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IIFM Bhopal PGDFM & PGDSM Admission 2019. Fees & Placement 2018
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More Details Emerge about JVC's HD Everio (GZ-HD7)
From a JVC Press Release WORLDS FIRST FULL HD 1920x1080i CONSUMER CAMCORDER JOINS JVC EVERIO HARD DRIVE CAMCORDER LINE HD Everio Offers Five Hours of High-Definition Recording and Broadcast HD Camera Lens LAS VEGAS, March 7, 2007 JVC next month will deliver a new high definition camcorder that provides full HD 1920x1080i video quality combined with the convenience of hard drive recording. The new JVC Everio GZ-HD7 allows consumers to conveniently capture and share their memories in full high definition without the need for removable tapes or discs, and offers the simplicity of a point-and-shoot camcorder combined with the features, technology and manual controls that appeal to the serious videographer. With a 60GB built-in hard drive the JVC HD Everio provides up to five hours of full HD 1920x1080i recording at a high 30Mbps(MAX). To ensure the best possible image quality, it features three CCDs and a Fujinon lens. Other features include optical image stabilization, a full array of manual controls, multiple digital connections, bundled editing and archiving software, and availability of an optional HD Everio SHARE STATION for easily transferring high definition footage to disc. In addition to its highest quality Full HD recording mode that records five hours of full HD 1920x1080i MPEG2 Transport Stream video with MPEG 1 Layer 2 audio, the HD Everio offers a long seven-hour SP mode with a resolution of 1440x1080i, and an HDV-i.LINK streaming compatible constant bit rate 1440CBR mode with a resolution of 1440x1080i and a five-hour capacity. Also, because it records in the MPEG2 Transport Stream video format, HD Everio recordings can be archived onto Blu-ray discs using provided software and a high definition Blu-ray recorder. FHD (Full HD High Quality Mode), 1920x1080i, MPEG2-TS / MP2 (MPEG1 Layer 2), Variable Bit Rate (VBR): Max 30Mbps Ave. 26.6Mbps, approx. 5hr SP (Long Time 7 Hour Mode), 1440x1080i, MPEG2-TS / MP2 (MPEG1 Layer 2), VBR: Max 22Mbp, Ave. 19Mbps, approx. 7hr 1440CBR (Constant Bit Rate Mode) 1440x1080i, MPEG2-TS / MP2 (MPEG1 Layer 2), Constant Bit Rate (CBR): 27Mbps approx. 5hr For bright, realistic colors the HD Everio uses three 1/5-inch CCDs one each for red, green and blue, incorporating 16:9 progressive scan CCDs and pixel shift technology. JVCs new HD Gigabrid video engine, which processes in full 1920x1080p progressive video, is the result of years of experience in signal-processing technology, and uses five digital noise-reduction algorithms as well as signal processing to improve vertical scan resolution by approximately 30% over JVCs previous interlace technology for an extremely clear sharp image. In addition, to ensure precise prism/CCD registration, JVC has incorporated Fujinon mounting technology used in professional camcorders. Fujinon also supplies the HD Everios 10x optical zoom lens which provides superior optical performance and nearly the same brightness (F1.8-1.9) throughout its 39.5~395 35mm equivalent (f=3.3mm~33mm) zoom range by virtue of its three aspherical lens elements, one made of indexed glass. In addition, the lens surface is coated with a new Electronic Beam Coating (EBC) that greatly reduces degradation caused by light reflecting off the lens surfaces, leading to greater light transmission and reduced flaring and ghosting. To preserve that quality, the HD Everio features optical image stabilization, avoiding the signal degradation caused by electronic image stabilization, which might be particularly noticeable in HD footage. In short, HD Everio matches its high-definition recording capability with a proven HD lens section that has proven its value in the broadcast industry. While the HD Everio offers fully automated operation for point and shoot simplicity, it also offers a wide range of manual controls. These include a manual focus ring, manual white balance, exposure control, shutter priority mode, aperture priority mode and sharpness control. In addition, a Focus Assist function displays the edge of the in-focus elements in color while the rest of the image is black-and-white, making it easy to check which image elements are in focus. And a Zebra function displays a striped pattern across highlight areas on the image in the LCD monitor, making it easier to manually set the exposure. Also included is a mic input for connecting an external microphone. The HD Everio is equipped with three digital interfaces USB, HDMI and i.LINK. USB is primarily for file saving, HDMI for digital viewing on large screen displays, and iLink streams high definition video in full resolution or the 1440CBR mode. High definition video streamed by i.LINK in the 1440CBR mode is HDV-compatible and allows footage to be editing using HDV-compatible software (functionality might be limited with some applications). HD recorded material is down-converted for output in DV over i.LINK, or in standard definition via the analog component/ S-Video/ composite output. The HD Everio camcorder also connects via a USB 2.0 cable to an optional JVC DVD burner, the HD Everio SHARE STATION CU-VD40, which is controlled directly through the camcorder. The SHARE STATION can be used to create HD data discs to archive HD video clip files. The SHARE STATION also plays these HD data discs. There are several options for selecting clips to be burned to disc — all clips, manual selection of specific clips, clip files not yet copied, by date, video playlists created in-camera and comprised of multiple user-selected clips, or by event type for those clips that have been tagged with an icon representing an event category (e.g. birthday, baby, graduation, vacation, etc.). The SHARE STATION archives these HD video clip programs and files to both DVD-R and DVD-RW 12cm discs, recording approximately 40 minutes in full HD on an 8.5GB dual-layer DVD-R disc. It also allows for the creation of digital stills in a JPEG format. Dual-layer DVD-R is also supported, which means that the combination of the HD Everio and the CU-VD40 provides a PC-less solution to the high-capacity archiving needs of HD content. Archived HD and still files can be played back easily in ultra-high quality via the CU-VD40s HDMI output without the use of a computer or the camcorder. The HD Everio SHARE STATION also allows easy playback of HD archived files in analog component or down-converted SD video. Separately from the HD Everio, the CU-VD40 can be used as a DVD burner for PCs. For editing and archiving via PC the HD Everio comes with the Cyberlink BD Solution software suite for Windows. This includes PowerDirector for HD video editing, PowerProducer for authoring high definition Blu-ray discs and DVD-Video discs, and PowerCinema for HD file management and playback. Also included is a plug-in that works with Apple iMovie HD and Final Cut Pro video software for the Macintosh. Optional accessories for the HD Everio include a 46mm telephoto and a 46mm wide conversion lens, a battery charger and three additional batteries including standard, high power and extended power. Additional options include a stereo microphone. Pricing and availability: Model Available Nationally Advertised Value HD Everio HD Hard Disk Camcorder GZ-HD7 April $1,799.95 HD Everio SHARE STATION CU-VD40 April $399.95 About JVC Company of America JVC Company of America, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, is a division of JVC Americas Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Victor Company of Japan Ltd., and a holding company for JVC companies located in North, Central, and South America. JVC distributes a complete line of video and audio equipment, including high definition displays, camcorders, DVD players and recorders, satellite systems, home and portable audio equipment, mobile entertainment products and recording media. For further product information, visit JVCs Web site at http://www.jvc.com or call 800-526-5308. # # #

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Q: Run flutter from vs code to physical phone without Android studio or emulator on windows I started to Learn flutter toolkit need to run the app on physical phone no need to install emulator or Android studio just I install:
A)Flutter sdk and add to windows path.
B)install vs code to use as editor , just add flutter plugin to it
C) connect my physical Android phone and already work in developer mode.
The problem when I run command
Give me that my phone not connect and when run app using F5 in vs code ask for emulator I don't need that I need physical phone only.
That is flutter doctor I have any body can help me what I need to add to my PC no need Android studio no need to add any emulator.
$ flutter doctor

[√Flutter (Channel stable, v1.12.13+hotfix.9, on Microsoft
Windows [Version 10.0.17763.1158], locale ar-SA)
 [XAndroid toolchain - develop for Android devices
X Unable to locate Android SDK.
  Install Android Studio from:
https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
  On first launch it will assist you in installing the Android
SDK components.
  (or visit https://flutter.dev/setup/#android-setup for
detailed instructions).
  If the Android SDK has been installed to a custom location, set ANDROID_HOME to that location.
  You may also want to add it to your PATH environment variable.

[!Android Studio (not installed)
[√ VS Code (version 1.44.2)
[!Connected device
No devices available

Doctor found issues in 3 categories.

A: You must need android sdk to run flutter app on your android and xcode for running on iphone. Download android sdk and check again.

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Your most valuable business asset may not be the raw materials, cash reserves, or even the technology found within your company. It's the knowledge of the people on your team. Yet, a good number of executives overlook the value of this collective knowledge, commonly called Intellectual Capital.
Case in point: Several years ago, I attended a meeting with executives and managers from one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world. One of the top executives stood before the large crowd and exclaimed that their most valuable asset was their brand recognition. At that point, I knew this company was heading for trouble.
As I watched the business news headlines over the next couple of years, I could see how this icon of American manufacturing struggled to survive.
The lesson: Brand recognition is very important, but there are other things that are even more valuable to a company's health and longevity. One of those things is something less tangible, but extremely impactful.
Intellectual capital is a term that covers the value of intangible assets. The three dimensions of intellectual capital are Human, Relational and Structural.
These are all exactly how they sound – human resources are your company's people; relational capital is comprised of your relationships with customers, vendors and other constituents; and your business structure includes infrastructure, processes, and databases of information. An example of structural capital is intellectual property.
Over the past 35 years, I have observed that the most valuable assets of an organization tend to be the knowledge, talent, experience, capabilities, and vision of the people within the organization. These, coupled with the value of their patents, customer bases, and good will, equal what is called their intellectual assets.
When leaders understand how to formalize, capture, and leverage their intellectual capital to produce higher-valued assets, their profits tend to soar. There is even an emerging business strategy that focuses on creating, shaping, updating and taking "stock" of intellectual capital.
It requires having the strategic vision to blend all dimensions of intellectual capital (people, relationships, and structure) to develop a management system that is measurable, yet pliable enough to change how the intellectual capital dimensions are blended.
There is more to the process than will fit into this one article, but the concept is this: By using a multiple stage process that is governed by evolutionary logic, the intellectual capital management includes interconnected sets of practices: strategic alignment, exploration and exploitation, measurement and reporting.
One important part of capitalizing intellectual capital is to keep the knowledge pipeline full. One of the best ways to do that is to convert information into actionable knowledge.
In 1990, I predicted organizations worldwide would increasingly create new economic value by converting information into knowledge, sharing that knowledge internally to increase its value, and then selling it in non-competing industries to a global client base. When the icon-based, user-friendly World Wide Web spawned a new digital industry in a short length of time, organizations began to want their intellectual property formalized, captured and leveraged for higher values. And they wanted it online.
It became known as the Knowledge Era or Knowledge Age, in contrast to the Industrial Age. By the end of the 21stCentury, we saw an advanced form of capitalism; one where ideas and knowledge stimulated economic growth even more than did labor, land, money or other tangible resources.
Around the same time computer companies saw their profits shift from hardware manufacturing in the 1980s to software creation in the 1990s and beyond, businesses of all sizes and in all industries started using web-based technology to leverage the talents, knowledge and wisdom of employees to create high-margin products.
When I consult with executives today, it's often important to review the components that are necessary to leverage a process for monetizing intellectual capital to make sure they have them in place.
Everyone in the organization must see the tremendous opportunity and added valuein going beyond the current activity of converting data into information, to higher levels of value, by creating and delivering knowledge and wisdom, which clients can quickly act upon. In addition, auditing and valuating intellectual assets must be seen as a strategic direction.
Everyone in the organization must see that its technology infrastructure and organizationare the keys to unlocking the vast wealth the Knowledge Era had to offer, both for the organization and your clients. Knowledge increases in value when it is shared within the organization, and that means the Communication Age could not have come at a better time. Informing someone of your knowledge is very different than communicating with them. That's why a knowledge-sharing technology strategy, focused on fostering two-way communication and dialog, is so crucial to organizations in achieving their goals.
Everyone in the organization must see the importance of his or her own participationas essential to building a strong foundation for the enhancement, sharing and delivery of knowledge. You get the behaviors you reward; there must be a reward system for sharing knowledge. I like to remind my consulting clients that there are many ways to reward people, and not all of them have to involve money.
At this point in time, technology is no longer a barrier to creating a Knowledge Era enterprise. Below is a case study about a knowledge-based product that was created in the midst of this era, and serves as a great example of the value of intellectual capital.
In the 1990s, one of the largest health systems in the country, Mayo Clinic, was looking at a future of decreasing reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid, and increasing losses in their emergency rooms. For the Mayo Clinic and other health systems, the future looked bleak.
In a consultation with their executives, I asked a simple question: "Why don't you sell your knowledge?" Though their initial response was skeptical, further thinking led them to put Mayo Clinic knowledge on a CD, which was a relatively new technology at the time. That meant that any time, day or night, people who purchased the CD could put it in their PC and determine if, for example, their child's rash and fever required just aspirin, or a trip to the emergency room.
The Mayo Clinic put a $100 price tag on their CD product when it first came out, and in the first year, I was told they sold 670,000 copies. A light went on for the clinic executives; leveraging internal knowledge could create value.
It was their first-ever knowledge-based product, and it was a precursor to not only MayoClinic.org, but also to a host of other online consumer health information portals that are heavily used today. One side benefit they discovered was the impact on their brand; by using knowledge as an asset, Mayo Clinic developed a new and powerful image in the health care marketplace that they continue to leverage right up to the present.
Before putting actionable knowledge on a CD (keep in mind this was before people were on-line), in order to get help from the Mayo Clinic, you had to go to one of their locations. But with a CD of knowledge that was then translated into French, German, Spanish, and Japanese, the clinic could help people anywhere around the world at any time. And, keep in mind, this was long before the phrase 24/7 accessibility became popular.
From there, Mayo Clinic decided to customize the knowledge product for various audiences, including elementary schools, high schools, medical schools, and nursing homes.
The result was new value and new revenue; they had opened their customer base up, not only to people who were geographically close, but also to the world. And in the case of the Mayo Clinic, the name recognition isn't regional or national anymore; it became international.
This history lesson illustrates the power of using new tools to create new income streams and elevate your brand in powerful new ways. It doesn't matter what industry you are in; we all have intellectual capital that can be formalized, captured and leveraged using today's new and powerful tools.
Are you leveraging the most valuable assets in your organization?
If not, what are some ways you can convert information to actionable knowledge and then productize it for revenue? In today's mobile, social, virtual online world, you are limited only by your mindset.


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Land of LISP: Learn to Program in LISP, One Game at a Time!
Conrad Barski
The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Notetaking
Mike Rohde
The Antidote
Oliver Burkeman
The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson
Jean H. Baker, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction
7:24 am 3 January 2019
In the preface to the Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction author Kieran Healy writes:
My main goal is to introduce you to both the ideas and the methods of data visualization in a sensible, comprehensible, reproducible way.
Well, mission accomplished. The book is at once enormously readable, and sufficiently technically detailed as to make it easy to implement the principles introduced.
The book itself is also beautifully designed. The use of figures and margin notes give you a sense of being guided through the ideas rather than just being told what they are. I've had lots of fun going back to some of my own visualizations made with R and ggplot2 and improving them based on what I learned here.
I absolutely recommend this to beginners and experts alike. Healy gives you everything you'd need to know if you're starting from scratch, but in such a way as to not slow things down for the more experienced reader. For that reason, it would also make a great book for a course on applied use of R.
non-fiction lets-get-visual number-love 2018-reads data-nerd
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
This book is fascinating, and totally worth reading. It deserves a real review, but, for now, I'll just communicate my feelings in GIF form.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Funny stuff. Definitely more "classic Sedaris" than [b:Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary|7857195|Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk A Modest Bestiary|David Sedaris|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1279831428s/7857195.jpg|10995406], but not in my top two or three of his books. As always, I prefer to listen to him read aloud.
Horologicon
7:00 pm 21 May 2017
Author, [a:Mark Forsyth|3234647|Mark Forsyth|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1354096280p2/3234647.jpg], warns readers against consuming [b:The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language|15731829|The Horologicon A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language|Mark Forsyth|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347799720s/15731829.jpg|21412078] start-to-finish, cautioning that:
If you do, Hell itself will hold no horrors for you, and neither the author nor his parent company will accept liability for any suicides, gun rampages or crazed nudity that may result. However, given that the words are organized by hour of the day (hence the title), as opposed to alphabetically, this should be taken with a grain of salt. [I read it through, and I'm fine…ish]
I love words: learning about them, using them, reading them— and, though this wasn't my favorite volume of lexicographic delight, there are some real gems in there. Since I'm short on time, I'll just give you three terms that I hope to see (hear?) resurrected within my lifetime— they certainly seem relevant these days...
Paralipsis is the practice of mentioning that you're not mentioning something, and saying what you're not saying (p. 234).
The technical term for a dishonest politician is a snollygoster. Well, all right, it may not be the technical term, but it is the best one. The OED defines snollygoster as 'A shrewd, unprincipled person, esp. a politician' (p. 9).
Ultracrepidarianism is 'giving opinions on subjects that you know nothing about', and is thus a terribly useful word (p. 59).
Applied Minds: How Engineers Think
7:00 pm 3 October 2016
Meh! It probably deserves 2.5 stars, but the whole affair just felt kind of wishy-washy— a mix of introducing lay-engineering terminology, and anecdotal narratives. I'd give it a 3-star rating, were it not for the fact that the author commits what, in my mind, is a cardinal sin. It's not PIN number! The acronym P-I-N stands for "personal identification number" (which is even mentioned in the book), so PIN number is 'personal identification number number'. This is somewhat forgivable with an acronym, but he then goes on to do the same thing with an initialism, ATM machine, which is out-and-out enraging. Again, he's repeating a word that's part of the initialism: "automated teller machine." And this is in a section about the advent of the ATM— so, no excuses.
You Will Know Me
7:00 pm 29 July 2016
Later, Katie would come to think of that night as the key to everything that came after…
This book is so very [a:Megan Abbott|29593|Megan Abbott|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1341365230p2/29593.jpg]— and that's a good thing. I love Megan Abbott. I even created a Megan-Abbott-adjusted star system for my review of The Song is You; reading it so hot on the trail of Dare Me, and Queenpin. But, that also means that you're sitting there, reading tension-filled from page one. You see everything through the blurry lenses of the before and after, despite the fact that you don't yet know what happened.
This book is not Dare Me for gymnasts, and Dan Schwent's review does a great job of telling you why. In fact, I actually vacillated in my feelings about the timing of this book's release, which, of course, leads into the opening of the Olympics— though the twistedness of the world she creates is not about the what so much as it is the how. My point being that I don't think this is meant as a commentary on something inherent to gymnastics.
This definitely lands on my half-baked reviews shelf— but, I couldn't keep one tangentially related image out of my head, and I've never been one to resist a shout-out to Motherboy.
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
The good news? Prohibition helps women get the right to vote. The bad news? The rise of "saloon economics," racism and anti-immigration thrive, and people were poisoned by The Jake. Also, we've got some serious inaccuracies in our "Prohibition mythology," including Malory's take on the lawfulness of Joe Kennedy's lucrative spirits-importation business, which was actually the beneficiary of a nuance in the Volstead Act (I'm sure it will come to a shock to everyone that the rich fared better than the poor).
Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
[Preface/Warning: This is a long-ago unfinished review, but, in light of Lloyd Shapley's recent death, I figure it's time for me to just let it fly free as is.]
And let the review begin:
Well guys, I think I've discovered a real up and comer in the field of behavioral economics. Wait— what's that? He already won the Nobel Prize in Economics?!? Ok, so maybe I'm not the first to catch on to the brilliance of Alvin E. Roth (damn those Swedes for always being one step ahead of me).
However, the greatness of Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design, Roth's first foray into "popular science" writing, isn't all about sheer intellectual horsepower. Roth (below, L) takes something complex, the economics of matching markets (markets in which "price isn't the only determinant of who gets what"), and manages to make the ideas accessible without losing nuance or oversimplifying.*
Roth's fellow laureate, Lloyd Shapley (above, R), co-wrote a seminal paper on similar tricky transactions (those involving "indivisible" goods, without the use of money) in a 1974 issue of the Journal of Mathematical Economics with Herbert Scarf. The Scarf Shapley paper established a set of cyclical trades called "top trading cycles" in which all parties are ideally matched. I'm sure the paper is totally brilliant, but before you jump up to find a copy, just remember that, for most of us, it's…well, I'll let GOB tell you.
So what's all the fuss about market design?
Markets are everywhere, and the role of market design is to "helps solve problems that existing marketplaces haven't been able to solve naturally."
Kidney Swapping Fun
Roth, being the clever guy he is, starts out with a "market" in which proper matches are a matter of life and death— kidney transplants. When tasked with creating a sort of "clearinghouse" for kidney exchanges (now known as the New England Program for Kidney Exchange or NEPKE), there were several salient factors that Roth and co. had to take into account:
1. Kidneys are "indivisible goods" (you can't just give four people quarter-kidneys and tell them to go on their merry ways)
2. At least in the U.S., money can't be involved (buying kidneys falls into the category known as "repugnant transactions"†)
3. There are "paired" patients and donors (people willing to donate a kidney for a relative, or friend, but whose kidneys weren't biological matches for said person)
4. Whenever humans (donors, recipients, doctors, hospital administrators) are involved, there's the possibility of "gaming the system"
Avoiding a level of detail that I will, undoubtedly, misconstrue, I'll just tell you that Roth adeptly describes the intricacy of creating kidney swap
"'top trading cycles,' with the property that no group of patients and donors could go off on their own and find a cycle of trades that they liked better."
Even if kidneys are the last thing on your mind, the challenges overcome in order to make the market: thick (by attracting lots of buyers and sellers), quick (time is of the essence, and congestion is to be avoided), and safe/secure are fairly universal.
Sounds easy enough…
Ok, let's try this new knowledge on for size. Perhaps in a case that's not so far to one side of the commodities—matching market spectrum.
You've got your product (say, a metric tonne of it, meaning 1,000 kilos), which means you're looking for someone who wants what you have (supply, demand, nothing fancy here).
What problems could a marketplace possibly have? Well, kind of a lot. In order for things to run smoothly, you have to have the right amounts of: thickness (players at the table), speed, security, and simplicity.
Humans, the unpredictable sneaky lot of us, pose a wide array of challenges to marketplaces and market designers. For one, there's the trust factor (security). Even with kidney swapping, they had to deal with scheduling "simultaneous" surgeries, for fear that, once a donor's patient partner had received a kidney, the donor might later renege on the offer. Though this fear turned out to be pretty unwarranted, the point is that you can't just take people at their word (or palabra, if you will).
Speaking of trust, how does one know that what one is buying is legit? Parties on either side of a transaction need to have "enough information in order to make an optimal decision."
With "commodities" this often takes place by way of quality control. In fact, without quality control (think grading of flour, or maple syrup) commodities markets would have to be "matching markets," which would be highly inefficient.
Pseudo-conclusion:
So, yeah. This review isn't done. There are so many more Archer gifs, and so many more ideas to communicate. But, seriously, just read the book…
* I'm sure my review with be chock full of oversimplifications, but, then again, I'm no Nobel Laureate
† For his purposes, Roth defines these as "transactions that some people want to engage in and that are objected to by people who may not themselves experience any direct harm."
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1:00 pm 7 March 2016
I'm a bit rusty in the art of reviewing books right now, and, though this may not mark a triumphant return for me, this read moved me enough to put that aside.
John Feinstein is a prolific, and talented sports writer, particularly in the college basketball world. This time last year, with the Madness of March fast-approaching, I read his Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four and found it underwhelming, to say the least. However, I can't help but think that some of that had to do with bits and pieces of this book, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry, that Feinstein struggled to keep at bay.
Why? Because this is the book that Feinstein has been destined to write ever since he first met UNC coach Dean Smith circa 1976, back when Feinstein was an undergrad covering the basketball beat for his cross-town alma mater, Duke. This was a few years before the other members of the eponymous trio, Mike Krzyzewski (aka Coach K), and Jim Valvano, would make their way to North Carolina's Research Triangle, but it's apparent throughout the book, that the seeds of this story run deep for Feinstein.
Actually, there are many stories within this grand narrative, which is part of what makes it so difficult to summarize in a meaningful way. With Jim Valvano's untimely death in 1993, Dean Smith's recent passing in 2015, and Coach K's continued presence as head coach of the Blue Devils, it's easy to forget that they were, in fact, contemporaries. Don't worry, I've got pics to prove it:
These pictures, of course, fail to capture the nature of their relationships for most of the time: sheer enmity. But, that's what makes this book so special— it captures an arc that we miss when we make "rivalries" out to be all about animosity. And, though there were plenty of moments that were exactly that, a good, legendary rivalry is also built on mutual respect.
You don't have to be a die-hard Duke, UNC, or NC State fan to enjoy this one. I've always been more drawn to the March MATHness side of Bracketology, and, frankly, wasn't really a sentient sporting fan for the heyday of the clashes among the Blue Devils, Tar Heels, and Wolfpack. Honestly, as I got a bit misty-eyed toward the end of the story, my thoughts went more to likes of Beowulf than to the Sweet Sixteen (which is not to say that Feinstein neglects the basketball at all— he doesn't).
Unless you've been living in an Air-Raid shelter for the past 30 years, I'm not spoiling anything by giving you the parting shots of the victors "cutting down the net" (each a their own time). But, there's no other way for me to close this half-baked review.
And I guess one last shot of two GOATs couldn't hurt…
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Fantasy Sports-Loving Audiobook Fans Rejoice!
10:50 am 6 September 2015
If, like yours truly, you're a lover of fantasy sports (football & basketball for this kid) as well as audiobooks, then today's Audible Daily Deal is almost as exciting as finding out that Tom Brady was fully reinstated, having drafted him in the tenth round for your fantasy league. Ok, well maybe not that exciting, but getting Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Guy Who's Lived It for less than $3 is still pretty sweet.
Haven't read it yet, but the publisher's summary is below for your perusal:
Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend hours upon hours each week on their fantasy sports teams. And as the Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst for ESPN, Matthew Berry is on the front lines of what has grown from a niche subculture into a national pastime.
In Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place. Written with the same award-winning style that has made Berry one of the most popular columnists on ESPN.com, Fantasy Life is an audiobook for both hard-core fantasy players and people who have never played before.
Between tales of love and hate, birth and death, tattoos and furry animal costumes, the White House Situation Room and a 126-pound golden pelican, Matthew chronicles his journey from a 14-year-old fantasy player to the face of fantasy sports for the largest sports media company in the world. Fantasy will save your life. Fantasy will set you free. And fantasy life is most definitely better than real life. You'll see.
©2013 Matthew Berry
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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It
10:02 am 26 August 2015
I don't usually read books (non-fiction or otherwise) over extended periods of time. And, if not for the limitations of library-lending, I might have inched through this one at an even slower pace (giving myself ample opportunity to rock quietly in the corner in terror).
Things didn't start out this way. I tore into the first several chapters of Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It with my usual aplomb. But there's only so much risk one can absorb before declaring defeat. Author and former cybercrime cop, Marc Goodman, can't be faulted for the breadth of threats out there. However, by the time I got to the What We Can Do About It sections (the last 50 pages or so), I felt decidedly worn down. So, take this review with a grain of salt, because it's a good book with a whole boatload of information that's often ignored.
Goodman starts off by stating that he is well aware of and for the wonders of modern technology— and I'm with him on that (as noted in my review of Nation of Enemies). It's not about a showdown, but we need to face the changing techno-landscape with an attitude akin to that of Hawaiians regarding the ocean; one of respect and awareness that, while beautiful, it's more powerful than you can imagine, and can have brutal consequences.
Furthermore, we need to be thinking about Moore's Outlaws* now (and also yesterday, and the day before that), which will require effort, since we're not used to thinking in exponential terms. Also, said outlaws (and their corporate equivalent, which he refers to as "Crime Inc.") are already outpacing us in a serious way (the whole Silk Road affair is barely a sneak peek).
Opening Pandora's Virtualbox*
Things get overwhelming quickly. As nefarious as the DarkNet may be, cryptocurrency and onion routers seem like reasonable precautions once Goodman starts discussing just how little privacy we have, given the digital exhaust we produce just tooling around the regular old interwebs on the daily. With the Internet of Things, we invite more and more connected devices into our home, all of which are apparently quite hackable (though I'm not really ready to start worrying about pedophiles storing illicit images on my Nest just yet).
'Bots & 'Borgs
First things first — robots. Though no definition of the term satisfies all parties involved, robots are basically machines that can be programmed to carry out tasks (with varying levels of autonomy). The world is already chock full of 'em, though not necessarily in a "rise of the machines" kind of way. However, just because the machines aren't thinking on their own, doesn't mean they're not dangerous. Malware and malicious actors aside, the human error and our "in screen we trust" attitude has been and will continue to be a problem. There are plenty of examples, but I think the recent Robot Grabs, Crushes Man To Death incident at a German Volkswagen factory sums it up pretty well.
My only beef with the Goodman's treatment of industrial robots is that he kind of neglects Bayesian counterfactuals. It's been awhile since I've read The Jungle, but I'm pretty sure that factory safety was a problem long before Roomba came along. But, the remote threat is new(ish), and, as robots become increasingly autonomous, we've got some serious thinking about Asimov's Laws ahead of us.
Cyborg is another somewhat ill-defined term, though I'll go with the definition that doesn't include glasses and/or peg-legs. Goodman's bionics section, "Hackable You," does discuss the advantages and opportunities presented by these technologies. The problem, as suggested by the title, is that these computers inside of us aren't all that secure— a problem compounded by the fact that updating the hardware involves cutting people open.
And then, of course, there are the big fears that could potentially make "Surviving Progress" a tricky feat. Whether we're talking 'bots or 'borgs, a lack of foresight could doom us all.
I can't blame you if your first inclination is to throw your hands in the air and declare defeat. Goodman suggests practicing better "cyber hygiene"— a public health approach that actually makes quite a bit of sense. After all, you can't unilaterally protect your information if your friends are running around giving Candy Crush access to their address book, while posting and tagging photos of you on facebook willy nilly (though my advice would be to ditch that friend).
This book's probably better than I'm giving it credit for, an easy 7/10 stars, and maybe more once I wrap my head around it all. But the look on Krieger's face, below, pretty much captures my feelings upon finishing.
* Goodman's super into wordplay, so brace yourself for that.
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The Garden of Fantasy Flora: 80 Plants from Fiction
7:13 am 21 August 2015
Welcome to the "Garden of Fantasy Flora" (by Ava's Flowers). Here, you'll witness a bewildering array of plant life from fiction sources both celebrated and obscure. Please heed this warning: there are several ferocious plants eager to take a bite out of you. Also be mindful of this cardinal rule: never judge a plant by its friendly smile! Now take a moment to savor the lush colors, inhale the (sometimes deadly) aromas, and truly enjoy the fruits of the human imagination.
By Ava Rose.
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Nation of Enemies: A Thriller
Full disclosure: I know the author. (Yeah, I'm kind of a big deal.) However, my persistent resistance against the forces of starflation (not a word, but should be), combined with the fact that I'm simply not that nice of a person (there's a reason no one shows me baby pictures anymore) should restore some faith in my reviewer-ly credibility.
Social Engineering & (Not-So-Distant-) Future Crimes
I don't know much about the book biz (I assume it takes more than, say, six-weeks to write, edit, and publish a novel), but I do know a thing or two about Moore's Law and exponential growth. So, I'm pretty confident that there are quite a few elements of Nation of Enemies that were much more "futuristic" at the book's inception than they are now. "House, play acoustic channel" is a real thing that real people say, courtesy of various Internet of Things (IoT) contraptions. I'm no technophobe.* However, innovation is almost always accompanied by risk.† That risk, of course, usually comes in the form of other people.
Such is the case in the year 2032– modern day technologies and policies (electronic health records, "embryo profiling," geolocation etc.) are taken to their extremes, and mixed with a hearty dose of a Brave New World-style caste system, leaving citizens' lives all but dictated by MedID numbers (conveniently implanted into their forearms‡). Oh, and also, it's an election year. So, as you might imagine, the surveillance state is in full swing.
Cast o' Characters
One of my favorite things about this book is that it's not a clear-cut case of good versus evil. The tension between liberty and security doesn't grow out of malice. Don't get me wrong, you've got some decidedly villainous players skulking around, but it's a world of tradeoffs— decisions have consequences, and there's a selfish side to everyone involved. That being said, certain individuals piqued my interest more than others.
Taylor Hensley is a single mother, graffiti artist, and daughter of the Boston Brahmin-esque presidential candidate. Basically, it would be as though Shepard Fairey (of HOPE poster fame) was Mitt Romney's son. Plus, she skedaddles about rooftops using suction cups, which is just so badass.
It's actually incredibly difficult to give my two-cents on almost any character without giving something away. Between the layers of deception (there are a lot of them), and my own fickle nature, I ran hot and cold with almost everyone.
What separates this book from its catch-me-if-you-can kin is its tolerance for moral ambiguity. In a world of limited resources, wicked problems exist, and these problems have no definitive answers. At one point, a character reflects "How could we have brought another child into this world? What have we done?" And I found myself thinking, yeah— what were you thinking?!? (And not just for the same reasons that I found Baby Hater so gosh darn enjoyable). The story ends, but it doesn't feel like the conversation's over—and I like that.
* I'm literally a member of Data Analysts for Social Good. And not just because that makes such great pick-up line.
† Pick up a copy of Future Crimes, if you're in the mood to thoroughly terrify yourself with some non-fiction insight into these emerging vulnerabilities.
‡ Though, in this case, said forearms don't seem to feature vanadium bones.
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
8:21 am 9 August 2015
Self-righteous parents blaming the media for society's moral decay; young starlets vying for the attention of the same man; a once-beloved comedic icon falling from grace following revelations about his sordid past; celebrities suspected of committing murders most foul; stints in rehab being kept on the DL; overbearing stage mothers; and a news-hungry public with"sanity and sympathy" in short supply watching as it all unfolds. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood has all the makings of an issue of US Weekly (though William J. Mann's writing is, I would argue, of a superior quality).
Unbeknownst to me, the 1922 case around which the book is centered has been famous for quite some time, with a dedicated following of armchair sleuths obsessed with each and every aspect of Taylorology (yes, that's a thing).
As the headlines suggest, the victim in this case was none other than Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor.
Of course, none of this would be half so intriguing without a lineup of suspected celebrity murderesses, namely: Mabel Normand, Margaret "Gibby" Gibson, and Mary Miles Minter.
Each character has a story all their own– secrets, sordid pasts, weaknesses for an illicit substance or two. Like poor little Gibby, who was driven by a promise made to her mother that someday that would "have nice things." But, it would seem, that (at least as far as "the Church Ladies" were concerned) all of this was pretty par for the course for young starlets in the den of sin known as Tinseltown. After all, they couldn't risk being cast aside for a newer, younger model by gentlemen of loose morals.
All of this indignation ties into the larger story of the fight for the very survival of Hollywood, and the men (yes, they were pretty much all men) involved. For me, these pioneering movie moguls (primarily Adolph Zukor and Marcus Loew) weren't all that compelling. However, my heart did go out to poor Will Hays, who was charged with the near-impossible task of "cleansing" the movies of their corrupting content to the satisfaction of producers and censorship advocates alike.
As a Serial fan, I found myself impressed by just how much information has been compiled and assembled about the case over the years (see the map of the who, what and where in Alvarado Court the night of the murder, below), all done without the luxury of a single pinging cell phone tower.
A lack of time precludes my giving a more comprehensive tour of all the intrigue involved, but suffice it to say, that if "the Dawn of Hollywood" piques your interest, you won't be disappointed.
Bonus Archer gif:
[Sidenote: This belongs in a series of what I will refer to as "half-baked reviews." There are more than I care to admit (some from so long ago that I barely remember where I was going with them), but, at this rate, by the time I actually finish them, books probably won't even be "a thing" anymore.]
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Private Vegas & High-Roller James Patterson
10:45 am 21 July 2015
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results*, then it might seem crazy that I read nine of James Patterson's Private series, despite giving the books consistently lackluster ratings. But, in my defense, 1. they were all free (thanks library); 2. sometimes it's nice to have sort of mediocre mind-fodder; and 3. something has to follow a book that blows me away, and I'm always cranky about my "rebound read," regardless of its quality.
I rarely review these middling books (and this isn't much in the way of a review, I suppose), but the one note I wrote to myself while reading Private Vegas was something to the effect of: "Why all the designer name-dropping? Does Patterson get paid for product placement?" I mean make and model of cars is one thing, but saying someone slinked out of her Oscar de la Renta dress and kicked off her 4-inch Stuart Weitzman stilettos seemed like overkill.
So, fast forward to the other day when I overheard that James Patterson was listed as #7 on the Forbes annual list of World's Highest Paid Celebrities— just to clarify, that's a notch (or two) above Taylor Swift and Robert Downey Jr. who each purportedly pulled in a paltry $80 million last year. While I'm all for authors making boatloads of green, and can't even really comprehend making that kind of bank, this tidbit brought me back to my curiosity re. Patterson's business model/income stream.†
I don't have an answer (and am far too lazy to get my google judo on at the moment). But, if anyone out there happens to know if product placement is a "thing" in the book biz, I'd love to know more…
* Citation: Einstein (though I'm likely misquoting him).
† Yes, I realize it's unlikely that such placements would be the bread and butter of the Patterson fortune, but, still!
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The Last Child
8:25 am 16 July 2015
Think Sling Blade meets Mystic River with a touch of A Prayer for Owen Meany. All three are among my favorite movies/books, respectively, but The Last Child made my concurrent reading about the Armenian Genocide feel uplifting by comparison.
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A good day, plenty of sun, light variable winds … Aerial put up. Great troubles getting to the top of mast to fix broken strap. McLean twice frostbites his fingers. Bickerton fails to reach top, then makes climbing irons and gets there.
Getting the wireless to work was a constant background task for the Cape Denison group through most of 1912. The use of wireless was to have been one of the primary achievements of the expedition, so there was great pressure from Mawson to get the apparatus working.
No trouble had been anticipated, for instance in the erection of the wireless masts; now every minute of comparative calm was of the utmost value. The two masts each consisted of three segments, and secure anchorages had to be found for the wire stays to hold them. At every opportunity all hands were thus employed, collecting rocks as weights, boring holes in the hard rock, or digging foundations for the masts themselves. Suitable projecting corners of solid rock, where possible, were used to fasten the stays.
The work remained unfinished until September. High winds repeatedly damaged the masts and stays, and several times broke the aerial wire between the masts and the hut. The work was ostensibly completed by September, but with increasing daylight hours and continuing damaging winds prospects for two-way communication with Macquarie Island remained poor.
October 13 was known as Black Sunday. We were all seated at dinner and the Hut was quivering in the tornado-like gusts which followed a heavy 'blow' reaching a maximum hourly average of ninety-one miles. One mighty blast was followed by a crack and the sound of a heavy falling body. For a moment it was thought that something had happened to the Hut. Then the messman ran out to the trap-door and saw that the northern wireless mast had disappeared.
It was a bitter blow. The fallen mast had taken months to erect, and two-way communication with Macquarie Island looked an unlikely prospect indeed. As it happened, through misfortune and the resulting decision to extend the AAE another year, they would get a second chance in 1913.


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Practical Accessories For The Field Photographer; A Pro's Recommended List Of Gear For The Road
Stan Trzoniec | Jul 1, 2005
Photographers, by nature, love accessories. But sooner or later we all have to face the fact that we can only carry so much equipment. When I go out I go through a mental check list and include the basic equipment that I've outlined in this article. Please keep in mind this is my personal list; vary yours to suit the terrain, subject, and distance covered.
Looking To The Right
One accessory that I cannot do without is the right angle finder. This accessory is much different than a waist-level finder in that it simply screws into the eyepiece of your camera's viewfinder, shows 100 percent of the image, and does not disturb the metering system of the host camera body. This in turn now allows you to place the camera directly on the ground yet allows you to view the scene without stretching or getting into sometimes awkward or impossible positions. Most have built-in diopter adjustment, a rubber cup to keep extra light out, and weigh mere ounces. Nikon calls its right angle finder the DR-4; Canon refers to its as the Angle Finder C.
For subjects like this, packing the right accessories can make a difference in the way the day turns out. I took this heron with my Nikon F5 and Nikon 600mm lens with a 1.4 tele-converter.
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Getting Close Without A Prime Macro
These add-on lens accessories are simply called a "close-up" lens by both Nikon and Canon. While it will not take the place of a true macro lens in the field, it will allow you to use your longer 80-200mm or even a 300mm lens and focus as close as 20"!
Simply attach these magnifiers to the front of your prime lens. Both Nikon and Canon state that "they will not degrade the high performance of your prime lens." Note that they do correct for chromatic aberrations and in two element sets, they are the best you can buy. Regrettably Nikon's attachment lenses are available only in 52-62mm thread size. Canon has their series run through 52, 58, 72, and 77mm diameters.
For sharp close-ups in the field, you can use these attachment lenses on the front of your longer lenses. Both Nikon and Canon make them and for the ultimate in sharpness make sure you get the twin-lens design.
Fill When You Need It
Small and portable (read handheld) flash units that have systems dedicated to the host camera are very popular and lend themselves to hundreds of situations. For different effects you can dial in compensation, scale up or down power, and even use the built-in infrared focusing light to assure razor-sharp images even in the bleakest of lighting conditions. Working off the camera's TTL metering system makes for right on the money exposures. You can even take these flashes off the camera via an accessory cord, which allows you to put the light exactly where you want it. Make sure you look for a flash that has a zoom head and provision for a wireless slave. One special flash I recommend is a twin-bulb macro unit, which is the ultimate in close-up flash control.
This is a close-up of one of the house plants in the sun room. The camera was equipped with a 300mm lens and taken from around 20". Total area in the photo is just under 2"!
Supporting It All
If nothing else, a sturdy and lightweight tripod is very important to the success of a day's outing. Looking around, the choice presently centers on either aluminum or carbon fiber and in my kit I have three that I use constantly in my work. The first is a Bogen #3021, which is made from aluminum, has a center column that I can adjust to within inches of my intended subject, remove, or even shorten within minutes. The others are carbon-fiber models that I use for long trekking days or for long heavy lenses where a sturdy platform is mandatory. The Gitzo #1325 (weighs only 41/2 lbs) is a medium-weight rig that I find suitable for lenses up to 400mm with great results; I use the heavier Gitzo #1548 (checks in at 63/4 lbs) for lenses from 500-600mm and beyond with tele-converters.
Finally, height is another consideration, especially if your photography is done on uneven terrain. If you like to photograph wildflowers, don't buy a tripod with a long center column that will interfere when you lower the head down toward the ground. In addition, for best results when working with any tripod use a cable release and don't forget your head. Along with that tripod, a good head will certainly make for a fine day in the field.
For more on tripods and heads see Jack Neubart's article in this issue.
This is the Nikon DR-4 right angle finder. With it you can lower the camera for very unusual photographs.
Beanbag Steadier
Now here is something you might never have thought of--it's called a beanbag and can substitute for a tripod in more than one location. Placing the beanbag on the hood of the car lowers your profile and in some instances makes it easier to capture images of wildlife. Believe it or not, I found mine in a sporting goods store under the name "Bulls Bag." Filled with crushed walnut shells (available at pet stores) it measures about 15" long and weighs a few pounds. Placing a long lens like a 500 or 600mm within the top flaps eats up just about all of its length, giving one stability never possible even with a gimbal mount.
For using a super telephoto for wildlife, there is nothing like the support of a beanbag. The lens will cradle itself right in between the top flaps.
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Illinois Lawmakers, Beware of Deceptive, Sweet-Talking ERA Proponents
February 26, 2018 by Nancy Thorner
The late Phyllis Schlafly, an American constitutional lawyer and conservative political leader, is famous for her crusade against the Equal Rights Amendment. It was on October 1972 that Phyllis Schlafly founded and appointed herself national chairman of STOP ERA. Before then, Schlafly had been a political activist for 20 years.
Since 1923, the ERA has been introduced annually into the U.S. Congress records. Many labor unions were opposed to the ERA in its early years due to concerns that it would overturn workplace accommodations and guidelines that the unions had fought to put into place to support female workers.
Fast forward to 1970. That year the version of the ERA that was introduced by its sponsors into the U.S. Congress omitted the Hayden modification which had been part of the pending amendment for twenty years. It states: "Nothing in the amendment will be construed to deprive persons of the female sex of any of the rights, benefits, and exemptions now conferred by law on persons of the female sex."
The broad-reaching 1970 ERA version of ERA passed both houses of Congress in 1972 and was sent to the states for ratification (The Constitution requires that three fourths of the states ratify an amendment for it to become law.). Noted below is the ERA amendment.
Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Red Flag: Requires compelled absolute equality, without exceptions. The Hayden modification, which did allow for reasonable differences of the sexes, was left out of the amendment.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.Red Flag: Designates enforcement power to the U.S. Congress which would effectively give Washington the power to rewrite state laws if they did not meet a national standard. Anytime Congress has the power to enforce a law, then the individual states lose the power over their own affairs.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification. Red Flag: Dispensed with the usual time of seven years for an amendment to take effect after its ratification.
Supporters argued that anyone who believed in simple equality could not be against the ERA. Opponents argued, however, that the ERA did not allow for reasonable differences in treatment of the sexes. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's analysis of the impact of the ERA on our U.S. Code reinforced opponents' concerns when she stated that the ERA would require men and women to be included in the military draft and front-line combat in equal ratios; social security benefits for stay at home wives would be eliminated; and prisons would have to be sex integrated.
Statements from the supporters of the ERA also raised concerns. One of the major pro-ERA supporters was Betty Friedan of Now. She suggested that ERA was the emancipation of women from the slavery of love, family, and the housewife image. This still rings true with the feminists of today. Betty Friedan was a signer of the Humanist Manifesto II in 1973. Another big pro-ERA voice was Gloria Steinam who advocated that the "institution of legal marriage" be "abolished" or "reformed" for the sake of equality."
Due to concerns over the lack of reasonable exemptions, the ERA failed to be fully ratified by its 1979 deadline. When an extension of three years was granted, Illinois, like other states who had voted down the ERA every year for 7 years, now had until June,1982 to change its mind and vote yes. In spite of great pressure in 1980 to pass the ERA in Illinois, the ERA failed by three votes.
Phyllis Schlafly's fierce opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment over a 10-year period is widely credited with the ERA's failure to be ratified by enough states to become law, as well as for Illinois's 1980 defeat. At the time Phyllis Schlafly lived in Alton, Illinois where she could rally a thousand women for a routine demonstration in Springfield and elsewhere by calling on her top lieutenants, of which there was one for each legislative district.
This year Illinois is now at the center of the revived Equal Rights Amendment fight. Illinois has always been a very important state in relation to the ERA. The supporters have tried many times in Illinois. Liberal groups such as NOW have announced that passing the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois will be their major focus this year. They are putting lots of pressure on our state legislators to support the ERA.
Thirty-eight states are needed for the amendment to become law. Between two and seven more states must ratify the ERA to reach the 38 states needed for the amendment to become law. Nevada became the 36th state to ratify ERA on March 22, 2017, but five states have also voted to rescind or otherwise withdraw their ratification of the ERA: Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky, and South Dakota. Seven more states are needed for ratification if it is determined that the 5 states who rescinded are not recognized as doing so in the final count of ratifying states.
The talking points below were provided by Elise Bouc, state chairman of STOP ERA in Illinois. She spoke about ERA at a pro-life legislative event on Saturday, February 17th, 2018, sponsored by Lake County Right to Life.
The broad language of the ERA does not allow for any distinctions or differential treatment whatsoever to be made between men and women in our laws, policy or practices, even when it makes sense to make distinctions based on biological differences.
The ERA will be used to write abortion rights into our U.S. Constitution with the rationale that restricting access to abortion is a form of gender discrimination (since it singles women out for a physical aspect unique to them).
We've already seen states mandate taxpayer funding for elective Medicaid abortions based on their state ERAs.
Several of our Supreme Court Justices have also voiced their willingness to see abortion restrictions as a form of gender discrimination. A federal ERA would give them the ability to establish full access to abortion during all 9 months of pregnancy as a guaranteed civil right.
The ERA does not allow exemptions for privacy in bathrooms, locker rooms, hospital rooms, nursing homes or prisons – all would have to be unisex.
Current beneficial programs for women will be abolished – Some of these programs include separate prison facilities for men and women, workplace accommodations for pregnant women, WIC (medical and nutritional support for low income mothers and their children), and domestic abuse shelters for women.
The ERA will mandate that women be included in the military draft and placed in front-line combat in equal numbers to men.
In spite of current gender-neutral language, social security benefits for stay at home wives and mothers would be abolished because Justice Ginsberg says it violates the "equality principle" by encouraging women to stay home.
The ERA will not resolve the gender wage discrepancy. Much of that discrepancy is based on the life choices women make. Instead the ERA would overturn programs that currently exist to support women who are re-entering the workforce after child rearing.
Laws already exist that mandate equal treatment in regards to employment, salary, education, credit, and housing, as well as laws that provide redress for sexual harassment.
The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that the Equal Protection mandate of the 14th Amendment applies to women.
We as women, will gain nothing beneficial from the ERA. On the contrary, we and our unborn children will be harmed by the stringent, illogical unisex restrictions that will be placed on our society by the ERA.
It is important that you reach out to your Illinois state representative and state senator by phone and email as soon as possible to encourage them to vote against the ERA. They need your support and must be reminded that the ERA will harm women, the unborn child and our society.
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The Big-News is that Juliette Binoche is playing Antigone in this Visually-Idiomatic-Revision of the Classic-Tragedy of Sophocles, whose Honored-Name is spelled with a K over at BAM's Harvey Theatre.
This Contentious-Production Bears-the-Directorial-Stamp of Holland's Ivo Van Hove, who has astonished Manhattan-Audiences before, both at BAM & at the New-York Theatre-Workshop, where he reworked Hedda Gabler, Little Foxes, & Streetcar Named Desire, in ways that might have seemed Super-Neurotic to their Titular-Creators.
Van Hove's Antigone has been seen already at the Edinburgh-Festival, Paris' Théâtre-de-la-Ville, & the Ruhrfestspiele, in Recklinghausen.
Writing within the Rigid-Dramatic-Format ordained by the Annual-Classic-Trilogy-Contests in Ancient-Athens, Sophocles was fortunate to be obliged to present a Searing Family-Drama with Royal-Implications as Simply but Starkly as Possible.
Unfortunately, Van Hove has fractured Sophocles' Classic-Chorus, so that the Harvey-Stage is soon filled with Famous-Familial-Onlookers involved in Antigone's Death-Wish.
Van Hove's Cast was nonetheless Forceful, even Powerful in Word & Deed.
Oddly, however, they were obliged to play against a Minimal-Back-wall, initially-adorned with a Large-Circle, which moved up, up, & away, only to return at the End.
Onto this Surface were projected various Landscapes & Shadowy-People wandering about with Shopping-Bags.
In 1959 & again in 1961, I was invited to teach Classic-Drama in Athens—in Translation, of course—for Members of the US-Embassy-Mission & Our-Overseas-Troops.
So I do know the Classic-Canon rather well, longing for Unadulterated-Aeschylus, Euripides-Unbound, & Sophocles, left standing Pure & Simple & Stark.


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Q: ImportError: cannot import name 'CRS' from 'pyproj' I am getting the following error message when I am importing the rioxarray library.
In my conda env I have installed the pyproj version 3.1.0
Has anyone came across the same issue?
How can I fix it?
Below is the code that I am trying to run.
import xarray
import rioxarray
import geopandas
from shapely.geometry import mapping

xds = xarray.open_dataset("NDVI_1km_V2/2020/c_gls_NDVI_202001010000_GLOBE_PROBAV_V2.2.1.nc")
xds = xds[['NDVI', 'TIME_GRID']].transpose('time', 'lat', 'lon')

xds.rio.set_spatial_dims(x_dim='lon', y_dim="lat", inplace=True)

xds.rio.write_crs("epsg:4326", inplace=True)

geodf = geopandas.read_file("Africa/POLYGON.shp")

clipped = xds.rio.clip(geodf.geometry.apply(mapping), geodf.crs)
clipped.to_netcdf(path="NDVI_1km_V2/2020/rio_clipped.nc", format="NETCDF4")

And here is the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/.../main.py", line 2, in <module>
    import rioxarray
  File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/africrs2/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rioxarray/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    import rioxarray.raster_array  # noqa
  File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/africrs2/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rioxarray/raster_array.py", line 27, in <module>
    from rioxarray.crs import crs_from_user_input
  File "/opt/anaconda3/envs/africrs2/lib/python3.8/site-packages/rioxarray/crs.py", line 9, in <module>
    from pyproj import CRS
ImportError: cannot import name 'CRS' from 'pyproj' (/opt/anaconda3/envs/africrs2/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyproj/__init__.py)

A: I believe it is related to this:

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*https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59658167/cannot-import-name-crs-from-pyproj-for-using-the-osmnx-library

*https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/tipsandtricks.html#how-to-fix-it
conda config --prepend channels conda-forge
conda config --set channel_priority strict


With thanks to Laurence Parsons and others for these notes from the meeting.
In attendance were representatives from CEG, Bloor Homes, Barratt Homes, Hill House Farm, Charfield Parish Council, South Gloucestershire Council Planners, Charfield Ward Member, Charfield Primary School, Charfield Memorial Hall and Playing Fields, Fighting for Charfield and the Charfield Neighbourhood Plan group.
1. JSP inspection may now be the first two weeks of July, followed by individual days in September for each location. Then 3-4 months for the Inspectors to write-up their findings, so probably Spring 2020 before the councils get to vote for adoption (if the inspectors don't throw it out – which we hope they will).
2. Hill House Farm have announced that they propose to apply to build around 120 houses on their site (South of Crest Nicholson) as part of the JSP. This was termed "phase 1", comprising around 20 acres. They were less forthcoming about "phases 2+" but indicated that they have 140 acres of developable land and may wish to see as much as 500 houses.
This is entirely speculative at the moment. They were also keen to stress that 70% of these houses would be "affordable" and "priority given to existing Charfield residents or their children". They also implied that they may be able to provide space for additional sports pitches or a school or a railway station car park.
Note that the JSP proposes 1200 houses, so some developers may not get as much as they planned. There are also significant access issues with even Phase 1 (use of Station Road) although they assure us they have robust plans to allow traffic flow.
3. CEG's planning application has now been submitted to S.Glos (900 houses with a 2FE school, 950 without). They confirmed that they are not expecting determination before the JSP resolves.
4. Barratt expect to start building within a few months. They were advised of the Neighbourhood Plan draft CEMP policies (these are intended to enforce wheel washing, times of deliveries, and that sort of thing) and asked to ensure "we don't have the same mess that we had with Bellway".
They also revealed that their "10m wildlife buffer zones" actually consisted of 5m of actual hedge/greenery and 5m of tarmac/block paving parking areas. Nobody seemed impressed by that.
5. Bloor are aiming to submit their planning application in June. This will be a hybrid application with around 100 units in the full application and the rest in outline. They also confirmed that they are not expecting determination until after the JSP.
6. The Primary School stated that they are currently full (technically, they have 6 spaces, but they are also over capacity in two classes). CEG restated that they are happy to build a new 2FE school; the council and school reiterated that they will need a 3FE school. No resolution.
7. The Neighbourhood Plan team announced that they hope to go public with their draft Plan in the early summer. It would be good to get this done and on the books soon.
It was also announced that at the last CNP meeting, a villager had proposed a "Southern Charfield Relief Road", to go from the roundabout at the top of the hill, through the CEG site, crossing the railway line, and on to the Renishaw roundabout. This would relieve traffic on Wotton Road. Whilst this is very much at the "what if" stage, and there are many hurdles to cross, the idea was thought to have some merit.
8. The Greenway group now have a phase 1 feasibility study, to go to the relevant landowners first, for feedback/reaction, before being made public. They were also invited to the next CNP meeting (April 2nd) to discuss how this might be referenced in the Neighbourhood Plan.
9. Discussions on the infrastructure that should be provided by developers included contributions toward improvements at the Memorial Hall and Playing Field. This would not remove obligations for provision of new additional sports facilities or other community provision, but would offer some mitigation in the early years before school, community centre and additional pitches etc were built.
10. There were discussions on access from CEG site into existing estates. While access for vehicle traffic was definitely not wanted, an improvement to the pedestrian access at Hawthorn Close / Woodlands Road linking into the CEG site for pedestrian access only would especially benefit school children attending the existing and or future school. Discussions continue post meeting between CEG and the Ward Member.


Jingyao's engagement with music is very special. Unlike other musicians playing traditional instruments, she works to redefine the role of her instrument — the traditional Chinese instrument Yang Qin (Dulcimer). Well-versed in the Chinese music tradition, pop and jazz, Jingyao has been given the opportunity by her teachers to marry tradition with modernity by performing Yang Qin in contemporary music. She has also performed at Hood Bar, LASALLE and City Harvest Church. Apart from performing, she also teaches music in her spare time. She is interested in studying and understanding different genres of music as she believes this makes her a better musician in both traditional or contemporary forms of music. She aims to become an educator who can effectively bring out the potential in music students, especially those gifted in music.


Nivetha Pethuraj apparently carried mobile inside the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai which was a violation of a court order.
Nivetha Pethuraj seems to have landed in trouble for carrying a mobile inside Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. She had posted a few pictures and videos of her in the temple premises, which goes against a court order and temple rules.
The ban on carrying mobiles into the temple came into existence following an order from the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. It had directed the temple administration to ban the use of mobile phones inside the premises in February 2018.
Nivetha Pethuraj had recently paid a visit to the Madurai Meenakshi temple with her friend and she shared her excitement on her Instagram by posting a picture. She also allegedly shared a few videos which were recorded inside the temple premises.
However, some of her followers immediately raised objections and questioned her whether she was not aware of the ban on the mobile in the temple. Some wondered about the temple authorities' double standards.
The devotees are supposed to keep their mobile phones in lockers before entering the temple.
Meanwhile, those pictures and videos have been apparently removed from her account to avoid landing in a serious trouble.
On the professional front, she has a few interesting projects in her kitty. Her next movie is Venkat Prabhu's Party. She is working in Prabhu Deva's Pon Manickavel and Vishnu Vishal's Jagajaala Killadi and has recently bagged Vijay Sethupathi's next film to be directed by Vijay Chandar.