Economists are skeptical about the economic impact.
NFL Draft set-up in front of the Art Museum.
Apr. 17, 2017, 9:00 a.m.
The NFL Draft could bring Philly $80 million — but one economist told Billy Penn the real impact could be much less. How much less? More like $8 million.
Every time a massive event comes to a city, the boosters charged with raising funds and drumming up attention tout its economic impact in advance — as it was in Philly for the papal visit and the Democratic National Convention. This hype has been debunked in study after study. So why do we keep falling for it?
An NFL Draft stage set-up in front of the Art Museum.
Big events like the DNC, and especially the papal visit, led to underwhelming results for local business owners. After the city and the Philadelphia Convention and Visitor's Bureau touted economic impact projections of up to $400 million in the months leading up to the latter event, the group hasn't publicly released post-event details studying that impact. The CVB said it's not studying the economic impact of the papal visit, and a report on the DNC released last week showed that big event generated $120 million less than originally projected.
The $80 million "economic impact" figure projected for Philly's NFL Draft — being held on the Parkway April 27-29 — has been referenced by numerous groups (and for the record would be a little ahead of the $61 million the Flower Show supposedly brings in every year). So who actually came up with this projection, and what's it mean?
The NFL, which has routinely cited both the $80-million financial projection as well as that 26,000 jobs would be supported, declined comment and referred questions to The Philadelphia Convention and Visitor's Bureau, a group that receives 80 percent of its funding from public sources like city tax dollars and state grants.
Direct spending, or the sum of visitor, meeting planner and exhibitor spending.
Indirect spending, or the business-to-business transactions required to satisfy the direct spend (for example, if the organizer plans an opening reception and, as a result, the venue needs to purchase food and beverages from their vendors to host the event).
Induced spending, or secondary and third-level impacts of the direct spend and a result of increased personal income caused by the direct and indirect effects (for example, a server gets hired by a catering company to work at the event — the person gets paid and will, in turn, increase spending at local businesses).
In the case of the NFL Draft, specifically, the CVB came up with its projection using a Temple University study that suggested the draft had an $80 million "economic impact" on Chicago each year the event was held there. The CVB adjusted estimates by using an industry standard event calculator that takes into account data like how many hotel nights would be taken up by draft attendees (39,000), how many people would attend (200,000), Philly taxes and other metrics.
Following the initial estimates, more data was made available in terms of crowd size projections and how much money the NFL is kicking in to finance the event ($20 million). That gave them the economic impact estimate of more than $80 million, including more than $6.8 million in state and local taxes and the $20 million in direct spending by the NFL.
So of the $80 million-plus estimate of economic impact, more than a quarter is made up of the cash from the NFL combined with state and local taxes.
It's getting rates that are on par with a major convention.
Erik Evjen, director of research at the CVB, said the $80 million projection might be a low estimate. He said the group conservatively estimated the average daily rates of hotels and noted the city is within visiting range of up to 10 NFL teams. That proximity, he said, could drive hotel rates higher.
Grose said the last weekend in April is usually a busy weekend for hotels in the city anyway — that's when the annual Penn Relays take place, too. He said the draft is creating a significant demand though, and he expects occupancy rates in the city to reach near 100 percent by the time the event rolls around.
The Chamber of Commerce has touted the longterm impact of hosting the draft, as well as anecdotal evidence of a bump in the local hospitality sector.
When reached by phone, Jordan said he understands skepticism at the involvement of tourism groups and the NFL but said the actual work was done independently.
In revising the Chicago information for Philly, the CVB said it didn't take into account any potential loss of revenue from people avoiding the Parkway or the city entirely because of draft-related festivities, or traffic problems and other headaches caused by the construction and traffic closures during the weeks before the draft. Economists expect these things to occur, and if they do, the 200,000 money-spending NFL fans could merely be replacing money that would have been spent by others.
Evjen said while "some displacement likely occurs," it's "fairly small" compared to visitor spending in total.
Jordan said he did account for these disruptions in his Chicago study.
If some NFL executive gets in a cab, that's a job.
So what does supported jobs mean? Sanderson said, "If some NFL executive gets in a cab, that's a job." He would count, for instance, a 20-hour part-time job for two weeks of construction on the Parkway as 1/50th of a job because an actual job should consist of about 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, and he suspects most economic impact reports round up job numbers too high.
The 2016 NFL Draft at Auditorium Theatre in Chicago.
For Philadelphia, the worst case scenario is the NFL Draft doesn't have as large an economic impact on the city as tourism groups say it might. Some local business owners in Chicago who weren't close to the action around Grant Park said the event was a total bust, according to reports in 2015. Others reported even losing business that weekend.
But city officials in Philadelphia are ensuring taxpayers that — unlike after the papal visit when they were saddled with an unexpected $8 million bill, largely to cover services used during event set-up and clean-up — they'll only be responsible for kicking in $500,000 in tax dollars for the draft.
The total cost of the event is about $25 million, and the NFL is covering the majority of that. The Philadelphia Draft Host Committee has committed to raising $5 million in private funds — which a spokeswoman said is 90 percent raised — and the city's kicking in a $500,000 grant from the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp, plus $500,000 in tax dollars to cover city services. Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Mayor Jim Kenney, said the city will be reimbursed for any services that exceed $500,000 in in-kind services, regardless of when those services are used.
Sanderson is perhaps most skeptical of $80 million estimates of economic impact because he believes if the NFL Draft actually produced such an effect, the league would find a way to wring every last dime out of the city, either by seeking greater breaks on its $25 million cost to produce the event or extracting from the city a cut of hotel and food revenue.


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Give It Up, Part 1
October 31, 2018 SunSpots blog	| 2
Last time I asked what your least favorite piece of technology is. That's a nice but sneakily misleading segue into this week's topic. Here's the question: If you had to give up one piece of technology, and you could choose which one, what would it be?
Actually, let me make that question a bit harder. If you had to give up one piece of technology that played an important role in your everyday life, and you had to choose which one, what would it be?
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See the difference? It's easy to give up, say, the battery-powered drill you only use once in a while, so that doesn't count. About a year ago, I gave up the anti-lock braking system (ABS) on my car...
Damian and Mongoose Review
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"Danny, if I find you're a threat to my family, I'll put a bullet between your eyes. Family is everything."
"I understand that, Clyde. If I were in your position, I would say the same thing—and mean it."
"You would; wouldn't you?" He smiled as he studied me.
Those are the opening lines of Damian and Mongoose, Danny Williams' memoir of his central role in taking down one of the most notorious spy rings ever to afflict the United States military. They promise a real-life spy thriller, better than anything John le Carré, Robert Ludlum, or Ken Follett could have dreamed up.
Unfortunately, the promise is not kept.
The reason is simple: Williams, who spent most of his Army career as a counter-intelligence agent, treats the memoir as if it were another debriefing wit...
What Is Your LEAST Favorite Technology?
Last time I wrote about all the technology that is part of our lives and how we've come not only to rely on so much of it, but to get pleasure out of some of it. But while there are some things we enjoy or at least appreciate having, there are others….
Love/Hate Relationship
I think it's fair to say that there are at least some pieces of technology in our lives that we have a love/hate relationship with, or love/appreciate having it around when we or others can use it for our benefit, but hate it when we or others use it in ways we don't like, or it behaves in unpredictable or even hostile ways.
A family friend used to call his computer his "disputer." We can all relate to that...
Last time I started what will be a series on technology in our lives. I set the stage by equating so much of the technology we use without understanding how it works, and not being much worried about that in most cases, to magic.
So all right, we have these pieces of everyday magic all around us. Which ones are your favorites? When you think about it, there are so many to choose from. Here's a list that isn't even close to complete.
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Productivity programs for any of these (word processing, accounting, etc.)
Ordinary cell phones
The internet generally
Other TV-like services (Hulu, Roku, etc.)
Video games and game consoles
Music stream...
It's a Magical World
I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm writing this post on a computer. No, that's not the secret. The secret is, I really have no idea how it does what it does. I know that when I press a key on my keyboard, a letter appears on the screen. And it's always the right letter, unless I pressed the wrong key.
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I roll the trackball around with my thumb and the pointer zips across the screen. I know there are sensors that detect the reflections of the laser lights shining on the trackball to reveal its movement, and somehow, what they detect gets translated into commands to move the pointer. But how?
My smartphone takes still and video pictures, helps me keep track of my expenses, tells me the time and the ...
If Genetic Engineering Could Cure Your Child, Would You Use It?
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Last time, I wrote about how gene therapy is being used to fix certain kinds of errors in DNA, and so cure or significantly reduce certain kinds of cancers. I asked whether you would accept such a treatment for yourself.
It's one thing to accept the risks that are associated with these still new and experimental treatments, but would you make that decision for a sick child—one of your children?
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Happy holidays from all our volunteers here at the lab. We have been working hard to bring you up to speed on all your devices and PC's. Last year we made books, posters, movies, notecards and learned about our Digital After Life. this year will be just as exciting.
YOUR PHOTOS ARE ONE OF YOUR MOST CHERISHED POSSESSIONS.
Photos tell the stories of our lives.
However, in this chaotic, rapid and ever-changing digital landscape, our photos are scattered across multiple devices, in numerous boxes tucked in a closet and stored in outdated media. They're disorganized, vulnerable, and in some cases, inaccessible.
Save Your Photos Month is the direct result of witnessing devastating losses many people experienced after natural disaster struck their communities. Wild fires, gas explosions, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters are a constant in the daily news. Natural disasters or human error will always be a threat to your photo collection. We can help you safeguard your memories so you can prevent the loss of these irreplaceable treasures.
Follow the whole blog at Save your Photos a professional photo organizer group.
"Photography is a way of feeling, loving, and touching.
What we have caught on film is captured forever.
Also there is a very interesting blog, DIY for using Photodex Pro Show video slide show maker. Andrea Sims writes a comprehensive blog on how to organize, get started and execute your video slide show from photos. Read the rest of it here.
If video is not your favorite form of saving photos, try our September Make a Book class or Restoring your old photos or Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements . Nothing is more permanent for future generations than keeping and treasuring a book.
1. Are you looking for new and easy ways to make your computing life stress free? Here are a few random tips that I found helpful.
Check out our August and September calendar for more classes and tips.
2. Did you know that Amazon has thousands of Kindle ebooks on photography, from beginner to advanced – and every level in between?
Many titles are absolutely free, and you won't even need a Kindle device to enjoy them!
Click here to check out the awesome selection of free and low-cost photography ebooks at Amazon!
3. For whatever reason, the folks at Microsoft have decided that it's a good idea to hide file extensions by default in recent versions of Windows, and Windows 10 is no exception.
1 – Press the Windows+E key combination to launch File Explorer.
2 – Select the View tab.
3 – Click Options (located at the top right-hand side of the window). The "Folder Options" dialog box should appear.
4 – Select the View tab.
5 – Uncheck the box beside Hide file extensions for known file types.
6 – Click Apply, then click Ok.
That's all there is to it. From now on all of the filenames listed in File Explorer will include their file extensions.
Aperture is all about light, numbers, and the sixth letter of the alphabet. Keeping track of how those things combine can be tricky, especially if you're new to photography or haven't had enough coffee. Take a look at the aperture section of this cheat sheet and determine which f stop suits your purpose.
Is your shutter feeling the need, the need for speed? It better, if you're after an outstanding action shot. But it should probably go slow if you're looking for some beautimous motion blurring. To make sure you know just how fast or slow your shutter should go, we've included this handy shutter speed section on the cheat sheet.
Check out the ISO section of this cheat sheet to get an idea of the proper degree of light sensitivity for the setting. ISO settings range depending on the camera, but "normal" is said to be between 200 and 1,600. The lower the number, the less sensitive your camera's sensor or film will be to light.
If you've ever seen the exposure triangle, you know that exposure has to do with ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. On this cheat sheet, the exposure section is all about your light meter. Use it to remember whether that + or – in your display means your image will be over or underexposed, and adjust your shutter speed and aperture accordingly.


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EDITORIAL: Christie seeks revenge on press
'Tis the season for "December surprises" in Trenton, when lawmakers sneak through bills that otherwise would not survive close scrutiny in the expectation no one will be paying much attention around the holidays.
But bills set to move through legislative committees on Thursday and likely ready for final votes on Monday set a new standard for Trenton's self-serving politicians, who will again demonstrate they are more interested in what's in it for them than what is best for the public they have been elected to represent.
The centerpiece of a trio of bills is what Assemblyman John Wisniewski has described as "nothing more than a politically motivated crackdown on the press in New Jersey" by a vindictive Gov. Chris Christie. It's his payback to newspapers for reporting on his disastrous, self-serving tenure. The legislation would end the requirement that public and legal notices be posted in local newspapers.
If the bill is approved by the Legislature and signed into law by Christie, it would cost New Jersey's newspapers tens of millions in revenue and force the layoffs of hundreds of journalists whose job it is to keep tabs on the state's public servants. Industry observers believe passage of the bill would force dozens of weekly newspapers to cease publication altogether.
The adverse impact it would have on watchdog reporting is one of the main reasons there is no other law like it anywhere in the nation. The other reason is the lack of evidence it would actually save public entities and taxpayers any money. Some believe it actually could end up costing more. No matter. That isn't the point. Retribution is.
This bill is one of three in a grand bargain in which everyone in Trenton wins — and every taxpayer and citizen interested in efficient, honest government loses. The other two bills: authorizing raises totaling more than $10 million for Christie Cabinet members, legislative staffs, judges, BPU commissioners, county prosecutors, county sheriffs, surrogates and clerks, and removing language from a statutory prohibition against governors receiving any outside income during their time in office. That would allow Christie to move forward on a book deal before his term expires next year.
What's it all mean for you? Higher taxes, less transparency at all levels of government and fewer journalists covering your community and rooting out corruption and bad governance.
Time is running short to block this spiteful deal. Only you can do it, by contacting your local legislators and Trenton's top legislative leaders — Senate President Steve Sweeney (856) 251-9801, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto (201-770-1303), Senate Republican Minority Leader Tom Kean (908-232-3673) and Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick (908-232-2073).
Let them hear it loud and clear! No book deal for Christie! No cutting off New Jersey newspapers at the legs on the pretense the public notice bill will save you money! And no raises for officials presiding over a state with the nation's highest property taxes and no solutions in sight!


This week, two participants in the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program were featured in an internal publication within the Federal Aviation Administration. MFP Class 22 member Chip Taylor spoke to MFP 23 member and fellow FAA employee Gabriel Mahns about the Fellowship as Mr. Taylor was concluding his placements in Japan and Mr. Mahns was applying for the current year's program. Interactions like these provide the groundwork for future classes of Fellows by informing federal agencies about the experience and encouraging others to apply. We thank Mr. Taylor and wish Mr. Mahns continued success during his current placements.
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LGPS fund manager fees could be £9bn, says CPS
Richard Johnstone
Local government pension schemes may have paid out as much as £9bn in fees to fund managers over the last decade, almost double the reported figures, according to the Centre for Policy Studies.
A review for the think-tank by CPS research fellow Michael Johnson into fund management costs across the LGPS concluded that, over the last decade, the LGPS's assets have under-performed the major UK and global equity and bond indices.
Over the last decade, the combined assets of the 89 LGPS funds in England and Wales increased in value by a nominal 79%, to £214bn at 31 March 2016, Johnson said, and he claimed passive investing (where funds are invested in benchmark indices rather than actively traded by managers) could have earned more.
Such active management across the 89 LGPS funds in England had led to reported fees of over £4.5bn. In addition, Johnson claimed there were likely other fees, including performance-related payments to managers of alternative investments such as private equity and infrastructure, of between £3.6bn and £4.6bn, which are not reported.
This is based on an assumption of the likely costs paid to alternative assets fund managers. Such payments include "carried interest" provisions, which represent the fund manager's share of the fund's profit, typically some 20% of the net profits. LGPS funds, including Scottish and Northern Irish funds, have one of the largest private equity portfolios in the world.
Johnson's report comes amid a Financial Conduct Authority examination of how to improve the transparency of management of charges across the pensions investment industry.
The CPS report also highlighted the range in total annual costs per member within the LGPS, with Enfield's £592 figure in 2015-16 over 20 times larger than West Yorkshire's £28.
Johnson said a dramatic simplification of the LGPS was needed to reduce these differences, with the creation of asset pools and specialist investment vehicles with their own independent governance committees.
Current government plans to pool the assets of the 89 LGPS schemes in England and Wales into eight pools would not be sufficient, he said.
Instead, the proposed pools should be in competition to manage assets as part of an eventual plan to reduce the number of pools to three. These funds could then be used as part of initial investment in infrastructure-focused sovereign wealth funds, which would be close to the initial intention of then chancellor George Osborne when he first proposed the move in October 2015.
Responding to the CPS report, the leader of Birmingham City Council John Clancy said West Midlands Local Government Pension Fund (WMPF) should stop using external investment managers. WMPF was "sucking in" money from Birmingham and the six other West Midlands metropolitan councils that could be better spent paying for local services such as social care.
"The Centre for Policy Studies report is a vindication of what I have been saying for a long time – local government pension schemes across the country and here in the West Midlands are a dysfunctional mess and not fit for purpose," he stated.
"There is no need to hire investment managers at all. But the brutal truth is that funds up and down the country have happily spewed out hundreds of millions of pounds to City advisers for no real return whatsoever. This is a national disgrace, which is sucking money from local authorities at a time when public services are under threat as never before. If investment managers do not add value to a fund, they should not be paid."
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Did La Befana Forget the Torrone?
Today is La Festa dell'Epifania! It's the 12th day of Christmas and marks the day when the wise men, bearing gifts, arrived at the manger. In the Italian legend, La Befana met the wise men on their way to see Baby Jesus. They asked her to come along but she declined. She later decided to go but even though she followed the star she never finds him. Now children leave out their shoes on Epiphany eve and La Befana flys on her broomstick delivering sweets to those who have been good or coal to those who have been naughty!
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Of course, he did not want anyone to know about his failure. But it's funny that he won $10,000, and the press became interested in the case. Naturally, a complete scandal erupted on the Internet and other media. To add fuel to the fire, the church servant was caught red-handed on using false documents. After this incident, he had to leave his former place of residence and change multiple jobs.
When participating in a television program, a priest Andrew Trepp had to play poker. Since there were no money bets there, he easily received approval from the church and even a blessing from the bishop. The funniest thing is that the church servant has beaten the best player of the world, Daniel Negrianu, and won $100,000, which he then donated in the construction of the temple!
A catastrophic coincidence happened at a casino in Ohio. Employees paid out a million-dollar win to the wrong person. It all happened because the two (a real winner and a cheater) were not only namesakes but also of the same age.
Ellis Sawson won a payout of $700,000 against the casino for stumbling in the hall of this gambling establishment. Lawyers were able to convince the jury that the demandant was right; as a result, the woman brought big money home.
John McCain, the Senator of the United States of America, made the biggest mistake on the Council meeting. During the discussion of the difficult situation in Syria, he decided to rest a bit, playing poker on a smartphone. When making bets online, he was caught by photojournalists.
Here are some crazy and funny real-life cases that are related to gambling. Someone has become rich; someone has been put in jail or has fallen into disrepute due to gambling. Whatever the case is, the above situations make us smile.
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Remembering President Kennedy 50 Years later – Cathedral visit among stops on first presidential visit to Minnesota
The Catholic Spirit | November 20, 2013	| 0 Comments
President John F. Kennedy reaches to shake hands with Bishop Gerald O'Keefe outside the Cathedral of St. Paul, Oct. 7, 1962. Photo courtesy of the Cathedral of
St. Paul archives
Eleven-year-old Winifred Purinton and her sister Mary, 15, stood outside the Cathedral of St. Paul for several hours in a chilly drizzle on the morning of Oct. 7, 1962.
They were joined by about 2,000 others who lined Dayton Avenue to catch a glimpse of the first, and thus far only, Catholic U.S. president, who was coming to worship at the 11 a.m. Mass that Sunday.
"My socks are wet and my feet are freezing, but it's worth it," Winifred, of White Bear Lake, told the Minneapolis Morning Tribune. "We'd wait all year if we had to."
President John F. Kennedy was in the Twin Cities as part of a weekend political tour of the Midwest. The visit, his first to Minnesota as president, came a little more than a week before the start of the Cuban missile crisis and a year before he was assassinated in Dallas.
The nation will mark the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death on Nov. 22. Accounts of his visit to the Cathedral in both the Tribune and the Catholic Bulletin — the predecessor of The Catholic Spirit — indicate the extent to which some Minnesotans went to see him.
Inside the church, an estimated 3,000 people crowded into the pews and aisles, many of them sitting through Masses at 8, 9 and 10 a.m. waiting for him.
Kennedy was greeted at the door and escorted to his pew by Bishop Gerald O'Keefe, auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Archbishop Leo Binz had already left for the opening session of the Second Vatican Council slated to begin on Oct. 11.
Among those seated with the president were Sen. Eugene McCarthy and his wife Abigail; Fred Gates, an aide to Sen. Hubert Humphrey; Cortland J. Silver, a St. Paul businessman; and two secretaries. Two Secret Service agents stood by Kennedy's pew and several more sat nearby.
In her memoir "Private Faces, Public Places" published in 1972, Abigail McCarthy recalled that Kennedy wasn't well-versed in the rubrics of the Mass.
"Once in the pew, the President started when the congregation broke out into a strong-voiced 'Missa recitata' and said, 'God, nobody briefed me on this,'" she wrote. "Out of deference to the President who did not know the responses, Gene also stood mute through the service."
While in the Cathedral, Kennedy was never far from contact with officials in Washington. A special White House phone was installed just inside a nearby side door.
Several times during the Mass, "children stood on tiptoes or sneaked down an aisle, trying to catch a glimpse of Mr. Kennedy," the Tribune noted.
During his homily, Bishop O'Keefe assured the president of the parish's prayers and talked about the council, saying the Church must renew itself to be better equipped to fight the crisis of secularism.
After Mass, the Father Blaine Barr, as assistant at the Cathedral, accompanied the president as he left. According to the Catholic Bulletin, the president remarked that the choir, which sang during the Mass, "sounded especially good."
At 12:39, Kennedy's plane took off from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport for the flight home to Washington. A plaque now marks the pew where Kennedy sat.
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How to prepare for the 'second filter:' priority inboxes
Google has generated plenty of attention with its Priority Inbox, ranking e-mails based on user interaction with messages. What's more, Hotmail and Yahoo have similar plans.
So what are we dealing with? And how do marketers best respond?
By analyzing user e-mail behavior — what messages consumers read and reply to — a second e-mail "filter," in addition to the spam filter, is now in place. Important "priority" messages are placed at the top of the inbox, and others at the bottom. This makes e-mail relevance a continuum, in contrast to the specific act of getting past the spam filter.
In sum, this ups the ante for e-mail marketers who must always seek to improve the relevance and engagement of their campaigns. Marketers must take steps to ensure e-mails are read or risk being proscribed to the bottom of the inbox.
First, marketers should take advantage of their e-mail marketing technology to capture website and behavioral data to customize dynamic e-mail content that increases relevancy. By incorporating data, like an e-mail recipient's recently browsed products on your site, it is possible to craft even more tailored content to better engage recipients. By using this data in actual e-mail content, open rates can more than double – essential for Priority Inboxes.
Second, relevancy considerations like subject line personalization, urgency of offers, and segmentation to tailor offers to match subscribers' interests noted at registration are all essential elements to keep in mind to ensure engaging content.
Lastly, these new inboxes mean constantly reassessing the idea of "valuable" for recipients. This should start with a program for subscribers with immediate welcome messages, followed by a short cycle of e-mails offering special benefits. Over time, complete recipient profiles should be compiled and updated, tracking what is "valuable" to them and ensuring content always resonates in the eyes of the recipient — and the inbox.
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Try to understand Ramon Tulfo
Posted on 5 September 2009 by J. O. M. Salazar
There can be no doubt that assorted self-righteous women's groups and bleeding hearts were outraged—or will be outraged, once they have moved on from the virtuous cause du jour—by the latest installment of "On Target", the Philippine Daily Inquirer column of Ramon Tulfo.
Entitled "Try to Understand Chavit Singson", the article is an admirable attempt on the part of Tulfo to enlighten and educate otherwise undiscerning readers on the factors that led Deputy National Security Adviser Luis "Chavit" Singson to beat up his common-law wife, Che Tiongson, and her lover—a decision, it must be empahsized, that was generous in the extreme, for, as Singson himself pointed out, he could very well have killed them instead.
Tulfo makes a point of saying that he does not necessarily condone what Singson did—a nuance that will likely be lost on the School of Sanctimonious Sympathizers—and thus strengthens his case with compassion. Rather than condemning Singson outright, Tulfo exhorts his readers to bear in mind two important things.
First, given that Filipino society is inherently macho, Singson was only acting according to the time-honored standards of genuinely masculine behavior. Singson would have been violating custom, itself a source of the law, had he chosen to tolerate the infidelity of Tiongson. He had already forgiven her twice before, and would have lost much face if he continued to be merciful.
If anything, he had actually saved her from an inferior penis: her lover, based on what Singson saw for himself, is so unfortunately endowed as to qualify for the Guiness Book of World Records.
Second, while this apparent bias in favor of men is unfair, which Tulfo readily acknowledges—yet another subtlety that will escape the generic agitators and malcontents—this bias is nevertheless so pervasive and so enduring, finding as it does expression, perpetuation, and reinforcement in all aspects of life, including the law. How, after all, does one argue with tradition? The present generation must learn to live with how things are today—it is the task of the next generation to usher in change.
I am not saying that Tulfo is right, but we should understand him in the context of the fact that he has no balls.
For all his bluster and swagger, for all his bravado and braggadocio, and for all his promiscuous, public, mediagenic ejaculations, Ramon Tulfo might as well be a eunuch.
Tulfo has no balls because he believes that doing harm to another human being can be justified, depending on the circumstances in which such harm was inflicted, when no such circumstances exist.
Tulfo has no balls because he sees no need to question cultural norms, practices and activities, regardless of their actual consequences. A mindless automaton, he is content to comply with such norms, practices, and activities, secure in the belief that these have been handed down through the ages, and are right by virtue of their age and their ability to survive.
Tulfo has no balls because he does not take responsibility for his existence and act as an agent of positive social change. He assumes that the generations after him will effect it, heedless of the fact that the change is needed now, at this moment in the history that he unwittingly helps to form—or deform, as the case may be.
Singson and other men who include violence toward others under the general rubric of "manliness" are of a piece with Tulfo—or perhaps I should say similarly lacking in pieces.
Let us try to understand them. Let us be better than them.
This entry was posted in Commentary and tagged Anti-VAWC Act, Anti-Violence Against Women and Children Act, Chavit Singson, Che Tiongson, domestic violence, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippines, Ramon Tulfo by J. O. M. Salazar. Bookmark the permalink.
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zoerk on 8 September 2009 at 9:57 PM said:
The physical scars made by usec chavit to che will heal as the rain stops this week. But the emotional scars che engraved to chavit is like mount pinatubo grievously left to us kapampangans. Let us be broad minded in this issue. We have to feel the pain felt by the person involved. Let us not twaddle to the point just to be heard. Sharpen our thoughts.
freesince09 on 21 September 2009 at 6:02 PM said:
Is it just me or PDI just keeps RTulfo as source of comic fodder?
random_salt on 22 September 2009 at 9:55 AM said:
Perhaps they do. He certainly has a following, whatever else can be said about him.


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UPDATE: Million Dollar Listing Star Matt Altman Files A Restraining Order After Receiving Anti-Semetic Death Threats
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It's so unsettling to hear about people being anti-Semitic in 2016. I figured society would already be past having such prejudicial thoughts, but that is sadly not the case. Unfortunately, Million Dollar Listing star Matt Altman is going through a tough time these days.
Not only has Matt been the victim of anti-Semitic sentiments, but he has also received death threats in conjunction with that. Even though Matt has filed a [temporary] restraining order, it is still a horrifying situation.
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This is just a horrible situation for Matt. He must feel so shaken up and uncomfortable – to say the least. A man named Alex Khadavi, who is a well-known dermatologist in Los Angeles, is the one that Matt says has been harassing and threatening him, according to TMZ.
Matt says that he received death threats on the phone and in person – FOR YEARS – according to the restraining order document. Apparently this man has been making racist and homophobic threats via phone call for a long time and things took an even crazier turn when he showed up at a private real estate event.
He walked up to Matt and said that he "hated all Jews" and continued to threaten Matt's life.
The restraining order says that Khadavi has to stay one hundred yards away from Matt, his girlfriend Johanna Sicat, Matt's brother Josh Altman, and Josh's wife Heather Bilyeu.
I just hope that the restraining order is enough to keep this psychopath away from Matt and his loved ones.
UPDATE: A statement from Alex's rep: "These ridiculous allegations are completely false. Not only is Alex Jewish, he had a bar Mitzvah! Alex Khadavi is a very well respected business man and was an invited guest of the real estate reception in which he attended with his contractor, who is Jewish, and his interior decorator, who is gay. Khadavi has been a medical volunteer for the past 14 years at the USC county hospital and has lectured in over 22 countries to various individuals from all walks of life. He is currently out of the country lecturing on behalf of the PanAmerican Congress of Dermatology."
"A restraining order has not been served," adding, "It's a temporary restraining order. The first one was thrown out because Altman didn't show up (June 2nd). On the 10th, is when his lawyer re-filed. Khadavi has not been served."
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The Leadership Process began in Week 1 when the cohort explored leadership qualities and activities from the Pastoral Program.
During a year-level meeting, servant leadership and the process was explained. Nominations followed and were approved by College Leaders and Heads of Year. From there, the many successful candidates delivered a speech to their peers and staff. The voting was opened, and Year 11 students and staff had five days to cast their votes.
To determine the 20 successful leaders of Marymount College for 2023, the following criteria were considered:
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From there, eight candidates ran for School Captain. This entailed another speech, this time to the entire College, and an interview with College Leaders and Heads of Year.
The eight candidates reminded us that we are inspired more by authenticity and humility than by dazzling skills and tricks. Jesus said little about leadership, he simply modelled it by servicing others.
We were blessed to have a high-calibre group of Year 11 students who nominated to be part of the leadership process for 2023. We thank them for being brave and vulnerable–they entered into a process where they knew they may not be successful. This shows wonderful courage.
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Do Scrap Yards Take Insulated or Stripped Copper Wires?
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Scrap yards provide a valuable service to communities by accepting items for recycling that curbside recycling services may not accept. Because of its conductivity properties, copper is often insulated for safety's sake. While the copper has value, the insulation does not. Insulation detracts from the copper's value, which is an important consideration when trying to maximize your return. Copper is a valuable commodity. The FBI estimated that its value increased more than 500 percent from January 2001 to March 2008. (References 1 and 2)
Copper Uses
The properties of copper lend itself to many applications. Copper has high thermal and electrical conductivity, and it is also resistant to corrosion. These characteristics make it a valuable material for several types of products. The strongest market for copper is the building industry, where copper is used in electrical wiring, in water pipes for decorative purposes and for other uses. Electronic components and home appliances use copper wiring as well. (References 1)
Recycling Copper
Because of its practical value, there is a strong demand for copper wire. Scrap copper makes up a significant portion of U.S. copper production. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the recycling rate for copper was 30 percent in 2004. Copper is graded based on its color, the amount of corrosion and the presence of insulation. You will receive your best price when recycling copper wire that is bright in color and without insulation. Most recycling facilities will also accept wire with insulation, but they'll pay a lower price. (References 3)
Removing Coatings
You could try to remove the insulation from your copper wire to get the best return. You can do this by hand with a wire stripper, though it is a tedious and labor-intensive process. You could also try burning off the insulation using a blowtorch, but this method will produce unpleasant fumes and may be prohibited in your community. If this is a one-time venture, your best solution may be to recycle the wire as is.
Recycling copper wire is not like recycling other materials. According to the FBI, copper theft is a major problem in the United States. The agency has documented many cases of theft from foreclosed homes, warehouses and even infrastructure such as tornado warning sirens. Many states have regulations in place regarding acceptance of scrap metals. Because of this, you will likely need to present identification at the scrap yard. You may also have to allow yourself or your vehicle to be photographed. Some facilities will not accept walk-ins with copper wire. You should, therefore, contact the scrap yard before attempting to recycle your items. (References 2 and 4)
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It's harsh, right… Out of the blue I was tossed from my free life; working outside the home and all I truly needed to stress over was me. I had the capacity to utilize the washroom, eat, and well, simply do what ever I needed when I needed. What's more, for better and for more terrible that is something of the past, the far removed past!. My sister disclosed to me the initial couple of years are the most straightforward, and afterward "It truly gets extreme". From conversing with companions the "fun" truly starts as our lovely angels enter their youthfulness and teenager years. Such a great amount to anticipate!
While talking about with my better half whether we needed to begin a family I disclosed to him I didn't know whether I needed to manage youngsters… His reaction, "If individuals settled on the choice to have kids based raising adolescents, nobody would have children". That is most likely a truly precise reaction, isn't that so?
Child rearing Standard #1: Mother Has some good times and I had the capacity to talk with her. Nicole additionally offers for mothers like me where "an excessive amount of data" still isn't sufficient, a bulletin. She first tells mother's "not to be impeccable and to have a fabulous time". How isn't to?
Nicole instructs that when mother and father "having a great time", it will urge your children to settle on better decisions, tune in and be progressively conscious. Unusual isn't it! It is such a child rearing worldview switch. That is the reason it is so captivating to me. So I chose out it an attempt! I put the accentuation of child rearing on me. On the off chance that things appeared to go down slope and undesirable conduct began to style, I immediately moved to one side and said to myself "Am I having a great time?" The appropriate response was dependably, "no". I understood that in the event that I wasn't having a ton of fun, nor were my children.
When I sat down and truly considered the things I need to give my youngsters, the most critical characteristics were to acknowledge and appreciate life. How am I going to do that in the event that I am glaring, unsettled, and move toward becoming spooled up on the grounds that my children are "not tuning in", tormenting one another, and acting like monkeys. In the event that kids learn (on the off chance that anybody adapts, extremely) more from seeing and doing (not from what I state) at that point how might I truly be instructing this? So my central goal was to work on having a fabulous time myself. What a staggering blessing!
When I sat back and chose what my essential concentration for the day was… to appreciate it, I understood it was not to: do clothing and change bedding; to clean the house with hatred on the grounds that in under a hour it would be a wreck once more; second speculating whether I am giving my children enough "quality time"; and so on. My own will likely show my children to be composed, kind, upright and capable grown-ups who are infatuated with life. A difficult request, in any case, here is the thing, (it resembled a light scowling at me in the face) – they were not going to take in this from viewing the "bygone" me. In this way, I have committed myself to live it.
So what just appears to be a straightforward arrangement, truly is basic. In the event that I put the emphasis on me and not on the children the attributes I need my children to have will pursue. Does that appear to be unique? It isn't, generally.
I recall when my folks were growing up they didn't have all the material stuff or extravagances we have so there was less time to go through with the children. Children had such a large number of more duties thus considerably more autonomy.
We hear so regularly: "kids should be kids"; "kids don't play any longer"; and "they are compelled to grow up excessively quick". Try not to misunderstand me, I think our children are presented to viciousness, sexual develop circumstances, and grown-up obligations very frequently in our way of life. In any case, I additionally trust our children are not considered responsible and given sensible and suitable assignments to oversee reliably. They regularly grow up not understanding how their conduct influences others.
Additionally, I don't mean they don't become familiar with the ramifications for little child hitting or gnawing that requires a period out and saying "sorry" with an embrace to the harmed, yet the sort of sympathy realized when accentuation is put on providing for other people; the joy, bliss, and satisfaction that genuinely lie when providing for others without being asked or supported.
I have heard comparative messages from child rearing specialists previously yet this was unique. There is a more extensive significance to me recently. (At last, following 34 years!) In spite of the fact that, kids figure out how to get love and love from their main instructors, (mother and father), would they say they are getting the hang of all that they have to find out about adoration along these lines? What happens when they aren't considered in charge of offering love: to encounter the adoration, happiness, and fulfillment of genuinely giving of him/her self?
Would I give my youngsters the "training" and exercises they really need to carry on with the existence I need for them, in the event that I don't make circumstances where they need to give so as to know delight, joy, and fulfillment?
I once believed that joy didn't generally exist throughout everyday life. I thought, "Truly, we do encounter glad minutes yet life is filled more with fatigue, issues, need, need, dismissal, dread, and depression." I have realized as of late that there is a lot more and satisfaction, happiness and satisfaction can be the pillar with bits of pity, dejection, and dread tossed in so we realize we are alive.
Indeed, there are peaceful minutes and times when I even pine for to be without anyone else's input. I even anticipate these in light of the fact that presently know bliss and completion. I feel love and I am encompassed by it. It has taken me too long to even think about finding this and what I truly need is for my children to grow up with these emotions and have them for their entire life. I realize I can't ensure that they will dependably have and encounter those sentiments however I can set up the way of life that underpins it.
My confidence in this is exacerbated by the general population I see and the tales I hear in different nations where there isn't the exceptional media and spotlight on material things. Spots where there is genuine need, sadness, and need, yet not regularly the dejection and dismissal when there is a nuclear family. A family that relies upon each other with kids held to standard of their folks with giving and thinking about each other.
Some may question…what about job inversion, shouldn't something be said about unseemly duties regarding a kid. In any case, that isn't what I am talking about. I mean making circumstances where the youngster acknowledges and rehearses an incredible intensity and love by offering it to another, genuinely. Tragically, our way of life doesn't really bolster this and I genuinely would prefer not to affront. Be that as it may, in the event that you ever experience sentiments of being overpowered, disappointed, or tallying the minutes until sleep time so you can have a break, at that point I think you have to venture back and inquire as to whether you are having a fabulous time?
Only a few days ago, I took Nicole Mackenzie's recommendation, and acted rather than responded to my children quibbling and said… "Hello folks, mother isn't having a great time at the present time, are you?" They both took a gander at me and said a resonating "no!" Well, what do you think we have to do at that point?" I inquired.
Right then and there the battle was finished and we were off accomplishing something different! Much thanks to You Nicole Mackenzie for improving our lives to such an extent!!


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Suicide – Understanding The link With Bullying
by James Anderson May 20, 2015
By Melissa Holt, Boston University
Bullying, most of us probably know, can be a tremendously painful experience for a young person. Stories about teens like Phoebe Prince or Amanda Todd who killed themselves after experiencing bullying have driven this point home. All 50 states have some kind of anti-bullying law, and schools are increasingly being called upon to implement bullying prevention programs.
Bullying and suicide are both significant public health concerns for children and adolescents, and we need to understand the link between the two. That means making sure that research evidence is integrated into the discussion so that we don't jump to the wrong conclusions about bullying and suicide.
For instance, when we think about bullying and suicide, we might assume that people who are bullied are at risk of suicide. But are the youth who engage in bullying behavior at risk of suicide too?
What Does Research Tell Us?
Many studies have examined the relationship between bullying and suicidality, which includes suicidal thoughts and behaviors. We wanted to see what these studies could tell us about the strength of this association. Basically, is being bullied or bullying others associated with suicidality?
To find out, we conducted a meta-analysis – that's a study that rounds up all the studies to date on this topic. We examined 47 studies on bullying and suicide among students in K-12 settings. The studies were from the United States and other countries (including China, Australia, the UK and Finland).
Overall, we found that youth involved in bullying in any capacity were more likely to think about and attempt suicide than youth who were not involved in bullying.
The studies showed that bullies and bully-victims (youth who bully others and are also bullied themselves) all reported more suicidal thoughts and behaviors than those who were not involved in bullying. It's bad for everyone involved.
We also found that bullying and suicidality were most strongly related for bully-victims. This is consistent with past research suggesting that bully-victims are a a group at a particularly high risk for experiencing mental health issues.
We wanted to know if the association between bullying and suicidality varied for girls and for boys, or if it varied by countries or how bullying was measured. So we examined these factors (where the study was conducted, the sex of the participants and so on).
Stronger associations between perpetrating bullying and suicidal behaviors existed in US studies compared to international studies, and the same for bully-victims. The associations between bullying involvement and suicidality were similar for boys and girls.
As a whole, studies also showed a stronger connection between being a bully-victim and suicidal thoughts in studies that used a single question (eg, Have you been bullied?) with a definition of bullying than studies that measured bullying in other ways.
This finding might reflect that there are differences between youth who self-identify as being bullied rather than those who say particular experiences have happened to them (eg, they have been teased) but who do not self-identify as someone who has been bullied.
What Else do we Need to Consider?
Research clearly indicates there is an association between bullying involvement and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. It also suggests that there are factors beyond involvement in bullying that are relevant to suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
For instance, in one study of fifth through eighth graders, researchers found that youth with no involvement in bullying reported significantly fewer thoughts of suicide and suicidal behaviors than youth who were involved in bullying in any way.
However, once depression and delinquency (engaging in illegal behaviors) were considered, there were only small differences between youth who were not involved in bullying and kids who were targets of bullying and between these uninvolved kids and bully-victims.
A recent study of adolescents highlighted the role of low self-esteem and depression as factors contributing to suicidal ideation for sexual minority and heterosexual youth who had been bullied.
What Does this Mean for Intervention and Prevention?
Our cultural narrative about bullying presumes that youth who are bullied are at greater risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors. But research shows that bullies themselves are at risk as well. Bullying involvement of any stripe is harmful.
Findings from our meta-analysis highlight that it is not just youth who are targeted by bullying who are more likely to think about or attempt suicide. Youth who bully others and bully-victims also experience suicidality.
This analysis provides additional evidence that youth who both perpetrate and are victimized by bullying are at particularly high risk for psychological distress. Bolstering mental health supports for kids who bully others is essential. In addition to helping them curb their bullying behaviors, it is critical to look after their mental health needs as well.
Additional research is needed to better understand other factors that contribute to the association between bullying involvement and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. In turn, more effective prevention and intervention programs can be designed to better address the mental health needs of youth involved in bullying.
Melissa Holt is Assistant Professor, Counseling Psychology at Boston University.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Die Laks war ein Torpedoboot 1. Klasse (norw.: Torpedobåt Kl. I) der norwegischen Marine, das von 1901 bis 1940 in der norwegischen Marine und von April 1940 bis Mai 1945 in der deutschen Kriegsmarine unter dem neuen Namen Admiral Deinhard, benannt nach Vizeadmiral Karl August Deinhard, diente.

Bau und Technische Daten
Die Laks war das Typschiff ihrer Klasse, zu der neben ihr die Sild, die Sæl und die Skrei gehörten. Die vier Boote waren weithin baugleich mit den drei 1896 bei Schichau in Elbing für die norwegische Marine gebauten Booten des Typs Hval und den drei danach in Norwegen gebauten Schwesterschiffen des Typs Storm.

Die Laks wurde im Jahre 1900 bei der Carljohansværn Værft, der Marinens Hovedværft, in Horten auf Kiel gelegt, lief dort am 12. Juli 1900 vom Stapel und wurde 1901 in Dienst gestellt. Das Boot war 40,0 m lang und 4,90 m breit. Es hatte vorn 1,10 m und achtern 2,10 m Tiefgang und verdrängte 80 Tonnen (standard) bzw. 107 t (maximal). Die Maschinenanlage bestand aus zwei Wasserrohrkesseln und einer Dreifach-Expansions-Dampfmaschine, deren 650 PS über eine Schraube eine Höchstgeschwindigkeit von 17,5 Knoten ermöglichten. Bis zu 17 Tonnen Kohle konnten gebunkert werden. Die Bewaffnung bestand aus zwei 3,7-cm 5-Rohr Hotchkiss-Revolverkanonen und zwei 45-cm-Torpedorohren, eins zwischen den beiden Schornsteinen, eins auf dem Achterschiff. Die Besatzung zählte 23 Mann.

Schicksal

1901–1940
Während der politischen Spannungen mit Schweden im Verlauf des norwegischen Lösungsprozesses aus der bisherigen Personalunion mit Schweden nach der Volksabstimmung vom 13. August 1905 mobilisierte Norwegen, wie auch Schweden, am 13. September seine Streitkräfte. Als im Herbst ein Krieg drohte, nahmen die Laks und die anderen neuen Torpedoboote an ausgedehnten Marinemanövern teil und sechs von ihnen wurden dann im Oslofjord unter Führung des Zerstörers Valkyrjen stationiert, um dort einen befürchteten schwedischen Angriff von See auf Oslo und die militärischen und industriellen Installationen in Ostnorwegen im Zusammenwirken mit den vier Küstenpanzerschiffen abzuwehren, die anderen vier Torpedoboote 1. Klasse blieben vor Bergen.

Während des Ersten Weltkriegs diente die Laks, wie die anderen Schiffe der norwegischen Marine, zur Sicherung der norwegischen Neutralität und im Geleitdienst für Handelsschiffe in norwegischen Küstengewässern. Nach dem Ende des Kriegs war das Boot bis 1927 hauptsächlich damit befasst, Schmuggler aufzubringen, die während der norwegischen Prohibition Alkohol ins Land zu bringen versuchten.

1940–1945
Die Laks gehörte zum Zeitpunkt der deutschen Invasion Norwegens am 9. April 1940 mit ihren Schwesterschiffen Skrei und Sild zu der in Trondheim beheimateten und zum 2. Seeverteidigungsabschnitt gehörigen 5. Torpedobootsdivision. Allerdings war diese Zuordnung rein administrativer Art, und jedes Boot operierte verhältnismäßig unabhängig in dem ihm zugewiesenen Küstenabschnitt. Die Skrei befand sich am 9. April in Hestvika am Südostende der Insel Hitra südlich vor der Einfahrt zum Trondheimfjord; sie wurde von ihrer Besatzung am 8. Mai bei Ålesund selbstversenkt; die Sild befand sich in Kristiansund und wurde am 5. Mai bei der Insel Harøy (Kommune Sandøy) westlich von Molde selbstversenkt. Die Laks war im Knarlagsund bei Hitra stationiert, lag aber am 9. April 1940 zu einem Werftaufenthalt in Trondheim. Dort wurde sie am 13. April von der Kriegsmarine erbeutet und dann unter dem neuen Namen Admiral Deinhard in Dienst gestellt. Die Torpedorohre und alten Geschütze wurden entfernt und das Boot wurde statt ihrer mit einem Maschinengewehr und sechs Wasserbomben bewaffnet. Danach wurde es bis zum Ende des Kriegs im Hafenverband Trondheim als Torpedo-Luftdruck-Kompressorenboot und Hafenschutzboot eingesetzt.

Nach dem Ende des Kriegs wurde das Boot wieder von der norwegischen Marine übernommen und noch 1945 abgewrackt.

Boote der Klasse

Weblinks
 http://www.navypedia.org/ships/norway/no_dd_laks.htm

Literatur
 Jon Rustung Hegland & Johan Henrik Lilleheim: Norske torpedobåter gjennom 125 år. Sjømilitære Samfund ved Norsk Tidsskrift for Sjøvesen, Hundvåg, 1998, ISBN 82-994738-1-0 (norw.)

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Torpedoboot (Norwegen)
Deutsche Besetzung Norwegens 1940–1945
Schiff im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Beuteschiff (Kriegsmarine)

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TED curator Chris Anderson explains the secret sauce of a great TED Talk — and how aspiring presenters can pull off the same magic themselves.In the past four years, the TED conference has evolved from an intriguing if somewhat esoteric boutique gathering to a worldwide phenomenon. Its showcase attraction? Presentations of ideas so compellingly delivered that attendees pay thousands to experience them first-hand.
Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.
A Taste of TED2010 | Video channel on TED.com
Fresh talks from TED2010, which happened February 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach and Palm Springs. Watch Jamie Oliver's inspiring TED Prize wish ... Blaise Aguera y Arcas' augmented-reality map demo ... Temple Grandin's standing-ovation talk on the gifts of autism ... with many more to come!
James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy
James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," "Titanic" and "Avatar."
Confessions of a TED Addict - NYTimes.com
In 2001, TED was acquired and is now run by Chris Anderson, the new-media entrepreneur who started Business 2.0. According to June Cohen, the executive producer of TED Media, the speeches were once filmed and cut for a TV pilot. But she had another idea when she brought on Jason Wishnow, an online-video virtuoso. Together, they made the TED talks streamable on the Web in 2006.
Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.
Amazon.com: TED 2010 Speaker Books
A list of the latest books by TED 2010 speakers, for a guaranteed cerebral spa.
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know.
Pre-TED2010 reading list: 8 picks from TED's June Cohen
In the weeks before TED -- amid frenetic preparations for the conference -- I always steal a few calm moments, surrounded by stacks of books by this year's speakers. It's one of my favorite pre-TED rituals. Of course, there's no hope of finishing them all. But I like to immerse myself in at least a few chapters of each, so I can meet the speaker where they are, and understand the conversation they're having with the world.
Young and Brilliant
The best #TED notes so far from @ninakix
TED2010 conference official site
TED Media Director June Cohen at TED2010
February 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson
Twitter / @TEDNews/TED Accounts
The official accounts of TED. More information available at TED.com.
Twitter list: TED2010-speakers
Follow TED2010's speakers and performers.
Nokia TED Microsite
This site is here to help you get involved in TED2010, which runs from 9th – 13th February 2010. Questions submitted through the twitter facility on this site may be answered during the Q&A sessions happening throughout the conference.
Grand Party at TED2010
February 12, 2010, Long Beach, CA. Credit: TED / Marla Aufmuth
Feb 08, 2010: A TED responsibility (by Robert Scoble)
But, really, this isn't an event that generates news (except when last year Bill Gates released a bunch of mosquitos). If you've ever watched a TED Talk you'll know that this isn't about news, but is about expanding your mind. Coming up with new ideas. Hearing from people who are changing the world and being challenged to do the same with your own life.
Alltop - Top TED News
TED and TEDx talks, videos,news and headlines from across the web.
TED 2010 LIVE: News And Twitter Updates In Real-Time (huffingtonpost.com)
Follow TED 2010 live through our curated Twitter lists: speakers, attendees, and the official TED feeds! Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists?
EcoVillage_TED2010
February 9-13, 2010, Long Beach, CA. Credit: TED / Marla Aufmuth
Mashable Launches TED Channel (mashable.com)
To help you track the most insightful presentations and news at TED, we're launching a dedicated TED channel today at mashable.com/ted.
TED 2010 | Epicenter | Wired.com
Wired.com will publish stories from the conference all week.
Feb 08, 2010: AT&T Interactive and TED Introduce Official Mobile App for TED2010
AT&T Interactive and TED today announced the availability of the official TED2010 Mobile Conference app. Developed on AT&T Interactive's Plusmo application development platform, the mobile app offers access to conference information leading up to the event on Feb. 9-13 in Long Beach, Calif. The TED2010 Mobile conference app is available for registered attendees via the mobile web or for download on select major mobile platforms.
Farewell Party at TED2010
TED titles designer Jakob Trollback, center, and host Chris Pullman, right, at the Farewell Party at TED2010. Credit: TED / Marla Aufmuth
Flickr: TED Conference's Photostream
TED News (TEDNews) on Twitter
ALL the news from TED.com, the TED Conference, the TED Prize and more.
TEDTalks Updates (tedtalks) on Twitter
The official feed of TEDTalks: Ideas worth spreading. For all TED News, follow @TEDNews too!
The Book Cafe social space, at TED2010
February 9-13, 2010, Long Beach, CA. Credit: Tom Condon
The official Facebook Page of TED
This is the official page for TED.com. Look here for daily TEDTalks news, TED events and photos, and exclusives. It's moderated by TED.com's editors (Emily McManus, Matthew Trost, Shanna Carpenter) and by TED fan and founding moderator Taha Najam.
All bags stamped on TED - BagTheWeb
Just like hashtags on Twitter, it is tagging. But, stamping on a bag sounds better. Users can click on a stamp to see other bags under the same stamp. The stamp page for the TED conference is this: http://bagtheweb.com/tags/TED
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Brainpickings.org: #TED conference highlights
Brain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, a cultural curator and curious mind at large. Brain Pickings is about curating interestingness — picking culture's collective brain for tidbits of stuff that inspires, revolutionizes, or simply makes us think. It's about innovation and authenticity and all those other things that have become fluff phrases...
CNN on #TED 2010
Richard Galant and John D. Sutter from CNN in the press room at TED. They've been filing dispatches of the presentations and other events there and they are terrific.
Hot news on #TED 2010 conference (Day 3)
Session 8: Boldness; Session 9: Imagination; Session 10: Play.
News, bloggers' posts, and TED attendees' reports on TED 2010.
The most anticipated annual TED conference is back again! This bag aims to collect buzz on the amazing conversations.
Wired on #TED
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Mashable on #TED
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Session 1: Mindshift. Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 11:00-12:45. Speakers: Daniel Kahneman (Behavioral economics founder), Esther Duflo (Development economist), Michael Shermer (Skeptic), and Jake Shimabukuro (Ukulele virtuoso).
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Session 2: Discovery. Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 2:15-4:00. Speakers: William Li (Cancer researcher), Cheryl Hayashi (Spider silk scientist), Carter Emmart, Philip Kaplan, and Dan Barber (Chef).
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naturalnews.com printable article
Originally published April 26 2012
Merck ordered to pay $321 million criminal fine for illegally marketing Vioxx painkiller
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Drug giant Merck & Co., creator of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil, has been ordered by a federal judge in Boston, Mass., to fork over $321 million in criminal fines for illegally marketing Vioxx, a dangerous painkiller drug that was pulled from the market in 2004 because taking the drug doubles a patient's risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
According to reports, Merck pleaded guilty to charges of illegally promoting Vioxx for rheumatoid arthritis before it was approved for such use, even after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reprimanded the company for doing this in 2001. Immediately after Vioxx was approved by the FDA in 1999 for treating acute pain, Merck reportedly began promoting its use among patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
The decision comes just months after Merck agreed to pay more than $600 million to the federal government, 43 states, and the District of Columbia to settle various other suits pertaining to the company's illegal marketing tactics. Though Merck did not admit guilt in all of those cases, the drug maker's willingness to pay nearly $1 billion in combined fines for criminal and illegal marketing was still accepted by the court.
"I'm certainly going to accept this agreement because I think it's in the public interest," said U.S. District Judge Patti Saris who accepted the plea. "I hope the size of this settlement and the fact that all these cases are being pressed by the federal and state governments -- the 44 states' attorneys general -- will be a signal that this isn't acceptable conduct."
$1 billion is nothing compared to the more than $12 billion Merck generated from Vioxx
But $1 billion is just a drop in the bucket for Merck, since Vioxx generated roughly $2.5 billion in sales during the years that it was on the market. Collectively, this translates into more than $12 billion worth of revenues for Merck during Vioxx's life cycle, which is a hefty amount that contrasts sharply to the relatively paltry $1 billion it has agreed to pay.
Besides a few other incidents where Merck has paid out a few million dollars here and there, the company has largely gotten off scot-free with Vioxx. None of Merck's corporate executives are being held personally responsible for the thousands of former Vioxx users that were injured by the drug, and they are not being held criminally liable for their company's illegal marketing of the drug.
So in the end, what these criminal and civil fines amount to is nothing more than a drug industry payoff to the federal government for Merck's illegal activity. Merck still made off with at least $10 billion of revenues from Vioxx, and the federal government and a few individuals have received a few million dollars in the process. And so it goes in the criminal cartel that is the drug industry's cozy relationship with Big Pharma.
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Q: obtain WSDL from Oracle Service Bus for a proxy service I need to find the WSDL of a proxy service that I have defined in the Oracle Service Bus.
Export WSDL option in the console gives me jar file which contains the .WSDL file but in a different format,
<WL5G3N0:definitions name="PollAddressFromDB-concrete" targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/db/DBPoll_Adapter/PollAddressFromDB/PollAddressFromDB" xmlns:WL5G3N0="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:WL5G3N1="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/adapter/db/DBPoll_Adapter/PollAddressFromDB/PollAddressFromDB" xmlns:WL5G3N2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/">

I want to run a test on my web service using Soap UI but Sap UI would not accept this WSDL format.
How and Where can I retrieve the actual WSDL file.
Thanks!

A: As SiKing mentioned, if it's a http proxy, just go to the endpoint URL and append ?wsdl to the end. SoapUI can create a project from that.

A: Please refer to my following answer How to access the WSDL URL of a OSB proxy service in web browser
Reproducing it here:
There are three ways to access an effective WSDL:

*

*In a Web browser, enter the URL for an HTTP-based proxy service,
appended with ?WSDL. This works only for HTTP-transport-based services for which Oracle Service Bus can generate effective WSDLs.)

*In a Web browser, enter the fixed HTTP URL, for example:
 [http://host:port/sbresource?PROXY/project_path/proxy_service_name]

or
 [http://host:port/sbresource?BIZ/project_path/business_service_name]

This works for all services for which Oracle Service Bus can generate effective WSDLs.

*Export the WSDL from the console

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text:
"""Utilities for handling nodes."""

import itertools as itt
import logging
from itertools import chain
from typing import Set, Tuple, Type, Union

from networkx import relabel_nodes

from ..constants import ANNOTATIONS, CITATION, EVIDENCE, INCREASES, RELATION
from ..dsl import BaseAbundance, BaseEntity, ListAbundance, Reaction

__all__ = [
    "flatten_list_abundance",
    "list_abundance_cartesian_expansion",
    "reaction_cartesian_expansion",
]

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def flatten_list_abundance(node: ListAbundance) -> ListAbundance:
    """Flattens the complex or composite abundance."""
    return node.__class__(
        list(
            chain.from_iterable(
                (flatten_list_abundance(member).members if isinstance(member, ListAbundance) else [member])
                for member in node.members
            )
        )
    )

def list_abundance_expansion(graph) -> None:
    """Flatten list abundances."""
    mapping = {node: flatten_list_abundance(node) for node in graph if isinstance(node, ListAbundance)}
    relabel_nodes(graph, mapping, copy=False)

def list_abundance_cartesian_expansion(graph) -> None:
    """Expand all list abundances to simple subject-predicate-object networks."""
    for u, v, d in list(graph.edges(data=True)):
        if CITATION not in d:
            continue

        if isinstance(u, ListAbundance) and isinstance(v, ListAbundance):
            for u_member, v_member in itt.product(u.members, v.members):
                graph.add_qualified_edge(
                    u_member,
                    v_member,
                    relation=d[RELATION],
                    citation=d.get(CITATION),
                    evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                    annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                )

        elif isinstance(u, ListAbundance):
            for member in u.members:
                graph.add_qualified_edge(
                    member,
                    v,
                    relation=d[RELATION],
                    citation=d.get(CITATION),
                    evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                    annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                )

        elif isinstance(v, ListAbundance):
            for member in v.members:
                graph.add_qualified_edge(
                    u,
                    member,
                    relation=d[RELATION],
                    citation=d.get(CITATION),
                    evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                    annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                )

    _remove_list_abundance_nodes(graph)

def _reaction_cartesian_expansion_unqualified_helper(
    graph,
    u: BaseEntity,
    v: BaseEntity,
    d: dict,
) -> None:
    """Help deal with cartesian expansion in unqualified edges."""
    if isinstance(u, Reaction) and isinstance(v, Reaction):
        enzymes = _get_catalysts_in_reaction(u) | _get_catalysts_in_reaction(v)

        for reactant, product in chain(itt.product(u.reactants, u.products), itt.product(v.reactants, v.products)):
            if reactant in enzymes or product in enzymes:
                continue

            graph.add_unqualified_edge(reactant, product, INCREASES)

        for product, reactant in itt.product(u.products, u.reactants):
            if reactant in enzymes or product in enzymes:
                continue

            graph.add_unqualified_edge(
                product,
                reactant,
                d[RELATION],
            )

    elif isinstance(u, Reaction):
        enzymes = _get_catalysts_in_reaction(u)

        for product in u.products:
            # Skip create increases edges between enzymes
            if product in enzymes:
                continue

            # Only add edge between v and reaction if the node is not part of the reaction
            # In practice skips hasReactant, hasProduct edges
            if v not in u.products and v not in u.reactants:
                graph.add_unqualified_edge(product, v, INCREASES)
            for reactant in u.reactants:
                graph.add_unqualified_edge(reactant, product, INCREASES)

    elif isinstance(v, Reaction):
        enzymes = _get_catalysts_in_reaction(v)

        for reactant in v.reactants:
            # Skip create increases edges between enzymes
            if reactant in enzymes:
                continue

            # Only add edge between v and reaction if the node is not part of the reaction
            # In practice skips hasReactant, hasProduct edges
            if u not in v.products and u not in v.reactants:
                graph.add_unqualified_edge(u, reactant, INCREASES)
            for product in v.products:
                graph.add_unqualified_edge(reactant, product, INCREASES)

def _get_catalysts_in_reaction(reaction: Reaction) -> Set[BaseAbundance]:
    """Return nodes that are both in reactants and reactions in a reaction."""
    # TODO replace with reaction.get_catalysts()
    return set(reaction.reactants).intersection(reaction.products)

def reaction_cartesian_expansion(graph, accept_unqualified_edges: bool = True) -> None:
    """Expand all reactions to simple subject-predicate-object networks."""
    for u, v, d in list(graph.edges(data=True)):
        # Deal with unqualified edges
        if CITATION not in d and accept_unqualified_edges:
            _reaction_cartesian_expansion_unqualified_helper(graph, u, v, d)
            continue

        if isinstance(u, Reaction) and isinstance(v, Reaction):
            catalysts = _get_catalysts_in_reaction(u) | _get_catalysts_in_reaction(v)

            for reactant, product in chain(
                itt.product(u.reactants, u.products),
                itt.product(v.reactants, v.products),
            ):
                if reactant in catalysts or product in catalysts:
                    continue
                graph.add_increases(
                    reactant,
                    product,
                    citation=d.get(CITATION),
                    evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                    annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                )

            for product, reactant in itt.product(u.products, u.reactants):
                if reactant in catalysts or product in catalysts:
                    continue

                graph.add_qualified_edge(
                    product,
                    reactant,
                    relation=d[RELATION],
                    citation=d.get(CITATION),
                    evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                    annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                )

        elif isinstance(u, Reaction):
            catalysts = _get_catalysts_in_reaction(u)

            for product in u.products:
                # Skip create increases edges between enzymes
                if product in catalysts:
                    continue

                # Only add edge between v and reaction if the node is not part of the reaction
                # In practice skips hasReactant, hasProduct edges
                if v not in u.products and v not in u.reactants:
                    graph.add_increases(
                        product,
                        v,
                        citation=d.get(CITATION),
                        evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                        annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                    )

                for reactant in u.reactants:
                    graph.add_increases(
                        reactant,
                        product,
                        citation=d.get(CITATION),
                        evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                        annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                    )

        elif isinstance(v, Reaction):
            catalysts = _get_catalysts_in_reaction(v)

            for reactant in v.reactants:
                # Skip create increases edges between enzymes
                if reactant in catalysts:
                    continue

                # Only add edge between v and reaction if the node is not part of the reaction
                # In practice skips hasReactant, hasProduct edges
                if u not in v.products and u not in v.reactants:
                    graph.add_increases(
                        u,
                        reactant,
                        citation=d.get(CITATION),
                        evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                        annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                    )
                for product in v.products:
                    graph.add_increases(
                        reactant,
                        product,
                        citation=d.get(CITATION),
                        evidence=d.get(EVIDENCE),
                        annotations=d.get(ANNOTATIONS),
                    )

    _remove_reaction_nodes(graph)

def remove_reified_nodes(graph) -> None:
    """Remove complex nodes."""
    _remove_list_abundance_nodes(graph)
    _remove_reaction_nodes(graph)

def _remove_list_abundance_nodes(graph):
    _remove_typed_nodes(graph, ListAbundance)

def _remove_reaction_nodes(graph):
    _remove_typed_nodes(graph, Reaction)

def _remove_typed_nodes(
    graph,
    cls: Union[Type[BaseEntity], Tuple[Type[BaseEntity], ...]],
) -> None:
    graph.remove_nodes_from({node for node in graph if isinstance(node, cls)})

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Daikaku-ji Temple is well known as flower temple, ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arrangement) originated here. The temple was established in 876 in the Arashiyama area. and used to be a rikyu (villa) of Saga emperor in the early Heian period, about 1,200 years ago. Over 30 years after the emperor passed away, the rikyu was transferred to the temple. "Kyo Gosho Daikaku-ji Monzeki" is the official name of the temple belonging to the Shingon Buddhism sect founded by Kobo-Daishi Kukai. Since the premises of the temple are really large, there are a lot of enjoyable spots, including a pond with a beautiful garden, a picture of dragon on the ceiling, and some traditional buildings that you can't miss! Although it is in a busy tourist spot, Arashiyama, inside the temple is very quiet, so you can enjoy being surrounded by nature!
Shoshin-den Hall consists of 12 rooms and is designated as an important cultural property. 3 rooms are separated by 4 sections. The picture of a rabbit on the shoji (Japanese traditional sliding door) is really cute, so feel free to take a photo of it. Please do check out all of the rooms in this hall!
This is the oldest artificial pond surrounded by woods in Japan. It is said that the pond was made for viewing the moon. Presently, the temple holds events called, "Kangetsu-no-yube" (moon viewing party) every autumn to look at the moon that is reflected on the pond. If you have an opportunity to visit when the event is being held, please consider going checking it out. Check their English website for more details.
You can see two styles of ceilings in mieido that were moved from Yasui-monzeki Renge-koin Temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama in 1871. The powerful dragon is painted on the kagami tenjo ceilings while delicate birds and lovely flowers are on another ceiling, Gou-Tenjo. Although both of them are at the same hall, they have totally different images.
The ceiling of this corridor was built this low so that no one could swing swords or spears. The corridor stretches to the three main buildings, Shin-den, Mie-do, and Shoshin-den. You can stroll between them even if it's a rainy day. Also, the floor makes sounds when you walk! Listen carefully as they sound very interesting.
We highly recommend you check their website in English to see how to conveniently access the temple.
Daikaku-ji Temple is maybe the best temple to visit in Arashiyama. The temple is really big and the walkways to the other buildings are all beautiful, there is a lot to see. A great place to take pictures especially if you come on weekdays when there are not so many people.
17 minute-walk from JR Sagano Line, Sagano Arashiyama Stn.
Please do not enter any prohibited areas nor take any photos where it is prohibited.
English brochures are available at the entrance of the temple. In addition, their English website is really convenient! It is worth checking before you visit.