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Do Facts Matter?
Thomas Sowell | Oct 03, 2008
Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."
Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election day, just a few weeks from now.
Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time.
The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.
It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial crisis.
Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.
Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?
We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.
Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom referred to the "lynching" of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.
Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on a letterhead.
The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way. Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae's financial contributions, right after Senator Christopher Dodd.
But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream media.
Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.
The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public. Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.


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Living in poverty in rural areas
McSorley, L., Mar 2008, 1 p.
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Barbado'ed: Scotland's Sugar Slaves
Dolan, C., 26 Apr 2009
Involving children and young people as active research participants in community regeneration and tackling poverty in Scotland
McKendrick, J. H. & McHardy, F., Feb 2010, 4 p. Glasgow : Scottish Centre for Regeneration.
No-one will believe our newsreels anymore: Diary of an Unknown Soldier and The Forgotten Faces
Cook, J. R., 1 Jan 2010
Amateur Film
Profiling local poverty
McKendrick, J. H., Mar 2010, 4 p. Glasgow : Scottish Centre for Regeneration.
Tackling poverty in local areas
McKendrick, J. H., Dec 2010, 4 p. Glasgow : Scottish Centre for Regeneration.
Desperately seeking poverty (Alleviation): towards poverty sensitive budgeting in local government
McKendrick, J. H., 1 Jul 2011, 13 p. Oxfam.
Writing and Talking About Poverty
McKendrick, J. H., Jan 2011, 4 p. Glasgow : Scottish Centre for Regeneration.
Making Scotland: the best place to grow up …. It's child's play
McKendrick, J. H., 2014, 2 p. Scottish Childminding Association.
Securing greater social security autonomy and restating the Union: Submission to the Smith Commission
Tickell, A., 2014
Dignity and recognition for all work will be the basis of a fair and sustainable economy
O'Hagan, A., 16 Feb 2015, 1 p. Centre for Labour and Social Studies.
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Supplementary evidence to the devolution (further powers) committee on the "permanence" of the Scottish Parliament under the Scotland Act (2016)
Women post-recession: moving towards insecurity
Thomson, E. & Ross, S. L., 27 Jul 2015
Written evidence to the devolution (further powers) committee on the Scotland Act 2016
Tickell, A., Sep 2015, 3 p.
Hitler's Soldiers: corrections and clarifications July 2016
Shepherd, B., 2016, (Unpublished) 46 p.
Written submission to the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee on the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill (2017)
Tickell, A., May 2017, 5 p.
Written submission to the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill
Tickell, A., Aug 2017, 8 p.
Swift Read: Project 2030 – Local Government and the Eradication of Child Poverty across Scotland
McKendrick, J., 6 Sep 2018
Swift read: estimating child poverty locally across Scotland
McKendrick, J., 27 Jun 2019
Written submission to the Scottish Parliament's Justice Committee on the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill
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Adage: Is Toyota a car wreck?
Toyota Sends in Jim Lentz for Cross-Media Damage Control
Carmaker's USA COO Takes to the 'Today,' YouTube to Reassure Consumers in Saatchi-Led PR Campaign
By Rich Thomaselli
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The mea culpa and brand-saving by Toyota Motor Corp. began today, as the embattled carmaker launched a public relations defensive on all fronts — print, TV and social-media networks — in a bid to salvage its image in the wake of the 2.3 million vehicle recall.
After buying full-page print ads in the 20 of the nation's largest newspapers on Sunday, the Japanese automaker today sent Toyota Motor Sales USA's president-chief operating officer, Jim Lentz, to the "Today" show, where he talked to host Matt Lauer about why the company halted sales and production of eight models over an accelerator-pedal-sticking issue. "This will be under control," Mr. Lentz said, at the same time denying that Toyota dragged its feet on the issue.
Billion-Dollar Battle Ahead for Toyota to Rebound From Recall
Experts Say It Will Take Huge Marketing Effort to Regain Reputation
Toyota's Problem More Than Just Stuck Accelerators
An Ad Age Editorial
Toyota Must 'Right the Consumer at Any Cost'
Viewpoint: To Keep Its Rep Intact, Automaker Has to Provide Direct Support to Dealers, Customers
A spokeswoman for Toyota said the company did not want to comment on its communications or advertising at this time. But Advertising Age confirmed that Saatchi & Saatchi's Los Angeles office is working with the company on its recall communications, including print and online executions, such as a dedicated website about the recall. The offensive was launched on social-media channels too. A video of Mr. Lentz talking about the recall was posted to the carmaker's Facebook page early this morning, and hours later, more than 150 "liked" the video and some 70 commented on it — many of them positively. "Thank you Toyota for stepping up!" said one, and another: "Toyota will pull through this."
The full-page newspaper ad featured a pause button and large text that read "A temporary pause. To put you first." Underneath the picture of the pause button, there is smaller text about why Toyota halted production and sales of the vehicles, directing consumers to Toyota.com.
It's a strong, straightforward offensive with Mr. Lentz striking an apologetic but reassuring tone. But will it be enough, considering that Toyota waited almost a week before communicating anything to its fiercely loyal customers and potential consumers?
Continued criticism
Alexander Edwards, president of automotive research firm Strategic Vision, San Diego, told Ad Age that while Toyota is trying to do the right thing, the message is confusing. "People are seeing this full-page ad, yes, but they're also seeing articles before and after that ad where one group is saying it's a mechanical problem, one group says it's electrical, one group blames Toyota, one group blames the supplier," Mr. Edwards said. He added: "The ads and their statements aren't very clear, and that actually causes a loss in that reassurance that Toyota is seeking to give its customers."
Many bloggers also criticized Sunday's newspaper ad, and were incredulous when Mr. Lentz said on "Today" that Toyota only knew about the problem since October 2009.
Besides a damaged reputation, another immediate concern for Toyota — the No. 1 global player — is ceding market share. In the wake of the recall last week, General Motors Co. was the first out of the gate to launch an incentive program to try and lure Toyota lessees and would-be-buyers. Ford and Chrysler hesitated at first, but came around quickly, so all of the Big Three domestic automakers are now offering similar $1,000 incentives to Toyota customers to buy or lease their vehicles instead.
Brian Dobson, founder of Ridgefield, Conn.-based Dobson Communications, said that while Toyota has come up with a solution for the sticky pedal problems, crisis nonetheless begets crisis. Media coverage, regulatory hearings, turmoil among suppliers and distributors, loss of market share and weakened customer loyalty will all have a cumulative effect. "Fixing Toyota's damaged reputation among concerned consumers and disappointed dealers will take much longer."
Norm Hartman, Toyota owner for a decade and chief operating officer of TMT Worldwide, an independent media and crisis communications agency, said the ads he saw in the newspapers were disappointing in that they didn't effectively communicate what people should do or explain what Toyota was doing to remedy the problem. He added, "I have had nothing but the finest service, and that's what I expect to come from that company. So when I saw this delay it just didn't reconcile for me."
Regardless of how hard Toyota throws itself on its sword, Dean Crutchfield, chief engagement officer at branding agency Method, said there will always be a level of doubt in place that the company's dealerships will have to contend with. "Can you imagine those poor dealerships are now going to have to contend with questions about whether the issue is sorted out in this model or not every time they try to sell a car?" he said. "It's going to trail them for some time to come."
Contributing: Michael Bush, Rupal Parekh
Author Dean CrutchfieldPosted on February 3, 2010 February 3, 2010 Categories Uncategorized
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We had information that Oppo is all set to launch its flagship Oppo N1 in India. Just as expected the company has announced the smartphone for the Indian markets.
The launch of the Oppo N1, which also marks the entry of Oppo into the Indian markets. The device was launched by the company's brand ambassadors, Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor. The handset has a 5.9 inch full HD display with a massive density of 377 ppi. The phone is known for the unique swivel camera, which doubles as rear and front camera.
The OPPO N1 is powered by a 1.7 GHz quad core Snapdragon 600 processor along with 2 GB of RAM and is available in 16 GB and 32 GB options. The device has the Swivel camera which lets you rotate the 13 MP camera, which has an f/2.0 sensor along with 6 lenses stacked over one another and a dual LED flash. The phone runs on the Colors OS, which is based on Android v4.2.2.
The Oppo N1 is priced at Rs. 39999 and would be initially available only in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Ludhiana until the company expands its distribution network to other cities.


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Národní park Tel Arad (: גן לאומי תל ערד, Gan le'umi Tel Arad) je archeologická lokalita a národní park v Izraeli, v Jižním distriktu.

Geografie
Leží v nadmořské výšce cca 550 metrů v severovýchodní části Negevské pouště. Park se nachází cca 8 kilometrů západně od města Arad a 5 kilometrů severovýchodně od města Kesejfa. Západně od lokality se do ploché pouštní krajiny zařezává údolí vádí Nachal Be'er Ševa.

Popis parku
Národní park je významnou archeologickou lokalitou, soustředěnou okolo telu se zbytky starověkého osídlení z kanaánitských a izraelitských dob. Toto město se rozkládalo na ploše přes 100 dunamů (0,1 kilometru čtverečního) a bylo obehnáno hradbami o délce 1200 metrů. Zástavba byla budována podle jednotného plánu.

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 Negevská poušť

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Yesterday was a toss-up for reasons not to send the kids to school: on the one hand, it was a snow day, and on the other, they were both sick anyway. So I kept dinner simple and made a stew out of all of the leftover bits and pieces I had in the fridge. Honestly, a traditional stew (at least the way I learned it) is a bit of whatever you've got around anyway, so it seems fitting.
The stew contained beef, onions, garlic, carrots, baby potatoes, celery, homemade beef broth, store-bought beef broth, pearl barley, red wine, fresh thyme, fresh sage, a bay leaf, and salt. I whipped it up in the Instant Pot in about 45mins, including preheating/venting time. It wasn't the best stew I have ever made, but it was tasty, hearty, warm, and went down easily for those with sore throats. I'll consider it a win.
Last night I wanted to do something a little different for Sunday dinner, but I still wanted it to be warm and hearty. The temperatures on the weekend had dipped below -30°C (-22°F), which calls for solid comfort food in my opinion. On Saturday afternoon I delved into my new Christmas-gift-card acquisition, The Complete Indian Instant Pot Cookbook: 130 Traditional & Modern Recipes (Chandra Ram, 2018) and picked rogan ghosh, aka lamb stew (page 2019) and rotis from the plethora of recipes that I wanted to try. It was the first time I ever attempted to cook an Indian dish from scratch, although I've used pre-packaged sauces and curry pastes many times.
It's a good thing that I started prepping on Saturday, because I had a really hard time finding some of the ingredients! I discovered quickly that most chain supermarkets around here don't carry lamb shoulder, and as it turns out some of the more specialty stores like the Mid-East Food Centre, where I've had great luck in the past, had been shorted on their order that week. I hit at least six stores before I ended up at George's Meat Shop, which luckily had the lamb in stock. Neither they nor any of the other places I visited carried serrano chilies, nor did the next three, at which point I admit that I just gave up and asked Google for a good substitution. Apparently jalapeno peppers are similar in taste but not nearly as hot, so I went with those and simply doubled the amount of peppers. Luckily that worked out okay. But if anyone has any suggestions as to where in the Ottawa area carries serrano chilies, please let me know!
I chopped up my meat and slathered it with marinade on Saturday night, leaving the prepping of the spices and the vegetables until Sunday. What with the speed of the Instant Pot, all of that chopping took significantly longer than the actual cook time of the dish. The finished product was definitely worth it, though. My whole family loved it, and it wasn't too spicy for anyone (always something I have to take into account with our rather over-sensitive tongues). I was pretty sure it wouldn't be too spicy, though, given that we all eat lots of jalapenos my homemade salsa. I think that the only mediocre part of this meal (although not at all horrible) was my rotis, which in retrospect I didn't roll nearly thin enough. I loved their flavour, but I need a lot more practice to make rotis I'm actually proud of.
After some Googling, I've learned that apparently you can make the stew using mutton, goat, or even beef. I really liked the rich flavour of the lamb, so I can't see using beef instead unless it's out of budgetary consideration, but I like the gaminess of mutton and goat, so I might eventually give them a go. I assume that these would have a longer cook time because the meat is tougher, though.
Yesterday I decided I wanted to try to make something a bit more complicated with my new Instant Pot (or, as my husband puts it, I wanted to play with my new toys). Since I had some red wine left over from Christmas that needed to be used up, and nobody in our household drinks wine, I Googled and found a nice recipe for Instant Pot Beef Bourguignon from Instant Pot Eats. I dug a couple of large chunks of beef out of the freezer the night before to thaw, and I had most of the other ingredients already at home. I did have to send the hubby out for tinned tomatoes and fresh carrots, and somehow we had run out of tomatoes.
I'd never made this dish before, but for all that I've heard that beef bourguignon is a complicated dish, I discovered that it's really just a fancy kind of stew — and I've made many stews over the years. Making it in the Instant Pot really sped things up, but I could have done something very similar in the slow cooker, so long as I planned ahead. I really appreciated that I could saute the ingredients and pressure cook them all in the same device, though, since that saved me quite a bit of effort and clean-up time. Actually, I overestimated how long it would all take me, so I took advantage of the "keep warm" function as well.
I don't exactly have a base for comparison, but I would deem it a definite success! The recipe's serving suggestions are either with mashed potatoes, fresh bread, pasta, parsley dumplings, steamed vegetables, cauliflower rice, or cabbage with butter and pepper. I took advantage of my bread machine and served it with slices of freshly-baked white bread (page 66, Bread Machine: How to Prepare and Bake the Perfect Loaf by Jennie Shapter, 2002). While this combination was lovely, I think I'd like to try it over mashed potatoes next time, in the same style Beef and Guinness Stew. And yes, there will be a next time, judging by the family appreciation of this dish! The meat was tender, the sauce flavourful, and it was nice and filling on a cold winter's day. My husband ate so much that he was groaning afterwards about how full his stomach was, and yet he regretted nothing.
My house is all topsy-turvy at the moment because I'm doing work on the kitchen. (On the kitchen, as well as in, since I seem to work in the kitchen pretty much every day.) I managed to obtain some additional, second-hand cupboards, which means I'll soon have new cupboard and counter space eventually. In the short term, this means that half of the contents of my kitchen are currently in the dining room, so we have to eat in the family room, and the day-to-day mess of the family room is pushed into other rooms… I can't wait to have this mini-reno completed, not just so I can use the expanded kitchen space, but so order is once again returned to my house!
I've been trying not to cook anything super-involved, since prep space is currently at a bare minimum, and to me that means making Dad's Biscuits. My mom picked me up what I think is a Perfect Pie Blender, although it's branded with the President's Choice logo, so it may be a knock-off. Or maybe PC has a deal with Kitchen Innovations, I don't know. I can guarantee you that my mother didn't pay $40 for it, though. Knowing Mom, she probably found it on clearance for $5 or less.
At any rate, the Perfect Pie Blender is far cry in shape and style from the traditional style of pastry blender that I grew up using. The company claims that it will make perfect pastry in sixty seconds, which is an exaggeration if you ask me, but it is definitely faster than my old method. One reason for this is that the blades are sturdier and the updated shape means that I'm not constantly cleaning food out from between the wires. It's generally a more ergonomic design, too. Given that I'd been making pie using the old style blender since I was a kid, I thought I'd have a harder time getting used to a new tool, but I'm surprisingly quite happy with the new blender. I'd recommend it — although I definitely wouldn't recommend spending $40.00 CAD on it like Amazon.ca suggests, especially when you can get it for $12.60 USD on Amazon.com.
The other day I nuked up some IKEA KÖTTBULLAR meatballs while my husband stirred up the ALLEMANSRÄTTEN cream sauce. We're very sophisticated people, don't you know. The original plan was to throw on some oven-baked french fries, but I miscalculated the amount we had left in the freezer, so only the kids got fries. My husband and I ate our meatballs with biscuits instead. I added an apple to our meals because there has to be some kind of fruit or veg with every meal, doesn't there?
Yesterday the kitchen mini-reno had continued apace and we couldn't even see the dining room table any more, let alone eat at it, so we dined on TV trays in the family room. I made Guinness beef stew based very, very loosely on this recipe, but it was more improvised than not to help me use up what was in the fridge. I still have a surplus of parsnips and celery, which remain fresh and crisp in my fridge, as well as potatoes from my garden, so they had to go in there. To my kids' delight, I served the stew with biscuits for a nice, hearty dinner. I didn't even have to argue with the girls to eat their vegetables even though the stew was more veggies than anything else. That's always a nice change.


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There's a pretty high chance you are wearing one of these right now – a Fitbit, Jawbone, Apple Watch or similar. They can monitor step count, activity levels, sleep quality and heartrate. Connected apps allow users to track their calorie intake and weight. In the workplace such devices are used to encourage employees to exercise more (sometimes via workplace competitions) and also to provide employers with data to inform wellbeing strategy decisions. Third party health providers can also analyse such data to calculate insurance costs and, if necessary, suggest interventions.
A bit of a mouthful this one: electroencephalography (EEG) is an electrophysiological monitoring method to record the electrical activity of the brain. In workplace experiments it has been used to send wearers a pulse reminding them to sit up straight. Such tools have also reportedly been used in construction companies, including Crossrail, to monitor employees for drunkenness or fatigue.
Primarily used in vehicles, telematics can monitor and record how far and often an individual drives, as well as keeping a note of their personal driving style. Logistics companies use telematics to improve efficiency, and they can also be deployed in fleet to keep track of safety and any potential insurance issues.
Microchip implants used to identify humans, either inserted into a regular ID badge or into the skin. They can be used to track movements and time management, and have been tried in hospitals to improve communication and workforce planning. Examples include Hitachi's Business Microscope.


Karen Siegemund is one of the new breed of "reluctant activists." A mother of two, an educator, a scientist, an American who is deeply concerned about her country, she never in her wildest dreams imagined herself doing what she has been doing these past months: channeling her long-pent-up rage at the media and taking a stand against it. As the daughter of a man who grew up in Hitler's Germany, she is highly aware of the creeping dangers of a monolithic press, and she is also, in her bones, grateful for what America is and stands for: that shining city on a hill, the last best hope, the land that people from all over the globe look to as representing the best of us, the greatest freedoms, the infinite possibilities that the American Dream had always promised.
Karen has a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, a master's degree in international relations, and a doctorate in Education and American culture. And while all of these convey a background of widely diverse interests, there has been a common thread throughout: a pursuit of truth and of understanding; a thirst for knowledge about how the many pieces of our global puzzle fit together, and a desire to understand the relationship among culture, education and politics so that we can best pursue those goals that empower each individual, each and every one. And through it all, there has been a constant recognition that whoever tells the story has power over the story. Translated, that means: the media is too able to control the message.
Her breaking point was the horror that broke this past September 12 when the news of the Benghazi murders was being revealed even as the main-stream media and the White House lied about it. After a week of crazed fury, she launched the Rage Against the Media movement. Since then, her rage has only increased at the continued cover-up of events in Libya, as well as the countless ways in which the media supports and has supported the progressive agenda and the Obama administration generally.
But while the anger continues, so too do her efforts to give each of us a voice in the fight against the monolithic mainstream media. We all suffer from living under what Roger Simon called a media coup d'etat, and Karen is driven to fight back.


A busy day today in publish an independent book world.
Second, I had another very productive meeting with graphic designer Ben Brush. He showed me the printed versions of the entire suite of images related to the book, including the artwork for the front cover, which is very close to being finalized. I am really, really excited about what he's done. I showed him a sample book that is the exact size I want Roll Up the Rim to be, and which has a style of cover that I want. He's got the front cover more or less done, as I've said, but there is the back cover, the book spine, and two more surfaces to work on. That young man has an impressive work ethic. Smart persons will hire him.
Third, I made an agreement with a logo designer to develop several images we've been discussing into a flexible logo for the imprint (publisher) that the novel will be published under. I honestly can't wait until that image, and the name of the imprint, are finalized so I can have a big reveal in a few weeks.
Lastly, I just applied for an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) for Roll Up the Rim. Getting this number will be one of the keys to making the book available from more places than the trunk of my car.


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Druze leader speaks out during Nation-State protests
The Chairman of the Druze forum against the Nation-State Law Dr. Amir Hanifas commented regarding the use of Palestinian flags at the Tel Aviv protest of the law.
"The struggle is regarding the democratic, equal character of the country and not the support of its enemies," he said.
"Any attempt to harm the Jewish and democratic image of the country is invalid. The invalid behavior that we saw today in Rabin Square proves how much we were right when we decided to fight on a sectarian basis with Israel lovers and not its enemies."


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I have a game in which the first person controller is destroyed when the player enters into a collider of an enemy. I also have a game over GUI script that I want to run when the player dies. I have tried using Boolean variables, but the player is destroyed and the scripts are destroyed too so I have not found a good way to do so. What is the best way to have a player die without destroying it? Or what is a good way to create Game Over GUI?
Now seriosly, instead of actually destroying the player controller, make dead "just a state of mind". That is, add a bool IsDead property to the player character.
When it's false, the game runs as usual.
When it's set to true, make the camera unattach itself from the player character (or stop following it, or whatever you are doing), and make the player character disable it's renderers and it's scripts (by setting their enabled field to false).
That will make the character disappear and stop processing input, and colliding, etc. Then you can move the camera somewhere else or make a Game Over UI appear with buttons for restarting or quitting.
Place the character object back to starting position.
Reset its stats (health, ammo, whatever).
Reenable all its components and renderers. It will make it appear and start running its scripts and collide and everything.
Attach the camera back to it, or make it follow it again, or whatever you do with your camera.
Create a GameManager that can set the state of the game and reports it.
You can also make each level to inherit from GameManager so that it is a manager itself and has access to all other members you would add.


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1999 JG80 (asteroide 35886) é um asteroide da cintura principal. Possui uma excentricidade de 0.13659710 e uma inclinação de 7.90270º.

Este asteroide foi descoberto no dia 12 de maio de 1999 por LINEAR em Socorro.

Ver também

 Lista de asteroides
 Asteroide da cintura principal

Ligações externas

Asteroides da cintura principal
Objetos astronômicos descobertos em 1999


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Q: How to Implement `Year + 1` in Dataframe I have a df
      Date Filing Date Name
0  2013 Q2   8/17/2013  AAA
1  2013 Q3  11/19/2013  BBB
2  2013 Q4    2/2/2014  CCC
3  2014 Q4   2/13/2015  DDD
4  2015 Q1   5/12/2015  EEE
5  2015 Q2    8/7/2015  FFF
6  2015 Q3  11/20/2015  GGG
7  2016 Q4   2/19/2017  HHH
8  2019 Q4    2/4/2020  III

where I am updating the Filing Date column based on a mapping:
# Split Date Column into one column for Year, and one for Quarter
df['Year'], df['Quarter'] = df['Date'].str.split(' ', 1).str
# Replace Quarter values with date values
df['Filing Date'] = (df['Quarter'].map({'Q1': '5/15/', 'Q2': '8/15/','Q3': '11/15/', 'Q4': '2/15/'}) + df['Year'])

The problem is that for all Q4 entries, the Year of the Filing Date should actually be the Date Year + 1. For example:
      Date Filing Date Name
2  2013 Q4   2/15/2014  CCC
3  2014 Q4   2/15/2015  DDD
7  2016 Q4   2/15/2017  HHH
8  2019 Q4   2/15/2020  III

I know I can probably do this by converting to dateime, loop through each row of the dataframe, and add 1 to the year for each Q4 row. But that seems clunky and I have heard it's best to avoid looping through a dataframe. So is there a more elegant way of doing this?

A: Use numpy where to achieve your goal :
dic = {'Q1': '5/15/', 'Q2': '8/15/','Q3': '11/15/', 'Q4': '2/15/'}

df['Filing Date'] = np.where(df.Quarter=='Q4',
                          df['Quarter'].map(dic)+df.Year.add(1).astype(str),
                          df['Quarter'].map(dic)+df.Year.astype(str))

    Year    Quarter Filing Date Name
0   2013    Q2  8/15/2013   AAA
1   2013    Q3  11/15/2013  BBB
2   2013    Q4  2/15/2014   CCC
3   2014    Q4  2/15/2015   DDD
4   2015    Q1  5/15/2015   EEE
5   2015    Q2  8/15/2015   FFF
6   2015    Q3  11/15/2015  GGG
7   2016    Q4  2/15/2017   HHH
8   2019    Q4  2/15/2020   III

A: You can use a ternary to increase the year by one if it is Q4: int(yr) + (1 if qtr == 'Q4' else 0)
import datetime as dt

# Sample data.
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'Date': ['2013 Q2', '2013 Q3', '2013 Q4', '2014 Q4', '2015 Q1', '2015 Q2', '2015 Q3', '2016 Q4', '2019 Q4'],
    'Filing Date': ['8/17/2013', '11/19/2013', '2/2/2014', '2/13/2015', '5/12/2015', '8/7/2015', '11/20/2015', '2/19/2017', '2/4/2020'],
    'Name': ['AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC', 'DDD', 'EEE', 'FFF', 'GGG', 'HHH', 'III']
})

# Solution.
quarter_to_month_mapping = {'Q1': 5, 'Q2': 8, 'Q3': 11, 'Q4': 2}
year, quarter = zip(*df['Date'].str.split(' ', 1))
df['Filing Date'] = pd.to_datetime([
    dt.date(
        year=int(yr) + (1 if qtr == 'Q4' else 0),
        month=quarter_to_month_mapping[qtr],
        day=15
    )
    for yr, qtr in zip(year, quarter)]
)
>>> df
      Date Filing Date Name
0  2013 Q2  2013-08-15  AAA
1  2013 Q3  2013-11-15  BBB
2  2013 Q4  2014-02-15  CCC
3  2014 Q4  2015-02-15  DDD
4  2015 Q1  2015-05-15  EEE
5  2015 Q2  2015-08-15  FFF
6  2015 Q3  2015-11-15  GGG
7  2016 Q4  2017-02-15  HHH
8  2019 Q4  2020-02-15  III

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TechStars Seattle Demos: One Room, 10 Startups, Tons of Potential
Curt Woodward
David Cohen has seen this movie before. As the founder and CEO of TechStars, he knows that the first year in any city is about building community, making impressions, and proving the model. Then things get turned up a notch.
"Year one is a lot of excitement, the town really supports it," Cohen said. "People come out to the first Demo Day and they see it for the first time as a finished product, and people talk about it. Year two, you get a much bigger audience. I've seen that pattern everywhere."
Seattle is no exception. The second-ever TechStars Seattle Demo Day, held Thursday afternoon, saw attendance way up, with 350 or more investors, entrepreneurs, and insiders flocking to the SoDo neighborhood to see some of the hottest startups in town. The competition was fiercer, with 700 applicants for just 10 spots, compared with 400 a year ago.
And the money was flowing faster—as of Thursday's demos, nine of the 10 proto-companies already started raising financing rounds, TechStars Seattle director Andy Sack said.
"Last year, the companies coming out of TechStars 90 days after Demo Day had successfully raised over $2.5 million," Sack said. "This year, coming into Demo Day, the companies have already raised over $3.5 million."
Here's a rundown of the 10 companies that showed themselves off Thursday evening, with some key notes from the presentations. We'll have more from Cohen later, as he looks at the trends in companies and incubators overall, and some more thoughts from Sack on year two of the Seattle TechStars experience.
Beamit Mobile
Tagline: Enables convenient international money transfers from the U.S. to a mobile phone abroad
Beamit is targeting the huge market of international remissions—the money that immigrants send back to friends and relatives in their home countries once they get to America and start earning cash. That amounts to $325 billion globally each year, CEO Matt Oppenheimer said, with 80 percent handled outside the traditional banking system.
Beamit seeks to make those transfers easier and cheaper by using mobile devices and the Internet as a platofrm. People in the U.S. will be able to send money to a virtual wallet in another country online or through a mobile app, which the recipient could either spend from their device or cash out at a traditional transfer office.
The first test market is the Philippines. Beamit can make transfers free for its most loyal customers, Oppenheimer said, which implies that Beamit makes money on fees of some kind. The startup already has closed a $750,000 convertible note, and is raising a Series A round.
Bluebox Now
Tagline: Turning brand advertising into daily viral campaigns.
The former employees of Pelago, which was acquired by Groupon, have a platform that allows retailers and other brands that offer loyalty or rewards programs to increase consumer spending by offering casual games as a hook, rather than dry, boring email campaigns.
The loyalty market has more than 2 billion memberships, but two-thirds of them (66 percent) are inactive, co-founder Chad Reed said. Early tests show the concept has shown a ten-fold increase in the use of loyalty programs, Reed said.
Customers include Murphy USA, which operates gas stations like those seen at Wal-Mart locations, and Caesar's Entertainment, the casino company. Bluebox Now is raising a $500,000 round, with $100,000 already committed as of the presentation.
EveryMove
Tagline: Rewarding and inspiring people to a healthier lifestyle.
One of the health-minded startups on stage Thursday, EveryMove seeks to connect consumers with rewards from their employers, health insurers, and other brands by collecting, tracking, and visualizing health-related data. So, if a user checks into their gym via Foursquare and completes a series of runs via Runkeeper, they could qualify for a discount from their insurance company.
In one of the most energetic presentations of the day, co-founder Russell Benaroya pitched this as a social movement, a huge business opportunity, and a no-lose proposition for everyone involved. Advertisers get targeted access to health-conscious people, employers and insurers and consumers save money, and users get healthier. EveryMove makes up to 20 percent on the rewards that flow through the system.
The company, whose other co-founder is Seattle 2.0's Marcelo Calbucci, announced a deal with insurer Premera BlueCross, with plans to target other BlueCross insurance networks around the country. Expect to see more news over the coming months about specifics on the Premera deal. EveryMove had already commitments for $1 million out of a $1.5 million round.
FlexMinder
Tagline: The Best Way To Save On Healthcare.
A topic that's surely close to the heart of freelancers and entrepreneurs, but really anyone who's tried to fill in the gaps of their health insurance, is the confounding pitfall of flexible spending accounts for health insurance. You can save money by setting aside cash pre-tax to pay for health expenses, but if you don't burn it by year's end, it's gone—costing consumers money and actually encouraging overspending in a health care system plagued by high costs.
FlexMinder attempts to solve this problem by giving consumers a virtual dashboard, receipt tracker, and payment system that pulls all of their health spending data together in one place. That helps consumers get ahold of the estimated $3 billion annually that falls through the cracks unspent in flexible spending accounts, co-founder Deepak Kumar said.
FlexMinder already has a strategic relationship with Regence, the biggest health insurer in Washington state, and deals with employers that give it a potential reach of about 1 million users, Kumar said. The startup has commitments for $200,000 out of a $500,000 round.
GoChime
Tagline: Matching social media commercial intent with merchants.
GoChime recruits a crowdsourced network of social media users who can answer the queries of other people looking for products or services on behalf of businesses and providers who want to tap into that demand.
It struck me as a kind of Amazon Mechanical Turk for social media advertising campaigns, enlisting individual people to recommend a particular brand when a user in the wild is casting about for something related. And that human-to-human connection makes campaigns through GoChime vastly more effective than traditional online advertising, the startup said.
The offers and campaigns can be sourced through affiliates, with direct relationships established once they identify a promising segment. The crowd of "Chimers" work for "rewards, recognition, and money," co-founder Austin Evarts said—GoChime takes a commission on campaigns, and shares a portion with the people who do the work. GoChime is raising $600,000 now, and has $350,000 committed already.
GroupTalent
Tagline: The high-end marketplace for software projects.
If you're a designer or developer, there's no job crisis right now—unless it's an impossible choice of which job to accept. And for tech companies, that means it's ridiculously hard to hire top talent, to the point that major employers have made the acquire-to-hire model a job recruiting trend.
There are already companies that try to tap into the reservoir of unaffiliated tech talent that, for one reason or another, prefers to go the mercenary route and just pick up piecework here and there instead of getting an office and a big fancy job. But the founders of GroupTalent say there's not enough vetting online, which means the existing players like oDesk and eLance become a "race to the bottom."
GroupTalent wants to establish a top-tier online-only market for freelance tech talent, aiming to be the place that the top 20 percent of designers and developers find work. They aim to do this by pulling in data from around the web, including scores and rankings through coder forums like Github and Stack Overflow.
After going live with a small amount of exposure, the site claimed 300 applications from developers and some $500,000 in projects submitted. GroupTalent makes its money by taking 10-20 percent on the project price, which they say averaged $40,000 in the test run. The startup is raising $500,000, and has $200,000 already committed.
LikeBright
Tagline: Where the great guys are.
Online dating is increasingly popular, but the team from LikeBright says there's a clear problem: Not enough women. The startup wants to solve that problem by allowing women to rank single guys through Facebook, giving other single women a gauge of whether their peers would vouch for a would-be date.
"We don't think of ourselves as a dating site, but we do make dating a lot easier," co-founder Nick Soman said, by applying a dating layer to Facebook. The company's technology pulls in Facebook profiles of men, and allows women to "vouch" for a good guy by ranking his positive attributes or giving short testimonials.
Men end up with profile pages in a women-centric dating network, and women can use the service without creating a profile themselves if they wish. LikeBright tested its concept with a contest, and got 400 signups—70 percent of them women, which Soman said blows away other online dating concepts.
The company plans a freemium model that charges once users who want to explore the dating pool outside their friend network. LikeBright has commitments for $200,000 out of a $600,000 round.
Romotive
Tagline: Turn your smartphone into a robot.
Just like the description says, this startup offers a $40 hardware kit that allows users to plug their iPhone into a little cradle that powers a pair of small tank-style tracks, while displaying a cute little animated face on the screen. Fun enough—but Romotive sees this as just the beginning, seeking to build a platform for countless apps that would power "Romo."
The company is already profitable, raising $75,000 on Kickstarter and selling more than 900 robots to hundreds of people around the globe. The company's longer-range plan involves selling apps that would bring new tricks and behaviors to the Romo, allowing others to develop apps through an API, and licensing the technology.
Romotive makes 50 percent gross profits on the little robots already, without being at scale to any real degree. The company is currently raising a $500,000 round to build out its application platform and seek patents for its technology.
Tagline: Design beautiful, effective online flyers and publish instantly.
This pair of Israeli entrepreneurs have built a platform that allows users to create simple, single-page promotional websites for a business, cause, or event with very little work. It's meant to reach millions of small-business owners and other "self-service marketers" in the U.S., a "long tail" play capitalizing on a large market of small players.
The Smore team thinks this is a big business opportunity, however. "We already declined an acquisition offer from a very high-profile company that came while we were in TechStars," co-founder Gilad Avidan said.
Smore pages come pre-loaded with tools for easy promotional campaigns, including social sharing, and analytics to track how well the page is performing. The sites are free to make, with the startup making money on ads that are purchased for Facebook or Google campaigns or e-commerce and fundraising activity. Smore is raising $500,000, with half already committed through Seattle-area angels.
Vizify
Tagline: Highly visual and interactive personal profiles.
This startup pulls together the truckloads of data that people post online, through profiles in places like LinkedIn and Facebook or location and reading utilities, and even personal blogs. What it spits out is a beautiful, layered, multifaceted personal webpage that showcases personal photos, experience, writing, and other elements of a user's online life.
Those pages aren't just static, either. They constantly refresh and update with new data—so if you go on a blogging jag about airline travel or change jobs or post new photos from a trip, the graphs and timelines that reflect your online life will change along with it.
Vizify is a freemium model, giving away basic sites but charging for upgrade packages that target specific professions. It allows real estate agents to showcase their listings and sales, lawyers to brag about their cases and honors, or salespeople to input their numbers or rankings. Vizify is raising $750,000, with $250,000 already committed from investors including Jonathan Sposato and Geoff Entress.
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Q: (Android) Cannot call one activity from another in the same package I spent a very long time trying to locate the error but I can't seem to find an answer that works online. The situation is that LogCat produces this error every time I click on an option in the list: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class.
Manifest file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest package="com.capture.ProcessCapture"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" /><uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK"/>
<application android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity android:label="@string/app_name" android:name=".ProcessCaptureActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".FileData" android:label="@string/app_name">
        </activity>
        <service android:name=".BackgroundCapture" android:enabled="true" android:process=":Background" android:permission="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" android:label="@string/app_name"></service>
        <receiver android:name=".BootReceiver" android:label="@string/app_name" android:enabled="true">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED" />
            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>
    </application>
</manifest>

ProcessCaptureActivity.java (Main class):
package com.capture.ProcessCapture;
... (all the imports)

public class ProcessCaptureActivity extends ListActivity {
    private File dir = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/ProcessCapture/data");
    private String accessedFile;

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        onResume();
        setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.list_item, capturedFiles()));
        ListView lv = getListView();
        lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);

        lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                int position, long id) {
              // Get file name:
                accessedFile = ((TextView) view).getText().toString();
                Intent newIntent = new Intent(view.getContext(), FileData.class);
                newIntent.putExtra("filename", accessedFile);
                startActivity(newIntent);
            }
          });
    }

    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        //Timeout for 30min (Using AlarmManager)
        Intent myIntent = new Intent(this, BackgroundCapture.class);
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getService(this, 0, myIntent, 0);
        AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
        alarmManager.cancel(pendingIntent);
        alarmManager.setInexactRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, 0, AlarmManager.INTERVAL_HALF_HOUR, pendingIntent);
    }

    private String[] capturedFiles() {
        return dir.list();
    }

}

FileData.java
package com.capture.ProcessCapture;

... (all the imports)

public class FileData extends Activity {

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

        Bundle bundle = this.getIntent().getExtras();
        String filename = bundle.getString("filename");
        File file = new File(sdcard+"/ProcessCapture/data", filename);

        StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();

        try {
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
            String line;

            while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                text.append(line);
                text.append('\n');
            }
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }

        TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.file_data);
        tv.setText(text);

        setContentView(R.layout.file_data);
    }

}

Full LogCat: (Which only shows error when a list item is clicked)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {com.capture.ProcessCapture/com.capture.ProcessCapture.FileData}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1405)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1379)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:2827)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:2933)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at com.capture.ProcessCapture.ProcessCaptureActivity$1.onItemClick(ProcessCaptureActivity.java:37)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.widget.AdapterView.performItemClick(AdapterView.java:284)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.widget.ListView.performItemClick(ListView.java:3513)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.widget.AbsListView$PerformClick.run(AbsListView.java:1812)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
11-05 10:45:28.743: E/AndroidRuntime(907):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Thanks in advance! Sorry for the long question =)

A: (Copy from my comment above) The problem was 'solved' when I used ubuntu instead of windows =/ The root problem was in FileData.java, where the setContentView(R.layout.file_data) had to be called before setting text to it's TextView (tv).
The new code for FileData.java is:
package com.capture.ProcessCapture;

... (all the imports)

public class FileData extends Activity {

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

        Bundle bundle = this.getIntent().getExtras();
        String filename = bundle.getString("filename");
        File file = new File(sdcard+"/ProcessCapture/data", filename);

        StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();

        try {
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
            String line;

            while((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                text.append(line);
                text.append('\n');
            }
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }

        setContentView(R.layout.file_data);

        TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.file_data);
        tv.setText(text);
    }

}

A: Please have a look at this question and the first answer, which suggests putting a try/catch block around the code that tries to start the activity, as sometimes it's not actually that the activity is indeed undeclared but another underlying problem.
If that doesn't work, you can always try cleaning and rebuilding the project, then getting Eclipse to resync (right-click on project, "Android Tools" -> "Fix Project Properties").


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"Love Me" is a song recorded by the Bee Gees, released on the 1976 album Children of the World. It was also included on the compilation albums Bee Gees Greatest and Love from the Bee Gees, which was released only in the UK.

Background
It was written by Barry and Robin Gibb featuring Robin on lead with his vibrato (with Barry on the middle eight evidenced on the outro). This makes this song a curio among the group's latterday tracks, as during the mid and late 1970s, Barry sang most of the group's leads. Robin sings a falsetto lead on the group's 1979 song "Living Together" on the album Spirits Having Flown. He also sang falsetto during the chorus of his solo song "Remedy" from the 1985 album Walls Have Eyes.

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Yvonne Elliman version

Release
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Charts

Martine McCutcheon version

Background and release
Martine McCutcheon remade "Love Me" for her 1999 debut album, You Me & Us, from which the track—serving as the BBC Children in Need single for 1999—was issued as the third single. It was released as a double A-side single along with "Talking in Your Sleep" on 22 November 1999 and peaked at number six in the United Kingdom.

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Track listing
 "Love Me" (radio mix)- 3:44
 "Talking in Your Sleep" (radio edit) - 4:06

Charts

Other versions
"Love Me" was also recorded by Janie Fricke for her 1981 album Sleeping With Your Memory and cantopop artist Prudence Liew for her 1994 album Thoughts in the Night, Dreams During the Day.

References

1976 singles
1976 songs
1999 singles
Bee Gees songs
Children in Need singles
Innocent Records singles
Martine McCutcheon songs
RSO Records singles
Song recordings produced by Barry Gibb
Song recordings produced by Freddie Perren
Song recordings produced by Maurice Gibb
Song recordings produced by Robin Gibb
Songs written by Barry Gibb
Songs written by Robin Gibb
Virgin Records singles
Yvonne Elliman songs


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