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Hazy, Lazy Daze of August
Sunny, hot, widely scattered showers. Once again today, temperatures were in the low 90s shortly after lunch time in most of the Washington metro area. A slight increase in humidity has helped widely scattered thunderstorms to develop, mainly southwest of the Beltway and in the immediate Baltimore metro area. At 4pm, Dulles and Manassas were reporting thunder and temperatures down into the 80s.
Hot temperatures and seasonable humidity are likely to continue through next week after a partial respite on Sunday.
Tonight and Tomorrow
Hot, humid, scattered thunderstorms. The chance of scattered thunderstorms will continue through this evening with overnight lows from the mid 70s downtown to some upper 60s in the 'burbs. Tomorrow will be a couple of degrees warmer than today with highs 94-98° and a 20% chance of scattered thunderstorms.
For the outlook through the rest of the weekend, scroll on down to Camden's post below.
The tropical wave over the western Caribbean and the low pressure area over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico are still disorganized, although gradual development is still possible for each of them.
Dr. William Gray's Colorado State Tropical Meteorology Project has issued a revised forecast for the remainder of the hurricane season; the Miami Herald has a review, "University team trims hurricane forecast". The new total season predictions vs. the May 31 forecast are (50-year average in parentheses):
Named storms: 15 vs. 17 (9.6)
Hurricanes: 8 vs. 9 (5.9)
Intense hurricanes: 4 vs. 5 (2.3)
Net tropical cyclone activity: 160 vs. 185 (100)
The probabilities of at least one major (Category 3+) hurricane landfall are (100-year average in parentheses):
Entire U.S. coastline: 68% (52%)
East Coast including Florida peninsula: 43% (31%)
Gulf Coast from Florida panhandle westward: 44% (30%)
The forecast has been lowered from earlier levels because of:
Cooler sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic
Significant dust outbreaks from Africa
Expected cool neutral or weak La Niña conditions in the Pacific
No presentation by Dr. Gray would be complete without an attack on global warming, and the latest forecast is no exception. It contains about 2½ pages of arguments against the "many media references to recent papers claiming to show such a linkage" between global warming and hurricane activity. Despite the peer-reviewed publications by Kerry Emanuel and others to the contrary, Gray, whose techniques are purely statistical, nevertheless asserts, "We have no plausible physical reasons for believing that Atlantic hurricane frequency or intensity will change significantly if global ocean temperatures continue to rise."
Drought Deepens
The MarylandWeather blog reports that half the state is now in the "severe" drought category.
The global warming references are overstated, but the Montgomery Gazette this week reports on the effects of the drought on Potomac River kayaking. The MoCo Council is considering reinstating an emergency assistance program for the county's farmers.
Labels: Tropical Topics
It's August. It's DC. Get Used To It.
Sunny, hot, moderately humid. Temperatures are in the low to mid 90s throughout the Washington metro area this afternoon, while dewpoints are near to slightly below the August average of 66°, so heat indices are mostly within a degree or two of the actual temperature. Leesburg was the local hot spot at 4pm with 97°, but the heat index was only 96°. Except for some very isolated showers in the mountains, radar is clear for several hundred miles.
Hot temperatures and seasonable humidity are likely to continue into the weekend.
Crank up the AC. Tonight will be mostly clear and quite warm with lows in the low 70s to near 75° in the city and some upper 60s in the 'burbs. Tomorrow will be sunny, hot, and seasonably humid with highs 93-96° and a very slight chance of late day thunderstorms.
For the outlook through the the weekend and beyond with Larson's Long-Range, scroll on down to Josh's post below.
The tropical wave which is now over the eastern Caribbean was looking more impressive on satellite images today, but was still disorganized. It still has some potential for development. A Hurricane Hunter plane was enroute early this afternoon to investigate.
Another area of interest is a batch of showers in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
The AP is reporting (via WaPo, for some odd reason under a "Global Warming" link) that "Ex-Hurricane Center Chief Wants Job Back". Ousted Director Proenza's lawyers are alleging in an 11-page letter that he was illegally fired.
Mediaorology
The Weather Channel's Dr. Heidi Cullen was interviewed ("Into the Limelight, and the Politics of Global Warming") in Tuesday's New York Times about her career in climate research and reporting.
Photo courtesy New York Times.
Labels: Heat index, Tropical Topics, Weather/Climate Business
Slight Respite from Humidity, But More Heat Ahead
Hot, a little less humid. The brightness of the sunshine and the sharpness of the shadows are signs that drier air has been gradually filtering into the region. Dewpoints in the immediate metro area were in the low 60s by mid afternoon, although the southern fringes of the region were still at or near 70°. Meanwhile, the extra sun has helped push temperatures to 90° or above at nearly all locations; Dulles and National were both 91° at 4pm. The nearest thunderstorms on radar are scattered between Charlottesville and Richmond and along the Virginia Eastern Shore.
The heat is likely to build through the rest of the week as more humidity returns as well.
Hot. Skies will be mainly clear tonight with lows in the low 70s to near 70° downtown and in the mid to upper 60s in the burbs. Tomorrow will be sunny and hot with highs 90-94°.
For the outlook through the rest of the week and into the weekend, scroll on down to Jason's post below.
Tropical Depression 3 developed overnight and quickly became Tropical Storm Chantal north of Bermuda this morning. The storm has strengthened to maximum winds of 50 mph as it scoots off to the northeast on its way to brushing by Newfoundland early tomorrow. It is likely to lose its tropical characteristics in the next 24 hours.
The tropical wave now about 520 miles east of the southern Windward Islands was less organized this morning, but it still has the potential to become tropically depressed in the next couple of days.
Cool Guys
This week's episode of the WaPo's Secret Worlds of Summer series profiles the "Faces Behind the Freeze".
More Heat, Less Humidity, Some Light
Warm, humid, widely scattered thunderstorms. Following yesterday's much-needed, if not exactly drought-busting rains (National 0.98", Dulles 0.54"), today's storm activity has been considerably lighter and mainly confined to east of I-95. National reported thunder for several hours and even some frequent lightning at mid afternoon, but no rain as of post time. A north to northeasterly wind indicates that the nearly stationary front is over the Eastern Shore and southeastern Virginia, but humidities are still quite muggy with dewpoints within a degree or two of 70°.
A few isolated storms are possible into the evening hours, then gradual clearing overnight. For the hotter and drier outlook through the rest of the week and into the weekend, scroll on down to Jason's post below.
The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on a tropical wave about 950 miles east of the southern Windward Islands. This area shows some signs of organization and has the potential to develop more in the next couple of days.
Some more light is being shed on the issue of a possible hurricane/global warming link described in Chris Mooney's just-published book, "Storm World". The discussion continues with the publication today of a peer-reviewed paper, "Heightened Tropical Cyclone Activity in the North Atlantic: Natural Variability or Climate Trend?" in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. This is a formal publication of data presented in a forum at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society in January. The analysis by Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Peter Webster of Georgia Tech indicates that there has been a significant increase (see chart to the right) in Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone activity in the last century.
In press reports (see AP, via WaPo), however, an NHC "official" is quoted as saying that the research is "sloppy science". The reason this is controversial is (1) the sample size is so small, even over 100 years, and (2) there have been major improvements in observational technology over that time, most notably aircraft reconnaissance beginning in 1944 and satellite surveillance in 1970. Chris Landsea of the National Hurricane Center has some very interesting charts in a paper published in the May 1 issue of EOS, the Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. He shows, for example, that in the record-breaking season of 2005, storms were observed over nearly all of the Atlantic Ocean. In the previous record year of 1933, however, no storms were observed over the central Atlantic, where data was presumably much more limited.
Holland and Webster are not unaware of this possible effect and take it into account in their analysis. One point they make is that storms in the open ocean were less likely to be missed in the pre-satellite era because unsuspecting ships would accidentally encounter them. The most convincing argument, however, is that there are indeed several jumps in the storm frequency, but they occur at different points than the changes in technology.
This debate is likely to continue for a long time. Of all the possible connections to global warming, tropical cyclones are probably the most difficult to definitively analyze.
Chart by Steve Deyo, © UCAR
Labels: Books, Climate Science, Tropical Topics
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It's certainly a bold step forward. But is it bold enough?
iCloud is Apple's attempt to update the "digital hub" model it's used to great success over the last decade. The "digital hub" is the idea that your computer is in the middle of your digital world. Your computer is the master; your phone, camera and music player must all plug into your computer to sync data. Everything is controlled by the computer. Everything is stored on your computer. Want to take a few songs on the road with you? Pick it from your computer's library and send it to your music player.
Except, as Jobs explained, our digital world is a little more complicated today. Take music. Before, only your computer could buy songs. Now? You can buy songs on your computer, phone, tablet or even on an iPod touch. Sharing a song you've bought on one device requires plugging it into the computer to sync, then plugging in the other device to sync that one too. It's cumbersome. It's time consuming. It's messy.
Apple's solution is to "demote" the computer from the central controller to just another device. Now, whenever you buy something, it's immediately available for all the other devices to download wirelessly, including your computer. The cloud is now your digital home.
For all the great features in iCloud, there are some startling restrictions.
You also have to download your data to the appropriate app. Take Apple's demonstration of documents in iWork. You can't access those documents on a website, like Google Docs; you need to open them in one of Apple's iWork apps. You need to buy those apps for iCloud to work. And those apps only exist on iOS devices or the Mac.
I know there are some of you who are about to say: What did you expect? It's Apple. Of course they're pushing Apple apps and Apple devices. This is true. But this also runs against what the cloud is supposed to be.
To me the cloud is embodied by Hotmail, or Google Docs: I can access those services on any device that has an Internet connection. I do not need an Apple device or a particular app; all I need is something with a web browser and a working Internet connection for complete access to my email or my documents.
Photo Stream, Apple's picture sharing system, is the best example of iCloud's power and its limitations. Photo Stream instantly shares photos you've taken with your iPhone with all your devices, so your iPad or computer (or even another iPhone) can immediately browse your latest snaps.
But it was interesting to hear Jobs talk about the computer's demotion to "just another device" minutes before saying that the only thing that will hold all your photos forever is, guess what, your computer. iCloud's servers will only hold the last 30 days worth of photos, long enough for you to sync your devices.
That more than anything shows what iCloud truly is: It's not really about storing data. iCloud is really a glorified sync service that works through online storage. It's clever, and it does look like a really good way of keeping all your devices in sync. But it could have been so much more.
"But it could have been so much more." Like what? I'm just curious, I'm not saying it's perfect, I just want to know what you are missing?
iCloud is useful, sure, but not being able to stream my entire music library from the web or any iOS device is a major deal breaker. I own 50 GB of music, I don't want copies of my entire music library on all my devices, it's not like these devices have that much storage to begin with. I just want to steam my music, and have only one hard copy of it.
It's not bold or "a breakthrough". It's Apple following in the footsteps of Amazon and Google, both of whom beat Apple to the punch.
Our computing world is getting more and more complicated every day!
This is Apple, of course they are going to restrict. But again, the limitations of IOS 4 have now been super seeded by IOS 5. Apple learn. For a second cloud based service they have hit the nail on the head. And its FREE! For free, how can you expect it to go beyond? Maybe on this platform, like spotify, in the future we may see iTunes stream for a small fee a month. iCloud is a whole lot of service for FREE.
"But it could have been so much more..." lets see what the next 12 months has to offer eh?
Does this mean that you pay for the download every time ?
This is a good day for the major music corporations who stand to rake in billions but a truly sad day for the little guys at home building a web site about model trains or show dogs, fishing anything using iweb and mobileme. I am very sad to see Apple go down this road when it owes us "little guys" who stuck with the brand through thick and thin over the last 20 years !
WHY would you want to use a web app for anything? You honestly want to constantly rely on your data connection to get anything done? There are benefits to both systems of delivery but I prefer to download and know that I have it. If you are looking for basic function and sometimes painfully slow performance, then web apps are fine.
Streaming? Not something that interests me that much but again, having to have a constant, uninterrupted internet connection isn't something I want to be tethered to (or paying for).
The whole demotion of the "real computer" to another device obviously only can apply in certain ways. For the grannies who only check their mail and look at a couple hundred photos of their grandkids, the iCloud thing is fine but clearly, if you want to do anything beyond that, you need a "real" computer. I don't personally know anyone who could survive with an iPad alone.
For me, I think iCloud covers about 75% of what I want. Writing a negative hook article to get front page cred? I guess that worked on me Ravi. Next time, use your imagination and come up with some creative options for what you feel is missing. Maybe check in to why Apple COULDN'T offer streaming and give us the back-story. BTW, what's with references to the "explainer"? Are all CNN articles breaking down vocabulary into "explainer", "see-er", "show-er", "do-er"? Are we suddenly all 4 years old?
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The whole push towards cloud computing won't work for all.
Unless you have a fast, reliable connection you'd be crazy to rely on a cloud.
My wireless 3G/4G connection gives me the freedom to go anywhere thats close to a cell tower. But if I'm not close – and I'm usually not – then all I have is whats on my laptop.
So for me its all PR BS. You might as well be speaking Martian.
What about hackers? This sounds like a whole new challenge for them to access even more. Just how secure will all of this be? That seemed to pop up right away as a concern. However, I'm sure this is just the beginning. After the first iCloud will come iCloud 2, 3 and so forth. But hopefully with each one, the bugs and concerns from the previous will be worked out.
The idea of Apple's cloud system is overhyped. So Apple offers storage space and media service through Internet. The first has been around for years and the second, well, it sounds like iTunes if you still have to download the media. So what exactly is new? Syncing? Nothing new there either.
I wouldn't overhype the cloud in general either – if cloud computing is comparable to using an internet service instead of installing it as an piece of software, we've all used it since Internet basically began.
Meaning, I regard search engines as "cloud services" since I use them only over the internet, and they work fine – in fact, I'd be very reluctant to install a database of internet on my computer. On the other hand, I'm a much happier user of free installed graphics software such as Gimp instead of using Aviary. I don't see it as a network/connection issue, I see it as a UX issue. What works best, use that one, or use both (hands up who has a Gmail account in their email client, or uses GoogleDocs for household or secondary job spreadsheets and todo's).
I personally love the cloud system for its sync capabilities. I have three devices and a paper calendar, and the paper calendar is losing the fight as it's the only one that doesn't receive or send added information automatically. Pretty soon the same will happen to software without a sync save option – I'm getting tired of dragging files to Dropbox. Lazy me.
Online apps is useful for when you are using someone else's device, say a computer at an internet cafe, someone else's tablet etc. You know, those times when you want to show off your photos on a bigger screen than your phone, or you need to edit or print a document and your phone has no printer or large keyboard. Then you can just jump on any device, be it running Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Ubuntu, Chrome OS, etc. All you need it a web browser and you can get things done.
I think Android has a good handle on doing things both ways, that is just part of why I like my HTC.
C'mon, why do u expect so much? It's called iCloud rather than just cloud. Everything is curated and managed in the Apple family.
Behind that fancy name and the metal logo, it's a chunk of floating cloud hanging in the middle of the air. It holds nothing.
BTW, for those who aren't really into Apple products, it's better to stay down to earth.
This is obviously just the first steps to promote people using multiple devices. Once they have people used to syncing all their devices (and more importantly stable 4g comes into play) they will start to demote the hard drive. Trouble is at the moment if it was all in the cloud and you couldn't get a signal your experience would be fairly poor. I think the way we think of the cloud will become apples big thing but they need to know they can get people on it first.
this presumes we all have an always on, high speed internet connection. we don't.
i too prefer to have the "real" file with me.
but true, there's room for improvement.
So, if i want to enjoy cloud capabilities, I should now throw away a perfectly good, mint condition iPhone 3G and buy a new iPhone 4 (or wait for the iPhone 5).... I also have a 3 year old MBPro that accepts all current updaters and every new function works fine on that and it also doesn't appear to be in danger of being declared obsolete anytime soon, so why does Apple discontinue iPhone upgrade support after only 2-3 years??
Could the next step be unlimited storing and syncing?
Steve tries to make things simple for the Apple-ites (a little cloud ...). Why on earth would you give this man all your personal data and files? If you do, the circle is complete – he truly has you by the hairs. And right when security issues with remote data are at an all-time high.
iWork files should also work on Apple's still relatively mildly promoted iWork.com... but I agree, what happens to moving files between different apps? That stays cumbersome...?
This is **exactly** what I've been waiting for and frankly the semantic argument of calling it a glorified syncing service is completely moot as far as I'm concerned. This service – whether you call it synco-sanco or buttery crumpets – addresses the biggest problem with management of my digital devices and does it more than adequately.
The idea of this utopian 'always on' ability to stream content is frankly stupid to me. It's clear the author does not have to pay for his data plan and likely lives in a jurisdiction where the connection is so ubiquitous and high speed so as not to be a concern. (Where is this place anyway???) Meanwhile for those of us back here on earth, who don't live in the dream world of tech journalism, this approach will be absolutely fine and dandy thank you very much.
In most places in the world internet connections are still much too unreliable. Many people rightly don't trust them to always work.
Experience has taught me to always copy an email text with ctrl-c before hitting send, because all too often something goes wrong and the email is lost. Also three times I experienced a loss of connection right when I clicked to make a payment with my credit card over the net; each time I spent considerable time, effort and money getting things straightened out with customer service.
Internet is inherently unreliable. I would never trust my valuable files to an unknown server somewhere, not knowing if I would be able to access them when I needed them!
"To me the cloud is embodied by Hotmail, or Google Docs: I can access those services on any device that has an Internet connection. "
Hotmail? Are you serious? We haven't used that crap-ware in over 8 years. And Google Docs was just banned 4 months ago from use at my university because it just doesn't work with our server.
I just don't get the economics of cloud storage. You can buy a 1TB HD for around $50. To get the same storage on Amazon you'd have to pay $1000 per year. You buy a RAID network attached storage enclosure, pop in 2 1TB hard drives and connect it to your home wireless router. You can stream all your content off the NAS box to devices on your home LAN. You can even configure it as an FTP server (remember FTP, file transfer protocol? what cloud storage was called before marketing hype people got hold of it) that is accessible from outside your home network.
One thing you can be sure of, once private companies have your desktop and your data they will enjoy moore's law (falling storage prices, faster cpu's) but your subscription prices for cloud services will only go up.
The point is not about "what iCloud could have been" (or might turn into – it's not even out yet...), but about what is really useful for the majority of users. Which's where Apple seems to be hitting the spot for a long while now. While tech savvy enthusiast debate about "open" and "closed", "proprietary" and "free", people that want to have a phone and an iPod, a convenient way to make presentations or show photos just buy in because it takes less time and effort and produces higher quality results than any "free" or "open" non-apple alternative around. So the point is not that Google Docs is around for half a decade or so and is fully browser-based, but that Google Docs are less popular than the so much more recent DropBox. Which means that despite being universal, open, free and fantastic, Google Docs doesn't fulfill a real need or doesn't address it well enough.
iCloud is certainly a leap forward and it is being done for all the right reasons. It is not an exercise in applied math – it is a strategical move that follows the way PC and mobile computing market has evolved in the recent years. Now – many where there before Apple (Google, Amazon, etc) but they all came there for the wrong reasons. Which in turn made their solutions either too complicate or inadequate for real-life users. Apple's iCloud is being made for the right reasons and hence follows real-life users and market demand, which's the key to a success in any business, especially the one Apple's in. So it's not a question of this step being bold enough. It's not about being bold and courageous. It's about giving your clients real solutions. And in that sense iCloud hits the spot perfectly.
We're living in itnnreseitg times where the way computing is consumed is changing dramatically, whether at the personal level with smartphones and iPads or at the server level in the cloud! Hear hear! I do economics research and geographic data analysis in the cloud, and the speedups from parallelizatiom and the vast amounts of RAM available for peanuts have totally changed how we work. The only real constraints we face now are our creativity and ability to code. Well that and waking hours.
While Amazon has a great service, I'm far too eevnstid in Apple's platform to switch over. I purchase all my media content from iTunes and I have all Apple devices (Apple TV, Mac Mini, MacBook, iPhone, iPad, etc). I will wait and see what Apple can provide. I just hope if I purchase media in the future, it remains on my hard drive the same way as it does now rather than rely on Apple managing my content entirely. The cloud storage should just be an added feature.
apple announce a SDK for icloud. any developer can write a program for computer (PC or MAC) and ios that will sync its files.
My music and movies collection is about 2TB. My internet bandwidth is limited to 100gb a month. How am I supposed to play whatever I want? i Cloud's time has not yet come. Besides, its nothing new or different than Amazon's or Google's offerings. It's bound to be a failure.
This product is the missing link. To say it falls short, is short-sighted. This is going to leave the competition scratching its heads for months to come. Anyone that maintains more than one device (which is most everyone I know) is excited beyond words at this release. The best technology is one that disappears into the background and requires little to no intervention on behalf of the user. This service is so well-integrated and useful, it feels as though it should've been there since day one. If it works as-advertised, it will be the best mobile sync solution available, and it will be the best by a mile.
All Steve had to do was a little math. A few hundred million users or more storing all their crap in the free cloud. After a few years, the system will be unsustainable, the power requriements unpayable, the bandwidth unconnectable, and the copyright control unmentionable.
While a 30day refresh of your life might be as clensing as a housefire, it will also force users to decide what is worth keeping so as not to turn into digital hoarders.
Hotmail or Good docs is just one version of the Cloud which is good enough for the specific applications i.e. when you are emailing and editing documents. Those applications do not require 10x megabyte internet connections.
Streaming music does. Viewing high resolution photos does.
Even if internet connectivity was as ubiquitous/reliable as say At&t 3G service, would that be good enough to rely on your version of the cloud 100% of the time?
The answer is no. There is no such thing as 100% connectivity. As long as there is a network, there will always be congestion and clogging and disruptions and dead zones. So certain things you may always want to do locally, instead of reaching out to the cloud.
Definitely so while wireless networks are still nowhere near the level of reliability and coverage required to make a disk less, processor less PC feasible. Even Google is relying on browser storage (gears) for its applications to make up for the times when there is no connectivity.
MSFT is still selling $300 Office suite in 2011. That tells me that a smart, capable client is still very relevant and cloud may have to graduate through multiple levels of maturity before an average user can get away with streaming almost everything.
Download mp3 tracks to a cloud then a PC. Get two identical files, almost immediate streaming and freedom.
iCloud's not designed to stream for a very basic reason: data caps. Bandwidth costs money. Apple is trying to combine the potential of cloud computing with the convenience of local storage from what I can tell. Especially given that AT&T has already eliminated their unlimited data plans and Verizon is allegedly next on the unlimited plan chopping block, it costs a lot less to download a song to local storage one time then have it there until you decide to delete it than it does to stream every song, every time. As bandwidth becomes cheaper and more efficient, it would make more sense to stream. At the current time, mobile streaming is not cost-effective on the whole and there is also the issue of network outages. I can't tell you how many times I'll be listening to an audio stream on an application like Pandora or MLB At-Bat 2011 and have it cut out on me. Those are specialized services whos needs can't be met by the iCloud, but the problems that do exist with streaming via these services are a sign of where there are going to be problems with cloud streaming, especially on mobile networks where streaming audio and video content is still very expensive. iCloud will evolve as speed and coverage continue to improve.
I don't agree with the author here, sorry but it's so easy to point out the "shortcomings" (and al too often these shortcomings are direct results of tech geek outcries on the web the minute a new product or service has been announced by any tech company, not just Apple). They're just a non issue for most users. So in your opinion, because Apple chose to store and push (not exactly the same as syncing) it's iCloud service is flawed since they should have offered streaming? I don't agree as it would require me to have a constant connection to the internet in order to get to my stuff, pay exorbitant prices to the network provider(s) so that even if the iCloud is a free service, it would still cost me a fortune to use the service.
I only use iTunes to sync my iPad, and yes, it seems there is an update wiiatng every few days when I go to do that. I thought at first that the previous updates simply were not being applied, and it was the same one over and over.I don't understand why a player/sync program needs to updated so bloody often. But then, there are many things I don't understand about Apple. I concede their understanding of their target consumer, and how they kick Microsoft's rear in the user experience department and in raw consumer-oriented innovation. But I'm not one of their targets, and there are times that I don't get why their customers will put up with stuff that, if they saw Microsoft doing it, they would go into vaporous spells.
Curiously, a well executed writing..
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Worst Best Picture: Is Ordinary People Better or Worse Than Crash?
In "Worst Best Picture" we search every single Best Picture Oscar winner of all time from 1927 to present to uncover the worst of them all. Conventional wisdom says that 2005's winner Crash is the worst winner in history. We won't stop until we've tested every last one. Read the the first, our review of Crash, here. Posts will be relatively spoiler free, but there may be some details revealed. Today's installment is the 1980 winner Ordinary People. Is it better than Crash?
Ordinary People takes a lot of flack for beating Raging Bull for Best Picture. There are really two kinds of "surprise" winners: winners that no one seems to like and winners that beat supposed "classics." The debate between which movie history remembers better is a short one, but Ordinary People is a surprising movie, and certainly one you have to see.
It's the story of Calvin (Donald Sutherland) and Beth Jarrett (Mary Tyler Moore) trying to recover from the grief of losing the oldest of their two sons in a boating accident. As they try to process and move on, their youngest son Conrad (Timothy Hutton, who earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in his first film role for the performance) experiences survivor's guilt and reluctantly goes into therapy with Dr. Berger (Judd Hirsch) after a suicide attempt.
If that all sounds heavy, then good. The list of Best Picture winners includes 12 Years a Slave and Schindler's List, so referring to Ordinary People in absolutes like "saddest" or "heaviest" is a little unreasonable, but it cut me down more than I expected. Conrad rebels against therapy even while he understands that it's something he needs to experience, which is so deeply human. He constantly presents himself to the world very meekly, demonstrating that he knows how people see him but also how he must present himself to break through that. He's the one who lived and he's always going to be seen that way, but that has to not be his entire identity.
While Conrad's role offers the most glaring issues (a suicide attempt on top of the grief of losing a brother), both parents portray different sides of another problem. Calvin wants to understand his son and urges him to enter therapy, regardless of cost or loss of social status as "a normal family." Sutherland plays the part with a real pain, you can see in his face that he's trying and that he's internalizing everything he feels about the situation. He knows that grief is for the living, but also that he can be there for Beth and Conrad without demanding that they overexert themselves being there for him. He's selfless while still being human, which is a thin line for a "morally good" character in a movie like this. It would be very easy to play him as a saint and be done with it, but Sutherland is awkward and imperfect, just as we all are when we talk to people who are at their most fragile.
Beth is different. Mary Tyler Moore not winning a Best Actress Oscar for her part here is a baffling mystery, because Beth Jarrett is an impossible role to nail and she nails it. Beth loved her oldest son more and has trouble hiding that from Conrad. You get the sense that Conrad always suspected, but it's when his suspicions are confirmed that it gets really hard. Beth can't hide her disgust for therapy or for Conrad's "weak" response to grief. She wants to move on, and she can't do that until everyone else in her life moves on. But that's just it: sometimes you can't move on. Ordinary People explores one of the real issues about loss that no one ever thinks about when it asks us to consider how we'd respond to someone that we felt was grieving "wrong."
The Best Part: Is Beth a villain, or is her response just one of the possible responses to grief? Is Calvin purely good, or do his choices with Beth show that he took a simple path through loss rather than ask some hard questions early? Does Conrad do the right thing, or does he just appear to do the right thing? There isn't one correct viewing of Ordinary People, and though you're likely to just say that Beth is terrible and be done with it, it's definitely more complicated than that when you extrapolate this to your own life.
The Worst Part: At just over two hours, Ordinary People is pretty tight. It's difficult to pick anything for this space, but I'll go with the school bully played by Adam Baldwin. Conrad gets in a fight with him at school and it's supposed to display how he doesn't fit in like he used to and how he can't manage his emotions properly, but those issues come out much better through a relationship that he's trying to start and a friendship with a girl he met while he was in the psychiatric hospital.
Is It Better or Worse than Crash? Ordinary People looks at difficult issues and how people respond to them when they will not go away. Crash does the same thing, but Ordinary People manages a much more consistent tone and never dips into the extreme. I obviously hate to compare the two because one has surprisingly become one of my favorites movies of all time and the other I have compared unfavorably to a silent movie from the 20s, but that's what this space demands. Crash is worse because it talks about a serious subject in an unhelpful, often insulting way. Ordinary People doesn't talk down to you, and it will make you think about your own response to grief. That's an accomplishment that deserves a gold statue far more than Crash.
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SA Police have launched a manhunt for a suspect who allegedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her mother in their home in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday.
The incident occurred in the Fairbreeze area in Tongaat.
The police's Colonel Thembeka Mbhele said that the suspect arrived at the victims' home in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The alleged shooter fled the scene and is currently still on the run.


But it is the cricket-crazy grandson who steals the show. This little boy is Kabir Shaikh and he is just brilliant. When he's commentating 'Gupta dadu pavilion ki ore stretcher par ja rahe hain' as the mourners take away the dead neighbor Guptaji away for a funeral. The little boy is better than most Bollywood actors when he feels guilty of leaving a kid inside a big trunk back at his grandma's home. His guilt, his fear, his inability to share the event with his parents, the joy at solving the dilemma are brilliantly acted by this little boy.
Just like the old photocopier, there is grand old palace like haveli which is being given to a hotel chain for redevelopment, there is a son who hankers for his old phone because there is data on it... Every problem is solved nicely but it takes so long you begin to lose patience.
Thankfully Naseeruddin Shah - who has in his last few appearances on the big screen been unrestrained and hammy - is really good. His performance is restrained even though his conversation with the old photocopier is annoying.
The drinking with dad scene between Aamir Bashir and Naseeruddin Shah is sweet. So is Sonali Kulkarni's apologetic but guilty for throwing away the old photocopier scene where she offers her father in law tea is heartwarming. The granny (beautiful and graceful Beena Banerjee) who teaches the cricket crazy grandson how to play the old gramophone record player is such a wonderful scene. Events you have experienced if you are living with a family that includes older parents. The only annoying part is played by the younger son, who comes bearing expensive gifts from Dubai. His connect to an old phone seems to be illogical and his story seems to be too forced in the film.
And when the aerial shot shows us how isolated and stand alone grandma's palace is, you wonder where the kids who were playing hide and seek and cricket come from?
This film has a decent slice-of-life feel and it comes to the screens a week after 102 Not Out - the movie that received big publicity, and starred two fabulous actors. But it should have gone straight to television.
Everything old is eventually replaced by something new, and it's best to adapt. Whether it is an ancient photocopier or a big old house. This is a lesson that this small feel-good family film that has the heart in its right place brings on the big screen. They try really hard and even though little scenes from the film are good, the film drags on and on and you wish it should have been made for TV movie instead.


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In this week's TPoI, Disney acquires Fox for $52 billion, esports developer Skillz secures $25 million in funding, and members of the games industry react to the FCC repealing Net Neutrality.
Disney Acquires Fox for $52 Billion
In one of the biggest acquisitions the entertainment industry has ever seen, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay $52.4 billion to obtain many of 21st Century Fox's assets and production utilities. Forbes reports that Disney will gain access to Fox's movie and television studios but that Fox will retain Fox News, Fox Business Network, many of their local news stations, and their sports networks FS1 and FS2. The Washington Post reports that this acquisition will also allow Disney to take Fox's 30% stake in Hulu, one of the largest streaming services available internationally. BBC News speculates that The Walt Disney Company may have planned to buy these studios not only to expand their cinema efforts but also to expand into new distribution platforms like streaming and web shows.
Esports Developer Skills Gets $25 Million in Funding
Skillz, a mobile esports platform previously backed by the owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets and Sacramento Kings has secured a series C funding round of $25 million through telecommunications companies Telstra and Liberty Global. Gamesindustry.biz reports that the platform has 100 million mobile esports tournaments and has seen growth of over 50,000% over the past three years. Forbes covered the company's exponential growth and anticipates Skillz to go public in the near future.
The Games Industry Reacts to the FCC Repealing Net Neutrality
In a 3-2 decision on Thursday night, the Federal Communications Commission decided to repeal Net Neutrality rules which guaranteed that American Internet service providers could limit access to websites for any reason. Gamesindustry.biz speculates that this decision could affect not only gamers, but game developers who would be limited in their ability to coordinate and work over the Internet. Dot Esports featured quotes from Sunless Sea developer Alexis Kennedy about how her access to fast internet allowed her to work overseas on projects and how that opportunity would be limited by the FCC's decision. Polygon reports that this impacts independent developers in a much more immediate way as they don't have the resources to work in house and that repealing Net Neutrality may slow the growth of the games industry as a whole.
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The insidious network of corruption and violence runs too deep along the tortured plains of Bodoland.
In the topography of global terror, Kokrajhar is the name of a town – and a district – with a bloody history. It has been the epicentre of violent armed movements fighting for self-determination, separatism and ethnic cleansing since the mid-1980s.
A little over an hour's drive to the north from the town is the Bhutan border, a few kilometres to its west is Srirampur, the West Bengal border, from where Nepal is not far. Both unguarded international borders offer save haven for the armed groups. In 2003, Operation All Clear had flushed out 48 such camps in Bhutan but complacency by Indian security agencies has allowed at least one group to slowly find its way back. In 2014, the government launched Operation All Out against Bodo militancy. There is photographic evidence in 2016 of the group recruiting minor girls from the area. It was obvious that the group was planning an offensive.
Friday's killing of 14 people (including one of the shooters) by suspected cadres of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) in Kokrajhar may have surprised the newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party government in Assam – but violence in Kokrajhar should hardly surprise.
In December 2014, this group had gunned down 69 Adivasis in Kokrajhar, Sonitpur, and Chirang districts, the total toll of of those killed by the group during the year being 147 people. In 10 years between 1992 to 2001 the NDFB (before the split) killed 1,804 people. Their rival Bodo militia Bodo Liberation Tigers (now a political party in power) was responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths blowing up trains and bridges.
The 1990s were the worst years of Bodo militancy – in 1993, more than 20,000 Muslims were displaced in Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts. In 1994, more than 400 were killed in attacks on 60 villages.
In 1996, NDFB massacred over 250 Adivasis mostly in Kokrajhar district and burnt down villages. In response, the Adivasis formed the Adivasi Cobra Force and Adivasi Birsa Force but none of them could stand the onslaught. Over two lakh were displaced. Bodos were displaced too but while they went back, the other ethnic groups languished in refugee camps. Within a few years this area became home to the country's largest group of Internally Displaced Persons.
In 1998, more than 50 were killed, over 500 houses burnt down and 70,000 displaced as Bodos and Adivasis clashed in Gossaigaon sub-division of Kokrajhar district.
The next wave of violence was in 2008 between the Bodos and Muslims that left more than 100 dead and a lakh and a half out of their homes. On October 30, 2008, the NDFB struck at five places across the state in what would turn out to be Assam's bloodiest day – 100 killed and over 500 injured. They coordinated the attack and carried them out from ceasefire camps in Lower Assam where the government was talking "peace" with them. It was after that massacre that Songbijit faction or the "anti-talk faction" was created. The other faction is still talking "peace".
In 2012, another 100 were killed and four lakh became homeless. The riots spread and social media rumours created a communal situation across the country. In May 2014, the group killed over 30 non-Bodos, mostly Muslims.
Therefore it is not at all surprising that the same group would open fire again. As long as arms and ammunition are in circulation and the groups are active, killings will continue.
Ironically, the Bodoland Territorial Council, an autonomous body under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution that administers the Bodo areas in the state is headed by Hagrama Mohilary, an elected representative, who was chief of the Bodo Liberation Tigers that unleashed mass violence in the 1990s. He and his cadres, now part of the government (they were part of the previous Congress government too), pretty much live like they did when underground – with impunity.
The only Member of Lok Sabha from Kokrajhar is Naba Sarania, a non-Bodo who was commander of ULFA and ran his empire of extortion, intimidation and killings in Lower Assam under the name Hira Sarania. Perhaps it was just a quirk of fate that after Friday's attack the media happened to ask Sarania for his comments.
In the badlands of Brahmaputra's North Bank, it is a bullet for a bullet, an eye for an eye. The method of violence has always been brutal. In 2014, the NDFB dragged out a teenage girl and shot her in front of the family. The people have suffered unmitigated misery at the hands of the militants and have often been caught in the cross fire between them and the government forces.
"Peace processes" in India are considered "low-cost" investment as far as human lives are concerned. In monetary terms, it is a huge investment where the only strategy is to buy "peace" and that in turn creates a vicious cycle of money and violence. Bodoland is yet another example of the same. The process of engaging "disaffected" groups in the region is as old as India. External factors, with the groups operating from neighbouring countries, did not allow this violence to be treated as regular law and order situation. There was no alternate strategy except for sending in battalions of army that only proved counter productive.
In 2016 it is still the same ground he was talking about.
Though the "peace processes" have not solved militancy they have helped change the demands from sovereignty and independence to various grades of autonomy. While this may keep the government happy, what it spawned is a parallel structure in which the state and "non-state" have found common ground to collaborate and legitimise the lucre of illegal economy from forest produce to arms, drugs, human trafficking, land and development funds.
Palpable tension has always been part of Kokrajhar's daily life. It is unlikely to change anytime soon. Force may help contain the fire but the insidious network of corruption and violence runs too deep along the tortured plains of Bodoland.
Kishalay Bhattacharjee is a senior journalist and author. His most recent book is Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters (Harper Collins, 2015).


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This is a list of monuments in the former Nawalparasi District, Nepal as officially recognized by and available through the website of the Department of Archaeology, Nepal.

Nawalparasi was a district in western Nepal. It was divided in 2015 into Nawalpur District (in Gandaki Province) and Parasi District (in Lumbini Province).

List of monuments

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See also
 List of monuments in Gandaki Province
 List of monuments in Lumbini Province
 List of monuments in Nepal

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Nawalparasi
Nawalparasi District


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That's a little trickier. First, change your Site URL and Home address to point to https://yoursite instead of http://yoursite. You can either do that through the Settings page, or in the database like a baller. If you're using Multi-site, you have to do it in the database. Once that works, it will force WordPress to spit out https URLs, just like you like them.
Once you've changed the URLs to https, you'll find yourself in a redirect loop. It's unpleasant.
That will tell WordPress to pretend that it's using SSL when it's behind the CloudFlare servers. I won't tell anyone if you won't.
Thanks for this, works very well. However I'm having issues with my 2nd wordpress blog hosted in a subdirectory. Does this only work on the root of a website perhaps?
Yes, it just works for the root of the site as written.


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Boys and girls in grades 1-5 can learn to play one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. Lacrosse is action packed and lots of fun! The sport has elements of soccer, football, basketball and hockey. Once you try lacrosse, you'll love lacrosse!
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Home/Science/Scientists have discovered how protein synthesis affects aging
Scientists have discovered how protein synthesis affects aging
Biologists from the Moscow state University together with colleagues from the Harvard school of medicine examined how changes with age of protein biosynthesis in the organs of mice. It gives an understanding of one of the fundamental mechanisms of the aging process. The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The basis of aging are injuries that accumulate over time in cells, tissues and organs of living organisms. Biosynthesis of proteins — the most important metabolic process that a cell spends most of the energy produced. The breach contribute to the aging process in General.
It is known that certain impact, reducing the efficiency of protein synthesis, increase the life span of animals. For example, in the absence of amino acids, when an animal is starving or under conditions that denaturation of proteins — in the case of overheating or intoxication — the level of protein synthesis decreases, and this adaptation allows the organism to survive in adverse conditions.
The effect of slowing protein synthesis, prolonging life, occurs in the organisms of some animals with low-calorie diet or the use of drugs that reduce the activity of one of the main regulators of protein synthesis — protein kinase mTOR.
The authors found that with age in liver and kidney of mice is something like: aging cell, as if sensing the accumulation of damage, reduce the level of protein synthesis to delay the onset of adverse effects. The task of scientists was to understand the mechanism of this process.
The study of changes that occur with age in various organisms — from yeast to humans — scientists from the research Institute of Physico-chemical biology named after A. N. Belozersky MSU do with 2017. The main project of the laboratory was to study the pattern of protein biosynthesis in the organs of mice of different ages by the method of the ribosomal profiling.
"This ultra-modern method is relatively new and has revolutionised, bringing all the benefits of systems biology in the study area of protein biosynthesis — presented in a press release from MSU said Sergey Dmitriev, one of the study's authors, senior researcher, Institute FHB MSU and MPI wounds. — In the cell synthesize the protein a specific molecular machines – ribosomes. They "translate" (broadcast) gene sequences from the language of nitrogenous bases on which the information recorded in DNA and RNA into the language of amino acids that make up proteins. Ribosomal profiling method allows to determine simultaneously all the RNAS, which at this particular moment are translated by ribosomes in the cell. This is next generation sequencing and complex bioinformatics data processing".
The chemical and "computer" part of the research performed at MSU based on the experience of American colleagues.
Graduate of the faculty of bioengineering and bioinformatics, Moscow state University Alexander Anisimov, the first author of the article says: "because of the unique experience gained in the laboratory of Vadim Gladyshev in Boston, we were able to use ribosomal profiling method to two organs — the liver and kidney of mice of different ages. This allowed to characterize in detail changes in gene expression at the level of protein biosynthesis during aging. We found changes in the synthesis component of many important processes and regulatory pathways, including those associated with immunity, inflammation, extracellular matrix and the metabolism of fat. But the most striking observation we made concerns the slowdown in developments themselves components of the protein-synthesizing apparatus ribosomal proteins and translational factors."
"The findings help to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying the aging process. At the same time we learn a lot about the molecular mechanisms of protein biosynthesis," says one of the leaders of the work, a Professor at Harvard medical school, Vadim Gladyshev.
Currently, scientists are continuing research to determine what effects on mice lead to an increase in life expectancy.
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Tylecodon fragilis ist eine Pflanzenart der Gattung Tylecodon in der Familie der Dickblattgewächse (Crassulaceae).

Beschreibung
Tylecodon fragilis wächst wenig verzweigt und aufsteigend, mit einer knolligen Basis, die bis zu 2,5 Zentimeter im Durchmesser erreicht und wird bis 16 Zentimeter hoch. Die Pflanzen besitzen eine graue Rinde, die sich abschält. Die spröden und glatten Triebe werden bis 35 Zentimeter lang und erreichen 4 Millimeter im Durchmesser. Sie haben eine grauweiße Rinde mit deutlichen oder unscheinbaren dunkleren, graugrünen bis schwarzen Streifen. Die weich sukkulenten, linealisch und stielrund bis leicht abgeflachten Blätter werden 2,5 bis 5 Zentimeter lang und 2 bis 3 Millimeter breit. Die Blattoberseite ist leicht gefurcht, die Spitze stumpf bis zugespitzt mit aufgesetztem Spitzchen.

Die Blütenstände bilden bis zu 7 Zentimeter hohe Thyrsen mit 1 bis 4 Monochasien, die wiederum in 1 bis 3 aufrechten bis etwas ausgebreiteten Einzelblüten enden. Der Blütenstiel wird etwa 5 Millimeter lang. Die dreieckig-lanzettlichen Kelchblätter werden 2 Millimeter lang. Die röhrige und gelblich grün gefärbte Kronröhre ist glatt und wird 10 bis 12 Millimeter lang und 4 Millimeter breit. Sie ist zum Schlund hin leicht erweitert. Die ausgebreiteten Zipfel sind stumpf und später zurückgebogen. Sie werden 5 Millimeter lang und 2 Millimeter breit.

Systematik und Verbreitung
Tylecodon fragilis ist in Südafrika in den Provinzen Nordkap und Westkap in Strandveld und in der Sukkulenten-Karoo in Felsritzen verbreitet. Die Erstbeschreibung erfolgte 1971 durch Robert Allen Dyer als Cotyledon fragilis. Helmut Richard Tölken stellte die Art 1978 in die Gattung Tylecodon.

Literatur
 E. van Jaarsveld: Tylecodon. In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Sukkulenten-Lexikon Band 4 Crassulaceae (Dickblattgewächse) Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7, S. 373–374.

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 Eintrag bei Red List of South African Plants mit Verbreitungsgebiet und Foto

Tylecodon (Gattung)
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Reach-in for groceries, convenient stores, restaurants.
How do refrigeration products continue to spread through everyday life, and what could be in store for the grocery sector in particular?
These products have refrigerator and freezer model selections including both swing and slide door refrigerators and swing door freezers.
Refrigerant regulations are another reason why change is coming, as HCFCs will be phased out by 2020, and given their high global warming potential (GWP), HFCs will likely be phased down in the near future as well. At some point, supermarkets will need to start considering low GWP alternatives such as HFO blends, as well as so-called "future-proof" refrigerants such as ammonia, CO2, or propane.
Supermarkets and grocery stores are facing challenging times as the $1.2 trillion annual sector strives to maintain its relevancy in a sea of change.
Amazon is set to usher in the next generation of "smart" convenience stores with the launch of its Amazon Go concept, replacing traditional checkouts with smart technology. The store concept works by automatically logging purchases to the user's Amazon account when a product is removed from the shelf.
The global refrigerated display case market is expected to garner $20.8 billion by 2022, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.8 percent during 2016 to 2022, according to a new report published by Allied Market Research titled "Global Refrigerated display cases Market - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2015-2022."


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Gheorghe Tătaru (* 5. Mai 1948 in Bukarest; † 19. Dezember 2004 in Iași) war ein rumänischer Fußballspieler. Er bestritt 272 Spiele in der höchsten rumänischen Fußballliga, der Divizia A, und nahm an der Weltmeisterschaft 1970 teil.

Karriere
Gheorghe Tătaru begann im Alter von 11 Jahren bei Steaua Bukarest mit dem Fußballspielen. 1967 wurde er in die erste Mannschaft aufgenommen und bestritt am 10. September 1967 sein erstes Spiel in der Divizia A. Mit Steaua erlebte er die erfolgreichste Zeit seiner Karriere. Bereits 1968 gewann er die rumänische Meisterschaft, 1969 und 1971 den rumänischen Pokal. 1971 wurde er außerdem Torschützenkönig der Divizia A. Danach begann sein Stern – ebenso wie der von Steaua – zu sinken. Tătaru gelangen weniger Treffer, in der Saison 1973/74 gar nur einer, woraufhin er auf weniger Einsätze kam. Daraufhin schloss er sich Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea an, das gerade in die Divizia A aufgestiegen war.

Nach dem Abstieg 1975 wechselte Tătaru zu CS Târgoviște in die Divizia B, wo ihm 1977 die Rückkehr in die höchste rumänische Liga gelang. Nach dem Abstieg am Ende der Saison 1979/80 beendete er seine Karriere. Anschließend kehrte Tătaru noch zwei Mal aus dem Ruhestand zurück, als er in der Saison 1981/82 für Autobuzul Bukarest und in der Saison 1983/84 für Unirea Slobozia – jeweils in der Divizia B – spielte. Zum Zeitpunkt seines Todes war er Trainer im Jugendbereich von Steaua Bukarest.

Nationalmannschaft
Tătaru absolvierte 10 Spiele für die rumänische Nationalmannschaft. Nachdem er von Nationaltrainer Angelo Niculescu ohne vorhergehendes Länderspiel, aber als einer der erfolgreichsten Torschützen der Divizia A, für die WM 1970 in Mexiko nominiert worden war, feierte er sein Debüt am 2. Juni 1970 im ersten Spiel gegen England. In den folgenden beiden Begegnungen kam er als Einwechselspieler zum Zuge.

Erfolge
 WM-Teilnehmer: 1970
 Rumänischer Meister: 1968
 Rumänischer Pokalsieger: 1969, 1970, 1971
 Rumänischer Torschützenkönig: 1971

Privates
Tătaru war nicht nur ein feiner Techniker und erfolgreicher Torjäger, sondern auch ein starker Alkoholiker. Er verstarb während eines Jugendturniers an einem Herzinfarkt.

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Fußballspieler (FCM Târgoviște)
Fußballspieler (AS Rocar Bukarest)
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Geboren 1948
Gestorben 2004
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RELAX! This is not going to be another political post bashing one party or group of people. In fact, I think it is time we pause all the noise and take time to listen. In our culture, I've noticed that politicians love to demonize certain groups of people. The two party system has gained success I think in part from the "us versus them" mindset. The formula goes something like this: First, you choose a people group who are different from the majority of your base and then you highlight how that group is not contributing. You point out the differences and create a mindset of fear. Then you talk about how life would be better if that people group would just change what they are doing. Politically, I think that this is a brilliant strategy because everyone loves having a villain to fight against.
At no point do we stop and look at ourselves. This is the perfect trap for humans. I don't know about you, but I don't enjoy taking responsibility for my actions. I like feeling validated in my opinion. I also don't enjoy hearing about the suffering in the world. Our world is a broken place where people often experience violence, sickness, and pain. When I stop and pay attention to the experiences of others, it makes me uncomfortable. It makes me recognize how blessed I am. It also makes me want to do something to help.
I'm currently reading a book by a Jewish Rabbi, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, who argues that poverty is the sign of a broken society. (Not implying that people who are poor are somehow at fault for their situation.) But that poverty is a sign that something isn't functioning correctly in how society is operating.
Can we stop the noise and the name-calling? Can we actually listen to each other and try to understand what other people are going through? Perhaps with a little empathy and compassion, we can stop fear in its tracks and create change that helps everyone!


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Petition For the court to issue a consecutive sentence and not concurrent.
If a civil servant is assaulted doing their duties and if the person is convicted in court they should get a consecutive sentence to any other convictions and not a concurrent sentence. If that person is serving a life sentence, when granted parole it is then added past their parole date.
Having been assaulted myself where the perpetrator was given a concurrent sentence, where this left me feeling let down by the justice system. More recently a colleague was hit 4 times with a metal pole over his back while dealing with another incident and the perpetrator was given a 4 month concurrent sentence. This is during the zero tolerance to violence which the civil service champions, but when the prisoner is given a concurrent sentence it doesn't send the message of zero tolerance.


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The New York American Marketing Association this week presented Canon U.S.A., Inc. with the prestigious Gold EFFIE(R) Award for its SELPHY CP Printer "85 Second Photo Lab" campaign which was developed in conjunction with DCA Advertising, Inc.
The distinguished EFFIE Awards program, which began in 1968, is the only national award to honor creative achievement in demonstrably meeting and exceeding advertising objectives. The Canon advertising campaign was singled out for its creativity and, most significantly, for the results it generated in terms of measurably increased sales, market and mind share.
In the Computer Peripherals for Business/ Personal Purposes category, Canon's television and print advertising campaign positioned the SELPHY CP Printer as an important part of Canon's digital camera line up and as a portable accessory to a digital camera. The campaign demonstrated how the SELPHY CP printer -with its simplicity and portability - spontaneously provides consumers with photo lab quality prints and makes printing just as gratifying as taking digital photos. With a touch of a button, Canon's SELPHY compact photo printers create beautiful 4 x 6-inch photographs in about 85 seconds.
The winning "85 Second Photo Lab" campaign included "Italian Woman" and "Half Pipe" TV commercials and the "Travel" print ad. Consistent throughout each execution was the neon "85 Second Photo Lab" sign, reminiscent of a One Hour Photo Lab to reinforce high quality prints and processing speeds to consumers. With the integration of the icon in each advertisement, consumers could realize the opportunity to print anytime, anywhere with the SELPHY CP Printer.
"It's a tremendous honor to be presented with this EFFIE Award," said Rick Booth, director marketing services, consumer imaging group, Canon U.S.A., Inc. "Our campaign generated enthusiasm, interest and sales in the quickly expanding compact printer category. We're proud of the recognition and look forward to continuing to evolve the digital imaging market."
"This ad campaign relaunched the Canon SELPHY CP Printer and really redefined the compact photo printer category," said Doug Fidoten, executive vice president, group account director of DCA. "It confirmed to our audience that this product would play a vital role in the digital photography process and add instant gratification to the printing of photos."
Canon and DCA utilized national cable to tie product attributes with target group interests, such as travel and adventure, music and entertainment, and home decorating. Spot television was used in high-rated / high-visibility programming to increase exposure and generate "buzz" in high-volume digital camera markets. They supplemented the television spots with a print campaign targeted to consumer magazines.
Additionally, Canon developed special programs with publications like Glamour Magazine, which embarked on a nine college campus tour to demonstrate how easy it is to print photos on the spot with Canon's SELPHY compact photo printers. Canon also launched a major product demonstration initiative with Saks Fifth Avenue, reaching 55 department stores across the country.
DCA Advertising, part of Dentsu's North American network, offers unique integrated communications solutions that create dramatic results for their clients. In addition to this year's EFFIE for Canon U.S.A., DCA won two EFFIE awards last year for two separate campaigns--one for consumer electronics and one for office solutions.