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Y.M.C.A.," the 1978 gay disco anthem from, has been inducted into the U.S. Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
Library of Congress Inducts Village People's Gay Disco Anthem 'Y.M.C.A.' Into National Recording Registry: VIDEO
Victor Willis, the lead singer and songwriter for The Village People, recounts how he wrote "Y.M.C.A," the group's massive hit that was named today to the Library's National Recording Registry. https://t.co/lMbEEq2j8e #NationalRecordingRegistry pic.twitter.com/NGZ9daro0P
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"Y.M.C.A." is one of 25 songs or albums added to the National Recording Registry this year. Others include Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You," Tina Turner's "Private Dancer," Selena's Ven Conmigo, Dr. Dre's The Chronic, and the original Broadway cast recording of Fiddler on the Roof.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: The selection of "Y.M.C.A." was welcomed by Village People leader and lead singer Victor Willis, a longtime San Diego resident, who rejoined the group in 2017 after a four-decade hiatus. He wrote the lyrics to "Y.M.C.A." and other Village People hits, including "Macho Man," "In the Navy" and "Go West." He also wrote the group's recently released 2019 piano ballad, "If You Believe," an inspirational song of hope, whose video version has just been released and features coronavirus-inspired footage and images. "I had no idea when we wrote 'Y.M.C.A.' that it would become one of the most iconic songs in the world, and a fixture at almost every wedding, birthday party, bar mitzvah and sporting event," Willis said in a statement issued by the Library of Congress.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Village People this week released the group's video for "If You Believe," a song from their 2019 Christmas album.
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John Schoen has relocated from London to New York, to assume the role of managing director at State Street's FX
Jeff Patterson | Executive Moves ( Executives ) | Thursday, 21/05/2015 | 16:58 GMT+1 2015-05-21 15:58:51
State Street has secured the services of John Schoen as its newest Managing Director of Product Development at its foreign exchange (FX) platform, Currenex.
In his new role as the managing director of State Street's Currrenex operations, Mr. Schoen will be based out of New York, where he will be reporting to Rick Schonberg, State Street's senior managing director and global head of product for trading – North America.
Mr. Schoen has relocated to New York from London and is slated to begin his new appointment immediately. Prior to joining State Street, he worked as ICAP's co-Head, EBS market since early 2013.
In addition to this role at ICAP, he also served as its regional FX product manager – Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Additional stops include global project manager at EBS, as well as senior level roles at Barclays and Credit Suisse, according to information on his Linkedin profile.
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The British General Election and the perspectives for the Labour Party
On 7th June, the people of Britain will go to the polls to elect the next government. According to all the polls Labour is set to gain a hefty majority over the Conservatives. The polls show that Labour is now leading the Tories by a massive 28 points. The personal rating of Tory leader William Hague is just 13 per cent.
"According to our poll," writes The Economist (19 May), "54 per cent of people intend to vote Labour. With support for the Tories down to 26 per cent, they could face a defeat on the scale that Labour suffered in 1983, when it got 28 per cent of the vote."
Yet the election campaign has been as dead as a Dodo, and the great majority show little interest and less enthusiasm for either New Labour or the Tories. The general election turnout is likely to be low - some have even predicted the lowest for over 100 years. The reason for this alleged "voter apathy" is not hard to find.
Hopes dashed
In May 1997, Labour won a landslide majority after 18 long years of right wing Tory government. Tony Blair, the new leader of the Labour Party promised a new and "radical" policy to build a "better Britain". But once installed in Number Ten Downing Street he has followed a policy tailored exclusively to the interests of Big Business.
One of the first actions he took was to give the Bank of England control over interest rates, thus handing over effective control of economic policy to the representatives of the City. Next, he announced that Labour would restrict its public spending to the cash limits set by the defeated Tory administration.
The austerity policies of the Blair government led to attacks on the poorest and most vulnerable groups in British society, such as single parents. The pensioners were offered an insulting rise of 75 pence. Although they later gave more, the insult is not forgotten.
In stark contrast to this "tough" line with the poor, the Blairites are openly bragging about their friendship with business. Chancellor Gordon Brown has boasted that Britain has "the lowest rate in history of British corporation tax, the lowest of any major country in Europe and the lowest rate of any major industrialised country anywhere, including Japan and the United States."
He might have added that Britain also now has some of the longest hours, lowest pay and worst working conditions of any major industrialised country. At present, British workers work 25 per cent longer hours than workers in Europe or the USA. Polly Townsend, writing in The Guardian (23/3/01) points out: "The OECD - conservative economists - finds Britain has the least market regulation, the lowest corporation tax (lower than any time in history) and the lowest employment costs - not just lower than the rest of Europe, but when everything is added on (including US employers' health insurance) lower than the US too. Social insurance and labour taxes average 24 per cent in Europe and only 13 per cent in Britain."
The Blair government has done little to remedy this. The introduction of the minimum wage was a step forward, but it was set at such a low rate as to water it down completely. Even a large part of the notorious Tory anti-trade union legislation - which restricts trade union rights to a far greater extent than in any other industrialised nation - have not been rescinded.
Pro-Business policy
While Blair struts around the world stage, parts of Britain are falling to almost Third-World levels. Public housing, education and transport are in a lamentable state. The much-vaunted National Health Service is now in ruins. Once Britain led the world in health. Now, according to the World Health Organisation, 25000 Britons who died of cancer every year would have lived if the NHS was at the best European levels. Expenditure on health in Britain is only one third of US levels, and one half that of France.
After decades of neglect, the infrastructure is crumbling. The Observer (27 May) pointed out that investment in the public sector under New Labour has been even lower than under Thatcher: "Investment in hospitals, schools and transport infrastructure sunk to the lowest sustained level since the Second World War during Labour's four years in power [....] Overall real investment declined by 4.4 per cent a year, a larger decline than was registered during Margaret Thatcher's premiership."
Yet the answer of Blair and the Labour Right is to privatise and invite Big Business to invest in public services. Corporate executives have been appointed to the cabinet and hundreds of quangos. Most of the assets of the state are gradually being privatised by means of the private finance initiative. The better regulation task force, which was to defend workers and consumers from the erosion of standards by big business lobbying, has been handed to the head of Northern Foods. Even where privatisation is not yet a fact, the public sector is forced to imitate the methods of the private sector. But people can see that the so-called Private Finance Initiative is nothing but a fraud. There are fewer hospital beds and worse terms of employment than before.
These policies have been disastrous for Labour. They have led to a series of devastating defeats in Wales and Scotland and in the European elections. Above all, they led to an unprecedented routing of the official Labour candidate in the election for the mayor of London. For lack of an alternative, and to keep the Tories out, the working class will vote for Labour in the general election. But they will do so with neither enthusiasm nor conviction.
When Labour wins on 7 June it will not be because of, but in spite of, Tony Blair.
Why Labour will win
Despite everything, Labour will win this election by a sizeable margin. This is a decisive answer to those on the fringes of the labour movement who have left the Labour Party and are desperately striving to build phantom "revolutionary" armies in the clouds.
Although many working class people are disappointed with Blair and his policies, they see no alternative to the Labour Party at the present time. They do not want a return to Tory rule and therefore have rallied once more to Labour. Blair and the Labour right wing will try to present this as a victory for the pro-capitalist policies of the leadership. It is nothing of the kind. Beneath the surface, there is a simmering discontent, anger and frustration which will inevitably surface in the next period and will have far-reaching effects inside the Labour Party.
The prospect of a Labour victory is based primarily on the world boom which has kept the British economy afloat over the past four years. Despite the increased polarisation of wealth and the increase in stress at work, real wages have continued to rise while inflation remains low. The effects of the economic slowdown have not yet been felt by most people. As the Financial Times put it: "With unemployment and mortgage rates at historical lows and house prices continuing to rise after last year's boom, the feelgood factor remains high".
However, this 'boom' has not improved the lot of many workers in the industrial areas, where there is a considerable degree of dissatisfaction, and all the indicators are now pointing in the direction of a recession in the forthcoming period. Thus, the second Blair administration will not be like the first one. There is no enthusiasm for Labour, as there was in 1951 or even 1966, when Labour was forced to go to the polls for a second time. This is especially the case in the traditional working class areas of Britain. They will vote to give the Labour government a second chance. But If the Blairite leadership thinks it can just resume where it left off, it is in for a rude awakening. They will not wait indefinitely for the big changes they have been promised.
The discontent with Blair is particularly strong among the activists in the Party and especially in the unions, which are still organically linked to the Labour Party. Once the election is out of the way, the decks will be cleared for action. Already before the election, it is possible to see the beginnings of a change of mood on the industrial front, with a spate of unofficial strikes in the post office, and strikes on the London Underground, the railways etc. This is a sign of things to come.
There are already storm clouds gathering on the horizon. The outlook is looking very bleak as the world economy begins to slow down. In the United States manufacturing is already in recession. Its economy is running a current account deficit of 4 per cent a year. Investment is falling rapidly and stocks are being run down in an attempt to boost flagging profitability. In a desperate attempt to prevent a slump, the Fed cut interest rates for the fifth time in as many months.
The tame economists try to argue that Britain will not be affected by the slowdown in the United States. This argument is completely phoney. In Britain manufacturing output fell in the first quarter of the year - the sharpest fall since early 1999, in the aftermath of the last global slowdown. Output fell sharply in new economy sectors such as electronics and in old economy industries. Again, according to the CBI manufacturing has undergone the biggest drop in business confidence since January 1999. This will increase a hundred-fold as the world economy slides into global recession.
The inherent weakness of British capitalism is shown by the persistently high figures of unemployment. It is true that unemployment has fallen, but it still remains in the region of one million. And the official figures understate the true position, since they exclude up to three million people who are looking for work but excluded from receiving benefits.
In the past two decades a large part of Britain's manufacturing base has been destroyed. The level of investment in industry has lagged behind that of Germany, France and other countries. Even formally backward Italy has overtaken Britain, and Spain is not far behind. The former workshop of the world has been largely turned into a parasitic rentier economy based on banking and services, like France before the Second World War. This has had serious social consequences.
Workers who were made redundant in mining, steel and car manufacturing have been made unemployed or been pushed into low paid jobs in the service sector. The situation in many of the older industrial areas in the North resembles Dickensian England. And this is the situation in a boom. What will happen in a slump?
A world economic crisis will rapidly reveal the underlying weakness of British capitalism. It will strip away the budget surplus as unemployment rises and tax revenues fall. The bankers, the City of London and big business will demand austerity measures in their interests. At the same time there will be growing resistance to such policies from the working class, reflecting itself in growing opposition particularly within the trade unions.
Crisis in the Tory Party
For the last 20 years, there has been an offensive of capitalism under the banner of the Market. This international counter-offensive of Capital was launched by Margaret Thatcher and then taken up by Reagan in the USA. The British working class, which led the way in the strike wave of the 1970s, bore the brunt of the employers' offensive and paid the heaviest price in terms of the destruction of workers' rights, wages and conditions.
But this process has its limits. This was shown by the fall of Thatcher - caused, let us not forget, by the mass rebellion against the Poll Tax - and the resounding defeat of the Tories in the 1997 general election. This already indicated the beginnings of a turn in the tide in Britain.
The Tory Party is now deeply divided and in crisis. Unable to present a credible alternative to the policies of the Blairites, they have tried to play first the race card ("asylum seekers"), then the question of the Euro. But all these manoeuvres have failed. The problem of the Tories is simply stated: Blair has stolen their clothes. Since he was elected he has consistently done everything Big Business has asked of him. They therefore have no need of the Tories at the present time.
The cosy relation between Blair and Big Business has led some to conclude that Labour is now a bourgeois party. That is a complete misreading of the actual state of affairs. The ruling class does not trust the Labour Party because of its links to the trade unions and the working class. Of course, they will back Blair because he is their man. But they understand very well that the Labour Party is not Tony Blair.
As long as Blair is able to control the working class and carry out a capitalist policy, they will continue to support him. But there are limits to this. At a certain point, it will not be possible for Blair and the right wing to keep the rank and file in check. At this point they will unceremoniously turn against Labour and go back to supporting the Tories, probably under new leadership. The Tory humiliation at the polls will open up a period of crisis in the Tory Party. Probably William Hague will be replaced by a more "credible" leader like Michael Portillo.
Changing mood
As in mechanics so in society, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The unpopularity of Thatcherite policies was shown in 1997 when the working class, and a big part of the middle class voted overwhelmingly for a change. But no change has been forthcoming from Blair's New Labour. With the exception of a hypocritical "social" rhetoric, it has been a question of "more of the same".
However, the situation in Britain is changing. After two decades of mild reaction, the mood is shifting. This is shown by the polls already referred to which show clearly that the mass of people now reject privatisation. It is now generally understood that privatisation is just a licence to plunder the public sector. Only six per cent of voters (13 per cent of Tory voters) support the running of public services by private companies.
All the polls show that privatisation is now unpopular in Britain, with even Tory voters demanding the renationalisation of the railways by huge majorities. 76 per cent of all voters want renationalisation, including an incredible 71 per cent of Tory voters. 60 per cent are against private pensions. Half of labour voters (48 per cent of all voters) say that British Telecom should be renationalised. Fifty per cent say that workers in the public sector are underpaid. This shows that there is a sea-change in public opinion in Britain. The red light is flashing for the Blairites.
Yet the self-styled realists of the Labour leadership, who claim to be listening to the views of the electorate, remain deaf to all this. They are determined to maintain their right-wing pro-business line to the bitter end. The Blair government insists in pushing through creeping privatisation of the schools and hospitals, as well as the London Underground and Air Traffic Control.
Buoyed up by the prospect of an unexpectedly easy victory, Tony Blair will be even more arrogant than heretofore. In the past he has talked of his war against "the forces of conservatism", by which he means the trade unions. The ruling class will be egging him on to confront the unions in the public sector and press on with his "radical" (capitalist) agenda. But the mass of working people will no longer be so patient and tolerant as they were under the first Blair administration. They will insist that Labour acts in their interests. The Blairites will find themselves ground between two mill stones.
The working class in general learns from experience. The election of the first Blair government was a necessary part of the learning process whereby the masses put their leaders to the test. The real attitude of the workers to Blair was shown in a whole series of partial elections in Wales, Scotland, London etc., where they registered an unprecedented protest. All this constitutes an absolutely unavoidable stage in the development of consciousness. The know-nothing sects interpreted this as proof that the working class was moving away from Labour. The present election will show just how little they have understood. The workers, having taken stock of the position, will vote Labour to keep out the open representatives of Big Business. But after the election, their attitude to the government will not be the same as before.
For a time after the last general election, the workers were inclined to give Labour the benefit of the doubt. But that will no longer be the case under the next Blair government. The impatience and frustration of the workers has been expressed in a series of unofficial strikes in the Post Office (also threatened with creeping privatisation). The depressed mood of the past is slowly beginning to change to one of anger.
The trade union leaders who have so far largely succeeded in keeping the lid on will be under pressure to act. In the recent period there have not been many strikes, but in many cases there have been big majorities for strike action where ballots have been held. Not long ago, the RMT rail workers' union voted eleven to one in favour of strike action on the London Underground - the biggest majority ever for strike action on the Underground.
The union leaders have tried to avoid strike action, pointing to the danger of legal action under the anti trade union laws which, disgracefully, remain on the statute books. But this will not hold back the workers indefinitely. The unofficial (and illegal) strikes in the Post Office is a warning of things to come. If the union leaders continue to drag their feet, they will face outright rebellion in one union conference after another. There will be a wave of unofficial actions which the leaders will have to make official in the end.
At a certain stage, the union leaders will be pushed into semi-opposition, or even open opposition to Blair. The recent events in Greece, where the right wing union leaders were forced to organise two general strikes against the government of Simitis, the Greek Tony Blair, is an indication of where Britain is heading.
The only reason why the class has not moved before now has been the absence of a point of reference. The Labour Left has been generally cowed and inactive. But that will change. Under these circumstances, opposition will mount in the Labour Party, even within the Parliamentary Labour Party. The right wing will be rapidly discredited. Crisis will follow crisis. There will be sudden and unexpected turns in the situation which sooner or later must find their reflection inside the Labour Party.
Despite all Blair's efforts the organic link between the Labour Party and the unions has not been broken. The unions and the rank and file will demand policies in the interests of working people. On the basis of events, at a certain stage, a mass Left will emerge within the Labour and trade union movement. The ideas of the Marxist tendency in the unions and the Labour Party will gain a growing echo. But the prior condition for success is that the Marxists must participate and connect with the movement, not preach from the sidelines.
The process that will open up was already anticipated in the Livingstone affair in London. In protest at the high-handed conduct of the Labour leadership in refusing to accept the democratic decision of the London Labour Party, there was a revolt of the rank and file. The whole Party was in a state of ferment. Overnight, not just the local branches but also the affiliated unions sprang to life. True, the movement subsided again when Livingstone left the Party. But it showed the shape of things to come. In the next period, there will be many other incidents like that which will shake up every Party branch and union all over Britain.
Those people who continually ask themselves how it is possible that the British workers continue to vote for Blair reveal a complete lack of understanding of how the class moves. It is sufficient to pose the question concretely to get the right answer. Where is the alternative to Blair? The Tories? Certainly not. The Labour Left? But they are invisible! The sects who fiddle and fuss on the fringes of the Labour movement? That is just a joke. In the elections next week the working class will once again vote Labour, not because they like Blair or his policy, but simply because there is no alternative to the Labour Party. Not to see this is to understand nothing about the real situation in Britain.
In politics as in life, there are generally no short cuts to success. Marxism will gain a foothold in the British working class to the degree that it connects with the real movement of the working people and establishes itself through patient work. Events, events, events are needed to educate the class through its own experience and actions. The victory of the Labour Party on 7 June is not the end of the story, but only the closing of one chapter and the opening of a new chapter. It will be particularly stormy one.
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by: Joe LaFurgey
Posted: Jan 7, 2020 / 01:26 PM EST / Updated: Jan 7, 2020 / 06:14 PM EST
GUN PLAIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Allegan County authorities are looking into whether drowsy driving may have caused the fiery crash that claimed the life of a mail carrier.
The crash that killed 55-year-old Sheila Rackley of the Martin area happened early Monday afternoon on 10th Street near Carrie Avenue, north of Plainwell.
Rackley had stopped to drop mail into a mailbox when her vehicle was rear-ended by a pickup truck and shoved into the ditch, where it caught fire. Rackley died at the scene.
"It's very likely, due to the severity of the impact, that she was at least unconscious after the impact. That's something the medical examiner report will cover more," Allegan County Sheriff's Office Capt. Chris Kuhn told News 8.
On Tuesday, passersby could see a large burn mark in the ditch alongside the mostly unrecognizable parts of the postal vehicle.
One thing investigators look for as the work out what caused a crash is skid marks before the point of impact. There are none at the scene.
"Either there was a moment of distraction or the subject that was driving the pickup truck fell asleep," Kuhn said.
The driver of the pickup, who wasn't hurt, works third shift.
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Kuhn said it's more common than you might think for drivers to be drowsy or fall asleep at the wheel.
"Very likely, people don't even recognize when they do it, but they just don't have a crash while they're doing it," he said.
He said it's one of several mistakes drivers often make, saying too many don't realize the complexity of driving.
"You come to a stop sign and you see a car approaching. If you can't tell me the color of that car and maybe even the type of car it is — SUV, pickup truck — then you didn't see the vehicle," Kuhn said. "You might have looked, but you didn't actually see it. Your brain didn't recognize how fast it was going, the threat that it has as far as encroaching as you go through the intersection."
Kuhn said Monday's crash should serve as a reminder of the importance of safe driving habits.
"I think if we teach these to young drivers and remind our experienced drivers to see and not just look for things, I think maybe that will help people avoid tragedies like this," Kuhn said.
Results of the investigation will be handed over to the Allegan County prosecutor, who will make a final decision on whether the driver of the pickup will be charged.
Rackley worked out of the Plainwell post office. The U.S. Postal Service is offering assistance to her family and coworkers.
"Our thoughts and our deepest sympathy go out to her family and friends, including the people she worked with at the postal service." Postal Service spokesperson Sabrina Todd said in a statement.
US Postal Service worker killed in crash near Plainwell
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Jail for priest who bound teen at Otsego church
ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — A priest who admitted to holding a teen captive in a church janitor's closet is headed to jail.
In an Allegan courtroom Monday morning, Brian Stanley was sentenced to 60 days in jail with credit for two days served. He will also serve five years probation and must register as a sex offender for 15 years.
1 injured, 1 arrested after head-on crash in Allegan Co.
HEATH TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A man was seriously injured in a head-on crash in Allegan County Thursday morning.
It happened shortly before 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of M-40 and 127th Avenue in Heath Township, northwest of Allegan.
W. MI economic forecast predicts slowing growth
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new economic forecast expects growth to slow in West Michigan next year.
The Grand Rapids Economic Forecast 2020 was released Thursday morning by Grand Valley State University economics professor Paul Isely.
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Thankfully, since the recovery partition is put on the hard drive long before it starts to fail, and isn't ever re-written, it didn't have any errors.
After successfully capturing the images, I was able to replace the failing hard drive with the new drive. I booted the machine again with the Fedora Live CD and restored the images using similar dd commands.
After restoring the partition layout, I had to run 'partprobe' to have the OS re-read the partitions on the disk. Then I restored the recovery partition.
I used 'fdisk' to set the recovery partition as the "active" partition (so it would boot).
After this, I rebooted the machine and the HP recovery process started up and I was able to get the laptop back to its original factory condition.


Autumn is a wonderful time of year for families, especially those that live in areas that see the seasons change! The weather is cooler, apples and pumpkins become decorations around town, and there are seasonal festivals and events for your child to enjoy at school or at home.
Utilize our pre-built content from the TeachMate365 Community Library to give your child some extra support this season. You'll find a visual story about autumn with multiple-choice questions, a leaf-rubbing visual schedule activity, and an I Spy for Halloween with auditory output to reinforce each picture. This themed content also includes a pre-built sentence builder vocabulary with all the words and actions from the activities.


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American's for Prosperity-Tennessee Grant Henry Calls on Conservatives to Come Out and Voluneteer at Grassrootsnashville.com
Live from Music Row Friday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville's Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed Grassroots Director of American's for Prosperity-Tennessee Grant Henry to the newsmakers line to outline their efforts urge people to volunteer to get out the word for the Nashville Taxpayer Protection Act referendum on the July 27 ballot.
Leahy: Joined now on our newsmaker line by our good friend, the grassroots director for Americans for Prosperity of Tennessee, Grant Henry. Good morning, Grant. Good morning, sir.
Henry: Thank you for the opportunity again to be on.
Leahy: Well, great. And thanks for coming in studio last week while I was goofing off down on the beaches of Florida.
Henry: (Chuckles) You don't tell people how nice that studio is down there, too. It was a fantastic opportunity. I had an incredible time. And if you ever want me to come back, you don't have to twist my arm. I promise.
Leahy: We're going to have you in studio. So you liked the palacious studio here?
Henry: Yeah, it was great. It was an awesome time. Really, really nice place. But you're a radio guy, aren't you?
Henry: I was back in the day. In a former life. That's correct. Yes.
Leahy: In a former life. Did you have your own program up there in Knoxville?
Henry: Yeah. I actually was entitled Real News back in the day. It was a playoff Trump's fake news type thing. (Leahy laughs)
Leahy: We try to cover news in a real way here. So you were the groundbreaker. We're just following your lead, Grant.
Henry: Oh, sure. Yes, sir. (Laughter)
Leahy: Grant, now tell me it like we want to talk about the Nashville Taxpayer Protection Act. It looks like it'll be a referendum on the ballot of July 27 of this year. Now, the lefties are trying to do everything possible to stop it.
Jim Roberts, the lawyer who put this together, will be with us at 7:15. He'll give us an update on the legal side of things. I think it's looking good for the home team there, by the way. So I think that it will be on the ballot.
But tell us what it is that you plan to do at Americans for Prosperity to gather support for those who want to turn back or roll back the property taxes that Mayor Cooper put in here and want to vote in favor of that roll back on this July 27 referendum in Davidson County? What are you doing at American's for Prosperity?
Henry: Michael, again, thank you so much for the opportunity to talk about this and specifically talk about what the ground game and the opportunities are. Let me start by saying Grassrootsnashville.com is going to be the best way to sign up for some of these opportunities and see what's coming forward.
Obviously, Americans for Prosperity are known as the ground game type people. We're going to be making phone calls for the next couple of months here, doing several different phone banks, reach out, get in touch with me, go to that website, sign up for an opportunity to do that.
We're also going to be doorknocking, which is a major, major way to meet people where they're at, create an organic community buzz and a groundswell that is irrefutable. We'll be starting doorknocking next weekend and going pretty much every weekend for June and July other than that July fourth weekend.
And right now since the last time, we did this when we gathered those 27,000 signatures, meeting people where they're at at the doors is the best way, not just to get the word out about this referendum, but I'm telling people also, it's the best way to send a signal across the bow to Metro government that, listen, Conservatives are here.
We are a loud major voice in the area. They're structural, systemic change that needs to happen right now. We will not be refused. To make your voice heard come in these doors, tell these people to their face as well.
Leahy: The website is grassrootsnashville.com and that sends you to an AFP-related site. You can sign up there. There's an action center. And if you want to help out financially, there's a donate button. I am a big fan of Get out the Vote door to door Canvasing.
As you may recall, back into 2013, I set up a little conservative political action committee called Beat Lamar. And you may recall, we had a very aggressive door-to-door campaign and ended up endorsing a candidate to challenge Lamar Alexander named Joe Carr.
And in the primary of August of 2014, largely because of that very aggressive door-to-door campaign, Joe Carr became very close to defeating Lamar Alexander 49 to 40. And it turned out in Middle Tennessee, where the grassroots activists were most engaged, we had probably about 90 kids at any time over a three-month period knocking on doors.
It's very effective. I am excited to see what's going to happen because, with COVID-19, grassroots door-to-door campaigning stopped. This looks like this may be the first major effort in the country where conservatives are back doing door-to-door canvassing.
Henry: And the door-to-door canvassing is part of it. We will also be doing mailers. We're doing massive media breaks and a social media campaign as well. Another thing I'd like to give people a heads up on or at least get their help on is look, if you have a story to tell, okay, anecdotes pull heartstrings.
We understand that. We understand that. If you have a story to tell as to how this referendum will affect you, how it will make your life better, I will give you room to breathe maybe you came in as some of my favorite people around here now call themselves California refugees.
If you fled another state because of terrible spending and you don't want to repeat the same mistakes here, tell me these stories. I'll give up my number on air. If people want it, it's 615-330-4569. That's 615-330-4569.
Give me a personal phone call. I will put those stories on camera. We will spread it around or at grassrootsnashville.com. And I'm telling you, our city, Nashville, will continue to dig itself into a deeper hole and raise taxes unless voters can decide whether some guard rails are needed to curb Nashville's spending addiction that puts us in the current crisis we are at right now.
We at American Prosperity look forward to getting out in this community and letting people know that they can play a role in getting Nashville's priorities in order and help them help our city prosper for years to come.
And Michael, let me tell you, some of these situations are just inherent to Nashville alone. Nashville has nearly twice as many employees per 1,000 residents as the more populous cities of Louisville, Indianapolis, and Jacksonville.
That's according to an analysis from The Beacon Center done just a few years ago. Some of these situations where there is a spending problem being that we're 3.6 billion dollars. Billion with a b. 3.6 billion dollars in debt. Some of those situations are inherent to just to Nashville. We got a very interesting situation going on here.
Leahy: If you do not want to California Nashville, you should go to grassrootsnashville.com. It is June the 11th and this is like six weeks before the referendum, but there will be early voting as well, won't there?
Henry: That's right. Early voting starts on July seventh, and early voting will go to July 22. Election Day itself will be on July 27. And again, as I said before, we'll be knocking every Friday and Saturday.
Other than that July fourth weekend. We'll be setting up call banks all over town. And one more thing here, too. Well, I am not an out-of-the-box thinking kind of guy, okay? I think very analytically.
If it's done well, one way, I'll do it that way again, if you are an out-of-the-box thinking kind of person, give me a call also. Reach out and sign up on Grassrootsnashville.com I'm open to any and all types of changes here.
Whoever is running this other campaign here, Michael. And I'm not pretending to speculate that I know all the players on the other side. I do know they're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars already. Already! We're just now starting the TV ads.
Leahy: And the TV ads are so misrepresentative of what this referendum would do if it passed. If you want to lie, just join the campaign against this referendum. That's what they're doing, in my view.
Henry: Yes. And all we're asking for, really, is to hold Mayor Cooper accountable for what he said during his own campaign. Let me read you a quote real quick, what Mayor Cooper said while he was campaigning.
A properly managed city should be able to thrive on a four-point five percent revenue increase. Metro needs a return to fiscal stewardship.' I don't feel good about asking taxpayers to pay more in taxes when we are not properly managing the money we already have.
That was Mayor Cooper while he was running for this position. And since 2015, The Beacon Center has identified more than $300 million in Metro Nashville waste, fraud, and abuse in their yearly pork reports.
Again, it's a spending problem with Nashville. We're reaching out and saying, Listen, Mayor Cooper, Metro Council, Cooper ran on a ticket of being fiscally responsible. Now is the time to finally have your voice heard. Come out, knock on doors with us. And it's a blast out there, too.
Leahy: Grant Henry, with Americans for Prosperity Tenant for Tennessee. Thanks so much. One thing I think we conclude about this is, apparently Mayor Cooper does not feel good about what he's done as Mayor based on that statement? David Grant Henry, thanks so much for joining us this morning. Come back again if you would, please.
Henry: Thank you, sir.
Listen to the second hour here:
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Bishop Watterson used a 13-3 run to deliver a first-round knockout and answered every rally on its way to a 56-39 win at Buckeye Valley in boys basketball non-league action Saturday afternoon in Delaware.
Mike Schweitzer scored six points in the initial run and 14 points in the first half to help the Eagles (9-2) seize control.
The Barons' four losses this season have been to two Division I teams (Delaware Hayes and Olentangy Orange) and two of the top D-II teams, including Columbus South.
Mitch Rotondo had a steal at half court and finished with a layup to cut the early deficit to 13-7 for the Barons (9-4). Rotondo finished with eight points, three rebounds and a pair of assists.
Andy Cotter's three-pointer at the end of the first quarter gave Watterson an 18-7 lead and the Barons never got it to single digits again.
Watterson had 18 assists on 25 made baskets for the game and used ball movement and back-door cuts for easy baskets underneath to gain control.
The Eagles outscored Buckeye Valley 16-8 in the second quarter, including eight points by Scweitzer. He finished with 16 points, four rebounds and two blocks.
After Tim Schilling hit three at the line and Jesse Tomlinson found Nick Hyatt for three, the Barons pulled it to 36-23 early in the third.
Led by Nate Boone's six quick points, Watterson responded with a 13-0 run to take a 52-33 lead in the fourth. He finished with eight points, four assists and three rebounds.
Hyatt hit three three-pointers in the final minutes and BV outscored Watterson 14-4 to close it out. Hyatt led the Barons with 14 points and two assists.
The Eagles outrebounded BV 33-15.
Alex Will had 13 points and four steals for the Eagles. Dylan Egle pulled down a game-high eight rebounds and Adam Gilles had a game-high seven assists. He had six rebounds and finished with five points.
BV hosts Highland in non-league action Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.


For those of you that don't follow IBMMAIN (Cheryl follows everything – I think the NSA follow Cheryl to reduce their own workload!), there has been some recent discussion about an issue in JES2 whereby it consumes 2-3 times as much CPU in z/OS 2.2 as in z/OS 2.1. In an ideal world, you would have spotted that during your normal review of system activity and CPU usage, especially following an upgrade (the additional CPU time shows up in the JES2 address space, in the IAXIS module). But who has the time any more for such 'luxuries'?
Anyway, two APARs are required to completely address the problem – OA50777 (JES2) and OA50806 (RSM). ++APAR fixes are available, but we hear that the PTFs will be available next week, and apparently removing the ++APARs is a bit of a bear, so probably best to wait for the PTFs at this point. All the customers that were impacted commented on how quickly IBM reacted and made the ++APARs available. So, kudos to the JES2 and RSM teams. Support like that is the reason so many enterprises wouldn't consider any other platform for their really critical applications.


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North River is a town on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was incorporated as a municipality in 1964.

Geography
The Town of North River is located northwest of Clarke's Beach, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. The settlement extends along the northwest bank of the river of the same name, and includes Halls Town, located south of what was formerly Fillier's Bridge, further inland along the river valley.

History
In the early 1600s, colonist John Guy of the Cupids plantation referred to people living in the Clarke's Beach area, which could have included North River or South River. Permanent settlement, however, most likely started in the mid 1800s. Historically, what is now called North River was known as Northern Gut, while the name North Valley also appears on some maps.

North River has traditionally been a fishing and agricultural community. It is probable that Northern Gut and the valley of the North River as far inland as The Pond That Feeds the Brook were early sites of winter houses or summer gardens for fishing communities on the Port de Grave peninsula. Many of the year-round settlers in the North River valley were  fishermen of Irish descent who had been employed by English merchants and planters on the Peninsula. Local oral tradition holds that the early Roman Catholic settlers had been driven out of the Peninsula, but it is more likely that by the mid 1800s, the families of the original Irish fishing servants had saved enough money to facilitate a move to the riverside farmlands, where they already cultivated gardens.

The census records published in the Journal of the Legislative Council of the Island of Newfoundland for 1833 noted that there were 36 dwelling houses in Northern Gut at that point, with 101 men, 103 women, 27 servants, and 4 fishing boats.

Grave markers in the North River cemetery date back to 1870, but many of the original Irish settlers were buried in the older cemeteries of Bareneed and Port de Grave.

Access to North River was originally always by water, but in 1836 a road was built from Northern Gut to Collier's Bay (today's Colliers). This road joined up with the road from Collier's Bay to Holyrood, providing the first land transportation link into Conception Bay North. The local Road Commissioners at the time were Thomas Ridley, Thomas Chancey, John Elson, and John Stark. In the same year, tenders were called for the building of a road northward, stretching from Northern Gut to Riverhead, Harbour Grace.  The bridge over North River was completed around the same time, at a cost of £100.

In 1839, Joseph Jukes, an English geologist and surveyor for Newfoundland, made a visit to Northern Gut while exploring local slate deposits. For June 21, 1839, Jukes wrote the following in his diary:Here a brook empties itself into the sea having run for about three miles through a narrow pond or "cosh" as my men called it. We hauled the boat up the shallow bed of the brook for a few yards into deeper water and then rowed up the lake. I then struck off with two men and the theodolite and barometer to the top of a hill on the north side called "Sunday's hill" whose height I found to be about 500 feet.Improved roads and an influx of settlers meant that by 1840 there was enough settlement in the Valley to justify the establishment of a Roman Catholic school.

By 1857, the combined population of Hall's Town and North River was 335, with Roman Catholic families clustered at North River. Protestants (most notably the Hall family) settled further inland.  While early settlers chose the area for agricultural purposes, a group of later settlers moved into the area as waterfront property at Clarke's Beach became limited. By the 1860s, residents were combining farming with the Labrador fishery out of Port de Grave and Bay Roberts. Some of the nineteenth century pioneer families moved away to Philadelphia and Boston, but quite a number stayed on.

In 1870–1871, the following family names were in North River: Atkins; Brine; Butler; Cooney; Cullen; Cummins; English; Farrell; Hanlin; Hurley; Kavanagh; Lawless; Long; Moore; Morgan; Morrisy; Neville; O'Brien; Power; Ring; Shea; Sinclair; Skean; Swords; and Walsh. They were all listed as fishermen, planters, and farmers.

The Labrador fishery, farming, and woods work provided most work for late nineteenth-century residents.

The Bell Island mines offered a new type of employment starting in the early 1900s, and in the 1940s many also worked on the construction of the United States base at Argentia.

At this time, Bern English opened the first shop in North River.

Family farming for household needs remained an important tradition in the area well into the twentieth century. In 1986, Clarke's Beach merchant Garfield Ralph remembered locals growing "thousands of barrels of potatoes a year. When I was a boy everybody in Clarke's Beach, North River and South River grew from 10 to 150 barrels of potatoes."

Early family names of North River still common in 1992 included Bradbury, Fillier, Hall, Hanlon, Morgan, Morrissey, Newell, Power, and Snow.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, North River had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

See also
 List of cities and towns in Newfoundland and Labrador

References

Towns in Newfoundland and Labrador

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Video streaming numbers reported by Nielsen on Facebook have been devastated after a change in the way they are measured in the wake of the misreporting scandal last year, with streams plummeting 94%, Nielsen NetRating figures obtained by Mumbrella reveal.
Last year the digital industry was rocked by the admission by Facebook that it had vastly overestimated its video views based on people watching as little as three seconds of a stream.
Separately, Facebook had also change the way it delivered videos to audiences.
As a result Nielsen was forced to review the way it measured Facebook streams after Facebook changed the way they were delivered from a single stream to delivering in packets to improve user experience, with Nielsen counting each segment delivered as a separate video stream.
The revelations prompted Nielsen to revisit the way in which it measured video streams on Facebook.
Early reports suggested the over-reporting could be by as much as 80% and in October Nielsen changed the measurement method. However, the revelations that Australian video streams had dropped by 94% over the course of a single month are far worse than many predicted.
The numbers raise the possibility that the widespread belief that Facebook had overtaken YouTube as the video platform of choice may never have been correct.
The overestimation of streaming on Facebook, which had previously counted streams of three seconds or longer resulted in the changes by Nielsen that now measure video streams of all lengths.
Nielsen measured Facebook streams of 8.6b in July last year, 12.506b in August and 9.94b in September.
But in the months after the change, the numbers have plunged to just 560m in October and November and 580m in December.
The drop in total streams due to the change came despite the fact the unique audience for Facebook remained constant throughout the same period with an average of 6b.
Nielsen rejected a request from Mumbrella for the total Facebook streams from the months of July-December 2016 rejected the request and supplied only the numbers from October.
Media buying agencies appear to have reacted immediately to the changes in Facebook's numbers, with data from Standard Media Index (SMI) revealing spending targeted specifically at video on Facebook dropped 32.4% in the past three months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, while spending on YouTube grew 11.9% during the same period.
By comparison, video spending for the previous three month period had risen by 30% for Facebook.
Measurement of total YouTube streams by Nielsen throughout the same six month period saw streams fluctuate between 2.6b to a high of 2.8b and a low of 2.4b (desktop only) and saw a drop of 14% from October to November.
The revelation that the number of streams is just a fraction of what was previously being reported is likely to accelerate calls for better measurement of data being provided by digital platforms and increased third party measurement.
The new figures are also likely to turbo-charge the debate around the efficacy of online advertising at a time when traditional media platforms such as TV, print and radio are fighting a rearguard action against the likes of Google and Facebook.
A spokesperson for Nielsen said "it was not appropriate" to compare the numbers.
"Our engineering team created a solution that would count progressive streams as one stream per view. The solution was released on October 1, 2016," the Nielsen spokesperson said.
Facebook declined to comment on the Nielsen numbers, saying all questions should be directed to Nielsen.
One industry observer analysing the figures said that while they were expecting a drop in streaming figures as a result of Nielsen's changes to its measurement of Facebook, the results were surprising.
"I knew they were wrong but I didn't realise how wrong," the media specialist said.
In November, the Australian Association of National Advertisers warned that Facebook must guarantee independent measurement or face global action from marketers.
Simon I think you've got your millions and your billions mixed up in the copy. Or else that Facebook vs Youtube streams graph is totally off.
Thanks. A typo left over from an early draft which I have fixed.
Thanks! I thought that number looked a touch low.
Do I sit here alone in utter bewilderment that a story like this only has 3 comments, specifically about a typo!?!
Can you imagine if any other media sector had its audience data "overestimated" to this degree?
@Nothing to see here…? I totally agree. Is this not a massive story that should be full of comments, or is no one actually surprised at this? Maybe it's because everyone who has been talking up their own video views is being found out about this, to quote Ritson "horseshit".
Perhaps, embarrassed they've been duped.
Few comments as it's largely going to be ignored by serious marketers who measure Facebook video activity based on actual business results, and see that it drives significant growth for businesses advertising on it.
The article is a hatchet job likely based on mis-analysis of marketing metrics by people who don't understand what they're looking at. The fact that Nielsen even touched on this in referencing the fact that it shouldn't be compared is an indication that this article is very misleading.
Dinosaurs like Ritson fighting the reality that people's attention is allocated more to digital and particularly mobile, meaning that there's greater value for advertisers there than offline (along with the advanced targeting and measurement of digital platforms) will ultimately fall by the wayside, and are already irrelevant to anyone with remotely sophisticated measurement of marketing activity.
Dude. It's down 94%. Did you even read the title.
Have you run placebo ad testing or some other lift study to determine the true lift when using Facebook as a video inventory source to disprove it's merely cookie bombing and taking credit in its measureless bubble?
I mean come on, less than 3 seconds out of view ads actually having a positive impact?
As a person with a penchant for 'sophisticated measurement of marketing activity' I'd like some cold hard facts presented by yourself.
@Digital marketer. It's seems like Facebook's hospitality at Palo Alto is paying dividends in terms of PR, just as was intended. Does this mean you get to go again next year, this time with the wife and kids in tow?
Every other publisher has to now accept strict viewability and measurability metrics in order to get a mere slice of digital ad spends, yet these guys run roughshod over the industry and get away with it.
Who will dare make a stand and pull their clients money until they can be 100% certain that FB numbers are accurate? No-one…But if it was ANY other publisher online, in TV or in print that is exactly what would happen.
This is the ad industry equivalent of an Enron-sized event.
You can't drop this type of revision to numbers long touted and not expect media buyers and brands to want to see $ returned.
Truly embarrassing. Someone's head has to roll.
Very reasonable observation, @nothing to see here. Possibilities for the deafening industry silence?
1. Is it Egg-On-Face Syndrome? With all the group think from many (not all) advisors/agencies and brand marketing teams hailing the social revolution for marketing and advertising, how do you credibly crawl out of the Facebook chicken run, eggless? No problem with industry challenging any media or tech sector (Martech, Adtech, marketing clouds, TV, radio, magazines, OOH, news media and so-on) but we hardly get that from the ad spend and marketing people around the digital revolutionaries in social/influencers etc.
2. Is it true most remain deluded and/or scared to challenge the global duopoly of Facebook and Google. If so, says something about the state of the industry, really.
3. See point 1 and 2 plus a few others still to be posted (one hopes).
Given the irrepressible industry love for Facebook (and Google), someone, surely, from the buy side (social/media/creative agency or marketer) can stand-up and credibly defend FB. Or at least why these figures don't matter? I'd really like to hear it and discuss constructively – maybe with some vigour!
4. Is the Mumbrella story simply wrong or wayward? In which case we should hear from someone about that too.
5. Must get back to the chicken run.
There is no magic lantern, so I hope people start to see that the digital world is NOT it. Let's get back to the real challenge, good creative plus good media strategy followed by tactics, using a number of media outlets to achieve the goals that were set. Simple!
Pull the cash! Vive la révolution!
I'm a little confused here. You keep referring to the video view duration issue from last year, but this article is all about pure video streams?
Are you able to explain how Nielsen used to measure video streams and what they changed to result in it being 94%.
Agreed Mitch, that seems the most obvious question to me. Are they still measuring on 3 seconds +? or has this been pushed out to a longer length?
If so the results shouldn't be too surprising to anyone who has ever compared the numbers on 3 seconds views and 100% completed views. Usually the latter is only 3-5% of the total streams.
Could you please clarify how Nielsen are now reporting a stream (view)? Is it a % of video view or more seconds? Or is this a viewability measurement?
I'm assuming that the minutes of streaming for both FB & YT is inclusive of all video.. which isn't what advertisers care about. Or is this study just taking FB video ads and YT pre-roll into consideration?
Also, FB doesn't have unskippable pre-roll as an ad format – would this not reduce numbers.
Not on FB's side – I think that they have been getting away with too much for too long! But trying to understand more. Thanks!
But this isn't ads, clients aren't charged on content streams or this planning data so not quite sure what the fuss is particularly as this seems to be an old story. Do the tv guys understand how digi works?
2. It was Google who complained. I reckon they know how digi works.
We have entered the realm of parody.
… So here's media agency perspective. TL;DR, please stop publishing things too quick… or dare I ask, are you trying to sell at the moment?
1. Facebook / Nielsen not doing the job right to 'third party' measure such elements as streaming is indeed important.
2. Will this Turbo charge debate? No, if anything this will just highlight the difficulty of third party just 'hopping on' a propriety platform like Facebook to do independent verification properly.
3. For Facebook, raw monthly streaming number doesn't matter when it comes to the volume of 'paid media investment' as much as say, viewability.
Seriously, all you needed was calling couple media agency folks to source comments. Smeh.
Haha, KK is this your prepared statement for when clients ask you to justify the over investment into Facebook?
Streaming numbers are down 94%, viewability is in the single digits.
As others have said, if this had been any other publisher heads would be rolling right now.
And don't blame Nielsen here, these proprietary platforms make it extremely difficult to allow for independent verification.
Haha Ricky Bobby, I am so glad you asked.
Viewability (and FB Consumption behaviour) is THE issue FB has, and no sane media person should be defending that. SMI trend data Mumbrella used reflects this, no?
Even the P&G GMO objectively highlighted the technical and lawful (privacy for one) difficulty of having 3party verification enabled. So objectively educate yourself and ask the question again. Facebook built their own DIALECT of programming language to run its platform. It's open source, but require outsider engineers to get acquainted with before being able to accurately do things with. It's not as simply as creating a Facebook app.
If that's way over your head – consider an Iranian walking into a Scottish pub and try to all of sudden be completely like the white bloke watching Celtics play. Yeah, not so easy right?
So again, objectively – Nielsen figure of streaming data is now lower by 94%. YES, important. Does that hinder my ad performance? No, but viewability sure does.
So yes, let's treat Facebook to the same standard when it's about performance of ads we run for our advertisers. Not for the fact that there is a very complex technical challenge fo third party to handle.
Or are you just mad at them because you are supposed to?
That anybody might question why such an enormous difference in reported vs actual media views might even be an issue, is quite staggering and must surely have been from the keyboard of either an ignoramus or someone with vested interest in glossing over the revelations. Trust in business is crucial in greasing the wheels of commerce. Accuracy of data is critical in media negotiations to the establishment of scale, interpretation of demand, pricing analysis and investment allocation.
It is indeed a measure of Facebook's power and influence that the industry is not apoplectic over the enormity of this misreporting.
Good news, this decline in audience is recoverable. Facebook's video streaming audience can be increased again simply by making it legal for Facebook users to stream sporting events, concerts, Free to air TV, Foxtel, Netflix and Stan via Facebook to their friends.
Should caveat that your perspective is only one of an individual who works at a media agency.
Here's mine – these measurement issues are damaging both for Facebook and the companies that have recommended them to marketers.
The big q for me – how come no one at fb ever corrected these figures? Surely they knew how out they were.
If we in media agencies think this is a "nothing to see here" moment we have really lost the plot.
I agree with you on all front. It's my own perspective, and yes this is extremely damaging for Facebook.
Point media folks can hopefully agree is that viewability is far more important issue than streaming figure for Facebook when it comes to the ad performance. Also like article mentioned, decline in streaming figure was fully expected too.
Simon I'm so lost – how do Neilson now record Facebook streams? and how does that compare to Youtube?
Article says that in the past Nielsen were only counting views of 3s or more as a 'stream', but that they're now counting all 'streams; not just 3s or more.
In which case how would that lead to a lower count, now that you're tracking all streams, surely the number would have to be higher!?
The only way this makes sense is if for some reason 'progressive' means buffer and for technical reasons Nielsen were counting views as when the buffer hit 3s not the actual playing of the content.
Same here. Headline is shocking, but article makes no sense. To fully understand, we need to know exactly how it was measured before and now. Is the writer of the article even checking the comments?
I have been awaiting further response from Nielsen. In the meantime, the video over-reporting by Facebook last year was a separate issue, but Nielsen's numbers in this case are understood to have been the result of a change in the way they were measuring videos after Facebook changed from a single stream to delivering videos in packets (for want of a better phrase). Nielsen is understood to have counted each of these packets as individual video streams and was reporting this to the market in its Digital Media Landscape report. As noted in the story by Nielsen a fix for this was applied in October, but many in the industry I spoke to were unaware of the original over-reporting and the reasons for the inflated figures.
It only makes sense if the move from "progressive/packets" to single stream IS the solution and not the problem Nielsen have faced. I can't find anything about this method of delivering videos by FB, however if the Nielsen fix was to start counting this multitude of videos as single views, than a 94% reduction (or some sort of reduction) starts to make sense.
Progressive Load of videos, loads one file for the whole video, which mean one network request, one video URL, one thing to count in a log file.
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming or HLS, loads many separate files for the whole video, it is loaded in segments (which could be around 2-10 second segment lengths depending on FBs configuration choice), which means many network requests, many video URLs, and extra care needed in counting since these many log events for one video loaded need to be condensed into one count.
Since FB doesn't allow client side measurement and this is about videos streamed, not viewable impressions, it seems Neilson were counting raw server logs on video loads (which aren't valid impressions or viewable impressions) but failed to take into account that many video url loads seen in a log file in an Adaptive Bitrate Streaming scenario were actually just one video being loaded.
My question would be…. was it always broken since day one when Nielsen started counting/publishing this data? Or was the counting methodology originally correct, and at some point FB switched from Progressive Loading of video to Adaptive Bitrate Streaming of video without telling Nielsen and ensuring the change had no impact on measurement.
Either is embarrassing, if the counting methodology was wrong from day one then both companies are to blame since they should have ensured their counts aligned and the numbers made sense while integrating. However, if the later is true it puts more of the blame on FB and perfectly highlights why counting publisher provided data is never going to be trustworthy since an independent measurer doesn't have visibility or control over the changes the publisher makes to its systems and how such changes might affect measurement accuracy (intentionally or unintentionally).
Can Mumbrella provide any inforamtion on the criteria that is involved with Nielsens new measurment?
Some recent posters have just about worked it out.
Are these numbers meant to be AU or global?


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Virginia man arrested after hit-and-run boating incident on Cherokee Lake in Hawkins
STAFF REPORT • Jun 3, 2019 at 5:07 PM
ROGERSVILLE — The operator of a boat involved in a two-vessel collision on Cherokee Lake on Saturday was arrested and charged with reckless operation of a vessel and failure to render aid after reportedly fleeing the accident scene.
Saturday evening shortly after 6 p.m., a pontoon boat being operated by Jaime K. Ratliff, 40, of Abingdon, reportedly struck another pontoon boat in the side being operated by Johnny Kilgore and occupied by his wife, Thelma Kilgore, both of Kingsport.
According to TWRA Wildlife Officer Chris Seay, the Kilgore vessel was traveling toward the main channel of Cherokee Lake from Lakeside Campground when the accident occurred.
Seay stated in his report that after the collision Ratliff failed to stop and continued operating his vessel until beaching it approximately one mile northeast of the accident scene.
Ratliff then walked back to his camper at Lawson's Campground, where TWRA officers arrested him a few hours later.
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