text:
Citizen Steve: Aaron Sorkin's Wellesian Perspective on the Life of Steve Jobs
Like Citizen Kane, the new Steve Jobs biopic is a parable about the darkness that often accompanies greatness and the emotional cost of great achievement, writes Kendall Whitehouse in this review.
Knowledge at Wharton's technology and media editor, Kendall Whitehouse, explores how the movie Steve Jobs echoes some of the themes and structure of another film about a larger-than-life figure, Citizen Kane. Spoiler alert: Readers unfamiliar with both films should note that the commentary includes a few details about the conclusion of each movie. Currently in limited release, Steve Jobs expands to wide release in U.S. theaters on October 23.
In the "News on the March" pseudo-documentary at the beginning of Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, the film's titular figure is characterized as "a Communist" by a Wall Street banker and "a Fascist" by a protesting worker. "All of these years he covered, many of these he was," reads the faux documentary's title card. The same epigram could also characterize the version of Steven P. Jobs crafted by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle in their film, Steve Jobs.
Citizen Kane and Steve Jobs have a great deal in common in both their subject and their approach to portraying the life of a towering individual. Like Citizen Kane, Steve Jobs is a parable about the darkness that often accompanies greatness and the emotional cost of great achievement.
Steve Jobs is the third biography of the Apple co-founder released in as many years. Alex Gibney's Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) is a documentary and Jobs (2013) by director Joshua Michael Stern and writer Matt Whiteley (and starring Ashton Kutcher) is a conventional chronologically arranged biopic. Sorkin and Boyle have crafted something different. As Welles does in Citizen Kane, Sorkin and Boyle use a biographical tale not merely to portray the life of an individual, but to explore the emotional undercurrents of a larger-than-life figure.
Although officially based on Walter Isaacson's comprehensive biography of Jobs, Sorkin's screenplay doesn't follow the book's birth-to-death linear narrative of Jobs's life. Like Citizen Kane, the film presents a series of tableaux that reveal different aspects of its protagonist.
"As Welles does in Citizen Kane, Sorkin and Boyle use a biographical tale not merely to portray the life of an individual, but to explore the emotional undercurrents of a larger-than-life figure."
In Citizen Kane, co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, the title character is viewed through a series of recollections of those who knew him — Walter Thatcher (George Coulouris), his banker and initial caretaker; Mr. Bernstein (Everett Sloane), the general manager of his newspaper; Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), his colleague and one-time friend; Susan Alexander Kane (Dorothy Comingore), his second wife; and Raymond (Paul Stewart), the aloof butler at his palatial estate. Each account provides a different perspective, colored by the viewpoint of the speaker.
Sorkin's approach in Steve Jobs also eschews a comprehensive chronological unfolding of a life to show Jobs through a series of three tableaux offering progressive views of the film's subject. Each of these three sequences presents the moments leading up to when Jobs will take the stage to make a major product announcement: the 1984 launch of the Macintosh, the 1988 debut of the NeXT computer after Jobs had been forced out of Apple, and the 1998 debut of the iMac following Jobs's triumphant return to the helm of Apple.
Although each of the three sequences shows Jobs preparing to go on stage for one of his famous presentations, each ends just before the climactic moment. We see Jobs ascend the stage to great audience anticipation but, before he addresses the crowd, the scene cuts. While Jobs's presentations are legendary, that's not the part of the story that interests Sorkin and Boyle. It's what happens behind the scenes that reveals the character they want to illuminate.
In each of the three segments Jobs (portrayed by Michael Fassbender) is seen interacting with the same set of individuals. Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet), the head of Apple's marketing team, constantly wrestles with Jobs over everything from the details of the presentation he's about to give to how he's mistreating those around him. Apple engineering wiz Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg) suffers Jobs's outrageous demands and heaps of abuse. John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), in one of the film's brief flashbacks, is seduced by Jobs to serve as CEO of Apple and then later, in another flashback, wins the support of Apple's board and ousts Jobs from the company he founded.
Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) has deep affection for his longtime friend and co-founder, but is frequently frustrated by Jobs's arrogance and inability to give praise or acknowledgement to the work of others. "What do you do?" Wozniak asks. "You can't write code. You're not an engineer. You're not a designer. You can't put a hammer to a nail. I built the circuit board. The graphical interface was stolen from Xerox PARC…. So how come ten times in a day I read Steve Jobs is a genius? What do you do?"
"While Jobs's presentations are legendary, that's not the part of the story that interests Sorkin and Boyle. It's what happens behind the scenes that reveals the character they want to illuminate."
'Great Men Molded by … Abandonment'
The characters at the center of the film's emotional arc are Jobs's estranged girlfriend, Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston) and, most significantly, Lisa, the daughter that Jobs continually denies is his (played at various ages by Makenzie Moss, Ripley Sobo, and Perla Haney-Jardine).
Jobs pushes away Chrisann and refuses to admit that Lisa is his daughter. Early in the film, Chrisann confronts him about how he feels about the fact that she and Lisa are living on welfare while Jobs's Apple stock is worth $441 million. Jobs's detached response is to note that Apple helps young people by donating millions of dollars' worth of computers to schools.
Both Citizen Kane and Steve Jobs are tales of great men molded by a sense of abandonment in their childhood. When his poor and uncultured family stumbles into great wealth, the young Charles Foster Kane is given over to be raised by a banker, Mr. Thatcher, so he can be properly educated. Steve Jobs was given up twice — first by his biological parents and then by potential adoptive parents who decided not to raise him.
Underneath Kane's towering media empire and Jobs's amazing technological innovations, lies the quest to fill this emotional void. Both men grow to be fabulously successful, yet are emotionally stunted.
"I'm poorly made," Sorkin's Jobs ultimately admits to his daughter Lisa. Kane's colleague Jedediah Leland tells him: "You don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you love 'em so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want love on your own terms. Something to be played your way, according to your rules."
Sorkin's screenplay similarly emphasizes Jobs's desire for "end to end control" of both his computing devices and his emotional life. Equally apparent is Jobs's disdain for those around him. "Why do you want people to dislike you?" Apple engineer Andy Hertzfeld asks Jobs. "I'm indifferent to whether or not people like me," is Jobs's reply.
"'Why do you want people to dislike you?' Apple engineer Andy Hertzfeld asks Jobs. 'I'm indifferent to whether or not people like me,' is Jobs's reply."
The tension between being great and being good is central to both films. "Can a great man… be a good man?" the tag line for a Steve Jobs television spot asks. "If I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man," Kane tells his newspaper's manager, Mr. Bernstein. "It's not binary," Jobs's longtime friend and colleague Steve Wozniak shouts in a fit of anger at a recalcitrant Jobs. "You can be decent and gifted at the same time."
In Citizen Kane, the shifting perspectives of the various narrators slowly fill in the pieces of the man's life. In Steve Jobs, by contrast, we see the character with the same individuals throughout the film, but Jobs interacts with them in evolving ways. It's time that has changed in each sequence, and Sorkin wants to show us a man who, despite a profound obstinacy and his famous "reality distortion field," grows to embrace a more complete understanding of himself and his life.
This is perhaps the most significant way in which Steve Jobs diverges from Citizen Kane. In Welles's film, Charles Foster Kane ends up alone, never gaining the love he so desperately seeks. At the end of his life, Kane gazes into a snow globe originally owned by Susan Alexander when their romance first blossomed. The glass orb now serves as a wistful remembrance of the boyhood dreams that are forever lost to the elderly Kane. Sorkin's Jobs, in contrast, comes to realize the significance of the familial relationship he has avoided for much of his life and begins, at last, to embrace it.
Both men gain the world, but while Charles Foster Kane loses his soul, Steven Paul Jobs finds his.
How Jazz Can Unlock Your Team's Next Breakthrough
How to Use Neuroscience to Build Team Chemistry
A Key to Better Leadership: Confident Humility
December 6, 2022 • 4 min read


text:
#ifndef LIBPRAEFECTUS__SYSTEM_COMMIT_H_
#define LIBPRAEFECTUS__SYSTEM_COMMIT_H_

#include "system.h"
#include "commitment-chain.h"
#include "outbox.h"
#include "message-bus.h"
#include "messages/PraefMsgCommit.h"

typedef struct {
  unsigned commit_interval;
  unsigned max_commit_lag;
  unsigned max_validated_lag;
  unsigned commit_lag_laxness;
  unsigned self_commit_lag_compensation_16;
  unsigned public_visibility_lag;
  unsigned stability_wait;

  praef_comchain* commit_builder;
  praef_mq* cr_intercept;
  praef_message_bus cr_loopback;
  praef_instant last_commit;

  praef_instant last_unstable_frame;
  int currently_stable;
} praef_system_commit;

typedef struct {
  praef_comchain* comchain;
} praef_node_commit;

int praef_system_commit_init(praef_system*);
void praef_system_commit_destroy(praef_system*);
void praef_system_commit_update(praef_system*);

int praef_node_commit_init(struct praef_node_s*);
void praef_node_commit_destroy(struct praef_node_s*);
void praef_node_commit_update(struct praef_node_s*);

praef_instant praef_node_visibility_threshold(struct praef_node_s*);

void praef_node_commit_observe_message(struct praef_node_s*,
                                       praef_instant,
                                       const unsigned char[PRAEF_HASH_SIZE]);
void praef_node_commit_recv_msg_commit(struct praef_node_s*,
                                       praef_instant,
                                       const PraefMsgCommit_t*);

#endif /* LIBPRAEFECTUS__SYSTEM_COMMIT_H_ */

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Sterling is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Glynn County, Georgia, United States, located on U.S. Route 341. Sterling consists of several small churches and general stores.  It is included in the Brunswick, Georgia statistical area. Its zip code is 31525.

It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 2,534.

Sterling formerly had a station on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad.

Demographics

2020 census

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.

Education

Glynn County's public schools are operated by Glynn County School System.

Zoned schools include:
 Sterling Elementary School (SES)
 Jane Macon Middle School (JMS)
 Brunswick High School (BHS)

References

Populated places in Glynn County, Georgia
Census-designated places in Glynn County, Georgia

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


According to the ACLU's original analysis, marijuana arrests now account for over half of all drug arrests in the United States. Of the 8.2 million marijuana arrests between 2001 and 2010, 88% were for simply having marijuana. Nationwide, the arrest data revealed significant racial bias. Blacks are 3.73 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana.
The figures include medical and adult consumer sales. However, the annual gain was fueled by the growth in consumer sales, as some states have approved adult recreational marijuana use. Adult use sales grew to $998 million from $351 million in 2014, according to the research. And voters in more states, including California, are likely to take up the issue in 2016.
A couple of things about legalizing marijuana. Marijuana products, from a medicinal standpoint, directly compete with legal prescription drugs that kill 100,000 people a year. There has not been one documented death due to marijuana. So [it's] a whole lot safer and arguably as effective. On the recreational side, "I have always maintained that legalizing marijuana will lead to less overall substance abuse because people will find marijuana as such a safer alternative than everything else that's out there — starting with alcohol". The campaign to legalize marijuana in Colorado was a campaign based on: Marijuana is safer than alcohol.
Created with images by futurefilmworks - "cannabis pot weed" • MikeFZiethlow - "gary johnson president election"


text:
Coffee region
Southwest Colombia
Northeast Colombia
Central Colombia
Crime and security
Latest newsNews
ELN declares war on oil companies
by Andrew J. Wight November 5, 2013
The future of Colombia Reports relies on your support. Please become a patron and support independent reporting from Colombia.
The future of Colombia Reports relies on your financial support. Please become a patron and support independent reporting from Colombia.
In a statement released on the ELN website Tuesday, Colombia's second largest guerrilla group declared war on the multinationals and oil companies "plundering" the country's natural resources.
The ELN's Eastern War Front Commander, Manuel Vasquez Castaño, confirmed that a slew of recent attacks directed at Colombia's oil infrastructure have been intended to hurt the pockets of multinationals active in the country.
MORE: ELN admits to 50 attacks in northeast Colombia, list conditions for peace talks
"Once again, we reaffirm our belligerent stance to confront multinationals and their repressive apparatus: the plunderers and exploiters of natural resources," he said. "Colombia is a colony of North American imperialism — bourgeois elites in power sold to the highest bidder and in the name of democracy deliver natural resources to their Yankee masters."
The statement went on to discuss the high prices of Colombia's internal combustible market, which lead to nationwide strikes in the trucking sector this past summer and have been sited by farm organizers involved in ongoing negotiations with the government as a reason for the financial insolubility of the agricultural market.
"We are one of the top oil-producing countries worldwide," said Vasquez, "but Colombia has (some of) the world's most expensive gasoline."
According to analysis website Insight Crime, kidnappings, extortion and attacks on economic infrastructure have become central components of ELN strategy.
The ELN made headlines this summer when it kidnapped Canadian mining official Gernot Wober and held him for ransom.
Wober was eventually released to the Colombian government, in exchange for a start to preliminary negotiations over a formal peace process.
The rebel group has asked for broad talks along the lines of the peace deal currently being negotiated in Havana, Cuba between government officials and the FARC, Colombia's largest rebel group.
But despite agreeing to initiate the process, the Colombian government has yet to reach out to the ELN central command, which has repeatedly called for the start of discussions, and recently launched an offensive against oil and gas pipelines in rural Colombia, in what is believed to be a measure to pressure the Colombian government into talks.
MORE: ELN reaffirms willingness for peace talks
Despite the ELN's efforts, Colombia's state-owned Ecopetrol oil company reported a net profit of $2.05 billion in the third quarter of 2013 and record levels of oil production.
MORE: Despite attacks, record output for Colombia's Ecopetrol
The Colombian government has yet to respond to the ELN's most recent announcement, and hasn't indicated that any plan to develop talks will be forthcoming.
The ELN, which continues to employ the anti-capitalist rhetoric of its origins as a Catholic-Marxist revolutionary group, has since become dependent on the illicit mining and gold trade, running operations throughout the country that exploit Colombia's rural poor and generate sizable revenue streams for the group's other activities.
Comunicado a la Opinión Pública (ELN website)
Profile: ELN (Insight Crime)
ELNNatural Resourcespeace talks
Pompeo 'applauds' Colombia's violent response to peaceful protests
Everybody in Colombia can guess who the Aguilas Negras are, except the Aguilas Negras
Colombia's peaceful anti-government protests marred by violent incidents in Bogota and Medellin
Weekly interviews and news updates
In northeast Colombia 'the guerrillas are the police': HRW
Colombia's ELN rebels a 'threat to regional stability': international coalition
Police generals investigated over ELN terrorist attack that killed 22
@2008-2019 - Colombia Reports. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by Digitale Zaken and Parrolabs

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Principal of Cheltenham Ladies\' College vows to fight \'epidemic\' of teenage mental illness
By Joe Millis
Pupils will have less prep in the library, but more meditation and time between lessons Cheltenham Ladies\' College
Meditation and longer time between lessons are the way forward to prevent an "epidemic" of teenage mental illness, according to the head of one of Britain's top private schools.
And Eve Jardine-Young, principal of the 162-year-old Cheltenham Ladies' College, may abolish homework and set its pupils' wellbeing on a par with their academic grades.
Jardine-Young, who also plans to give the girls more of a say in the day-to-day running of lessons and extracurricular activities told The Times: "We will have to look at how we are doing things. Will we even be doing prep [a Victorian practice akin to homework]?"
She said that the crisis of adolescent stress and unhappiness was deeply concerning.
"What we've been reflecting on a lot in the last few years are the big national trends and international trends in the worsening states of adolescent mental health," she said. "We've created this epidemic of anxiety for ourselves as a society, and if our obligation as educators is to try to the best of our ability to set young people up as best we can for whatever the future may hold, then to ignore this whole area or to trivialise it is really irresponsible."
Split over homework
Heads of other leading independent schools disagreed with the idea that homework might not be suited to modern pupils' needs.
Sir Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College, said: "We shouldn't be shielding girls or boys from anxiety and stress — we should be helping them to cope with it because they are essential and inevitable in life. That's the whole point of the wellbeing agenda."
But Jardine-Young said personal, social and health education (PSHE) classes would be overhauled in the new school year, so girls are not lectured about drugs and unprotected sex but given a more "positive" picture of sensible life choices.
More about Teenage Mental Health
NHS Find Bed for Teenage Girl with Mental Health Issues
Aggressive Teenage Girls have Abnormal Brain Structures, Say Wellcome Researchers
One Direction\'s Louis Tomlinson Sparks Anger After Endorsing Weight Loss Product on Twitter
Bullied teenagers more likely to develop depression in later years says research
Cannabis \'Damages Teenagers\' Brains,\' Believe Top Scientists
Australian TV Star Charlotte Dawson Found Dead in Sydney Home


Amazon.com: Earth's Best Organic Baby Food, 12 count just $7.27 shipped!
Amazon has Earth's Best Organic Stage 2, Favorite Fruits Variety Pack, 12 count for just $7.27 shipped when you checkout through Subscribe & Save – the lowest price ever on record! That's like paying only $0.60 per jar shipped!
Once your order ships, you can go into your Amazon account and cancel your subscription if you don't want recurring orders.
« Sam's Club: Pay $45 for membership, $10 e-gift card, and a tailgate package!


This is Adeline Helbert (1813 - 1892) who married Baron Weisweiller. Genealogical information is here. The family had French, German, and Rothschild connections. Her husband's German-language Wikipedia article is here. He represented the Rothschild interests in Spain. She was a Lady-in-Waiting to Queen of the Belgians Maria Hendrika.


text:
Controversial ad for make-up wipe pulled in China after backlash over alleged victim-blaming
Updated 0638 GMT (1438 HKT) January 11, 2021
A still from the now-removed Purcotton advertisement which critics said appeared to "demonize" victims of sexual assault.
(CNN) A controversial advertisement for make-up removal wipes has been pulled from the internet in China, after it prompted widespread backlash on social media over claims it "demonized" victims of sexual assault.
The advertisement, produced by Chinese cotton product brand Purcotton, shows a woman walking down a dimly lit street at night followed by a masked man. As the man begins to approach her, the woman is shown using a Purcotton wipe to remove her make-up, seemingly horrifying her would-be attacker and causing him to run away.
Though it is unclear when the advertisement was first released, social media users in China have seized on the short video, decrying its apparent victim-blaming message, and labeling it "disgusting" and "wrong." Some have even called for a boycott of the company's products.
"You use what scares women the most for an advertisement, which is beyond comprehension and unacceptable," one user said on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform.
China Women's News, a website which is operated by the government-affiliated All-China Women's Federation, denounced the ad on their social media for "demonizing the victim."
"(It is) full of prejudice, malice, and ignorance. Women are consumers and not consumer goods. It is inevitable that 'creative' advertisements that insult women will be criticized by the public," the social media post said.
Purcotton, which is owned by Winner Medical Group, has more than 240 stores in China and an estimated 20 million customers, according to the company's website.
Purcotton originally defended the advertisement as a creative way to advertise the "cleaning function of the product," but as the calls for a boycott grew, the company removed the video from their accounts and eventually apologized on January 8.
"We have set up a team to hold people to account for the problem and, in the meantime, we will improve content production and the review process to prevent similar incidents from happening again," the company's post said. Purcotton posted a second apology letter to their Weibo account on Monday.
It isn't the first time that a Chinese company has been forced to apologize over accusations of sexism.
In 2020, supermarket chain RT-Mart apologized after one of its stores displayed a sizing chart which labeled women who wore large or XXL clothes "rotten" and "terrible."
One year earlier, China's top ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing had to backtrack on a curfew for female passengers using its service after 8 p.m., which had been put in place following the murder of two women who used the app.
CNN's Beijing bureau contributed to this article.


text:
Articles / Desktop Programming / Electron
Posted 20 Dec 2021
product-showcase
Productivity Hack Every Successful Developer Should Embrace
20 Dec 2021CPOL15 min read
As the developer productivity drain crisis is worsening, we will inevitably witness even more manifestations of this problem in the near future. Adopting a smarter approach to building, testing, and maintaining software products without further delay is the way to avoid falling into this trap.
This article is a sponsored article. Articles such as these are intended to provide you with information on products and services that we consider useful and of value to developers
The technology industry went through a colossal leap in development over the last several decades. Virtually every tech field today, from web solutions and software to enterprise networks and hardware, has evolved tremendously since the late 1980s—which is commonly viewed as a reference point to the modern rise of the Digital Revolution—to be able to provide users with unprecedented choices in features and technical capabilities, enabled by continuously increasingly computing power of devices in our IT infrastructure and wide implementation of new technologies.
The growth has been so rapid, with major new trends and tech solutions replacing each other every couple years or so, it almost seems like the majority of people in the tech industry, whose job it is to bring all these transformations to life, never had time to slow down, take a break, and ask themselves where this path leads them.
Amid the abundant flow of highly enthusiastic reports in the media, praising the power of new tech such as AI or cloud computing and picturing the benefits of digital transformation, it can be really difficult to recognize problematic tendencies, increasingly manifesting themselves across all the fields of computer system development.
Are Excessive Complexity And Tech Stack Bloat Pulling Us Down?
There are a handful of trends and processes going on in modern-day, web, mobile, and enterprise software development that are all contributing to what can only be described as a crisis of development productivity, caused by an uncontrollable bloat that continues to flourish today.
And you don't need to dig deeply into the backstage of software development to support this claim as evidence can be found everywhere.
Here are several of the most prominent examples.
Despite hardware continuously gaining computation power, software is working with the same speed or even slower.
As both consumer devices and enterprise hardware solutions are getting more and more powerful every year, we are hardly able to see corresponding boosts in speed and general performance. Unfortunately, additional resources of new-generation devices are largely being wasted on satisfying new software's growing appetites for computing power—all due to poor choices of engineering tools and general tendencies for prioritizing inelegant software development tools.
Despite ever-faster Internet connection speeds, web pages are loading slower
A very similar picture can be seen in web development. Despite the internet connection speed growing more than 20 times over the last ten years alone, many websites are actually working slower than before. This is because web pages are getting bigger in size every year. Today the average web page is more than 3 megabytes in size, while in 2011 it was just 929 kilobytes. A 2019 study (https://backlinko.com/page-speed-stats) by Backlinko, based on the analysis of over five million desktop and mobile web pages, found that an average desktop page was taking 10.3 seconds to load and mobile pages needed a whopping 27.3 seconds to load on average. Extensive usage of JavaScript elements and library integrations that are so ubiquitous in web development of today are major contributors to this issue. This same software bloat has crept into desktop software through an adoption of Electron framework-based applications that utilize web technologies, which are slow and consume huge amounts of memory.
Software solution providers are struggling to keep up with cross-platform delivery
As if the need to deliver increasingly complex and feature-rich products weren't enough, software developers are also pressed to provide versions of their products for a growing number of platforms, both desktop and mobile. Building and updating the same application multiple times with different toolchains to support major platforms—with Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS as the main ones—is costly, complex, and brittle.
The need to supply a constant stream of timely updates drains development resources
Shortening development release cycles and the need to supply various kinds of security, design, and functionality updates in a timely manner are other reasons it gets harder for developers to keep up with this bloat.
Being pressed by all these and other related factors doesn't go without consequences: it forces developers to adopt the quickest and easiest solutions, sacrificing quality and code optimization because doing so seems to become the new normal.
Developer Pain Points across Programming Stacks: From COBOL to Java and Python
As mentioned above, some of the biggest issues that are burdening modern-day software development and jeopardizing productivity across fields are bloated and inefficient frameworks and development tools. Let's take a closer look at several widely popular technology stacks to identify what the developers specializing in these tools are complaining about and concerned with the most.
Despite being labeled as a legacy language since about the same time as the Digital Revolution started to unfold on a massive scale (late 1980s), COBOL development is still very much alive, mostly because numerous companies are still relying on the COBOL codebase and solutions that are written in this language and powering some of the most fundamental parts of their IT infrastructure.
As time goes by, however, COBOL legacy code gets more difficult and expensive to support, forcing enterprises to address the need for modernization.
Here are several direct quotes from the developers discussing the current state of affairs in this field.
"My mother spent much of her career as a COBOL programmer, dating back to the early 80s. She retired in 2015 and quickly got bored. I talked her into accepting part-time contract work, something to keep her busy. She got flooded by recruiters. They all told her the same story: 'Big Corp' is nervous because a critical system runs COBOL and the staff that used to support it have all either retired or died. She got the impression that most of the managers at 'Big Corp' had little to no regard for these 'critical' systems; they were just looking to save their own jobs, either by way of a miracle worker (wave a magic wand and fix 40 years of tech debt in 3 months) or a fall guy (it's the contractor's fault, not mine)," a user named jimt1234 said.
"Debugging 20-year-old Java code sucks, but a 40-year-old COBOL project, with source code backed up to 5-inch floppy disks—forget about it. I once met someone who migrated a COBOL project to Java. The biggest complaint wasn't even the language itself, but extracting business logic from a 40-year old spaghetti codebase. Sometimes bugs were part of the business logic itself and other developers who consumed the monstrosity had to make corrections on their side," a user named notimrelakatos said.
The Java development ecosystem is a typical example of a technology stack getting excessively complex as new versions of the development tools are being released. Many Java developers are complaining about the differences in Java versions from 8 to 17 (the latest one currently) and the abundance of related compatibility and performance issues affecting their work.
Here are several noteworthy direct quotes.
"One of the reasons we're still on JRE8 is that any of the newer JREs that I tested throw crash panics on several tasks, and the ones that don't take 40 or 50 hours to finish instead of four or five. That left me with the impression that stability and performance had been abandoned over throwing everything including the kitchen sink at it to try and attract people who like Rust and Go. Could be wrong, but the hand waving away the implication that 17 is slower than 15 at the end and not even trying to compare with 8, which is rock solid and crazy performant, leaves me thinking nothing actually changed," a user named DarkmSparks commented.
"In the move to Java 9 they broke Java's customary backward compatibility and left behind a lot of users. It doesn't help that there is no good, clear and complete guide on how to upgrade SOAP clients. I went through this recently and learned that because Jakarta uses multi-release jars, we have to do the regular dependency changes and also change our fat-jar based build/release to Docker images. In other words, they decided to throw out decades of users' investment in learning the ecosystem. I'm not surprised that people seem to be leaving the ecosystem," pabl0rg added.
JavaScript is without a doubt one of the main drivers of web pages' gaining extra weight in recent years. This language offers web developers many powerful capabilities, such as getting real-time data from third-party sources or utilizing innovative technologies at low cost, but it's not like they come without a price. An overload of JavaScript elements is the major reason for slow page-loading time and latency, especially when JavaScript elements are poorly written and/or integrated, conflicting with other components and resulting in compatibility issues.
JavaScript developers, understandably, tend to be unhappy about the growing complexity of web development and overall increasing "inelegance" of developing solutions in this technology stack with the emphasis on external frameworks and libraries that keep replacing each other.
Here's a well-articulated comment by a JavaScript developer writing about the pain points of modern-day JS development:
"This is patently obvious to anyone who builds large web applications. Ten years ago we had ASWing, JSwing and plenty of other actual frameworks where you didn't have to diddle around with tons of logic embedded in templates which were embedded in other logic. But thanks to Apple, we're still saddled with this wretched Javascript/HTML paradigm that was never meant to do much more than inline some animated GIFs back in the 90s. Yes, it's gotten better (I've been doing this since the 90s, so I know). But it's so inelegant. To some degree this is just a problem with open web standards. It would be better if any one company actually had dominated to the point where they could write a closed standard, because at least it would be coherent and cross-platform. It was a lot easier to write a web app in 2010 than it is now, and it pains me to think how many hours I could have avoided reinventing the wheel if Flash had been allowed to stick around. Any app written entirely now on Canvas is just replicating a VM that already existed a decade ago in what was by then a much more mature ecosystem—and was faster than Canvas or WebGL is now."
Similar to the Java development community members, Python developers today are forced to deal with multiple difficulties related to the transition from Python 2—which was released in 2000 and is now considered a legacy—to Python 3, facing compatibility issues and the need to migrate outdated Python code to the new platform.
"I think the situation is mishandled for this reason. Python 3 is basically another language, similar to Python 2. Calling it Python 3 is an exercise in marketing: instead of creating a new language to compete with Python 2 (along with all similar languages e.g. Julia) the existing Python 2 community was leveraged/shamed into supporting the new thing, and most importantly, Python 2 was killed by its maintainers (rather than handed off) so it couldn't compete with Python 3, and so that users would be forced to move somewhere else, Python 3 being the easiest. If it had properly been a new language, they could have taken more liberties to fix issues, like a single official package manager. And migration to Python 3 would have been more by consent, than by force," a user named Chris2048 points out.
Applications made using Electron, a popular framework that allows developers to create native apps with web technologies to deploy on multiple platforms at once, are a major contributor to worsening performance and growing latency of modern-day web solutions overall. Electron has been steadily gaining adoption in the industry since its release in 2013. A number of highly popular apps are built with this framework, including Slack, Skype, Visual Studio Code, WordPress Desktop, WhatsApp Desktop, Atom, etc. The main problem with Electron-made apps is that they are incredibly memory-intensive, consuming enormous amounts of RAM when active. This is due to the fact that every Electron app is in fact a browser in a separate window with Node.js server powering the backend.
Naturally, software developers are well aware of the problematic nature of Electron and all the downsides of using this solution.
"I am not sure what the point is of Electron: a resource-hungry app that literally is a wrapped web app. Instead of writing platform specific apps that leverage the power and capabilities of those platforms, we get a jack of all trades and master of none. Electron is a business decision, not an enlightened technical one. What value does Electron add to the user? I would argue none. The fact that Slack can't find the resources to write actual Swift for a Mac App is just amazing to me. Instead we are essentially interacting with a lowest-common-denominator web app. Is a chat app that hard to write natively?" a user named briandear wonders.
"People built web apps 15 years ago in the dumpster fire that was web standards at the time. Browsers, even the good ones, didn't update themselves automatically. Most of the world was still on IE, which was actively hostile to web standards for the sake of lock-in. There was nothing like Babel to smooth over the rough edges, there were no polyfills. And even the standards that existed, when you got the opportunity to use them, mostly sucked. I think, given all that, we can deal with supporting recent-ish Chromium and the latest Safari, if it means bolstering web diversity and saving an order of magnitude in RAM and storage," a user named brundolf said.
Many web developers also point out that Electron codebase is considerably outdated by today's standards: "It launched eight years ago; the web has changed a lot since then. Edge wasn't even around until 2015, much less being used for webviews."
Developer Productivity is in a Downward Spiral; This Has to be Reversed
The main point of reviewing the pain points of developers across the most common technical stacks is to demonstrate that modern-day software development is indeed going through a challenging time: a productivity drain crisis.
And it has to be addressed and resolved to allow us to move forward. As cliché as it may sound, there's always an opportunity with crisis. In our case, the opportunity lies in approaching the development process with the right mindset and selecting software development tools that are designed to solve this problem, leading the way to a new era of developer productivity. Embarcadero's RAD Studio, a rapid application development package centered on a "write once, compile everywhere" approach, is such a tool. And adopting it can be a way to supercharge developer productivity and get relief from these pains.
What Does Productivity Mean in Software Development?
But first, we need to clarify what productivity actually is. In software development, we view productivity as the sum of developer productivity, business functionality, application flexibility, and product performance.
In order for the productivity crisis to be resolved, going through some mental transformations as an industry may be just as important as selecting the right tools. Specifically, companies need to adopt a healthier approach to budgeting the development and maintenance of software systems.
When estimating the costs of software projects, it's important to budget for and recognize the importance of not just the cost of developers' work, but also the tools used to build and maintain the software. Adopting open-source development tools that are free but time consuming can lead to huge long-term expenses due to developer productivity losses.
Unfortunately, many companies today seem to be extremely shortsighted and careless when it comes to long-term planning of development costs and thinking strategically. Future maintenance, ease of testing, and the ability of an application to fulfill its purpose are all hidden productivity costs. Turning a blind eye to them is one reason that all-encompassing but poorly optimized solutions are increasingly prioritized in the industry.
One way to achieve high development productivity without falling into the trap of accumulating technical debt and needless overcomplication of the technology stack is to build applications that are scalable and flexible on the platforms where they can be deployed.
Another crucial component of productivity improvement is prioritizing software development frameworks and libraries that were designed to enable high performance. Integrated software development toolchains such as Embarcadero's RAD Studio approach this task from multiple angles, supercharging developer productivity by reducing code complexity, fulfilling business requirements, providing application flexibility, and solidifying product performance.
Can You Improve Software With Less Code?
If we had to come up with a list of the most important principles for a software developer to uphold in order to be successful in the unfolding new era of digital technologies, recognizing the importance of writing less code would definitely take one of the top spots.
Successful developers know that reducing code length is the way to be more productive and minimize the development time in a smart, strategic way. It also allows businesses to keep their systems sustainable long-term without snowballing maintenance costs.
Successful developers know that the "less code" paradigm allows for the reduction of excessive complexity and makes the technology stack easier to understand for everyone.
Successful developers know that writing less code is necessary to keep the costs of software testing and maintenance that are quickly rising today under control.
Embracing simplicity and avoiding unnecessary complexity is an essential requirement for achieving high productivity going forward. Developers can apply these principles by using easy-to-read, -write, and -learn programming languages; adopting low-code technologies; and utilizing robust toolchains that were initially created to address the above-described issues and ramp up developer productivity.
Embarcadero's RAD Studio has the "less code" idea as one of the fundamental principles of the platform. It aims to equip developers with a combination of an easy-to-read, -write, and -learn language; integrated toolchains; low-code technologies; and multi-platform deployment, ultimately being able to fuel a developer productivity boost up to X5.
Are You Ready to Embrace a New Era of Productivity?
Are you ready for the transition to the future of software development? Try RAD Studio for free or request a demonstration of this product.
Embarcadero tools are built for elite developers who build and maintain the world's most critical applications. Our customers choose Embarcadero because we are the champion of developers, and we help them build more secure and scalable enterprise applications faster than any other tools on the market. In fact, ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide have relied on Embarcadero's award-winning products for over 30 years.
If you're trying to build a business-critical application in a demanding vertical, Embarcadero is for you. If you're looking to write steadfast code quickly that will pass stringent code reviews faster than any other, Embarcadero is for you. We're here to support elite developers who understand the scalability and stability of C++ and Delphi and depend on the decades of innovation those languages bring to development.
We invite you to try our products for free and see for yourself.
Member 869706827-Dec-21 9:14
Member 8697068 27-Dec-21 9:14
It is a tower of Babel.
Genesis 11:1-9
Delphi IDE
Andy Bantly27-Dec-21 7:34
Andy Bantly 27-Dec-21 7:34
Bottom line: I've used Embarcadero Delphi IDE to write cross platform (just W10 and OSX) applications. The IDE is harder to use than others but cross platform object Pascal is pretty darn cool. I do love the language though I am much better in C languages. The cross platform concept will get plastered in your face and it will be great for awhile. Then you will want to do something neat, like networking with Bonjour. Then you're going to need help. When you try to implement something that hasn't been implemented then you get to go through the mighty exercise of importing functions from outside libraries. That is neat in and of itself (for only 1 time...) but eventually I got bonjour discovery and service broadcasting working on windows and osx with object pascal. It was hard, it was fun, but it was scary because the whole time I didn't know if I'd wake up the next day and see an email saying pascal is dead, long live pascal. What to do...
Article Copyright 2021 by Embarcadero


Canto USA was started with the specific goal of supplying the theatre lighting community with good quality, nice looking, affordable products; together with a passion for professional and friendly service to our customers.
This passion has been the main guidelines of our company, which has allowed Canto USA to establish itself as a major supplier of stylish luminaries with a full range of theatrical accessories in North America.
Canto USA offers over 40+ luminaries; this range includes a choice of plano and pebble convex luminaries, fresnel, LED, TH and discharge profiles, floods and followspots, Canto USA provides a cost-effective solution for every theatrical and architectural lighting requirement whether a standard product or custom.


text:
Respecting Your Privacy
Your privacy is of great importance to us and we will always respect your privacy and personal information. Information is gathered in the context of the archive only.
You can review our full Data Protection policy below.
Data Controller means the 100 Archive.
Data Subject means an individual whose data is processed by the Data Controller.
GDPR means the General Data Protection Regulation.
Responsible Person means Aideen McCole of the 100 Archive.
Register of Systems means a register of all systems or contexts in which personal data is processed by the Data Controller.
1. Data protection principles
The Data Controller is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities under the GDPR.
Article 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data will be:
a. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;
b. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes will not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes;
c. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;
d. accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay;
e. kept in a form which permits identification of Data Subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by the GDPR in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of individuals; and
f. processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.
a. This policy applies to all personal data processed by the Data Controller.
b. The Responsible Person will take responsibility for the Data Controller's ongoing compliance with this policy.
c. This policy will be reviewed at least annually.
3. Lawful, fair and transparent processing
a. To ensure its processing of data is lawful, fair and transparent, the Data Controller will maintain a Register of Systems.
b. The Register of Systems will be reviewed at least annually.
c. Individuals have the right to access their personal data and any such requests made to the Data Controller will be dealt with in a timely manner.
4. Lawful purposes
a. All data processed by the Data Controller must be done on one of the following lawful bases: consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task or legitimate interests.
b. The Data Controller will note the appropriate lawful basis in the Register of Systems.
c. Where consent is relied upon as a lawful basis for processing data, evidence of opt-in consent will be kept with the personal data.
d. Where communications are sent to individuals based on their consent, the option for the individual to revoke their consent should be clearly available and systems should be in place to ensure such revocation is reflected accurately in the Data Controller's systems.
5. Data minimisation
The Data Controller will ensure on an ongoing basis that personal data are adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.
a. The Data Controller will take reasonable steps on an ongoing basis to ensure personal data is accurate.
b. Where necessary for the lawful basis on which data is processed, steps will be put in place to ensure that personal data is kept up to date.
7. Archiving / removal
a. To ensure that personal data is kept for no longer than necessary, the Data Controller will put in place an archiving policy for each area in which personal data is processed and review this process annually.
b. The archiving policy will consider what data should/must be retained, for how long, and why.
a. The Data Controller will ensure that personal data is stored securely using modern software that is kept-up-to-date.
b. Access to personal data will be limited to personnel who need access and appropriate security will be in place to avoid unauthorised sharing of information.
c. When personal data is deleted this should be done safely such that the data is irrecoverable.
d. Appropriate back-up and disaster recovery solutions will be in place.
9. Access requests
A Data Subject has the right to request access to, a change in, or removal of their data, subject to a number of criteria. A Data Subject can request access to their data in writing (or by email) and the Responsible Person will provide the actual personal data requested plus the following within one month of the request:
a. The purposes for processing the data.
b. The categories of personal data concerned.
c. To whom the data has been or will be disclosed.
d. Whether the data has been or will be transferred outside of the EU.
e. The period for which the data will be stored, or the criteria to be used to determine retention periods.
f. The right to make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner.
g. The right to request rectification or deletion of the data.
10. Access requests — restrictions and exemptions
The following are situations in which the Data Controller will not comply with a data access request:
a. Where the requester is involved in a claim against an organisation, seeking compensation, and the information reveals details of the organisation's decision process in relation to their claim.
b. If the information is held for statistical purposes, is not shared with any other person or organisation and cannot be identified as belonging to any particular individual.
c. If releasing the data would mean that personal data about another individual would be unfairly disclosed. (Personal data may be released in redacted form so as to protect the other individual's data.)
d. Where the data being sought involves personal opinions that have been expressed by another individual. Specifically, if the opinion was given in confidence, and it can be proven that the person providing the opinion at the time did so in the expectation of confidence, it does not have to be released. (If the opinion was given as part of regular business communications, does not involve personal opinions, and was given without the expectation of confidentiality, it should be released.)
e. If the personal data requested is impossible to supply, or supplying it would be extremely difficult (disproportionate effort).
f. If the personal data has already been supplied in accordance with an access request, but identical requests continue to be made (unless new data has been created since the previous records were released, in which case the updated data must be provided).
g. If the data that is requested is not the personal data of the requester, it cannot be released under an access request (unless it is the data of a child and is being requested by a legal guardian, or if it is data being requested by a solicitor with written consent from their client to access their data).
In the event of a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data, the Data Controller will promptly assess the risk to people's rights and freedoms. The Data Controller will also:
a. Give immediate consideration to informing those affected. Such information permits Data Subjects to consider the consequences for each of them individually and to take appropriate measures. If the data concerned is protected by technological measures such as to make it unintelligible to any person who is not authorised to access it, the Data Controller may conclude that there is no risk to the data and therefore no need to inform Data Subjects. Such a conclusion would only be justified where the technological measures (such as encryption) were of a high standard.
b. In appropriate cases, the Data Controller will also notify organisations that may be in a position to assist in protecting Data Subjects including, where relevant, An Garda Síochána, financial institutions etc.
c. All incidents in which personal data has been put at risk will be reported to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner as soon as the Data Controller becomes aware of the incident, except when the full extent and consequences of the incident has been reported without delay directly to the affected Data Subject(s) and it affects no more than 100 Data Subjects and it does not include sensitive personal data or personal data of a financial nature.
d. When reporting to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in accordance with this policy, the Data Controller will make initial contact with the Office within two working days of becoming aware of the incident, outlining the circumstances surrounding the incident. This initial contact will not involve the communication of personal data. The need for a detailed report and/or subsequent investigation (based on the nature of the incident and the presence or otherwise of appropriate physical or technological security measures to protect the data) will be determined by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
e. Should the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner request a detailed written report of the incident, the report will reflect careful consideration of the following elements:
—a chronology of the events leading up to the loss of control of the personal data;
—the amount and nature of the personal data that has been compromised;
—the action being taken to secure and / or recover the personal data that has been compromised;
—the action being taken to inform those affected by the incident or reasons for the decision not to do so;
—the action being taken to limit damage or distress to those affected by the incident; and
—the measures being taken to prevent repetition of the incident.
f. Even where there is no notification of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, the Data Controller will keep a summary record of each incident which has given rise to a risk of unauthorised disclosure, loss, destruction or alteration of personal data. The record will include a brief description of the nature of the incident and an explanation of why the Data Controller did not consider it necessary to inform the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. Such records would be provided to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner upon request.


text:
Fort Collins' Launch: Community Through Skateboarding hosts Create A Skate workshop
Colin Bane February 23, 2012 11:00AM
If you -- or your kid -- have been dreaming of making your own custom skateboard decks, don't miss this week's three-day Build Your Own Skateboard Workshop at Art Lab Fort Collins, 239 Linden Street, starting on Friday, February 24 at 4:30 p.m. The $60 workshop, which continues February 25 and February 26, is presented by local nonprofit Launch: Community Through Skateboarding, includes materials and instruction for designing, shaping, finishing, painting and griptaping your custom deck, and comes with a 15 percent discount coupon to hook up trucks, wheels and bearings through MRKT, a local skate shop.
"When we first started doing these DIY workshops, we thought a lot of younger kids would be interested, but it's turned out to be really popular with people of all ages and we've been getting kids, teenagers, adults, parents coming in with their kids, everybody," says Launch co-founder (and former MRKT owner) Andy Weiss.
"For this workshop, we're teaming up with Paul Schmitt's Create A Skate, which is a program designed for junior high and high school wood-shop classes, so you'll get an uncut blank to start with and you'll end up with a ready-to-ride skateboard deck, but what you're really getting is an experience where you learn about the history of skateboarding and the advantages of different skateboard shapes and you put some math, science, design and manufacturing principles to work to create something you'll be stoked to have made yourself."
We first caught up with Weiss in August, just as Launch was launching and trying to raise money for the Launch Creative Center, a proposed community space that Weiss hopes will one day feature a skateboarding museum, library and gallery, an indoor ramp and a permanent workshop and art studio space for hosting projects like Create A Skate.
"We're still looking for an ideal space," Weiss says. "But in the meantime, it's been great that we've been able to have some events at our local skateparks and start some of our programming without having a location, through partnerships with local schools and with great spaces like the Art Lab."
The most popular program so far is the "Honor Roll" Skate to Success program that Weiss and his Launch partners introduced for the 2011-12 school year, offering MRKT Skateshop gift certificates between $25 and $150 each semester to Fort Collins students registered for the program who can keep their grade-point average between 2.75 and 4.0.
"Skateboarders understand incentives for performing well," explains Weiss. "It's been pretty exciting to see all these kids working hard to get their grades up."
Launch: Commmunity Through Skateboarding from LAUNCH SKATE on Vimeo.
Colin Bane
Contact: Colin Bane
Veterans Tell Their Stories With Photography
By Alexander Elmore
Anne Kuehn Started Designing Clothes With Teddy Bears
By Kastle Waserman


text:
June 4, 2013 June 4, 2013 by dksheets
KMOV: Setting a bad example
accuracy, ethics, journalism, social media
andy carvin, barack obama, boston marathon, cbs, cognoscenti, curt woodward, david sheets, facebook, internal revenue service, irs, kmov, larry conners, lindenwood university, melvin mencher, npr, social media, st. charles, st. louis, tim harrower, twitter
From the first day of my course in basic journalism at Lindenwood University last semester, I hammered into my students' heads the importance of accuracy in reporting.
It was an essential part of my lectures, my assignments and my grading system ― so much so that the students were ordered to supply me with contact information for the sources in each of their stories. Any detail they cited had to be referenced, and that reference had to have an email address or phone number attached for me to verify.
If doubt trumped veracity, their grades suffered. Heavily.
"Accuracy is at the core of your credibility," I said and posted in a PowerPoint presentation. "Subtract that and you're less of a journalist, less of a professional."
I wonder now if I should extend a formal invitation to the reporting staff of KMOV-TV to take my course. Because recent events involving the CBS affiliate have put into question its appreciation of accuracy in reporting.
The first event, profiled here last month, involved former KMOV news anchor Larry Conners, who stirred protest and scuttled his job by alleging via Facebook that the Internal Revenue Service was harassing him because of an interview in April 2012 with President Barack Obama that Conners believed put the president on the defensive.
Conners admitted in the Facebook post he had no proof but neglected to mention that his issues with the IRS went back at least four years before the interview. The station soon fired Conners, accusing him of harboring bias and dragging KMOV's name through his speculation.
Conners insists he was just doing his job. He's busy now however leveling another accusation, having filed a discrimination suit against KMOV on a peripheral matter.
Event No. 2 blew through Twitter on Friday evening as tornadic winds bounded between St. Charles and St. Louis, followed by a flood of tweets saying KMOV had reported on television around 8:30 that a "mass casualty" event involved a storm-wrecked hotel in the storm's path.
The phrase echoed ominously across social media as the Twitterverse awaited a citable source from KMOV confirming the destruction. No other news provider offered similar reports or alternate confirmation, and at least one wondered openly where KMOV was getting its information. Meanwhile, social media watchers said KMOV kept repeating the frightening words on the air.
KMOV began backing away from its initial televised report about 30 minutes later, but not before changing the location of destruction and leaving St. Louis County authorities and representatives of the hotels that were named to assuage fears via their own social media. By then, the storm seemed secondary on Twitter to KMOV's own hasty, alarming damage assessment.
Twitterers continued hurling brickbats at the station well into the next day. Even social media maven Andy Carvin of National Public Radio weighed in.
"Yet another twitter rumor spread because of poor initial reporting by mainstream media," he tweeted Saturday.
Though KMOV never explained itself, the initial report of mass storm casualties was thought to be inspired by a vague understanding of dialog emanating from a police scanner ― historically, an unreliable source for factual information. You would think KMOV already knew this.
"Police reporters depend on sources in the department and on their knowledge of police procedure for their stories," wrote educator Melvin Mencher in his college text "News Reporting and Writing," now in its 12th edition. He later added that, "Sins of omission occur when the journalist fails to act in situations in which revelation is required. … More often, the omission is the result of laziness or ignorance."
A group effort by Fred Fedler, John R. Bender, Lucinda Davenport and Michael R. Drager titled "Reporting for the Media" reiterates this point.
"If reporters lack some information, they should consult their sources again," the authors wrote. "Reporters should never guess or make assumptions about the facts. … Conscientious news organizations check their stories' accuracy."
And former newspaper editor Tim Harrower devotes a portion of his own popular textbook, "Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism," to covering accidents and disasters. Intrinsic to this kind of journalism: confirming before reporting.
"No matter how useful the Internet may be, it's no substitute for reality ― for real discussions with real human beings," Harrower wrote.
All of these texts have been around at least 10 years and are staples of journalism education. It's hard to imagine that anyone at KMOV who studied journalism hasn't read one, or read one like them.
But if they haven't, the Boston Marathon bombings offered a contemporary lesson as twitterers latched onto police scanner reports of the manhunt for the bombing suspects, and ensuing urban lockdown, and quoted like gospel every snatch of detail and garbled bit of dialog.
"Any reporter who was trained in an honest-to-goodness newsroom knows this much: The police scanner is a blunt instrument, not a source of solid facts," wrote Curt Woodward in Cognoscenti, assessing the manhunt's impact. "… The stuff being said over those airwaves is definitely real. But it isn't necessarily true.
"Civilians can be forgiven for not knowing this. But professional journalists? Yikes," he continued. "If you care about your audience, you don't report what you hear coming over the scanner, without confirming it first."
True, the proximity of Conners' situation and KMOV's storm reporting were too close to be anything but coincidence. Still, the dual social media failures imply a pattern of behavior, a misunderstanding about the importance, relevance and sensitivity of social media usage in news reporting.
So, I welcome staffers at KMOV to sit in on my classes next semester, particularly the one where we discuss how best to use tools such as Facebook and Twitter, and review how the station can start setting a better example. Or, I can lend them the textbooks; I have all three.
Or, maybe I'll just have one of my students explain it to them.
← Previous Post Larry ignored me, and look what happened
Next Post → The best birthday gift for my mother


Your Synology NAS includes a QuickConnect feature that lets you access its DiskStation Manager interface remotely. Here's how to set it up.
You were likely greeted with the QuickConnect setup page when you first installed your Synology NAS, but it's possible that you may have skipped it. If you changed your mind, though, it's never too late to set it up. Plus, it's fairly easy to do.
To get started, fire up DiskStation Manager, and then open up Control Panel.
In the Control Panel window, click the "QuickConnect" setting.
Click the "Enable QuickConnect" check box to enable the feature.
Next, click the "Log in to or register a Synology account" option.
You probably already created a Synology account when you set up your NAS, so just log in using your credentials, and then hit the "Log In" button. If you haven't already signed up for an account, you can do that here as well.
After you log in, create a QuickConnect ID. This is a username of sorts that you'll use to access your NAS remotely.
Whenever you're away from home, you can simply go to http://quickconnect.to/YourID (where "YourID" is your QuickConnect ID). You'll then have access to your NAS's user interface just like you would if you were at home. And if you want to access your NAS's files on your mobile device, you can download Synology's apps and enter your QuickConnect ID when logging in.


text:
New Poll: Two-Thirds of Americans Want ObamaCare Neutered or Gone
With a Supreme Court ruling expected by the end of June, the fate of ObamaCare is at the back of everyone's minds right now. Unfortunately for Big-O, more than two-thirds of Americans want ObamaCare gutted, neutered, or thrown out completely, according to a poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS News. A mere 24% want the law to stand, unaltered.
The new poll doesn't show too much change between public sentiment now and before the Supreme Court first faced the challenge against President Obama's controversial healthcare reform in March. As for the now, almost half of those polled, 41%, say that the law should be dropped without a second thought. Of the remainder, 27% seem to accept most of the reforms, but specifically say that the individual mandate needs to be dropped. Only 24% want the law to remain as it is.
One of the main problems with the law is that it has faced intense criticism and opposition from the right, while only fetching mediocre support from the left in recent months. Of course, two-thirds of Republicans want the law gone. That should be obvious. But only a meager 43% of Democrats want the law preserved in its entirety. On the Independent side, 70% want the law to be changed or dropped, with most of them favoring the "dropped" option. Only 22% of Independents want the law to stay as is.
The demographic spread of the poll yields some interesting results as well. One-third of the respondents with a college degree want the law upheld, while only 20% without support it.
But will nationwide sentiment affect the decision-making process of the Supreme Court Justices?
"Supreme Court justices care more about the views of academics, journalists and other elites than they do about public opinion," said authors of a 2010 study on the subject published in The Georgetown Law Journal. "This is true of nearly all justices and is especially true of swing justices, who often cast the critical votes in the court's most visible decisions."
The authors of the study, Lawrence Baum of Ohio State University and Neal Devins of the College of William & Mary, concluded that Supreme Court Justices are pretty uninterested in what we have to say.
Now for the boring stuff: The nationwide poll is based on telephone interviews conducted May 31 through June 3 on land-lines and cellphones with 976 adults, and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Do you support ObamaCare? What do you think the Supreme Court will decide?


mail@axiomarchitects.co.uk www.axiomarchitects.co.uk Axiom Architects was formed in 1986 and is now an established Architecture & Interior Design practice. Working with state of the art CAD facilities, we operate from our own premises in a recently extended, listed Georgian farmhouse on the edge of the South Downs, within a short distance of the M23/M27 motorways and Gatwick Airport. In parallel with our expansion, the breadth of our experience has grown and we now have a proven track record of completed projects encompassing a great variety of building types. Many of our established clients are national and multi-national organisations who are household names; by contrast, our individual clients provide us with a fascinating variety of commissions, ranging from an exotic house conversion in Chelsea to a family zoo park in Sussex. In 1998 we restructured the original partnership as a limited liability company, allowing us to develop a more secure and flexible business, whilst retaining the competence and commitment to new projects that we have always offered. Our practice is strong, talented and friendly and always ready to tailor a professional service to individual needs.


text:
How to master
The wonders of Wonderbag, revolutionising rural cooking
Date:29 November 2019 Author: Kyro Mitchell Tags:cooking, Poverty, Wonderbag
A South African company has changed the game when it comes to slow cooking with the creation of the Wonderbag. These large, extra colouful pillow-shaped cooking bags have revolutionised what it means to slow cook your meal.
Designed by South African entrepreneur Sarah Collins and poverty activist Moshy Mathe, the Wonderbag is aimed at helping families from areas where firewood is scarce, or fuel is too expensive, to confidently prepare perfectly cooked meals without having to worry about fuel or electricity consumption.
In 2018, Time Magazine placed Wonderbag on their list of top 50 most genius companies in the world, sharing the spotlight with the likes of Nike, GoFundMe, and SpaceX. The accolades don't end there. Collins was featured in Oprah's African Heroines, she received Fair Lady's prestigious Woman of the Future Award, along with being named one of Africa's top six wealth creators on the continent by Forbes Africa Women Magazine. Her most recent achievement includes winning the Ardent Techie category at the 21st Century Icon Awards in London.
"To be recognized as a New Wealth Creator by Forbes Woman Africa is a huge honour as the summit itself is a source of inspiration and support that connects and empowers women all over the African continent. Every woman in Africa is a potential entrepreneur, but if they spend up to 8 hours collecting firewood and water as well as cooking – how can they ever have time to earn an income or tend to their agricultural land and sell produce in the market? That's why I created the Wonderbag. I believe Africa needs economic stimulation in rural communities to ease the burden on urbanization" Collins said at the Forbes Woman of Africa Gala dinner.
Wonderbag has done more than reduce the cost of cooking a meal for those in low-income areas. According to a study conducted by WHO, for every family that purchases one Wonderbag, 1.7 trees are saved from deforestation, 1000 litres of water is saved per year, one job is created for every one bag sold, and carbon emissions are reduced by over 1 ton. Wonderbag also eliminates 'time poverty' meaning women are able to focus their time and efforts on tasks that will help befit their future, instead of spending on hours gathering firewood, or spending large portions of their salary on paraffin.
As of 2018, Wonderbag has helped increase the income of over 500,000 women across 20 countries, with a majority of those women using the Wonderbag as part of their catering business or by actually making the bags themselves. Last year, Wonderbag partnered with the Red Cross Foundation to bring the bag to refugee camps in Rwanda and Uganda.
As for Wonderbag itself, the company has received plenty of recognition internationally and was accredited by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, awarded first place in the Climate Change Leadership Awards, and received Eskom's 2012 Innovation Award. In 2019, this proudly South African product also earned itself further international acclaim by being included in the London Stock Exchange Group's second edition and 2019 report for 'Companies to Inspire Africa', which identified Africa's leading private companies with the most inspiring stories and strongest growth potential.
"Food is the one thing that unites the world. Often we need to look out of the box to look at change" Collins said in an interview with Time magazine.
Feature image: Twitter/ @WonderbagSA
Porsche sold 272,162 new vehicles in 2020
NASA analysis shows 2020 tied for warmest year on record
UK Space Agency and Rolls-Royce Defence team up to study nuclear propulsion
45,500-year-old cave art found in Indonesia
Jack Dorsey breaks his silence on Twitter's Trump ban
Latest Issue :
Leisurewheels
Promotional Mailer


text:
Election of 76 new Fellows to the British Academy celebrates interdis…
Election of 76 new Fellows to the British Academy celebrates interdisciplinary research
Seventy-six academics have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy today, in recognition of their achievements in the humanities and social sciences.
This year's Fellows are notable for their academic versatility, with many having made significant contributions to a range of disciplines. Among the new Fellows, individual expertise ranges from the philosophy of religion (Professor Sarah Coakley, University of Cambridge), business history (Professor Leslie Hannah, London School of Economics), and forensic architecture (Professor Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths, University of London).
Fifty-two Fellows were elected from UK universities, with a further 20 – Corresponding Fellows – elected from universities in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Finland, Germany, Italy and France.
Four Honorary Fellows have also been elected:
Sir John Chilcot GCB, PC – Former Permanent Secretary, Chair of Inquiry into Iraq War
Michael Frayn FRSL – Playwright
Professor Margaret MacMillan CC, CH – Historian, public intellectual
Eleanor Sharpston QC – Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union.
These new Fellows of the British Academy join a community of over 1400 of the leading minds that make up the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Current Fellows include the classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard, the historian Professor Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Professor Baroness Onora O'Neill, while previous Fellows include Dame Frances Yates, Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Mary Warnock, C.S Lewis, Seamus Heaney and Beatrice Webb.
As well as a fellowship, the British Academy is a funding body for research, nationally and internationally, and a forum for debate and engagement.
Professor Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy, said:
"The British Academy has always recognised pioneering research in the humanities and social sciences, and 2019 is no exception. This year we have elected a particularly multi-skilled and versatile cohort of Fellows whose research crosses conventional academic boundaries.
"Whether it is climate conservation or the ageing society, the rise of artificial intelligence or social cohesion, our new Fellows' wealth of expertise means the Academy is exceptionally well-placed to provide new knowledge and insights on the challenges of today. Their work has opened rich new seams of understanding and discovery, offering new perspectives on long-standing and emerging challenges alike.
"I extend my warmest welcome and heartiest congratulations to all our new Fellows, Corresponding Fellows and Honorary Fellows. I look forward to working with these outstanding scholars to build on the Academy's excellent and ever-expanding record of achievement."
On being elected to the Fellowship, Professor Sarah Coakley (University of Cambridge) said:
"The great honour of being elected a Fellow of the British Academy takes me very much by surprise. As a theologian and philosopher of religion, I have always worked on the boundaries of several disciplines – history, ancient languages, textual work, philosophical and sociological analysis – but in more recent years I have ventured into engagement also with medicine and natural science, especially evolutionary biology and its contested cultural 'meanings'. More than 50 years after Lord Snow's announcement of the problem of the 'two cultures', it is a delight to have my small attempts to respond to that challenge recognized by the British Academy."
Of his election to the Fellowship, Professor Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London), said:
"I'm extremely honoured to be elected to the British Academy Fellowship. A fellowship would lend fundamental support to the work that forensic architecture does in the fields of human rights, journalism and the arts. I'm particularly delighted that with this the humanities and social sciences seem to recognise work which is still experimental and multidisciplinary."
Professor Leslie Hannah (London School of Economics) added:
"Interdisciplinary work is more often advocated than practiced or celebrated. As the Nobel-prizewinning economist Herbert Simon – who worked on the boundaries of psychology – pointed out, it's much harder in our age of specialism to win respect as a Renaissance man. So, it has been good recently to see the Academy supporting initiatives like Professor Colin Mayer's thought-provoking work on the future of the corporation, using insights from management, economics, sociology and history. The new crop of Fellows also shows a reassuring leavening of scholars from business schools and of interdisciplinary inclination as well as the Academy's more traditional subjects. I'm honoured to be among them."
For further information contact the Press Office on press@thebritishacademy.ac.uk / 020 7969 5273 / 07500 010 432.
The British Academy responds to GCSE modern foreign languages reforms
Fellows of the British Academy recognised in New Year's Honours 2022
The British Academy in 12 decades: Marking the 120th anniversary of our establishment by Royal Charter (1902)


text:
Category: Chris Harris Jr Jersey
Of david 2018 world ( series Boston's
Blackhawks Win No.They could use help in those spots, but they might also go another route to address the D-line need.18 as he earned NFL Rookie of the Week honors…In the regular season finale vs.It has happened every year but three since 2001, but this looked nothing like an upset.And the same mindset is http://www.officialdodgersshoponline.com/WOMENS-CLAYTON-KERSHAW-JERSEY.html going to help us Clayton Kershaw Womens Jersey in the series with Calgary.
With one game remaining and so much on the line – the Blues could win the Central Division on Saturday and secure home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs – Thorburn isn't sure whether he will get in the lineup.It was extremely hard, Lehner said of sharing his story.They have the barbecue and just everything going on in the parking lot.Alas, Nathan Davis, a second-round defensive end for the Falcons in 1997, never notched an NFL sack.Has Marv lost this team?He was two years away from free agency and the will he leave?
I wrote previously Authentic Chris Harris Jr Jersey about Kopitar returning to form this season, but I think Carter still outpaces him.In today's NHL, eight teams from each conference qualify for the playoffs out of 16 Eastern Conference teams and 15 Western Conference teams.When you sign up for Experience The Upgrade, you will receive a text message alert when upgrades are available for purchase.Edinburgh hit the lead with five minutes of the half remaining when Niall Scannell was penalised for kicking the ball in a ruck, allowing Van der Walt to knock over a simple penalty from close range for 10.
Tristan Thompson Out 2 More Weeks, Kevin Love Impresses In Shoot-Around Jan 26 2 PM Tristan Thompson, who missed the last 4 games for the Cleveland Cavaliers, will be out for two more weeks with a strained left foot.He's the leader in that room.He can get a team the yards they need on the goal line or make a play out of the backfield in the passing game on third down.
They know each other's moves and tendencies, and it's hard to score because they are so technically sound.Even though he's their third-down back and went into the game with the Bengals' longest run and longest catch of the season.Copyright 2019 by AP.
First of all, I think it's my route running, that's my main thing really.There's no runaway favorite to earn the No.Posted six tackles with one quarterback hit.2011 �?Went to training camp with the United Football League's Virginia Destroyers.
22…Made second http://www.broncosfootballprosshop.com/Chris_Harris_Jr_Jersey_Cheap consecutive start vs.WINS BY BLUES ROOKIE GOALIES.But as offenses evolve, changing the roles of tight ends and running backs and relying more on short and quick passes, safety roles are evolving, too..Thankfully, Perry is said to be out on a week-to-week basis, which is about the best scenario Anaheim could have hoped for after seeing how much he struggled to put weight on his right leg following the collision.The Raiders Foundation, in partnership with the USO Las Vegas, hosts a fun event for current military members and their spouses to compete in a 6 event combine to fundraise for the USO Las Vegas at the Warrior Fitness Center at Nellis Air Force Base, Saturday, November 10, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Rocky and John will never know what this means to me.
Hopefully, Bieksa can heal quickly and be ready to play again soon, but for now, the fact that Carlyle now cannot lean on a pair of unreliable defenders will, in truth, likely help the Ducks down the stretch as they try to make it to the playoffs.Blazers, Roy Consider Ending His Season Dec 31 9 AM The Trail Blazers continue to discuss the possibility of shutting down Brandon Roy for the remainder of the season, two sources told Ken Berger of CBS Sports.
Chris Harris Jr Jersey	Authentic Chris Harris Jr Jersey, Clayton Kershaw Womens Jersey


text:
Obytná dodávka je sériově vyráběný dodávkový vůz, který je následně přestavěn na obytný vůz. Přestavba spočívá zejména v úpravě interiéru původního nákladového prostoru tak, aby vyhovovala potřebám cestovatele. Původní karoserie, která je svařena z lisovaných plechových dílců zůstává ve většině případů přestaveb na obytný vůz zachována ve svém původním tvaru a rozměrech. Existují však i různé GFK nástavby (laminátové) na střešní plášť dodávkového vozidla, které se instalují opět na původní karoserii vozu, čímž se zvýší nejen celkově vozidlo samotné, ale především nákladový prostor, do kterého je pak následně možné instalovat například podstropní lůžka. Tento specifický druh obytného vozu skýtá poměrně dobrou pasivní bezpečnost posádky, zachovává si svoji velmi dobrou dynamiku a přitom zůstává na první pohled nenápadným autem. Obytnou dodávku proto využívají zejména cestovatele, kteří potřebují pro své zejména poznávací a expediční cesty zázemí, které poskytuje klasický obytný vůz, nebo karavan, ale potřebují být zároveň nenápadní vůči svému okolí.

Historie
Historie obytných dodávek sahá do počátku 50. let 20. stol., kdy jako první v Evropě postavila vůz tohoto typu společnost Westfalia na podvozku legendárního VW Transporter. Obytná dodávka byla určena pro anglické vojáky, kteří se tehdy navraceli do své domoviny a pro cestu si zvolili právě takto upravený, původně dodávkový vůz. Zcela původní požadavek, který zavdal vzniku tohoto druhu obytného vozidla byl naprosto pragmatický. "Vyrobte nám takový vůz, který bude malý, pohyblivý, nenápadný a bude v něm variabilní nábytek, včetně kuchyňky, lavice pro další tři spolucestující a budeme se v něm cítit jako doma". Takto vznikla první obytná dodávka na podvozku Volkswagen T1, nazývaný Bulli.

Současnost
Postupem doby se tento fenomén rozšířil mezi cestovateli a výrobci nejen v Evropě, ale i v zámoří. Dnes je na evropském trhu mnoho výrobců, kteří se zabývají výrobou obytných dodávek velkosériově. V České republice se výrobou obytných dodávek zabývá například společnost KRS, která vyrábí malosériově obytné vozy na platformě užitkových vozidel Fiat Ducato, MB Sprinter, Citroën Jumper, Peugeot Boxer a dalších.

Samotná přestavba užitkového vozu spočívá zejména v tepelné izolaci karoserie, obložení stěn a stropu, stavbou nábytku ze speciální lehčené překližky, jejímž základem je topolové dřevo, osazením oken do boku a stropu vozidla, rozvodem elektroinstalace 12 V a 230 V, instalováním naftového, nebo plynového topení, včetně ohřevu vody pro sprchování v uzavřené sprchovací kabince.
Součástí přestavby je pak dále dosazení sedadel ve druhé řadě, které lze v mnoha případech rozložit na lůžko. Dále se instaluje rozvod vody, plynu, zásobníky vody, stejně tak i odpadní nádrže. Součástí každého vozu je dnes i speciální chemické WC a kompletní kuchyňské zázemí včetně vařiče, lednice a tekoucí teplé a studené vody.

Druhy obytných dodávek do 3,5t celkové hmotnosti
Jednotlivé druhy obytných dodávek lze specifikovat dle jejich zamýšlenému využití.
 cestovní a poznávací

Základním druhem obytné dodávky je cestovní a poznávací varianta. Jedná se o upravené původní užitkové vozidlo, které uvnitř skýtá kompletní zázemí obytného vozu. Na první pohled bývá naprosto nenápadným pro své okolí a z vnějšího pohledu se nikterak zásadně neliší od jiných obyčejných dodávkových vozidel dané značky. Rozpoznat jej můžeme například dle počtu instalovaných bočních oken v plechové karoserii, nebo designových polepů na karoserii. Většinou se jedná o čtyřmístné vozidlo registrované v kategorii M1 osobní obytný, nebo v kategorii N1 speciální obytný vůz. V obou případech se jedná o vozidlo s celkovou hmotností do 3,5t a k řízení tak postačuje řidičské oprávnění skupiny "B". Vnitřní uspořádání a výbava interiéru obytné dodávky je variabilní, kdy každý výrobce nabízí několik základních půdorysů, ze kterých si uživatel může vybrat pro své účely tu nejvhodnější.

 expediční
 pro sport a volnočasové využití
 speciální

Galerie

Související články
 Autobus
 Karavan
 Maringotka
 Obytný vůz
 Přepravník osob

Externí odkazy

Automobily
Mobilní obydlí


Research: Potential for Geomorphic Channel Response to Beaver Restoration in the Front Range, Colorado.
Predicting the capacity for and magnitude of geomorphic and hydrologic change after restoration is valuable information for informing watershed management and restoration project design. Enthusiasm for beaver-related restoration is currently high, but there is minimal science to guide these installations and to determine expected restoration outcomes in the Colorado Front Range. In my research, I am interested in geomorphic change such as stream bed aggradation, grain size fining, channel gradient shallowing, and floodplain reconnection as well as hydrologic change such as water table rise, channel stage increase, and overbank flooding associated with Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs). The goal of my research is to identify channel reaches prime for beaver-related restoration and to quantify channel changes after BDA installation in the Colorado Front Range.


One of the most beautiful and most important historical structures in the city of Kashan is its old and large Bazaar.The primary building of Kashan Bazaar dates back to the beginning of the seventh century.It is covered with astonishing eyelashes decorated with its excellent design and construction, similar to the Bazaars of Isfahan, Tabriz and…etc.
As one of the most important parts of the Bazaar, Timcheye Aminald-Doleh is one of the historical and beautiful buildings of Kashan Bazaar.
This tall building with three floors and wide openings is of special significance. This tall building with three floors and wide openings is of special significance.
The geometric features have made this unique monument of its kind distinguished. The strength of the chassis and the design and architecture of its construction have been used with special precision and skill, which is still completely healthy after 150 years and is one of the focal points for active Bazars. Kashan Bazar has been registered as one of the national monuments of Iran and it is one of the must-see attractions in Kashan.


text:
News TED Prize
"Grandparents tell the best stories": Get ready for the Great Thanksgiving Listen
James Kennicott's life advice for his granddaughter: "Just roll with it." The two recorded an interview using the StoryCorps app while sitting in an Applebee's parking lot. StoryCorps' Dave Isay, the winner of the 2015 TED Prize, wants hundreds of thousands to interview a grandparent over Thanksgiving weekend. Photo: Courtesy of StoryCorps
When James Kennicott, now 86, was young, he loved ice-skating on the river near his home in Waterloo, Iowa. One day, the ice cracked under his feet and he plunged into the water below. He didn't have hot water at home. So he broke into his school to take a hot shower.
"I think that says a lot about his childhood, that there was really no one there to help him get out of the water or keep him warm," says his granddaughter Kara Masteller, 21.
Kara heard this story for the first time when she used the StoryCorps app — launched by StoryCorps founder Dave Isay with the 2015 TED Prize — to interview her grandfather. Because James didn't want to talk at the senior community where he lives, the two drove to a local mall and recorded their interview while sitting in an Applebee's parking lot. NPR highlighted their interview on Friday's Morning Edition — the first interview recorded on the app to be broadcast in the weekly StoryCorps segment.
The interview serves an appetizer for the Great Thanksgiving Listen, StoryCorps' mass movement to record the stories of a generation of elders over the coming holiday weekend. StoryCorps hopes that as many as 250,000 people will participate and ask a grandparent or family friend questions to unlock their experience.
On Google today, these words appear underneath the search bar: "Grandparents have the best stories. Record your grandparents' story this Thanksgiving." The thought links to an animation about the Great Thanksgiving Listen narrated by David Hyde Pierce of Frasier. "We can find wisdom and poetry all around us," he says. "Help us make history."
A new TED-Ed lesson released today also shows how taking part in the Great Thanksgiving Listen will add a fresh, first-person dimension to what exists in history books.
"What if Anne Frank hadn't kept a diary? What if no one could listen to Martin Luther King's Mountaintop speech?" the lesson asks. "You can make history by recording it."
Everyone is invited to participate in the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Download the StoryCorps app, choose your questions and follow the prompts. Then upload your interview at the Library of Congress, using the hashtag #TheGreatListen.
Dave IsayfamilyGoogleinterviewsStoryCorpsTED PrizeTED Prize 2015TED-Edm grandparentsThe Great Thanksgiving Listen
How telling stories can transform a classroom
By Amy S. Choi
Caitlyn, a quiet seventh grader, was bullied by the other kids in her class at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank, California. She wore the same cowboy boots every day. "The other kids were awful about it," said English teacher Rebecca Mieliwocki, remembering this student who has stayed lodged in her memory for 10 years […]
Black Lives Matter: A playlist of powerful StoryCorps interviews
By Dave Isay
Ghetto Life 101 changed my life. I started working on this radio documentary 25 years ago — I gave tape recorders to two kids growing up in the Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago, one of the most notorious public housing projects in America, and asked them to document a week in their lives. LeAlan […]
baguzInfomedia commented on Dec 6 2015
inspirated story..
ameheureuse commented on Dec 6 2015
bietthuthaodienhcm commented on Dec 4 2015
Mirela commented on Nov 25 2015
https://interpowerblog.wordpress.com
reflectionsbyrebecca commented on Nov 23 2015
What a wonderful article! Perfect for the holidays. I can't wait to see my grandparents this week. I'll be sure to record some their stories.
~ Rebecca


"Broken Sword: The Angel of Death, known in North America as Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game, is the fourth installment in the Broken Sword series of computer games, released for PCs running Windows in Europe on September 15, 2006, and in North America on February 13, 2007. It is the first game to be amBX enabled, and also the first one in the series not to be released on any console."
Source: Wikipedia, "Broken_Sword:_The_Angel_of_Death," available under the CC-BY-SA License.


If you were recently involved in a motorcycle accident, you have a lot to think about. How long will it take you to heal? How much work will you miss? How long will it take to settle with the insurance company? Will the insurance company give you enough money to pay your bills? How will your family cope with no income? At Parrish & Devaughn we understand what you're going through and although we can't answer all of your questions we can assure you that we will do everything in our power to get you a fair settlement.
Often times people don't contact a personal injury lawyer because they don't believe they have enough money in their bank account to pay for an attorney. But the fact of the matter is, with Injury Lawyers Parrish & Devaughn, we don't charge you a fee until your case is successfully settled. And we offer free consultations so you have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.
If you're not an attorney yourself, you probably aren't familiar with the motorcycle laws in Oklahoma City and you probably aren't aware that we have issues in the court system with 'biker-bias.' Often times police officers, witnesses or jury members will have preconceived notions about people who ride motorcycles. They may think bikers take too many risks by riding and they may assume bikers drive too fast or use unsafe maneuvers. They may believe these things because of experiences they have had with bikers in the past or because of information they have read or things they have seen in movies. Regardless, biker-bias is unacceptable and at Parrish & Devaughn we do everything in our power to ensure our clients receive positive representation and fair treatment.
Insurance companies will attempt to pay customers a low settlement following an accident. Many times their clients accept the low amount because they are desperate. People involved in motorcycle accidents deserve compensation for their medical bills, the time missed from jobs, money to get damaged motorcycles fixed or replaced and there are opportunities for compensation for pain and suffering. Don't let the insurance company short-change you, hire Injury Lawyers Parrish & Devaughn and get the settlement you deserve.
Contact us today for a free consultation and let us get started on your case.