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F*ck the Swype keyboard for Japanese input and (yet another) general rant on Android IMEs
There are two redeeming qualities about Swype. The first is illustrated by the (albeit censored) title of this post: The ability to register swear words. The second, and the only reason I bought it, was for a dedicated key to switch languages (not to mention the idea of swiping to input Japanese was sexy).
However, my opinion quickly changed once I spent some time actually using Swype in Japanese. The Japanese input of Swype is just bad. This is for a number of reasons. I outlined some in this post half a year ago:
Very poor dictionary.
No way to register new Japanese words (that I can find)
Horrible Japanese swipe prediction to the point of being useless for anything other than very basic grammar.
No dedicated enter button to accept Japanese input when you don't swipe to enter it, which causes additional frustration.
No support for kunrei-shiki input when swiping.
To this I'll add more gripes.
A completely illogical ordering of suggestions, with the most simple suggestion often last. Typing something simple in hiragana will often bring up a slew of complicated words that are attempting to predict what you would type, had you continued to type. But you didn't keep typing; you entered two simple characters, and the characters you entered are often buried at the end of the list of all these characters that in no way, shape, or form whatsoever correspond to anything you actually entered.
That none of these issues have been addressed at all in any subsequent updates.
Switching to a non-latin script on Android keyboards can be horrendous. It's slowly getting better, though. Both the Google's Android Latin keyboard and their Japanese keyboard allow you to pop up the switch keyboard menu with a long press of the spacebar, which saves the action of pulling down the notification bar and locating the option to switch input methods since it won't be in the same location every time. (Note that you have to push the spacebar on the Japanese keyboard for a slightly longer time.)
I've recently installed the stock Android keyboard, which was actually a bit of a pain in the butt because it is listed as not available in my country on my Docomo Xperia A. I was a real fan of the Google Japanese godan input, so with the spacebar shortcut (which was previously not on the Japanese keyboard), I may go back to using it and just switch keyboards entirely every time I need to switch languages (every. single. time.)
I've also installed the Kii keyboard, which includes a dedicated, one-touch button for switching between English and Japanese, but it seems to lack anything but QWERTY input for Japanese. I haven't used it enough to form an opinion on it's Japanese dictionary, though it is hard to imagine that it could possible be as terrible as Swype's.
I'd consider purchasing Swiftkey if someone convinces me it has a level of support for Japanese that is on par with the Google's Japanese keyboard. Otherwise, I'd just be buying another English keyboard that sucks at Japanese. I already have one of those.
at 12:59 PM 21 comments
Labels: Android, IME, Swype
Another way to circumvent regional Play Store app restrictions
Finding a way to install software items that are not "available in your country" is a huge annoyance, especially when it's something like the stock Google android keyboard. Why would this app even be restricted at all? And, why would some phones with the same SIM cards have access to it while others don't? Well, there are a ton of potential reasons.
There is the country to which your google account is associated, which could be based on where you originally signed up for the account or the credit card registered. It is possible to change countries but not see an update to your Google Play account. Then there is of course the SIM card's country/network of origin (i.e., MCC and MNC). Another possibility is a firmware-level country code (that is be overridden by a SIM with a different MCC). Finally, there is also your current IP address.
Because the old "marker enabler" apps don't work anymore, simply using a VPN to get the IP address of a different country or yanking your SIM card may not actually work to give you installation privilege on a restricted app. Here is a workaround for installing restricted apps on your device.
This requires having an android device onto which the app can be installed, like a device from that country or a Nexus device
As you can see from the image below, when using the desktop version of the Play store, the Google android keyboard was only installable on my Nexus 7. It could not be installed on any other devices, including two Nexus phones (Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S, both of which had last been connected to the Play store with a NTT Docomo Sim Card).
Even though it is factory installed on the Nexus 7 (wifi-only version), once I reinstalled it, it became one of "My apps" and I was able to install it on any other device immediately. It should also now show up in the "My apps" section any phone that is associated to my Google account, even ones on which it was previously unavailable.
This should work for any app that is not completely removed from the play store in a particular country.
Labels: Android, DoCoMo, IME
NTT Docomo officially announces new pricing plan
Not long after making the previous post, the new data plans were officially announced. They will launch on Sunday June 1st, 2014. Orders for service will be taken from May 15. The new plans can be applied to both smartphones and feature phones. The data plans can be shared between up to 10 devices within a single family, and individuals can split their data plan between two devices.
If you are a single person who uses up 7GB of LTE data every month and does not make many phone calls, you won't see any benefit from these changes. 7GB would cost you ¥7,000, more than it does now. However, if 5GB is enough, you will see savings. If you make any out-of-network calls at all, you will also see savings.
Kakehoudai 「カケホーダ」Unlimited domestic calling
This excludes numbers that start with 0180 or 0570, etc. that incur separate charges.
Smartphone: ¥2,700
feature phone: ¥2,200
Pake-aeru 「パケあえる」Shared data plans
All the new data plans can be shared (分け合える). The single person plans may be shared between two devices, so you have a phone with a voice and data plan of 5 GB, and the 5 GB quota can be used on both your phone and a tablet. There is a ¥500 share fee for each shared device/person added, and each device is also subject to a separate ISP fee, so that's ¥800+tax for each additional device added. Additional data can be added at ¥1,000/1GB.
Single person Data S Pack (データSパック): 2GB: ¥3,500
Single person Data M Pack (データSパック): 5GB: ¥5,000
Family Share Pack 10 (シェアパック10): 10GB: ¥9,500
Family Share Pack 15 (シェアパック15): 15GB: ¥12,500
There are also business plans that go up to 3TB (3,000 GB) that can be split between 1,000 separate devices for only 190万円 (about $20,000US) per month. That's Serious Business. (Actually, it works out to 3GB for ¥1,900/month split over 1,000 SIM cards, which is actually a good deal if QoS is there.)
In addition, there are discount plans offered to long term customers. To qualify on the Data S Pack (2GB plan), you will need to have been a docomo user for 16 years. Your' reward: ¥600 monthly discount. With the 5GB plan, you get that after only 11 years (or ¥800 after 16). The share packs become eligible for discounts starting at ¥300 after 6 years.
Coming this summer according to the PDF attached with this announcement.
Labels: DoCoMo, LTE, VoLTE
NTT Docomo to introduce price decrease, flat-rate voice, VoLTE from June?
There is no official statement from NTT Docomo about this. The story originated in the old fashioned print newspapers (as so many important stories do).
There are three particular facets to the rumored changes:
A flat rate voice calling plan that includes all mobile and landlines for ¥2,700
Total cost of LTE data and flat-rate voice of ¥5,900 (now it is about ¥8,000)
A shared family data plan of 10GB for ¥10,000.
The current voice plan for Docomo LTE (Xi) contracts gives unlimited calling to other Docomo subscribers for about ¥2,000 per month (Talk 24 + base fee with 2-year contract). The out of network cost is HIGH: ¥42/minute (billed in 30 second intervals). This is so high, that over the nearly 30 months that I've had a Docomo Xi contract, I've placed an out-of-network call exactly ZERO times. I'll find a phone booth or fire up my SIP client and route the call through my United States VoIP provider before I'll pay that price.
Effects throughout industry (if true)
Of course the KDDI and Softbank would introduce completing plans. This is not an attempt to bring in new customers to Docomo, but the opposite – slow the flow of existing ones out.
This would also likely be good news for MVNO users. A bug in the Nexus 5 prevented it from working with 3G contracts, which forced many users of low-priced b-mobile SIMs to switch to LTE plans. While the wholesale pricing of 3G contracts allows for the inclusion of "free" minutes, this isn't the case with the pricing on LTE contracts – all calls cost ¥42/minute.
What makes this most ironic is that even with an LTE contract, calls are routed over 3G anyway because...
Voice over LTE
All Japanese carriers are planning on introducing Voice over LTE (VoLTE). There hasn't yet been a lot of talk about this, though. When it does come, it is expected to result in less expensive voice plans. Tsuda Hiromu at Engadget JP raises the possibility that this pricing is in anticipation of VoLTE introduction.
When you stop and think about it, that makes the most sense.
It's hard to see Docomo doing this if calls are still routed over 3G. So I guess this means we could see VoLTE from Docomo in June. If this does indeed signal the introduction of VoLTE in Japan, it would mean that KDDI and Softbank would be limited on their ability to compete on voice price until they too introduce VoLTE. This in turn means we'll probably be seeing more dumb promotions and unsustainable cash back offers from them until they get up to speed technology wise.
at 7:31 AM 14 comments
Labels: DoCoMo, LTE, MVNO, VoIP, VoLTE
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On any diamond certificate you will see listed a characteristic called diamond symmetry. Symmetry refers to how well the facets and angles of the diamond align. Since the sparkle and beauty of a diamond is determined by how well light reflects through it, a diamond with "better" symmetry will (in theory) have more sparkly then one with a poor symmetry.
To understand symmetry better, always remember what it meant back when you were in school, symmetry in math means that an object is identical in both of its halves against a column in the middle.
Just look at this image and you will totally understand why symmetry in diamonds is important, just follow the light (in an excellent symmetry), and then think of a diamond that has poor symmetry (two facets against each other, but not in the same angle, light will not reflect as it should).
What Diamond Symmetry to Look For?
In general I recommend buying a diamond with a symmetry rating of "Good" or better. All other things being equal I wouldn't pay more for a diamond with an Excellent grade – why?
Because as with so many things when it comes to diamonds you have to understand the circumstances in which these grades are given. GIA and AGS (or any other lab for that matter) are inspecting diamonds under extreme conditions using extremely powerful magnification and ideal reference diamonds.
The average jeweler- and even more so the average consumer- will never be able to tell the difference between a Good rating and an Excellent rating. Why pay for something you will never see and will only know exists because its written on a piece of paper?
A diamond with a symmetry rating of Good and higher is an excellent choice and will not cause any noticeable negative effect to the light performance of your diamond!


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The T58-GE-16 engine was introduced in the late 70s powering the USMC's CH-46E helicopter.


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An Infographic: 99.9% of Domains That Have Six or More Characters Available on the .net Domain
By admin on	 July 3, 2013 No Comments
Today, being on the Internet is becoming increasingly important for anyone who thinks of owning a business. The Internet opens up a new world for start-ups, savvy businessman or smart entrepreneurs who want to capitalize on the opportunity to spread their business globally.
After deciding the business model, the next thing on the agenda is to finalise an interesting name for the business so that it can be easily searched by people and at the same time, relates to the nature of the business. And then follows the urge to acquire an Internet domain name for the company at the earliest.
For people with innovative business ideas, there are millions of possibilities for the website to be hosted on the world's best domains, such as .com and .net – yes, it is not as difficult as one thinks to get the name they want for their website! If a business should have an identity online, one can simply choose the domains that help them get that recognition which will define their presence on internet. .com and .net domain names are among the most recognized on the internet.
While .com is a great option and the most sought after for businesses across the world, .net is a rising alternative especially for entrepreneurs building their businesses online. Here's why: it allows businesses to
Be authentic by aligning the business with a domain that is widely recognized.
Be confident with a domain that has been connecting businesses and customers online with 100% reliability, availability and security for over 15 years.
Be recognizable by choosing the name the owner really wants on a best-in-class domain.
But fret not: the .net names are not all gone! Today, 99.9% of domains that have six or more characters are available on the .net domain. The following infographic illustrates this:
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Q: Angular 6 http.delete request not working I cant seem to get my delete request to work. I have finished all of the get requests but now I'm stuck on delete and can't seem to wrap my head around it.
The console.log'd URL is always correct and the delete request works fine via Postman.
Got any ideas?
HTML
<button class="button button3" (click)="delTicket()"></button>

TS
delTicket(){
    this.id = this.route.snapshot.params.id;
    this.ticketService.deleteTicket(this.id);
}

Service
deleteTicket(id): Observable<Ticket[]>{
    console.log(this.apiUrl + id);
    return this.http.delete<Ticket[]>(this.apiUrl + id);
}

A: You must call subscribe() or nothing happens. Just calling ticketService.deleteTicket(this.id) does not initiate the DELETE request.

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*An HttpClient method does not begin its HTTP request until you call subscribe() on the observable returned by that method. This is true for all HttpClient methods.

*Calling subscribe(...) triggers execution of the observable and causes HttpClient to compose and send the HTTP request to the server.

A: You need to call subscribe() inside your component, otherwise request wont get invoked
delTicket(){
    this.id = this.route.snapshot.params.id;
    this.ticketService.deleteTicket(this.id).subscribe((data)=>{
         console.log("success");
    });
}

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Triumph introduces the 2019 Street Twin and Street Scrambler in India.
The new motorcycles come with a re-tuned version of the same 900cc parallel-twin that now develops 9bhp more, which means the total power output now stands at 64bhp. Peak torque is unchanged at 80Nm. According to Triumph, the horsepower gain is achieved by making extensive use of light-weight materials like magnesium for the engine covers and using lighter clutch casing, crankshaft and balancer shafts.
The engine is paired with a six-speed gearbox that also gets a slipper clutch. The Street Twin and Street Scrambler now also get two riding modes as standard – Road and Rain – in addition to switchable traction control and ABS.
The braking system has also been upgraded in both models. The front wheel now features bigger Brembo four-piston units. The 2019 Street Twin also gets a smaller 220mm rear disc instead of the earlier 255mm setup. Additionally, the bikes get a new instrument cluster and tyre pressure monitoring system. The Street Twin tips the scale at 198 kilogrammes and the Street Scrambler weighs 203 kilogrammes.
The Street Scrambler will be offered in three colours: Khaki Green, Cranberry red and Fusion White. And the Street Twin will be offered in Jet Black, Matte Ironstone and Korosi Red. Additionally, Triumph has also introduced a two-year extended warranty programme, which provides global coverage for unlimited kilometres to their customers.


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Emma Watson Slams Critics Over Provocative Photos
Filed Under:Beauty And The Beast, Critics, Emma Watson, Feminism, Photo Shoot, Vanity Fair
Emma Watson (credit: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES (KBCWtv) – 26-year-old Emma Watson clapped back at critics who said her Vanity Fair photo shoot "betrayed her feminist ideals."
In a statement, to the Associated Press, Watson said the issue represented "a fundamental and complete misunderstanding of what feminism is."
"Feminism is about equality and it's about choice." She adds: "Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women."
An image from Watson's Vanity Fair shoot has her posing in a white crochet top while showing cleavage.
Emma Watson plays the lead role "Belle" in Walt Disney Picture's live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast," in theaters Friday, March 17th.


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Who Is Normal? The Strange Beauty of Diane Arbus
April 04, 2019 by Jim Carroll in 201-300
Man in hat, trunks, socks and shoes, Coney Island, NY, 1960, by Diane Arbus
'You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.'
I recently attended an excellent exhibition of the early work of photographer Diane Arbus. ('Diane Arbus: In the Beginning' is at The Hayward Gallery, London until 6 May.)
Diane Nemerov was born in New York in 1923. Her parents owned Russek's, a Fifth Avenue department store, and she grew up in some comfort. At 18 she married her childhood sweetheart, Allan Arbus, and soon after she took up photography. For just over a decade the Arbuses ran a commercial photography business, with Diane contributing as stylist and art director. In 1956 she quit and began life as an independent photographer.
'My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.'
Arbus wandered the streets of New York searching for subjects. She was drawn to Central Park, Times Square and Coney Island; to bars and barbershops, the subway and snack bars, movie theatres and the morgue.
'Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.'
Arbus was fascinated by human frailty and eccentricity. Perhaps what we take for ordinary may be worth a second look. Here's a slim kid with a toy hand grenade, a teenager in a monster mask, a uniformed usher by the box office, an elderly lady in a mink stole. Parents carry sleeping children. Here's an anxious man yelling in the street, a couple arguing - snarling, eyes bulging - a mannequin in an evening gown. The world seems somehow crooked, distorted, out of joint.
'I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have, the feeling of always being at the beginning.'
Arbus' pictures suggest stories that are just beyond reach, incomplete narratives that are about to begin. A down-at-heel Santa Claus walks the city streets. A boy in an ill-fitting boater wears a 'Bomb Hanoi' badge. An elderly Uncle Sam looks depressed and tired in his tatty apartment.
'If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.'
Arbus is also interested in our relationship with entertainment. She photographs the TV and the cinema screen: a blonde about to be kissed, a screaming woman with blood on her hands, a man being choked to death. She is particularly drawn to the world of stage performers and circus sideshows. She introduces us to trapeze artists, strippers and cha cha dancers; wrestlers, fire eaters and female impersonators. A clown in a fedora. We meet 'The Human Pincushion' and 'The Jungle Creep.' Andy 'Potato Chips' Ratoucheff gives us his Maurice Chevalier impersonation.
'A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.'
In the past some critics expressed suspicion of Arbus. Is she just giving us a 'freak show'? Is she exploiting the vulnerable? Is she lacking empathy or compassion?
Female impersonator holding long gloves, Hempstead, L.I. 1959, by Diane Arbus
I suspect that 2019 eyes have a quite different response. Arbus is clearly curious about the margins of conventional society. But she is neither judgemental nor sentimental. She takes people for who they are, revealing their essential humanity. Her pictures have a strange beauty.
'I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.'
I left the exhibition concluding that we are united by our flaws and foibles, our kinks and quirks. We all have idiosyncrasies. They're what make us attractive, what make us human.
'The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.'
In the communication industry, we are constantly considering core consumers and bull's-eye behaviour. We like to determine average users, typical targets. But these calculations often take us to the anodyne, bland and boring. They represent a filtered reality, an edited truth.
Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962 , by Diane Arbus
Arbus asks us to think again: Who is normal?
Surely in 2019 normal is diverse, irregular, bizarre and offbeat. It is strange and peculiar, different and contradictory, shifting and changeable. Normal is whatever we want it to be.
I'm reminded of a line I recently heard from jazz futurist Kamasi Washington:
'Diversity is not something to be tolerated, but something to be celebrated.'
In 1971 Diane Arbus took her own life. She had been suffering from depression, an illness that had also afflicted her mother. She was 48 years old.
In one of her pictures from 1960 a homeless man in a shabby overcoat, trilby hat and zip-up sweater holds a dollar bill to the viewer. It is as if to say:
'What's this for? Is it really worth it?'
Photography, Diane Arbus, The Hayward Gallery
Photography as Feeling: Don't Hide Behind the Tools and Technology
Don McCullin The Guvnors in Their Sunday Suits
'Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see, is what my life is all about.'
Don McCullin
I recently attended an excellent retrospective at Tate Britain of the photographer Don McCullin (until 6 May).
Born in 1935, McCullin grew up in a two-room flat in Finsbury Park, an area that had been battered by war and poverty. His father died when he was 14 and he had to leave school to support his family. He bought his first camera when he was on National Service, and he took to photographing North London's gangs, tearaways and immigrants. Some of his pictures were picked up by The Observer newspaper.
'I fell in love with photography accidentally – it chose me, I didn't choose it.'
In 1964 The Observer commissioned McCullin to cover the civil war in Cyprus.
A running man in a raglan coat, with a peaked cap and Stenn gun, casts a crisp shadow in the Limassol sun. Two dead men lie in a pool of blood on the cool tiled floor. A child grasps his despairing mother by the hand. The soles of four corpses look out at us from the back of a Land Rover. These are scenes of Biblical sadness.
Don McCullin 'The Cyprus Civil War'
'Cyprus left me with the beginnings of a self-knowledge, and the beginning of what they call empathy. I found I was able to share other people's emotional experiences, live with them silently, transmit them.'
Soon McCullin was off covering wars and civil strife all over the world for The Observer and The Sunday Times. The Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Bangladesh, Beirut, Iraq, Ethiopia - the conflicts that dominated our news bulletins for over half a century. Unflinching, he examined pain, fear, cruelty, death and grief; he exposed the realities of war, the starvation, shell shock, looting and torture; the dark fruits of this bitter earth.
He worried that he was becoming addicted to hostilities.
'I used to chase wars like a drunk chasing a can of lager.'
But McCullin had a strong sense of moral obligation, of duty to report what he saw.
'You have to bear witness. You cannot just look away.'
Of course, continuous exposure to human suffering and inhuman cruelty came at a price. McCullin was troubled by doubts, haunted by nightmares.
'I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: 'I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child.''
Periodically McCullin took assignments in the UK. But even here his conscience drew him to 'social wars'- to document the poverty, inequality and deprivation on our doorsteps. He observed the homeless in London's East End; considered the effects of industrial decay in Bradford, Doncaster and Wigan; captured the harsh economic realities in Hartlepool, Liverpool and Sunderland.
Homeless men stand around the fire, sleep amid the litter. Heads down, eyes shot, faces grubby, hands knotted. Kids play in the rubble, unemployed men forage for coal, a courting couple take a drag on a cigarette. Parkas, prams and flat caps. Cold rooms and damp walls. England 'laughing in the face of defeat'.
'Photography is the truth if it's being handled by a truthful person.'
Don McCullin Gangs of Boys Escaping CS Gas Fired by British Soldiers
If you're familiar with photographers, you'll know that they like to discuss their equipment: lenses and light exposure, apertures and aspect ratios. I was quite struck by McCullin's inclination to focus on human qualities.
'The photographic equipment I take on an assignment is my head and my eyes and my heart. I could take the poorest equipment and I would still take the same photographs. They might not be as sharp, but they would certainly say the same thing.'
Indeed McCullin describes his craft as a matter of feeling rather than technical expertise.
'Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.'
There's a lesson for us all here.
In creative professions we often hide behind the tools and technology; the gear and gadgets; the arcane language and expert jargon. But the best practitioners are often characterised by their humanity; their feeling for others; their empathy.
A recent BBC documentary ('Don McCullin: Looking for England') followed the photographer on a tour round his home country.
'I'm never bored by trying to discover what makes me tick and this country tick.'
In Eastbourne he comes across a bunch of intrepid old folk in anoraks - watching a brass band play, eating sandwiches in the rain.
'Terrible weather,' says McCullin to one of them.
'But the show must go on', comes the reply.
This tickles McCullin. He can barely hold himself together. He wipes a tear from his eye.
'This bitter earth,
Well, what a fruit it bears.
What good is love,
That no one shares?
And if my life is like the dust,
That hides the glow of a rose.
What good am I?
Heaven only knows.
Oh, this bitter earth,
Yes, can it be so cold?
Today you're young,
Too soon you're old.
But while a voice
Within me cries,
I'm sure someone
May answer my call.
And this bitter earth
May not be so bitter after all.'
Dinah Washington, 'This Bitter Earth' (Clyde Lovern Otis)
Photography, Don McCullin, Tate Britain, Dinah Washington, Max Richter, Clyde Lovern Otis
Gursky and the 'Democratic Perspective': Learning to Look Before We Leap
Tokyo Stock Exchange
'I am interested in the ideal typical approximation of everyday phenomena – in creating the essence of reality.'
I recently attended an excellent exhibition reviewing the work of Andreas Gursky (The Hayward Gallery, London, until 22 April).
Since the early 1980s Gursky has been creating photographic images that prompt us to consider humanity's relationship with nature, our impact on the world and each other.
'I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.'
Gursky has shown us people dwarfed by the vast natural world around them; the complex interaction between man and machines; the elaborate infrastructure of our industrialised landscape; the curious beauty that sometimes occurs when humanity imposes itself on the world; and the wholesale damage we have done to our planet and environment.
His monumental images present us with the swarming energy of the Tokyo Stock Exchange; the complex choreography of an F1 pit-stop; the dehumanising effect of a Vietnamese furniture factory; the tribal abandon of a gigantic Dortmund dancehall. He gives equal weight to the Tour de France and Toys R Us; to supermarkets and skyscrapers; to autobahn, airport and Amazon warehouse.
Salerno I
Gursky reflects on the world with a cool detachment. He seems withdrawn, rational, objective. Perhaps he is asking us to think rather than feel; to properly consider the systems, patterns and relationships that rule our lives and shape our world.
'I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.'
Gursky's work often employs advanced digital and post-production techniques. He uses cranes, sophisticated software and satellite cameras. His images are carefully orchestrated and arranged.
'Reality can only be shown by constructing it… Montage and manipulation bring us closer to the truth.'
This inclination to convey constructed rather than documentary reality resonates with us in the commercial world. We are generally comfortable with artifice and abstraction, distillation and editing, if they serve to communicate a brand essence or human truth.
We could nonetheless learn something from what Gursky calls his 'democratic perspective.' He consciously creates images that are uniformly sharp and clear. There is none of the foreshortening or depth of field to which we are accustomed from conventional photography or image making. Everything is high-def, hyper-real. Everything is in focus.
'Figuratively speaking, what I create is a world without hierarchy, in which all the pictorial elements are as important as each other.'
As a result when we regard a Gursky image, and get past the initial sense of wonder, our eyes roam freely, exploring every detail, examining every corner.
By contrast, when we in the field of marketing and communications consider a sector, we tend pretty quickly to apply instinct and intuition to the data that presents itself to us. We hastily seek narrative, purpose and direction. We rush to find a focal point.
Sometimes perhaps we leap too soon.
Over the years I sat in a good many creative reviews with John Hegarty and I was struck by his tendency in the early stages of the process to be open-minded about different routes and possibilities. He'd let teams run with a variety of thoughts, exploring diverse avenues and approaches. He seemed reluctant to close things down too quickly. At the outset he had a 'democratic perspective.' Only later in creative development did he settle on a particular theme and idea. Only then did he demand singular focus.
I'm sure strategy works the same way. When we embark on a task we would do well to allow ourselves time to consider all the options; to explore and experiment; to review the whole picture, the panorama of perspectives; to look before we leap.
But, having said all this, we should never be slave to the method. We should always listen to our instincts.
In 2017 Gursky created a work inspired by an image taken on an iPhone through the window of a moving car. 'Utah' depicts homes, sheds and caravans at the freeway's edge, speeding past us as we proceed on our way. They are largely out of focus. They are all a blur.
Gursky, The Hayward Gallery, Photography
Eggleston: The Poetry of Normal
September 30, 2016 by Jim Carroll in 91-100, Photography
William Eggleston, Untitled (Girl with Red Hair, Biloxi, Mississippi), 1974
'The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.'
There's a fine exhibition of photographic portraits by William Eggleston running at the National Portrait Gallery in London (until 23 October).
Born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, raised in a well-to-do household in Sumner, Mississippi, Eggleston was shy and laconic, guarded and private. Self-taught and self-sufficient, he developed an affinity for free spirits, local bourbon and antique guns. He dressed like a Southern gentleman and caroused like a rock musician.
Eggleston took up photography at university. From the mid '60s he experimented with colour, and in 1973 he embraced a dye transfer printing technique, which hitherto had been the realm of commercial magazines and advertising. As a result his colours are rich, vibrant, intoxicating. We are seduced by the vivid yellows and pinks, the deep reds and blues; the bold tones of manmade fibres, floral prints, formica and leatherette. They sing out above the flat umbers and olive greens of the enduring rural South.
Untitled, .1974 by William Eggleston
'I photograph democratically…I don't have any favourites. Every picture is equal but different.'
Eggleston's style seems informal, casual even. By 1976 he was abandoning his viewfinder and shot as if firing a gun. He photographed ordinary people in the bar, at the diner, in the parking lot; regular folk at the counter, at the phone kiosk, on the travelator; waiting in the car, striding along the sidewalk, seated by the kerb. There's a young woman with a Heineken, a businessman with a burger, a singer with a cigarette. We see the elderly lady on her garden chair, the office worker in his lunch hour, teenagers on a date. We see a lone old man sitting on the edge of a bed, with a drink, with a revolver.
Eggleston's subjects look straight at us, through us and past us. They stand and stare; they sit and watch; they turn to one side. They seem lost in thought, alone, even though they're with us.
It seems a world of doubt, regret, indecision and detachment. But maybe it's nothing of the kind. We want to know the stories that attend the images; the befores and afters. But Eggleston denies us this narrative. He leaves his subjects untitled, unidentified, unknown.
'A picture is what it is, and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them…I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.'
Untitled, c.1970 (Devoe Money in Jackson, Mississippi) by William Eggleston
Although by no means the first serious photographer to shoot in colour, Eggleston's exhibition at New York's MOMA in 1976 is widely recognised as a watershed moment for the genre. At the time there was fierce criticism of his work from a photographic establishment that was looking for meaning and message. The New York Times described it as 'the worst show of the year.' His choice of everyday subjects was felt to be banal, boring and bland. His informal, spontaneous style was labelled 'snapshot chic.'
But these are the very factors that make Eggleston's work compelling. There is a mystery in the mundane, a simplicity in the spontaneous, a beauty in the bland.
Untitled, c.1970 (Marcia Hare in Memphis, Tennessee) by William Eggleston
'I am at war with the obvious.'
In the field of commercial creativity we should feel affinity for the ordinary and everyday. Ours is a world of small choices and regular habits. Eggleston teaches us that, if we look close enough, we will see, and if we think hard enough we will feel; that we should seek merely to amplify the truth, to intensify it with considered gaze and vibrant colour; that there's no need to resort to excess and exaggeration, superheroes and superstars.
As for myself, I'll take the bland and banal every time. Give me small and inconsequential rather than grand and meaningful. Give me repetition and routine rather than fireworks and fun. It's the poetry of normal.
Last week I gave a little money to a woman outside Waitrose. With her cropped hair and harem pants, she seemed earnest and a little concerned. 'Would you like a book about the structure of the universe?' she asked. 'No, thank you. I need a new packet of Tuc biscuits.'
William Eggleston, Photography
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January 29, 2016 by Jim Carroll in 61-70
'What is focus - and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?'
Julia Margaret Cameron
It's two hundred years since the birth of the experimental photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and there are two exhibitions in London celebrating her work. (The V&A until 21 February; The Science Museum until 31 March)
Although Cameron came to photography late in life (she first took up a camera at the age of 48), she was a pioneer in the understanding of photography as an art form. Most of the early enthusiasts regarded photography as a science that should concern itself with accuracy and precision. Cameron aimed to 'record the greatness of the inner as well as the outer man.'
Certainly many of Cameron's portraits have an intimacy that still resonates today. She shot in profile or face-on, making astute use of lighting and shadow. Her sitters have a stillness, a seriousness, that suggest the private, individual, interior life. It's as if she's caught them on their own in a room looking in the mirror.
Cameron came in for a good deal of criticism from the Victorian photographic establishment for the perceived 'mistakes' in her work. There were blotches and swirls resulting from the uneven application of chemicals and smearing when the plates were wet. And many of Cameron's images were slightly out-of-focus.
'What in the name of all the nitrate of silver that ever turned white into black have these pictures in common with good photography? Smudged, torn, dirty, undefined and in some cases almost unreadable, there is hardly one of them that ought not to have been washed off the plate as soon as its image had appeared.'
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Cameron believed that her technically flawed images conveyed greater emotion, truth and impact. And some of the more enlightened critics of the time agreed.
'Mrs Cameron was the first person who had the wit to see her mistakes were her successes and henceforward to make her portraits systematically out-of-focus.'
Macmillan Magazine
The state of being in-focus is of course a technical matter. But it is also something that is socially determined; something that is felt.
In a fabulous scene from Woody Allen's 1997 movie, Deconstructing Harry, a camera crew is having problems shooting the actor Mel, played by Robin Williams. After inspecting their lenses, they conclude that there's nothing wrong with their equipment. It's Mel that is out-of-focus.
'Mel, I don't know how to tell you this, but you're soft. You're out-of-focus…I want you to go home; and want you to get some rest. See if you can just sharpen up.'
I have a lot of sympathy for Mel. Sometimes we just don't seem to be in tune with everyone else. We're out of step, misaligned. Sometimes we feel out-of-focus.
Could the communications and marketing industries learn from Julia Margaret Cameron? Would we ever willingly seek to be out-of-focus?
We are for the most part cursed by an obsession with polish and perfection. But this very finesse may diminish our ability to communicate authenticity, integrity and emotion. Conveying truth is not the same as conveying fact. Facts are hard, precise, unyielding. Truth is a matter for intuition, interpretation and imagination.
We could also learn from Julia a singularity of purpose, a determination in the face of critical pressure.
My mother was a keen amateur painter. She worked in oils using a palette knife, a method taught by the TV artist Nancy Kominsky (Paint Along with Nancy was a big deal in the UK in the 1970s). I once came across her painting a series of seagulls on a rock. There were four or five of them all in a line, pointing in the same direction. It looked to me as if they were queueing for a bus. I told mum that this wouldn't happen in nature; that things are less regimented in real life. She told me she didn't care. This was the picture she wanted to paint.
January 29, 2016 /Jim Carroll
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How horror films like 'Halloween'…
How horror films like 'Halloween' inspired Stephen Graham Jones' 'My Heart Is a Chainsaw'
The author says slasher films like 'Scream' and 'Friday the 13th' are fueled by a sense of justice where wrongdoers are punished.
Author Stephen Graham Jones' new novel, "My Heart is a Chainsaw," published Aug. 31 by Saga Press, follows the story of teenage horror fanatic Jade Daniels, a half Indian outcast living in a small town that's rapidly losing its idenity to a brood of wealthy investors. As blood starts to flow onto the shores of Indian Lake, Daniels uses her vast slasher horror knowledge to predict the real life ending of a local nightmare. (Photo by Gary Isaacs/Cover courtesy of Saga Press)
By Kelli Skye Fadroski | kfadroski@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: August 29, 2021 at 7:31 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2021 at 8:13 a.m.
In Stephen Graham Jones's new novel, "My Heart Is a Chainsaw," teenage outcast Jade Daniels finds comfort in her obsession with slasher horror movies.
That's why she can see trouble brewing with the influx of wealthy people on the island across Indian Lake in her Idaho hometown. As the new residents begin to take over and people start dying, Jade uses her slasher-film expertise to figure out the killer or killers' next move. Oh, and like just about every young person in a horror film, she warns the adults but they refuse to listen even as blood starts actually washing up on the shores of Indian Lake.
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But the question remains: Has Jade watched so many bargain-bin slasher flicks that its warped her sense of reality? Local law enforcement and her teacher seem to think so; she's been writing term papers that blend local folklore and the ongoing gentrification and growing racism and sexism in her world with slasher movie logic all semester long.
Jones, the award-winning Blackfeet Native American author of fiction and all-around horror enthusiast, said it was important to share Jade's essays and term papers not only to help further the plot but to also educate readers on the tropes of iconic slasher films like "Halloween," "Friday the 13th," "The Burning," "A Bay of Blood" and "Scream."
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"I have to be teaching [readers] about the slashers while also putting them in a slasher, so that's why I needed Jade to do that for me," Jones said during a recent phone interview from his Colorado home. "I also felt like the best way to get to know a character is to listen to them talk, and so these 'Slasher 101' papers are where Jade gets to talk and she's not met with expectations or people's unwillingness to listen. As she's writing these papers, she feels like she's at liberty to go as deep as she wants to."
If he had tried to have Jade explaining all this in dialogue, "It would have been a mouthful."
Jones put his vast knowledge of horror subgenres to work as he wrote "My Heart Is a Chainsaw," which arrives in stores Aug. 31 from Saga Press. He knew he wanted Jade to exist in the same universe where slasher films are a thing – and to be an expert in that field.
"That changed in slashers when 'Scream' happened in a world where there was a 'Friday the 13th' and 'Halloween,'" he explained. "For me, it just makes it more real and I wanted to set it in that world and it was nothing but a thrill. It made it feel like all of that homework I had been doing my whole life was suddenly so worth it."
Though his favorite slasher protagonist is Jason Voorhees from "Friday the 13th," Jones said his favorite horror franchise is "Final Destination," and the best slasher of all time, in his opinion, is Wes Craven's 1996 film "Scream."
"It's just so effective," he said. "I wouldn't call it a parody, but it's parodic. A good parody burns away the fat or excess off the genre so it can be stronger and 'Scream' was being a slasher while also not being a slasher and I respected that so much."
There are references to these films throughout the book as Jade grapples with the idea that a slasher film is playing out in her hometown. She also struggles with the fact that, if this were a film, she'd never be the last surviving woman — or a "final girl" as the genre refers to these characters — in any horror movie because she doesn't fit the stereotype. A punk rocker from an abusive, broken home, she's not a traditional beauty, a virgin or White as the films typically present these women; Jade is the daughter of a Native American man and an absent White mother. She can't see herself in the role of characters like Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in "Halloween," Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" or Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) in "Scream."
"The final girl has gotten to be so pure and shining that she's become an ideal that people can no longer legitimately see themselves being," Jones said, noting that the genre needs to flip the script a bit on how these characters are portrayed. "She's like a God above us all. What I really think final girls give us is a model for how to stand up against bullies, but part of that is subscribing to the fact that we could be that final girl. If that mold becomes something we can no longer step into, then how would we ever go up against the bullies? I don't want to bring the final girl down a notch, but I wanted to blur the edges a bit so more people could see themselves being a final girl."
Jones said he suspects he knows why there's been a renewed interest in the slasher genre as of late.
"For the last four or five years, every time we turn on the news we see different people in power doing insane, terrible stuff and then just walking away like, 'What are you going to do about it?'" he said. "That prompts a need for a justice fantasy, which is what slashers are. They propose a world where wrong is punished and so if we can engage in a slasher for two hours or for 300 pages and feel like there is a place where bad people get their comeuppance, we can go back into our real world and maybe hold our eyes open a little while longer."
That's also the reason he's so into comic books. He discovered Spider-Man when he was 12 and he's gone on to write a few graphic novels, and last year he was part of Marvel's "Indigenous Voices" books.
"I feel like I identify with Peter Parker's plight so dearly that he was real to me and it helped me get through a lot," he said of his connection with the Marvel franchise.
Also last year, Jones won two Bram Stoker Awards in the novel and long fiction categories with "The Only Good Indians" and "Night of the Mannequins" respectively.
"It's nuts and super amazing," he said of the honors. "What's really cool about 'Indians' winning the Stoker and 'Night of Mannequins' winning the novella, is that I'm the first person to win both novel and novella. But also the person who won the novel award the previous year is Owl Goingback and he's also Native. So that's really cool that two Natives won in successive years and I'm fairly certain that hasn't happened in hardly any awards ever, but definitely not the Stokers."
While the pandemic stifled creativity for some, Jones said he was as busy as ever as the shutdown, thankfully, didn't take away his deadlines.
"What it did was take away my excuses," he said. "In the last 15 months, I've easily written as much as I did the previous 15 months, but over the pandemic, I've gotten to work in a television writing room and I've been hired to adapt scripts for people and I've been doing more comic scripts. I was worried the pandemic would change the way I write fiction, but it hasn't."
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Kelli Skye Fadroski lives for music, horror and comedy. Since starting at The Orange County Register in 2006, she's reported on major music festivals, concert tours and award shows, seasonal horror attractions and conventions, theme parks and more. Now a digital features editor with the Southern California News Group, she edits, assigns and curates entertainment content while still contributing features on a range of artists, authors and comedians. A graduate of Cal State Fullerton, she cheers on the NFL's Detroit Lions, listens to punk and alt-country music, watches "The Bachelor/Bachelorette" with her girlfriends and can often be found exploring local craft breweries and Tiki bars.
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Ep. 29 Arminius and the Triumph of the Teutoburg Forest
by centurion6246 on January 24, 2023 January 24, 2023
All appeared well as the Romans had the "pacification" of modern-day Germany underway in A.D. 9. The early Principate Roman Army had driven the "barbarians" before it, as it had done many times before. Then revolt stirred and Rome relied on a charismatic German prince, raised as a hostage and then proven auxiliary commander in Roman civilization, to help reaffirm the Empire's authority in his country…
Monument to Arminius in Germany
Rendering of an Early Principate Legion in defensive formation
Soldier of the 19th Legion which fought at Teutoburg, as rendered by Peter Dennis
Teutoburg Forest today.
Inside the forest today.
Germans emerging from the woods.
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Teutoburg Forest AD 9: The destruction of Varus and his legions
Military history professionally undertaken—with maps and excellent color illustrations
The Battle that stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest
I hesitate to post this, because I have issues with this anthropologist's description of the actual battle, but he offers a far more detailed explanation and look at German culture and motivations at that time. Read for the anthropology!
I've recommended this book before and I'll do it again! This is a large and definitive history of the Roman fighting machine, excellently illustrated.
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One of the male-dominated professions in Korea is medicine. However, the share of females increased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 25.4 percent in 2017 ("Women's life seen by 2018 statistics," Statistics Korea). As women increase, calls for gender equality are also growing. The medical community has been free from the criticism for failing to keep pace with the social change. Against this backdrop, Korea Biomedical Review, jointly with Korea Medical Women's Association (KMWA), surveyed doctors to understand gender equality in the medical community. This paper looked into what discriminations female doctors feel through a three-part series. – Ed.
Doctors cited two reasons sexual discrimination do not disappear – childbirth and rearing problems and the culture in which men's vested rights passed from generation to generation.
To resolve sexual discrimination, they stressed the need to improve the child-bearing and rearing environment and distorted sexual culture, including sexual harassment.
According to the results of a survey conducted jointly by Korea Biomedical Review and Korea Medical Women's Association (KMWA), respondents cited childbirth, childcare and housework problems most as the reason for sexual discrimination within the medical community. Assuming that an item with closer to 5 points has higher relevance to sexual discrimination, respondents gave an average of 3.88 points to childbirth, childcare and household chore problems.
The opinion poll was conducted from Nov. 14 and Dec. 31 last year, and 1,174 physicians took part in it. Out of the total, 425 were men, and the other 749 were women.
The respondents cited the "practice of handing over men's vested interests" as second most to childbirth, childcare and housework problems. Respondents gave the item 3.34 points on average.
For women, the lack of opportunities and mentors also exerted influence on sexual discrimination. Respondents gave the average of 3.19 points to this item.
Respondents also thought the lack of personal connection (2.89 points), including school ties, has relations to sexual discrimination.
Both men and women cited childbirth, childcare and housework as having highest relevance to sexual discrimination (3.42 points from men, 4.15 points from women), they differed in citing the second and third reasons for sexual discrimination.
Male respondents cited women's lack of leadership (2.48 points), dislike of competition and low success-oriented tendency (2.47 points) as reasons with high relevance to sexual discrimination.
However, female respondents pointed to the practice of men's vested interests passing down from generation to generation (3.91 points) and lack of opportunities and mentors (3.79 points) as having high relevance to sexual discrimination.
The surveyed shared the view that it is necessary to create an environment for compatibility between childbirth and rearing and work.
Respondents gave the highest mark of 4.36 points to childbirth and rearing problem as the item that requires improvement for resolving sexual discrimination. Coming next was improving distorted sexual culture, including sexual harassment (4.03 points), rectifying male-oriented culture (3.92 points) and expanding women's participation in decision-making positions (3.77 points).
There were differences, too, in the order of items that need improvement to solve sexual discrimination.
Both men and women pointed to improving childbirth and rearing environment (3.96 points from men, 4.58 points from women), and bettering distorted sexual culture (3.33 points from men, 4.43 points from women).
However, male respondents cited performance management (3.07 points) as next, and women pointed to improving male-centered society (4.42 points).
"They think as if maternity leave were giving a benefit, and causing damages to coworkers," a physician said.
There were also criticisms that women tend to avoid difficult work.


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Dozens of Men Sexually Harass, Assault Egyptian Woman Returning from Wedding
A low resolution image captured by a passerby at the scene of the mass assault.
At least six men have been arrested after an incident of collective assault and harassment of a woman in the lower Egyptian city of Zagazig.
According to state media Al-Ahram, dozens of men had surrounded a woman who was returning home from a wedding. The woman was then insulted, harassed, and assaulted by the men, reported Al-Ahram.
A passerby immediately reported the incident to rapid intervention forces, resulting in police men attempting to break up the collective harassment. However, the groups of men responded violently, forcing police to fire multiple warning shots before. Police eventually managed to reach the woman and take her to safety.
In statements to Al-Ahram, security sources said that six young men have been arrested for their involvement in the mass-assault. One man has already been identified by the victim as a perpetrator. Police expect to make more arrests on Friday after interrogations are complete.
According to a 2013 UN study, which was conducted in liaison with Egyptian NGOs and officials, 99 percent of women in Egypt have witnessed some form of sexual harassment.
The Egyptian government has been cracking down on sexual harassment since President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi came to power in 2014. The President visited the victim of mass sexual assault in Tahrir Square shortly following his election. During his visit, President Sisi apologized "to every Egyptian woman" and promised harsher punishment.
Egypt passed an anti-harassment law in 2014, which penalizes those found guilty of sexual harassment with a fine of LE 3,000 to LE 5,000 ($419 to $700) and/or a jail sentence of no less than six months. Those found guilty of unwanted sexual contact face a minimum of one year in prison.
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Here's a neat bit of mind-hack research: A couple of psychologists have found that multitasking is easier to do if the various streams streams of info you're trying to monitor arrive in different modes.
Humans learn "sequential structure from multiple sources at the same time, as long as the sensory characteristics of the sources do not overlap," Christiansen said.
This is only the press release — study won't be published until next month — so I don't know more about their experiment or their findings. But as I wrote in my life-hacking piece of last year, this is a problem the computer industry has been grappling with for years. People are running more and more applications simultaneously on their computers — chat, word processing, web surfing, email — and there's only so much screen space. Since each of these programs relies mostly on visual stimuli, they all wind up overlapping and confusing the heck out of us.
Now, as reseachers like Mary Czerwinski have found, getting a larger screen can improve your productivity by up to 10% merely because it lets you juggle more visual inputs at once. But clearly there's still an upper limit to our attention. So maybe the answer lies, as the folks in the ambient-technology community would argue, in moving some of our computing tasks away from the screen? If more computing information came to us via audio, we could monitor more streams at once without having the data collide with one another.
Of course, we could also just stop the madness and turn some of those streams off, heh. But where's the fun in that?


Metro-North leadership appears to be doing better at listening to its main customers -- the people who ride the trains.
Now it needs to focus more on the Danbury line, which serves many from the Greater New Milford towns.
Improving communications was one of four focus areas established by Joseph J. Giulietti in his first month as Metro-North president in March when he drew up an 100-day action plan.
Giulietti showed again last week he was listening when he announced the appointment of a Waterbury Branch line advocate who will be responsible for improving service on that line.
That the Waterbury line needs attention is undisputed. We are pleased for Waterbury-area riders they will have an advocate now.
What about the Danbury Branch?
The 23.9-mile line, with eight stations from Norwalk to Danbury, has nearly twice the ridership as the Waterbury Branch -- and the same complaints, plus other issues.
Manyn of the riders are Greater New Milford-area residents.
The Danbury Branch needs a Metro-North advocate, too.
The line does have fine representation on the rail council -- Timothy Beeble, who lives in Bethel and uses the train to commute to work in Stamford. Beeble was appointed to the council by state Sen. Toni Boucher, R-Wilton, who is a strong supporter of improved transportation.
Yet a railroad employee who is dedicated to the needs and issues of the Danbury line would be an insider voice.
In May, the Danbury Branch had 61,922 riders, close to double the 31,004 riders on the Waterbury line. The Danbury ridership was down 12.8 percent from the month before and it's no wonder -- a bus was substituted 424 times for the train.
Admittedly, that bus use was higher than usual as a new signal system installed on the line malfunctioned, causing railroad gates to lower at crossings when no train was in sight and, worse, fail to warn at times when trains approached.
Buses were used for some connections while the system was repaired.
Finally, at the beginning of July, the work was completed and the added 8 to 10 minutes of commute time were removed from the schedule. Reliability and timeliness are crucial.
Now, for the economic good of all the towns along the line, as well as for commuters and tourists from the Greater New Milford area, more trips to and from Grand Central Station should be added.
Metro-North responded well by appointing an advocate specifically for the Waterbury line.
The railroad ought to do the same for the larger Danbury Branch line.


2014 is starting off to be a great year!
Maybe not for everyone but certainly for us here at Cooper Roofing & Solar.
Many in the construction world are a little dour today. The US Census Bureau released statistics revealing a big drop in new home starts nationwide – down 16% from December to January. However, the markets we operate in actually did quite well. New single-family starts in the West were up by double digits, 10.7%, according to the same report. Many analysts attribute the decline to bad weather and the weather has been excellent in Nevada.
There's another reason we're optimistic. We've always believed in being versatile, flexible and adaptable. In addition to being the industry leader in residential roofing for years, we've expanded into a number of other areas and offer a wide range of products and services – solutions for many customer needs, from solar to decks to gutters to coatings to insulation and more.
Our commercial work has expanded and grown as well, with its success continuing into the new year. We've already begun working on several projects with many more in the pipeline!
So hang on and stay tuned as we travel through 2014.


I may be passionate about the Australian rural novels that I write, but my first love has always been dogs and horses. Our property, Pilyara, boasts a small boarding facility situated in Pakenham Upper, Victoria, with never more than ten dogs. This allows for plenty of personal attention. Our family have looked after animals in this beautiful rural location for more than twenty-five years. Dogs are walked daily.The kennels are spacious, right beside the house, and all have grassy runs. During the day, I rotate dogs out with me, while I'm gardening etc, so they have plenty of free time.
We provide all food, beds etc, but you are welcome to bring your own. Toys and blankets from home help the dogs settle in. Up-to-date vaccination cards are a must. Local pick-up and drop-off can be arranged. There is a discount for more than one guest. New dogs are welcome to a complimentary overnight stay so we can all get to know each other. Genuine loving care is guaranteed and rates are very reasonable.
Please contact us on 03 59 427265 or email via the contact page.
Hi, we are wondering if when you board dogs do you ever keep dogs from the same family together? Also do you have any spaces available over the Easter long weekend. You were recommended from someone who has used you and it's the would be the first time our dogs would be in a kennel environment. Thank you for your time.
I usually keep dogs from the same family together, and I do have space over Easter. Why not give me a ring on 03 59 427 265 to discuss it?


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Osteoporosis research awarded $25,000
The first osteoporosis screening program to identify patients at high risk of fracture following stroke will be established, after the ANZBMS and Bone Health Foundation awarded Hudson Institute a $25,000 grant.
The project will be led by Associate Professor Frances Milat and is the first of its kind to address the effectiveness of an osteoporosis optimisation and fracture prevention program following stroke.
The research will improve the understanding, prevention and treatment of individuals with poor bone health.
A/Prof Milat is a clinician-researcher trained in clinical endocrinology and metabolic bone disorders. She is the Deputy Head of Endocrinology and Head of Metabolic Bone Services at Monash Health, Head of the Metabolic Bone Research Group at Hudson Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University.
"Osteoporosis and fractures in individuals with neurological disability is a neglected area of healthcare and research worldwide," A/Prof Milat said.
"Common neurological conditions including stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy are associated with a three to seven -fold increase in fracture risk. Fractures are a devastating event in these populations, leading to prolonged disability and increased mortality."
"The ANZBMS (Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society) and Bone Health Foundation Grant has been critical in providing support for an important project in fracture prevention following stroke."
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Effectiveness of a fracture liaison service targeting individuals at high fracture risk following Ischaemic Stroke
Associate Professor Frances Milat
2021 Bone Health Foundation Grant
Amount: $25,000
Osteoporosis and fractures in individuals with neurological disability is a neglected area of healthcare and research worldwide. Common neurological conditions including stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy are associated with a three to 7-fold increase in fracture risk. Fractures are a devastating event in these populations, leading to prolonged disability and increased mortality.
This project is the first of its kind to address osteoporosis optimisation and fracture prevention following stroke. We will implement and assess the first osteoporosis screening program to identify individuals at high risk of fracture following stroke.
Frances Milat
Metabolic Bone Research
Centre for Endocrinology and Metabolism


At Magro Brothers we are proud of our long-standing commitment to the communities where we live and work. Our policies and guidelines ensure we always act responsibly when it comes to health and nutrition.
Although Magro Brothers do not own agricultural land or operate commercial farming activities, we work very closely with our associated tomato producer organisations to encourage sustainable farming while improving the living standards of the people who farm the land. Improving the lives of farmers requires effort and commitment from everyone involved in the whole chain of the production process.
We are constantly looking to add to our practices that conserve water and energy, improve air quality and reduce our impact on the environment.
In a conference on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Malta Standards Authority, John Magro, Chairman and Managing Director of the Magro Group of Companies was one of the main speakers.
He delivered a presentation entitled "Magro Brothers & Corporate Social Responsibility – a necessity in a small island community", John Magro gave an insight on how Magro Brothers successfully managed to integrate CSR into their buisness strategy.
During this seminar, Magro Brothers were also presented with a EU certificate to process organic products. This is considered by the management of Magro Brothers as another important milestone in the company's efforts to offer clients new products and improved facilities.


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What is the best free music app?
People need a free music app because they want to be able to listen to music without having to pay for it.
An app that is free to download and use must allow users to create and share their own music, as well as listen to music from other users. The app must also allow users to find and share music they like, and it should provide a variety of features to make listening to music easy.
1 The best free music app
1.1 Spotify
1.2 Pandora Radio
1.3 iHeartRadio
1.4 Rdio
1.5 Slacker Radio
1.6 Google Play Music
1.7 Amazon Music Unlimited
1.8 Tidal
1.9 Apple
2 Things to consider when choosing a free music app
The best free music app
Spotify is a music streaming service with over 30 million active users. It offers a free, ad-supported version and a paid subscription version. The free version allows users to listen to any song or album in its library, while the paid subscription offers more features, such as ad-free listening, the ability to save songs for offline listening, and the ability to listen to music offline. Spotify also has a feature called "Discover Weekly" which recommends new music based on what you've been listening to recently.
Pandora Radio
Pandora Radio is a music streaming service that allows users to listen to personalized radio stations based on their favorite songs, artists, and genres. The service also offers live radio stations, which allow listeners to tune in to live broadcasts of their favorite music acts. Pandora Radio is available on a variety of devices, including desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets.
iHeartRadio is a music streaming service owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It offers over 1 million songs and 30 million on-demand audio and video titles from more than 150 broadcasters, including ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, NPR and more. The service also offers live radio stations from around the world as well as podcasts and exclusive content from popular artists.
Rdio is a music streaming service with a library of over 30 million songs. It offers ad-supported and subscription services, and has been available in the United States since 2010. Rdio allows users to listen to music from their computer, phone, or other devices. The service has a "smart playlists" feature that recommends new music based on what the user has already listened to.
Slacker Radio
Slacker Radio is a music streaming service that allows users to listen to a variety of music without having to search for specific songs or artists. The service offers a personalized radio station that allows users to select their favorite songs, albums, and artists. Slacker Radio also offers a variety of features, such as the ability to create playlists and share them with friends, as well as the option to listen offline.
Google Play Music is a music streaming service developed by Google. It offers a personalised radio service, as well as a library of millions of songs. Users can listen to music stored on their device, or through the web interface. The service can be accessed on Android and iOS devices, as well as desktop browsers and Chromecast devices.
Amazon Music Unlimited is a music streaming service that offers ad-free listening, access to tens of millions of songs, and the ability to create custom playlists. The service is available on Amazon Echo devices and the Amazon Fire TV.
Tidal is a music streaming service that offers high-quality audio and video content from both established and up-and-coming artists. The service has a library of over 30 million songs, as well as exclusive content from artists like Beyoncé, Jay Z, and Kanye West. Tidal also offers live concerts, exclusive documentaries, and original programming.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, manufactures, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and services. Its products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac desktop computer, the iPod portable music player and player device, and AppleCare consumer services.
Things to consider when choosing a free music app
-The app should have a wide variety of music genres and styles to choose from.
-The app should be able to store and play music offline.
-The app should have a good user interface and be aesthetically pleasing.
1. The ability to create and share playlists with friends.
2. The ability to listen to music offline.
3. The ability to follow your favorite artists and their latest releases.
4. The ability to purchase music from the app's store.
5. The ability to listen to music while working or studying
1. Spotify: Spotify is a great app because it has a huge library of music, it's easy to use, and it's free.
2. SoundCloud: SoundCloud is another great app because it has a huge library of music, it's easy to use, and it's free.
3. iTunes Radio: iTunes Radio is another great app because you can listen to music offline, and it has a huge library of music.
-Playlists
-Albums
-Artists
-Genresapps.
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Homocysteine Factors is an excellent product that does what its supposed to.
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Thank you for reaching out to us, Linda. This is a question that your trusted healthcare practitioner would need to answer. They would be able to give you the best response possible since they'd be familiar with your particular health history and needs.


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HomeLifestyleEntertainment & ArtsPaul Young's Los Pacaminos lay their hat in Lyme Regis
Paul Young's Los Pacaminos lay their hat in Lyme Regis
3rd December 2021 Francesca Evans
EIGHTIES star Paul Young is bringing his Tex Mex band of supergroup musicians to Dorset.
Young, who rose to fame after hits such as 'Wherever I Lay My Hat' and 'Come Back and Stay', formed Los Pacaminos with musicians and friends who played with him throughout the 80s and 90s.
Their friendships stretch back 20 to 30 years, and it's these solid connections that create a special, foot-stomping atmosphere at a Los Pacaminos show.
Los Pacaminos play the very best in Tex Mex Border music, from The Texas Tornadoes and Ry Cooder to Los Lobos — and even Roy Orbsion.
Drew Barfield, Mark Pinder, Steve Greetham, Jamie Moses and Melvin Duffy – the UK's premier pedal steel player – are all part of the line-up.
Speaking of the Los Pacaminos experience, Young said: "We all enjoy each other's company – anyone who's seen us will know that the fun is there on stage – and the audience can join in with us."
Los Pacaminos play at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis on Saturday, December 11. Tickets are available from the Marine Theatre and online at www.marinetheatre.com, costing £22 when booked in advance. The bar will open at 7pm and the show will start at 8pm.
Touring arts to continue as Dorset charity Artsreach receives £41,000 funding
THE touring arts charity Artsreach will receive £41,947 from Dorset Council over the next three years, securing the future of rural touring for local communities for the next three years. […]
Lyme Bay Chorale to mark Remembrance Sunday with a free concert
LYME Bay Chorale will give a performance of Fauré's well-known Requiem to mark Remembrance Sunday on November 14. […]
Women to steal the show at Jazz Jurassica
9th May 2018 Francesca Evans
THIS year's Jazz Jurassica – the newly named Lyme Regis Jazz & Blues Festival – promises a stellar line-up of female artists, from established headliners to young emerging talent performing at the iconic Marine Theatre and on the seafront. […]
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Freemium is een bedrijfsmodel waarbij een product of dienst (meestal software zoals een computerspel of webapplicatie) gratis wordt aangeboden, maar men geld vraagt voor geavanceerde gebruiksmogelijkheden, functionaliteit, of virtuele goederen. Het woord "freemium" is een porte-manteauwoord van de twee aspecten van het verdienmodel: "free" (gratis) en "paying a premium" (een meerprijs betalen).

Voorbeelden
 Beperken van functionaliteiten (bijvoorbeeld een lichte versie van een programma).
 Opslag beperken (bijvoorbeeld bij Dropbox door de opslag te beperken tot 2 GB).
 Plaats van gebruik beperken (bijvoorbeeld alleen te gebruiken in uw thuisnetwerk).
 Alleen bruikbaar maken voor specifieke groepen.
 Ondersteuning beperken (bijvoorbeeld dat alleen de mensen die hebben betaald voor de dienst of het product volledige ondersteuning krijgen).
 Tijd van gebruik inkorten (bijvoorbeeld bij Spotify, waar de gebruiker tussen een aantal muziekjes door reclame hoort).
 Aankoop van virtuele producten (meestal virtuele valuta of credits) waarmee men bepaalde zaken of verbeteringen kan kopen of wachttijd kan bekorten.

Kritiek
Binnen de computerspelindustrie is er kritiek ontstaan voor het gebruik van non-cosmetische microtransacties. Deze spellen worden spottend ook wel pay-to-win (betalen om te winnen) genoemd als de speler voordeel kan krijgen tegen betaling. In multiplayerspellen kan dit leiden tot een inbreuk op de competitieve integriteit. Soms kan freemium software zelfs de facto betaald zijn wanneer de gratis basismogelijkheden zo beperkt zijn dat men voor normaal gebruik wel van de betaalde diensten gebruik moet maken. Dit kan als misleidend worden gezien, omdat de software als gratis wordt aangeprezen maar voor efficient gebruik uiteindelijk toch nog betaald moet worden.

Zie ook
 Microtransactie

Softwarelicentie

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Hi, I am sassy, friendly, dog loving blogger from Birmingham but I am originally from Essex. I spend the majority of my time writing about fashion, beauty and lifestyle. My main topics are often places to visit, eat, and fashion styling.
I started my blog back in 2013 as an outlet to express myself and my dream to work in the fashion industry. I had grown up addicted to Tumblr (and have now started a bigger addiction to my Instagram) and would always be inspired by other girls bold fashion choices and their confidence to post their outfits online.
Starting the blog was terrifying as I didnt know what to expect or how people would react... But It was like ripping a plaster off - The idea of doing it was worse than the actual act itself. I began building up my confidence with easy blog posts and then as time went on I grew confidence to post and write whatever I wanted to. So thats what I aim to always do. Write whatever I like without feeling ashamed or judged by doing so.
My blog was previously Karma-Kisses, a name I could easily hide behind without anyone thinking I was serious, but after building up my pride and realising my blog was more than just a hobby, I transitioned to Naomi-Wise. Standing proud of everything I had done and was doing.
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Abu Dhabi Global Market And The Australian Securities And Investments Commission Sign Agreement To Enhance Collaboration
ADGM RA 27/02/2019
The Registration Authority (RA) of the Abu Dhabi GlobalMarket (ADGM), and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) are pleased to announce a partnership to strengthen collaboration between the two entities. The agreement is set to streamline company registration and facilitate the exchange of information, expertise and secondment opportunities in both jurisdictions.
The agreement was signed by Dhaher bin Dhaher Almheiri, Chief Executive Officer of the Registration Authority of ADGM, and James Shipton, Chair of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
As part of the agreement, the ADGM Registration Authority and ASIC will collaborate towards enhancing performance through the sharing of best practices and views on industry trends. Both entities will also work on aligning the legislative, procedural and information technology frameworks in their respective jurisdictions.
Commenting on the statement of co-operation, Dhaher bin Dhaher Almheiri, CEO of the Registration Authority, said: "we continuously aim to bolster our cross-border activity through strategic partnerships with leading international entities to position ADGM as a leading international financial centre. Such partnerships help us to offer our companies and entrepreneurs a robust, innovative and global ecosystem.
To this end, we are very pleased to announce our latest agreement with ASIC which helps to create a mutual understanding of the legislative, procedural and information technology frameworks of both entities. We look forward to working closely with ASIC to improve operational efficiency and enhance our offerings as an international business hub."
James Shipton, ASIC's Chair, said: "ASIC constantly works to improve efficiency and strengthen cooperation with our international counterparts. We are delighted to announce this agreement and look forward to our close cooperation with the Abu Dhabi Global Market Registration Authority in the future.
National regulators need to work together to respond to companies operating globally and to money flowing between countries. When we provide mutual assistance to each other and exchange views and information, this helps ASIC to achieve its vision for a fair, strong and efficient financial system for all Australians".
ASIC is an independent Australian government body that acts as Australia's corporate regulator. ASIC's key function is to enforce and regulate company and financial services laws to protect Australian consumers and investors.
About Abu Dhabi Global Market
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), an international financial centre (IFC) located in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, opened for business on 21 October 2015. Established by a UAE Federal Decree as a broad-based financial centre, ADGM augments Abu Dhabi's position as a global hub for business and finance and serves as a strategic link between the growing economies of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia and the rest of the world.
ADGM's strategy is anchored by Abu Dhabi's key strengths including private banking, wealth management, asset management and financial innovation. Comprising three independent authorities: ADGM Courts, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority and the Registration Authority, ADGM as an IFC governs Al Maryah Island which is a designated financial free zone. It enables registered financial institutions, companies and entities to operate, innovate and succeed within an international regulatory framework based on Common Law.
Since its inception, ADGM has been awarded the "Financial Centre of the Year (MENA)" for three consecutive years for its initiatives and contributions to the financial and capital markets industry in the region.*
For more details of ADGM, please visit www.adgm.com or follow us on Twitter : @adglobalmarket and Linkedin : ADGM
* Source : The Global Investor Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Awards
Rawand AlQadi
Rawand.alqadi@adgm.com


P&O Ferries Portsmouth to Bilbao Spain. P&O Portsmouth Car Ferry crossings with Drive-Alive from Portsmouth.
P&O Ferries Portsmouth Car Ferry Information.
Ferry crossings with P&O ferries from Portsmouth to Bilbao Spain.
P&O Ferries discontinued the Portsmouth to Bilbao crossing on September 27th 2010.
Brittany Ferries Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry crossing commences March 27th 2011.
Portsmouth - Bilbao; The P&O Ferries Portsmouth to Bilbao ferry crossing avoids the long drive through France and delivers you directly to one of Northern Spain's major cities. Make sure you visit the fabulous Guggenheim Museum before you leave.
Portsmouth ferry terminal is located at the end of the M275, directly off the M27, with links to the M3 and M25. It is easily reached from London, the Midlands, the South-West and the North. Minimum check in is 45 minutes before departure (1 hour 15 minutes when travelling with a pet).
The P&O Portsmouth to Le Havre service has been discontinued. This crossing is now operated by LD Lines. Click here for LD Lines Portsmouth to Le Havre timetables, prices and bookings.
P&O Ferries Portsmouth to Cherbourg has been discontinued and is now operated by Condor Ferries. Click for Condor Ferries Portsmouth to Cherbourg information and booking.