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Ellen Mickiewicz: "RT"
January 9, 2017 JRL Russia List Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations
Subject: RT
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 19:59:35 -0500
From: Ellen Mickiewicz <ellen.mickiewicz@gmail.com>
Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. Shepley Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
The Report from the U.S. Intelligence Community is notable for its factual mistakes and misleading conclusions. Whether misleading is deliberate or simply lack of information they could have accessed is not known. What is known is that the report is so far from factual, that much of it cannot be useful to any U.S. administration. The report also reflects badly on the state of intelligence generally. I say this, because for a long time, now, I have been researching RT, one of the chief, if not the chief, sources of threat to U.S. security as detailed in the DNI report.
The hacking story occupies a relatively limited part of the report. Previous experience studying media suggests that the shelf life is nearing its end: the election is over, and we can hardly expect President-elect Trump to support conclusions that undermine his own legitimacy. So, this slice of the report is sewn to a larger part on Russian propaganda, in general, said to be "weaponized" and more dangerous–leading to the implosion of American institutions and the democratic process.
RT, the Russian-government-backed cable and online program, and RT's "success" on YouTube are now the focus. It is patently absurd and contradicts facts. I say this as a research scholar, with a fully explained and footnoted chapter on it coming out in the Oxford University paperback edition of my book, "No Illusions: The Views of Russia's Future Leaders."
For now, here are specific ways in which the Intelligence Community's Report goes wrong. Annex A of the report focuses primarily on the CONTENT of what is on RT. If a handful of people turn it on, only THOSE FEW will ever access any content at all. So, the content tells us nothing at all about who is watching and with what effect. The report after pages on content goes on to quote what Russian editors of RT INTEND to ACCOMPLISH–again, with nothing about what they DO accomplish with RT [if anything]. Pages report RT's ties to government. Again, no connection whatever to what if any EFFECT on exactly WHAT AUDIENCE in US.
We come to that last 3 pages of this Annex: two of them [one of which is entirely graphs] touch on possible EFFECT and they are very misleading and downright inaccurate.
1. RT's TV audience: The report uses RT's OWN estimate of audience and then ends the sentence "it does not publicize its actual audience." Before this mild disclaimer, the report gives RT's estimate of 550 million people worldwide and 85 million in the US. THIS IS WHOLLY IMAGINARY. IT REFERS TO POTENTIAL AUDIENCE: HOUSEHOLDS THAT CAN RECEIVE A SIGNAL ***IF AND ONLY IF**THEY BOTHER TO TURN IT ON.
They do not. Nielsen analyzed the top 94 cable news programs from December 2014 through March 2015 [these are cable news exclusively, excluding the big news giants] RT did not even make it onto the list, which ended with a fraction of a hundredth of a percent.]
In Europe, the audience is less than 0.1%. The Report seems unaware of or chooses not to show these data. Instead it shows "growth", which is really meaningless. When the numbers are low, very small changes can be big percentages.
2. It's YouTube that seems to be the shocker in the Report–such large numbers! Sure, unless you know [as the Report seems not to know] that 81% of the most popular RT videos over 5 years were created by foreign countries and have nothing to do with Russia or any propaganda campaign. RT goes after foreign videos of disasters [Fukushima nuclear plant or volcanoes] and violence catastrophes and buys the rights, gets the videos to the largest search engines and puts its logo at the top. ONLY 1% OF RT'S TOTAL EXPOSURE ON YOUTUBE ARE POLITICAL VIDEOS.
THAT'S IT! a report that is very short on facts, prone to leave the wrong impression among readers, and searching for a longer, fuller story than the fact of election-time hacking. Why did the Intelligence Community avoid the facts–which, after all, are not classified. Some neutral oversight body needs to check this out. Meanwhile, let's have more information, more views, more research with much more stringent methods.
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Pakistan should act responsibly
As members of the international community, we are expected to act responsibly in our neighbourhood and in international politics. It is about time we stopped living in a fool's paradise and enter the realm of reality
Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed
The fatwa against terrorism signed by the leading Islamic seminaries and scholars should be welcomed by us all. Terrorism has not frightened the alleged enemies of Islam, Muslims and Pakistan. On the contrary, one can see them joining ranks to isolate Pakistan. Even our great friend China has no interest in its investments being hijacked by adventurists looking to conquer the world in the name of Islam.
I fully understand that in Pakistan there is a strong feeling that we have been used and discarded. What we need to understand is that as members of the international community, we are expected to act responsibly in our neighbourhood and in international politics.
Descriptions such as India-specific and Kashmir-specific which one hears for jihadi groups as some sort of options we have for forcing India to give up on Kashmir have produced just the opposite results. It is about time we stopped living in a fool's paradise and enter the realm of reality and responsibility. I have said repeatedly that the future of Kashmir can only be solved through a win-win approach in which three parties — India, Pakistan and Kashmiris — are winners. This is not impossible. The Kasuri Plan is the realistic and correct response and formula for restoring peace in the sub-continent.
The fact that we are a nuclear power has encouraged a twisted mindset that it is somehow an insurance against war. Therefore, non-state actors can go around with their terrorism in other countries with impunity. Those who deny that the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 were masterminded and directed from within Pakistan are fooling themselves and nobody else. They are endangering the lives of millions of decent Pakistanis who constitute the bulk of the population. If India is involved in promoting terrorism in Balochistan then it only shows that the other side can also terrorise. I would be very surprised if they were not to exploit our problems.
Having procured a fatwa on behalf of peace, the Pakistan government has taken a bold step. It must now ensure that terrorism against minorities in Pakistan ceases altogether. All sectarian militias should be disbanded. What we all want is that the national resolve against terrorism is translated into effective policy.
The educational curriculum must be revised in the light of internationalism, human solidarity and regional peace. Equally, the mosques and religious seminaries must be brought directly under the control of the state. The mosques should be places of worship and the prayer leaders should read out the Friday khutba prepared by the Department or Ministry of Religious Affairs. Ambiguity surrounding the policy of the state on Islam and religion in general must give way to clarity, consistency and coherence.
It is equally important that the influence of Iran and Saudi Arabia in our society is kept to the minimum. I have in the past earned myself the hostility of those who think that while damning Saudi Arabia is good, criticising Iran is not. I have never succumbed to such foolish sectarianism. The recent revolt in Iran against the clergy's strict control and Iran's involvement in foreign conflicts and wars is indicative of the fatigue and frustration of the Iranian people. In Saudi Arabia too, Wahhabism's repression is being questioned more and more. A more open and friendly Saudi Arabia is possible if all goes well.
For a long time to come, Islam will continue to influence the course of politics and the transition to a secular, democratic, inclusive nation-state may be a long way off
The big question of history is: when will Muslim societies break with the backward-looking approach to the future? I have a gut feeling that the radicalisation of Muslim societies which began in the wake of the Khomeini revolution in Iran 9 compounded by the Afghan Communist revolution and Soviet intervention in 1979 greatly strengthened and accelerated the radicalisation which General Zia had started in Pakistan after 1977.
Consequently, the more enlightened type of Muslim modernism was eclipsed by fundamentalisms of one sort of another. Even secular Turkey began to succumb to creeping Islamism of the Refah Party and then Erdogan's AKP. Those trends have set the clock back once again, but the clock has also stopped. Fundamentalism may have hit the rock bottom and its hollowness has been exposed.
For a long time to come, Islam will continue to influence the course of politics and the transition to a secular, democratic, inclusive nation-state may be a long way off. Some people believe that Muslim societies will never truly cross the threshold because Islam has a unique way of preventing secularisation because of its strong emphasis on justice and community. The most famous exponent of such a view is the late British-Czech anthropologist Ernest Gellner.
I think such essentialism is questionable, but Gellner was right in underlining the way Islam is interpreted by Muslims — both modernists and fundamentalists — to generate arguments to reject secular democracy by claiming that Islam is democratic in its own way. Allama Iqbal thought along such lines and one can identity both modernist and fundamentalist ideas in his poetry and prose. However, I think we have entered or can enter the modernist phase again and within the parameters of a Muslim state advance policies which advance an agenda of inclusion, tolerance and pluralism. What is generally called sufism is in fact our peculiar heritage of men and movements who came up with alternatives to dogmatism and orthodoxy. That heritage needs to be brought into the educational system. There is no harm in acknowledging that sufism itself was a product of the influence of Persian, Christian, Shamanism and philosophical Hinduism. In turn, sufism brought about changes in the form of the Bakhti and Sikh movements.
In this age of instant communications, we are learning and absorbing ideas from all over the globe. Many such ideas speak of a common, wounded humanity. These can be incorporated into our own thinking without Islam, Muslims or Pakistan being in danger.
The writer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University; Visiting Professor Government College University; and, Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He has written a number of books and won many awards, he can be reached on billumian@gmail.com
Published in Daily Times, January 19th 2018.

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School's out for secretary Mary!
Tuesday 2 October 2018 14:42
THE staff, pupils and parents of Armoy PS have said a fond farewell to Mrs Mary Huey, who has been the school secretary for the past 33 years.
The Chronicle caught up with Mary after the bell rang on her final school day last week, and it's clear that Mary's 'school days' really were the best!
Mary's career started in 1985 when she began working 2.5 hours on a Friday for the principal at the time, Mr Gowland.
Mary said: "I was only the second secretary the school employed and my hours increased gradually, four hours, then six, then ten, until I was working 25 hours a week. And even back then the sense of camaraderie in the school was outstanding. Mr Gowland and I still remain friends to this day and he would still call and see me."
After Mr Gowland, Mr McCombe became principal, followed by Mrs Neill and then current principal, Mr Dunlop.
Mary continued: "I have loved the friendship and company of the staff over the years. The chatter of the 89 pupils was just music to my ears – most days! I will miss them, I have always been used to being out of the house and working so retirement will be a whole new thing to me."
Mary whose two sons went through Armoy PS as well, will spend more time with her daughter who requires special care.
Mary continued: "One of my sons is an electrician in Saudi and the other is in I.T. at Causeway Coast and Glens Council, so Armoy PS served them well! I hope to spend more time with my daughter when I retire, I have no doubt I will get my days filled anyway."
Mary said husband George, who works at JSC builders merchants, isn't ready to retire yet, but in the meantime her hobbies will keep her occupied!
She added: "I am a member of Armoy W.I., I'm in the choir in the Presbyterian Church and I go to the gardening club in Ballycastle. I love music and enjoy Irish Country Music, I'd like to dance but George has two left feet!"
Mary, from Hillside Road, said she will treasure her days at Armoy PS. She concluded: "I have lots of lovely memories, I enjoyed working with the staff as well as the pupils. I was given money as a leaving gift so bought myself a beautiful bracelet to remember them all by. I also got lots of flowers!"
Mary wants to thank everyone at the school for the many happy years of fellowship and she wished new secretary Mrs Kathy Murray all the very best. She said: "I hope Kathy has as many happy years at Armoy PS as I have had. I stayed on a while to help her find her feet, she is a genuinely lovely girl and I wish her every success!"


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Transforming the ED Care Landscape: Trends to Watch in 2021
January 12, 2021 Alan Eisman, Executive VP, Business Development
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As hospitals seek the best path forward in the age of COVID-19, data-driven management is the key to successfully navigating changes.
Upheavals brought by COVID-19 may accelerate certain trends.
Emergency departments are in the business of responding to whatever is thrown at them — and in that respect, 2020 certainly delivered. With the health care environment rapidly and profoundly changed by COVID-19, trends that were predicted before the pandemic deserve a second look.
Accelerated adoption of new technology — along with shifts in patient demographics, reimbursement systems, and health care policy — all have contributed to the new health care landscape. What's more, the cracks found in our health care system should not be glossed over, as society reckons with the reality that the underserved are disproportionately affected physically and economically. As 2020 appears in the rearview, it's a good time to regroup and formulate an updated vision for emergency medicine in 2021 and beyond, understanding that the ED is not only a place, but a medical specialty with unique practice challenges to overcome — and value to offer.
Value-based care will expand the ED's role in care planning and outcomes.
Historically, emergency medicine has been a responsive treatment setting where patients were stabilized and moved home or to another level of care. Under a value-based system, EDs will be expected to take a more active role in care transitions and patient outcomes. Emergency providers will likely be held responsible for planning safe discharge dispositions and arranging follow-up care, especially for high-risk patients.
This expanded responsibility will support patient care in a new way, preventing recurring ED visits and unnecessary hospitalizations with better disease management at home or on an outpatient basis. Health care systems and patients are better served by reducing expensive ED visits and keeping people in the outpatient setting.
Identifying high-risk patients and creating new processes will rely on a data-driven approach combined with a case-management mindset. Preparing for this transition now by analyzing data and developing customized departmental action plans will position EDs to successfully participate in outcome-driven payment models.
Telemedicine will continue to contribute to increased access to care.
Telemedicine of all types surged last year, reflecting demand for socially distant care and boosted by relaxed government regulations. The trend is likely to continue as patients and providers get used to the new technology and realize its benefits. Insurance carriers are getting up to speed and offering more coverage for telehealth in 2021. And, it's covered in CMS's proposed changes to the Medicare physician fee schedule.
As patients take advantage of telemedicine for low-acuity, unscheduled care, they may be absent from the ED population for the foreseeable future. And while some patients are starting to return to an in-person clinical setting for elective procedures and more, many are not. For instance, the trend in pediatric ED visits was already declining pre-COVID, so we expect these numbers to continue to dwindle as well.
ED overutilization for low-acuity conditions may settle into a favorable pattern, reducing health care costs overall. While EDs were already treating a greater proportion of critically ill patients prior to 2020, the trend has been accelerated by the pandemic. Hospitals will rely on advanced health care analytics tools to carefully analyze their own data trends. ED groups, in particular, will need to leverage data to make smart moves such as adjusting resources, developing new services, and seeking value-based reimbursement opportunities. It's this data-driven approach to practice management that will be the difference in physician groups having a seat at the table or being on the table in 2021.
The road to financial recovery of the health system may be a long one.
The financial recovery of the health system is unclear for many, and recent CMS reductions, effective January 1, 2021, may play a role in how long recovery efforts will take. Additionally, the recently passed No Surprises Act (a measure tucked away in the Consolidated Appropriations Act that was passed at the tail end of 2020) looks to spell more administrative burdens for hospitals. The language of the bill also places more pressure on providers to send patient bills faster, despite the challenges they often face in receiving adjudicated claims back from insurers.
As hospitals seek the best path forward in the new normal, data-driven management is the key to successfully navigating changes. At d2i, we feel strongly that having access to clean and reliable data can and will improve value, making the difference between health systems surviving or thriving in 2021.
Improved Prospects for 2021
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The nature of my work with consultants guarantees that I frequently hear tales of woe. Revenue slumps, projects lost or in limbo, engagements heading south, clients who don't appreciate puns.
Of course, I witness the triumphs too, but when consultants call it's most often because something is rotten in the state of Denmark Consulting, LLC. And those pleas for help often wear a patina of discouragement.
The steps below prevent bruises, ease pains and buff you to a glowing burnish. A tonic for the consultant's soul.
Consulting comes with more than its fair share of rejection and energy-sucking interactions. The daily ego assault faced by a typical salesperson is magnified by the deeply personal nature of the consulting sale. A project lost feels like a repudiation of your ideas, your competence and your credibility.
Then pile on the occasional blow after you win a gig: a disappointed client whose expectations are unmet, a laboriously crafted recommendation that is rejected or ignored, a fixed-fee engagement that has slid into money-losing territory.
Given this backdrop, is it any wonder that discouragement is a well-known visitor at most consultants' offices?
Fortunately, we're a resilient bunch. Sooner or later we usher that unwelcome emotion out the door and resume the business of winning engagements and delivering value. But, the gap between sooner and later yawns on our balance sheets and in our hearts.
The fact is, if we don't rebound quickly, we lose essential opportunities to reinforce our brand equity, nurture promising prospects, and close projects on the cusp.
And if we don't rebound fully, we lose two essential ingredients for success in our profession: passion and conviction.
Let me offer a prescription for overcoming discouragement sooner and more fully.* Each and every step below is critical to the remedy.
Take a break. A real break. A "power" break, if you will. The research is clear: we do not analyze our situation well when we're in a negative frame of mind. When you're in the depths of discouragement, "pushing through" is counterproductive. Whether you take an hour, a day, or a week, set all thoughts of the business aside, and fully escape the gravity of your consulting practice.
Take a walk – Or a run, or a skate or a swim. Or be really ambitious and swim with skates on. The research on the impact of exercise on mood is also irrefutable. Interestingly, the literature shows that not everyone enjoys exercise while it's happening, but the post-workout effect is consistent. Physiologically, the vigorous activity produces endorphins. Psychologically, we get the added boost of a sense of accomplishment.
Take credit – Put a point on the board and acknowledge your success. Even a minor victory changes the trajectory of your cognitions and emotions. Fortunately, you've just put two points on the board: you took a break and you exercised. Give yourself props for already setting yourself on the path back to go-getter land.
Now you can add a third win by accomplishing any small task. Answer an email from a client. Make a list of prospects you'll call when your attitude is adjusted. Read an article you set aside. Throw out that pile of articles you're never really going to read.
Bigger is not better. Done is better. Your goal is simply to cross something off the list with a flourish and a sense of accomplishment.
Take advice – You'd think consultants, of all people, would embrace outside counsel. Wrong. Move past that "doctors make the worst patients" nonsense and get a mentor. Every top performer has one.
You're not looking for a cheerleader or a one-time injection of advice. What you need is an advisor whom you respect that receives regular updates on your performance.
Not only can your coach improve your technique, (s)he can look at the evidence and trot out your successes when despair is hiding them from your view.
Make a plan – Your discouragement is rooted in perceived lack of control and shaken belief in your ability to accomplish your objectives. The antidote is to assert control by outlining a clear path from where you are to where you want to be.
Be careful: a poorly constructed plan increases the likelihood that you'll lose hope.
> Include small, achievable tasks at every step. An unbroken chain of actions you know you can accomplish.
While "big, hairy, audacious goals" are nice in theory and terrific rhetorically, the research shows most people accomplish more by setting achievable objectives.
> Acknowledge what you can't control and detail your assumptions. For instance, you can't control whether prospects pick up the phone. You can't control whether clients attend meetings or choose to implement your recommendations.
You'll find it easier to maintain hope, courage and a sense of control in the face of disappointment when you can pinpoint where your assumptions and reality diverge.
Make a ritual – Bolstering your spirits only when they're down is like visiting the dentist only when you find a cavity. Painful and expensive.
Take a planned break every day, every week and a few times a year. I put work completely aside every Saturday without fail, and it's an effective, restorative sabbatical.
Make exercise a routine. A daily walk or yoga three lunchtimes a week.
Note your accomplishments at the end of every day, just before you plan the next day's goals.
Update your mentor and seek advice a minimum of once a month. Every two weeks is more effective and a quick check-in every week is better still. Remember, you're not always looking for changes – in many cases you're simply providing data that can be presented back to you when your mood has slipped off the rails.
Revisit your plan and assumptions quarterly. What did you think was in your control that actually isn't? What small steps will progress you toward the big goal? Fortunately, your mentor can help you with this.
Consulting is a rough and tumble world, and you're likely to take some emotional knocks along the way. With the prescription above, you'll walk away with minor dings instead of major dents. You'll spend less time singing the blues and more time whistling your way to the bank.
*This is a remedy for discouragement, not depression. I am not a therapist. If you are suffering from depression, please seek help from a trained, mental health professional.
Well put, and well researched. I love how every step here is completely within our control. The dentist analogy is especially lovely — yes, manage your psyche like you brush your teeth, daily and with correct form.
Running an consultancy is a mental game, and David you give outstanding guidance on playing that game well. Thanks for this.
You're welcome, Thomas. It is a mental game, 100%. Advice, guidance, ideas, models, plans, strategies… they're all cerebral products. Is it any wonder that getting our head on straight is so important? Thanks for the comment.
This is solid advice. Yes, we will all experience discouragement and the key is to have a plan to deal with it. Someone once said, "True happiness is not the absence of problems. True happiness is solving our problems." So with that quote in mind, having a plan to deal with discouragement and slumps in our consulting practice is a great way to solve those concerns and in the process experience success and happiness.
I'm not sure who said true happiness is solving problems, but Agent Smith told us in The Matrix that humans rejected a perfect world where there was no suffering! Biologically, we're built to solve problems. To strive for higher levels of success (however it is we define success) and the next level of accomplishment. Academics recently put a label on this: Hedonic adaptation. It's up to us to outsmart our biology and, as you said, have a plan in place to experience happiness.
As a learning note for me, #5 really hits home. "The antidote is to assert control by outlining a clear path from where you are to where you want to be." Yes, antidote, thank you. And I have just the tool for outlining that path without making the outlining process unwieldy.
Great suggestions David! What consultant doesn't, as with any business, doesn't go through the valleys after being on the peaks?
Hi David, I think the "dentist" metaphor is golden. That would help consultants iron out emotional ups and downs!
Thanks, Frank. Our profession is tough enough; allowing yourself to be whipsawed by the emotional roller coaster just adds unnecessary stress!


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Aaron O'Connell Talks Lifetime's Blending Christmas, Working with The Brady Bunch!
Carissa Pavlica at December 11, 2021 10:00 am .
Haylie Duff and Aaron O'Connell star as a couple in love in Lifetime's Blending Christmas.
O'Connell's character decides on a Christmas proposal that includes extended family from both sides, which turns out to be a little more complicated than he imagined. Thankfully, with The Brady Bunch's Barry Williams, Susan Olsen, Christopher Knight, and Mike Lookinland around, complications didn't overshadow the love.
We had a chance to talk with Aaron about the movie, and his peek inside of The Brady Bunch magic.
Hi, Aaron. How are you?
Hi, Carissa. How's it going? I'm doing great here. How are you?
I'm doing good. Thank you for asking.
You've got quite a few Christmas romcoms under your belt. Why do you keep coming back to those?
I just enjoy spreading the holiday cheer?
I love doing the holiday films, because I just feel like, with all of the stuff in today's day and age and everything that happens throughout the course of the year, I feel like the holiday season is really an important part, where families and friends can come together and spend time together.
And these films, I feel like, are such a great way for people to do just that. So any time I get an opportunity to be a part of these holiday films, I try to jump at it. And yeah, fortunately, I've got a couple of them under my belt now.
Yeah, you do. And it looks like you have more coming.
I do. Yep.
Are there any storylines that you'd prefer not to be a part of? If somebody throws a Christmas movie your way, do you just pick it, or do you have some standard on what Christmas do you want to represent?
I'm fortunate because most of the scripts that I've been given have been good scripts that I've kind of fallen in love with the stories as they've come to me. My manager, Gordon Gilbert, knows what I enjoy doing, and Blending Christmas is a perfect example of that kind of material.
But I wouldn't say there's really anything that's been a holiday film that's come across my way, where I've kind of been like, "Eh, I don't know. I don't know about that."
Usually, I've been playing a lot of the ad executives. I've been playing a lot of the kind of the guy that's just too busy and can't buy Christmas gifts for his girlfriend or wife or is trying to propose. So there's a little something in each one of these holiday movies. I feel like that that is something that I've really enjoyed playing in terms of the story.
But I don't think that there's really anything that I say, "That's going to be a deal-breaker," in these holiday films. It does have to have an arc, though. I mean, there has to have some sort of something going on, so it's not just ... What's the word?
So I guess, by the time you start it, you know exactly what's going to happen in the end. I like to have at least some stuff that gives it some arc and character arc as well.
A little bit of mystery.
Yeah. A little bit of that. Yeah. Yeah. And I like to obviously put myself in a lot of these characters too, which makes it more fun and makes it obviously more believable.
And fortunately, with Blending Christmas, the cast is incredible. And Haylie was such a sweetheart and great actress and so easy to work with. It really made it easy for me to fit into the character of Liam.
I've asked other people this as well. Because once you have a few of these under your belt, I mean, I wonder for you as an actor, do you sometimes feel like you're playing yourself in inserting more of yourself into the character than the character is? And how do you differentiate between them?
Yeah, that's a good question. So in terms of, when I get a script, to begin with, whether it's Blending Christmas or something else that I've done, I kind of make a little tree in a sense, the things that the character, I feel like, needs in this film.
I've obviously got my characteristics and the things that I've gone through in my life, where I can pull emotion, energy from those and kind of blend them into Liam or these characters.
I think basically playing more of myself into these characters always seems to make these characters more believable. And it probably comes with my acting education, acting experience in training and coaching growing up, because I feel like one of the books that I really, really was drawn to was No Acting Please.
And the whole premise of that book was to use your life and use your life experiences to draw emotion for the character or whatever it is you're playing.
Now, there may be certain experiences in the script that I haven't exactly gone through, but I felt that feeling of being down and out and having nobody to turn to before.
I felt different feelings throughout the script that I can pull from. So I try to put most of myself in these characters as much as possible, that way the emotion rings true.
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That's a good way of looking at it. So describe Liam and his plans for Emma in your own words.
Yeah. So Liam is in love with Emma obviously. He's got this plan to secretly propose to her, and he thinks, "Hey, there's no better place than Hacienda de la Sierra, which is where Emma's character grew up spending the holidays together.
And his goal is to get both families to be there for the proposal, which is interesting. Because when I proposed in my real life, my whole goal was to surprise my now wife with both of our families at this kind of place.
I mean, there are so many parallels in the script. And so, I was like, pretty easy to pull some of these emotions because I've actually done this exact thing.
Aw.
Yeah. So anyway, Liam's goal is to get these families there for the proposal, and it just becomes a big stress fest of trying to blend these families together. It really put the strain on Emma and Liam's relationship. And so, right before Christmas, everybody tries to get together, to reunite Emma and Liam back together.
And that's what I think is so beautiful about this film is that we've got the Brady Bunch on both sides of the aisle here, trying to make it happen. I know I'm kind of going off on a tangent, but what was so fun about that is that our first day on set, I mean, the Brady actors pick up right where they left off.
You can tell they are a family outside of the business. So it's funny to see them play on two different sides of the aisle, and yet they are all best friends. But yeah, I think that's Liam in a nutshell. It is interesting how there are so many parallels in my proposal compared to that in Blending Christmas.
That's really cool. It's like a written for you. It's funny-
Just like!
Yeah, I watched it, and I thought, "Well, he's just such a good guy." Liam does everything right. I mean, their fight, their little spat was just so minor. You never had to worry about it because they were both so caring about one another without any explosive drama.
Well, I know what you're saying because, for a couple to break up, there's got to be something huge, let alone getting ready to propose. So I think it really encompasses the stress of trying to make this proposal perfect, trying to get all of the families and everybody there, and taking time out of their busy schedules.
And so, I think Liam wants the best for Emma, and he knows that he is capable of doing that.
But I feel like, when it's not going the way that you think it's supposed to go in your head and what you wish it would be for Emma, you kind of sit back and go, "Man, what am I doing? Should I be doing this? Is this the right time? Should I be proposing right now? Should I bag it for now and figure it out later?"
And I think that's what's beautiful about the families kind of coming together and saying, "Hey, we can figure this out. We're a family." And that's obviously in the title, Blending Christmas. Blending the families together can be challenging at times, but also beautiful.
And especially since the Brady Bunch was the ultimate blended family.
That's exactly right. That's exactly right.
You weren't exactly the target audience for a Brady Bunch reunion. So how much did you know about The Brady Bunch and the actors that were coming into play your family members before this movie?
Yeah, that's a great question. I didn't watch a lot of The Brady Bunch growing up, but when I knew I would be doing this film, I watched it. I mean, I had seen snippets here and there, but I didn't watch it religiously, like my parents growing up.
So I watched some episodes, and I got to kind of put names to faces. Again, I knew them, but I didn't really know them like my parents did.
And so, when I met Chris and Mike and Susan and Barry, I was able to see these actors that I had just been kind of, not really studying, I guess, studying a little bit, to kind of see what they're about and how they come off on camera.
It was kind of like they welcomed me right into their family, which was nice because, I mean, they've been doing this for so long. And I've been doing it for 13 years, and it was kind of nice to be able to kind of be welcomed into their family a little bit. And it all just fit right in.
I mean, they made everybody feel comfortable. I think were a bunch of laughs while we were filming, but I mean, our lunch breaks were hysterical.
Oh, I bet that's a good memory.
Yeah. Yeah. And I hope that comes off on camera as well, how well everybody got along and gelled.
So does it change your opinion of The Brady Bunch, having worked with these people now? They have this particular place in the cultural zeitgeist. That's for sure.
Well, yeah. I think that I didn't really know them, so I wouldn't judge them from their work or from media stuff. What I got to know of them was exactly what we talked about on set, and "Hey, my name's ... Here's what I'm interested in." And then Chris would tell me what he's interested in. And I felt like I was meeting people organically for the first time.
Yeah, which was important for me as an actor because it also, I feel like prepares me to do a better job in scenes. And there's no ego or stigma about anybody, and it rang true for the entire shoot. And it was such a fun shoot.
I thought it was interesting that they had Jennifer Elise Cox, who isn't a part of the original cast.
Oh, yeah. Who's my aunt.
She was in the movie. I thought that was a fun little addition, too.
Yeah. I thought that was great. I mean, I've worked with these producers before. And Brian Nolan and Jeff and Barry and these guys really do a good job in the casting process. And I feel like that's why a lot of these movies can be successful.
And I mean, shoot, when you're able to get The Brady Bunch, I mean, and Haylie on in there as well, you're kind of set up for success. So I was glad to be able to fill that role of Liam.
So you said it was fun working with Haylie. How did she blend in with the now blended cast that you've already discussed?
Yeah, easily. I mean, she is a true pro. She was really good friends with Marla, the director. She was able to kind of just make me feel at home as we were going through the script, and everybody was really communicative.
I mean, we all talked about the script and what we thought of the characters, and how we wanted to play the scenes. And Haylie was just so open to trying different things, and she was patient. There were certain things I'd want to try with Liam, or she'd want to try with Emma.
It was a great place to really practice your art. And I can't speak more highly of Haylie, who's involved in so many different things and has so many talents.
I remember her sitting in the chair, and I was looking at her in the hair and makeup chair. And I'm like, "Your skin is absolutely flawless. I mean, what is the trick?" You know? And somebody just got that skin. And it just was beautiful.
And this might have been on like day one. I'm thinking I probably shouldn't have said this right off the bat a little, but then she got started talking about all the peptides and got me all squared away on all my grooming gear.
So I think things outside of the script and just getting to know the person, which she was so open to that it really speaks highly of her, but also helps us do such a great job, the best we can possibly do on camera because it's just organic. And I think if you can get that organic relationship and chemistry on camera, then you're set up for success.
Since this is a Christmas movie, what's the most romantic thing you've done for the woman you love on Christmas?
The most romantic thing I've done? Let's see, trying to think. On Christmas, we always go back to my family back in Indiana. And so, our Christmas holidays are typically spent with all my sisters and brothers-in-law, and nieces. So it's kind of like a wild time, where we all do it together.
I don't know if it's Christmas per se, and I know I'm probably getting off track, but I think one of the most romantic things I've done.
It does have to do with Blending Christmas a little bit because, for my proposal, I flew my wife's family and my family down to Tyler Perry's private island -- he has a private island -- and I was working with him at the time. He has a private island, and we used it to get down to his private island, with her high school friends and my high school friends.
And I had to rush all these passports, and I was waking up at 3:00 in the morning trying to get all this stuff done, so she wouldn't see me working on it.
And I said, "Natalie, Tyler's interested in selling or actually chartering this island. He wanted to use us as his models to kind of show what it has to offer. So there are maybe some cameras there. Would you be interested in doing it?" And she said, "Sure, that'd be great."
And so, I flew her down. We did this whole excursion all day. And then when the time came for the proposal, the last scene that we were supposed to shoot was this dinner on the beach.
And that was when I was going to be given the cue by the camera guys to do the proposal. And that's when all the families and everybody was going to be able to come out.
Now, this place isn't easy to get to. You got to get passports. You got to take a seaplane. I mean, it's difficult. And so, some of the stresses that Liam had in his proposal, I totally get. And I didn't know if we could make it. I didn't know who was going to be able to make it because I rushed passports for people.
I didn't know who was going to be able to make it. And I didn't know if my parents made it. I didn't know her parents made it. So when the guys gave me the cue, I proposed. These fireworks went off; I turned around and out walked everybody.
And it was just like that absolute relief, where, okay, all that work, all that stress, it finally paid off. And she was so surprised. But I'd have to say, that's probably one of the most romantic things I was able to do that pertains with this Blending Christmas, which is about proposing.
It's all on video. I think it's on the internet somewhere.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it was so special. I'll see if I can send it to you or have Tracy send it to you, so you can kind of get an idea of it. But yeah, it was remarkable. My Christmases are spent back in Indiana with my wife and my mom and dad.
Her family's based out here in California. So we spend Thanksgiving here, and then we do Christmas with the whole gang. So yeah. That's it in a nutshell.
That sounds pretty special. I bet she was really appreciative of how much work you put into that.
Yeah. I just was happy to be able to help, I guess, give people a trip that they may not have been able to do and to get a little rest and relaxation, but also kind of celebrate with us, which was beautiful.
With the end of The Haves and the Have Nots, where do you hope to focus your professional attention next?
I really enjoy doing TV. I love doing movies. So I continue to try to stay proactive in the TV and film realm. I love romantic comedies. I've got a romantic comedy called Love Accidentally that'll be coming out later. I think it might be early in 2022.
Depending on what the scripts are, I love romantic comedy. I love thrillers. I love the kind of the whodunnit and connecting the dots throughout the script.
But the beautiful thing about movies is that you get to work with a great group of people, if you're fortunate, a great group of people for a single story. And then television, you get to continue to develop that story, which I had done with The Haves and the Have Nots for seven or eight years, 200 plus episodes.
There are fantastic things about both. And I just continue to seek some of those projects that are fun, exciting.
I did see the Love Accidentally on your IMDB page and that Maxwell Caulfield is in it. That's another one that throws my old self back to Grease Two.
Grease Two. That's right. Oh, he was great. He plays Craig. Yeah. Max, he was so funny. He was so funny. I mean, he's just one of those guys that tries every take a different way. And you don't know what you're going to get.
And there was one take he did -- and I'm trying to remember my lines because I was laughing so hard -- I'm thinking, "Oh, my gosh, Max." He just carries this. And when he walks into a room, Max is here. I mean, you feel it.
I can't wait to see that too. Is there anything else coming up that you'd like to talk about?
Right now, I'm just doing press for some of the projects right now that I've been doing. We're getting into the holidays here. So things kind of slow down, but it'll definitely pick up here in the first of the year. Love Accidentally, I've been doing some stuff for that. But yeah, we'll keep an eye out for earlier this year, earlier in 2022.
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Four in five U.S. adults agree that national and state governments are not doing enough to promote production of biofuels — fuels made from agricultural crops or plant matter — according to a survey released by the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, also found that 82 percent of adults say national and state governments should provide financial incentives to biofuels producers to encourage the production and availability of biofuels. More than two out of three adults would use American-made biofuels even if these fuels cost slightly more than conventional gas.
Eighty-four percent of respondents would be at least somewhat likely to support federal and state political candidates who favor providing incentives to promote increased production and availability of biofuels throughout the United States.
The survey asked respondents how strongly they agreed or disagreed with statements about biofuels. Half of U.S. adults strongly agreed and a third somewhat agreed that federal and state governments are not doing enough to promote the production of biofuels.
When asked if the production and availability of biofuel should be encouraged by national and state governments providing financial incentives to biofuel producers, four out of five respondents said yes.
More than half of U.S. adults were able to correctly define biofuels as fuel made from agricultural crops or plant matter.
Eight of 10 respondents rated making America less dependent on foreign oil as very important or important. Seven of 10 rated decreasing gas prices very important or important. And nearly seven in 10 rated creating jobs in rural areas as very important or important.
The telephone survey was taken between Oct. 5 and Oct. 8, among 1,031 adults. BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and 31 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products.


Kiki-Uma, also known as Kiki, Tenteraten or Tsukurikake_CR, Is a Japanese Artist from Tokyo, Japan. Currently living in Osaka.
Most notably known and recognized for her unique caricature/cartoon style she uses in her original idea of the Lazy Loafs.
"Lazy Loaf" is a compact, "dumpling"-like chibi representation of a character, with fixed position template. Each Loaf comes in animated and static versions. Due to crispy style and fun idea, Loafs quickly became popular, are fairly widespread and appreciated on Furaffinity - art community they were first introduced.
Kiki is also recognized for Co-Author position within Vilous, she is the main contributor behind the famous fantasy and science fiction world from where General Rain Silves and Sergals originate from.
Most if not all of the Vilous lore, canon information and story elements found within the manga comic were created by her. She is currently and actively working on Vilous as the producer and supervisor alongside Mick Ono, the main Visual artist and designer behind Vilous itself. In addition to this, some of her Vilous idea crossed over within her own headworld, known as "Tsukurikake"
Tsukurikake (月理欠, つくりかけ) is the main headworld of Kiki-Uma, an abstract and spiritual-based fantasy world, inspired by her thoughts and general feelings found within the heart. A secondary fantasy world, going by the name of Tenteraten (天照転, てんてらてん) can also be found within her works, it features a more dynamic and physical representation, whilst including some of her more NSFW works and content, alongside even some silly, humorous creations such as EU the Kaiju!
Kiki has also attended MFF2018 as a representative of the Vilous team and creator of Tsukurikake/ Tenteraten.


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        protected override DriverResult Display(ContentPart part, NumericField field, string displayType, dynamic shapeHelper) {
            return ContentShape("Fields_Numeric", GetDifferentiator(field, part), () => {
                return shapeHelper.Fields_Numeric()
                    .Settings(field.PartFieldDefinition.Settings.GetModel<NumericFieldSettings>())
                    .Value(Convert.ToString(field.Value, _cultureInfo.Value));
            });
        }

        protected override DriverResult Editor(ContentPart part, NumericField field, dynamic shapeHelper) {

            return ContentShape("Fields_Numeric_Edit", GetDifferentiator(field, part),
                () => {
                    var model = new NumericFieldViewModel {
                        Field = field,
                        Settings = field.PartFieldDefinition.Settings.GetModel<NumericFieldSettings>(),
                        Value = Convert.ToString(field.Value, _cultureInfo.Value)
                    };

                    return shapeHelper.EditorTemplate(TemplateName: TemplateName, Model: model, Prefix: GetPrefix(field, part));
                });
        }

        protected override DriverResult Editor(ContentPart part, NumericField field, IUpdateModel updater, dynamic shapeHelper) {
            var viewModel = new NumericFieldViewModel();

            if (updater.TryUpdateModel(viewModel, GetPrefix(field, part), null, null)) {
                Decimal value;

                var settings = field.PartFieldDefinition.Settings.GetModel<NumericFieldSettings>();

                if (settings.Required && String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(viewModel.Value)) {
                    updater.AddModelError(GetPrefix(field, part), T("The field {0} is mandatory.", T(field.DisplayName)));
                }

                if (!settings.Required && String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(viewModel.Value)) {
                    field.Value = null;
                }
                else if (Decimal.TryParse(viewModel.Value, NumberStyles.Any, _cultureInfo.Value, out value)) {
                    field.Value = value;
                }
                else {
                    updater.AddModelError(GetPrefix(field, part), T("{0} is an invalid number", field.DisplayName));
                    field.Value = null;
                }

                if (settings.Minimum.HasValue && field.Value.HasValue && field.Value.Value < settings.Minimum.Value) {
                    updater.AddModelError(GetPrefix(field, part), T("The value must be greater than {0}", settings.Minimum.Value));
                }

                if (settings.Maximum.HasValue && field.Value.HasValue && field.Value.Value > settings.Maximum.Value) {
                    updater.AddModelError(GetPrefix(field, part), T("The value must be less than {0}", settings.Maximum.Value));
                }

                // checking the number of decimals
                if(field.Value.HasValue && Math.Round(field.Value.Value, settings.Scale) != field.Value.Value) {
                    if(settings.Scale == 0) {
                        updater.AddModelError(GetPrefix(field, part), T("The field {0} must be an integer", field.DisplayName));
                    }
                    else {
                        updater.AddModelError(GetPrefix(field, part), T("Invalid number of digits for {0}, max allowed: {1}", field.DisplayName, settings.Scale));
                    }

                }
            }

            return Editor(part, field, shapeHelper);
        }

        protected override void Importing(ContentPart part, NumericField field, ImportContentContext context) {
            context.ImportAttribute(field.FieldDefinition.Name + "." + field.Name, "Value", v => field.Value = decimal.Parse(v, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture), () => field.Value = (decimal?)null);
        }

        protected override void Exporting(ContentPart part, NumericField field, ExportContentContext context) {
            context.Element(field.FieldDefinition.Name + "." + field.Name).SetAttributeValue("Value", !field.Value.HasValue ? String.Empty : field.Value.Value.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
        }

        protected override void Describe(DescribeMembersContext context) {
            context
                .Member(null, typeof(decimal), T("Value"), T("The value of the field."))
                .Enumerate<NumericField> (() => field => new[] { field.Value });
        }
    }
}

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Q: How can I find an existing node and then link it to another node? Would something like this work?
Basically what I am trying to do is to link an edge to a node but in return linking the node to an existing node but I need to query the node to find it to link it.
here -[people_link(id="123")]-> node::person(name==w);

A: This should work in version 1.4 of Jaseci. Try somethign like
here +[people_link(id="123")]+> node::person(name==w);

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Where Have All the Hearses Gone?
By Hernibs Last updated Mar 15, 2018
Funny the things you notice as a newcomer to a country. Halloween and its spooky front lawn decorations were a novelty for me. Some macabre displays in our neighbourhood triggered off the investigation on a topic that has been puzzling me for a while.
Having lived in Northeast FL for a number of years now, I had never seen a hearse or a vehicle that could pass for one. People still do die, even in a country that worships beauty and youth and often delegates old age and death are to nursing homes and critical care facilities.
In Orlando, I understand, Disney sees to roads being squeaky clean and free of trash. Never saw a hearse there either. So how are bodies transported to and from funeral parlours in Florida?
Where I come from, funeral processions often paralyze the traffic. A hearse in Ireland drives at walking pace. The mourners are lined up behind it walking to the cemetery. Overtaking is frowned upon.
The University of Wikipedia defines a hearse as a funeral vehicle, a conveyance for the coffin and shows the preferred car models in North America, Europe or Japan: Cadillac, Ford, Mercedes-Benz costing around $50,000 with a life expectancy of about 30 years due to their light duty and short and sedate drives.
Originally horse-drawn, they became motorized in the 1920's and for a while, doubled as ambulances. I can see why that went out of fashion.
Japan offers two types of commercial vehicles for this purpose, "Foreign" or "Japanese" style where the vehicle is modified to resemble a small, ornate Buddhist temple which requires modifications to the chassis.
Japan also offers a rather strange looking contraption called a motorcycle hearse.
In the seventies, hearses, due to their morbid nature and luxurious accommodation for the driver, were popular among some driving enthusiasts, mostly hippies.
A website called Grim Rides features a community of hearse friends in CA −where else?−I get side-tracked, as usual, clicking on links like the one to Hearses in Movies, e.g. the scene in Harold and Maude: "This thing handles well… Ever drive a hearse, Harold?"
Next, I stumble into a chat room for current and aspiring hearse drivers. So they must exist.
I press on and Google: "Why are there no hearses in US streets anymore?"
Up pops the visitor's guide to St.Augustine: "Enjoy a ride in a real hearse and live to tell about it!" Furthermore, an article answering the question: Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the car-pool lane? Check it out yourself; I'm not telling…
And finally the New York Times with an article dated 19 June 1904 about the Slocum Disaster in "Little Germany". Its headline says "Mournful Pomp of Death on Eastside" – A fascinating story about rapacious undertakers unfolds where a flower peddler's wagon became a hearse complete with potted plants, and splendid police arrangements. A dozen links later, I'm none the wiser; all very interesting but hardly an explanation to my question.
Neither my American husband nor friends are of any help. Maybe the funeral homes use white vans with no windows, more like a handyman service or lawn care vehicle, someone suggests.
Have hearses been banned from the streets or are they only going out under cover of dark not to be seen or intimidate mortals? Maybe you're never driving near their flight paths from home to church to final destination, says another one. None of my friends is prepared for a nocturnal stake-out of a local funeral home to find out. I don't have the courage to call one and outright ask the undertaker.
Then yesterday, I had a few moments while sitting in the bowels of St.Augustine's monumental steam-ship replica car wash watching the suds fly, my mind drifted back to vehicular endangered species. Maybe St.Augustine's Fountain of Youth has found the magic potion to make hearses redundant.
Then exiting from the bow of the ship I see one. A police car with flashing lights drives in front at a sedated pace, followed by a real hearse-like as I know it and black limousines tagging behind. In contrast to Ireland where overtaking them is frowned upon, here cars in the dual laneway quickly pass the hearse. (But then Ireland has not that many four-lane roads outside Dublin anyway.)
Waiting for the procession to go by, I get a real good look. Give me Trick-or-Treat any time, but no display of skulls, ghosts or tombstones in my yard! I hear the bell tolling…
Hernibs
Former matchmaker par excellence - or Dating Guru as the Irish media called me- I was born in Germany. Having achieved a Masters Degree in English, I got married, had two children and then emigrated to Ireland with my family for the GOOD LIFE.
Involuntary life on an organic Irish farm produced a crop of misgivings and the break-up of our marriage. Single again, I launched a dating service in Dublin which eventually planted the seeds for my novel: Next Time lucky: How to Find Your Mr. Right. I'm the author of Intrepid Home Swappers I and II and my book "I once had a Farm in Ireland" will be released soon.
I'm now happily married in the USA.
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Freezing Decembers – They really are very rare in the UK
March 10, 2021 November 21, 2019 by Durham Weather
When December 2010 came along, it was a complete shock to the system. There had been no below freezing December (average below 0.0 degC) since 1890. That's 120 years. These are temperatures from the CET series (Central England Temperature).
Records in the CET go back as far as 1659.
So, let's look at those sub-zero December years. The first is December 1676 (mean temp -0.5 degC). Back then, the temperatures were only recorded to the nearest half degree and there aren't any daily temperatures available to me, so I can't really embellish that too much other than say, imagine a below-freezing month when there were no heated houses. Brutal stuff.
Next in the list, after a big gap of 112 years, is December 1788 (-0.3). This time, daily temperatures are also available. December 1788 was generally cold throughout, but especially severe from the 12th to 23rd. There was a short milder period lasting only Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, before severely cold conditions returned between Christmas and New Year.
There was only a short few years before the next one in December 1796 (-0.3). This month contained the coldest ever Christmas Day (-10.8 degC). Again, there were two really cold spells : the start of the month until 11th December, and then around the Christmas period (20th-27th). The weather warmed up again towards the New Year.
Moving into the 'Dickensian' period, when snowfall became popularised on Christmas cards, the next sub-zero month was December 1874. This month averaged just below freezing at -0.2 degC. The first 13 days were on the chilly side at an average of 2.1 degC, before the really bitter weather set in after that until the end of the year. The period 14th-31st December averaged -2.0 degC, which is incredible for an 18 day period.
Another 'Dickensian' winter produced the next freezing cold December, just four years later in December 1878 (-0.3). This month, and the following January produced the third example of consecutive freezing months in the record (after Jan and Feb 1684, Jan and Feb 1740, before it happened again for a fourth time in the winter of 1962-63). In December 1878, the severe spell was slap bang in the middle of the month. The period 9th-26th December averaged -2.8 degC. By New Years Eve, it was up to a balmy 10 degC before the January deep-freeze regained it's grip into the New Year.
See also Skating on the River Wear in February 1895
And so to December 1890 (-0.8 degC). The last sub-zero December before 2010. The month was severe from the 9th until the year's end. This period averaged -1.9 degC. The coldest day was 22nd December at -6.5 degC. December 1890 was actually the coldest December on record, closely followed by December 2010 (-0.7 degC).
Coldest December Days (1659 to date)
25th December 1796 -10.8 degC
12th December 1981 -8.5 degC
31st December 1783 -7.1 degC
As can be seen, most of the extreme temperatures fell in the freezing months, the exceptions were in 1981 (a very cold month with a colossal amount of snow that just missed out on sub-zero status at +0.3 degC), December 1798 (a short exceptionally cold spell from Christmas Eve to the 29th), December 1859 (a short, very wintry spell between 13th and 19th), December 1783 (very cold immediately after Christmas) and 1870 (very cold in the last third of the month).
December 2010 was arguably the most remarkable of them all, because it occurred during the current warming trend, whilst the others were in the more traditionally accepted Maunder Minimum and Dickensian winters which were much colder on average anyway.
When will the next one be? It may not be in our lifetimes, or it may be in a couple of years, there's really no way of knowing. However, Exacta Weather and The Daily Express seem to think it will occur every year! 😏
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'Everest' Featurette Highlights The Film's On-Location Shoot
by Sean K. Cureton
– on Jul 24, 2015
in Movie Trailers
Everest, the new drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Southpaw), Jason Clarke (Terminator Genisys), and Josh Brolin (Inherent Vice), and directed by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur (Contraband, 2 Guns), was inspired by the true story of the Mount Everest Disaster of 1996 (later turned into literature by journalist and travel writer Jon Krakauer). Distributer Universal Pictures has already released one gripping official trailer and poster for the nature survival thriller, amping up anticipation for Baltasar's latest feature.
Jon Krakauer's memoir of his experiences during the 1996 Everest indecent, "Into Thin Air", contains a lot of dramatic nuance and tension built. That same visceral thrill may've been translate well to the big screen, from what we've seen of Everest so far.
In a new featurette released online, the Everest cast and Kormákur stress the extraneous conditions in place while shooting took place in the mountain ranges of Nepal. Gyllenhaal, Clarke, and Brolin all express their excitement of shooting in a reality based setting, replete with snow and the elements of an actual ascent of a naturally occurring precipice as unforgiving as the real Everest. The intention behind this approach, of course, is to encourage the cast to deliver performances that feel all the more naturalistic (being heavily influenced by the harsh conditions at hand).
Kormákur's Everest film appears to be well-shot and executed with an impeccable eye for detail, as the footage released so far looks crisp and thrillingly composed and edited. It remains to be seen how the film's story holds up by comparison, though it's encouraging to see that the film's script was penned by Oscar-winner Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Oscar-nominee William Nicholson (Gladiator, Unbroken).
As anyone who has read or heard the story of the Mount Everest Disaster of 1996 can attest to, the events that took place towards the very end of the 20th century are ripe for cinematic interpretation, and Kormákur's film has the potential to use its inspiration to create some vivid, compelling, onscreen drama. The cast is also rounded out by a capable team of actors (including, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Robin Wright in key supporting roles), which also indicates that Everest could amount to something memorable.
Indeed, between this film and director Robert Zemeckis' upcoming The Walk (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the high-wire artist who sought to walk between the Twin Towers in the 1970s), it will be interesting to see which upcoming film uses 3D to better terrify those moviegoers who are less than comfortable with heights (even those on the big screen).
Everest opens in U.S. theaters on September 25th, 2015.
Source: Universal Pictures
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The IRS has issued proposed reliance regulations (REG-130244-17) that would remove the Section 385 documentation requirements (i.e., the portion of the final Section 385 regulations issued in 2016 that provided rules for the documentation necessary to determine whether certain related party interests in a corporation are treated as stock or indebtedness for federal income tax purposes). The documentation requirements, the applicability of which had already been delayed until 2019, had been identified for possible removal last year pursuant to President Donald Trump's directive to reduce regulatory burdens.
The IRS has issued a statement indicating that it is contemplating issuing guidance on the active trade or business requirement under Section 355(b). Specifically, the statement notes that certain entrepreneurial ventures whose activities consist of long periods of research and development often collect little income (ordinarily a requirement in determining an active trade or business), yet nonetheless incur significant expenses and perform the day-to-day operational and managerial functions historically associated with an "active" business. The IRS also requests comments and indicates that it will entertain requests for private letter rulings on these matters.


Endocrinologists, by tradition, think of disease in terms of hyper- or hypofunctioning of glands. The soundness of this "old-fashioned" thinking has been established repeatedly; type 1, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) exemplifies this. Indeed, complete agreement exists that IDDM is the consequence of severe insulin deficiency caused by B-cell destruction. Doubt that the situation is as simple in type 2, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) was voiced as early as 1936 , and gained momentum after the studies of Yalow and Berson , when it was shown that plasma insulin in NIDDM could be as high as in control subjects. Since then, numerous studies have confirmed these observations and shown that the plasma insulin values after an oral glucose load or following meals are often higher in NIDDM patients than in controls [3–5]. These observations led to the logical hypothesis that NIDDM is due to resistance to the action of insulin, rather than to reduction in insulin secretion . Many studies over the past decade, mainly employing the euglycemic clamp technique, have indeed demonstrated that sensitivity to insulin is reduced in lean as well as obese NIDDM patients [for review see 7, 8].
Studies performed during recent years in my laboratory were mainly supported by the Yad Hanadiv Foundation and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International.


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Gulaptis seeks party support
IN: CHRIS GULAPTISFormer mayor of Maclean shire council, current Clarence Valley Councillor, and Member for Clarence Steve
1st Feb 2007 9:00 AM
By JENNIFER HUXLEY
jennifer.huxley@dailyexaminer.com.au
CLARENCE Valley councillor Chris Gulaptis is the National Party's only declared pre-selection candidate for Page in the upcoming Federal election.
At this stage, a likely challenger is Kyogle mayor Ernie Bennett, who yesterday confirmed he was considering nominating. Mr Bennett is yet to make it official by taking the first step ? getting a local branch to endorse him.
Larry Anthony, former minister for children and youth affairs and member for Richmond, had shown an interest in running for Page, but a National Party spokesman yesterday said Mr Anthony pulled out of the race last week because of family reasons.
Once all candidates are endorsed by their respective local branches, they lobby up to 350 party members before D-Day, a pre-selection meeting in Lismore on Saturday, March 31, a week after the State election.
While there is ample time for pre-selection candidates to register before nominations close on March 2, Mr Gulaptis said he was confident he possessed the attributes the National Party was looking for.
"I've arranged for a branch of the party to en- dorse me, and so with my record in public life to date, in my capacity as Maclean mayor and as a councillor, I think I've shown I have the passion and commitment to serve the interests of the electorate and that's really something the Nationals will be looking at," he said.
"If I do become the National Party's candidate I'll really look at fighting to keep the Clarence Valley's natural resources under local control.
"If control over resources like water is taken out of local hands our industries and therefore the local economy will suffer."


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En geometría euclidiana, un polígono tangencial, también conocido como "polígono circunscrito", es un polígono convexo que contiene una circunferencia inscrita (también llamada "incírculo"). Esta circunferencia es tangente a cada lado del polígono. El polígono dual de un polígono tangencial posee una circunferencia circunscrita que pasa por cada uno de sus vértices.

Todos los triángulos son tangenciales, al igual que todos los polígonos regulares con cualquier cantidad de lados. Un grupo bien estudiado de polígonos tangenciales son los cuadriláteros circunscritos, que incluyen al rombo y al deltoide.

Características
Un polígono convexo que posee una circunferencia inscrita, bicondicionalmente todos sus ángulos bisectores internos son concurrentes. Este punto en común es el incentro (el centro de la circunferencia inscrita).

Existe un polígono tangencial de n lados secuenciales de longitudes a1, ..., an si y solo si el sistema de ecuaciones

tiene una solución (x1, ..., xn) real positiva. Si existe tal solución, entonces x1, ..., xn son las longitudes de las tangentes del polígono (las longitudes desde los vértices hasta los puntos donde la circunferencia inscrita es tangente a los lados).

Paridad y no paridad

Si el número n de lados es impar, entonces para cualquier conjunto dado de longitudes del perímetro  que satisfaga el criterio de existencia anterior, solo hay un polígono tangencial. Pero si n es par, entonces existe una infinitud de ellos. Por ejemplo, en el caso del cuadrilátero en el que todos los lados son iguales, se puede tener un rombo con cualquier valor de los ángulos agudos, y todos los rombos son tangenciales a una circunferencia inscrita.

Inradio
Si los n lados de un polígono tangencial son a1, ...  an, el inradio (radio de la circunferencia inscrita) es

donde K es el área del polígono y s es el semiperímetro. (Dado que todos los triángulos son tangenciales, esta fórmula se aplica a todos los triángulos).

Otras propiedades
 Para un polígono tangencial con un número impar de lados, todos los lados son iguales si y solo si todos los ángulos son iguales (por lo que el polígono es regular). Un polígono tangencial con un número par de lados tiene todos los lados iguales si y solo si los ángulos alternos son iguales (es decir, los ángulos A, C, E, ... son iguales , y los ángulos B, D, F, ... son iguales).
 En un polígono tangencial con un número par de lados, la suma de las longitudes de los lados impares es igual a la suma de las longitudes de los lados pares.
 Un polígono tangencial tiene un área más grande que cualquier otro polígono con el mismo perímetro y los mismos ángulos interiores en la misma secuencia.
 El centroide de cualquier polígono tangencial, el centroide de sus puntos límite y el centro del círculo inscrito son colineales, con el centroide del polígono entre los otros dos y dos veces más alejado del incentro que del centroide de los puntos límite.X

Triángulo tangencial

Mientras que todos los triángulos son tangenciales a algún círculo, un triángulo se llama triángulo tangencial de un triángulo dado si los puntos de tangencia del triángulo tangencial con el círculo son también los vértices del triángulo de referencia.

Cuadrilátero tangencial

Hexágono tangencial

 En un hexágono tangencial ABCDEF, las diagonales principales AD, BE y CF son concurrentes de acuerdo con el teorema de Brianchon.

Véase también
 Circungono

Referencias

Polígonos

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Some combinations are classic and predictable, while others might take a bit of getting used to. For most diners, Carlson's Donuts & Thai Kitchen falls into the latter category, as there aren't a whole lot of combination doughnut-shops-and-Thai-restaurants near Mariner Bay — or anywhere for that matter! But according to regulars at this Annapolis eatery, Carlson's appears to have hit on a winning combination.
Visit early in the day and you'll find a line of customers waiting for fresh, warm doughnuts (several Yelp reviewers call Carlson's donuts the best they've ever had!). Visit later in the day and you'll find that Carlson's shifts into a sit-down Thai restaurant, which serves all your favorite Thai dishes. Try the noodle-based pad Thai topped with red pepper flakes and crushed peanuts, or go for one of the curries served over hot rice (both the panang red curry with coconut milk and the green curry with basil leaves get good reviews).


The Angurukaramulla Temple is a very cool place to visit if you're in Negombo. It's best known for its epic statue of the Buddha, and its dragon-entrance - inside you find detailed murals that date back centuries. There is also a 300+ year old ruin of a historic library here, covered in moss.
The Buddha statue out front is six meters tall. You walk through the dragon's mouth to enter the temple - the dragon is supposed to ward off evil spirits. The premises are a wide open space with plenty of trees by the edge and a pond in the middle.