at the age of 6. He lived on Ribena. So, can I answer Sprite? That's my exception to my "stick with water and milkshakes" rule- I love Sprite.
L: Coca Cola. I don't like pepsi or Coke much (I know, I'm weird) but I would have to say Coke tastes a bit nicer.
M: Yes yes yes!!!!! I love airplanes, I love going to new places, I love everything about travelling. When I'm older, in my gap year, I'm going to travel the world, like my parents did. I want to go to Tokyo, the penguin A&E in South Africa (and yes, that is a real thing, it's in Cape Town) and everywhere else!
L: I love going to places but I hate the actual travelling (like Vibha). Planes sort of scare me, and sitting in them for too long is kind of uncomfortable. I also hate being in cars for too long because that's also really uncomfortable. But I love going around and seeing the world, because every country is so special and interesting!
7. How many languages can you speak?
V: Fluently, only English. However in school I'm learning French and Spanish, which I'm pretty OK at. I also lived in India for the first 6 years of my life, so I can understand Tamil and Hindi, although I'm not the greatest speaker.
M: Just English for me. I'm learning French and Spanish at school, but I just flunked both tests so let's not mention them. I'm also learning Latin, but I don't think that really counts! So just English for me!
L: English and Mandarin (Chinese). At school I'm learning Spanish and German (I decided not to take French like my friends because I don't like it) and I'm also doing Latin. I'm also secretly learning Japanese at home when I have time.
8. What is one aspect of yourself that you occasionally get complimented on?
M: Um, definitely not my looks! People often mention my hair, but I don't think that's a compliment! Maybe my music? I like playing my instruments (oboe and piano if you didn't read my A-Z about me) and that's usually what people mention, if they say anything nice about me at all!
L: My appearance. No I'm joking, that doesn't happen unless if I'm in China for some reason where everyone seems to call me a 'pretty little girl.' Mostly it's my art that gets complimented though, drawing is one of my favourite hobbies!
M: 2 years ago this would have been an easy answer. I was going to marry a farmer, run a child-minding business and write stories in my free time. I was going to be the next Jaqueline Wilson (I was a naive child). Now, it's not so simple. My parents want me to be a musician, but as nice as that would be I think it's not really my thing- I'll keep music as a hobby. I'd still love to work with kids and I'd adore to be an author, but I'm starting to consider acting as a future career. I'd love to be an actress. I think my dream job would be to write plays and then act in them (and have lots of kids too!).
L: Well whenever people ask me I always just say I don't know, but honestly I would love to be a manga artist. I love writing and drawing, and I also love anime and manga, so I think it would be a great job for me! I would love to spend my life in Japan as a successful manga artist (although the successful part may not be true) and one of my close friends said she would accompany me and help me out, which would be awesome.
10. What would you recommend me to watch or read next?
V: Hm…if you haven't already, then I'd definitely read Cassandra Clare and Rick Riordan books. I also really enjoyed City of Halves by Lucy Inglis, All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven and The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak. Oh, and Rainbow Rowell is pretty awesome too!
M: Cassandra Clare, Rick Riordan and Rainbow Rowell are all amazing! Also, if you haven't read John Green's books, they're all amazing, even the less well known ones. Filmwise, The Scorch Trials is amazing, as is The Maze Runner, though be warned- The Scorch Trials doesn't follow the book. It's still amazing though! I also recommend The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which I think is a book. I've just seen the first half of the film, but it's brilliant and really funny.
L: Othee than the suggestions my friends made above, I would recommend The Lunar Chronicles (I have actually only read two of the books but they're already really good and apparently get better) and I also recommend The Lie Tree (which I read recently and is really good). As of books I've read recently, I think I'm just going to recommend these. If you watch anime I would recommend many anime series too, but if you don't then it may be pointless so I'm going to leave that.
11. Do you think Donald Trump should become the president of the United States?
M: No way. Never. Anyone but him. My dog would be a better president. My friend from America said that if Donald Trump becomes president she's revoking her American citizenship because she doesn't want to be part of a country with him as his leader, and to be honest, I agree.
L: No. Who would? I doubt the whole world is going to become a disaster, but let's say that some bad things are bound to happen if Trump becomes President.
My entire family's names mean 'light'. My mum's, my dad's and my name just coincidentally happened to mean 'light', but we chose my little sister's name on purpose.
I have lived in 5 different houses, gone to around 6 different schools and lived in 2 countries.
When I was younger I (stupidly) decided that it would be cool to have a nose piercing. I had a few beads in my pocket, so I stuffed one up my nostril, thinking that's how nose piercings worked. As you can imagine, that didn't end too well….
I have ridden on an elephant when I went to South Africa! I also saw giraffes, penguins (yep- really), wilderbeast, grape vines (we went to the wine tasting region) and beaded animals. It was a great holiday! On the downside I threw up from eating too much red meat, but you can't have everything!
I'm allergic to cats, but I've decided that when I'm older I'm going to be a batty cat lady. I'll go shopping in my dressing gown and slippers and buy nothing but cat food, and I'll have one of those really slow electric wheelchair things (I can't think what they're called) and drive along in the middle of the road so no one can get passed me! It's gonna be a lot of fun!
When I was younger, my best friend was called Mia as well, though to be honest that was the only reason we were friends!
I had a boyfriend when I was in nursery. It was serious. We kissed and everything! My childminder has thousands of embarrassing pics of the two of us!
I spent a year in China studying, and I lived with my aunts and uncles instead of my parents, as they needed to stay at home to work and carry on taking my brothers to school. It was a great experience, but I did miss home quite a lot.
My dream job as a child was to spend my life climbing trees. I didn't realise how stupid this was until I was 8, but even then I thought of becoming an animal rescuer so I could incorporate the climbing trees part.
My Chinese name in Japanese is Ayako, which was coincidentally one of my favourite names before I ever knew that it was my Chinese name as Japanese. I even used to write stories about characters called Ayako, and I had never even known it was my name.
This fact isn't that interesting but I've never broken any bones before. I'm super clumsy (as my friends know) and I tend to trip a lot and stumble, and I often walk into walls or random other things like that, so it's a wonder how I've never managed to break a single bone before, but thank goodness for that.
You lived in India? For six years and you understand Tamil and Hindi wow!! Because I am an Indian.
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★☆☆☆☆ - 1 star - Very bad, found it hard to continue, poor plot and characters.
★★☆☆☆ - 2 stars - Was able to finish, but the book needed something more to make it likeable and 'good'.
★★★☆☆ - 3 stars - Had an OK plot and characters, was a slight challenge to finish book, may continue sequel if there.
★★★★☆ - 4 stars - A great read, would definitely recommend it. Good from start to finish, except for a few minor flaws.
★★★★★ - 5 stars - Absolutely fantastic. Little to no criticism. May reread.
★★★★★+ - 5+ stars - Rarely given out, meaning a book was more than amazing. New favourite, would definitely recommend, a must read.
The big day is here! Harry freaking Potter and the Cursed Child is out! Excuse us whilst we fangirl.


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La teoria del complotto sul genocidio bianco è una credenza diffusa in seno a gruppi legati al neo-nazismo, all'estrema destra, al nazionalismo bianco e al suprematismo bianco, secondo cui l'immigrazione, l'integrazione razziale, oltre a fattori come la denatalità nonché la tutela di diritti civili come l'aborto legale e la contraccezione verrebbero deliberatamente promossi in quei Paesi dove prevale la cosiddetta "etnia europoide" o "razza bianca", con lo scopo di causarne l'estinzione.

Semantica

Rispetto al "declinismo" espresso dal pensiero storico-sociologico conservatore, l'uso del termine «genocidio» in un'accezione che va ben al di là della definizione strettamente legale è volto a parificare eventi storici a veri e propri attentati contro la vita umana, siano essi l'omicidio (ad esempio presentando il meticciato come attentato all'integrità genetica di una "razza") o il suicidio (una società che si autocondanna all'estinzione).

Per avallare una lettura iperbolica di taluni eventi contemporanei, se ne offre così una chiave interpretativa distopica: essi non sarebbero frutto di forze storiche determinate da flussi epocali, ma della pianificazione volontaria di una élite in malafede, che tradirebbe la sua vocazione di ceto dirigente di una nazione.

Uno dei capisaldi della teoria è la negazione di valore alla lotta al razzismo: se è del 2005 l'affermazione di Alain Finkielkraut, secondo cui «l'antirazzismo è per il XXI secolo quello che è stato il comunismo nel XX secolo», è con il nazionalista bianco Robert Whitaker che la frase: «Antirazzista è una parola in codice per anti-bianco» è comunemente associata al tema del genocidio bianco. Essa apparve su cartelloni negli Stati Uniti vicino a Birmingham, Alabama e Harrison, Arkansas.

Prima ancora che fosse coniato il termine "genocidio", tuttavia, questa teoria cospirazionista era già stata sostenuta: nella Germania nazista i suoi caratteri principali si rinvengono in un opuscolo scritto dal "Dipartimento di ricerca per la questione ebraica" del Reich Institute dal titolo: Le nazioni bianche stanno morendo? Il futuro delle nazioni bianche e colorate alla luce delle statistiche biologiche (1934), partendo da considerazioni esposte da Adolf Hitler nel Mein Kampf del 1925.

Origini e ideologia
La questione apparve per la prima volta, sporadicamente, nelle pubblicazioni neo-naziste White Power e WAR negli anni '70 ed '80 dove ci si focalizzava principalmente sulla contraccezione e sull'aborto, oltreché sull'immigrazione.

Hitler

Preoccupazioni della stessa natura si trovavano già espresse in alcune parti del Mein Kampf di Adolf Hitler (1925), poi riprese nel documento citato del 1934, nel quale il futuro dittatore della Germania nazista spiega quelli che, a suoi dire, erano i pericoli che correva parte dell'Europa:

David Lane

La teoria venne successivamente sviluppata dal neo-nazista David Lane (l'autore degli slogan suprematisti delle quattordici parole e degli ottantotto precetti) nel suo manifesto White Genocide del 1995,, scritto mentre era incarcerato a vita, in cui affermava che le politiche dei governi di molti paesi occidentali avevano l'intento di distruggere la cultura europea bianca rendendo i bianchi una "specie estinta". Lane (membro fondatore dell'organizzazione terroristica suprematista bianca The Order) critico verso la mescolanza razziale, l'aborto e l'omosessualità si è speso contro coloro che non "resistono al genocidio" e non vogliono sovvertire il "governo di occupazione sionista" di Israele (che ha affermato controlli gli Stati Uniti e gli altri paesi a maggioranza bianca) e che esso incoraggia "il genocidio bianco". Il piano, secondo Lane, è radicato in "dottrine di universalismo sia laiche che religiose".

Mentre le singole iterazioni della teoria variano a seconda di chi sia considerato responsabile "l'influenza ebraica", le "persone che odiano i bianchi" e "le forze politiche liberali" sono comunemente citate dai suprematisti bianchi come i principali fattori che portano a un genocidio bianco. Questa visione è sostenuta da figure di spicco come David Duke, che cita gli ebrei e gli "ideali politici liberali" come "cause principali". Il nazionalista bianco Robert Whitaker sulla questione coniò l'espressione "anti-razzista è una parola in codice per anti-bianchi" e "anti-White" (anti bianco) per descrivere coloro che ritiene siano responsabili del genocidio dei bianchi. Fu sempre lui che individuò negli ebrei la maggiore forza che contribuisce al piano.

Italia
Anche l'ideologo e attivista dell'estrema destra italiana Franco Freda contribuì, con il suo testo degli anni '90 I lupi azzurri. Documenti del Fronte Nazionale a diffondere l'idea che l'immigrazione di elementi non indoeuropei fosse un attacco per distruggere la razza bianca.

Assieme alle teorie cospirazioniste della «sostituzione etnica» e di «Eurabia», in seguito alla crisi europea dei migranti negli anni 2010 la teoria sul "genocidio della razza bianca" si è diffusa dai movimenti estremisti anche a quelli populisti e sovranisti più moderati.

USA
La teoria si è diffusa molto negli USA, rispetto alla nicchia di estrema destra dove era confinata, grazie ai nuovi mass media specie in seguito all'elezione di Donald Trump.

Sudafrica
Figure di estrema destra come il cantante Steve Hofmeyr e il partito extraparlamentare boero Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) sostengono l'esistenza di un «genocidio bianco» in Sudafrica.

Il manifesto del terrorista norvegese di estrema destra Anders Breivik dal titolo 2083: una dichiarazione di indipendenza europea dedica un'intera sezione a un presunto «genocidio» contro gli afrikaner, i boeri di origine olandese, menzionando ripetutamente presunti episodi di persecuzione dei bianchi in quel Paese.
Anche Mike Cernovich, commentatore statunitense di estrema destra, sostiene la veridicità di tale genocidio in Sudafrica.

La questione degli assalti alle fattorie in Sudafrica acquisì diffusione nel 2018 dopo la trasmissione del documentario Farmlands dell'attivista canadese Lauren Southern realizzato per Rebel Media.
Per lo stesso canale la giornalista britannica Katie Hopkins aveva girato analogo documentario dal titolo Plaasmoorde: The Killing Fields.
Ad agosto 2018 il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump fu accusato di appoggiare tale teoria quando su twitter chiese al segretario di Stato Mike Pompeo di far chiarezza su «gli espropri e le confische dei terreni e le uccisioni su larga scala dei contadini [bianchi]».
A riportare tale tesi sono anche la giornalista conservatrice statunitense Ann Coulter, il politico britannico Nigel Farage e il politico di destra olandese Geert Wilders.

L'ONG Africa Check definisce false tali affermazioni, asserendo che «i bianchi hanno meno probabilità di essere uccisi rispetto a qualsiasi altro gruppo razziale» e che «laddove i bianchi rappresentano circa il 9% della popolazione sudafricana essi sono solo l'1,8% delle vittime di omicidi».

L'organizzazione per i diritti umani AfriForum dichiara invece che «l'orrore vissuto nelle torture presso le fattorie è incomprensibile» e l'indipendente Transvaal Agricultural Union fotografa una realtà con quasi duemila omicidi e torture tra il 1998 e il 2016 e circa trecento attacchi all'anno. I contadini bianchi sudafricani sono inoltre la popolazione soggetta al maggior numero di omicidi pro capite nel mondo al di fuori di zone di guerra.

Stati Uniti d'America

Nel 2016 Donald Trump ha condiviso gli utenti Twitter @WhiteGenocideTM e @EustaceFash, la cui immagine di intestazione di Twitter al momento includeva il termine "genocidio bianco". Andrew Anglin del sito neo-nazista The Daily Stormer ha detto che "non è statisticamente possibile che due tweet di genocidio bianco non possano essere un evento casuale ma solo deliberato [...] Oggi l'America ha il sapore della vittoria."

Stormfront
Le discussioni sul forum internet nazionalista bianco Stormfront si concentrano spesso sul tema dei bianchi che vengono sottoposti alle politiche di genocidio dei loro governi. Il concetto è stato anche reso popolare dai movimenti di estrema destra negli Stati Uniti. Il raduno di Unite the Right 2017 a Charlottesville, in Virginia, ha fatto riferimento a questa teoria del complotto quando i manifestanti con la torcia tiki hanno urlato "Non ci sostituirai!" e "Gli ebrei non ci sostituiranno!".

La nozione di "purezza razziale" o "omogeneità razziale" o "igiene razziale" è un tema di fondo del discorso del genocidio bianco e viene comunemente usato dai movimenti neo-nazisti e di supremazia bianca.

John de Nugent
Alcuni elementi dell'estrema destra suprematista statunitense hanno diffuso sul web una teoria pseudoscientifica, basata su un'estremizzazione della cosiddetta ipotesi solutreana, secondo cui il primo genocidio bianco sarebbe stato già compiuto - contro i bianchi Cro-Magnon "ariani" di cultura solutreana (mentre gli ebrei vengono descritti come neanderthaliani), che avrebbero abitato in preistoria il Nordamerica - da parte degli asiatici che hanno dato origine ai nativi americani, giustificando quindi la colonizzazione europea delle Americhe come una "riconquista". Il principale fautore di questa teoria è il nazionalista bianco, antisemita e "separatista volontario" (propugna un'alleanza tattica con i neri identitari) John de Nugent, sostenitore anche di teorie del complotto UFO e degli antichi astronauti simili alle idee cospirazioniste sui rettiliani dell'inglese David Icke. Si tratta più o meno della ripresa moderna della "teoria della razza perduta" elaborata nell'Ottocento durante la controversia sui costruttori di tumuli.

Francia

In Francia esponenti della destra nazionale quali Renaud Camus hanno affermato e scritto che vi sia in corso La Grande Sostituzione (Le Grand Remplacement). La definizione di Camus, riferita alla popolazione bianca e cristiana di Francia, è considerata assimilabile alla teoria del genocidio bianco. Camus ritiene che, in generale, tutti i paesi occidentali stiano subendo una forma di "sostituzione etnica e civile", anche se, in una dichiarazione alla stampa italiana, ha ridimensionato la declinazione complottistica della sua teoria, inserendosi tra le teorie reazionarie del declinismo dell'Occidente. Camus è stato accusato di antisemitismo per alcune dichiarazioni, ma è stato difeso da intellettuali ebrei come l'affine Finkielkraut. Egli basa il suo pensiero anche su affermazioni di politici antinazisti come il generale de Gaulle, in cui il militare paragonava l'ascesa dell'Islam politico al comunismo:

Nel 2013, l'anziano attivista di estrema destra Dominique Venner si suicidò sparandosi nella cattedrale di Notre-Dame a Parigi adducendo vari motivi tra cui la pretesa sostituzione delle popolazioni bianche («mentre difendo l'identità di tutti i popoli a casa propria, mi ribello nel contempo contro il crimine che mira alla sostituzione dei nostri popoli»).

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