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Macy's to open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving
by Aaron Smith @AaronSmithCNN October 14, 2014: 1:26 PM ET
This door, Macy's is starting Black Friday at 6 p.m., which is actually Thursday.
Black Friday? More like Black Thursday.
Macy's (M) plans to open the doors to its namesake stores at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving, even though Black Friday -- the traditional kickoff to the holiday season -- won't start for another six hours.
Macy's used to start its Black Friday shopping at midnight on Thanksgiving, like many other retailers, including WalMart (WMT) and Toys R Us. But in recent years, stores have been opening their doors earlier.
Macy's started doing this last year, when it opened to Black Friday shoppers at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
Of course, this means that a lot of employees will be working on Thanksgiving. But Macy's said that they've all volunteered for the holiday shift.
"We work diligently to staff Thanksgiving with associates who volunteer to work and doing so means that our people are able to make their own decisions about how they contribute to our most important and busiest weekend of the year," said Macy's, in a prepared statement. "We also heard last year from many associates who appreciated the opportunity to work on Thanksgiving so they could have time off on Black Friday."
Macy's said the workers are getting "incentive pay."
Related: Black Friday: Is it worth it?
So why do shoppers leave the comforts of home and hearth on Thanksgiving to crowd the aisles and compete with other frenzied shoppers? The retailers lure them with promises of Black Friday discounts, though there has been some debate as to whether the discounts are really worth it.
In recent years, consumers have been shifting more and more into online shopping. A particularly robust date for online shopping is Cyber Monday, which is the Monday after Black Friday. Last year, Cyber Monday shopping set a record.
But discounts aren't the only reason. Over the years, many shoppers have said they go shopping on Black Friday because it has become an exciting cultural event.
Stores in tourist locations, such as the Toys R Us in Times Square, attract shoppers from all over the world -- and also non-shoppers who just want to check out the scene.
CNNMoney (New York) First published October 14, 2014: 1:26 PM ET


Today was definitely a day immersed with water.
My husband and I hardly ever go on dates. We have four kids and a mortgage, however we are fortunate enough to live in a stunning natural playground. Luckily we are both water babies, and our children are being raised to adore the ocean as much as we do. Today we had a date! But not the wine and dine, movie kinda date. A surf, snorkel and bush walk kind. Our kinda date. And we didn't even have to fork out for a babysitter because the 3 bigger kids were at school and the wee one was at Preschool!
I have been hanging out to try some underwater photography and managed to get out the back to play while my husband surfed the waves.


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Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship
The Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship is open to all current high school seniors, and college freshman, sophomores and juniors (ages 27 and younger) who demonstrate an active commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS and taking on roles of public service and leadership. Examples include (but are not limited to): serving in peer-education and prevention programs; working in the reproductive-health and sexual health field; pursuing a medical degree to work with HIV-positive individuals; international service providing AIDS-related care and/or HIV-prevention education; research in established and emerging technologies designed to mitigate the epidemic; or activism and social change efforts that address issues contributing to the epidemic, like education and drug sentencing reform, employment and economic justice issues, housing and homelessness. All applicants must describe their current leadership efforts/experience, its significance to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as how their future career plans or public service will be an extension of their current efforts. Applicants must provide at least one letter of recommendation from a teacher, program coordinator, supervisor/ally/community leader who is directly involved in their HIV/AIDS-related service, leadership, or field of study. A panel of community leaders will judge the applications. Submissions must include the following five items: 1. A complete application; 2. A brief personal statement (not to exceed 500 words) describing some of the ways that you provide service and/or leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS and how your studies, career plans, or public service will contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS; 3. A written essay, not to exceed 1,500 words, in which you reflect on the ways in which your life has been impacted by HIV/AIDS; explore and describe the ways in which you are providing public service or leadership that makes a difference in the lives of people with HIV/AIDS, or people at risk; and detail how the scholarship will help you in your career path and how that career will allow you to continue to fight HIV/AIDS in a way that makes a difference; 4. At least one written letter of recommendation from a teacher, program coordinator, supervisor/ally/community leader or other adult who is directly involved in your HIV/AIDS-related service, leadership, or field of study; 5. A transcript from current high school or college that demonstrates a minimum 2.5 GPA overall, or in the immediate past two semesters or three trimesters. Application/Personal Statement deadline is 5:00 PM, PST, Wednesday, May 1st, 2019. Essay/Letter(s) of Recommendation/Transcript deadline is 5:00 PM, PST, Friday, May 31st, 2019.
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Clout is Key; Post Lacks it
Paul C. Light Tuesday, October 9, 2001
Tom Ridge has faced many challenges in his long public-service career, not the least of which was as a Marine in Vietnam. But he may have met his match in trying to bulldoze the bureaucratic turf that surrounds his call to strengthen homeland security. Armed only with the power to persuade, Ridge must coordinate a group of agencies that have short incentives to work together and long histories of working apart.
Ridge does have the president's confidence, but his appointment as a member of the president's Cabinet is only honorary, and he can only make recommendations for action, not implement them. He has no sticks to use against his adversaries and no carrots to offer his friends. As a member of the White House staff, he serves at the pleasure of the president and cannot testify before Congress on the budget or personnel needs of the agencies he oversees.
The only power he has is access to the president, but it is a power he shares with dozens of other White House staffers, and one he dare not use. The first time he asks the president to intervene on his behalf with some recalcitrant department head will be the last time he is taken seriously. Although he will have a West Wing office, the word is that he will spend most of his time with his staff over in the Old Executive Office Building across the alley. And when he is not in the West Wing, he might as well be in Baltimore.
This is not to discount Ridge's considerable experience and persuasive muscle. But there is only so much a single adviser can do to flatten the barriers to cooperation without the keys to the bulldozer. Congress could easily help its former colleague by giving Ridge real Cabinet status as the director of a new Office of Homeland Security within the Executive Office of the President.
As a Senate-confirmed appointee, Ridge could testify on the adequacy of agency responses, a significant lever for securing agencies' attention. He could also be given a mandate to certify the budget requests of each agency he oversees, another lever.
At the end of the day, there are only two things that matter in bureaucratic politics: money and personnel. Under the president's order, Ridge will have little influence over either. This is a time to give Ridge every opportunity to succeed, not create a challenge that can be met only through a long campaign against bureaucratic inertia.
Paul C. Light is Vice President and Director of Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution and Senior Adviser to The Presidential Appointee Initiative.
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What We Owe
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The CANR-002 CAN Based Relay Controller Module is designed to control up to four relays based on vehicle CAN data. This allows external devices including fans, pumps, warning lights, nitrous controllers and other systems to be enabled or disabled based on existing vehicle data. Each of these relay outputs can be individually controlled based on a single system variable or based on a combination of two variables. When using two variables the output can be configured to require both variables to meet your criteria AND or either variable OR. The relay activation can be a simple ON / OFF or it can be configured as a window switch ON / OFF / ON or OFF / ON / OFF.
Being able to provide switched outputs based on vehicle system variables is especially important on newer vehicles were discrete signals for RPM, MPH, throttle position and other values no longer exist because modules and even components now communicate with each other via CAN, LIN or some other computer level communications protocol.
As an example the throttle position signal on the 2014 and newer GM Corvette, Silverado, Sierra, Tahoe, Yukon and other direct injection V8 based vehicles is now a serial data signal so you can no longer tap into that signal for a simple 0-5 volt throttle position signal. Another example would be RPM and MPH that are now often communicated to the dash via CAN and are not available from the ECM as discrete signals.


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BURT WARD's Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony Set for January
Home » BATMAN'S HOT-LINE » BURT WARD's Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony Set for January
Posted By Dan Greenfield on Dec 4, 2019 | 5 comments
The former Boy Wonder's star on Hollywood Boulevard will be next to Adam West's…
Burt Ward — the greatest screen Robin of them all — will have his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony Jan. 9, 2020, it was announced Wednesday.
"The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that Burt Ward, who played Robin on the Batman television series, will be honored with the 2,683rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, January 9, 2020. The star will be dedicated in the category of Television at 6764 Hollywood Boulevard in front of The Guinness World of Records Museum," Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez said in a statement.
"Burt Ward and his character Robin have been cult heroes for many years, to fans of all ages. We are thrilled to honor Burt with his star and happy to have been able to place Ward's star next to the star of television's Batman, Adam West and one the creators of the Batman character Bob Kane. We welcome him to our Walk of Fame family, and I cannot wait to say 'Holy Walk of Fame star, Burt!' when he arrives to dedicate his star
that day," she added.
The ceremony will feature the 1966 Batmobile and Batman '66 characters, such as Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Catwoman and the Riddler. It's scheduled for 11:30 a.m. PT and will be live-streamed at www.walkoffame.com.
— BURT WARD to Get Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. Click here.
— Why BURT WARD is the Greatest of ALL Robins. Click here.
Congratulations to Mr. Ward!
Gary Lynn Gentry
Congratulations Burt Wàrd,(Dick Grason/ Robin the Boy Wonder) I am In Texas ,I wished I could go to be there for you Burt ,But I was there for you every Wednesday and Thursday Evening back in the 60s but I had to have all my Farm Chores done before I could watch Batman In Color wow ,I have the Batman Complete DVD Set plus the Batman Movie..
Carl B
Well deserved and should have happened years ago, but at least he'll be there to see it!
Congratulations Burt Ward,(Dick Grason,Robin the Boy Wonder) WOW I watched Batman every Wednesday night and every Thursday Night after I did my Farm Chores before I could Watching Batman in the 1960s, I also have The Complete Batman Sieres on DVD Plus the Batman Movie , I Turn 62 in 8 days.
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Julie Newmar deserves hers as well! Why is she being ignored and overlooked?


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I've been reading the latest book by eminent neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran and trying to get my head into the way of thinking of brain researchers. It's a pop-science book. So it contains nothing technically or biochemically challenging.
A large section of the book is dedicated to why we like art, and particular works of art. Ramachandran's nine laws of aesthetics look as though they are straight from the Bauhaus. At best they could claim to offer insights into visual literacy.
Ramachandran's aesthetic laws relate to: grouping, contrast, isolation, perceptual problem solving, abhorrence of coincidences, orderliness, symmetry and metaphor. If the categories look old fashioned then there's novelty in the way Ramachandran explains them.
It appears that much of what we know about human neural processes derives from the observation of abnormalities, as when certain brain functions are isolated due to genetic aberrations or strokes.
There's a lot in the book about culture, as the supreme creation of collaborating minds, but on the other hand neuroscience is reluctant to move to culture as a device for explaining the way people think, and of art. It seems animal behaviour (ethology) and evolutionary biology provide the best vocabularies for explaining human thought.
I left out one of the nine laws of aesthetics in the list above. This is the law of peak shift, and here there is something strange and interesting. According to Ramachandran, this law accounts for the animal (and human) propensity to respond to exaggeration, at least in the visual field.
A lab rat can be trained to respond to simple shapes. Researchers have devised a simple experiment. A rat is confronted by two painted shapes, an elongated rectangle and a square. If the rat moves towards the elongated rectangle it is rewarded with a piece of cheese. If it moves to the square then it gets no reward.
After a trial and error phase, as expected, the rat soon learns to go straight for the elongated rectangle every time. Now replace the square shape with an even longer elongated rectangle than the food rewarding shape. The rat will go for it, and with measurably greater vigour. There's a tendency for the rat's cognitive apparatus to assume that the longer the rectangle the greater the reward, even though there was nothing in the training phase to establish that rule.
The simple extrapolation from this and other experiments — plus some explanation in terms of neural wiring — is that when we animals get so used to a visual condition we regard it as normal. But then we become impressed, pleased with, allured by, or provoked by it's exaggerated variant. At the very least our curiosity is aroused.
Presumably there's a point at which the exaggeration no longer registers as such and the shape appears as a new class of object, or something entirely alien. In any case, according to Ramachandran, all nine laws kick in. So the lure of exaggeration is one of several factors in reading the environment.
I think this law of peak shift touches on notions of the so-called uncanny valley, and the putative realism of computer images. It also pertains to ideas of the grotesque — faces with inordinately large noses and ears attract our interest. Ramachandran writes about the popularity of caricatures of well-known people: politicians, entertainers and even our loved ones.
Architecture has masterly control over exaggeration. Human inhabitants are accustomed to orthogonality, a world of right angles. In the visual field these angles and lines appear to converge according to the conventions of perspective.
Exaggerating and distorting these vectors certainly produces an effect on the person negotiating such spaces, or perhaps a particular atmosphere or mood.
— not to mention disaggregated, contrasted, isolated, coincidentally disordered, and asymmetrically metaphorical.
Dondis, Donis A. 1973. A Primer of Visual Literacy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Also see Obliquitous computing, Brain scans and creativity, Neuroscience eclipses AI, and Superlatives.
The use of exaggeration in metaphor is also appears in fairy tales.In my world, the fairy tale characters are metaphors for me. When I was a child, my favorite fairy tale is snow white. I used to want to be a lady like snow white. Snow white means beautiful, charming and kind to me. So, Snow White becomes my idol. When I was crying, mum always said: "Crying baby is not beautiful, do you want to be Snow White?" However, things are different when we have more social experience. We may laugh at those naïve characters in fairy tale. Moreover, we may question the truth of fairy tales. Adults have a fierce debate that whether we should tell the truth to children, because there is a difference between fairy tale and real life. A part of them believe that children need to know more black sides of society. The other part of adults agrees that we should give children a beautiful dream.
This debate is a long fight. However, if we look at this question from the inner side of fairy tale, which do not regard characters in fairy tales as normal person, but as a metaphor, we will find that fairy tales give us a real world.
For the most time, characters in fairy tales are one-dimensional and exaggerated. This is why grown-ups always feel ridiculous of those characters. For instance, when we refer to Cinderella, the first thing we come into mind is she is a beautiful and poor girl. So, we describe a girl who is lucky to find her Prince Charming as Cinderella. Cinderella becomes a metaphor now. Although, the story may just tells us the beautiful side of this girl. There may be existed some shortcomings of Cinderella, which is she doesn't do any efforts to change the condition but just waiting. However, does it matter? The characteristics are just exaggerated in fairy tales. Being Cinderella may be every little girl's young dream. However, it is different when we have grown up. We may have ever waited for someone. However, when we have experienced periods of love, experiences tell us that that Cinderella is in just in fairy tale. Waiting is not a good choice.
Although Cinderella's love is so beautiful that many people may not believe this beautiful and perfect love could happened. But, how many children are misguided by the fairy tales? Are we all just waiting and waiting till we are old? My answer is NO. Just take my roommate for example, 3 girls, who are living in one apartment, all have one or more periods of love no matter before or now. All of us had read Cinderella when we were young. None of us has a love like Cinderella. In fact, as far as I am concerned, Cinderella never make us feel confused of love but give us a beautiful dream. It is just a metaphor stands for a sweet girl who get a beautiful and perfect love luckily.
The reason why fairy tales can hardly mislead us is because they give us a real world indeed. It separate people's characteristics into single metaphors, such as kind, generous, greedy, and wicked and so on. And then we may find that each character is a metaphor, which is different from normal person who are so complex. The reason why the character is simple is based on the group of audience. When fairy tale authors facing with children, they want their stories can be easily to read, because children's learning ability is limited when they are reading fairy tales. Therefore, simple character with simple characteristics can easily tell children what is right or wrong. We should be kind and generous but greedy and wicked. Trough this way, children may learn these characteristics. They may never follows one person, because there are thousands characters.
Most children have read thousands of fairy tales. They learned what is right and wrong. In subconsciousness, they create a good person who contains all of the good qualities and a bad person who contains all of the bad qualities. In addition, they can also tell what is right or wrong when they meet a person in real word. Therefore, when they are growing they can figure out that multi-dimensional person is assembled by many one-dimensional people. Like Cinderella's waiting love, reading Cinderella make us know that Cinderella is kind so she get her happy life. However, reading Forest Bride make us know that we should do efforts to chase true love. After reading these two stories, be kind and do great efforts is what we have learned. This conclusion can solve the problem I referred above, which is few of us is misguided by fairy tales. We can combine information from fairy tales. In the end, one-dimensional characters in fairy tales turn to be multi-dimensional person in real world.
If you think reading fairy tales for adults is too ridiculous, trying to regard each character as a metaphor. Fairy tales just tell children a real world in children's way.
The opposite to exaggeration would certainly be: 'subtlety'. In the creation of our living environment it may be a overwhelming discovery of a subtle effect employed with intention that demonstrates a higher mastery in Art. which … may be difficult to prove if we experiment with mice..


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Pity those living under flight path
PUBLISHED: 17:10 07 June 2007 | UPDATED: 21:42 29 May 2010
You recently reported ( Airport planning inquiry opens , Reporter, May 31) on the start of the Public Inquiry about whether the number of flights using Stansted Airport should be increased - and by coincidence a few days before that, BAA had launched a ne
You recently reported ('Airport planning inquiry opens', Reporter, May 31) on the start of the Public Inquiry about whether the number of flights using Stansted Airport should be increased - and by coincidence a few days before that, BAA had launched a new service called WebTrak where, through its website, you can check on the flight paths and plane types in your area on previous days.
I must congratulate BAA on this service, before when I was annoyed by aircraft noise, particularly when trying to go to sleep.
I had no means of knowing exactly where the planes were flying, but now BAA is doing this for me.
So I decided to take the opening day of the Public Inquiry (May 30) and see how many planes flew over my house during just the 60 minutes between 11pm and midnight.
The answer was 10 planes, with an average distance from my house of just 1.5 miles. So much for trying to get to sleep! Pity the people who actually live under a flight path.
BAA is currently trying to overturn the decision by Uttlesford District Council to restrict the number of passengers using Stansted to 25 million per annum.
It would like permission for maximum numbers to use the existing runway and has also announced that it will soon be applying to build a second runway with a total throughput of over 80 million passengers a year.
This would mean around three times the number of planes flying in and out of Stansted which in turn would mean not 10 planes over my house between 11pm and midnight but 30 planes - one every two minutes!
So I'm on the side of Uttlesford District Council and Stop Stansted Expansion - enough is enough!
Peter Riding


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Q: Cannot delete detached entity after merge() I have a problem trying to remove an entity, here's my code:
  @Transactional
  private <K> void delete(String type, EntityWithId<K> entity) {
    try {
      em.remove(em.contains(entity) ? entity : em.merge(entity));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      logger.warn("Unable to delete " + type + " with id " + entity.getId());
    }
  }

I don't really understand why, but the remove statement fails, throwing
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Removing a detached instance

The entity manager does not contains the entity, so the merge() is executed every time, and the remove always fails, with different Objects passed.
Am I doing something wrong?
Here is the StackTrace for the caught Exception:
Unable to delete log with id 14091612
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Removing a detached instance myproj.jpa.AdvertisementLog#14091612
    at org.hibernate.ejb.event.EJB3DeleteEventListener.performDetachedEntityDeletionCheck(EJB3DeleteEventListener.java:67)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultDeleteEventListener.onDelete(DefaultDeleteEventListener.java:107)
    at org.hibernate.event.internal.DefaultDeleteEventListener.onDelete(DefaultDeleteEventListener.java:74)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.fireDelete(SessionImpl.java:822)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionImpl.delete(SessionImpl.java:801)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.remove(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:880)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.ExtendedEntityManagerCreator$ExtendedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(ExtendedEntityManagerCreator.java:365)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy59.remove(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.SharedEntityManagerCreator$SharedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(SharedEntityManagerCreator.java:240)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy59.remove(Unknown Source)
    at myproj.batch.impl.DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.delete(DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.java:93)
    at myproj.batch.impl.DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.deleteAll(DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.java:86)
    at myproj.batch.impl.DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.deleteAll(DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.java:80)
    at myproj.batch.impl.DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.deleteAd(DeleteOldAdvertisementsImpl.java:69)
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A: I see the annotation is on a private method, so its being called from within the class. Is this class a @Service class? Can you provide more details about the method that internally is calling your delete function. Spring Transactional annotations are ignored for private/protected methods. They are only supported for public methods.
EDIT
It's not enough to just make the method public, what is the entry point into the bean (from where did you call that private method)? If that entry method isn't called from a spring bean (for instance, from an autowired field) and it isn't annotated with @Transactional, then that's the cause of your problem.

A: You do not need to use merge before remove, why are you merging something that you want to delete?
Instead just do like below:
//begin transaction
YourEntity entity = entityManager.getReference(The_Class, The_ID);
entityManager.remove(entity);

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@goodbye Twitter
I just deactivated my Twitter account.
I refuse to be on a platform that allows the former president to spew his lies and hate.
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Fact-Checking: A Real Challenge for the Media
Major media outlets do their best to get it right. After all, their product is information and if is incorrect, its value diminishes.
Wayne Friedman, writing last week in MediaPost's TV Watch, examines the problem media are having today with a president who is a serial tweeter.
As we know, the Tweeter-in-Chief rarely seems to bother with facts or accuracy, often shooting from the hip about whatever is on his mind or whatever he just saw on FOX News. The major media try to fact-check, but that becomes a daunting task when he can throw 20 – 60 tweets out in a morning.
Friedman reports that Media Matters of America examined more than 2,000 tweets posted by major media from Jan. 26 to Feb. 15 and found that 65 percent of those tweets did not fact-check, but simply reposted or included presidential tweets without indicating where they were false or erroneous.
More than half the time they just repeat what he has said without checking for accuracy, so it's ironic that the president calls major media "fake news," when they are simply repeating false information he puts out there.
The Media Matters study showed that NPR did the best job of fact-checking.
The bottom line here is not to rely on tweets for news.
Posted at 03:46 PM in Journalism, Media, Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
Who do you trust?
Despite the endless and increasingly desperate taunts by the president about fake news, network TV remains the most trusted source for political and major breaking news, according to a new study by the Video Advertising Bureau, reported by MediaPost.
Regardless of political affiliation, more than two-thirds of Americans surveyed said television is their primary and most-trusted source of information.
Newspapers appear to be the second-most popular source of information, slightly ahead of social media for most demographics except "blue collar," where social media takes a slight lead.
Social media continues to be a leading source of 'fake news,' fueled by political entities (Democrats and Republicans alike) and, as we now know, foreign powers like Russia who have been using misinformation online to fuel discord here and even impact our elections. While the president constantly rails against the legitimate media, he has done absolutely nothing to have our government try to deal with that misinformation -- propaganda -- coming from our enemies via social media.
That propaganda, and those putting it out there, are the "enemy of the people," not our media.
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Social Media: A Love/Hate Relationship with Journalists
Journalists these days seem to have a love/hate relationship with social media, according to a survey of journalists by ad agency giant Ogilvy.
Increasingly, journalists rely on social media to spot trends, track public attitudes and source information and background. But they also acknowledge the big challenge that comes along with social media -- the accuracy and credibility of what they find online.
The journalists surveyed -- some 255 of them -- cite Facebook as the leading news gatekeeper. At 39 percent, Facebook edges out "traditional" media sources, which they scored at 32 percent. Other digital platforms scored much lower. Google was cited by 15 percent and Twitter by 4 percent.
Journalists also cited social media as the primary cause of the rise of "fake news." Other reasons given included increasingly polarizing media coverage and what they called "confirmation bias," where readers pick and recirculate stories that tend to echo or support their personal bias or political leanings. It's also been called the "echo chamber effect."
The challenge that most of the journalists saw as impacting their work is the need to do comprehensive fact-checking, rely only on credible sources and maintain transparency in the reporting process. These steps, they believe, will be the best way to fight the continuing charges of "fake news."
They also are basic tenets of good journalism.
Posted at 11:44 AM in Journalism, Media, Social Media | Permalink | Comments (0)
Differentiating "Real" from "Fake"
The phrase of the year for 2016 - 2017 will have to be "Fake News."
Millions of Americans were bamboozled by fake news involving the presidential candidates during the election, much of it, we are now learning, coming from a meddlesome Russia, with others coming from hacking entrepreneurs in eastern Europe looking to cash in on clickbait headlines and phony stories.
Some fake news came from talk radio and cable channels. And some came from party operatives and PACs on both sides.
Some of the fake information was easy to discern as false. But much has been presented in fairly convincing ways that have fooled many of us.
Another part of the problem comes from sensational or erroneous headlines. We are bombarded constantly with information from every angle -- in legitimate media and now also on social media, often forwarded or shared by people we know, even if only online. With so much coming at us, it's easy to just glance at a headline or maybe the first line of a story and then stop.
But the impression may be made. And therein lies the problem. How do we tell the difference between what's real and what's not?
I have my own ways of truing to tell the difference. I trust legitimate media. Even with those media that I trust, I check to see if it's hard news or opinion. I'm cautious about what I believe when it's been shared. Articles can be altered or totally made up when shared online. If I see something that looks like it's from a PAC-funded source -- you get to recognize them after a while -- I usually just ignore it altogether. That goes for things from Democratic-slanted sites as well... and I'm a Democrat. I want information that's truthful, not simply slanted the way I might think.
I'm pleased to see a major project that's being launched to increase trust in real journalism and help educate people to understand how to recognize real and fake news. It's called the News Integrity Initiative, administered by the CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate School of Journalism.
Thanks to the support of some major businesses and non-partisan organizations like Facebook, AppNexus, Mozilla, the Ford Foundation, the Craig Newmark (Craigslist) Philanthropic Fund and others, the News Integrity Initiative will open its doors with $14 million working capital, to start the process of educating people about what real journalism is and how it works to strive for the unbiased truth.
I'm sure we'll be hearing more about it. I am so glad to see something like this now. It is needed so much.
Just in... 4/6/17 Check this out. The founder of eBay is giving $100 million for investigative journalism and to help fight fake news. From Adweek, read it here.
Posted at 06:06 PM in In the news, Journalism, Media, Social Media | Permalink | Comments (6)
Is Facebook Journalism's #1 Enemy?
A column in London's The Guardian a few days ago asked if Facebook is the leading threat to newspapers and, more broadly, journalism itself. The writer, Roy Greenslade, said that by luring away readers and advertisers, the social media site is jeopardizing newspapers and, at the same time, narrowing the news agenda, which he says poses a threat to journalism.
The issue of losing readers and advertisers is something newspapers have been facing for decades, beginning when TV became the dominant media form. But over the past 15 years or so, newspapers find themselves in the same basket as other "traditional" media including TV, as digital has taken over. Most papers have embraced, perhaps reluctantly at first, digital with branded sites of their own. They're still struggling to find a way to monetize their news sites, and digital ads so far have not fully replaced print ads in terms of how much advertisers are willing to pay for them.
What's a newer issue, though, is the impact Facebook is having on what we perceive as news and the accuracy of what gets reported. The Pew Research Center published a study a few months ago showing that 66 percent of Facebook users get their news via Facebook. True, that's not 66 percent of the U.S. population, but with an estimated 60 million American Facebook users, it's still a very big number -- roughly 40 million people. And as we know, it's not just Millennials on Facebook -- in fact, almost all of my Boomer friends are on Facebook to some degree.
So with 40 million people reading Facebook, here's where the problem lies, as articulated in the Guardian story. What's considered news on Facebook is not determined by traditional journalistic standards After coming under criticism earlier this year, Facebook adjusted the algorithms it uses to determine what's "trending." But "trending" is still largely based on what people are posting about, so if the Brangelina split trends high because it's juicy gossip about a big celebrity couple, it may push off the radar legitimate but less sexy news like the plight of refugees leaving Syria or starvation and slavery in some parts of Africa or the continuing erosion of the Arctic ice shelf.
To make it worse, other news sources including many of the "traditional" media like the networks and major newspapers now look at what's trending on Facebook to help determine what they report.
And there's another risk to relying what's reported as news on Facebook. News can easily be manipulated, with information that's bogus attributed to normally reliable sources. It then gets shared and reposted, taking on a life of its own as real news. I saw an example of this just a few weeks ago when a friend shared an article about saying something outrageous Trump supposedly said. I'm not a Trump supporter at all, but this seemed just too crazy ...even for Trump. The article referred to a story in The Washington Post, but when I searched the WaPo site, no such story existed. But there it was on Facebook, something obviously incorrect being passed along as real news with the Washington Post referenced as the source.
So yes, Facebook poses a real threat to the health of other news media. But the larger threat is the potential damage its misuse can do to the journalistic process -- a process that the Constitution recognizes as an important way to keep us informed and our politicians and business leaders honest.
Posted at 04:14 PM in Journalism, Media, Newspapers, Social Media, Television | Permalink | Comments (2)
The News Revolution
But is it always real news?
Back in the 1940's and 50's, most Americans got their news from daily newspapers. Most major cities and many smaller ones had more than one paper -- the morning paper with news from the previous day and early evening, and the afternoon or evening paper with news of that day.
Then along came TV, which quickly became the dominant news source for most of us. And it wasn't too long before network newscasts had to share their audience with cable news - first CNN and then several other 24-hour cable news channels. All-news radio stations in bigger markets also had - and continue to have - big audiences.
But the internet has changed the equation yet again. It's not just the more "legitimate" online news sources like the news sites of newspapers and TV stations, and other sites like Huffington Post. The somewhat startling news is that social media that has become the dominant source of news, at least for younger Americans.
A new study by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism finds that 28 percent of Americans ages 18 - 24 cite social media as their primary source of news. Twenty-four percent of that same age demo say their primary source of news is TV. It's even higher among people who search for news on the smartphones -- 48%.
Facebook is the most popular social media site for young people to get their news, with 44% saying that's their top go-to place for news. YouTube comes in at 19%, Twitter at 10% and WhatsApp at 8%.
What troubles me about these numbers is how easy and commonplace it is for online readers to get misinformation that's disguised as news. It's not unusual to see Facebook and Twitter posts that refer to an article in a trusted major news source, but the facts get twisted, often intentionally. Just the other day, a friend told me about an article she saw in The Washington Post that had some troubling information about Trump's mental state. As much as I dislike Trump, the story just didn't sound right. I had my friend show me the article and it turned out to be a Facebook post that referred to the Post story. But there was no link and when I went directly to the Washington Post site, there was no such story. So someone along the way put out a false post, incorrectly citing a major news outlet as the source. And it got re-posted online countless times.
This happens a lot on social media, so if nearly a third of young people are relying on social media for news, I'd say we have a problem.
Posted at 03:31 PM in Journalism, Media, Newspapers, Public Relations, Radio, Social Media, Television | Permalink | Comments (1)
A Sad Commentary
No, this isn't a post about the current state of politics and the presidential campaign, although that IS a sad commentary on our society. This is about a survey, reported in MediaPost's Social Media Daily that shows we prefer to stay in touch via social media rather than with face-to-face communication.
We've all seen scenes like this – a group of young people sitting silently around a restaurant table – all looking down at their cellphones. In recent years, that scenario has changed so that it's not only young people, but people of all ages – including us boomers – guilty of texting rather than talking.
The survey of some 12,000 people worldwide found that 68 percent prefer to communicate with others online rather than face-to-face. So, as MediaPost writer Erik Sass posits in his story, social media is making us anti-social.
I can understand – and I'm guilty of – the preference to stay in touch with some people online rather than in person. And that can extend to online versus contact via a phone call. Often, when I have a quick question, it's faster to send an email. Call on the phone and you have to go through the "hi, how are you" stuff. With email, here's what I need to know or what I want to tell you, perhaps ended with a "regards" or "hope all is well." And that's it.
If it's more than a quick question or if it's something in business where there needs to be some real-time back & forth to spur creativity or consensus, face-to-face or at least ear-to-ear is best.
Social media, especially Facebook, can be great for keeping up with distant friends and relatives. But for the real inside scoop, with real emotion and real empathy, it's hard to replace face-to-face or ear-to-ear.
Online, even ALL CAPS or cute emoticons just can't convey real feelings or more subtle undertones. And there are risks to online communication. Think about how many times have you've seen a poorly-worded email or post give a wrong impression to the reader, maybe creating a problem where one hadn't existed?
Social media has its place in our lives, for sure. But it can't – or shouldn't – replace direct face-to-face or ear-to-ear communications. What a boring and sterile world that would be.
Posted at 04:59 PM in Conversation, Friendship, Media, Relationships/Life, Social Media | Permalink | Comments (4)
When will we learn?
People just don't seem to get it. What you put online is NOT private.
The latest example of stupid behavior comes from people who should know better -- execs at a major ad agency.
Campbell Ewald had to fire its CEO after a staffer posted a racist email. The email was sent in October, but it didn't come to light until someone sent it to Adweek, which published it in January. Within days, the agency lost three clients, led by insurer USAA and then by Henry Ford Healthcare System and financial services firm Edward Jones.
A few years ago, one of the biggest public relations agencies, Hill & Knowlton, had to fire a senior VP after he stupidly tweeted how he hated going to Memphis, which he called a boondocks town. He was on his way to a meeting with FedEx, whose headquarters and operations hub is -- guess where - in Memphis.
You would think people at ad and PR agencies would know that what goes online might be seen by others. Duh.
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Today's Autograph
Tuning through the channels a few days ago, I happened to land on C-SPAN. I caught the very end of a campaign speech by Carly Fiorina. She's a good speaker, but what she said wasn't what caught my interest. It was what happened after her speech that was telling.
After her talk, she did what most candidates do. She came off the stage and walked into the audience to work the crowd. And this is what struck me as most interesting.
Not too long ago, she would have been shaking hands, exchanging a few words one-on-one with people, and signing autographs. But as I watched her in the crowd, which was mostly younger, only two people asked for an autograph. She shook a few hands… but only a few. It looked like she had a brief conversation with one person. But with all the others – perhaps 40 or 50 people – the only words that were exchanged seemed to come from audience members, saying something like "Would you.." and "Thank you."
They were asking the candidate to pose with them for a selfie. And she happily complied, as each person put his or her arms around Fiorina or put their face pressing right up against hers. Kind of close-up and personal, it seemed. It was a selfie assembly line, and the candidate adeptly moved from person to person, cell phone to cell phone without missing a beat.
At first, I scoffed. But as I thought about it, I realized that the selfie actually IS much more personal than an autograph, even one written to the autograph-seeker by name. And unlike an autograph, which most of us don't frame and put on a shelf in our living room, a selfie with a celebrity can be blown up, framed and displayed prominently.
And it's a chance for the person to throw it out there immediately on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et al, showing the world their brush with fame –or actually, touch with fame, smiling check-to-cheek, arm wrapped around the celebrity. It can be shared instantly with dozens or hundreds of friends and online acquaintances, which is a lot more than the than couple of dozen friends or relatives who might happen to spot it in your living room.
For the candidate, it's a windfall, expanding the reach of her appearance to perhaps thousands more than the attendance of her live audience.
Some marketers have found ways to capitalize on "the new autograph" – putting a brand mascot or logo in places where people will take selfies and share them, for example. It's opening up entire new ways for brands to engage with consumers and share the branded experience with all their friends.
We'll be seeing more of it, I'm sure, as we surf our Facebook and Instagam feeds.
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In this unit of study, I read a statement indicating that the \"process\" can be more important than the product. I took notice of that statement, because I think that, at times, in my teaching career, I forgot that! I think the process is especially important in a language class because that often means discussion or re-visiting learning to produce a product. Along the way, through the process, introspection and new learning takes place. This is invaluable in language acquisition. Also, I noted the suggestion to use video or audio recordings so that learners can view and/or hear themselves using their newly learned language. Another suggestion that I highlighted had to do with evaluation - that common errors made by the group are learning goals for remedial lessons, but personal mistakes should be discussed and corrected privately.


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Empty stadiums will make Jackson feel sentimental
Margie McDonald NRL.com Senior Reporter
Mon 16 Mar 2020, 01:01 PM
Bulldogs captain Josh Jackson said playing before an empty 80,000-seat ANZ Stadium would take him back to his youth and what made him play rugby league in the first place.
With the round two restrictions of empty stadiums coming into place this weekend as part of the coronavirus precautions, the Bulldogs host the Cowboys in the largest NRL venue in the competition.
"It's unprecedented what's happening," Jackson said.
"I guess it's sort of like as you did as a kid – you played in front of no crowds because you played for the love of the game.
"It's another opportunity for us and I'm looking forward to it. It's a real talking point I know."
The Bulldogs will get to know the inside of ANZ Stadium very well over the next five rounds – with four of those games at the Olympic Park venue either as home games (Cowboys, Sharks, Eels) and as an away venue (Rabbitohs).
Bulldogs happy to play on
"It's going to be a bit different but it's the times we are in so it's something we've got to get used to," said Aiden Tolman, whose former skipper at the Storm Cameron Smith called for a suspension of games.
"It's a hard thing to be in but they've all said the health of the players, officials and everybody else in the game is paramount," Tolman said.
"We've just come off a hard four months of pre-season so the last thing we want is not to be playing games.
"Unless there's a health scare, then the advice may change.
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Jackson added: "I know a few of the guys came out at the weekend saying they've got to go through airports and things and confined spaces with a lot of people.
"I haven't thought about it (season suspended) too much but my preference would probably be to still play each round and then extend if needed.
"I don't know how feasible that is with logistics and things. But for me I'd rather play the entire competition.
"So I want to keep playing but if it's putting players at a risk then obviously we've just got to suspend it. It's not just players, it's the people they have contact with like their families, elderly people."
The Warriors are the other component to suspending the competition to keep its integrity of 16 teams and eight games each weekend.
"As we progress more serious decisions need to be made – the big one being the Warriors," Tolman said.
"They're here until this weekend and then they said they're going home. You've got to feel for them being away from their families."
Who'll make finals from last year's bottom eight
The AFL is considering cramming matches into the opening rounds – possible with four or five-day turnarounds – in case the coronavirus forces a shutdown later in the season.
"That would be tough – five days (turn-around) are hard enough." Jackson said.
"It's a very physical game and that would probably be putting players at higher risk (of injuries)."
Jackson's partner is a doctor – currently training to be an anaesthetist.
"We haven't spoken about it (coronavirus) too much but obviously it's going to get a bit more hectic in the next couple of months or so," he said.
"She probably gets enough of it at work so she doesn't need to come home to it too."
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New Medical Park in India to Help Cut Down on Imports
October 28, 2020 zenger.news	Zenger
A new medical park in the southern Indian state of Kerala will manufacture high-tech devices such as implants to help the country cut down on imports.
MedSpark, which is expected to begin operations in March 2022 in Kerala's capital of Thiruvananthapuram, will be set up with help from the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC).
The park will be managed by the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, one of India's foremost institutes working on implants. It will also provide research and development support to companies that sign up to be a part of it.
"We will focus on cardiovascular and neuro-surgical implants," said professor Balram, a scientist at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute.
"Companies that sign up with us can use the facilities at the park for research purposes, or commission the institute for research. The devices that we bring out will be cost-effective," he said.
"Our objective will be to provide an atmosphere for companies to innovate," said Biju B G, assistant general manager at KSIDC. "Our estimate of outlay for creating this park is INR 230 crore ($34.5 million). We are initially targeting local companies. Later, we will market the initiative to foreign firms.
"The park is being designed in a way that everything from prototyping to pre-clinical trials can be done here," said Biju.
"Indigenously made devices like heart-valves can cost as low as a third of an imported device," said Balram.
The price of medical devices has been a key focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. It has imposed caps on the prices of drugs and medical devices.
In 2018, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), which regulates the sector, capped the prices of coronary stents. Later, the price of orthopedic knee implants was also capped.
While this rule has been revised several times, manufacturers can now sell stents that produce drugs inside the heart at a maximum price of INR 30,647 ($413).
Currently, 80 percent of India's $11 billion medical devices market is from imports, according to a recent report.
The market is expected to grow to $65 billion by 2024. Since April 2000, foreign firms have invested $2.1 billion in the sector, with $600 million of that in the past five years.
The European Union, the U.S., Singapore and Japan are major investors. Devices such as coronary stents come from multinational firms, including Abbott, Medtronic and Boston Scientific. After coronary stents came under price control, the multinationals were unhappy with the classification and the price controls. Abbott withdrew its most recent stent, Absorb, stating that due to the price, it was no longer viable for the company to sell the product in India.
When multinational firms asked for better pricing for their devices, the NPPA asked them to prove their products' superiority over Indian stents. When the firms could not provide substantial evidence, the NPPA put all the drug-eluting coronary stents in one category.
The domestic medical devices industry welcomed the government's decision to cap prices of medical devices.
The Indian government is now considering capping the price of other medical devices, such as intraocular lenses, as well as a cap on the trade margin, which the U.S. has been pushing back against.
Other medical-use products could also benefit from the medical park.
Rajiv Nath, forum coordinator at Association of Indian Manufacturers of Medical Devices, told Zenger News, "We should focus on making devices from latex. As Kerala is home to rubber plantations, it is recommended that the park focus on specialization in latex- and natural rubber-based medical devices.
"India is a major producer and exporter of latex sterile surgical gloves," he said, "but India imports all its non-sterile latex examination gloves."
India's latex glove market, currently valued at $181.2 million, is expected to reach $282.8 million by 2027.
The medpark in Kerala, funded equally by the central and state governments, is expected to help India take in a major share of this market. Once ready, it will be sustained by funds from the companies using its facilities.
(Edited by Uttaran Das Gupta and Judy Isacoff.)
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Presentation Is Everything
On to the more regular topics here, over the weekend I ran the first session of what is going to be an on-again off-again pathfinder game. Basically, I'm GMing and the players (currently only 2) are playing basically when we have time and if we want to. Nothing regular, nothing too indepth, just something to do when nothing else presents itself. This post isn't about that game though, but rather something that happened in the game that really just cements how presentation can change everything.
The scenario for the game is simple enough. The two players (a druid and a ranger) live in a logging village that is on the outskirts of a giant forest called the Elderwood. The Elderwood stretches for miles and miles and miles in all directions, and the village is responsible enough to not just go needlessly clear cutting, but they are making a small dent into the woods. The PCs do a bit of scouting, hunting, and general woodsman-ing for the village. The Elderwood is home to elves, orks, goblins, and a number of other nasty creatures including some bears, wolves, and other wild life.
This being the first session I decided to start small. While out hunting the PCs came across three goblins that were butchering a deer. Goblins being evil, the players ambushed the goblins killing two and one of them fleeing away. Not wanting the goblin to say, get a lot more goblins and cause problems for the town the PCs headed off after the surviving member (I basically based the goblins actions off the grunts in Halo. It seemed appropriate at the time.)
Following the goblin survivor the PCs come across two other goblins and a goblin dog in a clearing. The PCs strike first once again and the ranger shoots the goblin dog with an arrow. One of the goblin immediately runs out and hugs the dog (casting cure light wounds in the process). My players start accusing me of being an asshole and that I'm doing it wrong (all in a joking manner). What did I do?
To be up front, I'm one of those people who can find certain depictions of deadly/dangerous/vile things to be cute. For example, I think Kog'maw from League of Legends is cute (at times.) And I think the picture of the goblin in the pathfinder beastiary is as well.
Because of this, and being that I was kind of tired and bleary, I was doing a few things without fully realizing it. For one, I referenced the goblin boot tracks as "cute little boot tracks" or something like that. In my defense, they were small boot prints running from a stream. I've heard parents say the same about kid tracks and some people equate small with cute. Part of how I was having the goblins act was small and adorable in a slapstick method. For example, when one of them got hurt, one of the others just flat out threw its hands in the air and ran. For that, like I said, I blame Halo which I was using as the basis of the action. The kicker though, was the goblin running out to hug it's injured dog. yes, to heal it. but still..
What does all this do? I humanized the goblins. Small, vile, wicked, neutral evil creatures that any adventurer worth their salt has probably killed by the score. I made them sentient living things and my players saw a brief moment of them as something other than Xp sacks. There is a reason that "kick the dog" (WARNING! TV TROPES LINK!) is considered a default evil action, and for a few moments there the PCs were left with the realization that they had just shot someone's dog from ambush and that that dog was loved by someone.
In the end it didn't matter. The goblin was still neutral evil. He abandoned his dog when the fighting got thick because he was a coward. But for a brief moment my players were faced with the fact that, objectively speaking (not considering goblins are evil) they were...well...dicks. Hence the accusations of trying to make them the bad guys (like a GM needs to make PCs the bad guys...)
What It Boils Down To
Essentially, my crime is that I didn't do the stock portrayal of goblins as vile nasty creatures. They're sentient and social. this means there has to be more to them than what we see a lot of the time. The thing is, unless you present that to your players they won't see it. Maybe this is good for your game. If you're running epic fantasy it might not do to humanize the goblins. However, for a dark fantasy game, it can be a good idea to do so. Who knows, maybe your PCs will think twice about just blindly assaulting a village after they see some kids crying over their dead dog and parents. Not for everyone, but it can be worth exploring at times.
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thesethingsthatiwrite December 18, 2012 at 4:54 AM
I like what you did to be honest. You should track down and read some Terry Pratchett, mainly his books about the Ankh Morpork city watch. They often have a theme running through them about the prejudicial way people look down on sentient non-humans who don't look like 'people, but different'. The last one - Snuff - was particularly moving. Don't want to spoil it for your readers, but based on the above story, I think you'll get a kick out of it.
A.L. December 18, 2012 at 11:04 AM
I've read some of the Ankh Morpork books, they're good stuff. I'm also writing a story (unsure if it'll get past rough draft phase honestly) where I'm trying to give the goblins/orks/etc some depth beyond just being the big bad army that the heroes have to fight.
Hopefully it'll work out.
At a game this weekend, combat was dragging and the players weren't enthusiastic over it. I needed a way to end things quickly. The party was fighting a Tiefling, his skeleton soldiers and a big ogre. Once the party's fighter went down, I had an idea. Drawing on the big guy, Sloth, from The Goonies, I decided that the ogre was upset that his plaything stopped moving. He accused the Tiefling of playing wrong and it was no fun. He picked up the fighter (a big dragonborne) and cradled her in his arms.
The party rallied, defeated the Tiefling and his skeletons easily (through a bit of GM fiat) and healed the fighter. Hooray! One player didn't like this and said it wasn't "right" but the rest thought it was great. I think I made the right call.


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    livereload = require('gulp-livereload'),
    autoprefixer = require('gulp-autoprefixer'),
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gulp.task('watch', function() {

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gulp.task('default', ['styles', 'watch'], function() {

});

Kept on having to type "gulp styles" over again and again. Couldn't get it to generate from .sass to .css automatically without typing repeatedly. How to make it generate automatically?
Another thing is live reload. It seems not to be working when testing on chrome browse with extension live reload. Not sure where it went wrong.

A: You watch is wrong.
gulp.watch('./public/styles/', ['styles'])

should be something like
gulp.watch('./public/styles/**/*.scss', ['styles'])

This will cause the styles task to run whenever a SASS file is updated within public/styles/, even if it's nested within child directories.
You could do something similar for livereload. I suggest looking at something like BrowserSync though - it doesn't require a browser plugin and "just works" once configured.