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Educational application for the most intelligent kids.
"Learning numbers is funny!" is an educational game for the most intelligent kids and their parents!
- Playing and learning numbers from 0 to 9!
Educational application "Learning numbers is funny" proposes the most intelligent kids to get acquainted with a world of mathematics.
It will help a kid to learn numbers and some mathematical operations in easy and interesting way.
The application is divided into 3 blocks.
In the first block, a kid is get acquainted with figures from 0 to 9.
Each figure is presented in such a way that a kid can easily remember it. Bright animated picture and a rhyme voiced by a speaker will help him. Images "come alive" when you click on it. A kid can turn on rain, wake up a bear, feed a frog, etc.
The second block consists of exercises to fix obtained knowledge. For example, a kid counts numbers and founds a needed one among the numbers brought by bees.
A kid will understand well what numbers are greater and what numbers are less.
All levels are voiced by the speaker. All tasks are presented in a form of interesting game.
We love children, therefore we create kind rhymes and draw funny pictures.
We have professional speakers in our team!
We appreciate your choice of our game!
Thank you for your kind references!
If you have any comments, please send a message to our email: support@catdonut.com, and we will reply you for sure.
The game contains music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).
The game is presented in three languages: Russian, English and Ukrainian.
We are open for all your suggestions! Send your proposals to email: support@catdonut.com.
My 26 month old grandson loves the painting and matching the numbers in the pictures - great for learning colors and numbers!
My child has enjoyed coloring and learning all about numbers with this app!
My kids really like it!


ISELIN, N.J., October 18, 2011 – eG Innovations, the award-winning provider of intelligent service performance management solutions for physical, virtualized and cloud environments, announced that IO Integration, a leading systems integrator specializing in asset management tools and workflow solutions, has selected eG Enterprise as the performance management platform for its new IO Monitor remote monitoring service. IO Integration expects to use eG Enterprise to enable its clients to keep their mission-critical business services running at peak performance and to deliver tangible ROI to clients undertaking transformational IT initiatives.
This partnership allows IO Integration to expand the range of services offered to clients to include advanced remote performance management, analysis, and reporting of mission-critical systems.
Bill Covington, COO of IO Integration said, "We have evaluated all major performance management solutions and were truly impressed with eG Innovations' ability to proactively pinpoint performance issues across multiple mission-critical systems, whether they are physical, virtualized or cloud based, and do so before issues impact user productivity and ROI. Our new IO Monitor service now offers true 24x7x365 support and offers total performance visibility across every layer of every tier of our client's IT infrastructure."
"We are delighted to be partnering with IO Integration to raise the bar for delivering service excellence," said Srinivas Ramanathan, founder and CEO of eG Innovations. "Virtualization and cloud computing offer new ways of supporting critical business services. At the same time, if they are not properly provisioned and managed, these technologies could cause more pain and cost the enterprise more money. At eG Innovations, we have incorporated a great deal of expertise regarding these transformational IT technologies into our products. Our virtualization and cloud-aware root-cause diagnosis technology offers unparalleled views into the underlying infrastructure. Without needing to be experts at these technologies, administrators can quickly determine where the performance bottlenecks lie, and how they can keep their critical business services operating at peak performance. For system integrators like IO Integration who are looking to offer true business value to their customers, eG Enterprise can be a very effective tool."
IO Integration is one of the leading systems integrators in the United States and the #1 Xinet® reseller in the world, IO Integration delivers advanced workflow and asset management solutions that directly benefit the bottom line of creative organizations. Visit www.iointegration.com for more information.


Thread: Galaxis Matrix JSTV firmware?
Our decoder recently went on the blink with a "noSF" error.
Managed to get it back working loading various versions of Galaxis matrix software.
We have a subscription to JSTV but no without the specific Galaxis Matrix JSTV firmware loaded it won't decrypt the signal.
I loaded EasyRider 4 last night but this won't even find the JSTV channels.
If I can get the JSTV firmware I think I can get it working!
IQZONE has nearly every other Matrix software version except JSTV.
There seems to be a lot of German info out but I can't seem to find anything relevant.
I've got a JSTV, but no manual or software. I even had to go to a German ******* site to find a remote for it.
You're welcome to a copy of its firmware, but you'll have to tell me what's required. I can make up a serial cable, but presumably need some Galaxis software to get the ports talking to each other.
I'd like my firmware backed up anyway, along with the channel lists if possible, so we'd be doing each other a favour.


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Posted on February 7, 2013 by Jeff Weintraub
Easily the most uneventful National Signing Day I have ever seen. Each of the 21 signees had turned in their Letters of Intent by 11:42 am on Wednesday, and they already have six early enrollees, giving them a total of 27 incoming freshmen. Michigan had nothing to do but make sure their fax machine was working and send out offers for their 2014 class, which they did. This class for 2013 is a well-balanced class personnel wise. They got players at every single position, and it will absolutely be an impactful class down the road. It is very highly ranked as well, and deservedly so. (Below: ESPN, Scout, Rivals Rankings respectively).
This is the first time in 25 years that Michigan did not have a single recruit from Texas, California or Florida, but that shouldn't take anything away from this class. There is just more talent in the midwest than there has been in years gone by. Here is a look of the map of where the players are from.
17 of the 27 players are from Ohio (9) or Michigan (8). 10 states in all are represented: IL (3), CO, IN, MD, MA, NC, PA & VA
— Michigan Football (@umichfootball) February 6, 2013
Breakdown: 15 Offense (6 OL, 2 TEs, 3 WRs, 3 RBs, 1 QB), 11 Defense (3 DL, 2 LBs, 6 DBs), 1 Special Teams (1 Long Snapper) #UMSIGNINGDAY
The class is massive, but I guess that's what happens when you have a lack of depth and you have serious attrition. The player rankings and team ranking obviously differ from each recruiting service, but the general consensus is that Michigan has a Top 6 class in the country. Here's a nice breakdown of the commits and their star rankings for each of the services from mgoblog:
The big name you already know by now is runningback Derrick Green. Green is ranked as the best runningback in the country by most of the recruiting services and will not redshirt. They have a need in the backfield, and he is the type of power runningback that they want for their pro style offense. Green has excellent vision; he finds the hole quickly and he explodes through it. He run's North-South and does not dance in the backfield. He's not a track star like Denard or Dennis Norfleet, but he has no problem trying to run over you. He's 6'0 220 but he can move, and proved it during the Army All-American game when he rushed for 49 yards on limited carries against the best High School Seniors in the country. He will absolutely get carries next year, and I've been thinking he will get 30-40% of the carries on offense; provided Fitzgerald Toussaint is healthy enough to carry the ball the majority of the time. In my mind, Green was the absolutely most important piece of this class.
Following closely based on the importance are QB Shane Morris, TE Jake Butt and then any of the offensive lineman.
Morris has already showen what he can do leadership wise. He helped recruit most of this class, and clearly loves the school. Morris' development took a setback this fall though when he got mono, and he didn't have a great performance in the Under Armour All-American game. It will be imperative that Morris redshirt this year, he needs another full season of practice to get his development back on track. He showed he is athletic and has a cannon for an arm, but his accuracy has been erratic. This is something that can be fixed with more practice. He knows where the open receiver is, and has great vision on the field, he just needs a little more fine-tuning and practice to replace the 5 or so games and weeks of practice he missed this year. Morris adds depth to the quarterback position, which has been seriously lacking. When Gardner is gone, Morris will take over the starting job, and Russell Bellamy will keep his spot riding the pine pony.
Tight end Jake Butt was another important get for this class. They are lacking with depth at tight end, and Butt will likely play right away. Devin Funchess and A.J. Williams did a great job last year, with Williams being used mostly for blocking. Funchess obviously busted onto the scene and proved to be a great receiving option, and was a First Team Freshman All-American. Butt played in the Army All-American game and was the 5th rated tight end in the country. He's 6'6″ 235 and will be a good option in the passing game. He does a good job of finding soft spots in zone coverage and is athletic enough to beat man coverage. Blocking-wise, he was good in high school, but it will be interesting to see how it translates in college. He enrolled early, so he will be familiar with the playbook come fall, and will likely be a contributor next year.
Khalid Hill is the other tight end in this class and he will probably redshirt. He has potential, but I see him more as a blocking tight end. He's roughly 6'2″ 235, so he doesn't have elite size for a pass-catching tight end. With Williams, Funchess and Butt ahead of him, the coaching staff will take their time and let him develop, especially because Funchess and Williams didn't redshirt, and Butt likely won't either.
The other runningbacks in this class are Deveon Smith, who is arguably the best runningback in the state of Ohio, and Wyatt Shallman, a product of Catholic Central. Smith, like Green, doesn't have elite speed, but he is great at breaking arm tackles and is another downhill runner. He can be elusive, but he's another runningback that will fit the power run game that the coaches are trying to instill. Shallman, meanwhile, is going to be a fullback-tight end hybrid, and H-back if you will. Brady Hoke compared him to Aaron Shea and said that is the type of role he will have, which is funny because my cousin said the same thing to me about a month ago. Shallman is a good blocker, and will be a short yardage back in the future. Both of these runningbacks are going to redshirt, and will establish depth in the backfield.
The wide receiver class is easily the most interesting group that Michigan brought in this year. Jaron Dukes, Csont'e York and Da'Mario Jones are all at least 6'2″ and are very athletic; all three of them are also going to redshirt. They're the type of guys where they aren't ready to play right away, but they have the potential to be great. Michigan took guys that will need coaching, but have the size and speed combination that cannot be taught. Dukes won't be a burner, but that doesn't make him any less effective. When he went against Ohio State four-star commit, and 6th best corner in the country, Cameron Burrows this season, he absolutely torched him for six catches, 173 yards, and two touchdowns. Dukes, York and Jones all have the ability to go up and get the football, and they all do a good job of getting separation off the line of scrimmage. None of them are going to do a lot with the ball after they catch it, and Jones has had some inconsistent hands. That being said, this can all be fixed with coaching; you can't teach a kid to be 6'2″-6'3″ while running a 4.6-4.7 40 yard dash as an 18 year old. Sure this class didn't get the elite five-star receiver like Laquon Treadwell that could play right away, but I'm excited to see what these kids can do after they redshirt next year.
The offensive lineman is a great group, easily the best offensive line haul in the entire country, and the most talented group of recruits for Michigan. There were seven of them including the long snapper Scott Sypniewski, and they will all be very crucial in the development of this program down the line. Excluding Sypniewski and Dan Samuelson, all of the offensive lineman were consensus four-star recruits and they each made All-American games. Now, all six of them will redshirt, especially because all four offensive lineman from the 2012 class redshirted last year. Don't worry about them getting on the field early, early as in next year, because it simply won't happen and it shouldn't. The cupboard was pretty bare at offensive line and so it has been imperative for the coaching staff to get players in and to begin building a formidable front line, especially if they wan't to utilize the power run game.
Patrick Kugler and Kyle Bosch are the highest rated lineman in this class, and they will be absolutely fantastic. Both of them are very big and do very well opening holes and move well. David Dawson is an absolute road grader, and it was huge getting him back in the class after he decommitted. Samuelson will be another road grader, like Dawson, but to be perfectly honest, I don't see him playing much until later in his career. Obviously, things can change, there are just a lot of good interior offensive lineman ahead of him and he isn't as refined as Kugler or Dawson. Both tackle commits, Logan Tuley-Tillman and Chris Fox are massive and won't see the field for a while, which will help them with their development. Short of turning this post into a short novel, there's not enough to say about this group other than it is exactly what Michigan needed and they will be huge contributors going forward.
This offensive class has a ton of potential, with some players that will contribute right away. Derrick Green, in particular, and Jake Butt, will contribute next year, while the rest of the class redshirts. It will help restore the depth on offense that Michigan has desperately needed and they all fit the pro-style offense that Michigan is going to transition to with the departure of Denard Robinson.
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If you have a website with freelancers creating content for you, then you will be adopting some sort of Human Resources (HR). After all, HR is all about the managing of people to for effective organisational performance.
The problem is that many website owners and managers relating to websites do not have much experience with HR along with the best processes to adopt to make sure you get the most out of your freelancers. You may think that paying 'X' amount for 'X' words for an article is quite black and white. However, the quality of the content and the willingness to do more work for you is all influenced by HR. For this reason, here are some HR approaches to help you manage freelancers.
Unlike other jobs where people will happily do overtime to finish the job, freelancers enjoy writing about what they want but, more importantly, care about the money they receive for doing the work. For this reason, money is a huge motivation for freelancers and should not be 'messed about' with in anyway. Always pay your freelancers to the pre-agreed date and if you are going to pay later or sooner, let them know by email. Transparency, when it comes to finances, is key.
It is important to make sure freelancers are motivated to continually work for you. Although there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of freelancers that could write for you, having to re-advertise to attract new freelancers is costly process, both financially and in terms of time. Therefore, you should want to maintain your workforce as much as possible.
Above all, you need to make sure your freelancers know that you are available to chat, by email and even over the phone, to address any queries or concerns they might have. No matter how minute or large the problem may be, always make sure the freelancer/s know that they can come to you to talk and not feel bad for doing so. This will help to develop a relationship between the freelancer, yourself and the work they are doing, providing more reason for the freelancer to want to work for you, since they are being treated nice and fairly.
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Leslie Lawton, Sunnyvale Historical Society…
Leslie Lawton, Sunnyvale Historical Society leader, dies
Leslie Lawton, longtime volunteer for the Sunnyvale Historical Society and Museum Association, died April 15. The city of Sunnyvale honored Lawton in 2015 with a Murphy Lifetime Achievement Award. (Courtesy photo)
By Katharina Woodman |
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2020 at 7:21 a.m. | UPDATED: April 23, 2020 at 8:05 a.m.
The Sunnyvale Historical Society and Museum Association lost a prominent leader when Leslie Lawton died April 15.
Early on, Lawton was one a strong advocate for preserving the apricot orchard at the Sunnyvale Community Center as a heritage park. By selling commemorative bricks, she raised money to create the Orchard Heritage Park Interpretive Exhibit on the edge of the orchard, filled with panels explaining the agricultural roots of the area and honoring local orchard families. When the historical society started plans to build a museum for showcasing Sunnyvale's rich history, Lawson threw herself into the project.
Lawson filled many roles with the association during her decades of membership. She served on the board of directors as events coordinator, vice president and president. For 10 years, she was the editor of the museum's newsletter. Her enthusiasm as a museum docent inspired other volunteers, whom she then mentored. One of the museum activities she loved most were the annual Victorian Teas, which she always supported with her homemade lemon curd to be served with scones.
Lawson's engagement with the Sunnyvale community did not stop at the museum. Soon after she moved to Sunnyvale in 1976, she became one of the original members of the city's Chamber of Commerce. She graduated from the Leadership Sunnyvale program and served on the board of Sunnyvale Community Services—where she was well known for her generous donation of limoncello to the nonprofit's annual auctions—and as board president for the American Cancer Society MidBay.
All of these accomplishments earned Lawson the city's Murphy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
Katharina Woodman


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Graduate Theological Union
Phone: (510) 649-2523/2501
Email: archives@gtu.edu
Website: https://www.gtu.edu/library/resources/special-collections
Special Collections and Archives support the curriculum and preserve the records of the Graduate Theological Union. The collections are dedicated to diverse religious dialogue, the Christian and wider religious intellectual heritage, the American religious experience in the West, and the ministries and missions of the Member Schools and Institutes of the GTU.
Berkeley Free Church Collection
The Berkeley Free Church (South Campus Community Ministry), 1967-1972, Richard York, Pastor, operated a service ministry to the Berkeley, CA, Telegraph Ave. area transients, runaways and hippies. Services included a referral switchboard, counseling, health care, crash pads, and free food. Support came from area merchants, local churches, and the Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations. The Church and its clergy were involved in all the radical and social justice issues of the late 60's including local Berkeley issues, campus riots, and People's Park; peace and draft resistance issues of the Vietnam War; and radical church renewal in the mainline Protestant denominations.
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1Definitions
2Signs and symptoms
3Causes
4Treatment
5Prognosis
6Epidemiology
7History and culture
8DID in the legal system
Classification and external resources
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), is a mental disorder. It was called multiple personality disorder (MPD).[1] It is listed in the mental health diagnosis manual DSM IV.[2]
This is one of the most controversial mental disorders because people disagree about what causes it.[3][4] The main symptoms of DID are a person showing two or more "identities" or "personality states". The person behaves differently depending which identity is in control. The second important symptom is when a person forgets important, personal things which people normally do not forget.
A person is not diagnosed with DID if the symptoms are caused by drugs, illness or (with children) pretending to play with imaginary friends.[2] Doctors must also rule out pretending to have DID for attention or sympathy, and malingering (pretending to have DID for some personal gain).[2][5] Most patients with DID are also diagnosed with other mental disorders.
Definitions[change | change source]
The DSM IV uses the terms "identity", "personality states" and "alternate identities" when talking about DID[2] and other people use the term "alters" to mean the same thing. These words can be confusing since not everyone uses the same definition. Professionals have not agreed on a specific definition for a personality; other terms, including dissociation[6] and amnesia, may also be defined differently by different professionals.[7][8] When talking about DID, saying someone changes personalities or alters means the person speaks and acts differently, and usually responds to a different name.
Dissociation is a symptom. Most people experience normal dissociation, where they stop paying attention to what is happening around them.[9] People with DID have pathological dissociation, which is much more serious.[10] It involves problems with memory and attention that make it hard for people to work, shop and have relationships with other people. Everyone can dissociate but some people can do it much more easily and to an extreme that can be unhealthy. Some doctors think trauma causes the dissociation that is seen in disorders like DID.[11]
Signs and symptoms[change | change source]
According to the DSM-IV, the symptoms of DID are "the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states" (which are often called "alters"), as well as forgetting things that people normally don't forget. Also, the symptoms cannot be caused by drugs or normal childhood play. People can report having a lot of alters, or just a couple. Most people diagnosed with DID have less than ten, though some have said they have several thousand.[6] A person diagnosed with DID cannot be diagnosed with another dissociative disorder.[12] Because people with DID hear voices of different alters, it may be confused with schizophrenia. However, the two problems are very different and doctors can usually tell if a patient has DID or schizophrenia by asking the right questions.[7] DID is always diagnosed by what patients tell their doctors and what the doctor thinks this means. There are no objective tests using blood or machines that can tell if someone has DID. Though people have tried diagnosing and studying DID using medical imaging or brain scanning.[13]
Diagnosis[change | change source]
The DSM uses the following criteria to diagnose DID:[2]
At least two "distinct identities" that alternate control of behavior
Inability to recall "important personal information too great" to be attributed to "ordinary forgetfulness"
None of the above are due to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition
The International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) uses the term multiple personality disorder instead of dissociative identity disorder. It classifies DID in section F44.8, "Other dissociative [conversion] disorders".[1]
Causes[change | change source]
There are two main ideas about what causes DID, but there is still disagreement about which is correct. The trauma theory says that DID is caused by parents or family that abuse or neglect their children. Some of these children deny the abuse is happening or pretend it is happening to someone else, and this eventually becomes a different identity or alter.[3] Most people diagnosed with DID say they remember being abused by their parents or other caregivers when they were children.[10] When asked about their childhood, patients with DID are more likely to say they were abused or neglected than people with any other diagnosis.[14] However, the idea that DID develops in childhood is disputed because childhood memories are not very reliable and it is not clear if the abuse actually happened.[2] Though DID has been diagnosed in children, there are reasons to believe the diagnosis is because of the influence of parents and doctors rather than abuse. There is not enough good scientific evidence about DID in childhood to be sure DID is actually caused by abuse or something else.[15]
The iatrogenic or sociocognitive model (SCM) of DID says it is created during psychotherapy when the therapist creates false memories and patients become convinced they have multiple personalities.[4] Some patients may be more likely to develop DID in these circumstances because they are naturally more likely to accept their therapists are right about DID.[13] SCM supporters also think that patients have seen DID in movies and books, and this shows them how people with DID are supposed to behave, which makes it easier for them to change their behavior when they are supposed to be a new alter. They also say the criteria used by the DSM are unclear which makes it hard to agree whether a patient has DID or another diagnosis.[6]
A middle position says that trauma may change how the brain remembers things which makes it easier to remember things that did not actually happen.[16] It has also been suggested that early trauma may make children more likely to use their imaginations to pretend abuse or other painful situations are not happening, and if they enter therapy when they are older, it is easier for therapists to convince them they have DID.[6]
Treatment[change | change source]
There is no treatment approach that has been scientifically proven to work. Most therapists who treat patients with DID use several different approaches. Therapy usually lasts for several years, and does not always work.[17] Some therapists try to reduce or eliminate the alters so the patient only has one personality, while others do not.[3] The ISSTD recommends first improving a patient's ability to deal with symptoms and live more normal lives, then trying to deal with traumatic memories. The final step is bringing all the identities together so the patient can access all of their memories.[12]
Prognosis[change | change source]
Sometimes patients with DID will get better without any help, but this is not common. Patients with more diagnoses than just DID often take longer to improve.[18]
Epidemiology[change | change source]
There have been no large-scale studies to learn how common DID is. The ISSTD says DID occurs in between 1 and 3% in the general population, and between 1 and 5% in groups of patients in hospitals.[12] DID is more common in women than in men[19] but this may be caused by men with DID being sent to prison instead of hospitals.[6] The number of people diagnosed with DID increased from about 200 in 1970 to about 20,000 in the 1990s. According to the ISSTD this is because doctors did not have the training or experience to recognize DID. Instead they diagnosed people with depression, PTSD or borderline personality disorder.[12] People who support the SCM say the increase in diagnoses was because a small number of doctors diagnosed a large number of people[6] and because a large number of therapists began using types of psychotherapy that made people think they had DID.[20]
History and culture[change | change source]
The book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was about someone with a "split personality", and later became a story people associated with DID.[21]
Before 1900 it was thought DID was caused by spirits or ghosts who controlled people's behavior.[19] The first case of DID described in medicine was in 1646 by the Swiss doctor Paracelsus.[5] DID was very uncommon until the 1970s. Between 1980 and 1990 the number of cases reported in medicine went from about 200 to more than 20,000.[22] In 1994, the 4th edition of the DSM was published, which changed the name from "multiple personality disorder" to "dissociative identity disorder". The DSM also changed how DID was diagnosed. Many scientific articles were written about DID during the same period, though after 1995 the number of articles published every year decreased.[23] Today there is little research on DID.
Even though DID is a very rare, there are a lot of books, plays and movies about people with DID.[20] In 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson published the short book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde which was very popular. People later thought that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were examples of someone with DID. The Three Faces Of Eve was a movie made in 1957 about a woman with DID. Sybil, a popular book about a woman with DID, was published in 1973. It was made into a movie in 1976, and a second time in 2007. A survey done in 2001 of American and Canadian psychiatrists found that there was a lot of disagreement and skepticism about diagnosing DID and if the diagnosis was based on enough good quality science.[24]
DID in the legal system[change | change source]
Lawyers and doctors who work with the law also consider DID to be very controversial.[13] Since the 1990s, DID has become more common in courts.[25] People have tried to avoid going to prison for such crimes as murder and serial rape by claiming to have DID, and lawyers and judges are concerned about people pretending to have DID to avoid going to prison.[13] The first time this happened was in 1976, and since that time most people who commit crimes and claim it was because of DID have gone to prison.[5]
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"I think that our constituents expect us to be as collaborative as they are," said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.
Hurd also expressed optimism that these reforms would streamline some of the rules that prevent the government from implementing new and innovative technologies, like those at CES, into its operations.
Another area of widespread agreement was that of protecting encryption from legal requests for backdoors, an argument that stemmed from FBI requests that Apple give them a means of accessing the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone as part of the law enforcement investigation.
"The way to respond to that, I believe, and it seems that there is bipartisan consensus on this, is not to make all of us less safe by requiring a backdoor, but is to make sure that the FBI, CIA, or NSA have the best tools," said Swalwell, explaining that weakening encryption would simply drive bad actors onto foreign-made, heavily encrypted messaging services while weakening the services of the everyday American.
Issa added that one of his major goals for the upcoming Congress will be to improve the tech workforce in America, so that the innovators aren't struggling to get the workers they need.
Swalwell, who agreed that the tech industry offers a lot of potential for increasing the skilled workforce, added that the government should work to invest in tech education for areas that aren't necessarily tech centers, so that the incoming workforce has the skills to fill available jobs in the future.
Initiatives such as these have already seen support from Republican legislators, as Hurd championed an initiative in December that would provide middle school teachers in his own district with the tools to incorporate coding into their regular math classes.


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What Is Abstraction?
Matter is as much an abstract concept as truth, good or evil.
Tertium Organum, Vintage Books, 1982, p. 19
Mathematics is often said to be especially difficult because it deals in abstractions. But, as a matter of fact, abstraction is an absolutely indigenous to everyday human reasoning. Indeed, abstract and the ability for abstraction are innate properties of the human mind. [Devlin, p. 11] wonders
To my mind, a limitation in coping with abstraction presents the greatest barrier to doing mathematics. And yet, as I shall show, the human brain acquired this ability when it acquired language, which everyone has. Thus the reason most people have trouble with mathematics is not that they don't have the ability but that they cannot apply it to mathematical abstractions.
The etymology of the word is found in The Words of Mathematics by S. Schwartzman, although, we humans use the process of abstraction in everyday life, not just in mathematics.
abstract (adjective): the first element is from Latin abs "away from, off," from the Indo-European root apo- "away," as seen in English of, off, and ebb. The second element is from Latin tractus, past participle of trahere "to draw, drag, haul." The Indo-European root is tragh- "to draw, drag." An Indo-European variant dhragh- is the source of native English draw as well as drag, borrowed from the Old Norse. An abstract principle is one which has been drawn away from any specific examples of that principle. Modern abstract algebra, for example, is far removed from the physical problems that originally gave rise to the methods and manipulations of elementary algebra.
The Harper Collins Dictionary of Mathematics tells us
abstraction (noun): the process of formulating a generalized concept of a common property by disregarding the differences between a number of particular instances ...
The Brafman siblings [Sway, pp. 74-75] quote psychologist Franz Epting, an expert in understanding how people construct meaning in their experiences.
"We use diagnostic labels to organize and simplify. But any classification that you come up with," cautioned Epting, "has got to work by ignoring a lot of other things - with the hope that the things you are ignoring don't make a difference."
Sometimes ignoring things does make a tremendous difference, of course, and may lead to disastrous results; sometimes it does not. But sometimes, especially in mathematics, ignoring things bolsters comprehension by focusing on the essential.
Let's consider a (not necessarily mundane) example of the sort often encountered in high school math texts. [Sawyer, pp. 32-34] asks the reader to imagine two railway stations A and B connected by a single track-line. Assuming that at about the same time a train leaves A for B and another leaves B for A and there are no safety devices along the line, one expects an imminent collision. The details (the length of trains, whether they are passenger or freight, country outline) are irrelevant. One may only hope that the visibility is good, the train engineers are attentive, responsible and do not text messages to friends while in motion, and the line does not make sharp turns. If all this is true then there may be a chance to avoid the disaster. What you actually see with your mind's eye depends on the previous experience, whether you survived or witnessed a train collision or watched one on a TV news program. But in any event, actually seeing the details is not necessary to make one shudder at the mere thought of the possibility of collision.
In so far as abstraction leads to omitting details, the result is similar to having to reason with incomplete information which is quite a common practice. So, how mathematics may be perceived difficult just because it deals in abstraction. The reason I think (see also [Devlin, pp. 121-122]) is implicit in the previous sentence. Much of the abstraction in mathematics has indeed originated in the practical experience as is the case of counting, for example. But the nature of the mathematical abstraction is in that, once created - admittedly by leaving out non essential details - it acquires an independent existence becoming an entity in its own right and fully defined at that. To deal with mathematical obstraction/objects no longer requires omitting details. Just the opposite is true: to deal successfully with mathematical obstraction/objects one needs to account for as much information as is built in into their definition.
An analogy from a novel by Anthony Powell may serve to explain the difference:
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
The idea of a straight line may have originated historically from the repeated observation of the trace left by a tight powdered thin rope that was clinched on a flat surface, or some other similar experiences and observations. But in modern mathematics, the straight line is that object that may cross another one of the same sort in at most one point and which is uniquely determined by any two points it is incident with. And there is all there is to it. The straight line so defined is as true as Powell's novel and, in a sense, is truer than any image of rectilinear real world objects we may have in our minds.
However strange this may sound, humans are better wired for dealing with incomplete information and getting approximate, plausible results than dealing with complete information that requires exactitude of reasoning.
As a relevant aside, abstraction is one of the pillars of the object-oriented programming - an universally adopted methodology of designing and writing modern software.
O. and R. Brafman, Sway: The Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behavior, Doubleday, 2008
K. Devlin, The Math Gene, Basic Books, 2000
A. Powell, Books Do Furnish a Room, in 4th Movement in A Dance to the Music of Time, University of Chicago Press, 1995
W. W. Sawyer, Mathematician's Delight, Dover, 2007 (from the 1943 Penguin edition)
S. Schwartzman, The Words of Mathematics, MAA, 1994
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Brexit No-Deal Will Work in Favor of Bitcoin
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One of the important happenings in the world at present is the Brexit issue. The European Union used to boast of its strong community of European nation for many decades now. But in 2016, Britain held voting which went in favor of Brexit. Brexit is the process of taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union. This voting began a two years long process on the basis of "invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union" which ended recently on 29th March.
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May and the U.K. Parliament have mere nine days in hands to decide upon the fate of the country. Whether a country decided on NO-deal Brexit or stays with the EU, would determine the future of Bitcoin also. One analyst and content contributor to Forbes says that a no-deal Brexit decision will affect Bitcoin in no small extent.
No-deal Brexit is something the world would fear of – mainly the UK and the rest of the European Union. If Britain decides to go with no-deal Brexit, it would leave the EU on April 12 without making any negotiations, with an immediate effect. With no negotiations between two parties, the relationship between the UK and EU would be left in confusion. While Britain would move forward on its way, its economy and demographic status would change too. The world economy along with the new-gen form of money, cryptocurrency would get affected.
Not just that, but no-deal Brexit would lead to a huge disturbance in border flow between the UK and its fellow European countries. The disruption in trade, their cross-border demographic relation, economy and the freedom of travel would also get compromised to a large extent.
If this happens, the Forbes analyst said that the U.K. economy would have to suffer from hyperinflation. And usually, when the traditional economy is in trouble, cryptocurrency thrives. One prominent example is of South American countries like Venezuela and Argentina which have adopted cryptocurrency as a legal form of currency.
He also said, "Unemployment will rise, the already strained UK central bank will be forced to print cash," and "Bitcoin will rise against the Pound." He also said that it would be possible that rather than raising the value of Bitcoin against the British pound, the cryptocurrency will increase its value against the Euro.
When it comes to the world ranking, the UK is on the 5th position which shows its contribution to the world economy and the EU. If no-deal Brexit takes place, the Euro's value against cryptocurrency might get reduced.
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Attend one or two 7 days 'Preliminary Introduction' workshops (प्राथमिक परिचय शिविर) – preferably by a different facilitator to get a different perspective. You can get a quick overview of these workshops at this site.
Next, attend a 'Vikalp/Adhyayan Bindu Parichay Shivir' (See Topics of Study). This is essential in order to get a view of the core syllabus of Madhyasth Darshan. This is where the 'real-stuff' begins. Download & read the original hindi 'Adhyayan Bindu'.
You can get regular sms updates on coming workshops/shivirs or get them on email/ android phone calendar.
Read Articles by Shri Nagraj in Hindi here. These are written in easier language than the books themselves.
You can download the books here or order printed copies. Ongoing English Translations are available here.
Watch all available Audio & Video by Shri A Nagraj. These are extremely useful in understanding the books. The dialogues on 'अध्ययन प्रक्रिया' are particularly useful for clarity on how to proceed with study.
The next step after attending the 'Introductory' workshops is attending the Study Shivirs (अध्ययन शिविर). The various workshop/shivir stages are given here.
The book 'Samvaad' (about 3 parts, currently only in Hindi) has selected discussions with Shree A Nagraj. These have been transcribed from the available audio-video content (not the entire content). Go through the 'book of Dialogues' – संवाद -१ and संवाद-२ . The content is conversational in nature and easier to follow.
Attend the yearly Confluence (वार्षिक जीवन विद्या सम्मलेन). This gives an opportunity to meet up with a wide range of people. A Sample sammelan format is here.
Contact and visit one of the study locations to know more about the study programs and how people are practicing this in various dimensions of their living – behavior, inter-personal relationships, nature-friendly production techniques, etc.
The next step after completion of the 'Adhyayan Shivir' are the discussion groups or 'Goshti's'. This is where what we have read/ understood can be deepened, and verified. Adhyayan does not 'end' with the Adhyayan Shivir's, it 'starts'.
'Adhyayan' is not just about 'reading at a desk'. Reading & Analysis is the first step in the Study Process.
'Work' with the rest of nature.
'Adhyayan' or Study is not an 'isolated' exercise. While reading and other media are important, guidance is ultimately only from a Human Being (Teacher) who has understood/ realized, hence it is important to be in touch with someone you feel has this understanding.
You may want to 'share' what you have 'learned/ understood' with others – via small discussions or even conducting full-introductory shivirs yourself. Keep in mind that we are doing this for 'our practice', and to 'test & deepen' our own understanding. Not to 'change the world'. The world will be properly benefited, only when we are ourselves complete, have had 'Realization' ourselves. Sharing what we have learned benefits the world anyways. Hence, this is not primarily a 'social change' program. Rather, it is a process of having knowledge and living with humane-conduct ourselves, and change percolating to others via our understanding & living.
The study of reality according to Madhyasth Darshan does not include any ' prevalent meditative-practices', 'need to close ones eyes', 'chanting' or 'mystical-experiences'. This is being mentioned here in order to avoid confusing this with existing theories, where the words like 'Shravan, Manan, Nididhyasan', etc used are similar, but with a totally different intended meaning. See definitions.
Hence, Madhyasth Darshan needs to be studied and practiced in its own right, and not on the basis of any current / past practice, or some 'hybrid-method' we may come up with. The method to achieve anything is provided by one who has crossed that path, not the student that is on the path himself.
* See here for Original guidance by Shri A Nagraj (in Hindi).


He may have served billions, but he was always first in line.
"The Founder" is the story of the man who made McDonald's, Ray Kroc, played by Michael Keaton with the ingratiating grin of a perpetual salesman.
But Kroc was hawking a lot more than hamburgers.
His real product was simply profit — for his franchisees, but mostly for himself. Cutthroat deals were made. Corners were ruthlessly cut.
And cut out of everything were the real-life McDonald brothers.
A pair of truck drivers, they'd based their original business on selling a quality product at a fair price. They worried about their new partner's big plans.
You know money isn't everything, they thought.
What a pair of losers, Kroc thought.
You know how this is going to turn out. All you have to do is look around you to see how it turned out. We don't just have thousands of McDonald's franchises; we have a country that worships wheeler-dealers. Even, sometimes, inaugurates them.
It's a subject, though, the movie can't quite confront.
Keaton is his usual charming self, of course, but that's not the point. In fact, it may be the problem. Kroc wasn't just a colorful character. He was the symbol of a national shift — from Main Street modesty to Wall Street arrogance. That's worth talking about in depth, and "The Founder" won't.
Keaton is terrific. There are some good actors here, too, including Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch as the happily square McDonald brothers, and a criminally wasted Laura Dern as Kroc's first, neglected wife.
The details of how the McDonalds literally invented the fast-food concept are fascinating. The period details feel right. All in all, the film's a slick, good-looking package. But it still feels empty.
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Q: append to a dictionary in python My problem is this,
i need to try to create a dictionary that will hold the count values of each cluster from a dataset i am using.
I want my programme to use a while loop to enter keys into the dictionary based on an integer from user input.
here is some code
numberofclusters = raw_input("Enter the number of clusters")

clusters = {}
while numberofclusters >= 0:

so if the user entered 3 the dictionary should look like this
{ cluster1: 0, cluster2: 0, cluster3: 0

}
how would i get the current number from the numberofclusters variable? so that i can append "cluster[x]" to the dictionary?

A: >>> num_of_clusters = int(raw_input('Number: '))
Number: 3
>>> clusters = {}
>>> for i in range(1, num_of_clusters+1):
        clusters['cluster{0}'.format(i)] = 0

>>> clusters
{'cluster2': 0, 'cluster3': 0, 'cluster1': 0}

A: For starters, you'll want to re-think your loop logic. As it stands now, your while loop will continue infinitely -- numberOfClusters will always be greater than 0 (unless the user enters a negative value or 0 as input).
You should consider using a for loop, instead:
for i in range(0,numberOfClusters):
    # loop logic

This will iterate from 0 up to numberOfClusters, and you'll have access to which iteration you are on by reading the variable "i".
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La  des Quatre Jours de Dunkerque a eu lieu du  au . La course compte sept étapes, dont deux demi-étapes constituées d'une étape raccourcie et d'un contre-la-montre individuel, puis deux demi-étapes raccourcies, et porte sur un parcours de . La première étape, formant une boucle de  autour de Dunkerque, est remportée par le Belge Marc Demeyer, qui devient prend la tête du classement général pour quatre étapes ; la deuxième étape, reliant Aire-sur-la-Lys à Saint-Quentin en , l'est à nouveau par Marc Demeyer ; la troisième étape,  entre Saint-Quentin et Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, l'est par le Néerlandais Martin Havik ; la quatrième étape secteur a, ralliant Saint-Amand-les-Eaux à Villeneuve-d'Ascq en , l'est par le Belge Roger De Vlaeminck, tandis que son compatriote Daniel Willems remporte le contre-la-montre individuel de la quatrième étape secteur b de  ayant pour départ et arrivée Villeneuve-d'Ascq, il prend la tête du classement général ; la cinquième étape secteur a,  entre Villeneuve-d'Ascq et Poperinge l'est par Marc Demeyer qui signe sa troisième victoire d'étape sur la course ; enfin, la cinquième étape secteur b,  entre Poperinge et Dunkerque, l'est par le Belge Roger De Vlaeminck tandis que Daniel Willems remporte le classement général.

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L'édition 1979 des Quatre Jours de Dunkerque est divisée en sept étapes réparties sur cinq jours. L'arrivée de la  et le départ de la  ont lieu à Saint-Quentin, dans l'Aisne, tandis que l'arrivée de la  secteur a et le départ de la  secteur b ont lieu à Poperinge en Belgique. La quatrième étape est divisée en une étape raccourcie et en un contre-la-montre individuel, alors que l'étape suivante est subdivisée en deux demi-étapes.

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|  || 9 mai || Dunkerque - Dunkerque || ||align=center| 207 ||  Marc Demeyer ||  Marc Demeyer
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|  || 10 mai || Aire-sur-la-Lys - Saint-Quentin || ||align=center| 184 ||  Marc Demeyer ||  Marc Demeyer
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|  || 11 mai || Saint-Quentin - Saint-Amand-les-Eaux || ||align=center| 198 ||  Martin Havik ||  Marc Demeyer
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| a étape || 12 mai || Saint-Amand-les-Eaux - Villeneuve-d'Ascq || ||align=center| 118 ||  Roger De Vlaeminck ||  Marc Demeyer
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| b étape || 12 mai || Villeneuve-d'Ascq - Villeneuve-d'Ascq ||  ||align=center| 19,2 ||  Daniel Willems ||  Daniel Willems
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| a étape || 13 mai || Villeneuve-d'Ascq - Poperinge (BEL) || ||align=center| 116 ||  Marc Demeyer ||  Daniel Willems
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| b étape || 13 mai || Poperinge (BEL) - Dunkerque || ||align=center| 84 ||  Roger De Vlaeminck ||  Daniel Willems
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Classement général

Les Quatre Jours de Dunkerque 1979 sont remportés par le Belge Daniel Willems (IJsboerke-Warncke Eis) en . Il est suivi à  par le Néerlandais Bert Oosterbosch (Ti-Raleigh-McGregor) et à  par le Belge Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke (Peugeot-Esso-Michelin).

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Mouth Trumpet Lets You Toot Your Own Horn, but Without the Horn
Mouth Trumpet, a vocal technique first made popular during the Jazz Age, using the lips to imitate the sound of a trumpet, is seeing an unexpected revival. Photo: Courtesy of Victoria Vox
Angus Loten
Jan. 5, 2015 6:54 p.m. ET
BALTIMORE—Side-by-side on folding chairs, Rick and Sonia Samuel pursed their lips and blew. With his face turning red, Mr. Samuel managed to produce a low-frequency buzzing. His wife's mouth emitted noises several octaves higher.
"Sometimes people think that if they just blow, they're going to produce music," their instructor, Victoria Vox, explained to the group of about 20 people, gathered in a turn-of-the-century townhouse.
The Samuels, both in their 40s, were here to learn basic "mouth trumpet"—a vocal technique using the lips to imitate the sound of a trumpet, but without a trumpet. "It takes practice to get the tone and pitch," said Ms. Vox, a professional singer-songwriter who led the group in a mouth-trumpet version of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love." "You have to sing, and you have to know what note to hit, too."
Ms. Vox, who also plays ukulele and piano, is among a group of performers who are leading an unlikely revival of the mouth trumpet—also known as "vocal" or "lip" trumpet—even as they seek respect as serious musicians.
The 36-year-old, whose given name was Victoria Davitt, has held similar workshops across the country while touring to promote her eighth album, "Key," which was nominated in March for an Independent Music Award. She wrote or co-wrote all of the songs in the album, many of which feature a real trumpet that Ms. Vox mimics onstage.
"It is singing and it is my voice," she says. "It's not just a joke."
Certainly, mouth trumpet has a rich heritage in popular music, much of it linked to the ukulele craze of the 1920s. Some of the earliest known mouth-trumpet recordings were by Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards, whose signature high-pitched vocal solos are a cross between a muted trumpet and the kind of improvised scat singing popularized by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Mouth-trumpet solos figure prominently in his biggest hits, including "Singin' in the Rain," which topped the U.S. pop charts for three weeks in 1929.
Singer songwriter Victoria Vox is leading a revival of the 'mouth trumpet,' a vocal technique popularized during the 1920s ukulele craze. Philip Edward Lubner
Another early mouth trumpeter was Harry Mills, the second youngest of the four Piqua, Ohio, Mills Brothers, who is said to have lost his kazoo at a talent show and played mouth trumpet on stage instead. By 1930, the Mills Brothers were stars on CBS radio, appearing regularly on the Fleischmann's Yeast Hour with singer Rudy Vallee. Performers as varied as Dean Martin and the Bee Gees have cited Harry Mills as a musical influence.
But as the Jazz Age faded in the Depression, mouth trumpet lost its appeal in mainstream music; it could still be heard in folk, blues and other traditional songs.
Its current revival comes amid a broader rediscovery of early jazz, and the renewed popularity of the ukulele in recent years, says Vince Giordano, whose New York jazz band The Nighthawks recorded the Grammy-winning soundtrack for the 1920s-era HBO series "Boardwalk Empire." He says good mouth trumpet, like good scat singing, is something of a lost art: "Not everyone can do it. You've got to be musical and have good pitch," he says.
"There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet," says Bria Skonberg, co-founder of the New York Hot Jazz Festival, and a 2014 winner for Best Trumpet and Best Female Vocalist by Hot House Jazz Magazine. "Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo," Ms. Skonberg says, adding that she's glad performers are learning to do it well again.
"The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle," says
Like singing, mimicking the sound of a trumpet 'takes practice to get the tone and pitch,' Ms. Vox says. Scott Habicht
Earl Okin, a British musician who has performed mouth trumpet at London's Royal Albert Hall, among other top venues. "But after a while they start to really listen."
More are listening every day, to judge from some alternative-music charts. In October, Lawrence "Lipbone" Redding, a 47-year-old guitar player who taught himself mouth trumpet as a street busker, reached No. 9 on the JamBand charts with his latest album, "Esmeralda." That put him ahead of such established singers as Ryan Adams, and the bands Primus and String Cheese Incident.
Mr. Redding, whose artistry can be heard on MTV's "Jersey Shore" and A&E's "Parking Wars," among other television shows, describes his music as having a New Orleans lilt. He honed his mouth-trumpet skills over several years in New York's ceramic-tiled subway stations in the 1990s, often late at night: "The acoustics are amazing. It's like this beautifully tiled toilet that just sounds great," he says, referring to the way the stations' ceramic walls amplified his sound.
Rick Samuel says he and his wife, who both work in the health-care software industry, are huge fans of Ms. Vox. "We've gone to a number of her shows and it's really amazing" that her sound so closely resembles that of an instrument, he says.
Jennifer Hug, another workshop attendee, first heard Ms. Vox a few years ago, when she performed mouth trumpet on a radio show. "I was completely fooled, I thought it was a real trumpet," she adds.
Ms. Vox, who took trumpet lessons in high school and still plays, says she practices mouth trumpet by listening to great trumpet players, like Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker, copying their solos note for note. "If you tighten your lips just right, you can squeak out notes that are higher than you can sing," she says. "Rolling the tongue can add texture to the sound, and you can add vibrato to longer notes," she adds.
Her own rise to prominence began five years ago with an appearance on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno , where she performed a mouth-trumpet version of Europe's 1986 hit song "The Final Countdown." "When I take a musical solo with my mouth trumpet, for me it's music," she says, calling her style "family-friendly pop rock with folk and jazz influences."
She says she thinks she gets what's behind the mouth trumpet's growing appeal. "Ultimately it's singing, and maybe it's like singing in the shower" in that everybody secretly does it, she adds: "There are more mouth trumpeters out there than we know."
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Margaret Simons has a must-read post up at The Content Makers on the ethics of journalist James Massola's outing in The Australian of the blogger formerly known as Grog's Gamut, including a crystalline bit of analysis by Swinburne lecturer in media ethics Denis Muller.
Among other excellent points, he makes this one:
... there is another public-interest consideration to be taken into account here, and that is the public interest in having a plurality of voices in the public space or, as John Milton called it, the marketplace of ideas. If, as a result of the outing, Mr Jericho withdraws from the public space, the Australian polity will be the poorer; it will have been harmed. The harm would be negligible, certainly, but the principle is not negligible. Ethical reporting requires that such possible consequences be identified and an honest rationale be developed to justify causing them.
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lauredhel said...
I think he's missed a really huge chunk of the potential harm, here: the outing isn't just a threat to Grog's Gamut's further participation, it's a threat to all pseudonymous bloggers (and I think that threat is deliberate). That threat is also a biased one: privileged bloggers are more likely to be unaffected than those in marginalised groups.
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Annabel Crabb on twitter, in response:
"I don't think anonymity should be a right. Disclosure of identity would be a rebuttable presumption in my ideal world."
I'm not exactly sure what she means, trying to get my head around the rebuttable presumption bit, nevertheless I got the feeling that as a paid journalist she is slightly resentful of peeps who can 'hide' behind their anonymity, something she cannae do. Nor can she necessarily write whatever she feels/thinks, unlike some of us cowardly bloggers who keep their names a jealously guarded secret, mainly because at one stage there was some quesiton of being stalked by weirdos.
Bit of a storm in a tea cup really but I'd always argue that it's not a case of who said what, but what they said that really cuts the mustard. We're way too fixated on personalities as it is.
I think Crabb and co would just like to keep the comment field for themselves and slap down any talented intruders who might put *their* jobs at risk.
What Helen said.
I must admit I don't have much pity for the whining journalists (too many of them wanted to share their bad novels with me back in the day). I look forward to the day when I can step over the cardboard boxes in which they live on the way to the theatre.
But then, I'm a Tory.
Kerryn Goldsworthy said...
Journalism, like academe, is a fairly Darwinian pursuit. Blogging's a kinder, gentler pursuit in one respect -- one doesn't have to do or be anything at all (be functionally literate for print, be good-looking for the telly) to get into it in the first place, and one can happily go on doing it no matter how few people read one. I think blogging's a bit like boxing -- the more successful you are, the more likely you are to get beaten to death.
One of the things about Grogsgate that has really bothered me is the way it has taken us back to the earlier days of blogging when certain people - almost always men -- saw it as no more than some kind of direct alternative to journalism. Blogging is a lot more than that as we know, but this kerfuffle has constructed it as though it isn't.
I know, and know of, some really excellent journalists. But we live in a Rupert world and one's work is shaped by what's possible. I'm keeping a low profile on the anonymity thing because my views there are not fashionable, but I do think the outing of Greg Jericho was done for base motives. I'm wondering when the Oz will realise that setting yourself up as openly politically partisan is going to make people read everything that appears in your paper as opinion and campaigning rather than reportage.
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