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Not too long ago, I learned that an animated version of The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolken's prequel to Lord of the Ring was found. This version is over 11 minutes long and dates from 1966. It was designed by Czech illustrator Adolf Born and was written and directed by Tom and Jerry animator Gene Deitch and you can watch it here:
As you can guess, this discovery got me thinking about other lost and found films. There are many films, most from the early days of motion pictures that have become lost, either through neglect, accident or the nitrates ate away at the film and there is nothing left to watch. There are also many films that were, and still are, languishing in a closet somewhere, only to be found when someone knocks something over or lifts up a box. So, I have put together a list of some films that are lost and some films that were found.
The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
This film tells the tale of Australia's most famous criminal or "bushranger" Ned Kelly. Directed by Melbourne native Charles Tait, the film was a popular and critical success and lead to a succession of bushranger films. Soon these type of films were banned in several Australian states because they romanticized crime and criminals. Unfortunately, at the turn of the 20th century, studios didn't realize the historical significance of saving a film, like The Story of the Kelly Gang. So, there was no procedure put in place to preserve these films for future generations, hence it became lost. Still, the film has not entirely disappeared. Nine minutes of footage was found in a deserted house in 1979 and just before the film's 100th anniversary, Australia's National Film and Sound Archive contacted archives around the world in regards to the film. As it turned out, the British Film Institute had an incomplete film labeled "Kelly Gang," and it contained more footage of the film. While, it is far from complete, there was enough footage to get a feel for the film and that was added to a DVD of the film.
Humorisk (or Humor Risk) (1920s)
Would you believe that the Marx Brothers made a silent film? Yes, it is true. In fact, it was their first film and they played different characters to the ones that they became famous for. Reports are that Groucho didn't like this film, so he purchased it and destroyed all prints and negatives. Ouch! That's taking the killing of your darlings to extremes.
Catch My Soul (1974)
Conventional wisdom states that most of the films that became lost were from the early years of the 20th century. For the most part that's true, the exception is Catch My Soul. This is a rock opera based on Shakespeare's Othello and has folk singer Richie Haven as the lead. The film was directed by Patrick McGoohan, who was the lead actor in the famous television show of the 1960's The Prisoner. The film got poor reviews and one critic said that it was "pricelessly funny" without meaning to be, since it was dramatic film. Wait, it gets worse. According to McGoohan, one of the producers found religion and added 15 minutes of religious material to the film. McGoohan didn't like that and tried to have his name removed from the credits. The next year it was re-titled as Santa Fe Satan and then it disappeared. So, check your closets and attics, keep an eye open at flea markets and while checking out stuff on eBay, because a print of this film might show up in those places.
Cléopâtre (1899)
No, this is not the one with Liz and Dick. This is a French film and the earliest horror film made. This film deals with the re-animated mummy of Cleopatra and the havoc she creates. It was thought to be lost until 2005 when a print of the film was found. So, now the French film canon includes more than just chain smokers who discuss the meaning of life in sidewalk cafes.
Richard III (1912)
This is a film adaptation of the Shakespeare play of the same name and is considered the oldest American feature film in existence. It featured the, then, famous actress Sarah Bernhardt. This film was thought lost until 1996 when a high quality print was found.
Metropolis (1927)
This film wasn't lost like the other films mentioned. Rather, after it's premiere in Berlin, the film was cut from its original 153 minutes to 90 minutes. Restoration was done in 2001 with combined footage from several archives and that brought the film up to 124 minutes. That version was considered to be the most complete version until 2008 when a 16 mm negative was found in, of all places, Buenos Aires. This negative contained 25 minutes of lost footage. This footage was integrated with the 2001 version in 2010 and now the film is as close to director Fritz Lang's original version of the film as possible.
The lost and found films mentioned in this blog entry demonstrate the importance of archiving films. After all, whether a film becomes a classic or a flop, it is part of the historical record of the studio that made it, so it needs to be saved for future generations. It also demonstrates the importance of keeping track of your own stuff. After all, if you lose your stamp, coin or baseball card collection, do you think the Smithsonian Institute will help you find it?
Of course, it you have any information about the lost films mentioned in this blog entry, please contact the following film archives:
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2601
GPO Box 2002,Canberra ACT 2601
Email: enquiries@nfsa.gov.au
http://nfsa.gov.au
National Film Preservation Board
Library of Congress (4690)
Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
101 Independence Avenue SE
Attn: Steve Leggett, Staff Coordinator
Email: sleg@loc.gov
http://www.loc.gov/film/
The author would like to thank Gene Deitch for his assistance with this blog entry.
http://www.movieweb.com/news/the-hobbit-long-lost-animated-short-discovered
http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-lists/9-famous-lost-films-that-have-been-rediscovered/
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/70351
http://www.kino.com/metropolis/restoration.html#rest
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Don't Blame Mom That You're Not A Millionaire
A recent story in USA Today dealt with how people are turning to collectibles and antiques as investment vehicles. Since the stock market tanked in 2008 and has yet to fully recover, many people taking their money and buying old comic books, movie posters and similar items in the hope that they will get a better ROI* than their 401K**.
Of course, what sets a collectible apart is that it is an actual thing that people can hold in their hand or hang on their wall and admire. After all, when was the last time you looked at your quarterly statements and thought "What a thing of beauty all those numbers are." Yet, the trouble with articles like the one in USA Today is that it encourages people to go out and buy lots of stuff in the hopes it will be "worth lots of money someday." Yes, there are items for sale at thrift stores, flea markets and on eBay that are being sold for a faction of their true value. Conversely, there are items that are only worth what someone paid for them in 1998 and it's not even close enough to make a person quit his or her job and live a life of ease. With all this stuff floating around, how can a person tell what's valuable and what's not.
Educating yourself before buying anything helps. No one wants to learn the hard way that the original that they paid $$$$ for is a fake worth $. Read books. Go online and find out the going price for the item in question. Terapeak.com is a website where a person can learn how much an item sells for on eBay. If the item a person wants to buy is more expensive than a Beanie Baby or Power Ranger action figure, it helps to buy from an established auction house. The appraisers at the auction house did their due diligence, so a person can rest easy knowing that the item he or she wants to buy is the real thing.
It also helps to realize that if something is too good to be true, it probably is. The Internet makes it very easy for fly by night types to fly by and take your money. So, it is a good idea for a person not to suspend his or her skepticism just because a good deal comes along. Of course, despite what experts will say, my advice remains to purchase a movie poster or other item of pop culture for enjoyment purposes, not for investment purposes. In addition to all the fakes being sold as the real thing, there's the problem of no one knowing which item from 2011 will be worth lots of money and which item won't be worth much.
As for all the comic books your Mom threw out that turned out to be worth lots of money, don't get mad at her. If you had taken better care of them and not left them lying around on the floor in your room, she would not have thrown them out. In time, you could have sold them for a pretty penny (and dollar too) and ended up living a life of ease. Okay not really, I was just exaggerating. Still, if you take care of your comic books or other doo-dads, you will get more enjoyment out of them and that's something even a recession can't take away.
Note: The mention of Terapeak.com was done for informational purposes. It was not an endorsement of the service.
*ROI—Return on investment. For example if you buy a stock at $10 a share and you later sell it for $15 a share, your ROI was $5 a share.
**401K—This is a defined contribution plan set up by companies in the U.S. in place of a pension where an employee can have a portion of his or her pay set aside for retirement before taxes are taken out. Sometimes companies can match the employee's contribution dollar for dollar. What makes the 401K attractive is that if an employee goes to another company, he or she can bring the 401K to the new company and he or she loses nothing. Pensions don't have that portability. (/www.investorwords.com/11/401k_plan.html)
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/waggon/story/2011-09-01/Gold-in-the-attic-Furniture-coins-and-hellip-Ninja-Turtles/50224150/1
Hunter, Lisa. "Author Q & A Internet has Broadened the Art and Collectibles Market for the Better" Heritage Magazine, Spring 2008, pg 68-69
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A DeLorean and Loads of 3.75 Inch Action Figures, Just To Name A Few
Paul Fraser of Paul Fraser Collectibles recently wrote on his website about two auctions of movie memorabilia. One auction is for one of Deloreans used in the Back to the Future films. (Seven cars were used in the films and of those only three are still around.) While an auction estimate for the car has been set for $400,000-600,000, it will most likely to hit the low end of the estimate. In November 2010 a DeLorean replica sold for only $112,920. A portion of the proceeds from this auction will go to Parkinson's Disease charities.
The other auction Paul Fraser wrote about will take place on eBay and the items being auctioned off are Star Wars memorabilia from all six films. These items range from screen used items like Darth Vader's Tie Fighter from the 1977 Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope to loads of Star Wars 3.75 inch action figures, and other pieces of Star Wars memorabilia. All the proceeds from this auction will go to Stand Up To Cancer for its work in cutting edge cancer research.
Still, the question remains what is it about movie memorabilia that causes people to flock to auctions, flea markets and eBay? While I could wax poetic about childhood and teen memories that many of these items helped to create and I did in my entry of November 5, 2009 titled Flea Market Finds and Miscellaneous Discoveries. There's more to this phenomena, such as the "Looky at the new toy that I got." factor that hasn't been explored. There are loads of people out there who would love nothing more than to own something that is related to their favorite movie and brag about it. The most famous (or infamous depending on your point of view) of memorabilia collectors are Star Wars and Star Trek fans. I entered the words "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" in eBay's search box and it came up with 300,929 results for Star Wars and 120,920 results for Star Trek. Yes, there a lot of action figures, models and other do-dads out there just waiting to be bought by fanboys and girls. Which of course, leads to the Bill Gates factor as in "Be nice to the nerd, because that person could be your boss one day." Many movie memorabilia items sell for four figures and up. Nerds, while they aren't known for their winsome personalities, are known to have a singular focus on something. It is this singular focus that leads to them starting their own businesses and they end up doing very well financially. So, when they get large amounts of discretionary income, what do you think they will spend it on? If you answered movie memorabilia, you are right.
So, the next time you scoff at someone spending thousands of dollars for a car or model used in a movie, consider this: For all you know, it could have been that kid you knew growing up who wore the pocket protector and thick glasses and is now a multi-billionare who just happens to be your boss.
http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/News/MEMORABILIA/Video-of-the-Week-Marty-McFly's-DeLorean-could-arrive-at-auction-in-the-near-future/8185.page?catid=78
http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/News/MEMORABILIA/'A-Force-for-good'…-eBay-prepares-massive-charity-Star-Wars-auction/8157.page?catid=78
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Most Often Its Insignificant Yesterday and Today
An article in the Paul Fraser Collectibles website mentions how a dress made by Charlotte Todd sold for £78,000 or over $124,000. Who is Charlotte Todd, you ask? She is a friend of Kate Middleton, the fiancé of Prince William. Todd made this dress that Kate wore for a university fashion show and sold it at auction.
Well, it's nice that the dress pulled in that kind of money. Yet, there's more. An episode of the Antiques Roadshow featured someone with a Tiffany tea screen from the 1900's. The appraiser on the show wasn't sure if was a real Tiffany or a fake. If it was a real Tiffany, it would be worth $15,000 to $20,000. If it was a fake, it would only be worth $1,000. Well, the owner contacted a Tiffany expert and it was proven to be a real Tiffany.
Thankfully for those two, their items proved to be worth something. The trouble comes when people hear about these stories and it encourages them to buy things in the hopes that "…it will be worth something one day." There's a lot of stuff (i.e. junk) being sold at flea markets, garage sales, thrift shops and the like. Just because something is old doesn't necessarily mean it is "worth" something, as in enough money for me to quit my job and move to Florida.
If you are going to buy something with the hopes of it appreciating in value keep these things in mind:
Educate yourself. Learn as much as you can about the item you want to purchase. Find out the difference between a real and a fake/reproduction, what the signs of wear and age are and what the true going prices are.
If something is too good to be true, it probably is. There are a lot of fakes and fly-by-night sellers of collectibles. So, ask questions. If you don't like the answers or aren't getting any, don't deal with the person.
My advice remains not to buy a collectible for investment value, rather to buy for enjoyment value.
Something to think about the next time you are browsing at a flea market.
http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=179&docid=6354
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=GBP;to=USD;amt=78000
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/dallas_200802A43.html
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The latest gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by a Fox News contributor shows that the network and its parent company, 21st Century Fox, never sought to fix the toxic misogyny that the network has fostered, contributing to a culture of sexual misconduct by the men in power.
Fox News and Ailes discriminated against Roginsky on the basis of her gender by making her deserved promotion to a regular spot hosting "The Five" contingent upon having a sexual relationship with Ailes. Fox News and Ailes thereafter retaliated against Plaintiff when she refused to have a sexual relationship with Ailes. Shine aided and abetted the discrimination and retaliation by Fox News and Ailes by failing to take reasonable measures to protect Roginsky from, and condoning, the unlawful conduct. Fox News and Shine further retaliated against Plaintiff by refusing to give her the promised permanent hosting position for which she was well-qualified. Defendants Fox News and Shine also retaliated against Plaintiff because she refused to publicly disparage Gretchen Carlson when Carlson filed sexual harassment claims against Ailes in July 2016.
The internal investigation regarding Ailes, led by the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, was launched after former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment suit against the network leader in July 2016, which eventually forced Ailes to leave the network. Since Carlson filed her lawsuit, at least 20 women have come forward saying Ailes had harassed them, including former Fox host Megyn Kelly.
Fox News' toxic misogyny is readily apparent on air, but behind the scenes, women at Fox face rampant harassment. A New York Times investigation found that Fox and host Bill O'Reilly have settled lawsuits totaling $13 million with five women who claimed that O'Reilly harassed them. A separate Times piece reported that current and former Fox employees described "instances of harassment and intimidation that went beyond Mr. Ailes and suggested a broader problem in the workplace." And top Fox News executives reportedly knew about the pattern and chose to cover it up.
Roginsky's allegations can put to rest any question regarding whether Fox News cared about cleaning up its pattern of gender discrimination and sexual harassment. It didn't.


Washington fines home-flippers for exposing workers to asbestos | Gori Julian & Associates, P.C.
According to reports, the Washington Department of Labor & Industries has leveled fines of nearly $800,000 against James Thorpe, Chris Walters and a pair of corporations for 11 counts of willful violations of improper and unsafe asbestos abatement and handling. Following four investigations, the Washington Department of Labor has cited the two businessmen in conjunction with asbestos mismanagement that placed workers at risk during a home-flipping renovation site in Seattle.
The DOL investigated only after a neighbor filed a complaint that workers were improperly removing asbestos tiles from the exterior of the structure. After claiming he was the property owner, Walters reportedly assured neighbors that proper asbestos abatement guidelines would be followed. Fortunately, neighbors took video evidence of improper asbestos removal and filed a complaint.
In what has become a trend when asbestos violations are investigated, Walters and Thorpe denied responsibility for endangering workers and neighbors. The DOL's citation includes fines for uncertified asbestos removal workers, lack of certified supervision, failure to conduct an adequate asbestos survey, and not providing workers with protective equipment, among others.
Asbestos is a high-risk cancer-causing agent that remains hidden in many building materials and products. Workplace exposure can lead to fatal lung cancer and mesothelioma.


I hope you'll finish and enter your round robin quilt in the DMQG exhibit! It turned out so great -- proud that I got to contribute to it.
Fantastic! I'm going to try (again) to get my sewing group interested in a round robin.


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Le'Veon Bell at the heart of rift between Adam Gase and fired GM Mike Maccagnan: sources
Not everyone wanted Le'Veon Bell in green.
Head coach Adam Gase — who was promoted to acting GM in the wake of Wednesday's stunning firing of Mike Maccagnan — did not want to sign the former Steelers running back this offseason, sources told the Daily News' Manish Mehta.
The disagreement over Bell — who signed a four-year, $52.5 million deal in March — was apparently a key factor in Maccagnan's ouster.
Not only did Gase not want to sign Bell, but he was against spending big money on any running back.
Bell — who did not show up for recent voluntary workouts with his new team — sat out last season in a contract dispute with the Steelers. Bell, a two-time All-Pro, had refused to play in Pittsburgh on the $14.5 million franchise tag.
Just days after Gase projected a united front at the Jets rookie orientation camp and said he was "pissed" about talk of a rift with Maccagnan, the GM is gone.
"This morning, I informed Mike that he was being relieved of his duties as General Manager of the team, effective immediately," Jets Chairman and CEO Christopher Johnson said in a statement.
The Jets hired Gase in January to replace the fired Todd Bowles. He had a 23-26 record in three seasons at the helm of the Dolphins.
[More Jets] Jets fire Mike Maccagnan, Adam Gase will serve as acting GM; Eagles VP of player personnel is preferred replacement: source »
Maccagnan, who had been on the job since 2015, was given a two-year contract extension in December 2017.
All eyes will be on Bell when he shows up for mandatory minicamp in June.
Le'Veon Bell (Keith Srakocic / AP)
Fiery Gregg Williams is exactly what the Jets need right now: 'Culture beats strategy any day of the week.'
Jets wide receivers coach on Sam Darnold: 'He's a f—ing dude with a f—ing arm. And he's accurate as sh—."
The Jets failed to land a cornerback in the draft. Can they find one before it's too late?
Le'Veon Bell: People 'will be reminded' I'm the best RB in the NFL when Jets season starts
Joe Douglas and Adam Gase can turn the Jets into winners… if they work together
Jets first-rounder Quinnen Williams should be full-go next week after suffering 'a little bit of a scare with his calf'

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We are really pleased to welcome our new employee, Chris Martin to the team at Greasley Electronics as the apprentice. Chris has his own challenges being deaf, and has always wanted to work in the electronics industry so we are so happy to be able to make this happen for him.
Life brings it's daily challenges and my excellent team are working and training Chris to the best of their ability and he is producing some great work and picking things up really quickly.
Our long term goal is to learn sign language to help us all communicate effectively.
Today, Chris is learning from Stuart who as an experienced electronics engineer been teaching him on how to fix a boiler pcb repair.


Hunter Renfrow enjoying a delicious bite of Big Mac.
For centuries, the best of the best sports teams have been invited to the White House. According to History of Sports Champions Visit the White House, "Professional teams, college squads or Olympians visiting the president isn't a new thing, although it has really become more of an actual tradition and spectacle in the last few decades." After the latest National Championship winners went to the White House, many people began talking about the interesting meal.
The National Championship was played on January 7th. Clemson regained their title by a score of 44-16. Exactly one week after winning the College Football Playoff National Championship and about three weeks into the longest government shutdown in history, President Trump invited the Clemson players and coaches to the White House. President Trump said, due to the government shut down, the White House would not be able to make their "typical white collar meal." Instead, the White House would serve McDonald's, Wendys, Burger King, and pizza. President Trump also chose to pay for the meal out of his own pocket. The White House celebration did not go over well with some observers, and even some fans and graduates of Clemson University disagreed with the timing. Although there was controversy with President Trump's timing, many of the Clemson players and coaches really enjoyed their visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This includes senior wide receiver #13, Hunter Renfrow.
Renfrow stated, "For me, it was my last time to be with the team. I loved that it was the exact opposite of the last time we went. We arrived in DC and it was snowing, we were able to throw snowballs at one another, and enjoy this together as a team." When the team arrived at the White House, they were able to go into the Oval Office and see all the historic sites in the President's home. Renfrow stated, "Trump said he personally bought all the food, and eating fast food in the White House is one of the many memories I will get to tell my kids one day." Football players during the season are on strict diets, so the players were able to indulge in some of their favorite foods. Hunter also mentioned that he could not remember what they ate the last time he came, but eating a big mac with the president will be a memory he will always treasure.
Junior Grayson Hall does not understand why everyone is making such a big deal about President Trump's gesture. "I do not know why everyone is overreacting about it. People are acting like he served the team literal trash. If I was a part of the team, I would have been happy just being at the White House. It would not matter what they were serving for dinner." With this being said, the Clemson Football players loved the trip to the White House and they hope they will get to go there again in the future.


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From Plymouth Rock to Independence Hall and beyond, the pages of American history overflow with evidence of the profound role Christianity has played in the founding of our nation.
The Maps of First Bull Run breaks down the entire operation (and related actions) into numerous map sets or "action-sections" enriched with more than fifty full-color original full-page maps. These cartographic originals bore down to the regimental and battery level and include the march to and from the battlefield and virtually every significant event in between.
This beautifully written trilogy of books on the American Civil War is not only a piece of first-rate history, but also a marvelous work of literature. Shelby Foote brings a skilled novelist's narrative power to this great epic. Many know Foote for his prominent role as a commentator on Ken Burns's PBS series about the Civil War. These three books, however, are his legacy. His southern sympathies are apparent: the first volume opens by introducing Confederate President Jefferson Davis, rather than Abraham Lincoln. But they hardly get in the way of the great story Foote tells. This hefty three volume set should be on the bookshelf of any Civil War buff.
In 1861, the Virginia State Convention passed an ordinance establishing a design virtually identical to that in current use. This flag has a deep blue field with a circular white center. The obverse of the great seal of the Commonwealth has been identically painted or embroidered on each side of the flag. A white silk fringe adorns the edge farthest from the flag staff.
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Shillong is on edge. Last Thursday, violence broke out in Meghalaya's capital after which a curfew was imposed in several localities. Clashes took place between residents of Punjabi Line and employees of state-run buses which belong to the Khasi community. The curfew was lifted on Sunday, though internet services which were suspended in the wake of the violence to curb the spread of fake messages would continue.
There were false rumors of a Gurudhwara being damaged as a result of the violence. The incident involved an altercation between a boy on a local bus and other locals. This led to violent clashes where property was damaged and 10 people were injured. The Chief Minister Conrad Sangma stated that some of the protests were sponsored saying in part saying that money and alcohol were being given for inciting violence.
The background here is tension between two communities. A bus conductor who was a tribal was assaulted by some residents of the Punjabi Line area. Tension among the two groups had been brewing for some time. The tribal have long been against the Punjabi settlements who were housed on government land, demanding they be relocated. The General Secretary of the KSU (Khasi Students Union), Donald Thabah expressed anger against the Punjabi lane residents accusing them of harassing Khasi residents saying in part, "We demand that the illegal settlers in that area are immediately evicted".
"Tourism in rural Meghalaya is booming with home-stays doing brisk business but since Thursday there have been cancellations galore. A city will always have its share of problems but that needs to be contained through effective policing and administrative insights based on experience".
Shillong is a city that has undergone urbanization. This has left some parts of the city and the people who reside there to be isolated from other communities. This has the makings of turning some these densely populated but concentrated areas prone to crime.
"In Shillong, whenever a communal outrage breaks out the elders retreat into safe spaces and mobs take over. Meghalaya does not seem to have learnt lessons from the past – a dark past that has crippled its development for decades and nearly destroyed its educational status".
This episode of violence has prompted some to revisit the calls to shift	residents of Harijan Colony, one of 12 localities the city administration identified as slums. In 2008, The Meghalaya State Development Report stated that these localities were in low lying areas with poor living conditions and sanitation. The tribal heads of 12 localities met with the Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on the issue of relocation wanting immediate action and relocation. The Chief Minister however was waiting for a report from the Urban Affairs and Revenue departments.
Politics came into the picture when the People's Democratic Party, a part of the BJP alliance stated that the government should begin relocation efforts. A leader of the United Democratic Party, another BJP ally, blamed the previous Congress alliance of failing to act due to vote bank politics. Meghalaya as a state has a chequered history of political instability.
The residents of the Punjabi Lane, Dalit Sikhs, however are not keen to relocate. There have been efforts to evict Dalit Sikhs from the locality for many years. Local Sikh leaders want the centre to intervene. Ancestors of the Dalit Sikh community were already settled in Shillong, who were brought by the British army to work as manual scavengers.
A document issued in 2008 from Khasi royalty stated that Khasi royalty never issued any land document to the Harijan community. They recognized them since the plot of land was already allotted to Dalits. Many of the dalits in the area do not have scheduled caste certificates. The Syiem of Mylliem village donated the land to dalits from Punjab.
After independence, many members of the community were continuing their employment of manual laborers by the Shillong Municipal Board, state government offices, hospitals and police. They were tasked with doing menial jobs such as cleaning, sweeping and manual scavenging; jobs that no one else would take up. Many Khasi residents feel that Punjabi Line is illegal and their settlement should not continue. However, they have faced discrimination for years.
In 2009, the residents finally received basic amenities after appealing to the state governor after local MLA schemes failed to do so. The original owner of the land is the village of Mylliem. Many of the residents of the colony could not get electricity without a no-objection certificate from the municipal board. This, in spite of the fact that the Mylliem have no objections.
The Khasi community believes the protests against the residents of Punjabi Line are due to the pent-up anger among the local tribal residents. Shillong witnessed protests in 2013 where residents turned violent demanding the introduction in Meghalaya of an inner line permit system to restrict the entry of outsiders in the state.
With the latest round of elections in the state, the Congress is, today, the single largest party in Meghalaya. There has been infighting in the past within the Congress which has lead to change of chief ministers midstream. The demands of the Khasi community coupled with the reluctance of the dalit Sikhs to relocate presents a problem for the government.


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Wind Turbine Noise: What Isn't Heard Can Harm You
By Brian Dubie -- October 15, 2015
"So, when you think of industrial wind turbines on a ridge line, envision an airport with a line of airplanes that are holding for take-off. The airplanes are powered by chainsaw engines that have run up their engines to full power. But, unlike planes at an airport, the turbines never take off. Now, imagine this at two o'clock in the morning."
What do you think of when you think of an industrial wind project? Wind developers want you to think of free, green electricity. People who live near industrial wind turbines think of noise. Let's see why.
An industrial wind project in Swanton, Vermont proposes to install seven 499-foot tall wind turbines along 6,000 feet of Rocky Ridge (elevation 323 feet). We don't know what turbine model the developer is considering, so let's look at the GE 2.75-120 Wind Turbine. At 475 feet, it is slightly smaller than the developer's Swanton turbines.
GE says a single one of their 475-foot monsters can produce 106 dBA of noise. Scaling up to seven turbines would increase that noise to 109 dBA. (Noise is measured as pressure on a scale that is logarithmic, so sometimes the numbers are difficult to understand, but 109 dBA is loud. For comparison, my chainsaw is rated at 109 dBA. I wear ear protection when I use it.)
Some people will say wind turbines are not that noisy. Well, that depends on how far from the turbines (chainsaws) and how many turbines (chainsaws) there are. Sound attenuates over distance. The further you are from the turbines (chainsaws) the more the noise attenuates and thus the quieter the sound is. Noise attenuation is also dependent on many topographical and meteorological factors. For example if you are downwind from the turbines (chainsaws) the noise is greater. If the turbines (chainsaws) are located on high ground, the noise carries farther.
The World Health Organization says that noise levels greater than 30 dBA can interfere with sleep. The WHO also explains that low-frequency noise has a greater potential to disrupt sleep and that levels of low frequency noise should be kept lower than 30 dBA. Turbines produce lots of low frequency noise — the kind of noise most likely to interfere with neighbors' sleep.
The Vermont Department of Health acknowledges that turbine noise can disturb sleep and that disturbed sleep can impair health. It is curious that the department is unable to connect the dots and to conclude that turbines can impair health.
Vermont's Department of Health says that turbine noise outside your open bedroom window should not exceed 40 dBA. The department assumes that you have different windows than I have and that your open bedroom window will reduce a 40 dBA noise to 30 dBA. Not only that, the department's 40 dBA limit applies to noise averaged over a year. That means that somebody could start up a vacuum cleaner (70 dBA) outside your open bedroom window every 19 minutes and still operate within the department's guideline.
Vermont's Public Service Board has a different standard. The PSB says that the turbine noise outside your open bedroom window, averaged over an hour, should not exceed 45 dBA. The PSB would allow the vacuum cleaner to start up every five minutes.
Who Do You Call?
Of course a standard is no good if you don't monitor for compliance. Vermont has developed an ingenious system where the monitoring is done by turbine neighbors. When noise levels exceed the PSB's limits, the neighbors can call a special telephone number provided by the turbine operator. Turbine neighbors say that this telephone is not answered at night. To compensate for this, some wind operators hire experienced professionals to come in for a week or two every year to monitor their noise and to assure the neighbors that they are imagining things.
The noise you can hear is not the only sound that an industrial wind turbine produces. Industrial wind turbines also produce low frequency sound that you cannot hear but you can feel. When a turbine blade passes the wind tower on a large turbine it generates a low frequency pulse. These pulses are typically below 20 Hz and are called infrasound.
Distant Noise Issues
Turbine infrasound can be detected inside homes as far away as six miles. (Sender's note: much farther!)
We know also that very low levels of infrasound and LFN are registered by the nervous system and affect the body even though they cannot be heard. Researchers have implicated these infrasonic pulsations as the cause of some of the most commonly reported "sensations" experienced by many people living close to wind turbines.
These sensations include chronic sleep disturbance, dizziness, tinnitus, heart palpitations, vibrations and pressure sensations in the head and chest, etc. There is medical research that demonstrates that pulsating infrasound can be a direct cause of sleep disturbance. In clinical medicine, chronic sleep interruption and deprivation is acknowledged as a trigger of serious health problems.
Denmark, which may have the most successful renewable energy program in the world, recognizes the potential health effects of audible and sub-audible turbine noise. Vermont does not. The Vermont Department of Health acknowledges that turbine noise can disturb sleep and that disturbed sleep can impair health. It is curious that the department is unable to connect the dots and to conclude that turbines can impair health.
There is a growing body of research that shows that industrial wind turbines can have negative effects on the health of their neighbors. Because so many indicators point to infrasound as a potential agent of adverse health effects, I respectfully ask the members of Public Service Board, the Public Service Department, the governor, the members of the Legislature, all elected officials, the media, the industrial wind industry and all Vermonters who care about the future of our state to please read this report that describes infrasound in detail and watch this video.
If not sited properly industrial wind turbines can harm public health. I therefore call for a moratorium on industrial wind turbine projects until the Legislature, Public Service Board, Public Service Department and the governor develop operating standards that protect the health of turbine neighbors, reform turbine siting standards, and regulate the operation of existing industrial turbines.
Brian Dubie, who served as Vermont's lieutenant governor from 2003-2011, is a pilot for American Airlines. He lives in Fairfield, Vermont and is a member of the Executive Boards of the National Lieutenant Governors' Association, the Vermont Chapter of the American Lung Association, the Green Mountain Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America, and the Governor's Council on International Education.
He also serves on St. Johnsbury Academy's Board of Trustees and is one five members of Vermont's State Board of National Forests. A certified tree farmer, he and his brother Mark co-own and co-operate a 20,000-tap maple sugaring operation, Dubie Family Sugarworks.
Mr. Dubie, affiliated with the Vermont Association of Scientists and Engineers (VASE), has received the New England/Canada Business Council's Annual Leadership Award, the Vermont Chiefs of Police Association's Martin Award, and the National Guard Association of the United States' 2007 Charles Dick Medal of Merit. He is a 2008 recipient of American Airlines' Order of the Eagle and a 2009 Aspen-Rodel Fellow.
This post originally appeared here.
JC • October 16, 2015 at 9:55 pm
Local resistance? "Strangers don't come back from Rockey Top".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPM-M79Lfrw
Oops. Rockey Ridge Vermont, not Rockey Top Tennessee.
Knowledge Sourcing • January 8, 2021 at 6:53 am
Global wind turbine market was valued at US$90.114 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.34% over the forecast period to reach a total market size of US$123.154 billion in 2025.


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Biografia
Figlio di Manfredo I e di sua moglie Eleonora, identificata come Elena de Lacon-Serra, figlia del giudice d'Arborea, ereditato il giovane marchesato dal padre, morto nel 1175, Manfredo II è il primo membro della famiglia Aleramica a farsi chiamare "Marchese di Saluzzo": questo per meglio definire la sua sfera d'influenza e i confini dei suoi territori, ancora assai vaghi perché appartenenti anche ad altri membri della sua famiglia.

Il titolo di marchese di Saluzzo, però, non implicò l'aver reso la cittadina piemontese la residenza fissa della corte e di Manfredo: altre sedi del potere erano Carmagnola, Racconigi, Revello e Dogliani. Nel 1198 i saluzzesi fondarono Cuneo, creato per rafforzare il potere marchionale nel Piemonte Sud-Occidentale (Secondo altre fonti storiche, come "La più antica cronaca di Cuneo", la città fu fondata da abitanti di Caraglio ed altri centri per sfuggire alle vessazioni del marchesato. Cuneo fu distrutta dal marchese di Saluzzo nel 1210 e ricostruita nel 1231 con l'aiuto dei milanesi. Appare quindi poco credibile che fosse Manfredo II a volerne la costruzione). Affermando il suo potere in queste quattro città, ne fece la base da cui partì l'espansione militare dei Del Vasto, che in quegli anni si incentrò sulle Langhe e sui possedimenti meridionali dei Savoia, con i quali, dopo piccoli scontri armati di minore importanza, Manfredo II venne a patti nel 1213.

La sua vedova, Alasia del Monferrato, dovette però riconoscere tributi annuali ai Savoia durante il periodo di reggenza per il nipote Manfredo III: da questi vassallaggi i Savoia trassero le pretese accampate sulla loro padronanza del territorio del Marchesato nei secoli successivi.

Gli succederà il nipote Manfredo III.

Matrimonio e descendenza
Si sposò a Alasia del Monferrato  (1150-1232) figlia di Guglielmo V del Monferrato.

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María di Saluzzo (1183-1260), casata con il marchese Guglielmo di Ceva (1180-1220)
Bonifacio di Saluzzo (1184-1212), casato con Maria di Torres. (Genitori di Manfredo III di Saluzzo)
Tomasso
Margherita, casata con Geoffrey de Salvaing
Agnese, casata con  Comita I di Torres.
Bastardino (figlio fuori del matrimonio del marchese)

Ascendenza

Collegamenti esterni

Marchesi di Saluzzo
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Karnataka Assembly Floor Test: Here's A Break Down of Procedure
With the Supreme Court ruling out a secret ballot, what exactly is the procedure for a floor test?
Anna Isaac
Updated: 19 May 2018, 11:36 AM IST
Four days after Karnataka delivered a fractured verdict in the Assembly Elections, a floor test in the Vidhana Soudha on Saturday will decide the fate of the BS Yeddyurappa-led BJP government.
The Karnataka Assembly has 224 seats. However, with elections to two constituencies – Jayanagar and Rajarajeshwari Nagar – being postponed, only 222 Assembly seats went to polls on May 12. JD(S) chief and CM hopeful HD Kumaraswamy will have only one vote despite emerging victorious from Ramanagara and Channapatna. The pro-tem Speaker, meanwhile, will cast the deciding vote only in the event of a tie.
The present strength of the Karnataka Assembly is 220 excluding the pro-tem Speaker.
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First, the pro-tem Speaker will administer the oath to all MLAs in the House – the time for this has been set as 11am, and anyone who does not take oath then will not be considered an MLA.
Once this is done, the trust vote will be taken up at 4pm. A motion of confidence will be moved by a member of the House, usually the floor leader of the ruling party.
According to the Assembly procedure, "A matter requiring the decision of the Assembly is brought forward by means of a motion proposed by a Member and a question stated or read out by the Speaker thereon," reports The Hindu.
The Speaker will read out the motion and put it to a vote. It is the Speaker's discretion what method to employ. A vote can be registered in the following ways:
BSY Resigns Before the Floor Test, Kumaraswamy to Be the CM
Voice Vote
In a voice vote, the Speaker will ask those in favour of the motion to say 'Aye', and those against the motion to say 'No'. The Speaker then decides whether the 'Ayes have it' or the 'Noes have it'.
While the voice vote is considered the simplest and quickest voting method, it has proved controversial, especially in cases where the majority is not clear.
In October 2010, the then Karnataka Chief Minister Yeddyurappa was forced to take two floor tests in a matter of four days. This, after Yeddyurappa won the motion of confidence based on a voice vote, which had created pandemonium in the House.
Then Governor HR Bharadwaj, however, rejected the floor test, calling it a 'farce' and went on to call a second trial of strength, which Yeddyurappa went on to win.
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Division of Votes
A division of votes can be carried out in multiple ways. With the Karnataka Assembly not having an electronic voting system, a vote can be carried out with slips that have 'Ayes' and 'Noes' on them. However, this method is highly unlikely.
Counting of heads is the method that the pro-tem Speaker is most likely to employ. Addressing a press conference on Friday, Murthy, the Secretary of the Legislature Secretariat, said that the members of the House would be asked to physically stand up. Those in favour and against the motion will stand up, with a manual counting of heads.
The pro-tem Speaker could also employ the roll call method. Here, the House is divided into blocks. The Assembly Secretary then does a roll call of members, block by block, recording each vote. The Secretary also records those MLAs who choose to remain neutral. The roll call was most recently used in the February 2017 trust vote against the Edappadi Palaniswami government, which the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister went on to win.
Members of the House can challenge the vote of an MLA on various grounds before the results are announced by the pro-tem Speaker. However, the pro-tem Speaker's decision is final.
Votes are counted, the results are declared.
Well, if Yeddyurappa wins, he will continue as Chief Minister and will go on to form his cabinet. The swearing-in ceremony of Yeddyurappa's cabinet is likely to be a grand affair, given that the CM's was rather low-key.
If Yeddyurappa loses the floor test, there are two things that can happen.
Governor Vajubhai Vala can invite post-poll allies JD(S) and Congress to form the government. HD Kumaraswamy will, however, have to take a floor test.
Governor Vajubhai Vala can also choose to declare President's rule and the state will go to elections in six months.
(This copy was first published on The News Minute and has been republished here with permission. )
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Published: 19 May 2018, 1:56 AM IST


The term militia has long been used, in both academia and journalistic accounts, to describe a wide range of nonstate armed groups, from warlords' armies and death squads to vigilantes, private military companies, and paramilitaries fighting on behalf of, against, or parallel to the central state (see Benjamin Beede's entry in Oxford Bibliographies in Military History for more on "Semi-Military and Paramilitary Organizations"). Yet, used more rigorously, the term is usually restricted to nonstate armed groups that are in fact pro-government. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a militia as "a military force raised from the civilian population of a country or region, esp. to supplement a regular army in an emergency, freq. as distinguished from mercenaries or professional soldiers" (see Sarah Percy's entry in Oxford Bibliographies in Military History for more on "Mercenaries"). While governments have long used these military forces, the focus here will be limited to pro-government militias in the post–World War II era, in particular since "civil," "ethnic," or "tribal" militias have become a subject of renewed interest, from both scholars and policymakers, with the war in Afghanistan and the battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (see Robert R. Mackey's entry in Oxford Bibliographies in Military History "Militia" for a more historical view on militias). Militias have been correspondingly associated with (post)-conflict areas where the rule of law is absent, or circumvented by the regime: the Afghan Local Police (ALP), the Colombian paramilitaries, the Janjaweed of Sudan, the Civilian Joint Task Force in Nigeria, the Comités de Autodefensas in Peru, the Kamajors of Sierra Leone, or, more recently, the Shabbiha in Syria, are all examples of militias that emerged in weak or failed states.
Carey, Sabine C., and Neil J. Mitchell. "Pro-Government Militias and Conflict." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Edited by William R. Thompson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Encyclopedia article that introduces pro-government militias as an important feature of contemporary civil wars and reviews existing research on militias.
Carey, Sabine C., Neil J. Mitchell, and Will Lowe. "States, the Security Sector, and the Monopoly of Violence: A New Database on Pro-Government Militias." Journal of Peace Research 50.2 (2013): 249–258.
Article presenting the Pro-Government Militias Database (PGMD) Project (database available online) and developing the definition of pro-government militias used for the database.
Jentzsch, Corinna, Stathis N. Kalyvas, and Livia Isabella Schubiger. "Militias in Civil Wars." Journal of Conflict Resolution 59.5 (2015): 755–769.
Introduction to a special issue on militias in civil wars, compiling diverse theoretical arguments. This introduction develops a new definition of militias as "anti-insurgent" nonstate armed groups as well as a future research agenda.
Schuberth, Moritz. "The Challenge of Community-Based Armed Groups: Towards a Conceptualization of Militias, Gangs, and Vigilantes." Contemporary Security Policy 36.2 (2015): 296–320.
Establishes a typology of nonstate armed groups (NSAGs), with a focus on community-based armed groups (CBAGs).


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Hygiene Measures
Guest 2005.
The Gods of Winter
Peterloo Poets
Cornwall, 1991
Can Poetry Matter?
Greywolf Press
Saint Paul, 1992
Interrogations at Noon
Californian Poetry
Heyday Books
Berkeley, 2003
Disappearing Ink
Barrier of a Common Language
The University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor, 2005
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Dana Gioia [ USA ]
In 2003, poet and critic Dana Gioia became the first creative artist to serve as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest U.S. funder of the arts. His revitalisation of the once troubled agency has yielded a significant increase in the annual budget. Many new initiatives were created to serve Americans in both large cities and small towns, while maintaining the highest standard of artistic excellence. Popular programs such as »Shakespeare in American Communities« bring productions of Shakespeare to students who have never before experienced professional live theatre. The NEA Jazz Masters program honors great living jazz musicians by creating national tours, media documentaries, and school programs that reach millions of Americans. Other projects include efforts to reverse the decline of literary reading in the United States, as well as projects to increase the number of books translated into English and published in the U.S. Gioia also serves as the head of the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO.
A working-class Californian of Italian and Mexican descent, Gioia was born in 1950 in Los Angeles. He was the first in his family to go to university. He received a B.A. in Literature and an MBA in Business from Stanford University, and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Deciding not to become a university professor, Gioia instead pursued a career in business in the unorthodox model of American poets Wallace Stevens and T.S. Eliot.
In 1977 Gioia moved to New York to work, where he eventually became a vice president at General Foods Company. At night he wrote poetry, reviews, and essays. His debut poetry collection, »Daily Horoscope« (1986), confirmed Gioia's reputation as the central figure in »New Formalism«, a literary movement that seeks to bring back to life the rhythm and meter of American lyric. Gioia became a public figure on the publication of his essay, »Can Poetry Matter?«, which appeared in 1991 in »Atlantic Monthly« and ignited a decade-long nationwide debate. In his essay, Gioia expressed the thesis that contemporary American poetry no longer serves its traditional audiences but had become increasingly insular and academic.
Gioia's third volume of poetry, »Interrogations at Noon« (2001), received the American Book Award. The book includes adaptations of Seneca, Rilke, and Valerio Magrelli, as well as formal poems, free verse, songs, and elegies. Also contained within the collection are three songs by Gioia from »Nosferatu« (2001), an operatic libretto based on Murnau's famous silent film.
In 1992, Gioia left business to devote himself full-time to literature. In addition to editing numerous anthologies, Gioia teamed up with poet X.J. Kennedy to produce a best-selling college textbook, »An Introduction to Poetry« (1994), now in its eleventh edition. Gioia co-founded two distinguished literature conferences on the teaching and writing of poetry. The West Chester University Poetry Conference on Form and Narrative, now in its eleventh year, has become the largest annual poetry conference in the U.S.
Gioia now lives in Washington, D.C. but still keeps a home in the wine country of northern California.
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An Uncertain Dream
by: Judith Miller
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When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest of their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault. Amidst the turmoil in Pullman, Fred is asked to act as a local delegate to the national convention of the American Railway Union, but when the delegates vote in favor of a nationwide boycott of the famous Pullman sleeping cars, Olivia wonders if Fred will ever be able to return to the company town. What will become of their growing affection for each other? Who will prevail in the company strike?
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Holiday Website Traffic Management Techniques - Imagine Monkey, Inc.
Holiday and shopping are two words forever linked in the modern retail world. Every business prepares for the end of the year season, some making 20% to 30% of their yearly sales between Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, this will only happen if the business takes the time to prepare adequately. In today's digital world, retailers must keep their websites running optimally and securely. Here are eight steps every business should take to keep their websites up and running through the shopping season.
If your site needs updates of any kind, handle them early. If updates don't install or work properly, you need to know before website traffic picks up. Don't delay on this step, as it could lead to losses that extend beyond the holidays.
Consistency matters in shopping. Think about stores you go into regularly, like grocery stores. The layout never changes, even if the products shift around inside their designated zones. When customers come in to do that last-minute meal-preparation shopping, they know where to find everything.
Imitate this practice for your website. Make small changes over time or execute a major change early in the year, so customers can adjust to the new layout.
In today's age of high-speed internet, customers expect your page to load quickly, so make sure it does. They hate bloated sites that assault them with multimedia ads with sound or automatic videos. They will simply leave a page that takes too long to load or assaults their senses.
If the page's performance drags because of server delays or bloated content, the customers will abandon your website and tell their friends about their experience. With the potential for increased sales during the holidays, the last thing you want is bad press.
Considering the events of the past year, people view website security as an area of primary concern. They want to know they are safe shopping online, particularly during the holidays when identity theft reaches its annual peak. You need to reassure your customers that their data will stay safe while they shop on your site.
Make sure your site uses SSL authentication, a secure portal for e-commerce, as well as other steps like an address verification system and 3 digit CVV (card verification value), and remember: don't store your customers' data. You can check your website's security compliance here.
Don't ever run out of stock. It's really that simple. Use your sales from the previous year to project sales this coming holiday period and stock up. This time of year, getting the product outranks loyalty. If you can't provide, the customers will find someone who can. Work out supply chain issues now, make sure your delivery system works, and keep plenty of stock on hand for the last-minute rush.
Today's shoppers live on mobile. They talk about shopping on their devices, search for things as they see them on TV, and download shopping apps for special deals and loyalty discounts.
Why care about this? Google introduced an update to the algorithm driving their search engine that punishes sites that can't handle mobile traffic. That means your site, if it lacks mobile optimization, will appear lower in search rankings, a potential death knell for your site. To make sure your site is mobile-ready, try testing it here.
After all the updating, boosts to security, site optimization for mobile shoppers, and more, you need to test the shopping process. Do this as a random shopper would, and try every aspect of the process. Add single products, then change the quantity. "Buy" everything, then "un-shop" from the cart to make sure the interface can handle the process.
Seek out errors and make notes so they appear on the next update list. Make your life simpler by doing this throughout the process instead of waiting until the end, and needing to undo a lot of work to fix something you could have caught earlier. If the process fails to run smoothly, you will lose customers.
Every online marketing plan is a complete success until the first shopper hits the website. In the event of the unexpected, have a plan. Develop a fallback routine for every possible event you can imagine. Plan to protect your data, restore it, and keep your website online even as the worst happens.
After that, write it down, back it up to the cloud, post the plans everywhere you and your employees think it should be, and train everyone, repeatedly, on what to do. Follow these steps to make sure your website and business are prepared for the holiday rush his year. And as an added layer of security, consider Imagine Monkey's Managed Services.


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A panel of judges are set to rule that Cleveland Police acted unlawfully by grabbing the phone records of two former police officers suspected of giving information to the Northern Echo.
Steve Matthews and Mark Dias (pictured above) have claimed a victory after the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) dashed attempts by the force to justify its use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) to investigate the source of three leaks to the Echo in April 2012.
Phone records accessed under RIPA by Cleveland Police included Dias and Matthews, solicitor Alan Samuels, Northern Echo reporters Julia Breen and Graeme Hetherington and a Daily Mirror journalist.
Cleveland Police used surveillance powers to look at four months of call data and even monitored the entire switchboard of the Echo between 2 and 4 April 2012.
The scale of the surveillance was said to be 35-times the size of that used in the "Plebgate" scandal that saw RIPA used to access the records of three Sun journalists.
Speaking after the hearing, Hugh Tomlinson QC, representing Matthews, told Press Gazette: "The tribunal have indicated… that they will find that all the accessing of communications data by Cleveland Police in relation to these journalists and these individuals was unlawful.
"What it displays is just an astonishingly careless attitude towards RIPA laws. These are supposed to be incredibly draconian laws that are only used in the most extreme circumstances.
and information about a murder investigation that alleged its subject had also committed sexual offences.
Lawyer for Cleveland Police John-Paul Waite said police believed the three successive leaks might have been carried out by the same person or people and could amount to the crime of misconduct in public office.
"In evaluating the seriousness of these matters, in terms of their seriousness in principle, I submit that it is appropriate to look at their cumulative affect," said Waite.
"We say… the gravity of the disclosures… were capable of amounting to an abuse of the public trust in the officers concerned.
"And we further say that they were, on their face, without reasonable excuses or justification. There was no apparent public interest in the disclosures that were made, both individually and together.
The court heard how former police sergeant Dias had access to the internal racism report, which declared the force "institutionally racist", and had admitted phoning the Echo for "ten seconds".
Dias has said he made the call to correct a comment from a senior police officer reported in the newspaper who had said "we do not believe the force is a racist organisation".
Waite said this admission provided the basis for the police investigation into Dias.
He said Matthews' connection to Dias and the suspicion that the former chairman of Cleveland Police Federation had leaked information to a solicitor in January was the basis for investigating him.
Asked why Cleveland Police didn't bring in Dias and Matthews for questioning over the suspicion they had carried out leaks, Waite said he had been given "no information" from his client with which to respond.
Tomlinson, the lawyer for Matthews, said of Cleveland Police's use of RIPA: "It does indicate a degree of lack of care which is all of a picture with these [RIPA] applications. To describe them as careless is putting it at its lowest.
"The clear disregard for the legal framework is one that beggars belief because there's a huge interference with Article 8 and 10 rights.
"This is four months worth of journalistic contacts that are being examined by police officers apparently pursuing two low-level leaks.
He added: "What's striking is that there's no evidence of any kind linking these two complainants to these leaks.
Matthews told Press Gazette the hearing left the pair feeling "completely vindicated".
He said: "It's been a long hard struggle for not just me and Mark Dias but our respective families, but we feel completely vindicated having proven that Cleveland Police professional standards department have systematically abused RIPA legislation over a considerable length of time.
Dias added: "Police officers are required to stand up to racism within the police service. As public servants we have got to always think about the public interest in what we do.
"All I did after a comment of denying racism within Cleveland Police after they had admitted institutional racism was to correct a comment in the newspaper. That was it.
"The reality was that because I was challenging corruption and racism within Cleveland Police in a methodical, logical and honest way.
"Those senior managers who were more concerned about their reputations and the reputation of an already tarnished police force used criminal powers of surveillance to undermine and discredit me as both a police officer and an individual.
"I think the tribunal process has been extremely fair and supportive. We have had excellent support from the Police Federation of England and Wales and outstanding counsel and solicitors.
The sources and their journalists were targeted under legislation which has now been replaced by the Investigatory Powers Act. Under this legislation requests to view telecoms records made in order to identify a journalistic source must have the approval of a judicial commissioner.
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The articles focus is on our launch and popularity in China shortly after launch. The article has a nice full sized picture of our CEO Tõnu hard at work in our Tartu office and has some quotes from Tõnu and myself. The journalist also interviewed the marketing director from Starman who's website was recently re-launched on the Edicy platform which they chose because of how easy it is to manage the site with Edicy.
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Q: gif image in beamer presentation I wish to display some animations in my beamer presentation. The most trivial way that comes to my mind is to use a gif image. How can I put it in the presentation and what should I use to display it? Is there any other way of doing it?

A: In a single run you will get 4 separate files as follows,

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*a GIF animation

*a PDF animation

*a MP4 video

*a slide that contains a PDF animation and imports a MP4 video as shown in the figure below

Requirements

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*ImageMagick must be installed and its path must be registered to PATH system variable.

*FFMPEG must be installed and its path must be registered to PATH system variable.

How to compile
The following input file, named as main.tex, must be compiled with pdflatex -shell-escape main. WARNING: If your OS is not Windows, then please adapt the Windows shell command to your OS shell command.
% this filename is main.tex
% compile it with "pdflatex -shell-escape main" (without the quotes)

\documentclass[mathserif]{beamer}

\usepackage{filecontents}

% Create a PDF file that consist of some pages
\begin{filecontents*}{frames.tex}
\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pst-plot}

\begin{document}
\multido{\i=5+5}{72}
{
    \begin{pspicture}[showgrid=false](-2,-2)(2,2)
        \psparametricplot[algebraic,plotpoints=1000,linecolor=red]{0}{\i}{2*sin(7*t*Pi/180)|2*cos(11*t*Pi/180)}
    \end{pspicture}
}
\end{document}
\end{filecontents*}

\immediate\write18{latex frames}
\immediate\write18{dvips frames}
\immediate\write18{ps2pdf frames.ps}
% sometimes you need to disable auto rotate in ps2pdf. Please follow up if you really need it!
% delete auxiliary files generated by the 3 commands above.
\makeatletter
\@for\x:={tex,dvi,ps,log,aux}\do{\immediate\write18{cmd /c del frames.\x}}
\makeatother

% convert to GIF animation
\immediate\write18{convert -delay 5 -loop 0 -density 75 -alpha remove frames.pdf Lissajous.gif}

% convert to MP4
\makeatletter
\immediate\write18{convert -density 600 -alpha remove frames.pdf frames-\@percentchar04d.png}
\immediate\write18{cmd /c if exist Lissajous.mp4 del Lissajous.mp4}
\immediate\write18{ffmpeg -r 5 -i frames-\@percentchar04d.png -vcodec libx264 Lissajous.mp4}
\immediate\write18{cmd /c if exist frames-*.png del frames-*.png}
\makeatother

% convert to a single PDF animation
\begin{filecontents*}{Lissajous.tex}
\documentclass[preview,border=12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
\animategraphics[controls,loop,autoplay,scale=1]{10}{frames}{}{}
\end{document}
\end{filecontents*}

\immediate\write18{pdflatex Lissajous}
% delete auxiliary files generated by the above command.
\makeatletter
\@for\x:={tex,log,aux}\do{\immediate\write18{cmd /c del Lissajous.\x}}
\makeatother

\usepackage{animate,media9}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[t]{Lissajous in action}
\begin{columns}[T]
%=============
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{block}{PDF Animation}
%\animategraphics[controls,autoplay,loop,scale=<integer>]{<frame rate>}{<PDF filename without extension>}{<left blank>}{<left blank>}
\animategraphics[controls,autoplay,loop,scale=1]{10}{frames}{}{}
\end{block}
\end{column}
%=============
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{block}{MP4}
\includemedia[
    activate=onclick,
    width=\linewidth,height=\linewidth,
    addresource=Lissajous.mp4,
    flashvars={%
        source=Lissajous.mp4%same path as in addresource!
        &autoPlay=true%optional configuration
        &loop=true%variables
    }
]{}{VPlayer.swf}
\end{block}
\end{column}
%=============
\end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Notes:
The auxiliary file named frames.pdf must be removed manually because I cannot remove it from within main.tex. If you know how to do this, let me know!

A: the same without using an external file (the pdf is here: http://perce.de/temp/anim0.pdf):
\documentclass[mathserif]{beamer}
\usepackage{pst-plot,animate}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[t]{Lissajous in action}
\begin{columns}[T]
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{animateinline}[%
  width=0.9\linewidth,
  begin={\begin{pspicture}(-2.1,-2.1)(2.1,2.1)},
  end={\end{pspicture}},
  controls, %palindrome, %autoplay
]{3}
\multiframe{72}{iA=50+50,iB=5+5}{
  \psset{algebraic,plotpoints=\iA,linecolor=red}
  \parametricplot{0}{\iB}{2*sin(7*t*Pi/180)|2*cos(11*t*Pi/180)}
}
\end{animateinline}
\end{column}
\begin{column}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{align}
    x(t)&=2\sin(7t)\\
    y(t)&=2\cos(11t)
\end{align}
\end{column}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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