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Comparison is the thief of joy. A friend of mine used that quote (from Theodore Roosevelt) as part of her response when I asked for her views on 'Sharenting' for the article I re-posted last month. I think about that quote a lot. About how so many of the things that filter through into the little reflective moments when you try to work out what's bothering you, what's brought this little cloud of darkness to the corner of your brain, what's made you snappy, shouty, sad… so much of it can be traced back to comparison. The Someone Else who is doing the Something You Care About so much better than you.
My friend's example was about social media. And that does play a huge part in the mental-fuckery, particularly for a new author. It's hard not to feel a bit battered by this joy-thief when your profession relies on using these busy, self-congratulatory platforms to market your work because, of course, they are the very same platforms that everyone else is using to make ALL THE NOISE about how much better they are at writing books, selling books, marketing books, harnessing the very beast of social media itself… It's hard not to feel a little defeated when confronted with a 17-year-old BookTok pro who churns out bestsellers for a hobby, has lovely skin and, you know, might not even end up DOING this for an actual career because perhaps they'll go to medical school or become a marine biologist… they are but a child after all. Meanwhile here I am deleting yet another draft video post whilst muttering darkly about the point of having a bloody broadcasting degree but being unable to fathom how to use two audio tracks, stitch drafts together and why, why must all the edits get deleted when I go back to the recording page?! I swear, grappling with TikTok makes turning my kid's eyes digitally green for my book trailer video a damn doddle.
Here I am, looking suitably unhinged (and oddly angry, which I really wasn't) in the name of BookTok. This particular video about different reader impressions features me quite obviously not knowing how to cut the beginning and end where I press record/stop. I do rather like the automatic airbrushing though.
Comparison can do strange things to you and it can be a sneaky, insidious foe. Coming via a screen is bad enough, but at least it's obvious – you can click onto social media knowing you're fairly likely to come across something that'll make you pang. Photos of someone's glorious holiday on Instagram, someone else's adorable baby/puppy spamming up Facebook, notification of a job promotion on LinkedIn, a smug tweet about a brand new dream car, etc… The noise of it all is deafening but you can at least SEE why you're jealous. But then there are the other times. Times where you're not guarded or expecting it… and the comparison, that slippery little joy-thief, will shiver under your skin and encroach into the very core of all your deepest-most insecurities. The things you care the most about. For me, I sometimes find myself thinking that other people are automatically better parents than I am because they planned their kids and we (mostly) didn't. It's an utterly ridiculous – not to mention illogical – line of thinking because of course ticking certain boxes (married, thirties, own house, stable career) does not make anyone better-qualified at knowing what the fuck what to do with a baby. I know this because I ticked those boxes myself with my second-born and the only thing that made me better at parenting was the fact that I'd done it before.
Unfortunately comparison does not account for irony or, you know, actually making any damn sense because as much as I know all of the above, I will still rock up at school stressed, disheveled and on the brink (and often past it) of being late, and I see so-and-so's mum on her way out looking so nice and put-together and in it creeps, that strange, irrational insistence that because she did things the right way however many years ago, that's why she's got her shit together in the morning. Comparison isn't just the thief of joy, it's an illogical cow and really, it's got absolutely nothing to do with so-and-so's mum or some adolescent prettily flogging their books on TikTok. So what can you do about it? Whatever you bloody can. I set my alarm 15 minutes earlier and get the kids dressed before breakfast instead of after (we are still late but not quite so regularly). I try not to listen to the noise of social media and view it more as a business tool. I take the deepest, darkest feelings of parental insecurity and I write fiction about a mother who secretly believes she should never have become a parent in the first place.
And I try to remember that there will always be someone else out there doing The Thing I Really Care About better than I am. But that there is still enough joy for us both.
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Do our kids deserve anonymity online until they're old enough to decide for themselves?
Being a parent has always involved a minefield of choices, and the digital age has only raised the stakes. We are faced with decisions our own parents wouldn't even have fathomed back in the days of screechy dial-up modems and not-so-Instant Messenger. From the moment you find out you're expecting a child, the pressure is on to decide what kind of parent you're going to be. There are the questions which divided our NCT group back in the summer of 2013: will you breastfeed or use formula? Will you use a dummy? And there are the questions which divide the expectant masses of today: have you announced your pregnancy on Instagram? How much of an online presence will your child have? Will you sharent?
When I wrote my novel The Girl with the Green Eyes three years ago, I found the inclusion of social media a useful plot device leading to the main character Bella and her daughter Ariana going on the run. It was only too easy to imagine how difficult monitoring a curious preteen and keeping her off the social media running rampant through the demographic back in 2018 might be. And now… with the rise of TikTok and the increase of family-centric content on YouTube complete with snappy, click-bait titles and cutesy thumbnails… now it would be even harder. There's a huge, ongoing debate rumbling through the internet: how much privacy should our children be entitled to? Should they be banned from appearing on social media completely until a certain age? For Bella, it's not so much about protecting her daughter's privacy as it is concealing her entire identity. For others, of course, things are far less clear-cut, though palpable from all those I spoke to who do sharent was a sense of guilt. And if we're feeling guilty about it, can it be entirely right?
I have been a parent – and, to an extent, a sharent – for eight years now. I never set out to be a mum blogger and still consider it a hobby more than anything. I was fairly young when I had my eldest and what started out as a dazed, what-the-hell-am-I-doing-now flurry of posts has, I hope, evolved into a parenting journey containing nuggets of experience-based advice which may be helpful to others. That is why, when I had a big wobble over whether I was over-sharing and almost deleted the whole thing a few years ago, I decided to keep it going, albeit with identifying details abridged. And I believe that this kind of sharenting can help others, particularly when you chronicle things in an honest way.
'When I had twins I started a blog on Facebook,' explains mum-of-three Natalie. 'I used it as a coping mechanism as it was a very hard time. I felt socially isolated on maternity leave and having an outlet helped me. I also hate the "perfect mums" on social media as there is so much pressure on parents anyway, when we see those posts it can affect us really negatively. When I shared, I'd try to really show the reality of life with twins and this seemed to go down well, with a lot of people thanking me.'
Is it always helpful, though? I spoke to another mum, Emily, who came off all social media before having her first child. 'I just don't see it as positive for anyone,' she says, 'let alone those already facing challenges in life. Roosevelt said, "comparison is the thief of joy", and I believe that really applies here… My daughter is not a pet or a new pair of shoes. She's a human being. I respect her and wouldn't feel comfortable using her to impress distant acquaintances or strangers. Either through a straight up "nice show-off photo" or through an ironic or self-deprecatingly comic one. She's not old enough to agree to be used in this way. And as a shy child who dislikes being the centre of attention, I can guarantee if she was old enough she'd be against the idea.'
Dad-of-two Mark also has concerns over the issue of consent when it comes to sharenting, and says he has become a lot stricter with the amount he shares of his children since his second was born. 'Once things are online, it's very difficult to fully remove them. How might [my son] feel when he's older and wants to present himself in a certain way, but he's partially defined by loads of pictures of videos of him as a five-year-old? It doesn't seem fair. That said, I do understand the compulsion to share pictures of your children online. You love your kids and want to share that with the world. [My son] sometimes says or does things that I'd love to share, but I always stop and think about how he might feel about it in future before I do.'
For some, the choice to sharent is tied to obligation. 'A lot of [what I share] is so my in-laws can see what [their granddaughter] is up to as they don't use messaging like WhatsApp, etc, and we haven't seen them since August 2020,' says mum-of-one Hayley. 'During the various lockdowns I definitely started to share more. I sometimes feel a bit guilty about sharing because I don't want to be seen as one of "those" mums who shares too much and feel like I have to qualify it by saying, "it's so my in-laws can see!"'
That sense of guilt, of needing to justify our sharenting, is not a novel one. Mum-of-two Georgina, who frequently shares on Facebook and Instagram, admits, 'I do worry sometimes about what I share, whether it's too much. But I don't have a huge number of followers/friends on social media and those I do have are all people I know or have met. My accounts are private for a reason.'
But what of those whose accounts are anything but private? What of the countless family-centric accounts depicting seemingly-ordinary families doing seemingly-ordinary things, just broadcast to thousands, sometimes millions. There are toddlers out there with followings I, as a fledgling author, can only dream about. One clear benefit is that they're already set up with the foundations of a following, should they decide on a public-facing career in future. On the other hand, of course, they may find the whole thing mortifying in a year or ten and, consideringly nothing on the internet can be permanently deleted, who are they going to blame for putting them in such a position? I suppose it comes back to the question: are your sharenting choices setting your kids up for the future, whether that's as simple as a relationship with family who wouldn't see so much of them otherwise, or as complicated as a career which includes a ready-made audience, or are you just setting them up? I suppose the best we can hope for is that our kids see it as the former.
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South Devon: The Hyperlocal Blackspot?
Or so it would seem… Following this week's lecture on the rise of hyperlocal blogging as a low-cost, far-reaching mode of online journalism, I did a search for South Devon hyperlocal blogs on Google.
Most of the maps detailing the whereabouts of hyperlocal sites show a significant blank spot around the South Hams area of Devon, where I used to work as a local reporter. Even Northcliffe, the producers of the bigger local and regional newspapers in the area, with their 23 local sites launched last year, had a significant gap in their site map.
Here is the South Hams:
Clearly plenty happens here, and I'm not just saying that as a former reporter for the area. Local papers have crumbled elsewhere while South Hams Newspapers is still going strong… So why has the 21st century still not quite reached the area in terms of futuristic journalism?
Maybe it's because the average reader profile of the local paper does not match the profile of a person who would look for their news on a hyperlocal website. Maybe it's because not enough people in the area are 'media-savvy' enough to know what hyperlocal journalism could offer…
The appetite for local news has not changed. What has changed is the nationwide appetite for local newspapers. Surely this means, then, that it is just a matter of time before places like the South Hams, or from the looks of things, the majority of Ireland, begin to spring hyperlocal sites. A huge benefit is that it brings the whole community together into one place, from which they can spray off into whatever they care about the most. As I've said previously on this blog, a huge part of local journalism is feedback from your consumer – hyperlocal sites have the potential to merge consumer with journalist, community with stories, reading with commentary. It raises the bar without reducing the emphasis on the beauty of local news' relevance to the average person.
As for the South Hams… Well, no doubt we'll get there in the end.
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How do you measure the success of a piece of online journalism? By hits? What's the point of that if people aren't reading the article? By comments? Not according to Nick Robinson. By the amount of people willing to pay for the content? Well, that's a work in progress.
According to Joanna Geary, communitites and web development editor for The Times, it is the collaborative stories which rock the boat. The ones that people come together to rant/rave/dissect… The ones that everyone has read. So what stops journalists posting sensationalist stories just to generate more hits? Who is to say that Andrew Marr didn't make his comment about pimpled bloggers just to generate attention?
I came across this anti-twitter article by Janet Street Porter on the Mail Online site this week, in which she claims the social media site 'confuses activity with content.' From the perspective that Twitter rates trends and tweets by hits, I see what she means. But as Joanna Geary pointed out during her guest lecture at CJS, one of the best ways to generate traffic and comments is an anti-blogging/twitter article. So, you could argue that Ms Street-Porter is, whether intentionally or not, practising the very traffic-generating tools she condemns. After all, the article has generated more than double the number of comments than her last despite being in the public domain for half the time.
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Blogging: A Journalist's own Personal Newsroom
A journalist's blog, whether it be about politics, technology or the best of the web, provides a unique platform for their craft beyond the power of TV, radio and newspapers.
This was just one of the points made by BBC Technology Correspondent and blogger extraordinaire Rory Cellan-Jones at CJS this afternoon. He was very upfront about the fact that TV reporting is generally considered by most as a 'higher' form of journalism than online journalism. But he also made the refreshing point that having total control of one's platform reconnects the journalist with the fundamentals of the trade.
Yesterday a colleague and I were sent onto the streets of Cardiff with an audio device, handheld video recorder and our smartphones to source a story. We interviewed a sound tech guy helping to set up the city's Christmas Lights Switch-on event and a UWIC student dressed as a time machine.
I found that rather than focussing on good questions to elicit interesting responses, I was fiddling about trying to get the audio device near enough to the interviewees' mouths while desperately trying not to decapitate them from shot. I think this really proves Mr Cellan-Jones' point. Given the broadcasting platform of the interviews, I was more concerned with the mechanics of recording material rather than content.
He also pointed out the difficulty of getting a piece of journalism on air at all, citing his Spinvox story as an example. Without blogging, and the audience he has built up online, this would never have been publicised because the content is so specialist. Yet it was a huge story with massive repercussions for the technology community.
Mr Cellan-Jones conceded that TV journalism will for the moment always reach more people than a blog post. (Particularly the BBC's News at 10 and The Today Programme) TV is showing journalists what the audience rates in news stories – audio and videos which are exclusive and which are complimentary to the story.
Can blogging emulate this? If journalists continue to build their online reputation, draw in more followers and ultimately begin to receive the crucial images/videos sent in by members of the public… Why the hell not?
Ending this post with a link to a video about Citizen Journalism vs Traditional Journalism which I came across when researching for this post. It's a little out of date now and a bit long but I think some of its points are still relevant. Plus, I realised about 10 seconds into my first viewing of it that one of its creators is a guy I met in Australia a couple of months ago… Small world…
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Social Media: Power to the Pimpled
Whether he was serious or not, Andrew Marr's scathing description of citizen journalism certainly threw an interesting shade on the subject-of-the-week at Cardiff Journalism School.
After the fast-paced discussion of the role of Social Media by Claire Wardle of the BBC's College of Journalism, something which stuck with me was her reference to Jay Rosen's article about The People Formerly known as the Audience and their changing role from reactors to interactors. It got me wondering, if readers are to users as magazines are to tablets, what are journalists to?
When I wored at my local paper, my editor used to quote Mark Twain, saying that the mark of a good news story was one which someone, somewhere did not want published. As an inexperienced local reporter, I came across many such people of a publication-day morning.
Once, when I had been in the job a matter of weeks, I wrote a very small article saying there had been rumours that the local Post Office was going to close. I had been unable to get confirmation from the press office or representatives at the local branch, but my editor said that rumours themselves were justifiable news, so we went with that. Come Friday morning, I received a visit from the local postmistress who explained in no uncertain terms just how mistaken we had been, and that I was a disgrace to journalism in general and the elderly Post Office users in particular. I think she would have given me a journalism-ASBO if she could.
Needless to say, we printed a clarification/apology the following week, I realised that being the local reporter meant taking verbal punches with the glory no matter who was ultimately responsible, and began to walk the extra mile whenever I needed to post a parcel.
So is it terrifying to face the prospect that the people 'formerly known as the audience' will soon be brought that significant step closer to the journalists themselves? No. Not really. Because another point I picked up from Claire's words, as well as those of the many respected journalists who spoke at Friday's Tomorrow's Journalism Conference, was that quality journalism stood to be enhanced by the future, not damaged.
I agree with this. I think that there is a level of security facilitated by distance from the consumer which the weekly newspaper journalist/ columnist/ TV and radio reporter has when delivering a story in a controversial way. Users who can comment directly and immediately on journalism provide a challenge to the journalist to step up their game. There is no room for error or complacency anymore, the bar has been raised, and that is why it is so exciting to be training right now. Because in some ways we are training to be multi-tasking journalists of the juggling-small-children-while-riding-a-camel-on-roller-skates calibre.
Having said that, try not to aggravate the local postal workers. The buzz is no match for the looming realisation that you've run out of stamps.
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from pyramid.testing import testConfig, DummyRequest
from pyramid_bubbling.components import ParentFromInstance
import sys
import os
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
from models import (
    Document,
    Area,
    Button
)

with testConfig() as config:
    config.include("pyramid_bubbling")
    config.add_bubbling_path(Area, ParentFromInstance(
        lambda s: s.document,
        lambda c: Document
    ))
    config.add_bubbling_path(Button, ParentFromInstance(
        lambda s: s.area,
        lambda c: Area
    ))

    config.scan("models")
    config.verify_bubbling_path(Button, [Button, Area, Document])
    config.verify_bubbling_event(Button, "click")

    def make_request():
        return DummyRequest(config.registry)

    doc = Document("1")
    area = Area("2", document=doc)
    button = Button("3", area=area)

    from pyramid_bubbling.api import get_bubbling

    request = make_request()
    bubbling = get_bubbling(request, button)

    ## click
    print("----------------click------------------------")
    result = []
    bubbling.fire(button, "click", result)

    assert result == [('button', '3'), ('area', '2'), ('document', '1')]
    print(result)
    for x in bubbling.get_ordered_event(button, "click"):
        print(x)

    ## tap
    print("----------------tap------------------------")
    result = []
    bubbling.fire(button, "tap", result)
    assert result == [('tap', '3'), ('tap', '2'), ('tap', '1')]
    print(result)
    for x in bubbling.get_ordered_event(button, "tap"):
        print(x)

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Does your school have a band or an orchestra? If so, then commission an original piece of music, paying for it out of funds set aside for this purpose by the school board and administration.
Student instrument players should form a commission and locate several musicians interested in considering such an assignment.
Perhaps two or three "finalist" could be invited to listen to the band or orchestra perform in rehersal and then discuss in some depth the sort of music the members would prefer be written especially for their use.
When the students select the composer, a final date should be set for completion of the piece.
Then when the work is completed, the band or orchestra should devote considerable time to rehearsals, one or two final ones at which the score writer might be present to discuss interpretation, timing, emphasis, and so forth.
And then, finally, the time and event chosen for the premiere!
This grand activity, combining the mature talents in the community with bodding musicians, should not be a one-time acitivity. It should be a yearly choice. No reason to rule out asking the same musical composer to do a second original work; at the same time, there is no reason not to ask a second composer for an original work.
And how wonderful if one year the winner of the commission should be a student member of the orchestra or band!


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"Not sure that's how it works": Experts mock Kevin McCarthy's plan to "expunge" Trump impeachment
Legal experts ripped McCarthy's "outrageous" suggestion that the House GOP can clear Trump's record
By Samaa Khullar
News Fellow
Published January 13, 2023 1:25PM (EST)
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a signing ceremony for H.R. 266, the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, in the Oval Office of the White House on April 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times/POOL/Getty Images)
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced on Thursday that he would consider expunging one or both impeachments of former President Donald Trump.
Trump — who is running for president for the third time in 2024 — was impeached twice during his time in office. The first was in 2019 after it was discovered that he withheld military aid from Ukraine in exchange for political favors, and then in 2021 for instigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. While he was acquitted during Senate trials, the impeachments by the Democrat-led House were a part of the historic record.
McCarthy was asked at a news conference whether he may entertain the prospect of an expungement now that Republicans control the House.
"I would understand why members would want to bring that forward," McCarthy said of the possibility of expungement. "I understand why individuals want to do it, and we'd look at it."
House GOP sets its top priority: Covering up for Donald Trump's crime spree
He did not explicitly mention whether the House would try to expunge one or both of the impeachments, but shared his sympathy for what Trump "went through," including allegations of collusion with Russia during his 2016 presidential campaign.
In January 2021, McCarthy condemned Trump for his role in the Capitol attack that resulted in the deaths of five people and over 140 injuries to law enforcement.
"The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters," McCarthy said on the House floor on Jan. 13, 2021. "He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by President Trump."
However, later that month, McCarthy visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate to discuss the GOP strategy to take over the House. The pair took a photo together and McCarthy later voted against impeaching Trump.
Last week, during the historically long voting process for Speaker of the House, Trump urged Republicans to vote for McCarthy and personally spoke to those in the party who opposed his bid.
Experts are reacting to McCarthy's statement on Thursday, calling it "outrageous."
Noah Bookbinder, the president of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, wrote in a tweet that "it is outrageous that Speaker McCarthy would consider expunging Donald Trump's impeachments. Trump incited a violent insurrection and tried to overturn an election he lost. Congress should have barred him from office. But the Trump wing is now ascendant."
It is outrageous that Speaker McCarthy would consider expunging Donald Trump's impeachments. Trump incited a violent insurrection and tried to overturn an election he lost. Congress should have barred him from office. But the Trump wing is now ascendant.https://t.co/TWxFgU270o
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) January 12, 2023
Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis mocked McCarthy's announcement, tweeting "not sure that's how it works."
Not sure that's how it works —> McCarthy says he's willing to look at expunging a Trump impeachment https://t.co/OkIFhT7XEK
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) January 12, 2023
Ronald Brownstein, a political analyst for CNN, wrote that House Republicans are still protecting Trump.
"More evidence that [the] whole elite GOP donor/strategist "it's time to move past Trump" consensus after 2022 hasn't reached the House GOP," he tweeted Friday.
More evidence that whole elite GOP donor/strategist "it's time to move past Trump" consensus after 2022 hasn't reached the House GOP: "McCarthy says he's willing to look at expunging a Trump impeachment" https://t.co/dwW0Vok115
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 12, 2023
Award-winning journalist Joel Mathis pointed to the absurdity of the possibility of expunging the Jan. 6 impeachment.
"The insurrection? Never happened. You'll be astonished how much it never happened," he tweeted. In a sarcastic follow up, Mathis wrote that McCarthy's consideration "will definitely divert the American public's attention away from the GOP's slavishness to Trump."
The insurrection? Never happened. You'll be astonished how much it never happened. https://t.co/ezvoOxLXIE
— Joel Mathis (@joelmmathis) January 12, 2023
McCarthy is not the first Republican to consider expungement for the former president's impeachments. In the last Congress, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and then-Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., supported a resolution to expunge Trump's 2021 impeachment over Jan. 6.
At the time, Mullin accused Democrats of engaging in "personal politics" during the impeachment process.
"Democrats used their second impeachment resolution to once again weaponize one of the most grave and consequential powers of the House," Mullin said at the time. "This was never about the Constitution; it was rooted in personal politics."
Last year, Stefanik, who currently serves as the Republican conference chairwoman, said that the Jan. 6 impeachment was a "sham process," and that Trump was "rightfully acquitted."
"It is past time to expunge Democrats' sham smear against not only President Trump's name, but against millions of patriots across the country," Stefanik said.
While the Democratic-led House ignored the resolution at the time, Republicans are now in the majority, which means the resolution could potentially reach a vote.
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Samaa Khullar is a news fellow at Salon with a background in Middle Eastern history and politics.
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Assess the extent to which religion produces social change Essay
"Assess the extent to which religion produces social change" (33 marks) There is a great debate concerning the role of religion in social change. Whereas some sociologists believe that religion acts as a conservative force, thus inhibiting social change whether that is positive or negative, others believe that religion is a radical force and a major contributor to social change. As expected many sociologists have taken the middle ground, arguing that religion can be both encouraging and preventing social change. The most influential sociologist who advocates the view that religion acts as a radical force promoting social change is Max Weber. Weber's book 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' examines how Calvinism (a form of Protestantism) helped change society into a capitalist state starting in Northern Europe.
Calvinists believed in 'predestination' meaning that God had already chosen your place in either heaven or hell before you were born. This was a problem since no one knew who was amongst the 'elect' so Calvinists developed a set of values which were mainly hard work, thrift and accumulation of wealth. In Weber's view the spirit of capitalism meant that an object was seen as the acquisition of more money and investment thus Calvinism brought social change in the 16th century in the form of Capitalism as we now know it. Karl Marx's view differs from Weber since according to Marx religion is a conservative ideology – a set of ruling class ideas which are shaped by and legitimate class inequalities in society's economic base. Marxists recognise that religious ideas can have relative autonomy which means being partly independent of the economic base of society.
This results in religion having a dual character and sometimes being used as a force for social change and stability. Engels agrees with Marx that religion is conservative and explains that religion could encourage social change. For example religion preaches about liberation from slavery and misery. Based on evidence, Marx's argument is stronger than Weber's as Marx takes a more holistic view and considers both sides; that religion can be both conservative and encourage social change. An example of this would be Martin Luther King's movement and Christian beliefs during the Black struggle for racial equality in the USA in the 1960's, where he quoted the Bible many times to make people realise and focus on changing the world for the better glorification of God. Weber stands firm with the argument that religion is and was the institution to bring the first major social change into the world. Weber is criticised by Marxists for underestimating economic factors in bringing about capitalism and wrongly assuming that capitalism came after Calvinism. As a neo-Marxist, Ernst Bloch's view differs from Marxists. He also sees religion as having a dual character. He accepts that religion can inhibit social change by expressing the image of utopia which deceives people with promises of reward in heaven and lessens their desire to change their situation. However these religious beliefs may be what people need to envision a better world which can bring about social change if combined with the correct political leadership and organisation.
The PMOI (People's mojahedin organisation of Iran) founded in 1965 are the main resistance group against the fascist Islamic Iranian regime. Even though members of the group are mainly Muslim men and women, and leaders and members recite the Quran and use quotes as examples, they believe that a future Iran will have to include a secularised government (separation of religion and state) and discrimination against anyone following any or no religion will need to be prohibited. This is how the group has many supporters who have different religious beliefs but all have the same goal of freedom for Iran. In this case it's evident that religion doesn't always need to be used as a tool to control a society and be misused for power. It can be a revolutionary radical force that could potentially bring about social change, demonstrating Bloch's dual character theory. Similarly to the PMOI, Maduro argues that Liberation theology favoured the poor of Latin America in the 1960's and opposed military dictatorships. Catholic priests helped and protected the poor and fought oppression under the name of the church which at the time was encouraging acceptance of poverty. That is until Pope John II accused Liberation theology of resembling Marxism and banned the movement instructing priests to go back to pastoral activities and not politics. The movement lost influence and Catholicism is still conservative however Liberation theology was still a major part of bringing democracy to Latin America and serving the poor. Marxists disagree with this because liberation theology helped bring democracy to Latin America but didn't threaten the stability of capitalism. It's important to note that both examples, the PMOI and Liberation theology are very well theoretically thought out, however both have yet to actually bring about social change and prove that religion can be a radical force. Liberation theology may have changed society's norms for a while but went backwards in step when a powerful leader didn't approve of the movement.
This proves that social change needs mainly cultural factors to make effective outcomes. For Functionalist Emile Durkheim, religion acts as one of the body's internal organs; religion maintains social stability and harmony and is therefore a conservative force. Through collective worship, religion unites individuals and acts as society's "social glue" promoting value consensus and social solidarity. Religion is conservative because it helps to integrate individuals and allows them to realise the "collective conscience" (a set of moral codes and values). People follow religion's rules and regulations because they believe that their suffering will mean good things in an "afterlife". This argument is weak because functionalists haven't considered the situations when religion can be taken as an advantage for people of higher power to control society and stop social development and growth. There are some sociologists such as Steve Bruce who've argued that religion can both encourage and prevent social change. The New Christian right, a protestant fundamentalist movement, aims to take America "back to God" meaning making abortion, divorce and homosexuality illegal again. According to Bruce their campaign has been unsuccessful because of the liberal values of most of America's society who believe in separation of church and state.
This suggests that some individuals may have their own beliefs on "immoral" activities such as homosexuality but those individuals will not stand in the way of others who may want to live these "immoral" lifestyles and thus Americans are comfortable with legalising such activities. On the other hand the black civil rights movement was able to connect with mainstream beliefs about democracy, equality and religious freedom. In Bruce's view religion was able to become apart of secular struggle and achieved its aims by shaming those in power to put equality for all men and women into practice. Both of these examples emphasise that whether religion is conservative or radical really depends on the extremity of the institutions rules and regulations for its followers, and also whether it's able to fit in with society's current beliefs. Overall the argument that religion can both be conservative and radical is stronger. It's evident that religion can be a "brain washer" which can be both positive and negative when used precisely with the specific leadership. Religion can then either go on to bring about good social change like we saw happen with the liberation of the black society using civil rights, or religion can be used as a tool for oppression and social control e.g. the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979 where the Iranian people were suffering under the oppression of the Shah and when they tried to revolutionise and change society, their opportunity was seized by Ayatollah Khomeini who's regime has continued to oppress Iran up until now. It seems that the type of religion being examined and its relationship with society can take both contrasting views of being conservative, preventing social change, and radical, encouraging social change.
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Mitchell Froom, né le , est un musicien et producteur américain. Il a été membre des groupes Gamma et Latin Playboys, et est actuellement le clavier du groupe Crowded House. Il a produit des albums pour de nombreux artistes, dont Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson, Los Lobos, Suzanne Vega, et Vonda Shepard. En tant que musicien, il a réalisé deux albums solo :  Dopamine (1998) et A Thousand Days (2005).

Distinctions
Mitchell Froom a été nommé à de nombreuses reprises, en particulier pour le Grammy du meilleur enregistrement pour La Bamba de Los Lobos en 1988, et en tant que producteur de l'année en 1992 pour Kiko de Los Lobos et 99.9F° de Suzanne Vega, ainsi qu'en 1999 pour Tomorrow Never Dies avec Sheryl Crow. Il a également été jury des Independent Music Awards.

Vie privée
Il a été marié avec Suzanne Vega avec qui il a eu une fille, Ruby, et avec Vonda Shepard avec qui il a eu un fils en 2006.

Discographie

Solo
 1998 : Dopamine
 2005 :  A Thousand Days

En tant que producteur ou musicien
Avec Crowded House:
 Crowded House (Capitol Records, 1986)
 Temple of Low Men (Capitol Records, 1988)
 Woodface (Capitol Records, 1991)
 Dreamers Are Waiting (BMG/EMI, 2021)

Avec Vonda Shepard:
 The Radical Light (Reprise Records, 1992)
 By 7:30 (Jacket Records, 1999)
 Chinatown (Edel Records, 2002)
 From the Sun (Redeye Distribution, 2008)

Avec Bob Dylan:
 Down in the Groove (Columbia Records, 1988)

Avec Bonnie Raitt:
 Longing in Their Hearts (Capitol Records, 1994)
 Fundamental (Capitol Records, 1998)
 Silver Lining (Capitol Records, 2002)
 Souls Alike (Capitol Records, 2005)

Avec Daniel Powter:
 Daniel Powter (Warner Bros. Records, 2005)

Avec Rita Coolidge:
 Inside the Fire (A&M Records, 1984)

Avec Rufus Wainwright:
 Unfollow the Rules (BMG, 2020)

Avec Indigo Girls:
 Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (Vanguard Records, 2009)

Avec Susanna Hoffs:
 Someday (Baroque Folk, 2012)

Avec Tasmin Archer:
 Bloom (EMI, 1996)

Avec Randy Newman:
 Bad Love (Dreamworks Records, 1999)
 Harps and Angels (Nonesuch Records, 2008)
 Dark Matter (Nonesuch Records, 2017)

Avec Maria McKee:
 Maria McKee (Geffen, 1989)

Avec Tracy Chapman:
 Where You Live (Elektra Records, 2005)

Avec Marshall Crenshaw
 Downtown (Warner Bros. Records, 1985)

Avec Roy Orbison:
 Mystery Girl (Virgin Records, 1989)

Avec Eddie Money:
 Where's the Party? (Columbia Records, 1983)

Avec Elvis Costello
 Brutal Youth (Warner Bros., 1994)

Avec Sheryl Crow:
 Sheryl Crow (A&M Records, 1996)
 The Globe Sessions (A&M Records, 1998)

Avec Suzanne Vega:
 99.9F° (1992)

Avec Neil Finn:
 Try Whistling This (Parlophone Records, 1998)
 One Nil (Parlophone Records, 2001

Avec Tracy Bonham:
 Down Here (Island Records, 2000)
 Blink the Brightest (Zoe Records, 2005)

Avec The Corrs
 Home (2005)

Avec Tim Finn:
 Tim Finn (Capitol Records, 1989)

Avec Finn Brothers:
 Everyone is Here (Nettwerk/Parlophone Records, 2004)

Avec Paul McCartney:
 Flowers in the Dirt (Parlophone Records, 1989)

Avec Peter Gabriel:
 Up (Geffen, 2002)

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Billboard, 22 novembre 1986; 12 mars 1994.
 Keyboard, avril 1993.
 People, 23 mai 1994.
 Rolling Stone, 4 décembre 1986.
 Schwann Spectrum, hiver 1994/95.
 Stereo Review, mai 1994; Juiin 1994; Juillet 1994.

Liens externes

Naissance en juin 1953
Claviériste américain
Producteur américain de musique

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Paternal Unemployment During Childhood: Causal Effects on Youth Worklessness and Educational Attainment
Steffen Müller, Regina T. Riphahn, Caroline Schwientek
Oxford Economic Papers, No. 1, 2017
Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984–2012), we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labour market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment does not seem to causally affect the outcomes of sons. In contrast, it increases both daughters' worklessness and educational attainment. We test the robustness of the results and explore potential explanations.
Alternatives to GDP - Measuring the Impact of Natural Disasters using Panel Data
Jörg Döpke, Philip Maschke
Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, No. 3, 2016
A frequent criticism of GDP states that events that obviously reduce welfare of people can nevertheless increase GDP per capita. We use data of natural disasters as quasi experiments to examine whether alternatives to GDP (Human Development Index, Progress Index, Index of Economic Well-Being and a Happiness Index) lead to more plausible responses to disasters. Applying a Differences-in-Differences approach and estimates from various panels of countries we find no noteworthy differences between the response of real GDP per capita and the responses of suggested alternative welfare measures to a natural disaster except for the Human Development Index.
Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Ufuk Akcigit, Salomé Baslandze, Stefanie Stantcheva
American Economic Review, No. 10, 2016
We study the effect of top tax rates on "superstar" inventors' international mobility since 1977, using panel data on inventors from the US and European Patent Offices. We exploit the differential impact of changes in top tax rates on inventors of different qualities. Superstar inventors' location choices are significantly affected by top tax rates. In our preferred specification, the elasticity to the net-of-tax rate of the number of domestic superstar inventors is around 0.03, while that of foreign superstar inventors is around 1. These elasticities are larger for inventors in multinational companies. An inventor is less sensitive to taxes in a country if his company performs a higher share of its research there.
A Fresh Look at the Labor Market Height Premium in Germany
Frieder Kropfhäußer
Economics Bulletin, No. 3, 2016
I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to analyze the relationship between height and wages in a sample of young German workers. My results show that the crude height wage premium documented in the literature is explained by unobserved heterogeneity on the sibling level. This contradicts the findings of a labor market height premium in Germany using OLS and Hausman-Taylor estimators as well as the Swedish finding of a height effect remaining after controlling for sibling fixed effects.
Who Buffers Income Losses After Job Displacement? The Role of Alternative Income Sources, the Family, and the State
Daniel Fackler, Eva Hank
IWH Discussion Papers, No. 28, 2016
published in: LABOUR
Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed effects estimations, we find high individual earnings losses after job displacement and only limited convergence. Income from selfemployment slightly reduces the earnings gap and severance payments buffer losses in the short run. On the household level, we find substantial and rather persistent losses in per capita labour income. We do not find that increased labour supply by other household members contributes to the compensation of the income losses. Most importantly, our results show that redistribution within the tax and transfer system substantially mitigates income losses of displaced workers both in the short and the long run whereas other channels contribute only little.
Financial market reaction to poll data suggests strong effects of a Brexit on exchange rates and the banking system both in the UK and in the EU
On 23 June 2016, there will be a referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) on the question of whether or not the country should remain in the European Union (EU). We use the polls as a measure of the likelihood of an exit to examine the likely effect of a Brexit on financial markets. "Whenever the probability in the polls of a Brexit moves above 50%, we observe a substantial depreciation of the UK pound with respect to most major currencies (including the euro), and strong decline in bank stock prices, suggesting that markets feel the financial sector (both in the UK and the EU) will be most severely affected by a Brexit", IWH President Reint E. Gropp says. There is little effect on the euro/US Dollar exchange rate. "A huge concern is that overall market volatility both in the UK and the EU are on record highs since last Thursday, reflecting the higher uncertainty associated with Brexit and how exactly, if it happened, it would come about." Within the UK, we see some evidence for a flight to safety into UK government bonds, but no effects for German bonds.
Does the Technological Content of Government Demand Matter for Private R&D? Evidence from US States
Viktor Slavtchev, S. Wiederhold
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, No. 2, 2016
Governments purchase everything from airplanes to zucchini. This paper investigates the role of the technological content of government procurement in innovation. In a theoretical model, we first show that a shift in the composition of public purchases toward high-tech products translates into higher economy-wide returns to innovation, leading to an increase in the aggregate level of private R&D. Using unique data on federal procurement in US states and performing panel fixed-effects estimations, we find support for the model's prediction of a positive R&D effect of the technological content of government procurement. Instrumental-variable estimations suggest a causal interpretation of our findings.
published in: Oxford Economic Papers
Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2012), we investigate the impact of paternal unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment does not seem to causally affect the outcomes of sons. In contrast, it increases both daughters' worklessness and educational attainment. We test the robustness of the results and explore potential explanations.
Foreign Direct Investment: The Role of Institutional and Cultural Determinants
Stefan Eichler, N. Lucke
Applied Economics, No. 11, 2016
Using panel data for 29 source and 65 host countries in the period 1995–2009, we examine the determinants of bilateral FDI stocks, focusing on institutional and cultural factors. The results reveal that institutional and cultural distance is important and that FDI has a predominantly regional aspect. FDI to developing countries is positively affected by better institutions in the host country, while foreign investors prefer to invest in developed countries that are more corrupt and politically unstable compared to home. The results indicate that foreign investors prefer to invest in countries with less diverse societies than their own.
How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-analysis Using Linked Employer–Employee Data
Boris Hirsch, Thomas Zwick
LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, No. 4, 2015
Using linked employer–employee panel data for Germany, we investigate whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider–outsider and several strands of efficiency wage theory, we find strong evidence for selective wage cuts with high-productivity workers being spared even when controlling for permanent differences in firms' wage policies. In contrast to some recent contributions stressing fairness considerations, we also find that wage cuts increase wage dispersion among peers rather than narrowing it. Notably, the same selectivity pattern shows up when restricting our analysis to firms covered by collective agreements or having a works council.


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Ohio Board of Pharmacy Reverses Hydroxychloroquine Ban After Governor's Request
By Catherine Smith
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy reversed a ban on the use of hydroxychloroquine for treatment of coronavirus infections after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) asked for a reversal.
"I agree with the statement from Dr. Steven Hahn, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, that the decision about prescribing hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 should be between a doctor and a patient," DeWine said in a statement. "Therefore, I am asking the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to halt their new rule prohibiting the selling or dispensing of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19."
"The Board of Pharmacy and the State Medical Board of Ohio should revisit the issue, listen to the best medical science, and open the process up for comment and testimony from experts," DeWine said.
Earlier this week, Breitbart News reported, "some physicians claim the public is being denied accurate information about treatment for the coronavirus, including those who held a summit and press conference in Washington, DC, earlier this week."
The event, hosted by the organization America's Frontline Doctors, a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney, and made up of medical doctors, came together to address what the group calls a "massive disinformation campaign" about the coronavirus, Breitbart reported.
About Catherine Smith
Catherine Smith is a newcomer to Washington D.C. She met, and married an American journalist and moved to D.C from the U.K. She graduated with a B.A in Graphic, Media and Communications and worked in design and retail in the U.K.
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Libby found guilty on four of five charges
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NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · WASHINGTON, D.C. · Confidentiality/Privilege · March 6, 2007
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been convicted on one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of lying to FBI investigators.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, left, and his wife Harriet Grant, leave court in Washington today after a jury convicted him on four of five counts.
March 6, 2007 · After 10 days of deliberations, a jury today found former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby guilty of one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury, and one count of lying to FBI investigators.
Libby was acquitted of one charge of lying to investigators. He faces up to 30 years in prison.
The verdict signals the end of a trial that has uncomfortably exposed the methods and inner workings of both the administration and the news media.
The charges against Libby, who served as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2005, stemmed from a 2003 investigation into the leak of former CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity to the press.
The leak was characterized as a political attack on Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, a former ambassador and an outspoken Bush administration critic.
In July 2003, Wilson's New York Times op-ed "What I Didn't Find in Africa" questioned the administration's claim that Iraq attempted to buy Nigerian uranium for nuclear weapons.
Eight days later, columnist Robert Novak publicly revealed Plame's identity as a CIA operative and cited two unnamed administration officials as his sources. Several other journalists, including Time's Matt Cooper, subsequently reported receiving the same information.
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to investigate the leak in the fall of 2003. Fitzgerald subpoenaed several journalists, including Cooper and former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who at first refused to testify or reveal their sources. Miller spent 85 days in prison before receiving a waiver of confidentiality from her source, Libby.
Although no administration official was ever indicted for actually leaking Plame's identity, a grand jury indicted Libby on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury, and lying to investigators in October 2005.
Libby's trial began in January and featured the testimony of 10 prominent journalists, including Miller, Cooper, Novak and NBC's Tim Russert.
The jury found that Libby lied to a federal grand jury about his conversations with both Russert and Cooper. The jury also determined that Libby lied to investigators about his conversations with Russert, but acquitted him of a charge that he lied about his conversations with Cooper.
Defense lawyers asserted that Libby recalled the conversations to the best of his knowledge, but that a heavy workload and faulty memory created the inconsistencies.
According to reports, Libby had little visible reaction to the verdict. Defense attorneys have said that they will ask for a new trial and then appeal the convictions if that motion is denied. These are common procedural steps in criminal proceedings.
Libby will remain free until his sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for June 5.
Plame and Wilson have also filed a civil lawsuit against Libby, Cheney, Karl Rove and former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage. It is likely that reporters will again be called to testify in that case.
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Judge allows limited questioning about Miller's sources (01/31/2007)
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Every year Westfield alumni, alumni parents, current parents, grandparents, faculty, staff, Trustees, and friends of our community join together in making tax-deductible gifts to the School's Annual Fund. The unrestricted gifts made to the Annual Fund support special classroom activities and supplies, enhance programming and technology, maintain competitive salaries, and schedule professional development workshops.
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ABC Technologies Named 2022 PACEpilot Finalist
By Abhishek Kumar on May 3, 2022 Comments Closed / 492 views
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ABC Technologies Holdings Inc. (TSX: ABCT) ("ABC Technologies" or "ABC" or the "the "Company") has been named a 2022 Automotive News PACEpilot award finalist for its variable cooling technology for blow molding.
Entering its third year in 2022, the PACEpilot award is intended to recognize pre-commercial, post-pilot innovations in the automotive or future mobility space, including products, processes, software, and IT systems. Winners will be announced on September 19, 2022.
ABC Technologies' variable cooling technology is a cutting-edge innovation that focuses on significantly reducing the production cycle time of large molded articles with minimum capital investment and design changes to existing molding tools and equipment. This technology utilizes a proprietary sequential thermal protocol that applies one or more cycles of variable cooling policies during the "in-mold" section of the cycle time, and thus reducing overall production cycle times. This enables ABC to markedly increase production output for large molded products, within existing production facilities.
This recognition demonstrates ABC's innovation leadership in automotive plastics manufacturing, with over 300 patents, multiple awards from global OEMs, organizations such as the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and others.
"It's an honour for ABC to be recognized as a finalist for the PACEpilot award for our variable cooling technology, an innovation developed in-house that reduces cycle times by 20%, resulting in lower energy consumption, and increased machine capacity while producing identical, high-quality products for our OEM customers," said Todd Sheppelman, President and CEO of ABC Technologies.
About ABC Technologies
ABC Technologies is a leading manufacturer and supplier of custom, highly engineered, technical plastics and lightweighting innovations to the North American light vehicle industry, serving more than 25 original equipment manufacturer customers globally through a strategically located footprint. ABC Technologies' integrated service offering includes manufacturing, design, engineering, material compounding, machine, tooling and equipment building that are supported by an experienced engineering team of approximately 600 skilled professionals and 6,150 employees worldwide, as of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021. The Company operates in six product groups: HVAC Systems, Interior Systems, Exterior Systems, Fluid Management, Air Induction Systems, and Flexible & Other. For more information about ABC Technologies, please visit www.abctechnologies.com.
This news release contains certain "forward-looking statements" concerning anticipated future events, results, circumstances, performance or expectations with respect to the Company and its operations, including its strategy and financial performance and condition. Forward-looking statements include statements that are predictive in nature, depend upon future events or conditions, or include words such as "expects", "anticipates", "plans", "believes", "estimates", "intends", "targets", "projects", "forecasts", "schedule", or negative versions thereof and other similar expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as "may", "will", "should", "would" and "could". The forward-looking statements contained in this news release include, but are not limited to statements regarding technologies employed by the Company, including variable cooling, and their potential benefits. Forward looking statements are based on underlying assumptions and management's beliefs, estimates and opinions, and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties surrounding future expectations generally that may cause actual results to vary from plans, targets and estimates. Forward looking information is based on a number of assumptions and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Information Form dated June 30, 2021 and Management's Discussion and Analysis for the three and six months ended December 31, 2021 which are available under the Company's issuer profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The Company cautions readers that actual results may vary significantly from those expected should certain risks or uncertainties materialize or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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It will be hard to prove, says WMSC member
In a move which seems wholly inappropriate, one of the 26 members of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council, which will sit in judgement of McLaren next Thursday, has spoken to the media, voicing his opinion regarding the most likely outcome.
Talking to Spain's AS newspaper, Joaquin Verdegay has said he is confident the Woking team will escape sanction because it would be difficult to prove the World Championship leaders, even if were aware of the 780 pages of documentation in Mike Coughlan's possession, had used it.
"It is very hard to prove that McLaren used the information," AS quoted Verdegay as saying. "Normally, and I hope this is what happens," he continued, "there would not even be a reprimand for (team boss) Ron Dennis since it is almost impossible to prove anything."
The Spaniard believes that the 'confidential' deal Ferrari reached with Coughlan indicates that the Italian team is confident that McLaren did not use information gleaned from documents in the design of the MP4-22, though he admits that if the Woking team has benefited from the information contained it would face punishment.
"The team and its drivers could lose points because they would have been using a car copied from another," he admitted. "But if Ferrari has reached an agreement with Coughlan, it is probably because they think McLaren did not use that information in their car."
Fact is, based on the current timescale, the MP4-22 was up and running long before any documents fell into Coughlan's hands. Incorporating Ferrari ideas into the McLaren is not the issue. What is the issue is whether McLaren benefited from having access to such information as the F2007's set-up, its fuel tank size, and most importantly, whether it was the 780 pages of documentation that tipped off the Woking team regards the so-called 'moving floor' on the F2007.
As we said, it is somewhat worrying that a member of the WMSC is talking to the media ahead of case, and even more worrying that he is already 'predicting' the outcome.
In a year in which McLaren is back on top once again, nobody wants to see the Woking team or its drivers unfairly penalized, especially when one considers the irreparable damage this might do to the sport in the eyes of the general public.
However, if cheating has occurred, and by that we mean a team has benefited from having inside information on a rival, then it must be punished, and punished in a way that deters any future transgressions.
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Coronavirus Outbreak: AAI intensifies screening at 12 NE airports
Published on : 21 Mar, 2020 , 1:25 pm
NORTHEAST INDIA | MARCH 21, 2020:
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has further stepped up screening and testing passengers in the 12 operational airports in northeastern region for coronavirus, officials said on Saturday.
As per the health and other officials, no positive coronavirus case has appeared in the eight northeastern states, including Sikkim, yet.
AAI's Regional Executive Director (NER) Sanjeev Jindal said screening of passengers — including by infrared thermometers — has been further intensified at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport and at 11 other airports in the northeastern states.
"The airport in Guwahati is the only one in the northeast to operate flights to Singapore and Bhutan but the government has already barred the operation of the international flights," he said.
Alert sounded as passengers slip out of airports to board trains
"North-East is the only region of India which is the safest zone. We are trying our best to remain in that category."
"We are vigorously sanitising the aircraft, terminal and other buildings, all types of gadgets and furniture. Airport staff and security personnel while working day and night have also taken preventive measures," said Jindal
There are 12 airports operational in the northeastern region. These include Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Tezpur (all in Assam), Tezu and Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh), Agartala (Tripura), Imphal (Manipur), Shillong (Meghalaya), Dimapur (Nagaland) and Lengpui (Mizoram).
Budget carrier GoAir, which had earlier suspended its operations for 28 days in some northeastern states, including Mizoram, in view of coronavirus scare and ensuing travel restrictions, has withdrawn its suspension.
In Mizoram, the state government has in a notification said that 50 per cent of Group B, C and D employees are required to attend office every day, and the remaining 50 per cent staff should be instructed to work from home.
"The officials who are working from home on a particular day as per the roster should be available on telephone and electronic means of communication at all times. They should attend office, if called for any exigency of work," said the notification, issued on Friday night.
Officials also said that the ongoing week-long budget session of the Tripura assembly would be cut short after holding the session on Monday.


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Readers of the Windsor Star may know Craig Pearson as a long-time reporter and representative of the company in the community. But now they can know him as the newspaper's leader.
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The Windsor Star's new managing editor Craig Pearson in the newsroom on Aug. 31, 2018. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star
Readers of the Windsor Star may know Craig Pearson as a reporter and a company ambassador — roles he's held happily for the past 28 years — but now they can know him as the news organization's leader.
The newsroom veteran will take on the position of managing editor starting next week, replacing the Star's retiring editor-in-chief Ellen van Wageningen.
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"I'm just thrilled to help continue the tradition of great journalism at the Windsor Star," Pearson said on Friday.
van Wageningen praised her colleague and successor. "Craig has been a joy to work with and I'm happy he will be leading the editorial team," she said.
"He has been a key member of this newsroom and an outstanding representative of the Windsor Star. His energy, passion for journalism, and positive attitude are infectious."
Van Wageningen officially steps out of her position on Sept. 1.
I'm interested in features and in-depth stuff, covering this community as best we can. And I know, with this team of people, we're going to be able to do it.
Joining her in leaving the Star are assignment editor Roseann Danese and fitness reporter Kelly Steele.
Pearson acknowledged that the news industry doesn't have the numbers it once did. But he believes "good journalism happens no matter what."
Originally from Montreal, Pearson's resume includes time at the Sherbrooke Record and the Montreal Daily News.
But it's at the Star where he has spent the large majority of his three-decade newspaper career, covering everything from the arts scene to municipal affairs — "Every type of story imaginable," he said.
His career highlights include serving as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, numerous professional accolades, and the National Newspaper Awards Citation of Merit for his work on the Star's 2014 series on gun-running.
A familiar face in the community, Pearson has represented the Star at countless social functions, community events, and televised debates.
As the holder of a bachelor of journalism degree and a master's degree in communication studies, Pearson has encouraged journalism education, teaching courses at the University of Windsor for more than two decades.
In recent years, he's also found time to co-author two books on Windsor history, with hopes for a third.
The Windsor Star will be overseen by London-based Joe Ruscitti, Postmedia's Regional Vice President, Editorial, Southwestern Ontario.
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Avis E. Larson, 94, of Lanesboro, passed away on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, at Mayo Clinic St. Marys campus. Avis Elaine Peterson was born March 28, 1928, in Amherst Township, Fillmore County, to Alfred and Esther (Johnson) Peterson. After attending Durkin Country School, she attended and graduated from Lanesboro High School in 1946. Avis and Eugene Larson were married … [Read more...]
Lanesboro School Board — organized and ready
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Lanesboro mayor and council members sworn into office
January 9, 2023 by Hannah Wingert Leave a Comment
At the January 3 Lanesboro City Council meeting, Jason Resseman was sworn in as returning mayor and Chase Bakke and Mindy Albrecht-Benson were sworn in as returning council members. The consent agenda was approved and included the accounts payable, the 2022 audit engagement from Smith Schafer, a lodging license for Green Gables Inn, and the Lanesboro Claydusters gambling … [Read more...]
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Focus on budget and levy at Lanesboro School Board
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The regular December 14 meeting of Lanesboro School Board began with SmithSchafer's presentation of a summary of the 2021-2022 audit. The audit was "clean"; it showed an average daily membership (adm) of 412 students in 2022. This was up from an average of 350 several years ago. The levy has been staying about the same, but expenditures rose with the addition of four regular … [Read more...]
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AFCON 2022 Quarterfinals:…
AFCON 2022 Quarterfinals: Matches, schedule, times, TV for Africa Cup of Nations knockout round
The quarterfinals are played this weekend at the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations with all four matchups played between Saturday and Sunday.
Host Cameroon became the first semifinalist after knocking off Gambia with relative ease, 2-0. Karl Toko Ekambi scored both goals in a dominant performance by the Indomitable Lions, which are looking every bit the part of AFCON 2022 winners.
After upsetting Nigeria in the Round of 16, Tunisia will be facing Burkina Faso in the quarters on Saturday.
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The second day of quarterfinal action will start with a North African battle between Morocco and Egypt. Mohamed Salah and the Pharaohs will be the favorites, after eliminating Ivory Coast on penalty kicks. But Morocco has looked solid thus far in the tournament. The winner will meet Cameroon in the semis.
Pre-tournament favorite Senegal will be expected to continue its march to a second consecutive AFCON final when it meets Equatorial Guinea, which advanced on penalty kicks over Mali after a scoreless stalemate to close out the Round of 16.
With defending champion Algeria eliminated in the group stage, there will be a new champion. Ghana was also shockingly eliminated from contention in the group stage.
AFCON 2022 Quarterfinals
Below is the remaining knockout bracket for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations from the quarterfinals on. Matches that end in a draw after 90 minutes of regulation will proceed to 30 minutes of extra time and a penalty-kick shootout if the draw persists after extra time.
The third-place match on Feb. 6 is the only contest that will skip extra time and head straight to a penalty-kick shootout if the match finishes in a tie.
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Jan. 29, 2022 QF1: Gambia 0, Cameroon 2 Highlights
Jan. 29, 2022 QF2: Burkina Faso vs. Tunisia 2 p.m. beIN XTRA, fuboTV
Jan. 30, 2022 QF3: Egypt vs. Morocco 11 a.m. beIN XTRA, fuboTV
Jan. 30, 2022 QF4: Senegal vs. Equatorial Guinea 2 p.m. beIN XTRA, fuboTV
Feb. 2, 2022 Burkina Faso/Tunisia vs. Senegal/Eq. Guinea 2 p.m. beIN Sports, fuboTV
Feb. 3, 2022 Egypt/Morocco vs. Cameroon 2 p.m. beIN Sports, fuboTV
Feb. 6, 2022 Loser SF1 vs. Loser SF2 11 a.m. TBA, fuboTV
Feb. 6, 2022 Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2 2 p.m. beIN Sports, fuboTV
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