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Public Broadcasting as a Tool of British State Propaganda
Posted on April 8, 2017 by post-carbon-man
The British Broadcasting Corporation came into life in October 1922 at the same time as a young Eric Blair [George Orwell] departed for Burma to join the imperial Police Force. That same year Benito Mussolini took power in his infamous "March on Rome" which inspired the Hitler's 1923 Bavarian Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler was sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Landsberg Prison where he set about writing Mein Kampf. Hitler wrote glowingly of England and dreamt of a great Germanic anti-Communist alliance with the British Empire. Not only that but he knew our cultures were aligned for he saw British propaganda as a shining example to his young NSDAP disciples. He claimed that Germany lost World War One because the British had better propaganda. Some thirteen year later Orwell was to write "Fascism is coming; probably a slimy Anglicized form of Fascism, with cultured policemen instead of Nazi Gorillas and the lion and the unicorn instead of the swastika."
The Orwell quote itself comes from his 1937 book "The Road to Wigan Pier". Orwell's work display a deep appreciation for how close authoritarianism runs just below the surface of British society. For all our outward claims to democracy the British establishment has more often seen universal suffrage as a problem than a solution. Hence it would always need a method to subvert democracy by closely editing the voices that the British people could hear. This has been painfully true, if well disguised, in that very British institution – the BBC. In Tom Mills' 2016 work "The BBC Myth of a Public Service" (ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-482-9 Verso Books) the author has dug deep into the relationship between the British state system and the national broadcaster. His findings expose the measures to which the BBC has always remained just another branch of the Civil Service. It has never strayed too close to any measure of independence.
To believe that the BBC has been independent in spirit but kept on a close government leash is an oversimplification. Two clear narratives emerge. Firstly: Governments of every stripe have assumed it was their prerogative to use the BBC as a tool of state propaganda. Secondly, for many generations the BBC has regarded itself as an integral part of Whitehall infrastructure. When it emerged in 1985 that MI5 had been vetting large number of senior appointees to the BBC it was less well know that MI5 had been pressing for years to scale back such oversight. It was senior management at the BBC itself that requested so much vetting. It was part of the BBC culture to assume of itself an important role inside the national security state. The BBC is not a victim of the establishment, it has been a willing accomplice.
Hence Hitler's observation, coming at the dawn of the BBC's history, was remarkably apt. The British are very good at propaganda and we were never going to let an opportunity like the BBC be passed up. Being a proud propagandist for King, Country and Empire was always part of the mission. However, in order for those propaganda messages to be most effective the public had to BELIEVE that the BBC was truly independent of the British State. It was an effective subterfuge. During the general strike of 1926 the BBC's "founding father" John Reith proudly recalled the anti-strike approach the BBC took and wrote
"…if there had been broadcasting at the time of the French Revolution, there would have been no French Revolution."
Mills goes on "Revolutions, he reasoned, are based on falsehoods and misinformation, and during the General Strike, the role of the British Broadcasting Company had been to 'announce truth'. " In other words the very sort of propaganda that Hitler has so admired about the British. It was only natural that the BBC should be on the side of the Government. There was no question of the BBC being on the side of history, or the people, or the workers or any other egalitarian socioeconomic grouping. It was on the side of power.
Reith himself was well know for his pro-Fascist views. Mills describes him as a "notorious authoritarian" and displayed an explicit distaste for democracy at the BBC. This lack of democracy he considered to be a model for British society as a whole and lead him to "an otherwise surprising sympathy with the goals of fascism, if not the means". The views of such authoritarian, pro-King-and-Empire, BBC founders, lead to the inevitable deference-to-power that became the hallmark of BBC culture right up until the 1960s. Yet, remarkably it has become much-maligned in today's right-wing press for having a left-wing bias.
Such claims have always told you somewhat more about the nature of the claimants than anything about the BBC. It may well have been that a new influx of journalists during the 1960 may have lead to a more neutral reflection upon the values of the British public. But the right-wing establishment has never been interested in having the BBC reflect the views of the public. State power would only ever be served if the BBC were to LEAD and create the views of the general public. Neutrality was never the intended role of the BBC. Hence the prevalent myth of the BBC as being leftist. This myth dates back to the 1930s such is the natural assumption that the BBC should be a vehicle for state propaganda. There was to be no room for truly egalitarian popular movements to have a voice through the channels of the BBC. Conservatives have always hated the BBC for not being quite as conservative as them. Conservatives are most aligned with authoritarian State power hence any news organisation that reflected values outside of the needs of this elite were to be suspect.
Attempts by the hard-right wing of the Conservative Party to monitor the BBC for supposed anti-Conservative bias dates back to Winston Churchill in 1947. Such cultural dislike of the Right for Britain's public broadcasting institute was a persistent feature of British political life right up to the current day. Even if 2017 Right-wing pro-Brexit Conservative MPs had claimed that the BBC was pro-EU. This antipathy reached its peak under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s when Norman Tebbit established a media monitoring group at Conservative Central Office. This was amidst claims that the BBC simply wasn't pro-British enough during the Falklands War or pro-American enough during the bombing of Libya. An essential element of all such claims was the natural assumption that the BBC should be even more extremely pro-establishment than it already was. Any attempt at genuine objectivity in presenting the other side of any story was immediately hit upon as evidence of anti-Thatcherite scheming. Dossiers of so-called evidence were accumulated on the new crimes of the state broadcaster
"Like the reports produced by the Institute of Economic Affairs and other neoliberal think tanks, the dossiers were flimsy by scholarly standards. But such documents play an important role in constituting and consolidating such political networks, reinforcing ideologies and focusing their political actions."
"Considering the case of Tebbit's Libya dossier, the former Conservative minister Ian Gilmour writes that is was 'an inaccurate and trivial propagandist compilation which identified impartiality with what Conservative central office would like the BBC to have said'. The BBC, he writes, 'had no difficulty in shooting it to pieces'. "
From the 1970s up until 1997 genuine academic scholars (themselves obviously quite suspect from the revolutionary point of view of the neoliberal dogmatists) were also conducting regular surveys of public attitudes. Unsurprisingly most of the public could not discern any political bias. Of those who did most thought it was pro-Conservative. This is very telling. The public clearly did not believe the version of reality that they were MEANT to believe. Clearly more propaganda was required and the BBC was not trying hard enough. In parallel what was happening in this 30 year period was the shutdown of traditional left-wing working class newspapers and the conversion of the rest to the Right-wing agenda.
"This had the effect of shifting political culture in the UK to the right. Crucially through, this shift was more due to changes in the political economy of the press than to public attitudes."
All this was happening at a time when the new Right was resurgent. Neo-liberal policy was becoming the accepted norm in state affairs across the Western World.
"The right, therefore, was attacking the BBC as left wing at a time when the public, if anything, viewed it as a conservative organisation, a fact which made the attacks seem overwrought, even deluded."
In most respects it is NOT ironic that criticism of the BBC peaked at this time. Neo-liberalism was a totalitarian revolution that commanded the exclusion of any dissenting voices. In this charged atmosphere it was certainly NOT the role of the BBC to represent the views of British society. Mills writes that this was an emerging "coherent political strategy". The BBC was targeted in order for it to be reborn as an effective political propaganda weapon of the extreme-Right. The Right-wing establishment expected the BBC to take up the mantle of neo-liberal propaganda with revolutionary fervour. To this end the Right believed that the BBC was not moving quickly enough towards preaching the new revolutionary dogma to the people. In 1987 the old order was swept out of the BBC and a new high-priest of the neo-liberal order was installed. His name was John Birt.
Birt was a political appointee, a "committed neoliberal", he rewrote the BBC rule-book and organised it around a free-market philosophy. An internal market for services was created that lead to an explosion in consultants, accountants and administrators who ran the new bureaucracy. Salaries for the new layer of managerial-elite sky-rocketed. Yet none were actually making any broadcast-able material. The installation of a hard-Right apologist at the BBC did not stop the extreme-Right assault on the institution. The Telegraph opened its Beebwatch column in 2003 aiming to further influence the imagined leftist culture within the BBC.
"Minotaur Media Tracking was established with the backing of Lord Pearson, a neoconservative Tory peer who later defected to the UK Independence Party."
This organisation
"…produce a number of reports for the Eurosceptic think tank Global Britain and the Centre for Policy Studies, the neoliberal think tank founded by Thatcher and Keith Joseph…"
Thus opened the anti-Europe assault by the extreme-Right who deluded themselves that "concerns" about immigration expressed by The Times and The Daily Mail were not properly reflected by the BBC[!]. These new anti-freedom-of-movement dogmas embodied within Europhile xenophobia became a battleground that simply could not be won with facts. The public need to be bombarded from EVERY news outlet with an unremitting tirade of anti-foreigner propaganda. They needed the BBC to supply propaganda not facts. What worried them was the fact that the BBC had introduced policies to make BBC staffing reflect the ethnic and diversity mix of society as a whole. The BBC was claimed to have, not so much a left-wing bias, but [shock-horror] a "liberal" bias. The political ground map of Britain had changed so much since 1970 that it was no longer necessary to define the "enemy within" as being leftist. It was only enough for them to be urban, young, cosmopolitan, educated, diverse and "liberal". For the rising xenophobic-Right this new mix was an anathema. Minorities we becoming well represented at the BBC so it was now accused of not representing white people.
With the coming of John Birt to the BBC in the mid-1980s, news reporting was turned inside out to reflect new Thatcherite values. Labour & Industry reporting was gutted in favour of a vast expansion on reporting upon the activities of the City of London. Suddenly the trading of stock and shares was to become newsworthy. Thus it was that the financialisation of Britain's economy became complete when it was promoted through the BBC as the only thing going on in the economy. The public would be taught to love this new big brother. Unfortunately this attempt at re-education proved hard. By 2006 a survey by Ofcom found that the British public simply weren't interested. No amount of brain-washing could convince them that they wanted Business programming. This was despite the belief, on behalf of the new generation of Business editors, that they were broadcasting in the public interest. Regardless of this lack of interest the BBC news became dominated by Business stories that
"…was the result of explicitly pro-business initiatives by the neoliberal leadership of the BBC."
Subsequent heightened interest by the public in the activities of the financial markets after 2008 only came as a result of the job-insecurity that resulted from the financial crash of that year. The population lived off the crumbs from the high table of the corporate elite. There not participating in it, they were victims of it. This was not the vision of a share-owing democracy that Margaret thatcher once promoted.
In conclusion Mills looks back to the late 1960s as the
"…high water mark for democracy in Britain. Three decades later, neoliberalism had thoroughly transformed British society and, far from democratising culture and public life as had been claimed, in public proclamations at least, it had hollowed out the social democratic state, concentrating power ever more among a financial and corporate elite."
These changes were mirrored at the BBC
"Power became centralised, professional decision making became more marketised and working conditions were made more precarious. Meanwhile, as most found, their freedom curtailed by neoliberal bureaucracy, a largely Oxbridge educated elite retained its decision-making powers and the salaries of those at the top sky-rocketed."
Mills goes on
"…the contemporary BBC is no more free from powerful interests which now dominate British society than it was in the 1930s, the last time Britain was as unequal as it is today. The current BBC is not just part of the Establishment, as it always has been, it is part of the neoliberal, business-dominated Establishment, a central institution of Britain's post-democratic settlement."
The BBC is not a victim of power. It is power. It has been carefully shaped and fashioned for this special state propaganda role. It is a willing participant and its senior management revels in this – its special place in the Establishment. The only hope for us, contests Mills, is to rip the BBC out of the clutches of the state and corporate sectors and put it "firmly in the sphere of 'civil society' ".
As much as we can wish for such an outcome it is not going to happen without a revolution in thinking. Such a revolution cannot, ironically, happen with the BBC being the main organ of received truth in our culture. It will never be able to plead for its own re-invention if this does not serve the needs of those who would have the population vote against their own self-interest. The BBC remains a tool of revolution only for the use of the rich and powerful. It is a carefully crafted control-mechanism for democracy. The people must be told how to vote and what to believe in. This is the job of the BBC and it does it so very well.
No wonder Hitler was so in awe of what British propaganda could achieve.
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These unusual looking bonbons have a visual texture that is quite appealling. The recipe is geared to professional chocolatiers and makes a large amount.
Pipe ganache into long strips and allow to crust slightly. Dip the pieces into tempered melted dark chocolate. Immediately roll into a mixture of dark and white chocolate flakes.
Fine Chocolate, Great Experience © 2004 Jean-Pierre Wybauw. Photo ©Lannoo. All rights reserved.


This beautifully updated two bedroom/two bath condo at The Villas at Walton Creek has been lovingly cared for since we purchased it new in 1998. Comfortably accommodating 4 - 6, we recently finished some extensive upgrades, including replacing the tired old carpet with new hardwood flooring and new slate tile in the main areas, adding new carpet in bedrooms, new quartz counters, stainless appliances and canister lighting in the kitchen, and remodeling both bathrooms. We've made sure the condo has everything you need for a winter or summer holiday! The complex includes an outdoor hot tub for relaxing after a hard day on the slopes or on the trail.
Conveniently located close to the Gondola base, The Villas is only a short walk along a scenic creek-side paved path that takes you to the gondola, ski slopes or summer hiking in just a 10 minute walk. A ride on the free bus (available every 15-20 minutes) gives quick access to the slopes, nearby restaurants and grocery stores. Shops and other activities in downtown Steamboat Springs are just two miles away on the same bus route. Regularly scheduled HDN and DIA airport shuttles pick up and drop off guests right at our door so you don't need to even have a rental car. The unit is a spacious 1,087 square feet on the 2nd floor with a private heated garage/entrance below.
There is a fully-equipped kitchen with new stainless steel appliances, charming log queen bed in master bed-room, bunk bed in the second bedroom (full-size bed on bottom, twin on top) down comforters for all beds, and queen pull-out sofa in the living room. Sunny decks are located off both the living room and master bedroom with views of the ski area and the Flat Tops. You'll have many moments of tranquility just looking at the magnificent views. A gas fireplace in the living room will be welcome after a day on the mountain.
Other conveniences include a barbecue, tables and chairs on the decks, two color TVs with HD cable, 40' LCD HD Flat screen in living room, Blu-ray DVD players, Bose iPod sound dock, board games, Free high speed wireless internet, and hot tub on site. This is a quiet complex with only 6 units per building. Private heated single car garage with mudroom and staircase entrance. There are many resident owners, making this a great location for families. Includes stackable washer and dryer. Additional towels and linens, as well as housekeeping are provided. There may be a cleaning fee for four nights or less. 4 night minimum stay during the winter season please.
Located on FREE Walton Creek bus route to gondola and downtown.
This is a Smoke and Pet free condominium.
We lived in Steamboat and met here many years ago. Steamboat has been a part of our lives for over 30 years. This is our only rental property, and it is also our home-away-from-home.
Steamboat is a special place for us, and for our kids as well. This property is just the right size and location to enjoy the area and everything it has to offer. We love it in all seasons...there's always something in Steamboat that will take your breath away.
Wonderful people! Plus the best skiing, biking, hiking, fishing, and camping. Don't miss the Strawberry Park hot springs in winter or summer.
Located at the base of Steamboat Ski Area, the condo is a short walk or complimentary bus ride from the Goldola. You'll be skiing in minutes!
Living room faces the west side of the ski mountain, with view to the summit. Master faces the Flattops wilderness.
Direct interior entrance from garage to condo -- avoid shoveling!
Book case with 100 fiction titles - leave one/take one!
Would definitely stay here again. Kitchen is well-equipped and entire unit is nicely furnished. I have two constructive comments. One, it would be nice if there was olive oil and at least some coffee in kitchen. Second, the bed in master may need to be replaced. Neither my wife nor I are big and the bed is concave, so kept rolling us to the middle and it's uphill to get out. Made for some good laughs.
Thanks for the comments, We will get the mattress replaced this spring.
A great location; clean, quiet & comfortable. Love the two decks; plenty of choices for morning coffee! A great (and easily accessible) location, and a great spot to return to after a busy day in the mountains. We have been coming to Steamboat for many years, and this condo is an instant favorite. Communication with Gregg was always both quick and easy. We will not hesitate to come back; really could not have been better.
Very clean with everything we needed.
Great location for Steamboat ski vacation.
Property was in great condition, fully equiped and close to ski area. Owner provided plenty of information and always replied quickly.
Wonderful space in the home and love the balcony!
We loved staying at your home! It had a wonderful living area/kitchen that we enjoyed sitting around and visiting with our friends. Loved the balcony to just sit, relax and drink coffee. Clean, cute and so comfortable to stay in!
Wonderful condo well equipped, Great location, quiet location.
Snowshoeing, biking, hiking from site, as well as local hot springs, hot air balloon rides, sleigh rides and snowmobiling.


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Infographics and Your Company
A new and rather unusual video game has just been released for the PlayStation by Dutch design studio Digital Dreams. The basic idea is that video games are inherently data driven. Sure, that data is masked by fancy, often photo realistic graphics, but whatever the plot of the game, when you move your character from one point to another, when you shoot at an enemy on the screen, all of that is ultimately controlled by data. The game Metrico pulls the mask of fancy graphics away, and lets the character run through the data. Essentially, the game is a giant, interactive infographic.
In the game, your character's movements influence the game's environment, because the game's environment is a giant infographic, and what you do changes the data, which by extension, changes the world you're moving through. The goal is to navigate through the ever changing realm, figuring out how to move in order to alter the environment in such a way that it allows you to pass to the next stage.
It's a fascinating take on side scrolling puzzle games, and truly innovative. There are a number of remarkable things about the design, but the most interesting is also the most obvious; the game makes information fun. More specifically, the game makes infographics fun.
Infographics Are Fun
It could be argued that infographics are already enjoyable. They're eye catching, the data they display comes in bite sized, consumable chunks, and they are easily sharable. Many recent viral postings have been infographics, and if your company isn't currently making heavy use of them, paying for their creation to display information relevant to your brand and the market you operate in, then you might be missing a huge opportunity.
The early buzz on this game is overwhelmingly positive, and it is almost certain to be a breakout hit. The secret to its genius is that with its six progressively more complex levels, it accomplishes the same essential goal that infographics themselves do. They attempt to make sense of a complex set of data. They do that by creating a context that is bright, colorful, easily understood and engaging.
Infographics & Your Company
Neil Patel of Kissmetrics and Quicksprout is a guy who has probably forgotten more about SEO and traffic driving strategies than most people know. During the launch of Quicksprout, he proved rather decisively that well crafted infographics are not only more likely to go viral than other types of content, but they're also amazingly effective at driving traffic back to your site. Quicksprout experienced explosive growth, mostly on the strength of a collection of just thirty seven well made infographics, so there's clearly a lot to be said for the strategy.
The bottom line is that Infographics are both fun and effective. If you're not using them, then you're leaving money on the table. Take some time to think about how they could be used to tell your brand and product stories more effectively. They can definitely add to your bottom line by engaging, intriguing and informing your potential customers. All you need to get started are some eye popping, industry specific stats that your readers will find compelling, and a competent graphic designer to make them interesting.
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Remember the good ol' days, when the Knicks were the team seeming to be climbing up the LeBron James ladder? When they were a team on the rise?
What was that, 36 hours ago? When the Suns Jared Dudley tweeted that LeBron was going to be a Knick.
Now, LeBron is not buying the pitch. According to Marc Berman at the New York Post, Amare tried but it did not go well.
Never understood Jared Dudley's tweet. Was told Amar'e's convo with LeBron Tuesday night didn't go grandly. Didn't get it from there.
This adds more fuel to the "Miami or Cleveland" fire. Which is the hot fire right now.


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May 17, 2010 by Charlie Demerjian
Editors Note: Over the next few weeks we'll be publishing the Bumpgate Series with some additional commentary, updates and information. We are reprinting some of the often referenced articles that originally appeared on the Inquirer. Some will have added content, but all will be re-edited from the originals as per contractual obligations. You may see some slight differences between the two versions.
This article has had some of the original links removed, and was published on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 06:06AM.
THE MOST INTERESTING thing about E3 so far is the news from Intel. No, not officially, they don't open for a bit yet, but the birds singing outside my bedroom window carried the news. Said birds sang that Intel is about to get back into the gaming GPU market. No word on specs yet, and it is early in the program, but I would think by this time next year you should see official progress.S|A
Updated May 17, 2010: This was the first rumbling of what led to Larrabee. Several people told me it was real, but no one directly mentioned the L-word at that time. -Charlie
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Introduction: The objective of the current study was to elucidate the effects of the accessory pathways (APs) on the left ventricular (LV) wall motion and radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) on AP-related regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA) in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. Methods and Results: We included 348 consecutive patients (age, 37.6 ± 17.3 years; men, 58.3%) with WPW syndrome who underwent RFCA for AP. We analyzed electrocardiographic data, the AP location, LV ejection fraction (LVEF), and RWMA patterns and their changes after RFCA. The locations of APs were right, septal, and left in 78, 94, and 176 patients, respectively. RWMA at the AP location (44.9%, 51.1%, and 17.6%, respectively; P < 0.001), decreased LVEF (10.3%, 6.4%, and 1.1%, respectively; P = 0.004), and dyskinesia (16.7%, 16.0%, and 1.1%, respectively; P < 0.001) were significantly more frequent in patients with a right or septal AP than in those with a left AP. In 31 of 50 patients with RWMA who underwent post-RFCA echocardiography (62.0%), RWMA was completely improved after RFCA. Right AP (odds ratio [OR], 22.084; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.628-134.420; P = 0.001) and dyskinesia (OR, 6.275; 95% CI, 1.186-33.213; P = 0.031) were significantly associated with the absence of RWMA improvement after RFCA. Conclusions: AP-related RWMA is frequent in patients with right or septal APs. A substantial number of patients with right AP or dyskinesia may show no improvement in RWMA after RFCA.
Uhm, Jae Sun ; Nam, Jong Ho ; Yu, Hee Tae ; Yang, Pil Sung ; Kim, Tae Hoon ; Cho, In Jeong ; Shim, ChiYoung ; Joung, Boyoung ; Hong, Geu Ru ; pak, huinam ; Lee, Moon Hyoung. / Accessory pathway-related left ventricular wall motion abnormality and the effects of radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 2019 ; Vol. 30, No. 1. pp. 102-108.
Accessory pathway-related left ventricular wall motion abnormality and the effects of radiofrequency catheter ablation in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. / Uhm, Jae Sun; Nam, Jong Ho; Yu, Hee Tae; Yang, Pil Sung; Kim, Tae Hoon; Cho, In Jeong; Shim, ChiYoung; Joung, Boyoung; Hong, Geu Ru; pak, huinam; Lee, Moon Hyoung.
In: Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Vol. 30, No. 1, 01.01.2019, p. 102-108.
N2 - Introduction: The objective of the current study was to elucidate the effects of the accessory pathways (APs) on the left ventricular (LV) wall motion and radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) on AP-related regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA) in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. Methods and Results: We included 348 consecutive patients (age, 37.6 ± 17.3 years; men, 58.3%) with WPW syndrome who underwent RFCA for AP. We analyzed electrocardiographic data, the AP location, LV ejection fraction (LVEF), and RWMA patterns and their changes after RFCA. The locations of APs were right, septal, and left in 78, 94, and 176 patients, respectively. RWMA at the AP location (44.9%, 51.1%, and 17.6%, respectively; P < 0.001), decreased LVEF (10.3%, 6.4%, and 1.1%, respectively; P = 0.004), and dyskinesia (16.7%, 16.0%, and 1.1%, respectively; P < 0.001) were significantly more frequent in patients with a right or septal AP than in those with a left AP. In 31 of 50 patients with RWMA who underwent post-RFCA echocardiography (62.0%), RWMA was completely improved after RFCA. Right AP (odds ratio [OR], 22.084; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.628-134.420; P = 0.001) and dyskinesia (OR, 6.275; 95% CI, 1.186-33.213; P = 0.031) were significantly associated with the absence of RWMA improvement after RFCA. Conclusions: AP-related RWMA is frequent in patients with right or septal APs. A substantial number of patients with right AP or dyskinesia may show no improvement in RWMA after RFCA.
AB - Introduction: The objective of the current study was to elucidate the effects of the accessory pathways (APs) on the left ventricular (LV) wall motion and radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) on AP-related regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA) in patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. Methods and Results: We included 348 consecutive patients (age, 37.6 ± 17.3 years; men, 58.3%) with WPW syndrome who underwent RFCA for AP. We analyzed electrocardiographic data, the AP location, LV ejection fraction (LVEF), and RWMA patterns and their changes after RFCA. The locations of APs were right, septal, and left in 78, 94, and 176 patients, respectively. RWMA at the AP location (44.9%, 51.1%, and 17.6%, respectively; P < 0.001), decreased LVEF (10.3%, 6.4%, and 1.1%, respectively; P = 0.004), and dyskinesia (16.7%, 16.0%, and 1.1%, respectively; P < 0.001) were significantly more frequent in patients with a right or septal AP than in those with a left AP. In 31 of 50 patients with RWMA who underwent post-RFCA echocardiography (62.0%), RWMA was completely improved after RFCA. Right AP (odds ratio [OR], 22.084; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.628-134.420; P = 0.001) and dyskinesia (OR, 6.275; 95% CI, 1.186-33.213; P = 0.031) were significantly associated with the absence of RWMA improvement after RFCA. Conclusions: AP-related RWMA is frequent in patients with right or septal APs. A substantial number of patients with right AP or dyskinesia may show no improvement in RWMA after RFCA.


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The state patrol says the driver of a pickup lost control on Highway 29 in Elmo Township
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ELMO TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Icy roads contributed to a fatal crash in eastern Otter Tail County. The state patrol says the driver of a pickup lost control on Highway 29 in Elmo Township. The pickup drifted into the other lane, hitting another pickup head-on shortly after 8 this morning. The driver of the pickup that was struck, a 71…
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Prosecutors Say Jason Vadner Was Driving Too Fast For The Conditions
Jacob QuamOTTER TAIL CO., Minn. — A truck driver from Wheaton has been charged for causing a collision that killed a 16-year-old boy. Otter Tail County prosecutors have charged 35-year-old Jason Vadner with criminal vehicular homicide. They say he was driving his semi too fast in dense fog on April 13 when he crossed the centerline of State Highway 210…
Funeral For Henning Student To Be Held at High School
Visitation and a prayer service were set for Sunday night at the school.
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I was just wondering if anybody here as read this manga and what your thoughts are on it.... I haven't read it but I hope the anime is released for it considering its not too old.
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Has this anime got anything to do with the Fushigi Yuugi that's on here?
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The Genbu Seishi had a very minor role in the original Fushigi Yuugi series, appearing for only two or three chapters in volume 9 and a few minutes in episode 34 of the anime. Despite this they made a tremendous impact on some fans of the series (myself included) being these mysterious, increadibly loyal super powerful seishi that not even Nakago wanted to fight. But there was so little known about them! What else was there to do other than sit back and write epic length fanfictions?
Now almost a decade after Fushigi Yuugi's completion Watase has begun publishing a new Fushigi Yuugi story: the Genbu Kaiden which focuses on none other than the Genbu Seishi and Takiko. Although it follows a similar story line to Fushigi Yuugi, Watase has decided to change certain aspects of it (as can be expected from 10 years of creative development!) so not only has her artwork improved, but the entire telling of the story is much more dramatic! Some people expected the Genbu Kaiden to be a cheap spin off of Fushigi Yuugi, but so far it goes way beyond the first Fushigi Yuugi in both artwork and story.
The Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden manga by Watase Yuu was first published in a japanese manga compilation magazine called Sho-Comi in 2003. Currently new chapters are published every three months in the Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World magazine, and new volumes of the manga come out every six months. The series is still being produced in Japanese, but the North American edition has already been liscened by Viz.
So would you recommend watching this before or after Fushigi Yuugi?
Sahar wrote: So would you recommend watching this before or after Fushigi Yuugi?
So did anybody here read the manga? I just want to know your oppinions from what you've read of it.
Note: I am not really into reading manga but if it takes too long for the series to be released I will just read it.
Yayy thanks for the link max, I'm going to go see if its at the library, if not I'll request it and if they take too long to buy it I'll just buy it myself, but hopefully I'll be reading it very soon I can't wait!
It's very cheap I don't really see any reason not to buy it unless you hate that kind of stuff.


How do I enable EUMClient debug logging dynamically in the Controller?
To enable EUM Client side debug logs dynamically, you can use the Glassfish admin console or use the asamin utility.
2. Once logged in, navigate to the server config in the console. Select Logger Settings, then Log Levels and add the logger below as shown in the screenshot and save it. Please note that these logging will be very verbose, hence it's normally enabled for few minutes during troubleshooting to capture the debug information in order to find out the root cause of the issue.
If you can't access the Glassfish console for some reason, you can log in to the Controller machine and navigate to the pathbelow and enable it via the asadmin utility.
com.appdynamics.eum.client.EUMClient package set with log level FINEST.
com.singularity.ee.controller.beans.eumcloud.EUMCloudManagerBean package set with log level FINEST.
These logging levels are set for server.
com.appdynamics.eum.client.EUMClient package set with log level INFO.
com.singularity.ee.controller.beans.eumcloud.EUMCloudManagerBean package set with log level INFO.
The command above sets multiple loggers and notice the colon(:) above to set multiple loggers. If you would like to set any one of them, you can use the command below.


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Can Google hide from regulators by giving behavioral targeting another name?
By Meghan Keane	 March 25th 2010 18:24
By now it is clear that privacy advocates and Federal Trade Commission employees don't like behavioral targeting. Online marketers are increasingly trying to steer clear of regulation on the matter, with clearer opt out policies and self-regulation. Google is going one step further, by trying to rebrand BT with a new name.
Today the search giant is opening up its "remarketing program" so that all advertisers can track consumers and serve ads dependent on their browsing history.
Calling behavioral targeting by another name isn't likely to work when regulators come down on the practice of tracking users online for marketing purposes. But at this point, it's worth a shot.
Google's remarketing program lets companies serve ads specifically to people that have visited their site before. Also, it will also let advertisers tailor ads to individuals and serve the same ads to specific consumers for repeated, on the grounds that more views will lead to increased click-throughs. According to the AdWords blog:
"Let's say you're a basketball team with tickets that you want to sell.
You can put a piece of code on the tickets page of your website, which
will let you later show relevant ticket ads (such as last minute
discounts) to everyone who has visited that page, as they subsequently
browse sites in the Google Content Network. In addition to your own
site, you can also remarket to users who visited your YouTube brand channel or clicked your YouTube homepage ad."
Considering that Google claims its Content Network reaches about 80% of Internet users around the globe, this is going to be a big test for the advertising dependant on online tracking.
As I wrote yesterday, a new study found that BT ads are twice as effective as generic online ads. But Google insists that this effort is not BT. According to SearchEngineLand:
"Google doesn't like that term and finds it imprecise. In addition
there's a stigma associated with it among privacy groups and to some
degree the FTC (and maybe some regulation coming in the near future).
Thus Google uses the more positive term "Interest Based Advertising."
When it comes to privacy issues, online advertisers are doing everything they can to prove that their targeting practices are on the up and up. And the remarketing term helps with this.
Google also allows consumers to opt out of its tracking efforts with a well documented Opt Out page. The company claims that out of 15 people who find their privacy controls, only "four users edit preferences, one opts out and 10 do
But as AllThingsDigital points out, the page isn't exactly easy for consumers to find. And it will only be a matter of time before we find out if regulators think that Google's efforts really go far enough to explain to customers how their online behavior is being tracked and used online.
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New Pew data: newspaper pay walls will likely fail
A number of prominent newspapers, including the New York Times, have publicly committed to setting up pay walls as they struggle to find new sources of revenue.
But according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism "State of the News Media 2010" report, newspapers planning to erect pay walls could be in for a rude awakening.
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Auto Trader: iPhone app review
Motoring website Auto Trader launched an iPhone app yesterday, which contains car listings and reviews, as well as a number plate recognition tool.
It's potentially a very useful app, so I've been seeing how user-friendly it is…
Another reason to avoid URL shorteners: they're slow
It is said that necessity is the mother of all invention, and that's certainly true of URL shortening services. The rise of the status update means that there's no room for an extraneous character, and that has in turn led to the rise of URL shortening services that make sure the links shared in status updates don't take up any more room than needed.
As these services have grown in popularity, it's not uncommon to see shortened URLs used in places where there's really no need for them, from blog comments to emails.


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On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 7pm, CYPRESS in cooperation with the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation and the Evansville Vanderburgh Human Relations Commission welcomed Dr. Terrence Roberts to give a free public talk with a reception and book signing following the talk. Terrence Roberts was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1999, he and the other people of the Little Rock Nine were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton.
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IOWA CITY — The severe storms that swept through the Iowa City area caused flooding in several areas, including at the offices in the Crisis Center of Johnson County.
The offices took on several inches of water, the center reported Wednesday, but its food pantry services remain unaffected.
The pantry opened at noon Wednesday, as scheduled, and served a usual number of clients on Tuesday despite the storm, according to a news release from the Crisis Center. The facility's Crisis Line call center, however, had to move to a boardroom in the neighboring social services building.
The facility's south-facing offices saw some technology equipment destroyed in the flooding and the center is currently assessing the full extent of the damage. The Crisis Center's recovery is expected to take between three and five days, according to the release.
The Crisis Center's insurance company, however, won't cover the costs of the flash flooding, including replacing carpet and a few computers, said Carly Matthew, communications coordinator. To aid in the flood recovery, donors can note "flood" in the comments section of the donation form online at jccrisiscenter.org/financial-contributions or write "flood" in the memo section of a check.
The storm, containing heavy rain, frequent lightning and high winds, triggered a tornado warning in Johnson County, according to the National Weather Service. The weather service received reports of downed power lines and trees throughout Iowa City.
Brock Holub, superintendent of Streets and Traffic Engineering, said there was some flash flooding on the city's streets but not overwhelming. He added that downed trees were more of a problem.
"I've been out driving around. It seemed just a bit everywhere, on all sides of the town," Holub said.
For any Iowa City homeowner or landlord left with fallen trees or other debris, the city recommends calling a private tree company for assistance. Iowa City's forestry staff will not help on private property, according to a news release from the city on Wednesday.
Residents can bring storm debris to the yard waste facility from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday at the Iowa City Landfill, 3900 Hebl Ave.


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Under direction, maintains, repairs, and modifies to critically close tolerance helicopter and fixed wing aircraft to ensure airworthiness and to do related work as required.
The Aircraft Mechanic position repairs and services aircraft and engines as determined by assignment Incumbents perform job duties under the direction of the Supervising Aircraft Mechanic.
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# Notifier

[![Build Status][ico-build]][link-build]
[![Code Quality][ico-code-quality]][link-code-quality]
[![Code Coverage][ico-code-coverage]][link-code-coverage]
[![Latest Version][ico-version]][link-packagist]
[![PDS Skeleton][ico-pds]][link-pds]

Extensible library for building notifications and sending them via different delivery channels.

## Installation

The preferred method of installation is via [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/). Run the following command to install
the latest version of a package and add it to your project's `composer.json`:

```bash
composer require nikolaposa/notifier
```

## Theory of operation

Notifications are informative messages that are sent through different channels (i.e. email, SMS, mobile push) to notify
users about certain events in the application. Notification is a higher-level abstraction, a concept that encapsulates a
subject to be notified to the recipient, regardless of delivery channels through which that information can be
communicated. From an architectural standpoint, notification is a domain concern.

In order to minimize the coupling of your domain with the infrastructure for sending notifications, Notifier library was
based on on unobtrusive interfaces that should be implemented by your objects in order to plug them into the workflow of
the library. Those are:

1. `Notification` - marks the object as a notification that can be used with the Notifier library,
2. `Recipient` - represents the recipient of the notification which provides contact (i.e. email address, phone number)
for a certain channel; typically implemented by a User domain object.

For each channel through which Notification is supposed to be sent, Notification class should implement channel-specific
interface, making the Notification suitable for sending via a specific channel. These interfaces declare message
building methods, for example `EmailNotification::toEmailMessage()`, that convert the notification to a message sent by
that particular channel. Channel-specific Notification interfaces extend the `Notification` interface itself, so you do
not need to implement it explicitly.

Channel component captures implementation details of how a Notification is sent via certain delivery channels. Specific
channel implementation typically consists of:

1. channel-specific Notification interface,
2. Message class - transport-level message to which Notification gets converted,
3. `Channel` implementation responsible for the very act of sending the Notification.

Out of the box, this library features facilities for sending notifications via email and SMS. The highly extensible
design allows for implementing custom delivery channels.

Finally, `Notifier` service is a facade that manages the entire process of sending a Notification to a list of
Recipients via supported channels. It is the only service of this library that the calling code is supposed to interact
with directly.

## Usage

**Creating Notifications**

```php
namespace App\Model;

use Notifier\Channel\Email\EmailMessage;
use Notifier\Channel\Sms\SmsMessage;
use Notifier\Channel\Email\EmailNotification;
use Notifier\Channel\Sms\SmsNotification;
use Notifier\Recipient\Recipient;

class TodoExpiredNotification implements EmailNotification, SmsNotification
{
    /** @var Todo */
    protected $todo;

    public function __construct(Todo $todo)
    {
        $this->todo = $todo;
    }

    public function toEmailMessage(Recipient $recipient): EmailMessage
    {
        return (new EmailMessage())
            ->from('noreply@example.com')
            ->subject('Todo expired')
            ->htmlBody(
                'Dear ' . $recipient->getRecipientName() . ','
                . '<br><br>'
                . 'Your todo: <b>' . $this->todo->getText() . '</b> has expired.'
            );
    }

    public function toSmsMessage(Recipient $recipient): SmsMessage
    {
        return (new SmsMessage())
            ->text('Todo: ' . $this->todo->getText() . ' has expired');
    }
}
```

**Implementing Recipient**

```php
namespace App\Model;

use Notifier\Recipient\Recipient;

class User implements Recipient
{
    /** @var string */
    protected $name;

    /** @var array */
    protected $contacts;

    public function __construct(string $name, array $contacts)
    {
        $this->name = $name;
        $this->contacts = $contacts;
    }

    public function getName(): string
    {
        return $this->name;
    }

    public function getRecipientContact(string $channel, Notification $notification): ?string
    {
        return $this->contacts[$channel] ?? null;
    }

    public function getRecipientName(): string
    {
        return $this->name;
    }
}
```

**Sending Notifications**

```php
use Notifier\Channel\Channels;
use Notifier\Channel\Email\EmailChannel;
use Notifier\Channel\Email\SimpleMailer;
use Notifier\Channel\Sms\SmsChannel;
use Notifier\Channel\Sms\TwilioTexter;
use Notifier\Notifier;
use Notifier\Recipient\Recipients;

$notifier = new Notifier(new Channels(
    new EmailChannel(new SimpleMailer()),
    new SmsChannel(new TwilioTexter('auth_id', 'auth_token'))
));

$notifier->send(
    new TodoExpiredNotification($todo),
    new Recipients($user1, $user2, $user3)
);
```

## Credits

- [Nikola Poša][link-author]
- [All Contributors][link-contributors]

## License

Released under MIT License - see the [License File](LICENSE) for details.

[ico-version]: https://poser.pugx.org/nikolaposa/notifier/v/stable
[ico-build]: https://travis-ci.com/nikolaposa/notifier.svg?branch=master
[ico-code-coverage]: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/nikolaposa/notifier/badges/coverage.png?b=master
[ico-code-quality]: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/nikolaposa/notifier/badges/quality-score.png?b=master
[ico-pds]: https://img.shields.io/badge/pds-skeleton-blue.svg

[link-packagist]: https://packagist.org/packages/nikolaposa/notifier
[link-build]: https://travis-ci.com/nikolaposa/notifier
[link-code-coverage]: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/nikolaposa/notifier/code-structure
[link-code-quality]: https://scrutinizer-ci.com/g/nikolaposa/notifier
[link-pds]: https://github.com/php-pds/skeleton
[link-author]: https://github.com/nikolaposa
[link-contributors]: ../../contributors

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Long, long ago in an internet far away (roughly a year ago) it was relatively easy to rank your site's pages in the search engine results. All that you had to do was optimize the pages, have decent, original content, and to gather a vast variety of backlinks to your pages.
Ahh, the good 'ol days.
No longer. Google has upped the ante, and besides making sure we are still managing to accomplish most of the above named items, we are now expected to have a viable and buzzing social media presence to boot! This means complete social profiles, daily or more posts, and interaction with your peeps frequently.
So exactly how do we create these "social signals"?
So how can we do this without tearing out all our hair? Listed below are three easy ways you can quickly increase customer engagement, grow your audience, and boost word of mouth regarding your business.
Use images and videos – Like it or not, we are now a society that thrives on visuals. Most would, whether by time necessity or purely visual stimulation, prefer to watch and see as opposed to read. According to Facebook pics and vids attract 53% more "likes" than text alone.
Be quick on the draw – Don't leave people hanging! They're trying to engage with you, so make it a standard practice to respond to comments, tweets and status updates as early as you can.
Here's an awesome example of a business getting innovative with social media: Comodo, a restaurant in New York City, launched a menu that used tagged images, enabling customers to look through and see what they have to offer. Your business could also find new customers and further engage with those you have already by using these simple suggestions!


is the reminder of knowing how many people care about you. I have received cards, emails, flowers, chocolate covered strawberries. It was such a warm feeling to have these amazing people call and write me and let me know they were thinking of me. I am feeling so much better - I am finally getting back to work this week!
I hope everyone had an amazing Valentine's Day! TL and I have had lots of time to spend together with both of us being off work - so we called it our Valentine's month! I can't believe we are already almost to March. Time is passing so quickly!
Today is my sister Kelly's Birthday! I love her to death and I am so blessed to not only have her as my sister, but my good friend. She is an amazing mom, friend, daughter, wife. She is the whole package! Happy Birthday, Kel! I love you.
I know the last year of your 20s will be a good one!
Aw. Sorry you are not feeling well! Hope it goes away fast.
So glad to hear that you are feeling better ~ I was starting to get worried about you! Happy Birthday Kelly!!
I hope you are feeling 100% better very very soon!!
Awwe, sweetie, I do hope you're 100% back to normal so soon! I'm glad that you have so many people who care about you - it doesn't surprise me, you're such a sweetheart!
hope you get feeling better! aren't sister's great??!
So glad you are feeling a bit better Tracy! WE ALL CARE SO MUCH ABOUT YOU!!! I bet work has missed you a ton!
Happy Birthday to your sister!!
Wow, what a resemblance! Happy Birthday to your sis.
SO happy to hear you're doing better. I've been thinking about you Tracy!
Hope you are starting to feel better dear!!! Sounds like you have been very blessed with all the wonderful support!
I'm glad that you've been given plenty of love and care during your sickness. You deserve to feel special.
Chocolate covered strawberries are my FAVORITE! :) I really hope you get to feeling so much better soon. I'm glad you're on the road to recovery b/c goodness it's been quite a road for ya, girl. Happy birthday to your sister!!!
Nothing worse than being sick.
Hoep you are back to 100% soon!! Happy birthday to your sis!
Happy Bday to your sister!
I am so glad you are feeling better! Happy Birthday to your sister!
oh i want to pinch those babes cheeks!
i'm glad to hear you are feeling better and that you get to go to Napa soon! have so much fun :) wine tasting is the best.


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    //コメントを登録する
    public function registComment($projectID, $comment, $commentedUserID){
        $array = array(
            'projectID' => $projectID,
            'tmpPro' => $projectID,
            'comment' => $comment,
			'commentID' => md5(date("Ymd\,H:i:s")),	//コメントIDは登録時刻のハッシュ値
            'commentedUserID' => $commentedUserID
        );

        $this->db->insert('comment', $array);
    }

    //コメントを削除する
    public function deleteComment($commentID){
        $array = array(
            'commentID' => $commentID
        );

        $this->db->delete('comment', $array);
    }

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        return $query->result();
    }
}


US student Amanda Knox, who murdered her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy, is now expected to face slander charges, officials say.
The move comes after an inquiry into claims by the 22-year-old that she was beaten by police during questioning.
Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito are both appealing against their murder convictions.
They were found guilty in December of killing Ms Kercher, from Coulsdon, Surrey, in Perugia in 2007.
Knox was jailed for 26 years and Sollecito for 25 years.
During the trial, Knox claimed twice that police had beaten her during questioning, to get her to name Miss Kercher's killer.
She also said police called her a "stupid liar" and threatened her with prison.
The prosecutor in the case said there was no proof of assault and Knox would now be charged with slander in order to protect the good name of the police department.
The charges are expected to follow in the next few weeks to give Knox's lawyers time to respond to the claims.
Under Italian law, slander can lead to a fine and or a prison sentence of up to six years.
Last November, Ms Knox's divorced parents were placed under investigation for repeating their daughter's claim that police officers had beaten her during questioning.
Knox is appealing against her conviction on the grounds that the forensic evidence against her was flawed.


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Q: how to Highlight color on image for android Imageview? I am working on imageview.i set image in imagesrc.but i want to highlight this image like below.
original Image:

I  need output as below Image:

give me some idea's so I can do that.
Your answer would be appreciated.

A: You can set foreground property and set alpha as per your requirement
         <ImageView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:foreground="#70FFFF80"
            android:src="@drawable/your_image"/>

A: Proper solution is below:
greenCircle.getDrawable().setColorFilter(Color.parseColor("#70FFFF80"), PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY );


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Wrong sample size bias
When the wrong sample size is used in a study: small sample sizes often lead to chance findings, while large sample sizes are often statistically significant but not clinically relevant.
Studies of human health use samples to obtain information on the whole relevant population and to represent the population of interest accurately. When small sample size is used, the risk is high that observations will be due to chance, something studies with larger sample sizes avoid. However, while larger studies can detect tiny or small associations, they might not be important or relevant to improving human health.
Statistical indicators, including p-values and confidence intervals, are used to help determine how certain we are that the results observed did not arise by chance. So, huge sample sizes can often show a large number of statistically significant results, but these may not be important, if the effect size is small, or if the relationship is not clinically relevant to health.
Large study sizes are much better than small, but appropriate caution is needed in interpreting the results of both, large sample size can magnify any bias that is present.
In Ioannidis paper on 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,' he states that 'the smaller the studies conducted in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.' As an example, in placebo-controlled trials of second-line antirheumatic drugs, sample size bias demonstrated the effect decreased with increasing sample size.
Large sample sizes can also prove to be wrong. In the 1936 US election, the largest public opinion poll in US history amongst 2.4 million respondents got it completely wrong. The poll results said Landon would win by a landslide. However, Roosevelt won 46 of the 48 states. The survey was conducted by the Literary Digest who surveyed their readers who supported Landon. This was a result of ascertainment bias, but the point is, don't be fooled by the size of the sample.
A comparison of the estimated benefits of treatment between large trials (at least 100 patients per arm) and small trials found that on average, treatment effects were greater in small than in large trials. In neuroscience study sizes tend to be typically small, giving low power to detect associations and therefore the likelihood that a finding is true is small.
To prevent wrong sample size bias, when designing studies, it is essential that statistical advice is sought. When interpreting results, do not be persuaded purely by large numbers and small confidence intervals: consider rational explanations for the observed findings, and the relevance of the effect size observed. Be cautious in using p-values to support or disprove hypotheses, especially when a large number of statistical tests to provide the p-values have been done.
Very large observational studies, such as the Million Women Study, instead of using 95% confidence intervals to indicate confidence in the estimate, sometimes use 99% confidence intervals.
Another area in which more stringent levels for statistical significance are set is in genome-wide association studies, which deal with vast amounts of data and examine large numbers of associations. For the gene discovery work in these studies, it is more critical to avoid false-positives than to miss some true associations; therefore, it is has been the convention for these to use a much more stringent statistical significance level.
Catalogue of Bias Collaboration, Spencer EA, Brassey J, Mahtani K, Heneghan C. Wrong sample size bias. In: Catalogue Of Bias 2017. https://catalogofbias.org/biases/wrong-sample-size-bias/
The James Lind LibraryTaking account of the play of chance.
Armstrong ME et al. Million Women Study Collaborators. Relationship of Height to Site-Specific Fracture Risk in Postmenopausal Women. J Bone Miner Res. 2016 Apr;31(4):725-31.
Barsh GSet al. Guidelines for genome-wide association studies. PLoS Genet. 2012 Jul;8(7):e1002812.
Bartolucci AA et al. Meta-analysis of multiple primary prevention trials of cardiovascular events using aspirin. Am J Cardiol. 2011;107(12):1796–801
Button KS et al. Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2013 May;14(5):365-76.
Gøtzsche PC et al. Meta-analysis of second-line antirheumatic drugs: sample size bias and uncertain benefit. J Clin Epidemiol. 1992 Jun;45(6):587-94.
Ioannidis JP. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005 Aug;2(8):e124.
Nüesch E et al. Small study effects in meta-analyses of osteoarthritis trials: meta-epidemiological study. BMJ 2010;341:c3515
Porta M et al. A dictionary of epidemiology. 6th edition. New York: Oxford University Press: 2014
Sackett DL. Bias in analytic research. J Chron Dis 1979; 32: 51-63
Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium: Burton PR, Clayton DG et al. Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls". Nature 2007. 447 (7145): 661–78
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Christina Habermehl. Addressing small sample size bias in multiple-biomarker trials: Inclusion of biomarker-negative patients and Firth correction
P C Gøtzsche. Meta-analysis of second-line antirheumatic drugs: sample size bias and uncertain benefit


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Jonathan Haynes
Research on Nollywood
416 pages | 9 halftones, 3 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2016
Paper $35.00 ISBN: 9780226387956 Will Publish October 2016 Not for sale in Nigeria
Cloth $105.00 ISBN: 9780226387819 Will Publish October 2016 Not for sale in Nigeria
E-book $35.00 ISBN: 9780226388007 Published October 2016 Not for sale in Nigeria
Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically altering media environments across Africa and in the diaspora; it has also become one of African culture's most powerful and consequential expressions, powerfully shaping how Africans see themselves and are seen by others. With this book, Jonathan Haynes provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to this vast industry and its film culture.
Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society—its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions—as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past two decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a form of popular culture; it produces a flood of stories, repeating the ones that mean the most to its broad audience. He interprets these generic stories and the cast of mythic figures within them: the long-suffering wives, the business tricksters, the Bible-wielding pastors, the kings in their traditional regalia, the glamorous young professionals, the emigrants stranded in New York or London, and all the rest. Based on more than twenty years of research, Haynes's survey of Nollywood's history and genres is unprecedented in scope, while his book also vividly describes landmark films, leading directors, and the complex character of this major branch of world cinema.
Biodun Jeyifo, Harvard University
A superb work of scholarship—and of love. This is the very first book on Nollywood to give the needed detailed account of the genres unique to it. Haynes gives those genres a careful and convincing assessment, linking them to their sociocultural and political contexts in Nigeria's turbulent, chaotic, but ultimately buoyant and optimistic encounter with modernity.
Brian Larkin, Columbia University
Nollywood has rightly been recognized as one of the most dynamic forms of cultural production in Africa, one that opens up larger questions about the emergence of new film platforms that are of interest far beyond Africa. But until now no book has described in cohesive form the basic genres, major directors, and structural conditions of this film industry. In Nollywood, Jonathan Haynes does exactly this in a definitive text that will establish the scholarly study of Nigerian film for a generation. Written in a clear, engaging style, this is a book that can be read by newcomers and specialists alike. Nollywood represents the distillation of twenty years of research that reflects Haynes' deep connections to Nigeria and Nigerian film. Its profusion of insights and comprehensive coverage promises that Nollywood will be the entry point for anyone interested in this innovative and vibrant film industry.
Nollywood, Neoliberalism and Lagos
At Illinois State University
Neoliberalism with Nigerian Characteristics, Texas A&M, April 21
Trajectories of the Nigerian Film Industry, Ben Gurion University, May 9
Keeping Up, NEMLIA Conference, Berlin, June 7
Lagos and the Nollywood Imaginary: University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria--June 15-17
Forthcoming in May: "Anglophone West Africa: Commercial Video," In African Filmmaking: Five Formations, edited by Kenneth Harrow. Michigan State University Press, pp. 81-115.
Transforming Nollywood: Corporate Inventions, Part 1, ASA December 2016
Iké Udé, Nollywood Portraits--panel discussion, Columbia College, Chicago, November 10
Afropop Show on Nollywood
Lagos Studies Association
Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture
On Nollywood Scholarship
A Bibliography of Academic Work on Nigerian and Ghanaian Video Films (2012)
A Literature Review: Nigerian and Ghanaian videos (2010)
What is to be Done?: Film Studies and Nigerian and Ghanaian Videos (2010)


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Q: How to get youtube channel id using channel custom name? My question is very similar to this one,
I want to get channel id using channel custom name.
The answer on the question mentioned above which is:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=id%2Csnippet&q=annacavalli&type=channel&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

doesn't work on small channels, for ex. when I run it with this channel: https://www.youtube.com/AnnaShearerfashionfettish it returns nothing.

A: It's very easy, using curl and grep.
Command
channel_name='DOVASYNDROMEYouTubeOfficial' #change this as you like
curl --silent "https://www.youtube.com/c/${channel_name}/videos" |\
    grep -o -P '(?<=canonical" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/)[^"]*'

Output
UCq15_9MvmxT1r2-LLjtkokg

A: I didn't find a direct way to do this. I did a GET request to get the channel page HTML and parse it.
I used Jsoup to parse the html response.
val doc = Jsoup.parseBodyFragment(body)
val links = doc.select("link[rel=canonical]")
val channelUrl = links.first().attributes().get("href")

A: Did you try
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/channels?part=snippetforUsername={username}&key={your key}
Remember to change {your key} to your API key, and {username} to the desired username.


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Так как $A$ --- симметричная и положительно определена, то она может быть представлена в виде $A=C^{\mathrm{T}}C$. Поэтому
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$$
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Savoy Magazine Names Three of Denny's Own as 2016 Top Influential Women in Corporate America
April Kelly-Drummond, Brenda J. Lauderback & Laysha Ward to be recognized in Fall 2016 Issue
Jessica Liddell, ICR
jessica.liddell@icrinc.com
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (October 27, 2016) – Denny's (Nasdaq:DENN) is thrilled to announce that Savoy Magazine has named April Kelly-Drummond, Brenda J. Lauderback, and Laysha Ward to its 2016 Most Influential Women in Corporate America list, which will be featured in a special section of Savoy Magazine's Fall 2016 issue. As Savoy Magazine prides itself on advocating for business professionals of color who display exceptional work, the women are being acknowledged for their accomplishments and business presence within the Company as well as their display of commitment to the community.
"I could not be more proud that three members of our Denny's family have been recognized by Savoy Magazine as Top Influential Women in Corporate America's list," said John Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer of Denny's. "April, Brenda, and Laysha have made significant contributions to Denny's and the communities we serve and we are thrilled that their accomplishments are understood and appreciated by others beyond our team. Congratulations to all three of the women on this tremendous and well-deserved honor!"
April Kelly-Drummond has served as Denny's Director of Diversity Affairs since March 2008. Ms. Kelly-Drummond joined Denny's in 1994 as an executive assistant to the Company's Chief Diversity Officer and spent a significant amount of time on the road assisting in the Company's diversity initiatives. Today her role as the Director of Diversity Affairs and Multicultural Engagement at Denny's, Ms. Kelly-Drummond serves as the key liaison with major civil rights organizations and builds relationships with local, regional and national minority organizations. Prior to being named Director of Diversity Affairs, Ms. Kelly-Drummond held various leadership roles in community relations, public affairs and diversity within the Company. Ms. Kelly-Drummond sits on the board for a local nonprofit organization and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in organizational development from College of Charleston.
Brenda Lauderback joined Denny's board of directors in May 2005 and has served as Board Chair since May 2016. Ms. Lauderback has more than 25 years of experience in the retail industry and more than 35 collective years of experience on public company boards, including serving on audit, compensation and governance committees. From 1995 until her retirement in 1998, she was president of the Wholesale and Retail Group of Nine West Group, Inc., a footwear wholesaler and distributor. She previously was the President of the Wholesale Division of U.S. Shoe Corporation, a footwear manufacturer and distributor and was a Vice President/General Merchandise Manager of Dayton Hudson Corporation, a retailer. Ms. Lauderback is a director of Wolverine Worldwide, Inc. and Select Comfort Corporation. Within the last five years, Ms. Lauderback also served as a director of Big Lots, Inc. Ms. Lauderback is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Board Leadership Fellow and received her Bachelor of Science degree from Robert Morris University in 1972.
Laysha Ward joined Denny's board of Directors in January 2010. Ms. Ward also serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer at Target Corporation since 2014. Prior to this role, she held the positions of President of Community Relations and Vice President of Community Relations at Target. In addition to her role on the board of directors at Denny's, she serves as Board Chair of Corporation for National and Community Service and on the Executive Leadership Council, a national organization for African-American executives. She is part of several organizations including The Links, an international women's service organization, Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind, The Shriver Report, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Ms. Ward received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University and a Master's degree in Social Service Administration, Nonprofit Management and Public Policy from the University of Chicago.


Today, 4 cartons of heat sink will be sent to Canada by UPS. Thanks to our workers' overtime production, customer's urgent order was completed in advance. Two days later, these aluminum heat sinks will be delivered to customer and catch up with the sales season.


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