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SPORTHO: Eminent Coaches Discussed On 'Return To Play'
SPORTHO is an initiative by SPARSH Hospital aiming to create a holistic healthcare system that addresses the needs of sportspeople specifically, across ages and professional levels.
SPORTHO, the pioneering sports-speciality hospital in Karnataka that was launched last week, held a unique meet with coaches from various fields and sports medicine specialists to discuss the importance of aligning sports medicine that can help players win over the injury.
The theme for the first discussion was "Return to Play". Coaches of different sports discussed the requirements of each sport player, and the need to ensure sportspersons career doesn't end due to injury. Critical case studies were discussed, highlighting the importance of doctors, coaches and families working together to ensure a long and successful sports career.
SPORTHO Eminent Coaches Discussed on 'Return to Play'
SPORTHO is an initiative by SPARSH Hospital aiming to create a holistic healthcare system that addresses the needs of sportspeople specifically, across ages and professional levels. It was launched on 02 May 2019, in the presence of three eminent sports personalities, Jude Felix, Sharath Gayakwad and Samim Rizvi. The sportspeople were also presented with the SPORTHO Excellence Awards 2019 in recognition of their contribution to hockey, swimming and high endurance cycling respectively.
Dr Sharan Patil, said on occasion, "It is important for us to consider a holistic image of sports healthcare. SPORTHO, as the first sports-dedicated healthcare facility in Karnataka, we align sports with medicine and bring together the latest technologies, the expertise and the care to help sportspeople. The Stakeholder's Dialogue is a critical part of this initiative, where we can bring together all relevant parties to identify the concern areas and work on the way ahead. It was great to see doctors and coaches from different sports come together to discuss what they require to win over injury without compromising the sportspersons' careers."
The SPORTHO team includes experienced clinicians, surgeons, physiotherapists, pain management specialists, strength and conditioning experts, nutritionists, and psychologists.
SPARSH Hospital, established in 2006 by the renowned orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Sharan Patil, is one of the earliest orthopaedic speciality hospitals in Bengaluru, conducting path-breaking surgeries in the country.
With the vision of being a leader in healthcare & serve as a destination for complexities, SPARSH earned a global reputation for path-breaking surgeries, highly skilled orthopaedic interventions with Joint Replacement facilities in its first year. In less than a decade of inception, SPARSH expanded across 4 locations in Karnataka – Bommasandra, Infantry Road, Yeshwanthpur and Davanagere.
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Pretty much this whole trip to Japan for was the sole purpose of seeing and photographing Mount Fuji. This is my 4th trip to Japan and the 4th time of travelling to the five lakes area to try and see the elusive Fujisan. One of my errors in my previous trips was banking all hopes on Fuji being visible on a single day. This time we booked 7 nights in the area and hired a car in order to make the most of our week in the inaka, Japanese countryside.
It was the weekend when we traveled from Hachioji to Kawaguchi-ko, and as the five lakes region is such a popular destination (especially in cherry blossom season) the only train with seats left was at 7:30am. This did mean that we were able to get to Kawaguchi-ko station by 9am, and got a lovely view of Fuji from the Fujikyu train.
Once we arrived in Kawaguchi-ko we headed for our first hotel, as we were staying in three different places over the 7 days (sounds hectic but there was a logic in there somewhere). The first stop was K's house Mount Fuji view, I will be writing about the lodging separately but this is an amazing place to stay. From our room we had a wonderful view on Mt Fuji, and there was also a roof terrace that all guests could access too. From 12:30 we had booked a tour around the area with K's house (we did the same tour, but the whole day, in 2013). So to kill time we picked up some conbini lunch and walked around Kawaguchi-ko lake. Unfortunately the famous clouds of Fuji were making their presence felt!
After lunch we joined the tour group. The afternoon session includes stops at the infamous "suicide forest" aokigahara, the wind cave, shiraito falls, lake motosu (1000 yen note view) and Oishi park.
Shiraito falls is a really wonderful place, the longest (widest?) waterfall in Japan. Unfortunately the clouds were covering the snow cap at this point and we couldn't get the shot of falls and Fuji. Next we jumped into the bus and headed off to Lake Motosu, which is featured on the back of the 1000 yen note, and so is quite the famous view! Although without the cloud hat haha.
From here we started back towards Kawaguchi-ko with a drive by of Lake Sai, and as you can see the clouds were almost gone, so we excitedly headed to our next stop, Oishi Park.
Oishi park is a very popular spot for viewing Mount Fuji, and is well known for their plants which frame Mt Fuji in different blooms and different points in the year. As of yet the blossom here wasn't at full bloom, but down a small jetty you can get uninterrupted lake views (although I preferred the pampas grass).
Once back at the start of the tour one of the staff very kindly drove us back to our hotel, we even made some friends there that we talk to even now. Once back at the hostel we shimmied up onto the roof terrace (you have to climb through a window- it is allowed though!) and got to watch as the light faded from the sky.
ah this post brings back memories!!
I was in Japan a couple weeks ago and was lucky enough to see Fuji from one of the lakes!!
The falls were stunning too!


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As Inflation, Economic Growth Flat Line, BoJ Expands Stimulus Spending
The Bank of Japan shocked global financial markets on Friday by expanding its massive stimulus spending in a stark admission that economic growth and inflation have not picked up as much as expected after a sales tax hike in April.
BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda portrayed the board's tightly-split decision to buy more assets as a preemptive strike to keep policy on track, rather than an admission that his plan to reflate the long moribund-economy had derailed.
But some economists wondered if pushing even more money into the financial system would be effective as long as consumer confidence continues to worsen and demand remains weak.
"It's clearly a big surprise given Kuroda's repeated insistence that policy was on track and assorted politicians have been warning about the negative side of a weak yen currency," said Sean Callow, a currency strategist at Westpac.
"We salute the BoJ for admitting that they weren't going to reach their goals on inflation or GDP, though we do note that the new policy equates to about $60 billion of quantitative easing per month. This perspective does raise the question of just how much impact monetary policy is having."
The jolt from the BOJ, which had been expected to maintain its level of asset purchases, came as the government signaled its readiness to ramp up spending to boost the economy and as the government pension fund, the world's largest, was set to increase purchases of domestic and foreign stocks.
"We decided to expand the quantitative and qualitative easing to ensure the early achievement of our price target," Kuroda told a news conference, reaffirming the BOJ's goal of pushing consumer price inflation to 2 percent next year.
"Now is a critical moment for Japan to emerge from deflation. Today's step shows our unwavering determination to end deflation."
Kuroda said the BOJ's easing was unrelated to major portfolio changes by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) also announced on Friday, but the effect of the day's two major decisions means that the central bank will step up its buying of Japanese government bonds, offsetting the giant pension fund's increased sales of them.
The BOJ's move stands in marked contrast with the Federal Reserve, which on Wednesday ended its own "quantitative easing," judging that the U.S. economy had recovered enough to dispense with the emergency flood of cash into its financial system.
In a rare split decision, the BOJ's board voted 5-4 to accelerate purchases of Japanese government bonds so that its holdings increase at an annual pace of 80 trillion yen ($723.4 billion), up by 30 trillion yen.
The central bank also said it would triple its purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and real-estate investment trusts (REITs) and buy longer-dated debt, sending Tokyo shares soaring and prompting a sharp sell-off in the yen.
Kuroda said that while the economy continues to recover, plunging oil prices, slowing global growth and weak household spending after the tax hike were weighing on price growth.
"There was a risk that despite having made steady progress, we could face a delay in eradicating the public's deflation mindset," he said.
Before Friday's shock decision, Kuroda had been relentlessly optimistic that the unprecedented monetary stimulus he unleashed 18 months ago would succeed in bolstering an economic recovery and ending 15 years of falling prices.
But the world's third-largest economy has sputtered despite the BOJ's asset purchases and earlier government spending.
Most economists polled by Reuters last week had expected the central bank to ease policy again but not so soon. A majority had expected it to move early next year.
The bank's previous failed effort to defeat deflation via quantitative easing (QE) in the five years to 2006 failed.
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Still, Economy Minister Akira Amari called the BOJ's easing a timely move, saying the decision was related to but separate from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's looming decision on whether to raise the sales tax again next October, which would help rein in hefty government debt but risk a further economic blow.
In a semiannual report, the BOJ halved its growth forecast for the fiscal year to March to 0.5 percent. It trimmed its CPI forecast for fiscal 2014 and 2015, but still expects to meet its inflation target within the two years it originally set out.
"This is very significant because it reasserts Kuroda's leadership over the policy board, which was beginning to show open dissent," said Jesper Koll, director of research at JPMorgan Securities.
"It recognizes what we have known, that the real economy has been weaker than expected, weaker than forecast, and reasserts that Kuroda thinks they can do something about this."
The benchmark Nikkei stock index <.N225> spiked to a 7-year high on the BOJ bombshell and closed up 4.8 percent. The yen tumbled, with the dollar climbing to 110.91 yen, its highest since 2008, from 109.34 before the announcement.
"It's easy money, so financials, banks and securities, and real estate stocks stand to benefit further," said Masayuki Doshida, senior market analyst at Rakuten Securities.
In a reminder of the challenges the central bank faces, data earlier on Friday showed annual core consumer inflation was 1 percent when stripping out the effect of April's tax hike, half the BOJ's target.
Household spending fell for a six straight month in September from a year earlier, while the job-availability rate eased from its 22-year high in August.
Also on Friday, a Japanese government panel overseeing the GPIF approved plans for the fund to raise its holding of domestic stocks to 25 percent of its portfolio from the current 12 percent.
The $1.2-trillion GPIF is under pressure from Abe to shift funds towards riskier, higher-yielding investments to support the fast-ageing population, and away from low-yielding JGBs.
With Abe set to decide in December whether to raise the sales tax next year to 10 percent from 8 percent, voices are growing for him to delay the planned fiscal tightening, given the economy's weakness.
Isamu Ueda, a senior official in Komeito, the junior party in Abe's coalition, said on Friday it would be difficult to press ahead with plans to raise the tax next year.
"I think conditions are severe for (raising the tax) next October," Ueda told reporters after a meeting of Komeito's economic revival council, which he heads.
(Additional reporting by Stanley White, Hitoshi Ishida and Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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5 Lessons for Brands From the Burger King Twitter Hack
Kevin Allen
This story originally appeared on PR Daily
Burger King regained control of its Twitter account Monday night, after a day in which its feed was overtaken by hackers and made to look like McDonald's.
Around 10 p.m. ET, Burger King tweeted:
Interesting day here at BURGER KING®, but we're back! Welcome to our new followers. Hope you all stick around!
— BurgerKing (@BurgerKing) February 19, 2013
The breach began in the morning on Monday and lasted for hours. Hackers tweeted a flurry of messages, most of them made little sense and contained offensive language. By the afternoon, Twitter had suspended the account. Burger King did not update its Facebook page on Monday, though it did release this statement to the media:
"We have worked directly with administrators to suspend the account until we are able to re-establish our legitimate site and authentic postings. We apologize to our fans and followers who have been receiving erroneous tweets about other members of our industry and additional inappropriate topics."
Anyone who's managed a brand account can certainly empathize. In the hours after the hack, even McDonald's tweeted from its verified account:
We empathize with our @burgerking counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking.
— McDonald's (@McDonalds) February 18, 2013
As bad as it seemed, the fallout won't be severe—just a week or so of mass embarrassment and a lifelong cautionary tale for PR pros, marketers, and social media gurus everywhere. But it's unlikely that the brand itself will take any kind of real hit. The word "Whopper" will not suddenly become synonymous with this or any social media hack.
In fact, some are even seeing obvious positives in the wake of the fiasco. Cameron McPherson, of strategic communications firm The Hodges Partnership, points out that Burger King saw an increase in followers (more than 30,000) and as well as a number of media mentions.
Monday was a slow news day. That the account was hacked and made to resemble that of its notorious rival probably served to fuel the fire.
That's not to minimize the severity of the situation. It's a huge deal if you're the people that manage the Burger King account. But it was done in such outlandish fashion that there was no question that it was a hack job from the very beginning. With a more thought-out and subversive approach, you could do some real damage. As it happened, however, it just looked like a bunch of teens messing around. I mean, they linked to a Chief Keef video. You can't get much more amateur than that.
Still, it's not difficult to extrapolate and see how social media accounts could be an avenue for some crazy corporate sabotage. Therefore, a more likely effect will be that C-level executives could become less gung-ho about signing off on any big social executions. If all they see is nightmare headlines and no extra product moving off shelves, they'll ask, What's the point?
That said, here are a few measures social media managers should be taking to ensure that they can avoid or mitigate these scenarios.
Change your passwords regularly. And change them to something obscure that has nothing to do with the product you sell. Random numbers, letters, and symbols are your best friend. We change our passwords every month—that will probably change to every two weeks in light of this development.
Have procedures in place to stop an attack in its tracks. Create a fail-proof social escalation policy that can end something like this before it gets out of hand. Have the assets you need on hand to be able to restore the images on your profile.
Minimize the number of mobile devices that can access the account. If you look at all the apps that can access your account, you should know for certain where they're all coming from and what their purpose is. If you're unsure about any of them, ax them.
Make it mandatory that any mobile phones that link to corporate accounts are password protected. That way, if you leave your phone at, say, a Burger King and you're signed into your brand's account, no one can have easy access to it. Similarly, make sure that if you leave your computer at, say, a Burger King, it's not logged into any accounts. Password protect everything that allows access to accounts that are password protected. Thinking about the computer I'm typing on, if I were to leave it somewhere and some swarthy character logged onto Facebook, they would be able to wreak havoc on about six different accounts (none of which are my personal account). That's pretty scary when you think about it.
Change your passwords every time someone leaves the company—whether or not it's amicable. Don't trust people. There's too much at stake here.
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By March 1878, repairs were rapidly being made to the severely damaged mining operation at Bear Gap in Wiconisco Township following the devastating 1877 mine fire.
William Hemingray, Mine Inspector of the Third District of the Anthracite Region, detailed his investigation into the cause of the mine fire, efforts to extinguish the blaze, and the repair work being done in order to restart operations at the Short Mountain Colliery.
A fire broke out in this colliery on the 1st day of January, 1877. Since which time no coal has been sent to market. The origin of the fire has never been definitely ascertained.
From information obtained from the engineer employed in running the lower pump, it appears he was called away, up to what was known as No. 6 pump, one lift above, and he thinks the fire was started from a spark of his lamp dropping among some dry wood or other inflammable matter, and was positive the fire was started at bottom of slope, on the east side, about fifteen hundred feet below the surface. The fire commenced about three o'clock on the morning of the first of January, and raged fiercely until two o'clock the next day, when it was discovered to have ignited in the lower pump slope 900 feet, and up through the Bull pump slope 600 feet to the surface, burning down the engine-house and closing the slope.
The Short Mountain slope, which had hitherto been the intake or downcast, now became reversed, the flames now coming up through this slope to the surface, burning out the timber very rapidly closing it up. A stream of water was conducted into it on the morning of the 5th. Some large hose was at once procured and attached to the column of one of the steam pumps, conducting the water down in sufficient quantities to prevent the fire from getting into the Lykens Valley slope eastward. The fire being met by large streams of water on its eastern and western sides, no further danger of its spreading was anticipated.
A large force of men were at once put to work to extinguish the fire in the various gangways, air-courses, and flue-ways which were found burning, the heat being intense, the men having to work under great difficulties, from heat, vapor, etc., but finally succeeded in extinguishing the fire in the interior of the mine, which had been slowly but surely filling up with the waters of Bear Creek.
After 40 days the fire was considered to be entirely quenched, the work of re-opening the mines was commenced, the pump and hoisting slopes were re-opened and timbered, and the gangways at the present time are being re-timbered, preparatory to resuming operations in 1878.
The work of repairing the damage done by this fire was both dangerous and costly, but was brought to a successful termination. No lives were lost, only one person injured, (arm broken) by a fall of rock, and when resumption of work takes place at this colliery it will be a great blessing to the workingmen who have had to endure a great many privations by being thrown out of employment in consequence of this accident.
A freight train passed down the Lykens Valley Railroad in April 1878 with the first shipment of anthracite coal delivered from the Short Mountain Colliery since the discovery of the mine fire on January 1, 1877. That event ended more than a year's worth of chaos and desperation for the residents of Lykens and Wiconisco.


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How to avoid being killed in the next Fortnite livestream
When you're playing Fortnites, it's easy to forget about your character.
In the next livestream, you'll be fighting with your friends.
That's because the game has changed.
You'll be controlling one of the characters, Fortnits, instead of one of a squad of four players.
We're here to break down how the game will be different from the original, how the gameplay will evolve over time, and what players can expect when the next stream is released.
When will the Fortnited update be available?
Fortniting will be available in both free and paid versions beginning on January 11.
The free version will allow you to play through the game with just one character, while the paid version will let you play through with more than four players (or six if you opt for premium membership).
The free update will include new character customization options, new weapons, a new map, and the ability to earn new skins for your character that can be purchased for real money.
The paid update will also include new game modes and skins, new weapon skins, and new game achievements.
You can find out more about the new game and achievements in our guide.
The other major update coming soon to FortnitiX is called The End of Fortnit, which will allow players to customize their character's armor and weapons.
You will also be able to customize your character's weapon to be even more powerful, allowing you to fight with more powerful weapons.
What are the major features of the Fortnight update?
A number of improvements have been made to Fortnight over the last few months.
The most notable feature is a new weapon that is designed to take out your foes.
The weapon, the Zephyr, is an upgraded version of the original Zephyrs that can kill you from a distance.
The Zephries are more powerful than their older versions, and can knock back enemies at a high rate of speed.
Fortnight will also have a new game mode, called Fortnight vs. Fortnitor, where you'll compete to kill your closest friends, and see who can earn the most skins from the Fort Night event.
How can I get Fortnition?
Fortnight is available for free on the Xbox Store, Xbox One, and PC.
The game is also available to buy on the PlayStation Store.
There are several downloadable versions of Fortnight, such as Fortnight 1.0, which adds a new character, Fortnight 2.0.
FortNight 1.5, which was released on January 15, adds the new weapon, Zephry, which is an upgrade of the Zephyr.
Fort Night 2.5 includes a new story mode called Fort Night vs. Zephryn, which pits you against your friends to earn more skins and other rewards.
Fort night 3.0 adds the Zemulor armor, which you can purchase for real-world money.
Fort Nights 3.5 and 4.0 add the new map called Fortnitions, which can be accessed in the main menu.
Forts 3.1 and 4, which came out on February 17, include a new multiplayer mode called Dominion, which gives players a chance to fight other players in a series of challenges.
Fort nights 5.0 and 6.0 also add new multiplayer maps called Dominion 2.1, Dominion 2, and Dominion 3.2.
There is also an expansion called Forts 5.1 that is coming soon, which includes an expansion that adds new multiplayer weapons and vehicles, as well as new game content.
The final update, Fort Night 6.5 that is expected in early March, adds more game content, including new weapons and new maps.
Can I play Fortniture with friends?
You can, but it'll take a bit of practice.
You won't be able fight alone, but you'll need to take a friend with you to make sure you stay safe.
There's also an Xbox Live community where you can get help with your Fortnight experience.
Will I be able use my old avatar in Fortniton?
The Fortniter is a character created for the game.
He's the one you'll use in multiplayer.
If you want to play with your older avatar, you can do so, but the Fortner will be removed from the game in the Fort night update.
You also won't get to use your old Fortnizer's skills on Fortnito, because the Forts character will be locked down as a placeholder.
How much will Fortnita be worth?
The Fortnight game will cost $19.99 for the digital version, and $39.99 in the Xbox One and PC versions.
You should expect to pay $20 or more for the paid upgrade, which lets you unlock the new character and weapon skins for free.
The downloadable content pack, called the FortNIT, is $14.
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Former PNG International, Jessie Joe Parker, is the latest Whitehaven player to commit to the clubs 2021 Betfred Championship squad. The 35 year old centre has signed another one year deal with Haven.
"I enjoy it at Whitehaven." said Parker who first joined the club in 2012. "I'm delighted to have signed again and I am looking forward to playing some rugby again. We are putting together a good squad for next season and it is exciting. I just want to get back training with the lads and hopefully get a testimonial this season."
Gary Charlton is also happy to have Parker back on board for 2021. He said, "Jessie is a firm fans favourite and he has been good for Whitehaven over a number of years. He has plenty of experience which he brings to the squad and adds more competition for our back line. I'm pleased to see him sign again."
Parker joined the club in 2012 making his debut in a home Championship One game against Workington Town, Parker came off the bench in the game less than 36 hours after landing in the country. He has played 186 games for the club scoring 94 tries. He has represented Papua New Guinea on 13 occasions.
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Elizabeth Warren is progressivism's Donald Trump
Elizabeth Warren was supposed to be the thinking person's Bernie Sanders, impeccably progressive but with realistic arithmetic connecting aspirations to resources. Then came her explanation of how she would finance "Medicare for All."
Before Republicans wearied of pretending to care about fiscal rectitude, they pretended that they could eliminate budget deficits by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse," a pledge that demonstrated their familiarity with fraud. Warren prices her Medicare for All at $20.5 trillion in a decade, which is $10 trillion to $14 trillion less than estimates from serious sources (the Rand Corp., the Urban Institute, the Mercatus Center). She makes audacious assumptions that would make Republicans blush, if they still could.
For example, 11% of her plan's cost will be covered by cutting payments to providers such as hospitals (35% below current private insurance rates) and physicians (25%). Does her clairvoyance extend to how many of the former will then close and how many of the latter will retire? She assumes that states and cities, which cannot be compelled to do so, will send to Washington the $6.1 trillion they spend on health care. She assumes that her administration can collect an additional $2.3 trillion by shrinking the "tax gap," i.e., reducing tax evasion, a decades-old aspiration in Washington that would have been accomplished already if it were possible. And so on, and on.
Warren cheerily says, "No one gets left behind. ... Some of the people currently working in health insurance will work in other parts of insurance, in life insurance, in auto insurance," which supposedly will suddenly need the 370,000 people who today work in private health insurance. She sees society as a Tinkertoy for clever people like her to disassemble and reassemble, shuffling around hundreds of thousands of people.
Never has there been such a brittle prospective presidency. Warren is vain about the specificity of her plans for expanding the federal government's scope far beyond what either the New Deal or Great Society envisioned. Yet the entire edifice of her "transformation" of society by government spending and fiats rests upon the rickety assumption that her proposed wealth tax is constitutional.
But because the Constitution forbids "direct" federal taxes, the 16th Amendment was necessary to make the income tax possible. Warren's evident theory – that the federal government can, without an amendment, impose a general tax on accumulated wealth – implies that the term "direct" effectively prohibits nothing, so the 16th Amendment was unnecessary.
Were her wealth tax to survive judicial review, and were it to have its intended effect of steadily shrinking the supply of billionaires, who then would fund progressivism's agenda? The spending commitments would remain in place, so where would government then go for revenues? To where most of America's money is: the middle class.
Warren, whose profile in courage is to foment hostility toward a small minority ("billionaires"), should try an experiment – not at her rallies of the resentful, but with an audience of representative Americans. Ask how many in the audience own an Apple product? The overwhelming majority will raise their hands. Then ask: How many resent the fact that Steve Jobs, Apple's innovator, died a billionaire? Few hands will be raised.
Few Americans know, but most intuit, what economist William D. Nordhaus, a Nobel laureate, argues in a 2004 paper: Innovators capture only about 2.2% of the surplus from innovation. The surplus is, basically, the innovation's value to society, minus the cost of producing it.
Warren's dependence on a wealth tax announces progressivism's failure of nerve, its unwillingness to require anyone other than a tiny crumb of society's upper crust to pay significantly for the cornucopia of benefits that she clearly thinks everyone wants – but only if someone else pays for them.
The way Warren has cooked the books regarding her health care financing testifies to Donald Trump's success in normalizing preposterousness. Candidate Trump breezily promised to erase the national debt in eight years, which would have required retiring $2.4 trillion a year, a sum equal to 55% of the fiscal 2019 budget. Warren's politically, socially and economically surreal bookkeeping is more egregious than his because she is intelligent enough to know better, and because she used ingenuity, which he does not possess, to disguise her disingenuousness.
Her cachet has been intellectual gravitas, supposedly demonstrated by blueprints for refurbishing everything. Suddenly "the thinking person's Bernie Sanders" seems more like progressivism's Trump, exacerbating social hostilities and playing fast and loose with facts. Markets, for which Warren has minimal respect, are information-generating mechanisms, and America's political market is working. Her Medicare for All plan provides indispensable information, not about governance but about her.
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Do you take selfies? I do, because if you look through my photos, I'm missing. I've found taking selfies is a great way to get myself into my scrapbooks. But have you thought about taking selfies for a positive body image?
I have always been very impressed with the Dove body image campaigns. Body image is something I struggle with daily so the campaigns speak directly to me. I have mixed feelings about the Selfie campaign. First watch the Selfie video and then we'll discuss it.
I never thought about taking selfies for positive body image, but if you are afraid to put yourself out there, selfies CAN be a great way to start.
Do Selfies Change What Beauty Is??
I see all the points that the Selfie video makes about how we define what beauty is and I agree with them all. This video does an awesome job of showing us that the things we dislike about our own body is what makes us unique and makes us beautiful.
In an environment like the one in the video, you are going to get positive comments, but what about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter? If someone tries this on their own and posts the photo online, what type of feedback are they going to get?
My concern is that people are not always nice, especially young girls. This could backfire. The one girl states that nothing bad happened when she posted a selfie. What if everyone posts mean comments about her?
I'm curious what a therapist thinks about the video above. Does it help or hurt a young woman's self-esteem. Are selfies good or bad for our body image?
I love that Dove talks about how a mother's body image directly affects their daughter's body image. I struggle with setting a good example for my daughters every day. I look back at photos of me when I was a teen and I wonder why I thought I was fat. I looked awesome!! I hated my calves because I could never wear high boots. I looked so muscular and athletic.
A few years ago I did used Daily Mugshot app to take a photo of myself every day over a year. When I go back and look at those photos, I am much less critical because time has passed.
I post selfies because it's fun to go back and see myself in the different places I've been and the different things I've done. If I get a haircut, yep…I share a selfie. I also love seeing selfies from others.
When I connect with friends and family on Facebook or Instagram, I don't want to just see photos of their kids and pets, I want to see photos of the person I connected with. I want to see how my high school friends look now. Seeing everyone's smiling faces in my Facebook stream is the closest I come to seeing everyone in person.
What are you thoughts on the selfie video? Do you take selfies?


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Indian woman ascends previously banned summit
More from South Asia
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 4:00pm
An Indian woman has reached the summit of a mountain that females were previously banned from climbing.
Dhanya Sanal's ascent to the summit of Agasthyakoodam in the southern state of Kerala came after a court ruling in November.
Local tribespeople oppose women climbing the mountain because of a statue of a Hindu sage on top they say is celibate.
The BBC reports that Ms Sanal, 38, had not been stopped by locals or protesters.
Also in Kerala, a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age entering a Hindu temple was overturned in September. Protesters have stopped females from entering, though two women managed to gain access earlier this month.
Delhi court reschedules execution date of 2012 gang rapists
A court in Delhi has issued a new execution date for four men found guilty of a brutal gang rape and murder of a university student in 2012.
12-year-old girl rescued after being buried alive for 18 hours in Kashmir avalanche
A 12-year-old girl has been rescued after being buried under snow for 18 hours following an avalanche that hit her home in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Indian man arrested after going on live TV to confess to killing his girlfriend
An Indian man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after he confessed to killing his girlfriend on live TV.
Execution date of 2012 Delhi rapists set to be pushed back following mercy plea
The execution of four convicts who raped and murdered a young student in Delhi in 2012 is no longer expected to go ahead as planned on January 22.


The action that warm takes is to release things. Like when you lay in the sun and all of your muscles slowly soften–necks get longer, breaths go deeper and time slows to the speed of a nap. When that softness reaches your heart, then you know what acceptance feels like.
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Yay, and nap on to enlightenment!
Anyone who sees this and doesn't feel the warmth and slow their breathing must be comatose! Loved this one Anna.
You have a gift. The way you write and describe is beautiful. I lost my boy this week. Your words and beautiful and flaming.
So sorry, I honor your loss. As he flies free, we are left especially earthbound. So very sorry.
What complete relaxation! And it FEELS so good.
To Barbara Cohen – so sorry for your loss – I know what that feels like too. Leaves such an empty hole in your heart.
Anna – spent the morning (!) on the Ruby Ranch site! What a great rescue – I am so impressed with all they do. Loved looking at all the horses & how far many of them have come. The site itself is super and the community outreach certainly works.
I couldn't agree more, I am privileged to be a small part of that rescue. http://www.rrhr.org. Love live rescue!!
I always want to lay in the sun surrounded by horse. I do have an Arabian mare who is at a beautiful farm.


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Q: How to calculate confidence for non standard bands? So I have a dataset :
dt<-c(1106,1402, 827, 781,876, 1134,1014, 964, 848, 814, 772, 912, 923, 996, 569, 774, 1389, 900)

lets assume a normal curve and running t.test(dt)
I get

One Sample t-test
data:  dt t = 19.057, df = 17, p-value = 6.579e-13 alternative
  hypothesis: true mean is not equal to 0 95 percent confidence
  interval:
    839.9344 1049.0656 sample estimates: mean of x
      944.5

Which is all standard fare for 95% confidence interval.
But what I'd like to find is what is the confidence in a specific range like from 850 to 900. Because I want to know the probability that the next datapoint will fall between 850 and 900.  Which package::function can do this?

A: I don't know of a built-in function but it's not too too hard to compute using pt(), the cumulative distribution function for Student's t:
dd <- c(1106,1402, 827, 781,876, 1134,1014,
        964, 848, 814, 772, 912, 923, 996, 569, 774, 1389, 900)
m <- mean(dd)
s <- sd(dd)

Now we (1) convert the desired range to "t statistic" scale (subtract mean and divide by sd) and (2) compute the cumulative probability of x<lower_bound and x<upper_bound
probs <- pt((c(850,900)-m)/s,df=length(dd)-1)

The probability of a value falling in the range is the difference of these two values.
diff(probs)  ## 0.08805229

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Kardashians convince NBA star not to come to Turkey
In their reality show 'Khloe & Lamar,' NBA star Lamar Odom's wife Khloe Kardashian said his playing for a Turkish team could upset her Armenian fans.
Relations between Armenia and Turkey have become a topic on the "Khloe & Lamar" show, aired in the U.S. on the E! network, after Kim Kardashian pressured her brother-in-law, basketball star Lamar Odom, to change his mind about his planned transfer to Turkey, because of concerns about the Armenian "genocide" of 1915, the Milliyet daily has reported.
Khloe Kardashian, Odom's wife, expressed concern that his playing for a Turkish team could upset her Armenian fans. Kardashian's brother Robert also said it would be uncomfortable and strange for the family, while her sister Kim recalled the debate that arose when her image appeared on the cover of a Turkish magazine last year.
"I do not want to offend anyone in my culture. I've been thinking about Turkey a lot, because I'm Armenian," Kim Kardashian said.
In the final episode of the reality show "Khloe & Lamar," which follows the Kardashian family, Khloe Kardashian changes her own mind and influences her husband's decision, after Kim Kardashian voices her objections to Odom's possible transfer to Turkey's Beşiktaş Milangaz team, which made Odom an offer during the NBA lockout.
The Kardashians are a American family of Armenian descent. Kim Kardashian caused tensions last April when she sued the Turkish branch of an international magazine for using her picture on the cover of its April issue.


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BGT comedian is heading to Swindon on debut solo tour
BGT comedian Kojo Anim is heading to Swindon on debut solo tour
By Hedi Mehrez Reporter
Kojo Anim
BRITAIN's Got Talent stand-up comedy star is heading to Swindon on his debut solo tour.
Kojo Anim will perform his new show Kojo Anim Presents The Taxi Tour at the Wyvern Theatre on March 17, 2020.
The 39-year-old father of one was Simon Cowell's golden buzzer act on this year's series of the ITV talent show.
Kojo said: " Life is great- it's all kicking off since the show, I mean I'm going on a UK tour!
"Touring nationally is a dream come true and the hard work is happening."
The comedian will be touring in 26 towns and cities across the country. He will be sharing his funny observations and stories about life, parenthood and family.
He said: "We are working on the material, there's definitely going to be a look at fatherhood – looking at what goes through a man's mind as a new dad, as well as asking some kind of serious questions.
"I'm looking forward to touring, going to places I've never been to - like Swindon, Malvern, New Brighton, places in Wales I can't even spell..."
He added: "In January, I will be 40, I told my fiancée Tiff, I believe the best years of my life will be my 40s- and it's definitely looking that way. Let's have it.!"
Tickets cost £22,95 each online and are on sale from www.cuffeandtaylor.com


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Quarter horses are reliable animals with strong nerves. That's why they're especially popular with cowboys. Quarter horses also have what's known as cow sense, which helps their riders when driving herds of cattle. Quarter horses respond to the tiniest of leg cues and if they're trained well can even be ridden without reins.
Quarter horses, Paint horses and Appaloosas are among the most popular breeds for western riding.


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Russia's Lavrov Visits Lend-Lease Monument In Alaska
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during the plenary session of the Arctic Council meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, on May 11.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during a trip to Alaska, has visited a monument to a crucial World War II program under which the United States aided the Soviet Union and other Allies.
Lavrov laid a wreath at the Lend-Lease Monument in the Alaskan capital, Fairbanks, on May 11. He was followed by Russia's ambassador to Washington, Sergei Kislyak.
They were in the U.S. state for a meeting of the Arctic Council that was also attended by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Amid ties that remain badly strained, Lavrov met with Tillerson and President Donald Trump in Washington a day earlier.
The United States sent millions of dollars' worth of aid and weapons, including warplanes, to the Soviet Union and other allies during the war through the Lend-Lease program. Soviet pilots flew the planes to Siberia from an airfield in Fairbanks.
"Being here and not to visit this memorial would have been a shame," Lavrov said in English. "We highly appreciate the way the Alaskans keep the memory of our fight against fascism during World War II alive."
The visit came two days after Russia held massive annual Victory Day celebrations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945.
In his address to a military parade on Red Square, Putin said that it was Soviet soldiers who "prevailed to bring freedom to Europe and long-awaited peace on the planet," and made no specific mention of the U.S. contribution.
Based on reporting by Alaska Dispatch News and Interfax
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Q: Difference between GetModuleHandle and including header maybe stupid question, but i dont know answer. What is difference between using GetModuleHandle or LoadLibrary to load dll(and then to use function of that dll) and to include directly desired header. For example, with using GetModuleHandle:
typedef void (WINAPI *PGNSI)(LPSYSTEM_INFO);

// Call GetNativeSystemInfo if supported or GetSystemInfo otherwise.

PGNSI pGNSI;
SYSTEM_INFO si;

ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(SYSTEM_INFO));

pGNSI = (PGNSI) GetProcAddress(
  GetModuleHandle(TEXT("kernel32.dll")),
  "GetNativeSystemInfo");
if(NULL != pGNSI)
  pGNSI(&si);  //calling function through pointer
else GetSystemInfo(&si);

But I can include windows.h header to directly call that function from my code:
#include <windows.h>

SYSTEM_INFO si;
ZeroMemory(&si, sizeof(SYSTEM_INFO));
GetNativeSystemInfo(&si);

The same applies for example to opengl32.dll, i dont know if it is better to include header file for opengl functions in my project or to use Getmodulehandle and GetProcAdress to invoke desired functions. What is the difference? Is first method with using getmodulehandle benefit in some way? Thanks for answers.

A: First, make sure you understand that GetModuleHandle and LoadLibrary are not exactly equivalent. But since that's not directly part of your question, I'll leave off a big explanation and just suggest you make sure to understand the documentation in those two links.

To use a dll function directly as if it were like any other function, you don't just include the header. In addition to the header, somewhere in your project it is being told to link against a corresponding lib file. In your example, it would be kernel32.lib. This might be done through various means, such as linker settings in the project or having a #pragma comment (lib, ...) in a file.
When a program is built like that, code is written by the compiler to load that dll when the program starts. If the dll in question cannot be found when you actually try to run the program, then it will fail with an error message. You have no way to write code to catch the failure and take some alternative action.
For dlls that are part of the operating system (like kernel32.dll) or at least typically supplied with it, this immediate loading behavior isn't an issue since you can safely assume the dll will always be there. On the other hand, if you were to build against a dll which is not typically present, then you would have more of a concern. Either you would have to make sure such a dll is distributed with your program or else somehow try to make sure the user installs whatever other package is necessary to get that dll on their system.
Also, if the dll loads but any of the functions you're trying to use from that dll don't actually exist in it, then it will immediately fail with an error message. (It doesn't wait until your program tries to call the function. It finds this discrepancy when the program starts and aborts then.) This can be an issue if different versions of the dll exist out in the world.
Now, when you use LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress, you are asking for the dll to be loaded at the time of your choosing and asking to find a particular function provided by that dll. If either of those steps fails, you have the ability to write code to deal with it in some reasonable manner.
This can be used for various purposes. For instance, you could make a plugin mechanism where the program searches for and loads plugin dlls from some particular folder on the fly. Since the program doesn't know ahead of time which plugins will be present, LoadLibrary is the only way to do this.
Another thing LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress can be used for is to load a dll and call a function from it even when you don't have the proper header and lib files. If you know the name of the dll, the name of the function, and exact signature of the function (parameter types, return type, calling convention) then you have enough to write the code to load that dll and call the function successfully. Occasionally this can be useful. For instance, it's one way that people are able to use certain "undocumented" functions provided by Windows dlls.
Lastly, LoadLibrary/GetModuleHandle/GetProcAddress can be used to let you use functionality that doesn't necessarily exist on all the operating systems you want to support. This appears to be the reason for the code snippet you have that calls either GetNativeSystemInfo or GetSystemInfo. The former is only available from WinXP/2003 on up while the latter is available on Win2000. If the code had just been written as a direct call to GetNativeSystemInfo, then the program would fail to run on Windows 2000. But instead, what you have there checks to see if GetNativeSystemInfo exists on the current operation system and only uses it if so, otherwise it falls back on the more widely supported GetSystemInfo.
So in the case of your example, which technique you choose to call that function depends on which operating systems you intend to support. If your software does not need to run on Windows 2000, then just directly calling GetNativeSystemInfo is a lot easier (and most likely the preferable way to go).

A: Some functions don't exist in older versions of Windows and when you call a function directly, that function ends up in the import table of your program. If Windows fails to find one of the functions in the import table, the program will not run at all.
In your specific example, GetNativeSystemInfo was added in Windows XP and if you call it directly then your program will not run on Windows 2000 or older.
LoadLibrary is also useful if you want to support 3rd-party plug-ins etc.

A: GetModuleHandle enables you to load dlls dynamically, what can be used for instance for implementing plug-ins or loading some resources on-demand.
Underneath, there is no difference between the two methods -- static library that you link just contains code that does dynamic linking when program starts (in C).

A: It depends, in this case I'd say its being used so that the dll/exe won't get loading errors from the windows LDR if the system(kernel32.dll etc) doesn't have exports that the binary might use, onr good example of this is the DEP functions for windows XP, which only exist in SP 2+, but its not a good idea to force a required SP, as it can cut down on the avaiable audience for the program.
OpenGL uses the same sorta principle, due to the fact one can't predict the API support (and extensions), so one must check for it, then import it or an alternative with wglGetProcAddress
Another reason, which is more 'cheap' is so that one doesn't not have to link to certain libs and include certain headers, especially if your using say only 1 function from a very large SDK, this prevents other developers wasting time tring to get the huge SDK(they ofc will need the binary contianing the export)

A: LoadLibrary and GetModulehandle both will work for the same stuff i.e; they will map the module on to the process at run time but in case of LoadLibrary it increases the reference count in the kernel perspective where as the later will not do so..


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People suffering from addiction, who often need an intervention, have trouble coming to terms with the reality of their affliction. Many do not accept that they are affected by a mental disease. Even more refuse to acknowledge the severity of the problems that their dependence on substances creates. An intervention is a tried and true method for friends and families of addicts to encourage a loved one to seek treatment, and it is important they understand all the aspect of what's an intervention.


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FleishmanHillard Grows Washington, D.C. Leadership Team
Agency Announces Strategic Additions to its Public Affairs and Social and Innovation Practices
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2018 – FleishmanHillard (FH) today announced two strategic senior additions to further deepen the company's bench of public affairs and social and innovation talent, building additional expertise and capacity across two of the agency's fast-growing practices. Geoffrey Basye joins as a senior vice president and partner in public affairs, and Jennifer Mitchell as a senior vice president in social and innovation.
Geoffrey Basye
"Geoff is a proven leader in Washington, D.C. and will bring great value to our clients. His insights and political acumen make him a highly sought-after counselor," said Robert Hoopes, general manager of FleishmanHillard's Washington, D.C. office. "Jennifer has had a remarkable career leading social and innovation and will help lead work across our office and network on behalf of our clients. These are two great storytellers joining the FH team and we're so excited to have them here."
Basye will be working across the global public affairs practice to provide clients with strategic counsel in crisis communications, litigation issues and high-profile risk and external affairs programs. He brings a depth of experience in public affairs and media relations through his prior work with Fortune 25 companies and in multiple capacities within the public sector, including as a White House political appointee and spokesperson for the nation's top aviation agency.
"I am thrilled to join such an accomplished, talented team to work on clients across FleishmanHillard's global network," Basye said. "The firm is at the forefront of the industry when it comes to helping companies and public-sector organizations tackle their biggest reputational challenges, and I look forward to adding my experience to the firm's strategic communications capabilities."
In Mitchell's new role, she will help to lead the growing Washington, D.C. hub of the global social and innovation practice and will focus on providing clients with strategic counsel and cutting-edge strategies to foster and protect relationships with their most important audiences. Mitchell has deep social, digital and crisis expertise across a variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, retail, hospitality and education. Most recently, she was the director of social media at MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas.
"FleishmanHillard is an innovator in social media, and I am thrilled to contribute my expertise to further grow the firm's social practice here in D.C.," Mitchell said. "The digital space is rapidly expanding and evolving, and I'm looking forward to helping the office and firm navigate these changes, bringing solutions and strategies to our clients."


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AKA: パルムの樹, Palme no Ki
Genre: Sci-fi / fantasy adventure
Length: Movie, 136 minutes
Distributor: R1 DVD from ADV Films
Content Rating: 14+ (violence, blood, some adult themes)
Also Recommended: Akira, Angel's Egg, Metropolis
Notes: This review is based on a screener copy from ADV Films. Thanks, guys!
A Tree of Palme
(from the box copy)
When a mysterious woman gives Palme (an apathetic robot made from the sacred kuroop tree) the Egg of Touto and charges him with a crusade which has put the fate of the world into his hands, a journey of rebirth and discovery unfolds.
Chased by a mysterious group of mercenaries, Palme teams up with a band of misfits only to discover the complexity of the human condition and what it truly means "to be alive."
Throughout this release, much is made of its creator, Nakamura Takashi, and his status as chief animation director of ... what was that film, again? Akira, was it? Yeah. Never heard of it.
Okay, obviously, that was a fairly lame attempt at a joke, but all frivolity aside, A Tree of Palme is essentially Akira set in a children's surrealist dream world. If you've seen Akira, then you have an idea of what to expect, with a few cosmetic changes. Instead of pulsating flesh, you've got wildly sprouting plants. Instead of rowdy, violent teenagers, you've got rowdy, violent street-kids. Instead of the postapocalyptic wasteland of Neo-Tokyo, you've got a wasteland sparsely populated with wacky trees (kinda sorta like that other seminal anime film, Nausicaa). Oh, yeah, and there's the whole bit about the glowing blue pendant, because, you know, anime has never been fond of those.
There are, however, some things about this film that, to put it simply, just don't work for me. Palme's character design very actively brings to mind Pinocchio, but Disney's Geppetto hardly shares the same sad fate as Palme's creator. In fact, the very cartoony character designs really don't mesh with the often violent and bloody content within. Metropolis managed to get away with it, due to the setting, but Tree of Palme just can't manage to reconcile visual style with content throughout most of the film. The effect is jarring at best and grotesque at worst.
If the character work had been stellar, then Tree of Palme might have had a chance to truly shine, but the writing simply fails the actors here. Palme (played bravely by Hiramatsu Akiko in the sub) is put through ham-handed scenes of "character development" that feel more like drug-induced mood swings than actual development, and there are points in this film that his actions are downright creepy. None of the other characters really advances beyond archetypal status and all of them feel less like characters than plot devices or allegories.
For all the plot devices used in this film, the story is simultaneously too long and insufficient for the bounds of its subject matter. Too much time is taken ruminating on simplistic character scenes, or basking in the admittedly intriguing world design, while too little is taken on developing the characters into something we should care about. It's really too bad ... this could've been a series of movies, or maybe an OAV series, but as a single movie, it's just all a bit much.
What's a real shame is that the art and animation are mostly quite good. While the character designs are simplistic and reminiscent of children's film, the visuals are often stunningly beautiful and quite interesting. Unfortunately, the creators seem a bit too taken with their own work, and plot often takes a back seat to lovingly created scenery shots. It's almost as if the creators forgot this was a movie, not a travelogue.
The one aspect of this film that really nags me is its intended audience. The concepts brought up in this film are simply too complex and too heavy for younger audiences, but the character designs and some of the scenes with the street kids are obviously not meant for older audiences. Tree of Palme simply can't decide who it's for, and therefore it just comes off as half-hearted. Nakamura and his team simply should have gone with either a more simplistic children's tale, or a darker psychological drama, rather than playing at both.
It would not be fair to say this movie is bad. There are far too many skilled elements here for this movie to be completely ignored, especially as a piece of art. Unfortunately, with its stammering, stuttering plot and its thin characterization, Tree of Palme seems more effective as an artistic showcase than as an actual film.
For all that this film is beautiful and interesting, it is also confusingly conceived and plotted. Those who don't mind thin characterization and serious pacing issues may add a star, but those who need more than just imagery may want to rent something else. — Carlos Ross
Recommended Audience: There is a surprising amount of violence in this film, and there are several very bloody scenes. There is also a scene of vaguely implied pedophilia on the part of one very minor character, though thankfully nothing comes of it. Even excepting this, there is quite a bit of peril aimed at children, and I can not recommend this for younger audiences, despite the cutesy character designs.
Version(s) Viewed: R1 DVD, bilingual
A Tree of Palme © 2002 Nakamura Takashi / Genco / Tree of Palme Production Committee


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"God Control" thread. Video OUT NOW!!!
By SabihaSultan
jamesshot
Interests: Music, movies, traveling
Papa Don't Preach
22 minutes ago, Ai Papi Si. said:
@jamesshot @Amelia The views aren't higher because Madonna is not relevant like that anymore. I know, sounds reductive to just flatly claim that, but it's just the truth. I don't mean this to be derisive or mean regarding your desire to see Madonna go viral like that (who knows, the video may have legs). But I think some of us just need to accept that this is her career now. Someone else in another thread summed up Madonna's challenge perfectly. She is too old in age for the young kids to get into, but she is also making music that is too "youthful" and experimental for older generations to get into. There's not much of a place for her.
So for really provocative videos like this, people may have interest for a split second but it doesn't mean much when she's not Beyonce or Ariana Grande. She got the much welcomed positive press from the video, and she took a big risk putting it out. I know that's not enough for some. But after MDNA and Rebel Heart semi bellyflopped and the RH tour sold barely half of the MDNA Tour, I think we should have all been prepared for this new phase. It's weird when I see ppl in other threads pleading for Madonna to collaborate with Ariana Grande or some other young star. I mean... she has done that, time and time again. Every album since Confessions has featured some version of that, and each album has done worse than the last . Maluma is a massively popular artist in the Americas. Look how far it got her?
Madonna's more Bowie/Prince than Bruce Springsteen or Whitney Houston. That's just where she is now. Let's all take pride in that.
Yeah, I accepted long ago her days of hits and all were over. I understand how disappointed others get when something like the GC vid isn't higher in views, like BIM was. She doesn't need to be successful for me to enjoy her.
Then again, I would never count her out.
Ai Papi Si.
Location: VEGAS
2 minutes ago, Amelia said:
I think you've lost the point I was making. I was simply pointing out that I'm just surprised she didn't have more views since it was getting heavy media coverage. That's all! I'm totally aware and have "accepted" that she isn't going to sell/stream like the younger acts. I would have thought (love or hater her) with the media exposure she's been getting with this, she would have had more views by now.
No you're right, I mostly went off on a tangent. I know what you meant. But I was just kind of thinking out loud as to why it may be this way.
Guest Amelia aka Neutrocks
3 minutes ago, Ai Papi Si. said:
No prob. I was thinking out loud. Ha! We all love her and I just thought a video like this would gain far more views being the subject content is quite controversial. Maybe it will grow over time? But like @jamesshot, I've totally accepted that she's beyond scoring big hits, etc. And I get it's pretty much an age factor because a handful of her past singles would have been huge hits if she was younger.
headonfire
The video has got loads of good press, both in print and TV, and she definitely got people talking about such an important topic, which is exactly the intention of the song/video. On top of that, we got a visually and aesthetically outstanding video, so it's a win win situation for M and us fans.
This era has been one hell of a ride, and a complete creative peak for our M, and I couldn't be happier as fan to still be witnessing all her brilliance. Madonna is Madonna and she will forever be right at the top with the greatest. Her work and achievements will never be erased.
More views would be nice! If she still got a hit here or there would be great too. But the main thing is that we don't let the competitiveness of stan culture get in the way of our enjoyment of M's work.
1 minute ago, Amelia said:
It is very possible and even likely this video will have legs and grow steadily. Sadly, any time there is a mass shooting, this video will likely be viewed a lot more.
ErGallo
I'll Remember
And here I thought the views were great by her standards.
I don't know if would have mattered or made a difference to released this before dropping the album. The people that were going to be excited about the album were probably the same, the fans!
Anyways... if anything by releasing it now might help the album to be notice a bit more by the casual listener and help with its sales (or streaming)... If they didn't know she had an album out, they now know!. Don't know if I make any sense with my English...
I'm just happy to be part of another great era and enjoying the ride.
AMAZING the video.
I'm pretty sure the fact the video is 8 minutes long has an effect on the number of views...
johndvd25
I'm obsessed with the video, the album, the era. i'm trying to digest slowly with everything thats happening. I don't want this era to end. Enjoying the ride while it last. I want more!
Location: Bx, NY
On 6/26/2019 at 5:39 PM, reQuiem4adream said:
One of her MVs from this album should win a Grammy's award!
If category eligible they should throw her in for an Grammys, Emmy, MTV and world affiliates, MuchMusic, BB, IHeart , Webby and more! Her era visuals are amazing, opulent, and bars above most things out ( most bc I can't claim to have seen everything). !
CalinB
Interests: Music, Movies, Politics
Sky Fits Heaven, Crave
reQuiem4adream
Interests: Lots of ass eating, then kissing, ass to mouth, juicing, licking cummy holes, slurping up cum and cum kissing.
The Power of Good-Bye
what happens to longer attention span these days?
This video is being seen by a cross section as one of the best of the year. It is making an impact, official views or not. This will continue to grow as more hear about it.
yes, me too. And same with medellin and that first minute before the song starts
But you don't have to watch the whole thing to count as a view, do you?
And I don't watch other stars videos. I just can't be bothered. Sign of the times.
Je5u5
Interests: Music. Pop. Movies. Audiovisual media. Reading. Coaching. Languages. Travelling. Chihuahuas.
16 minutes ago, jonski43 said:
30 seconds and it counts.
I'm pretty sure Taylor and Ariana fans are aware of this btw.
Yeah I know it's 30 seconds. But my point is, let's say you watch it once but you're not the biggest Madonna fan. Are you going to watch it again? Not so sure about it. Or maybe yes. I don't know.
MLVC82
I'm not sure if you are aware or not...but a whole new generation of younger people have been raving about this era...and about Madame X in general around the world on all social media....
They are slowly starting to discover the BRILLIANCE of QUEEN MADONNA's epic catalogue and are in awe........and the tide is starting to shift again......
in terms of MADONNA and us long time fans....she is GIVING US EVERTHANG we've been complaining about, begging/asking for ...for years!!!! everything.....you wanted video's? she's giving you 4 EPIC one's already...you wanted dance? she gave it to you...you wanted looks? she gave you that? fierceness? yes.....promotion? TONS! performances? yup. PR? on point.......social media focusing on her and her music again? YES!
It's a INCREDIBLE time to be a fan.......so STOP BEING SO FUCKING NEGATIVE!!!!!! and enjoy it!
dcbyebyebaby
5 hours ago, jonski43 said:
Long videos with intros and pauses in the middle always are viewed less. See God Is a Woman or Havana music videos. Although thats usually in the long run but im sure some people are put off by the 9 minutes and wont even bother
The video doesn't have much replay value just alternating shots of her typing and dead bodies at a club.
Musicinferno
29 minutes ago, rocknrolla said:
You´re trolling obviously. Or haven´t watched the video.
1 hour ago, rocknrolla said:
What a halfwitted comment.
Guest eroticerotic
I think it was a well done video. Could have been a mini film , giving a few characters some backstory to make it that much more real
2 hours ago, rocknrolla said:
Plus a whole two minutes of dancing in club...
side_streets
Location: Serbia
Interests: Literature, movies, music, politics
Madonna seems to be the worst human ever.
frzndrwnwrld
Love Profusion
16 minutes ago, side_streets said:
Alright. Time for Interscope to recall Madame X and remove her from I Rise.
1 minute ago, frzndrwnwrld said:
Her statement looks awkward and uninformed.
6 minutes ago, side_streets said:
I agree. I don't like it when people saying something sucks or something is horrible with no context.
strictmachine
Interests: Food, drink, and fitness. And travel.
1 minute ago, side_streets said:
Uninformed?


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Day Sixty: Morning Me vs. Evening Me
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Morning Me doesn't like Evening Me very much. But the feeling is mutual. It's a Goofus and Gallant relationship.
Morning Me says "I have a plan and I'm going to stick to it!"
Evening Me says "Screw it, let's eat cookies."
Morning Me says "Let's exercise and practice good habits!"
Evening Me says "Kid, you have no idea how the world works. It's been a day. Cookies."
Evening Me is not a bad guy, but Morning Me writes this blog, and is a little tired of waking up every morning and dealing with his shit.
I'm not sure what keeps Morning Me and Evening Me from communicating effectively; I think it's Mid-Afternoon Oh God I'm Tired Me that is the… anti-bridge? Chasm? between the two. Mid-Afternoon Oh God I'm Tired Me is the 2-3 p.m. existential crisis that befalls me in a workday. Upon reflection, I believe it is the Jekyll/Hyde moment that heralds the transformation from Morning Me to Evening Me.
Morning Me vs. Evening Me is an afternoon battle
Upon reflection, I think that's where the battle might be fought. I often think that siesta cultures sound… good. The idea of recharging in the mid-day so you can not be tired in the late afternoon and evening is a delightful concept. But then again, it's not like the siesta countries are the happiest and most world-beating nations around, so it doesn't look like siestas make things better or worse on a broad scale.
It's an interesting thought, though: that it's not a Morning Me versus Evening Me issue, but an afternoon problem that manifests later in the day. I'll have to noodle that around a little and see what comes of it.
In the interim, I need to keep telling Evening Me about favours for your future self. I think that might be language that tired, kind of myopic dude understands.
Day Fifty-Nine: Okay, Not Obsessing Is Kind of Hard
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Okay, you know how I had this whole weighing myself strategy? The daily "just a number" thing that I'm supposed to put out of my mind and not worry about?
Yeah. That's harder than I thought.
I've been doing the weighing, which is stellar, and pats on the back for me. But the "fuggedaboutit" part of that weighing is not going as it should.
Folks, I am obsessing a bit. Just a bit.
Obsessing is kind of a default state.
Stuff gets in my head. I've lost sleep over irate Facebook comments. Imagined arguments that I haven't had yet and probably never will, prey on me. I get head-loops of stuff all the time that are hard to shake.
So I should have known that this weight thing would not be as "fire and forget" as I set it up to be.
I'm going to persist; I don't have any other ideas or better plans.
But I'm checking in to let you know that it's not as easy to do the "just a number, forget it" thing as I thought it might be. I thought with that setup, I'd be poised to just log and disregard. I underestimated my brain's ability to latch on.
While we're on the subject of things that aren't going perfectly, I've been slipping on the check-outs, too. They've become perfunctory rather than moments of focus.
So: some things to work on. It's like the old "don't think of an elephant" thing — focusing on putting something out of my head feels counterproductive. But I need to work on it. So I guess I'll… un-work on it? Huh?
Day Fifty-Eight: Overloading
Okay, I know I'm overloading, taking on too much, right now. But I also know that I'm doing it within a limited window.
Here's the thing — I think, and I know I'm abusing this term, but I think I'm a leeeetle bit manic-depressive. I definitely swing into cycles of high activity and productivity followed by lulls. The lulls usually accompanied by moroseness. So I've learned over decades to kind of manage this and not let the high phases write checks that my lull-phase ass can't cash.
But I'm moving into a small window of time where a lot of my volunteer commitments are converging. And it's in my nature to try to excel at certain things. Among other things, I'm going over the top for our upcoming radio station funding drive. I mean, check this out:
That's pretty cool, yeah?
But among other things, I have to now print and frame photos of our cat, write some terrible songs, and down the line go to peoples' homes and make waffles. I enjoy all of these things. But they're commitments. I'm also helping set up and promote for some of the funding drive events. And manning the phones for a couple of shifts. And making breakfast for some volunteers one Saturday morning.
Overloading is no excuse
It's going to be a lot… a fun lot, but still a lot. So I need to manage my time very carefully from now til the end of March. It's important not to let this stuff excuse me from exercise, or to let myself stress-eat because I've gotten myself in an overloading pickle.
I'm also going to have to be firm on other commitments, including fun ones — saying no to things until I'm over this particular hump. I hate saying no! I'm very bad at it. Mind you, I'm also bad at saying yes to things too. I guess I'm just not very good at saying things.
At any rate, now's the time to both buckle down and get self-aware about the consequences I'm lining up from overloading. I'm excited about these projects. I just need to be careful about managing them.
Day Fifty-Seven: Younger People
I had an amazing time at a LAN party on Saturday, with a bunch of younger people, by about 10-15 years. This was a bit of a hang-up for me. I tried not to let it get in the way, but man, getting older is a bit less fun sometimes.
This is, by the way, entirely my bad head. They were great. No fun was made and nobody was, like, mean or anything. I just have a complex about being older than people when I'm around people who are, well, younger.
Part of the issue is having younger hobbies, which in turn relates to not having kids. My wife and I are child-free. We're absolutely for kids. Love 'em. Go ahead and have 'em. But we've chosen not to. And for that reason, we tend to hang out with other people who don't have kids, and those people tend to be younger.
I'm also really interested in stuff that keeps me youthful, relatively speaking. Video games. Audio production. New music. This all keeps me current, in a way. As opposed to whittling and hitting hoops with sticks, or whatever.
Younger people are awesome.
And I like people in their 20s. They're energetic and engaged and exploring. Nothing irritates me more than the now-typical people my age (40s) going on about millennials this and millennials that. It's an age-old thing. Plato was doing it. The kids are all right.
But none of this keeps me from getting all into my own head and feeling old when I'm around younger people. Which is, again, entirely all in my own head.
No solution to this; observing it will hopefully be enough to inspire awareness, and ideally change.
Day Fifty-Six: Weight Loss Rates
It's a pretty garbagey Internet, when you look at it. Content marketing has a lot to answer for; literal hordes of people generating whatever (especially on reasonably popular questions like weight loss rates) at about one cent a word to populate blogs to drive advertising.
So I'll take the Centers for Disease Control as the most authoritative source on weight loss rates: losing 1-2 pounds a week steadily is the most successful way to control weight loss. And the general advice that this is a lifestyle thing, not a temporary "diet" thing, is good too.
Weight loss rates index to lifestyle changes
"Lifestyle change" is hard, though. So I'm looking at daily weighing as a kind of motivator for that. Hopefully — if all goes as planned — the "forget about it number" will just be a kind of second check-in in the morning.
I had a great time at a LAN party yesterday — more on that tomorrow — but man, there was a lot of bad food and some not-great food decisions. I slipped into the old habit of justifying bad food with not drinking. Again, lifestyle change is hard.
So the aim now is 1-2 pounds a week, stably, for the medium term.
And that's about it for weighing — time to return to random topics for a bit.
Time for the weigh-in!
Day Fifty-Five: How to Weigh Yourself
Continuing on this quest for perfect weighing:
Essentially: the same time, every day, as naked as possible.
That's really about it.
Obviously, your level of nakedness will depend on where you are when you do it (and your level of comfort). But you want consistent circumstances; for me, that tends to be first thing in the morning, right before showering. I might switch that up to "right after I get out of bed", because that's the absolutely most consistent time.
The daily weighing, weekly averaging should take care of fluctuations from there.
Saturday mornings are actually kind of weird for me, because it feels like it should be a lazy weekend morning. But due to the radio show, I actually leave the house about 40 minutes earlier than I do on weekdays, so I have less time than usual. So Saturday is my exercise break day, but I'm still going to try to weigh myself.
Day Fifty-Four: When to Weigh
When to weigh? I'm talking frequency here, not time of day — that might be tomorrow.
I'm coming from a place where I refused to weigh myself at all because it's kind of a bullshit metric for health. Which I maintain is true… your weight isn't an indicator of how healthy you are. I know a lot of guys that are skinnier than me whose asses I could kick by most metrics. I can run 5k in under 25 minutes, and sustain mixed cardio for 30. Neither of these things are Crossfit God stuff, but better than most folks can do.
So I'm not hung up on weight as a number as a perfect indicator of fitness.
That being said, it's a metric, and as I said yesterday, I kind of need something that I can hang progress on. The whole "feel-look" thing doesn't quite do it for me after fifty-plus days, so I'm looking for an actual number that I can hang my hat on. And as much as I hate it, weight does that.
When to weigh? Daily.
So here's my daily weight. Again, public accountability. I'm going to add it to the main menu as well. The sheet will track weight, exercise, and an every-Sunday average.
Why the every-Sunday average? So I don't make myself crazy with the daily weigh-in. I think it'd make me nuts to do it every day and take it super seriously.
There are two broad schools of thought (other than "don't weigh): weigh daily, for maximum knowledge, or weigh weekly, to reduce stress. The current science seems to say daily weighing is most effective. Or, y'know, not, depending. It's a mess.
But the compromise I've come to, which makes sense, is to weigh myself daily and try to put that out of my mind entirely. It's just a number. Weight fluctuates, depending on what's been going on with a bunch of stuff. Fuggedabout it. Log it and move on.
What I want to pay attention to is the weekly average, and the trendlines.
This way, I hopefully won't make myself crazy with the daily weight, but I won't be staking everything on a weekly weigh-in, either.
Day Fifty-Three: Weighing Myself
I haven't been weighing myself. "Weighing yourself is bullshit!" I proudly proclaimed to my wife, at the start of the year. "It's just a number! I choose to measure myself on how I look, and how I feel!"
Folks, it's the end of February. It's time to start weighing myself.
Now don't get me wrong — I still think it's a bullshit metric. But it's a metric, and frankly, I don't think I look or feel much fitter than I did at the start of January. Maybe, hopefully, there are some big changes going on inside me, what with the not drinking and not eating as much junk.
Weighing myself versus "feeling different"
Part of it is weight gives me a number that I can look back to. I feel the way I feel, all the time. There's no way to feel other than how you're feeling in the moment. It's hard to remember feelings the same way you can look at a number.
So maybe I feel a whole lot better now than I did in January. But short of keeping diaries — which is a good idea, and I'm all for it, but it's not something I'm doing — I don't have an easily referenced record of feelings.
Therefore, I'm reluctantly reversing my position on weighing myself. But I want to weigh myself right, if you know what I mean.
Over the next few days, I'm going to look into the science of weighing oneself. How often? What time of day? Clothed or unclothed? If I'm going to badger myself into doing it, I might as well badger myself into doing it right.
I still think it's kind of bullshit. It's possible to lose all kind of weight and be super unhealthy. I mean, heroin is a thing, am I right? But I'm feeling like having some sort of external tracking motivator would be good for me, and that's the most convenient option on the table.
201.2 pounds, incidentally.
Day Fifty-Two: I Hate Yoga
Maybe "hate" is too strong a word, but I strongly disfavour yoga.
Because I am bad at it.
And it makes me feel bad.
Yoga is one of those things in the unattainable category for me: I tried yoga at many points in the past, but have more or less written it off. I don't have the time, or the inclination.
I especially don't have the flexibility.
"Anyone can do yoga!" say people who have never seen me attempt yoga. On the surface, I look yoga-capable: I have the standard number of appendages, I'm a bit overweight but not obese, I'm capable of a full range of motion.
But I am not flexible.
I am inflexible.
I am anti-flexible.
My body has the inverse flexibility required to do yoga.
I hate yoga, and I need to be okay with it.
I tried yoga this morning — again. It was a humiliating half-hour of being reminded of my stretching limits and how absolutely terrible they are.
And I think I need to get to a place where it's okay to hate yoga. It's an aspiration I've failed at many times and at some point I'll have to let go of. I don't intend to, like, swear I'll never do it — people get into stuff later in life — but I need to not feel bad that I'm bad at yoga.
"And what," says my stupid internal dialogue, "what if this is just the realization you require in order to free your mind for yoga, grasshopper?"
"Shut up, internal dialogue," says my external dialogue.
I think most people have a yoga. An aspirational thing you think you should be doing and you think your life would be better if you did. But you can't. For time reasons, money reasons, family reasons.
You can't eat all the squirrels. Uncle Rodney said that before he was taken away and we never spoke of him again. I guess yoga is one squirrel I'll probably never eat, and I have to be fine with that.
Day Fifty-One: Return to Routine
A return to routine. It's great to be away, but it's also great to be home. As much as we planned for the weekend, and managed to stick more or less to those plans, it's still more of a 'controlled fail' than a raging success.
So it's good to be home, because this is where the real work happens.
The long weekend in a nutshell:
Sobriety: 100%
Exercise: 50%
Diet: 50%
…the latter two meaning that there was a lot of walking on Saturday and Sunday, but not enough on Monday. Similarly, food was well planned for Saturday and Sunday, but kind of fell apart a bit on Monday. We planned for the time away, but not for the return home.
My wife is a big fan of Frugalwoods, and one of their axioms is to always have several meals ready to go in the freezer. We're doing something similar, with the additional twist that we're actually calculating calories for recipes and storing those, so we can freeze portions and easily call back what they do for us in terms of diet.
My gut says I still need to focus harder on food — ha ha — for the next while. It's not hard but it does require rigour, which isn't always my forte.
So I'm back!
Return to routine is a return to ambition
Being a bit rested and refreshed also helps me reset my sights on the goals I set a while back. It's easy to set goals, hard to achieve them. But even maintaining a passion for them can be difficult. I'll happily take a weekend of diet and exercise setbacks if it's an isolated thing. I planned for it, I granted myself permission, and now I feel like I can really bear back down on what I want. Let's go.
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