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How content is a game changer for sports organizations
Sports are as popular as ever, but the way people are engaging with them is changing. By using the right combination of people, processes, and technologies, sports organizations can come out on top.
Jordan TorpyPublished on Aug 29, 2022
No matter how much the world changes, people's love for sports remains. Following a favorite team, watching a live event, playing amateur sports on the weekend – these activities are popular across all age groups. In fact, sports are more popular with Generation Z than with any other age cohort, which illustrates the staying power sports have in our society.
But the way people engage with sporting events, teams, athletes, and other fans is changing. An evolving media landscape, a proliferation of new channels, and increasingly active teams and athletes on social media are creating new expectations for fans. Audiences expect to be able to engage with the content they want, wherever they are, on whatever device they're using.
Gen Z's level of interest in sports is higher than any other cohort, according to PwC's Sport Survey 2021
With these evolving expectations comes new opportunities for sports organizations. Those who can adapt, meet their audiences where they are, and provide engaging content, have the chance to increase trust in their organization and earn new fans. On the other hand, organizations who fail to adapt to these new trends may see a lack of engagement, decreased interest in their organization, and eventually a loss of fan support.
For fan-centric organizations, it's crucial to find a way to create and deliver the content their audiences are looking for. This can be achieved with the right tools and processes in place, starting with how teams work with content. A headless CMS, or a modular content platform, helps by putting all an organization's content in one place. By creating a centralized content hub, organizations can improve the way they connect and engage with fans while also supporting organizational teamwork and efficiency. Let's take a look at how that's done.
Connect with fans on all their favorite channels
According to PwC's Sports Survey, two of the biggest challenges facing sports organizations today are a transforming media landscape and changing fan preferences and behaviors. Both of these are connected to the way in which fans consume sports content today: in different formats, on different devices, at different times. Organizations need a way to get their content to where their fans are while also keeping that content relevant, consistent, and timely.
One of the major benefits of a modular content platform, such as Kontent.ai, is its focus on modular content, supported by a headless architecture. Headless, here, means that content is created without a specific channel in mind. Instead, it's created in modular elements within the platform. These modular elements can then be used (and reused) for any device or channel. Team stats, for example, can be sent to a website, a mobile app, an info kiosk in a stadium, and anywhere else that can ingest structured data.
Team stats, stored in a modular content platform, can be shared across multiple channels with ease
Contrast this with how organizations have handled content in the past. Traditionally, website content might be created in a traditional CMS. These systems connect the final presentation of the content with the content itself, which means that any content created within them is tightly coupled to the website where it will appear.
If you want to share that same content across other channels, there's no easy way to do so. It might require a lot of manual effort, copying and pasting text, editing formatting, and hoping everything worked correctly.
With a modular content platform, content is omnichannel ready from the very beginning. Not only does this make it easier to publish content to other channels–it also makes it faster to publish important information quickly. There's no need to tweak the formatting and check looks correct on a different channel.
In the end, this means that a modular content platform helps sports organizations connect with fans by making it easier to publish content across all the channels they use. And by making it simpler to publish updates faster, organizations can help boost fan trust by ensuring that audiences are getting timely information.
Transform the web into a full-blown digital experience
A modular content platform can help organizations publish their content on all the channels their audiences use. But it can also help transform existing channels, like a website, from a simple source of information into a complete digital experience. Instead of using the web as a repository of read-only content, it can be used as a place where fans can buy tickets, take a virtual stadium tour, interact with their favorite athletes, or buy merchandise. Doing so requires putting the right tools and processes in place to enable your web to connect with other platforms.
Real Madrid lets fans take a virtual tour of the stadium right from their website, where fans can preview their seats before they buy tickets
The modular nature of a platform like Kontent.ai means it is easy to integrate it with other services. Social media feeds, live scores, ticket sales and more can be seamlessly integrated with your content, creating a holistic digital experience for fans.
A team's webpage can become a place where fans can read about an upcoming match, see how many tickets are available, and immediately purchase tickets–all from one place. Weather forecasts, recent social media posts from athletes, and fan discussion can all coexist on a website, creating a richer digital experience for fans.
Sports organizations can set up scenarios like these with the help of a modular content platform. Headless architecture means almost any type of digital experience can be built, with a centralized content hub at the core. As fans' expectations and preferences change, a modular content platform makes it possible to adapt, and create the experiences fans want.
Support winning teamwork
As digital experiences for fans become more complex, it's important to be sure that content quality stays high. A good team, supported by the right technologies and processes, can help boost customer trust by keeping content consistent, relevant, and up-to-date.
One way to keep teamwork functioning at a high level is to give different people different levels of responsibility and access to the system that's used to manage content. Giving users access to only the content they need to work on helps reduce errors, keeps boundaries clear, and gives employees confidence that they're working on what they're supposed to be working on.
User roles and permissions go hand-in-hand with properly created workflows for your content. By making sure content is checked by the right people at different stages in its creation, it's more likely that the final published piece of content will be in its best state. Some content platforms, like Kontent.ai, allow organizations to create different types of workflows for different types of content, allowing for a more granular approach to content governance.
Workflows in Kontent.ai help keep everyone on track
When this all comes together, it leads to smoother teamwork and collaboration, which can in turn help create more engaging content for fans. That's why more and more sports organizations are turning to new processes and technologies to change the way they work with content.
How sports organizations put it all together with Kontent.ai
England Hockey uses Kontent.ai to create modern digital experiences for fans of the sport all across the UK. By taking advantage of several of Kontent.ai's unique features, they have created sites that increase fan engagement and even help drive more ticket sales.
One key feature England Hockey relies on is Collections. For larger sporting organizations, or those with an international presence, Kontent.ai's Collections is a gamechanger. Collections lets organizations create different boundaries (like team, region, or country) for their content while allowing important things like content models and configurations to be shared across those boundaries. All Collections co-exist within a single Kontent.ai project, so there's no need to spin up different instances of a CMS for each team or region.
Members of an organization can have separate roles in different Collections. A Marketing Manager for a specific team might have a Supervisor role in that team's Collection while having a View-Only role in other Collections.
England Hockey uses Collections to run 8 different sites for their 8 Areas. Each site has its own unique look and feel, with its own content. But all the sites are running on a single Kontent.ai project, with configurations and settings shared between them.
England Hockey runs modern, responsive sites using Kontent.ai
All their sites offer fans a modern, responsive web experience, which has driven results for England Hockey. After going live with Kontent.ai, their organic visibility increased by 300% in the first month. They also saw an increase in ticket sales, which are offered on their site with the help of an integration with their ticket provider.
Sports organizations know that improving the way they work with content is critical for their success. The R&A use Kontent.ai to power their Virtual Media Center, which makes it easier for news organizations and reporters to connect with golf's governing body. And AC Milan and ACF Fiorentina have chosen Kontent.ai as their modular content platform for powering modern digital experiences that connect with fans. If you're looking for a better way to work with content for your organization, schedule a demo today to get started.
Jordan Torpy
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Toddler Dies After Choking On Pushpin At Day Care
Boy's Mother, Grandmother Plead For Answers
Updated: 6:21 AM EDT Oct 19, 2011
Steve Tellier
Louisville Metro Police are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who died after choking on a pushpin at a day care. The boy's mother and grandmother spoke to WLKY News and offered emotional pleas for answers in the boy's death.Officials said Jacorey Davis was found unresponsive at Trina's Treehouse day care on the 3200 block of Broadway on Monday afternoon.The LMPD homicide unit is investigating, but police said they do not suspect foul play, and the coroner's office said they're not even sure the boy ingested the pushpin at the day care. Click Like For Louisville News Updates:"We need answers. I want to know why my grandbaby went to day care and came home dead," said Renisha Woods-Vertrees, Jacorey's grandmother.Dont let his age fool you. His family said Jacorey thought he was an adult."He was a grown man in a little body," Woods-Vertrees said."He was so sweet. Everybody loved him and he touched everybody in a different way," said Jessica Davis, Jacorey's mother.But Monday would be the last time his mother would see her wide-eyed toddler alive. She said she dropped her son off at Trina' Treehouse about 10:30 a.m. Hours later, she said a worker found him unresponsive."One of the day care workers heard a big boom -- like, maybe he had fell, and she said, 'Jacorey!' And she ran over there, and when she picked him up, he was blue and he was foaming at the mouth," Davis said.The coroner's office said that happened just before 2 p.m. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died less than an hour later.His mother arrived just before he passed away."When I went in that door and they were pumping him, and he wasn't getting any type of vital sign and no pulse, I just knew that basically, he was gone," Davis said. "It was just like a nightmare. I was shocked.""It's a hole. It's a hole in our hearts. I can't even explain how I feel," Woods-Vertrees said.At first, his family thought the 2-year-old may have had a seizure. But on Tuesday, an autopsy found Jacorey choked to death on a pushpin."I don't know if he found it on the playground or if it was in his food, but how do you not know that he's choking?" Davis asked.His mother said she doesn't want the day care shut down or for anyone to get in trouble. She said she just wants a full explanation -- and to know why something wasn't done sooner."How did you not know that my son was going through this type of distress when he's got this pushpin in his airway and he can't breathe?" Davis asked."My grandbaby struggled and I need answers. I want to know why," Woods-Vertrees said."I want to know the real answer. I want to know what really happened to my son," Davis said. Officials are not currently claiming any wrongdoing on the part of the daycare.WLKY spoke briefly with the owner of the day care. She declined to comment at length, but did say that her workers did what they're trained to do -- they performed CPR and immediately called 911.The Kentucky Office of the Inspector General has opened an investigation into what happened. That's standard procedure in these kinds of cases. But a spokeswoman for the office declined to release any details of that investigation because it is still pending.
Louisville Metro Police are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who died after choking on a pushpin at a day care. The boy's mother and grandmother spoke to WLKY News and offered emotional pleas for answers in the boy's death.
Officials said Jacorey Davis was found unresponsive at Trina's Treehouse day care on the 3200 block of Broadway on Monday afternoon.
The LMPD homicide unit is investigating, but police said they do not suspect foul play, and the coroner's office said they're not even sure the boy ingested the pushpin at the day care.
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"We need answers. I want to know why my grandbaby went to day care and came home dead," said Renisha Woods-Vertrees, Jacorey's grandmother.
Dont let his age fool you. His family said Jacorey thought he was an adult.
"He was a grown man in a little body," Woods-Vertrees said.
"He was so sweet. Everybody loved him and he touched everybody in a different way," said Jessica Davis, Jacorey's mother.
But Monday would be the last time his mother would see her wide-eyed toddler alive. She said she dropped her son off at Trina' Treehouse about 10:30 a.m. Hours later, she said a worker found him unresponsive.
"One of the day care workers heard a big boom -- like, maybe he had fell, and she said, 'Jacorey!' And she ran over there, and when she picked him up, he was blue and he was foaming at the mouth," Davis said.
The coroner's office said that happened just before 2 p.m. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died less than an hour later.
His mother arrived just before he passed away.
"When I went in that door and they were pumping him, and he wasn't getting any type of vital sign and no pulse, I just knew that basically, he was gone," Davis said. "It was just like a nightmare. I was shocked."
"It's a hole. It's a hole in our hearts. I can't even explain how I feel," Woods-Vertrees said.
At first, his family thought the 2-year-old may have had a seizure. But on Tuesday, an autopsy found Jacorey choked to death on a pushpin.
"I don't know if he found it on the playground or if it was in his food, but how do you not know that he's choking?" Davis asked.
His mother said she doesn't want the day care shut down or for anyone to get in trouble. She said she just wants a full explanation -- and to know why something wasn't done sooner.
"How did you not know that my son was going through this type of distress when he's got this pushpin in his airway and he can't breathe?" Davis asked.
"My grandbaby struggled and I need answers. I want to know why," Woods-Vertrees said.
"I want to know the real answer. I want to know what really happened to my son," Davis said.
Officials are not currently claiming any wrongdoing on the part of the daycare.
WLKY spoke briefly with the owner of the day care. She declined to comment at length, but did say that her workers did what they're trained to do -- they performed CPR and immediately called 911.
The Kentucky Office of the Inspector General has opened an investigation into what happened. That's standard procedure in these kinds of cases. But a spokeswoman for the office declined to release any details of that investigation because it is still pending.

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Q: SQL Server show only rows (all columns) with a distinct column name I have a query which produces several results. I have concatenated several columns into 1 as an ID. I only want to show the rows where the ID is unique.
The below image is an example of my table:

As you can see the ID is repeated a few times. How can I construct a query to show only the 3 unique rows?
Nesting this query and using distinct(RowID) shows the three rows but I cannot show the rest of the columns?
Any ideas welcome. Thank you!

A: Use distinct in the select for all columns
Query:
select distinct RowID, OrderNum, cDescription, Thickness, UllTimberThickness, Width, UllTimberWidth, Length
from YourTable

A: Use GROUP BY:
SELECT RowID, OrderNum, cDescription, Thickness, etcetera ...
FROM dbo.TableName
GROUP BY RowID, OrderNum, cDescription, Thickness, etcetera ...

( etcetera is a placeholder for the rest of your columns )

A: Try this:
SELECT *
FROM mytable t1
WHERE
    (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mytable t2
    where t2.id = t1.id) = 1

In this way, you get all rows where id is unique. I write this query because I don't know if at your ID other fields are the same, because you have built your field with a set of information. If all the columns are the same for equal id so you can use the statement DISTINCT as adviced you by Vasanth Sundaralingam in his post.

A: I'm a little confused by what "get the three unique rows means".
If you mean rows that are unique, use count(*) as a window function:
select *
from (select t.*,
             count(*) over (partition by id) as cnt
      from t
     ) t
where cnt = 1;

If you mean one example of each row, use row_number():
select *
from (select t.*,
             row_number(*) over (partition by id order by (select NULL)) as seqnum
      from t
     ) t
where seqnum = 1;

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Surfer Mark Healey has seen his share of hairy moments in the water, but not many will top this one.
While out on a boat in the rough waters of the famed Mavericks surf spot in California's Half Moon Bay, Healey spotted a big wave and jumped into it.
"Typically, in a potential maritime disaster, the best idea is to stay with the boat," the 33-year-old told Fox News. "But I really didn't feel like getting smashed around like an ice cube in a shaker, so I looked to my friends to the left and right of me and just told them, 'I don't know about you guys, but I'm jumping.'"
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Q: How to get User ID from slash command of another bot? Actually I am making a Code which send user a message randomly by playing pokemeow(another bot).
Basically, i use message content to get the userID when they use ;p but as bots moved to slash command there is no other way left to get it...
How can I get it now?
Here is my old code i use:
 @commands.Cog.listener()
 async def on_message(self, message):
  user = message.author
  channel = message.channel

  host = self.bot.get_user(int(776865099817418793))
  channel2 = self.bot.get_channel(1009105460579807232)
  if msgcontent.startswith(";p"):

        def check(m):
                return m.channel == channel and m.author.id == 664508672713424926

        bot_message = await self.bot.wait_for("message", check=check)
        if message.embeds:
         des = message.embeds[0].description
         if 'wild' in des:
           print('Pokemon is spawned')
         def check(before, after):
             print('Embed edited')
         try:
          before, after = await self.bot.wait_for('message_edit', timeout=10.0)
          if after.embeds:
            des = after.embeds[0].description
            if 'You caught a' in des:
              Check = random.randint(1, 1000)
              await channel2.send(f"**{name}, Caught a Pokémon in <#{channel.id}>**\n> [ `{Check}` ]")
              if Check == 1:
                  Reward = random.choice(Grind_Rew_List)
                  em = discord.Embed(title='```py\n       Zekrom Revolution Zone         ```', color=0xF1F1F1, description=f'''**Congratulations {name} **,\n\nYou have won {Reward} by Grinding in our Server ...''')
                  em.set_footer(text="Claim your prize from Server Owner")
                  await channel.send(f"> **{name} won Pokemeow Prize**",embed=em)
                  await host.send(f'> **{name} has won {Reward} in <#{message.channel.id}>**')
         except asyncio.TimeoutError:
          print('Time up')

The thing i want is to get user id when a user use /pokemon
This is how their embed looks

A: You can use message.type to detect whether slash commands have been triggered or not.
if message.type == discord.MessageType.chat_input_command:
 ...

You could possibly chain that with a check to see whether the message is from the bot in question or not.
Docs on discord.MessageType

A: I don't know if you got your answer but here is the code below:
For slash commands:
user_id = message.interaction.user.id

Hope this helps!!!


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As IBCLCs, part of our Code of Professional Conduct (IBLCE November 1st, 2011)calls on us to adhere to the World Health Organization's (WHO) International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes and Subsequent Resolutions. For those of us who hold this Code in high esteem, the news that WHO is accepting corporate funding and instant payday loans for its obesity initiative is enough to turn our stomachs many times over. According to the article, the Pan American Office of the WHO (based in Washington, D.C.) has begun to accept funding from fast food makers, among them the food giant and WHO Code violator Nestle.
As I struggled to reconcile the idea that an organization focused on world health would accept funding to fight obesity from the organizations that stand the most to gain from creating it, I began to feel crushing discouragement. How on earth can we, as a small band of mothers and breastfeeding professionals supporting the WHO Code, compete with multinational corporations with seemingly endless supplies of money? How can we succeed at supporting the WHO Code when the WHO is taking money from one of the worst offenders?
This is the point in the story when the hero has been soundly defeated. She goes back home with her eyes on the ground kicking stones in the path. She decides she will never win, so she might as well give up and just make noodles for the rest of her life (oh wait, I think that might be from one of my son's favorite movies).
After a long night of frustration, writing, and a little alcohol, I chose to reframe the issue as a CALL TO ACTION. And if the WHO violating the WHO Code isn't a call to action slapping me in the face, I don't know what is!
Most of us are doing our darndest to help mothers and babies start and continue breastfeeding in the face of tremendous marketing and cultural pressure to do otherwise. We stay awake nights worrying about how to best help a mother struggling with thrush or low supply, pour over research on tongue-tie and search the web for resources for new mothers. What more can we do?
The time has come for us to see our roles expand. Our job as lactation professionals must not only be to provide individual breastfeeding support, but also to advocate for maternal and child health on a larger scale. If we don't begin to protest the status quo and work to change the political and cultural barriers that mothers face in their attempts to reach their breastfeeding goals, we will be fighting the same battles for the next 100 years. The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) has long been at this fight. They shouldn't have to fight alone.
In many places, we are beginning to see policies and legislation changing. We need to harness that momentum to move the tide even further. Now more than ever, mothers and babies need us to advocate for them and they need us to empower them to demand change themselves. Not just in the clinic or hospital, but in the grocery stores and restaurants, in the hallways and on the floor of congress. When mothers and babies protest a mother being asked to leave for nursing in public, we need to show up. When our congressmen and women debate policies that impact breastfeeding, we need to show up. When a news station wants to run a story on breastfeeding, we need to show up. When the WHO takes money from Nestle, we need to show up!
For some, showing up means planning and attending nurse-ins and rallies, for others it is talking, blogging and posting information on the cultural and political barriers to breastfeeding on websites, twitter and Facebook pages. Still others have the ability to influence corporations and other organizations they are a part of by changing the way they do business, who they work with, and how they support their employees. Even beginning to have conversations with the mothers you work with about choosing to support companies that uphold the WHO Code can have an impact!
We can also leverage our resources by joining forces with other organizations working to improve maternal and child health. In addition to IBFAN and the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, Natasha K. Sriraman has written about the organization 1000 Days for the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. With a goal of improving life by improving maternal and infant nutrition in the first 1000 days –pregnancy through the second birthday—1000 days seems like a natural ally of lactation consultants and maternal-child health advocates. Working with like-minded organizations will increase our ability to impact policies and legislation that prevent corporations like Nestle from sabotaging breastfeeding in both developed and developing countries by marketing their products directly to mothers.
When I was younger, I was under the illusion that if something important were happening, someone else would take care of it. As I've gotten older I've realized that is rarely the case. When the WHO takes money from a formula company, something is terribly wrong. If we don't do something about it, who will?
If you are interested, please consider joining the "Friends of the WHO Code" Facebook Group to discuss violations of the WHO Code, especially those on social media, and how we can empower lactation professionals, volunteers and mothers to stand up for its importance.
16 Responses to If YOU Don't Advocate for Mothers & Babies, Who Will?
I have been boycotted Nestle for over 35 years now and they still have found this insidious way of getting through barriers to market their products and violate the WHO code. I am ashamed of the World Health Organization for falling prey to this corporate giant.
We can contact our individual country WHO delegate and complain and join in activities like the Facebook page….. every little bit helps to turn this tide.
Game on indeed! Thank you for your enthusiasm and support!
Game on indeed! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and support!
Beautifully stated! I got goose-bumps reading this. Thank you for not shirking your calling to be a voice for those that have difficultly finding theirs.
I'm blushing! Thank you so much, Kris. I hope you'll join us!
As IBCLCs we are a small group, like minded, and committed. With each of us doing what s/he can to change our own small worlds we will see change in the bigger world.
Thanks for the reminder and encouragement to do what we can…and one thing we can do is write to the WHO and express our dissapointment and dissaproval of it's unfortunate lack of foresight and integrity.
Thanks Edith, and great reminder to write to the WHO to encourage change!


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FEATURES: Spotlight Feature
How Blue Öyster Cult Came to Be
by Jim Sullivan
Lead singer Eric Bloom remembers the band's late manager/producer Sandy Pearlman
Blue Oyster Cult in 1977 (L-R): Donald Roeser, Eric Bloom, Albert Bouchard, Allen Lanier and Joe Bouchard. (Photo: Columbia Records)
If there was no Sandy Pearlman, there would have been no Blue Öyster Cult. Literally.
At least not as we've known it, dating back to the early '70s, with a classic lineup that boasted the Bouchard rhythm section, brothers Albert and Joe (drums and bass, respectively), guitarist-keyboardist Allen Lanier and forever frontmen singer-guitarists Eric Bloom and Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser.
As to Pearlman's input, he didn't just name the band, though he did that, and manage it. He was a lyricist who co-wrote many of their early, career-defining songs (29 in total, including all of the 1988 album, Imaginos).
Pearlman got them signed to Columbia and co-produced seven of their albums. He also crafted Blue Öyster Cult's public image, presenting them to the world as a quasi-mystical, dark-hued, "thinking man's" heavy metal band. He kept them oblique; their mugs weren't even on the first two album covers and on the third it was a middle-distance etching of them standing by a German World War II plane. Their breakthrough album, Agents of Fortune, features a painting of a magician holding a fan of four Tarot cards.
And Pearlman, who died July 26, 2016, at age 72, was the man who brought lead singer Bloom into the band—first named Soft White Underbelly, then the Stalk-Forest Group—after it had sacked singer Les Braunstein in 1969.
Related: Sandy Pearlman obituary
Bloom was living in New York City and, had, he says, "Zero." He got hired at a Sam Ash musical instrument shop on Long Island, something he took until he could get on his feet.
"Underbelly walked in to buy amps and I was the salesman," Bloom says, picking up the story. "Les wasn't there. We started making small talk and I sold them a bunch of amps. Thanksgiving of '68, I got a phone call from Les out of the blue. They were playing the Electric Circus in the Village. The PA was not good. Could I come down with my PA and complement the house PA?"
This is something Bloom did previously at Hobart College in upstate New York. He had a PA and a van, left over from his days playing in a college bar band.
"So I went and did sound for the Underbelly," Bloom continues. "Pearlman came up to me after the show and said, 'How would you like to work for the band?' They already had a record deal on Elektra. Sandy invited me to move in to the band house and I moved in Christmas Day. And it changed my life right on the spot.
"Unknown to me, they were having personality problems with Les and around April of '69, Sandy walked up to me while I was watching TV in the living room. He had my tambourine in his hand, a smirk on his face, a little giggle and said, 'The boys want to talk to you.' They were rehearsing in the basement, so I followed him back downstairs and they asked me if I wanted to join the band. Sandy put me in front of the band. That's why I'm talking to you today."
Pearlman had gotten the Underbelly signed to Elektra. They had recorded an album, but it was not released.
"A year went by and we went out and played bars to keep ourselves alive while Sandy was trying to take care of the big picture," says Bloom. "Sandy renegotiated the deal and got us enough money from Elektra to make a second album totally fresh. We went out to L.A. to make a record at the Elektra studios in La Cienega. By that time we had changed our name to the Stalk-Forest Group. That record does exist. It was put out I think 25 years later [by Rhino Records, as St. Cecilia: The Elektra Recordings—ed.], but [Elektra founder Jac] Holzman didn't like it at the end and never released it. This is all pre-history, but none of it would have happened without Sandy.
"Sandy met Murray Krugman, who was an executive with Columbia Records, and we did an audition for Clive Davis, who was president of the company—that Elektra money had long run out. They cleaned out a long corporate meeting room and we lined up against one short wall and on the other short wall they had about eight chairs facing. They turned off two-thirds of the lights and we did a five-song set in front of Clive Davis and a couple of other record executives including Bobby Colomby, who was [also] the drummer in Blood, Sweat and Tears. Patti Smith was there—she was Allen's girlfriend. Clive liked it and Sandy negotiated with Clive and got us signed. Sandy had his hand in everything.
"Some songs we wrote ourselves," Bloom says, "but right from the get-go we started writing songs with outside lyricists." Patti Smith, Helen Wheels, Richard Meltzer and others contributed. "Song creation came from a variety of ways. Having lyricists among us right from the beginning helped the band get started and gave the band its early flavor."
One of Pearlman's most interesting, and arguably most controversial songs, was "ME 262" a rip-snorting rocker from their third album, Secret Treaties. The song, written more than four decades ago, concerns a topic that was of keen interest three decades before that. And after all these years, it's still a centerpiece of their live set.
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Bloom sings "ME 262" from a unique viewpoint: a German bombardier during WWII, piloting the world's first jet-powered fighter aircraft. "It's no different than any other tune," Bloom says, "but in England, certainly, somebody might be sensitive about it. I have thought about the lyric content and whether anybody's catching it here or there; you never know how anybody would perceive anything."
Bloom and Roeser wrote the music but, Bloom says, "It's a Pearlman lyric and who knows where he was coming from when he wrote that song?"
As to its point of view, Bloom says, "I might be more sensitive to it today than I was then. I think Pearlman was more taken with the technology, being that it was the first tactical jet fighter. But then after that maybe he started querying what it might have been like from the other side and decided to write down what would have happened in that cockpit. It's certainly an unusual take."
And that's what Pearlman did best, venture into lyrical territory few rock bands at the time did: extraterrestrials, drug deals gone bad, the Hells Angels at the deadly Altamont rock festival, astronomy, the Canadian mounted police force, a female serial killer.
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In the early '70s, Blue Öyster Cult was more of an underground sensation until Roeser's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" became a #12 pop hit in 1976. Decades later, the song inspired a popular Saturday Night Live sketch from Will Ferrell and catchphrase from Christopher Walken, who uttered the line.
They rose out of clubland, co-headlined arena tours with Black Sabbath—the Black & Blue Tour. They had subsequent FM radio hits with "This Ain't the Summer of Love," "Godzilla," "Burnin' for You" and "Joan Crawford." Over the years, they made 17 studio albums and sold approximately 14-15 million copies, says Bloom.
The hit-making days don't come like they used to and the band—with longtime stalwarts guitarist-keyboardist Richie Castellano, bassist Kasim Sulton and drummer Jules Rodino—is currently without a record deal. Bloom says the fun is still there.
Albert Bouchard recently joined up for several shows featuring the entirety of Agents of Fortune. And Joe joined Albert and the guys for a New York reunion show at B.B. King's in June to raise money for the American Lung Association, in honor of Lanier, whose life was claimed by COPD in 2013.
Asked about their main impetus now, Bloom, born December 1, 1944, says, "It's a good question. My wife asks me that question. The alternative is not to do this. We play because we like playing, to get up and out and do what we like. It's what we always wanted when we were young guys and it's a lifestyle choice."
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As a high school baseball player growing up in Maine, I used to pump myself up for games by playing Raw Power by Iggy & the Stooges –the ultimate adrenaline rush. My friends and team mates didn't quite get it. They liked Chicago (the band). But that was OK: the punk rock revolution was around the corner, and that's where my musical taste locked in with many others, bored with corporate rock. Yes, I had Slade, Mott, Bowie and Roxy to get me there, too. That punk (and post) period was a time of extreme excitement (friction, joy, conflict) that inspired me to write about what I loved. And it opened the doors to even more worlds.
I wrote about pop music and other arts for the Boston Globe for 25-plus years, with more than 10,000 stories to my credit before leaving in 2005. Since then I've freelanced for the Boston Phoenix, Boston Herald, Where magazine, Boston Common, Yankee magazine online, Time Out Boston, US News & World Report, the Cape Cod Times. I host the XFINITY on Demand music/interview show "Boston Rock/Talk," and write and edit www.jimsullivanink.com, which serves as a critical guide to arts and events around metro Boston.
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#1 Wicked D 14 August, 2016, 14:54
Great article, thank you for sharing this \m/
#2 kellyjdrummer 14 September, 2016, 19:17
Great write-up. I know most of this info, but there is never an article written about BOC that doesn't have a new morsel or twist to the story.
This 62 year old drummer picked up their first album before the wax was even cold.
#3 Rob 2 December, 2018, 01:48
I recall that there was once (upon a time) a billboard at the beginning of the Long Island Expressway in Queens, NY, just beyond the toll booths which stated, "Welcome to Long Island, home of the Blue Oyster Cult".


In 1946 with the resignation of de Gaulle and two referendums, the Fourth Republic marked a twelve year period of political turmoil with 18 different prime-ministers as France struggled to rediscover its identity. Dissatisfied with the state of affairs in 1947 the RPF (Rassemblement du Peuple Francais) began organising a series of national strikes, and in 1948 the situation resulted in bread rationing and the devaluation of the Franc.
This exhibition at Hanina Fine Arts charts these developments through a selection of representative works from this extraordinary era. Including Camille Bryen's important Tachiste work "Fomalhaut" exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in 1957; and Abstraction Lyrique works by Jean Le Moal and James Pichette; CoBrA artist Georges Collignon's "Vives Controverses" exhibited in the international CoBrA exhibition in 1951; geometric abstract works by "Espace" group founders Silvano Bozzolini and Emile Gilioli; avant-garde think-tank "Centre de Recherche" organiser Jean Deyrolle; prominent women artists Marie Raymond and Huguette Bertrand; and émigrés Pierre Dmitrienko and Youla Chapoval.
R. Silverman Private Collection, New York.
To be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the artist's work, currently being prepared by Rurik Dmitrienko.


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Law & Popular Culture Video Collection
DVD Titles: A - B
Law & Popular Culture Video Collection: DVD Titles: A - B
These DVDs are available for check out to UCLA Law Students, Faculty and Staff. Click on the title link for circulation status.
DVD Alphabetical by Title: A
Absence of Malice
Call Number: PN 1997 A28 1997
When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of an union head, the man's life begins to unravel.
After a woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.
Adam's Rib
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Call Number: PN 1997 A332 1999
Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Advise & Consent
Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
A dying millionnaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation.
About a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the northeastern coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the free man who led the revolt.
In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred.
Based on a novel and subsequent stage play by Agatha Christie; ten people are invited to an isolated island, only to be killed one-by-one. Could one of them be the killer?
Angels with Dirty Faces
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
ngie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery.
Another Stakeout
Prankster cops Chris and Bill are joined by a Gina from the DA's office to stakeout a lakeside home.
A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union.
The Asphalt Jungle
A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel.
DVD Alphabetical by Title: B
Call Number: PN1997 .B368 2003
Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.
Call Number: PN 1997 B36 2000
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Call Number: PN 1997 B363 2002
Lavinia and Suzette, former rock groupies and best friends, reconnect after 20 years; one is still as wild as ever, while the other has adopted a more conservative lifestyle.
Barbarians at the Gate
The president of a major tobacco company decides to buy the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as other companies make their own offers.
Batman must battle Two-Face and The Riddler with help of an amourous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
The Battle of Algiers
A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. A look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it.
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years
Bedtime for Bonzo
College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Call Number: PN1997 .B47527 2001
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete.
A woman starts work on a farm, and gets to know the owner. They get on well, and she also gets on with his children. He asks her to stay on when the work is finished. Things are not what they seem, and we discover the woman is actually an FBI agent
Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.
Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting.
A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war.
A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance.
To ruin a western town, a corrupt political boss appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th-century English legal system
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.
Documentary film-maker Bob Saunders and his wife Carol attend a group therapy session and upon returning to their Los Angeles home, the newly "enlightened" couple chastise their closest friends, Ted and Alice, for not coming to grips with their true feelings.
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Body of Evidence
A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer.
The Bonfire of Vanities
Financial "Master of the Universe" Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.
Call Number: PN 1997 B6798 2002
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill. But then Jacqueline's more quietly attractive assistant Angela, who has been dating Marcus' best friend, shows herself more than a little concerned by his parlous state.
Born in East L.A.
Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant, he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen, and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home.
Black Americans boycott the public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement.
Brain Donors
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
Breaker Morant
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary
When a lonely guy meets a woman on the Internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to be with him, and proceeds to wreak havoc on his middle-class life.
Broken Blossoms
A frail waif, abused by her brutish boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
The Brother from Another Planet
A mute alien is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem in this thought-provoking cult classic.
The Burning Bed
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
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Q: Should a 502 HTTP status code be used if a proxy receives no response at all? According to the RFC:

10.5.3 502 Bad Gateway
  The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request.

Can invalid response also mean no response at all (e.g. connection refused)?

A: Yes. Empty or incomplete headers or response body typically caused by broken connections or server side crash can cause 502 errors if accessed via a gateway or proxy.
For more information about the network errors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes


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Q: Predicates and Indirectly Proving the last step of Mathematical Induction Okay to illustrate this problem, I'm going to need to give an example, and go through the steps of Mathematical Induction to show where my question is aimed at.
Example : Prove that $$ n^2 \geq 2n + 3,for,  n\geq 3$$

Setting up in symbolic form we get :
$$D = \{ x |x \in \mathbb{Z}, x \geq 3 \}$$
$$P(n) = n^2 \geq 2n + 3$$

Required to Prove: $$ \forall n \in D, P(n)$$

Proof:
Base Case : Show that P(3) holds
$$3^2 \geq 9$$
$$2(3)+3 = 9$$
$$ \therefore LHS = RHS$$
Therefore the base case holds.

Inductive Hypothesis: $$Assume: P(k) = k^2 \geq 2k +3$$

Inductive Step : Show P(k+1) holds
Now this is where my question comes in. What I'm supposed to arrive at is the inequality below $$(k+1)^2 \geq 2(k+1) + 3$$
What I will arrive at however is something other than this, and I want to know if what I've arrived at is Mathematically correct, and whether it has proven what we've set out to prove by Mathematical Induction. This is it below.

$$(k+1)^2 = (k^2) + 2k + 1$$
$$(k+1)^2 \geq (2k+3) + 2k + 1 : by, I.H.$$
$$(k+1)^2 \geq 4k + 4$$
$$(k+1)^2 \geq 4(k+1)$$
$$(k+1) \geq 4$$
$$ \therefore k \geq 3$$
$$QED?$$
My Conclusion : Obviously, any k greater than or equal to 3 makes the last inequality $$k \geq 3$$ I reason that the inductive step, together with the fact that P(3) is true, results in the conclusion that $$\forall n \in D, P(n)$$.
The reason why I would think that this is a valid proof, and proves what I set out to prove using Mathematical Induction, has to do with the binary nature of Predicates.
Remember a predicate can be true or false, but not both. In the Induction Step, where we have to show that P(k+1) is true, we don't need to get it into the form (or maybe we do need it in this form I stand to be corrected, if I'm wrong please correct me here) :
$$(k+1)^2 \geq 2(k+1) + 3$$
Instead of getting it into that form, since we are only trying to prove that the predicate P(k+1) is true, if there is no contradiction in the last step, i.e. as long as we reach something that is obviously true, then the predicate must be true. Only if we reach a contradiction then it must be false. Since there is no contradiction that I've reached in this proof, and $$k \geq 3, \forall k \in D$$
this must have indirectly proven the predicate P(k+1) to be true (again I stand to be corrected here)
And since we have used/incorporated the Inductive Hypothesis (our assumption) to show that no contradiction occurs when we have k+1, we have essentially shown P(k+1) to be true, even though we did not get P(k+1) into the form $$(k+1)^2 \geq 2(k+1) + 3 $$.
Question in a nutshell:
Essentially what I'm asking here in a nutshell is if it's fine to indirectly prove the Predicate in the inductive step (by showing that there is no contradiction when we incorporate the IH) rather than directly proving it be getting it into the form we a are looking for.

If any answers need the use of higher/more advanced Mathematics, please don't be afraid to post it, I'm always eager to learn new Math.

A: Esentially what you have proved is nothing else than:
Assume : $ k^2 \geq 2k + 3 $ then $ k \geq 3 $
This can be easily derived:
$$
k^2 - 2k - 3 = (k-3)(k+1) \geq 0 \rightarrow k \geq 3
$$
So your proof is correct (is just a rearrange of the above steps)
but it is not using the inductive principle,
since you are not proving that $P(k+1)$ is true.
What you have done is find the set that belongs to an assumption.
$$IH(k) \rightarrow  k \in A$$

A: As @Ethan Bolker mentioned in the comment to my post above :

"Reaching something that is obviously true" is not a proof!

Which is exactly what I did here. For anyone who would like to read further how I realized this, the comments of this question : Is this direct proof of an inequality wrong? help to clarify why this is the case.


Spirit of the Century & ME!
So loads of you know that my friends, Evil Hat Productions (the good people who brought you the Dresden Files RPG) have also got an award-winning pulp fiction RPG called SPIRIT OF THE CENTURY. I mentioned their Kickstarter for their new fiction line a couple days ago. They've blown past the goals that will get subscribers the entire DINOCALYPSE trilogy by Chuck Wendig, and now they're gonna go for The Big Stretch.
If they hit $15,000, they'll be producing a stand-alone SotC pulp fiction novel by Atomic Robo creator Brian Clevinger. Brian will be writing about Benjamin Hu–think Sherlock Holmes from Hong Kong, running around like Indiana Jones as an olympic-class fencer.
And if they hit $20,000, I get to write the next one.
No, really, I actually have the time to do this and I'm tremendously excited about the chance, so please! Go forth and help make it happen! There are loads of awesome rewards and exciting potential, and this is a crazy fun chance for me to do something I will probably never have another opportunity to do, so, um, I'm gonna be over here in the corner holding my breath while we wait to see what happens.
Now Kit, you *just said* a couple of posts ago that you didn't have time to play in the new Shared Worlds world. And here you are sharing in a world!
Sigh. I'll just shuffle over here and pledge some money, then.
Just pledged. It sounds like a great project. Fingers crossed!


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Typhoon Haiyan – Orla Fagan Radio Reports from The Philippines
12/11/2013 BlogBaroness Valerie Amos, Blog edited by Ed Darragh, Marian Finucane, Orla Fagan Blog, RTE Radio 1, Sean O'Rourke, The Philippines, Typhoon Haiyanfagansblog
Orla Fagan; Spokesperson for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Philippines. From Al Jazeera News, VOA, Bloomberg, Financial Times, BBC World, CNN World, ABC Australia to Marian Finucane and Sean O'Rourke on RTE Radio 1, Orla has been working around the clock bringing essential updates on one of the world's greatest disasters – Typhoon Haiyan known locally in the Philippines as 'Yolanda', live from the UN / Humanitarian Mission offices in Manila.
Orla Speaking to Sean O'Rourke Wednesday 13th November 2013 [Travelling with Valerie Amos UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator in Tacloban]
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Orla Speaking to Sean O'Rourke Monday 11th November 2013
IN: 01:02:00
Orla speaking to Marian Finucane Sunday 10th November 2013
IN: 58:53
Orla speaking to Marian Finucane Saturday 9th November 2013
Dazed survivors of a super typhoon that swept through the central Philippines killing an estimated (unconfirmed) 10,000 possible deaths and millions of people left begging for help and scavenged for food, water and medicine, threatening to overwhelm military and rescue resources. * Death toll could rise once isolated coastal villages are reached. * Roads, airports and bridges destroyed. * U.S. sends Marines and sailors to help. The government has not confirmed officials' estimates over the weekend of 10,000 deaths, but the toll from Haiyan, one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded, is clearly far higher than the current official count of 2400. The Armed Forces in the central Philippines reported a death toll of 942.
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/typhoon-survivors-beg-for-help-philippine-rescuers-struggle-29743547.html
Volunteers at @philredcross HQ have been helping prepare relief supplies for affected areas @PunainenRisti #Haiyan pic.twitter.com/TRoe3yYQsy
— Irish Red Cross (@irishredcross) November 11, 2013
Bodies litter streets as at least 2400 killed by Typhoon Haiyan – latest report say the number dead may increase.
RESCUERS in the central Philippines counted thousands dead and many more injured today, a day after one of the most powerful typhoons on record ripped through the region, wiping away buildings and levelling seaside homes with massive storm surges….. read on…..
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/bodies-litter-streets-as-at-least-100-killed-by-typhoon-haiyan-29740182.html
Typhoon in Philippines Casts Long Shadow Over U.N. Talks on Climate Treaty http://t.co/ESHzlyaCzt
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 12, 2013
The typhoon that struck the Philippines produced an outpouring of emotion on Monday at United Nations talks on a global climate treaty in Warsaw, where delegates were quick to suggest that a warming planet had turned the storm into a lethal monster….read on….
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/world/asia/typhoon-in-philippines-casts-long-shadow-over-un-talks-on-climate-treaty.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0
RTE GALLERY OF TYPHOON PICTURES
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In pictures: Typhoon Haiyan (bbc.co.uk)
Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) To see more photos and videos of… (instagram.com)
Boracay Island: 'Significant' Damage from Typhoon Haiyan; Neighborhoods 'Devastated' (theepochtimes.com)
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When Nick Cafardo recently wrote in the Boston Globe about the Tigers possibly being interested in Cubs right hander Matt Garza, it sounded like speculation to me so I didn't take it too seriously. There apparently might be something to it though as Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports is now reporting the same thing. As you might expect, there are several other teams who are interested including the Yankees and Blue Jays.
The 28-year-old Garza posted a 3.32 ERA and impressive 197/63 K/BB ratio in 198 innings last year. He also finished among the National League's top ten pitchers with a 2.95 FIP and 20 Base Runs Saved. More importantly, Garza has maintained consistent success since becoming a regular starter averaging 197 innings and a 3.72 ERA over the last four seasons. Each year, his ERA has been below 4.00.
Garza's arsenal features a fastball with an average velocity of 93.8. For comparison purposes, Max Scherzer averages 93.1 MPH. Garza's second best pitch is his slider and he also throws a curve ball and change up.
Garza is clearly a very solid number two or three starter on a contending team. The catch is that he is just two years away from free agency and will be costly in terms of prospects. The Tigers might not have to gut their entire system for two years of Garza as they would have for four years of Gio Gonzalez. However, the Cubs would likely require Tigers prized righty Jacob Turner as part of the deal.
Should the Tigers give up Turner for Garza? One argument is that they would be trading six years of control over Turner for two years of Garza. On the flip side, Turner may never be as good a Garza already is. I don't worry too much about years of team control when it comes to pitchers, because they are so fragile and unpredictable, you just don't know where they'll be two years from now. Never mind six.
The bigger question for me is, do you want to trade your best prospect trading chip for two years of Garza or do you want to save him for something bigger? It might depend on what else they can do. If they are able to acquire Garza and also make an upgrade or two offensively, this would put them in really good position to win it all the next couple of years. Otherwise, they might be better off waiting to see how things look prior to next season's deadline.


Martin Giesel, Karl R. Gegenfurtner; Effects of material on the color appearance of real objects. Journal of Vision 2010;10(7):452. doi: 10.1167/10.7.452.
The objects in our environment are made from a wide range of materials. The color appearance of the objects is influenced by the geometry of the illumination, the three-dimensional structure of the objects, and the surface reflectance properties of their materials. Only few studies have investigated the effect of material properties on color perception. In most of these studies the stimuli were three-dimensional objects rendered on a computer screen. Here we set out to investigate color perception for real objects made from different materials. The surface properties of the materials ranged from smooth and glossy (porcelain) to matte and corrugated (crumpled paper). We tested objects with similar colors made from different materials and objects made from the same material that differed only in color. The objects were placed on black cloth in a chamber under controlled lighting conditions. In an asymmetric matching task observers matched the color and lightness of the objects by adjusting the chromaticity and the luminance of a homogeneous, uniformly colored disk presented against a black background on a CRT screen. The screen was located close to the objects so that it was not directly illuminated by the lamps that illuminated the objects. To determine the chromatic and luminance distributions of the objects their surfaces were measured with a spectroradiometer at numerous points from the viewpoint of the observers. We also measured the chromatic and luminance distributions of the materials when they could be presented as approximately flat surfaces (paper and wool). The observers' matches were measured with the spectroradiometer. In general observers' matches were close to the true chromatic and luminance distributions due to the objects. However, observers systematically tended to discount the variations in reflected light induced by the geometry of the objects and rather matched the light reflected from the materials themselves.
Supported by DFG grant Ge 879/9.


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HowdyCon: Aussie journalist Steve Cannane's response to Marty Rathbun
By Tony Ortega | June 29, 2017
[Steve Cannane and your proprietor in Denver]
Saturday night in Denver, those of us who were there had the privilege of hearing London-based Australian journalist Steve Cannane address the crowd at our annual gathering, HowdyCon. He had prepared remarks for his talk, and we obtained his permission to publish those notes here on the blog today. Here's what Steve told us that night…
I was one of a number of journalists who got a mention in Marty Rathbun's surprisingly well shot video diary and I asked Tony if he wanted a response for the Bunker.
I told him I'd wait until Marty finished, because in one of his earlier posts he said he had more to say about Lawrence Wright's analysis of the Australian inquiry and I thought I better wait and see what else he had to offer.
I didn't realise at time that Marty's page by page analysis of Wright's book Going Clear could end up taking longer to complete than Robert Caro's five volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Because I'm worried I might actually be dead before Marty finishes up his video series, which I have now fallen asleep in front of three times, I've decided to issue an interim response, here at Howdycon.
I'm not going to address the rubbish Marty spouts about Tony, about Mike Rinder, about Hubbard curing himself of his non-existent war wounds, or his strange defense of Fletcher Prouty. To start with I wanted to deal with the 90 seconds where he mentions me and the inquiry in Australia.
He says the following:
"Page 91, he talks about the Australian government's inquiry and I note I went through with him in some detail, Ewen Cameron being involved in this and I'll talk about the significance of that about the prosecutor Dax and the fact that it was really a Kangaroo Court."
Marty's talking about how he was telling Larry Wright about the inquiry into Scientology in Australia in the 1960s. The first of its kind anywhere in the world.
In just four lines Marty says four things that are either inaccurate or lack the evidence to back them up – not a great strike rate for someone who is criticising other people's work line by line.
1) It was not an Australian government inquiry. It was an inquiry set up by the state government of Victoria in 1963.
2) How was Ewen Cameron involved in this inquiry? And which Ewen Cameron is Marty talking about? Is it the Scottish born psychiatrist and former President of the American Psychiatric Association involved in the MK Ultra program who has featured in Scientology's Freedom magazine a number of times? If so where's the evidence he had anything to do with the Australian inquiry? Is he referring to Ewen Cameron who was previously a Minister for Health in Victoria, and was in favour of an inquiry, but his advice was ignored by the Premier Sir Henry Bolte which means he was hardly influential?
3) He talks about "prosecutor Dax" referring to Cunningham Dax, who was a psychiatrist not a prosecutor, which underlines how little Marty knows about the inquiry. The Scientologists believe Dax was the man behind the inquiry – my research suggests there were other far more influential figures. If Marty did give information to Larry Wright about the Australian inquiry, Wright was wise to ignore it.
4) He refers to the inquiry as a "kangaroo court." It wasn't. A "kangaroo court" normally refers to a sham set of legal proceedings, where the judge is owned and the verdict is set up in advance, something that tends to happen in dictatorships not democracies. In my book I'm critical of elements of the inquiry – and some of the moralising of Kevin Anderson QC who ran the inquiry – but it was hardly some kind of star chamber as Marty is suggesting.
The fact that Marty has used the term "kangaroo court" is interesting in itself. It's straight out of the Hubbard playbook. In fact it was the name of book published by the Hubbard College of Scientology in 1967 that was issued as a riposte to the inquiry's findings. Bound in black and gold featuring a kangaroo resplendent in a judge's wig on the cover, it took a very patronising attitude to Australia and the state that dared to set up an inquiry about Scientology and issue such a scathing assessment of both the organisation and Hubbard.
Among the pearls of wisdom in Kangaroo Court:
"Only a society founded by criminals, organised by criminals and devoted to making people criminals could come to such a conclusion. A criminal society would applaud brutality, regard leucotomy, lobotomy and other major operations depriving a being of the use of his brain, as necessary to relieve a desperate situation."
Another of my favourites quotes from is this:
"The Foundation of Victoria consists of the riff-raff of London's slums – robbers, murderers, prostitutes, fences, thieves – the scourings of Newgate and Bedlam."
Of course Hubbard was happy to make money off the riff-raff of Victoria when about 100 of them moved to Saint Hill around the same time Kangaroo Court was written.
So it's very interesting that Marty uses the term "kangaroo court" – straight from the title of Scientology's rebuttal of the Anderson Inquiry.
After Marty labels the inquiry a "kangaroo court," he moves onto criticising my book, saying "the guy's like a terrible writer."
As he says it, he's sighing and his eyes are rolling so much, it's almost as if he's just popped some of the "pinks and greys" Hubbard was on when he wrote OT III in Tangiers.
Now Marty might be right about this. I may well be a terrible writer, but he provides no context like a good literary critic should. I mean, I'd like to know exactly how bad my book really is.
Is it worse than Battlefield Earth?
As impenetrable as Dianetics?
Even more substandard than some of the book-shaped objects that Marty had released in recent years?
As he continues his rant, Marty accuses me of "piling on" on Scientology:
"As much as the guy Cannane tried to pile on, because he's playing the pile on game now because it's easy to go after Scientology and so he's just regurgitating these things that have been said, even Cannane who is not, who wasn't trying to come to this conclusion, the description he gave of the Australian inquiry and that whole episode to which he went into some depth because his book is in Australia, describes a kangaroo court and a witch hunt to the tee."
Where to start? Which one is it Marty? Am I part of a pile on or have I uncovered material which helps you argue there were flaws in the inquiry in Australia? Am I just some regurgitator of old material? Or have I uncovered new material that you now want to regurgitate ––in a way that suits your agenda?
Marty's line "he wasn't trying to come to this conclusion" says it all about how distorted his thinking is. I didn't start my book trying to come to any form of conclusion. I wanted to find out the truth. To get to the bottom of the story of Scientology and how it related to Australia. You only want to come to conclusions after you have weighed up the evidence that you have gathered.
Mark Colvin, a good friend of mine who died recently and was one of the best journalists of his generation, used to liken journalism to looking at a sculpture or painting at an art gallery – walking around it and looking at it from each and every angle. That's what I tried to do with my book.
I quote Scientologists who thought the inquiry in Australia was unfair, but I also spoke to people who participated in the inquiry and thought it was perfectly reasonable. I outline the key role Scientologists played in exposing psychiatric abuses in a private hospital in Sydney and the heroic efforts of a Scientologist nurse who went in undercover and accessed medical files and gathered evidence of malpractice.
I quote Marty talking about how James Packer benefited from Scientology.
I make the case that the ban on Scientology in three states in Australia was wrong and defend the right of people to believe in whatever they want to believe in.
How is any of this part of a "pile on"? To quote Marty's own words about Larry Wright back at him, "the facts don't suit his narrative."
In his videos, he takes morsels of information, distorts them and shapes them into the narrative that he wants to tell at this point in time.
I don't know why Marty is saying what he's saying now. I'm not going to guess at his motivations, like he likes to guess about others. But I will say I am grateful to him for the two interviews he gave to me back when he was speaking out about Scientology, and speaking out about things he had first-hand experience with. When he did, he was an excellent source, and helped me immensely with my chapters relating to Nicole Kidman and Rupert Murdoch.
Unfortunately, Marty is now engaging in the kinds of distortions and over the top language that was a hallmark of Hubbard. This is at its worst when he describes people who oppose Scientology, or who are critical of Scientology, as being in some form of cult.
Marty likes to portray himself as a deep thinker and if you have read his blog posts over the years they often refer to books he's read and some of the ideas that have emerged from those books. But his capacity for critical thinking seems to have abandoned him of late.
By describing critics and opponents and journalists who cover Scientology as being part of what he calls the "Anti-Scientology Cult" or "ASC," is some of the laziest thinking and analysis I've come across. Marty uses terms in his videos that you learn in first year philosophy like "sophistry" and "straw man arguments" and the Latin term "reductio ad absurdum."
One fallacy he fails to mention and it applies to his argument about the Anti-Scientology Cult is the concept of false equivalence. Cults control people. They tend to have strong charismatic leaders who use discipline, punishment, mind control and threats of deprivation to their followers as a means of controlling them.
I don't see any of the people Marty mentions in this so called ASC controlling anybody.
Do they make them wear a preposterous naval uniform?
Make them sign billion-year contracts?
Send them off the the RPF?
Enforce a policy of disconnection so they will never see their family members again?
Engage in human trafficking?
Throw children in a chain locker?
Tell them if they leaving "the ASC" that eternal life will allude them?
Ring them up and hound them for money?
Tell them they have to buy whole new sets of books now that the punctuation has been modified by the cult leader?
Tell them they can't read negative press about "the ASC" on the internet?
It's an absurd argument and is deeply offensive.
It diminishes and trivialises the suffering of people who have been exposed to the real trauma of a real cult. People here tonight like Bernie Headley and Phil and Willie Jones who can't see their children because of Scientology's policy of disconnection.
It is an outrageous false equivalence and if Marty's going to try and shoot holes in other people's arguments he ought to get his own arguments in order first.
The last time I spoke to Marty on the phone was in June 2015. I looked up my notes from that conversation earlier today. I was struck by the section where I was telling him some of the stories I had uncovered and I asked him to keep it to himself until publication and he said no problem.
"I'm not in the gossip circles," he told me "I've been very critical of them [he's talking about people he considers anti-scientologists] because I think it takes on the trappings of a cult in a way. So don't worry about that."
Notice the moderation in his tone. He says, "the trappings of a cult in a way." That has now morphed into absolutist terms. Critics are now members of a cult.
People he once praised, he now trashes. Long term friends or journalists and film makers he was once happy to work with are now written off as liars or members of "the troll farm". Something has changed. Only Marty, and perhaps whoever is still close to him, knows what's driven that change.
— Steve Cannane
Chris Shelton from HowdyCon!
Wow, we didn't know Chris was putting together a video while he was at HowdyCon. We're humbled by everything in this very appreciated look at our annual gathering.
Aaron Smith-Levin on the claims made by Marty Rathbun
Jeffrey Augustine talks with Aaron about the recent unpleasantness.
Bonus items from our tipsters
Sacre bleu! Scientologists marching against les drogues in France…
The planned Kansas City Ideal Org sure will be responsible for a lot of territory!
Jim Meskimen and Erika Christensen and that favorite necklace of Jim's that is totally not what you think it is.
Scientology disconnection, a reminder
Bernie Headley has not seen his daughter Stephanie in 4,796 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 2,553 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 1,899 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 2,393 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 1,433 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy in 1,145 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 671 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 4,760 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 1,900 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 2,220 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 2,195 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 551 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin in 4,853 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 960 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis for 1,362 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 1,235 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 816 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike in 1,321 days.
Mary Jane Sterne has not seen her daughter Samantha in 1,565 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 12,674 days.
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