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Safe Patient Handling
WNYCOSH Worker Center
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Fight the Rollback of Child Labor Protections for Young Workers in Healthcare
The Department of Labor and Congressional Leaders Need to Hear from Us!
The Trump Administration, in their zeal to deregulate, is proposing to repeal a Department of Labor policy that protects young workers and their patients from getting injured in nursing homes and health care facilities.
This repeal would allow 16- and 17-year-old workers to operate powered patient lifting devices by themselves, with no assistance from an adult worker. These lifts are used to transfer, reposition patients who cannot lift themselves (out of a bed, chair, or off the floor). This common-sense policy of requiring a young worker to be paired with an adult 18 or older was put into place in 2011, and was based on an analysis conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH concluded that 16- and 17- year-olds cannot safely operate power driven hoists to lift and transfer patients by themselves. Further, NIOSH found that most 16 -and 17- year old youths do not have the ability to properly assess the risks associated with using these power driven lifts, which could endanger their safety and the safety of their patients.
However, with no new data or risk analysis, the Administration, under the guise of expanding employment opportunities for young workers, is proposing to roll back child labor protections. The nursing home industry has the highest rate of injuries and illnesses of any industry in the US, and allowing 16- and 17-year-old nursing assistants to operate mechanical lifts without adult assistance would lead to more painful and potentially debilitating injuries to young nursing home workers, who lack sufficient experience and training to handle the challenging task of transferring residents with complex physical and mental disabilities.
We must fight back! The Administration's true concern is deregulation and scoring points with big industry, leaving workers, including young vulnerable workers with needed child labor protections. The deadline for comments is November 26, 2018. The DOL and our elected representatives must hear from us – we must urge the DOL to abandon this new proposal, and instead to codify the current enforcement policy that allows a trained 16-17 year-old to use patient lifts when they are assisting a worker 18 or older.
We are asking you to take action!
Send a postcard, letter/email (sample letter here), or call your congressperson to seek their support in pushing back on this proposed rule change. See attached draft letter/email, along with a contact list for the NYS delegation. If you are not sure who your congressperson is, check here. If you would like some postcards, contact sdonovan@wnycosh.org. (Note: you will need to put a stamp on the postcard!)
Write comments (need to be submitted by November 26, 2018) to the USDOL to oppose this proposed change to the child labor laws. Comments need not be long; you can use the template letter or our sample content below and add some of your own thoughts and concerns. Comment here.
Get co-workers and others to support this effort! Give them info to contact the DOL/congressperson to voice their disapproval of this proposed change.
Find your Representative's Contact Information Below
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Address: 478 Russell, Washington, DC 20510
Senator Charles Schumer
Address: 322 Hart State Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
1st District: Lee Zeldin (R)
Address: 1517 LHOB, Washington, DC 20515
2nd District: Peter King (R)
Address: 339 CHOB, Washington, DC 20515
3rd District: Thomas Suozzi (D)
4th District: Kathleen Rice (D)
5th District: Gregory W. Meeks (D)
Address: 2234 RHOB, Washington, DC 20515
6th District: Grace Meng (D)
7th District: Nydia M. Velázquez (D)
8th District: Hakeem Jeffries (D)
9th District: Yvette D. Clarke (D)
10th District: Jerrold Nadler (D)
11th District: Daniel Donovan (R)
12th District: Carolyn Maloney (D)
13th District: Adriano Espaillat (D)
14th District: Joseph Crowley (D)
15th District: Jose E. Serrano (D)
16th District: Eliot L. Engel (D)
Address: 2462 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515
17th District: Nita Lowey (D)
18th District: Sean Patrick Maloney (D)
19th District: John Faso (R)
20th District: Paul D. Tonko (D)
21st District: Elise Stefanik (R)
22nd District: Claudia Tenney (R)
23rd District: Tom Reed (R)
24th District: John Katko (R)
25th District: Vacant, contact Sens. Schumer and/or Gillibrand
Email: Schumer and/or Gillibrand (see above)
26th District: Brian Higgins (D)
27th District: Chris Collins (R)
SAMPLE CALL SCRIPT
Feel free to add details from your own experiences.
Hello, my name is . I am a constituent of Rep./Sen. . I am calling today about the Department of Labor's proposed change to Hazardous Occupation Orders #7 (HO7) that would allow healthcare workers under 18 years of age to operate patient lift devices without the assistance of an employee who is at least 18 years of age. This change would put workers AND patients at risk, and I urge Rep./Sen. to tell the Department of Labor not to change the rule. Thank you.
SAMPLE COMMENT
I am very concerned with the proposed revision to Hazardous Occupation Orders #7 (HO7), which would allow healthcare workers under 18 years of age to operate power-driven patient lift devices without the assistance of another employee who is at least 18 years of age.
To properly move, reposition, or transport a patient who is in frail or dependent condition requires the skills of a trained, adult worker who has thoroughly assessed a patient's current condition, as it can change rapidly. NIOSH's 2010 review noted that "the physical demands associated with operating…lifting devices are likely to exceed the maximum recommended strength requirements for many 16- and 17-year olds". Young workers often underestimate their own limits, and may not seek assistance when working in busy healthcare facilities, out of view from more experienced staff. I urge you to reconsider this revision, which would affect both young worker and patient safety protections.
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There is so much to see ! One particularly special place is Wilson's Lake !
The Nova Scotia Nature Trust owns it !
The Wilsons Lake shoreline habitat is critical to four of those endangered plant species: Pink Coreopsis, Plymouth Gentian, Water Pennywort and Longs Bulrush .
All four plants are found only in Nova Scotia and only on a small number of lakes.


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Field Hospital Opens, Receives Patients in Italy
March 21, 2020 • Italy
Samaritan's Purse is receiving coronavirus patients at our Emergency Field Hospital in Italy.
The Samaritan's Purse disaster response team is treating patients with coronavirus outside Milan.
Update: Go here for the latest article (as of March 23) on our Italy response: "Faith on the Front Lines of Coronavirus." You may also want to see our COVID-19 landing page for additional, updated content, including material related to our New York City deployment.
Medical staff at the Samaritan's Purse Emergency Field Hospital in Cremona, Italy, are now caring for multiple coronavirus patients in intensive care. The mobile medical facility was airlifted to Italy on March 17 and opened March 20 after being fine-tuned into a specialized respiratory care unit for those suffering with COVID-19.
Local officials and Samaritan's Purse staff join in a dedication ceremony.
Members of our disaster response team and local officials–including the mayor of Cremona, the director of Cremona Hospital, the regional minister of health, and Italian media outlets–gathered early in the morning on March 20 to dedicate the hospital to the community and to the Lord.
"Lombardy is leaving a dark period. You are a bright light—the first bright light in our dark sky," said Giulio Gallera, the minister of health for the Lombardy region.
The field hospital was built in less than 36 hours through the efforts of about 30 Samaritan's Purse disaster response staff, soldiers with the Italian Air Force, and volunteers for the Lombardy Region Civil Protection force. We opened on March 20 with eight ventilator-equipped ICU beds, 20 general care beds, a lab, and a pharmacy–all housed among eight tents that stretch across the Cremona Hospital parking lot.
"You are…the first bright light in our dark sky."
A second airlift on March 21 by the Samaritan's Purse DC-8 jet delivered another supply load to complete the 14-tent, 68-bed field hospital in Cremona, which lies just outside Milan in the hard-hit Lombardy region of Italy. A nearly 70-member team comprised of doctors; nurses; biomedical and lab technicians; electricians; and water, sanitation and hygiene specialists all are on the ground this weekend.
"Everyone's incredibly dedicated," said Kelly Suter, medical director of the Italy COVID-19 response. "Everyone has been working around the clock, getting things done, filling in wherever they can. We're all motivated by a desire to love like Jesus loves, to be His hands and feet and to be the miracle in darkness."
Giulio Gallera (left), Lombardy Minister of Health, and Gianluca Galimberti, Mayor of Cremona, tour our medical facility.
More than a quarter of Cremona's 72,000-person population is over 65, and the city has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the globe. In recent weeks, Cremona Hospital has been so overwhelmed with an influx of COVID-19 patients from the surrounding region that it had to stop all other medical services, except for pediatrics and maternity. It, like many healthcare facilities around the world, currently faces a shortage of ventilators and even healthcare workers, as they themselves succumb to the infectious respiratory disease.
To date, none of the critical COVID-19 patients at Cremona Hospital have survived. Every day the hospital staff and community residents are feeling the physical and emotional strain. Our respiratory care unit will provide much needed support to the hospital, which will provide the initial screening, triage, and testing before sending patients into our care.
"They are supporting us significantly; this is very much a joint effort," Suter said.
When we arrived, our team was told that with the entire country of Italy facing a daunting number of coronavirus cases, Cremona itself felt abandoned in the midst of it all. When local health authorities found out we were coming, they told Suter that they felt like their prayers had been answered. The Lombardy region has so far reported over 3,400 deaths related to the novel coronavirus, well more than half of Italy's grim total.
For local Cremona resident Lara Raffaini, a social worker, daily life in Cremona has changed drastically since the beginning of March when the first cases of COVID-19 began spreading among residents there. The streets of the city – birthplace of renowned luthier Antonio Stradivari–now echo with seemingly ever-present ambulance sirens and an occasional passing car, rather than the soaring strains of violin strings.
"In this silence, this is not life," Raffaini said. "This is very, very sad."
Samaritan's Purse is receiving coronavirus patients at our Emergency Field Hospital in Italy.
In the face of all this, Raffaini said that for many Italians–who thrive on social interaction and typically greet each other with a kiss on the cheek–"This I think is affecting the psychological part of ourselves because we started to understand that being together, being close, was a danger for our lives."
That's why the crucial support provided by the Samaritan's Purse field hospital "is a hope point in this moment for our city," Raffaini said. "I think that if you want to overcome the sadness that you have inside, the first thing that you have to feel is that you are not alone."
Hundreds are dying each day in northern Italy, and the country's death toll—now nearly 5,500—has far surpassed China's as the highest in the world. So, from Suter's perspective, the hospital opening could not have come at a better time.
"We're all celebrating this opening together, and it can't come at a better time," Suter said. "Hopefully with our support, the support of many others and of course the grace of God, these numbers will start decreasing."
Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.—Deuteronomy 31:6
UPDATE March 21/22: A second Samaritan's Purse airlift arrived in Milan, Italy, from Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sat. March 21. The additional staff and equipment/materials aboard the DC-8 complete the 60-plus-member disaster response team and fill out the full Emergency Field Hospital.
This article was originally published on March 20 and new content (top video, etc) was added March 21. Numbers remaining throughout article only updated as of March 22 evening.
Emergency Medicine Your gift will enable Samaritan's Purse to provide life-saving medical care (including doctors, nurses, respirators, and other essential equipment) in places where vulnerable communities are suffering in the wake of disaster or from outbreaks of infectious diseases like COVID-19. We also offer public health outreaches to prevent the spread of life-threatening illnesses. Most importantly, we are able to bring the Gospel message of eternal hope to those who are suffering and afraid.
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It is apparent that still there is a great demand for the analog surveillance systems. Though the system is cost effective, the analog systems are still being used for many surveillance applications. It is true that the IP systems are more advanced than the analog systems. In earlier analog systems, the videos were recorded and stored in tapes which itself has many limitations. Now with the introduction of DVRs, a new way of managing the videos has taken place. In reality, DVR or digital video recorder convert analog signals to digital and it allows to view and manage the videos in digital format. DVR is a good solution for those who wish to view the videos in a digital format by staying with the analog systems itself.
CCTV Dubai is devoted to delivering the most reliable and cost effective CCTV security solutions in Dubai, UAE. As a trusted CCTV service provider in Dubai, our pledge is to take the responsibility for what we are delivering. At CCTV Dubai, we know firsthand what it takes to make a successful implementation with the leading products. Having implemented various CCTV security system in Dubai, we understand that the best solution can be achieved with trusted products. We pride ourselves in providing the right service with the Bosch security systems to meet the client requirements. Bosh DVR makes it possible for you to manage and view the videos in a way you wanted.
Bosch DVRs are available in varied models with their own features. It offers high definition 960H real time recording. The DVR is competitive and has HDMI ports and VGA Ports (in some model). It supports mobile devices operating on both IOS and Android operating systems. It has the network function for remote viewing, playback, control, and alarm trigger. Simultaneous recording, playback and recording is possible with the Bosch DVRs. It has good storage capacity. The Bosch DVR is designed to be more flexible and reliable. With the advanced features and functionalities, these DVRs can be exploited to use for any kind of surveillance applications. The product lineup comprises of Bosh DVR, Bosh analog cameras and Bosh IP cameras as well.
We are blessed with a team of professionals who are committed to execute at a greater level. Due to the level of accountability we have created over the years with the customers, CCTV Dubai is regarded as the experts in CCTV installations in UAE. We are also the leading Bosch CCTV suppliers in Dubai. We always endeavor to deliver the best of CCTV security systems with the cutting edge products. We can provide wide-ranging security systems with the Bosch CCTV security analog camera in Dubai. Our services are available not only in Dubai, it is operational in other parts of UAE as well including Abu Dhabi, Umm Al Quwain, Ras-Al-Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm Al Quwain, Al Ain and Ajman. If you have decided to deploy total security systems at your workplace in Dubai, we are there to assist you. We can deliver solutions to all kinds of surveillance requests which can be dealt with the range of Bosch security products including the Bosch IP cameras, Bosch NVR and Bosch DVR.


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A variety of styles and multimedia will be used with the hope to both enchant and visually stimulate audience members at this year's Fall Dance Concert, as guest choreographer Katie Elliott returns for the third consecutive year.
"Because it's my third year, I've gotten to see the students grow as performers and dancers in class," she said. "It's nice to see their development."
Elliott and her husband, Jim LaVita, have prepared two original pieces — "Chairs" and "Winter" — for the concert, which were originally performed by 3rd Law, a Boulder-based dance company in which they co-direct.
"'Chairs' represents our belief system — what we do with the other perspectives around us, and what we do with the lighter side of our ideas," Elliott said.
La Vita will provide multimedia to accompany the dancers. During "Winter," images of snow will be projected onto the dancers as a means of texture and a simulation of snow accumulating on the ground.
Other pieces in the show follow in similar form. Integrated with videoscapes, props and text, students and faculty members will perform classical and original pieces with backgrounds ranging from ballet to hip hop.
"We have a healthy, broad spectrum of different dance forms in this program, which is terrific," said Carol Roderick, special assistant professor of ballet.
Roderick's Ballet Repertory Class will perform excerpts from Petipa's "La Bayadere," in particular one of the most famous scenes, "The Kingdom of the Shades." This scene focuses on the story of a temple dancer named Nikiya and a warrior, Solo.
"It's always really exciting and gratifying for all of those who have worked very hard to put this on a stage," Roderick said.
Students will also perform CSU Associate Professor and Choreographer Chung Fu Chang's original piece, "Segments."
Fusing movements from the Chinese Peking Opera with contemporary movements, the piece's incorporation of masks represents the individual's ever-changing personality in a contemporary society.
This year's concert also features three student choreographers, senior Marlis McChesney, junior Jessi Day and sophomore Anna Roehr.
McChesney's piece, "Rapidity," is an upbeat, modern dance style, while Day and Roehr are responsible for the choreography of "Do Unto Others" and "Downpour," two contemporary ballet pieces.
The various elements of dance styles also contribute to the diversity of music to be performed, said Michelle Ruiz, a senior performer and Elliott's rehearsal assistant.
"This is the first time since I've been in the department that a student's piece was chosen for the Fall Concert that incorporated lyrics," Ruiz said. "I think this will add to the diverse themes of the show, and I think the audience will have an easier time interpreting the piece."
Performances will run tonight and Saturday, both at 8 p.m., in the University Center for the Arts' University Dance Theatre.
Tickets are $16 for the public and $9 for CSU students. They are available from the CSU Box Office in the Lory Student Center, by phone at (970) 491-4849 or online at http://csutix.com.
Staff writer Kate Bennis can be reached at verve@collegian.com.


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Nets Lose Key Executive to Knicks
By Net Income Mar 14, 2011, 1:13pm EDT
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With Barclays Center rising fast, the Nets have lost one of the key members of the team that got it moving...to the Knicks!
Alex Diaz, the 37-year-old general manager of Barclays Center, is leaving the Nets and moving across the East River to a similar job with MSG. Diaz will be senior vice president and general manager of facilities operations, which include Madison Square Garden and the Theater at MSG, Sports Business Journal reports.
Diaz, recruited five years ago from the Heat where he was general manager of the American Airlines Arena. Diaz was viewed as one of the organization's rising stars. Diaz contributed to the Barclays Center design and the creation of its standard operating procedures. He also oversaw the May 2008 opening of the Barclays Center Showroom in Manhattan. The Nets, Diaz and MSG all declined comment to SBJ.
Barclays will be a big part of the team's next marketing campaign, dubbed "Past [Present] Future", which "celebrates the team's history, direction and future plans".
Diaz heads across town to Garden - Fred Dreier - Sports Business Journal


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Rhythm of the Saddle is a 1938 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Pert Kelton. Written by Paul Franklin, the film is about the foreman at a ranch owned by a wealthy rodeo owner who will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.

Plot
The owner of the Silver Shadow ranch, Maureen McClune (Peggy Moran), runs the Frontier Week rodeo every year, relying on the financial success of the event to support the ranch. The current rodeo is the most profitable in the event's history, but Maureen is told by the rodeo organizers that she must do even better if she hopes to get her contract renewed. Maureen's main competition is Jack Pomeroy (LeRoy Mason), who owns a rival ranch and a local nightclub and gambling house.

Following a series of "accidents" apparently caused by negligence during the rodeo, Maureen's foreman, Gene Autry (Gene Autry), sets out to prove that Pomeroy is responsible. Maureen's Aunt Hattie (Pert Kelton) wins some money at a roulette table at Pomeroy's club, thanks to Gene's disabling of the rigged mechanisms. Returning home, they are ambushed by Pomeroy's men. Later, Gene breaks into Pomeroy's office to get additional proof of his guilt.

On the last day of the Frontier Week rodeo, Gene rides against one of Pomeroy's men in the final event, a stagecoach race. Aunt Hattie bets everything she has on Gene, hoping to save the ranch. When Gene discovers his friend, Frog Milhouse (Smiley Burnette), making a recording of a proposal to Hattie, he realizes that Frog's recorder could entrap Pomeroy. He instructs Frog to place the device below Pomeroy's seats at the rodeo just before the start of the race.

Pomeroy persuades the sheriff that Gene has committed a murder, but Gene is able to escape. With Frog's help, Gene is able to make it to the race on time. While Gene rides furiously, nearly losing his life, Frog records Pomeroy and his men discussing the "accidents" they created during the rodeo. Gene ends up winning the race, Hattie wins her bet, and Pomeroy and his henchmen are arrested. With their financial worries behind them, Gene and Maureen are free to marry, as are Frog and Hattie.

Cast
 Gene Autry as Gene Autry
 Smiley Burnette as Frog Milhouse
 Pert Kelton as Aunt Hattie
 Peggy Moran as Maurine McClune
 LeRoy Mason as Jack Pomeroy
 Arthur Loft as Cylde Chase
 Ethan Laidlaw as Tex Robinson
 Walter De Palma as Leach, the tall henchman
 Arch Hall Sr. as Rusty, the henchman in the stage
 Eddie Hart as Alex, the henchman
 Eddie Acuff as Dixie Erwin
 Champion as Gene's Horse (uncredited)

Production

Stuntwork
 Ken Cooper (Gene's double)
 Jack Kirk (Smiley's double)
 Bill Yrigoyen
 Joe Yrigoyen

Filming locations
 Corriganville Movie Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA
 Iverson Ranch, 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA

Soundtrack
 "Merry Go Roundup" (Gene Autry, Johnny Marvin, Fred Rose) by Gene Autry (vocal and guitar)
 "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" (Traditional) by Smiley Burnette (a cappella vocal)
 "Oh! Ladies" (Gene Autry, Johnny Marvin, Fred Rose) by Gene Autry (vocal) and Smiley Burnette (vocal and guitar)
 "When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby" (Larry Yoell, Glenn Brown) by Gene Autry (vocal and guitar) and the all-girl nightclub orchestra
 "The Old Trail" (Gene Autry, Johnny Marvin, Fred Rose) by Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette with the cowhand musicians
 "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (Leo Friedman, Beth Slater Whitson) by Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette with an orchestral background

References
Citations

Bibliography

External links

1938 films
1930s Western (genre) musical films
1930s English-language films
American black-and-white films
Republic Pictures films
Films directed by George Sherman
American Western (genre) musical films
1930s American films

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The science class has completed an energy unit dealing with conservation of our resources. They received a kit from Alliant Energy to install new items at home. We are now learning the classification system. PE classes have been identifying offensive and defensive strategies in a couple of games, Yoshi and Fukara. Information will be coming home later in November about our upcoming skating unit.


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07w17:1 Roundup
Posted April 24th, 2007 by timothy. 1 Comment
Good Reads Mailing List | 2007 week 17 number 1 (roundup)
Hello. This is a roundup of some things I gathered in the weeks since I sent the last Goodreads. What else happened? I spoke at March's Trampoline Hall on 'Morality as a Form of Idealism'; I was a filler, since the first person scheduled got into an accident. This follows on me being on a panel discussion at the end of February when I was also made to feel like a filler, and so, it occurred to me last month that my career as a second-rate speaker appeared to be well under way. I hope to get up to first rate by the end of the year. If not, I'll need to get a better agent.
There was also a big ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of Vimy Ridge. They couldn't wait another ten years for a ceremony apparently, but they will obviously be jumping through those hoops again in a decade's time. Now, a century marker, I could understand, by the 90th was just more propaganda to remind me that the Canada I knew and loved is being lost to patriarchal militarism and unquestioned loyalty to George Bush's incompetent, ignorant, and colonial vision of global affairs.
There was also Easter and stuff … and well, I'm drawing blanks. This wasn't meant to be too long. A bit of second-rate fill to the real text that belongs here which is:
The announcements of kryptonite, and the discovery of an Earth-like planet, both occurred today.
Just in time for the Globe & Mail's redesign to make it look as it would have looked in a 1980s science-fiction movie set in the 21st Century, featuring headlines 'Earth Like Planet Found' or 'Kryponite Discovered' or 'Alberta building rocketship to rape new resource' etc. – Timothy
Goodreads YouTube / GoogleVideo Compilations:
http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/whywefight/
Fredric Jameson lecture, speaking in 2002
http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/jameson/
Adam Curtis' The Trap
http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/adamcurtis/
// Adam Curtis' latest documentary was broadcast on the BBC in March and has since been posted on Google Video. I added these to the Adam Curtis compilation page already present on Goodreads, with links back to the Google Video source, where they can be watched larger and downloaded. I loved this series – since 2001 I've thought the rise of a interest in religion had a lot more to do with American propaganda for a war against believers, non-believers and evildoers and all that, but this makes me think the real reason is a backlash toward the simple-minded view of human beings as self-interested economic agents, which is how we were supposed to think of ourselves throughout the 1980s and especially 1990s. People understand they are more complex than that, and so far, religion has provided a framework to encompass an idea of 'humanity' denied by trendy theories. I would also argue that art and literature also provides a complicated vision of human beings, but since the Humanities have been turned into a linguistic mush of critical discourse and over-heated arguments of resentment, people are defaulting to religion for their models and answers and attempts at understanding. But here, I don't want to say one is better than the other. From my own experience, I feel the worst of religion is balanced by the best of Humanities, and the worst of the Humanities is balanced by the best of religion creating a complimentary relationship with one another, and any attempt at understanding the complexity of humanity should take into consideration what the best of both traditions of the imagination have to offer.
Recommended by Darren O'Donnell
A Grammar of the Multitude | Paul Virno
http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcmultitude3.htm
Manuel DeLanda on Deleuze | Manuel DeLanda
http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/manueldelanda
writes Darren: "here's an interesting video of manuel delanda taking a trip through deleuze and it's not all that confusing."
Slow News Cycle Obscure Story Recycling:
Parasite 'turns women into sex kittens' | Jane Bunce
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/com/sexkittens/
// article date: December 26, 2006
compare with this article, posted in Goodreads 04w06:2
Dangerrrr: cats could alter your personality | Jonathan Leake
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article1161725.ece
"They may look like lovable pets but Britain's estimated 9m domestic cats are being blamed by scientists for infecting up to half the population with a parasite that can alter people's personalities […] Infected men, suggests one new study, tend to become more aggressive, scruffy, antisocial and are less attractive. Women, on the other hand, appear to exhibit the 'sex kitten' effect, becoming less trustworthy, more desirable, fun-loving and possibly more promiscuous."
A cosmic hall of mirrors
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/18/9/3
the one above interviews one of the fellows who co-authored the below article, from the April 1999 Scientific American:
Is Space Finite? | Luminet, Starkman, Weeks
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/sciam/mirrorball/
and likely to show up again in the future:
The universe is a string-net liquid | Zeeya Merali
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/newscientist/net-string/
Week in Review April 16-22 2007
Nations's Papers React to Getting Everything About … Backwards
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/gawker/asshole/
Goodbye, Sanjaya, I Will Miss You! | Maureen52
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swCndDgiokE
// One of the funniest things I've seen all week, and once again, a reminder of the obsolescence of video art and galleries in the age of iMovie and and YouTube.
Sanjaya: Something To Talk About 4-17-07 Top 7 | American Idol
McCain 'sings bomb iran'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzBxFaio1I
// If this counts as singing…what did he say after the edit? It seemed to be a way of re-phrasing the question, 'when do we send an airmail message to Tehran?' asked by a hawk in the audience.
This past week the lastest version of Ubuntu was released, a Linux operating system gaining popularity. It was named Ubuntu after the African philosophy:
Ubuntu | Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(ideology)
If you can carry it to the counter, you don't need a bag to take it from the store, unless it's like raining and you don't want it to get wet
Drop that plastic bag – go natural | Zou Hanru
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2007-04/06/content_844737.htm
San Francisco to ban plastic grocery bags | CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/27/environment.baggs.reut/index.html
Do we agree?
Pirates versus Ninjas | Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_versus_Ninjas
Convinceme.net
http://www.convinceme.net/index.php
Art-like stuff
Andy's Early Comics Archive – A History of Picture Stories | Andy Bleck
http://andybleck.com/eca/earlycomics.html
Restoring the home of Nicephore Niepce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAcTHpuqQIs
"It was in this house … that Niepce invented photography" // This ten minute documentary includes reattempts at the first photographs and I was fascinated to see the way archaeology was used to determine the exact position of the first camera to create the first images.
How Art Can Be Good | Paul Graham
http://paulgraham.com/goodart.html
'They Don't Know'
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2210845148378198004&pr=goog-sl&hl=en
// what have you done with your hands lately?
Black Tambourine | Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfUZCo-oLtM
//Bad experiences with Beck fans has biased me against him for years, although I do have his first two albums. When I saw this video while channel surfing (which, is like, a miracle considering music-video stations never play music videos anymore) I thought maybe I was over my bias.
Befriend an artist? Are you kidding? | Jonathan Jones
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/feature/0,,1991391,00.html
Today's critics have got too cosy with the artists they write about, says Jonathan Jones, kicking off a series of debates on the Guardian arts blog
'My Generation' | The Zimmers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY
China Provokes Debate in Africa | Walden Bello
http://www.futurenet.org/article.asp?ID=1700
Ten Lashes Against Humanism | Jorge Majfud
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5033/1/249/
"Not long ago, Doug Hagin, in the image of the famous television program Dave's Top Ten, concocted his own list of The Top Ten List of Stupid Leftist Ideals. If we attempt to de-simplify the problem by removing the political label, we will see that each accusation against the so-called US leftists is, in reality, an assault on various humanist principles. "
Confucius topples Harry | Steven Ribet
http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm?id=455372007
"It took Yu Dan only six weeks to topple JK Rowling and become the most successful author in Chinese history.But it wasn't tales of wizards and magic that sparked hysteria in the world's most populous country. The Beijing academic has managed to make the 2500-year-old words of Confucius, China's most famous thinker, relevant in the 21st century. "
Dead Plagiarists Society | Paul Collins
http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/
Bad Lingo: Blog-Media Cliches
http://www.gawker.com/news/blogs/bad-lingo-blogmedia-clichs-222162.php
President or King? | Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., and Aziz Huq
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/law/kingpresident/
"Not even a seventeenth-century monarch was allowed to ignore checks on power the way President Bush has."
Plastic clogs disrupt machinery in Swedish hospital | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2061288,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
10 Most Bizarre People on Earth
http://www.oddweek.com/item_65612.aspx
CBC Ideas Podcasts
In Other Words | CBC Ideas Podcast
Have you ever read Don Quixote? There are several English translations of it. Which Don Quixote was it? Or how about Anna Karenina? Unless you are fluent in the original languages in which these works were published, you've read them through the prism and sensibilities of that most underestimated of literary artists – the translator. Barbara Nichol discusses literary translation with some of its most gifted practitioners.
Part 1 http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070402_1888.mp3
Flesh and Stone: The Sociology of Richard Sennett
The American sociologist Richard Sennett has had two great themes: the history and design of cities, and the organization of work. As a lover of cities, he has celebrated the expanded sympathy that urban life makes possible; as a student of work, he has criticized the fragmentation of time in the new capitalism; and as a writer, he has elevated sociology to a literary art. He talks with IDEAS producer, David Cayley.
The Ideas of Jerome Kagan
Harvard's Jerome Kagan is a pioneer in developmental psychology. His specialty is studying children. He's also a philosopher of his science. In a conversation with Paul Kennedy, Jerome Kagan reflects on nature vs. nurture, emotion and the quest for meaning.
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20070212_1652.mp3
// I especially liked Kagan's breakdown of the rise of Freudianism in the first half of the 20th Century:
Jerome Kagan: Freud made some very strong statements, for example: all children pass through three phases; an oral phase in infancy, an anal phase during the second year, a phallic phase, a genital phase … that all are neuroses, all are neurotic symptoms: insomnia, depression, fearfulness, they're all a function of repression of our conflicted urges, primarily sexual. Now, none of that is true. So here's the puzzle: why did so many (leave me out of it) why did so many brilliant, erudite, educated people not just in the sciences but in the humanities believe that? That's the puzzle.And the only approach to an answer I can come to is that he spoke to the intuitions of Americans. I should point out that in the early part of the 20th Century, Europe was not very friendly to Freud, it was America and England. America and England were Protestant countries with a much more prudish attitude toward sexuality. And so here is my attempt at some sort of an explanation. The availability of cheap contraceptives toward the end of the 19th Century meant that young men and women could begin to think about sexual activity outside of marriage, otherwise you couldn't, especially if you were middle class. So now you're allowing these thoughts to bubble up, but there's a lot of tension and shame and uncertainty about it. So it's sitting right on the cusp of consciousness and creating a sort of tension and what I think happened was the tensions that are due to a sick child, losing your job, your parent having cancer, frustration with your boss … that all those tensions, which have nothing to do with sexuality were interpreted as due to the conflict over sexuality. That's the only why I can understand why this idea – coincidentally, which I believed when I was 21 years old, I thought Freud was absolutely dead right …. dead right.
Paul Kennedy: It would be hard to believe anything else because that was the orthodoxy as you say.
Jerome Kagan: Yeah, but there was a minority of scholars who rejected it. I mean not everyone thought it was a good idea, but many people did. I'm sure the explanation I just gave can't be all of it. There have to be other factors, but someone smarter than I will have to come up with it. But at least the explanation I just offered I think makes some small contribution. But it is amazing.
Subsection on Cultural Memory
Why do geeks have lust for ZFS? | Paulius
http://tech.zamwi.com/2007/01/16/why-do-geeks-have-lust-for-zfs/
Scientists: Data-storing bacteria could last thousands of years
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/computerworld/bacterialstorage/
Sparta? No. This is madness | Ephraim Lytle
http://www.thestar.com/article/190493
'300': Fact or fiction? | Victor Davis Hanson
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/washingtontimes/300/
Das Google Problem: is the invisible mouse benevolent? | Tony Curzon Price
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/google_problem_4546.jsp
We're all '80s kids now | Raju Mudhar
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/198191
The Disappearing Bees
Why are Niagara's bees dying? | Dana Flavelle
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/203818
Cellular phone uses linked to bee deaths | Dana Flavelle
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? | Geoffrey Lean
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece
Paleo-Futurism
Paleo-Futurism: A Look into the Future that Never Was | Matt
http://paleo-future.blogspot.com
'You Will' Ads | AT&T (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8
// concept videos for the present life which wasn't brought to us by AT&T
Knowledge Navigator | Apple Inc (1987)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8
// a concept video produced by Apple in 1987 for an interface.
France vote!
France: The Precarious Generation: Au revoir job security | Charlotte Buchen and Singeli Agnew
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/pbs/precarite/
France's intellectual election | Patrice de Beer
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/opendemocracy/france2007/
France's Female Presidential Candidate Is Building a Political Machine I Stefan Simons
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,451566,00.html
France, Land of Inequality | Der Speigel
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,456999,00.html
Swiss man jailed for Thai insult
Follow up:
Man Pardoned for Insulting Thai King | Sutin Wannabovorn
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/washingtonpost/forgiven/
also in the wtf? department:
Complaints filed against Richard Gere
http://goodreads.ca/shorty/com/gerekissykissy/
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged as Art, Audio, Biology, Blogs, Film Review, Goodreads Specials, Misc, Net Culture, Philosophy, Video, Zeitgeist
04w14:1 Biological Bandwidth
Posted April 1st, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments
Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 14 number 2 (biological bandwidth)
A bit of foolishness for the first of April. Gibson's has the good fortune to be exactly a year old, while the other report I learned about earlier this week. – Tim
While I rest up, a factoid | William Gibson
http://tinyurl.com/2lxqg
"Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems. (The following found, of course, on the Internet.) […] Putting these together, the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*10^ 9* 2 bits * 2.00*10^ 8, which comes out to be 6.24*10 ^17 bits. That's about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds , you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s . In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet ) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th of that". Article Date: 1 April 2003
A New Israeli test confirms: PEI (Pigeon Enabled Internet) is FASTER then ADSL | RIM – Ami Ben-Bassat's Blog
http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/5240.asp
"A New Israeli test confirms: PEI (Pigeon Enabled Internet) is FASTER then ADSL […] Pigeons' Data Transfer Rate: the bandwidth achieved by the pigeons was significantly larger that that available through commercially available ADSL broadband Internet connections: about 2.27 Mbps (Mega bit per second) as compared to 0.75 – 1.5 Mbps (see detailed calculations). Please note that all measured times are of an observer on the ground. If measured by the moving pigeon it self, times are a bit shorter, according to Einstein's relativity theory."
emailed by Timothy on Thursday 01 April 2004 @ 8:37 PM
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged as Misc, William Gibson


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High School Teacher Accused of Sharing 'Obscene' Photos With Her 17-Year-Old Student
By Melissa Chan / People
November 8, 2017 4:33 PM EST
Authorities say a Maryland high school teacher has been arrested after she allegedly shared sexual and "obscene" photographs with a 17-year-old male student at her school, PEOPLE confirms.
LaToya Parker, 40, faces charges of sexual abuse of a minor, displaying sexual material to a minor and solicitation of a minor, the Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. The alleged incidents took place between the fall of 2016 and March, authorities said.
Parker has been a family and consumer science teacher at St. Charles High School in Waldorf, Maryland, since 2015, according to Kimberly Hill, the superintendent of Charles County Public Schools.
In a letter to parents, Hill said Parker is accused of sharing "inappropriate photographs and electronic messages" with a student.
"I am alarmed, saddened and angry about these allegations that involve a teacher — an adult trusted to work with our children," Hill said in a separate statement. "These allegations are horrifying."
The alleged incidents were first reported to authorities in May, at which point Parker was pulled from the classroom and reassigned to a temporarily administrative role, according to the school's principal, Richard Conley.
"We have cooperated fully with the Charles County Sheriff's Office and Charles County State's Attorney's Office throughout the investigation," Superintendent Hill wrote in her letter to parents.
Parker was arrested Monday and has been released from custody on a $20,000 bond. She was ordered not to have any contact with minors, the sheriff's office said.
She could not be immediately reached for comment and it's unclear if she has a lawyer.
Her mother declined to comment when reached by phone on Wednesday.
This article originally appeared on People.com
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Q: Encrypted properties on Cloud foundry with Sping Boot I have a Spring Boot application which has some encrypted values in its property file
e.g. spring.security.user.password=ENC(ZUkuSkFAiu/k7v7G1538ouQmuSWeAuOucAVuvxLCDwwJ0mgnIdfl3N/RgiZMGeBm)
I am using jasypt to decrypt these on the fly. This works fine running locally.
However when I deploy the app on Cloud Foundry my property file now pulls the value from vcap env variables.
e.g.
spring.security.user.password=${vcap.services.myconfig.credentials.user.password}
in PCF the value is added as
user.password = ENC(ZUkuSkFAiu/k7v7G1538ouQmuSWeAuOucAVuvxLCDwwJ0mgnIdfl3N/RgiZMGeBm)
However now my app fails to start and i get an error saying

ERROR 22 --- [ main] o.s.b.web.embedded.tomcat.TomcatStarter : Error
starting Tomcat context. Exception:
org.springframework.beans.factory.UnsatisfiedDependencyException.
Message: Error creating bean with name
'securityFilterChainRegistration' defined in class path resource
[org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/security/servlet/SecurityFilterAutoConfiguration.class]:
Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method
'securityFilterChainRegistration' parameter 0; nested exception is
org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBindException:
Error creating bean with name
'spring.security-org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.security.SecurityProperties':
Could not bind properties to 'SecurityProperties' :
prefix=spring.security, ignoreInvalidFields=false,
ignoreUnknownFields=true; nested exception is
org.springframework.boot.context.properties.bind.BindException: Failed
to bind properties under 'spring.security.user.password' to
java.lang.String

Is there any reason I am missing why this works locally but not on Cloud Foundry?
UPDATE
cf env returns ...

System-Provided:
{
 "VCAP_SERVICES": {
  "user-provided": [
   {
    "binding_name": null,
    "credentials": {
     "JAVA_OPTS": "-Dspring.security.user.password=ENC\\\\(ZUkuSkFAiu/k7v7G1538ouQmuSWeAuOucAVuvxLCDwwJ0mgnIdfl3N/RgiZMGeBm\\\\)",
     "user.password": "ENC(ZUkuSkFAiu/k7v7G1538ouQmuSWeAuOucAVuvxLCDwwJ0mgnIdfl3N/RgiZMGeBm)"
    },
    "instance_name": "myconfig",
    "label": "user-provided",
    "name": "myconfig",
    "syslog_drain_url": "",
    "tags": [],
    "volume_mounts": []
   }
  ]
 }
}

where this sows the JAVA_OPTS version that works and also the user.password property that wont resolve

A: Try this once:
JAVA_OPTS=-Dspring.security.user.password=ENC\\(ZUkuSkFAiu/k7v7G1538ouQmuSWeAuOucAVuvxLCDwwJ0mgnIdfl3N/RgiZMGeBm\\)

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Q: how to enter values in multiple tables using same id i have 3 tables
emp_ref_table  with fields
1.emp_id(pk,ai)
2.emp_name
3.gender
4.emp_address
emp_login_table
1.id(ai,pk)
2.emp_id(fk)
3.Password(default : password)
emp_value_table
1.emp_value_id(pk)
2.emp_id(fk)
3.emp_photo
4.emp_resume
I have to insert values in all 3 tables at single time.
Suppose first, i insert value in emp_ref_table the emp_id will be generated automatically
after generation of emp_id i have to store that last emp_id in login_table also
after login table same emp_id also have to be inserted in emp_value_table
i have tried this and its working fine,now get stuck on emp_value_table  both queries working absolutely fine now help me in storing the emp_id in emp_value_table
insert into emp_ref_table(emp_name,gender,emp_address) values ('xyz','d','abc');
insert into `login_table`(emp_id) values(LAST_INSERT_ID());

PS: i'm using stored procedures

A: In your stored procedure declare a variable that will hold the new employee id. After inserting a record into employee reference table, assign the new id to the varible. Use this variable to assign value to employee id fields in the subsequent 2 inserts.
...
declare empid int;
insert into emp_ref_table(emp_name,gender,emp_address) values ('xyz','d','abc');
set empid=last_insert_id();
insert into `login_table`(emp_id) values(empid);
...


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Marimekko was founded in 1951 Viljo and Armi Ratia. Armi had artist friends submit designs for silkscreening and then had simple dresses made up to show how the designs could be used - this was an early recognition of the role that industrial design could have in marketing products. Jackie Kennedy bought eight Marimekko dresses for use during the 1960 Presidential campaign and the company found commercial success with their bold colors and simple graphic designs. Maija Isola was Marimekko's most influential designer during the 1960s, having introduced the Unikko (Poppy) pattern in 1964. I believe that this dress features one of Isola's designs due to its similarity to Unikko.
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The leaves are starting to change, the days are getting shorter, the temperatures are dropping and the pumpkin spice euphoria of early September is starting to wear off.
If you find yourself feeling a little less cheerful than you were during spring's transformation into summer, rest assured it's not your imagination: There is a science-backed reason you're more likely to feel down in the cooler months.
"It's real," Kathryn A. Roecklein, an associate professor in the department of psychology at University of Pittsburgh, told The Huffington Post.
The changes don't necessarily affect everyone the same way, Roecklein added. But seasonal mood shifts often include less energy, feeling less social, losing interest in favorite activities, having cravings for carbs and changes in sleep ― either having trouble sleeping or wanting to sleep more than usual.
Scientists know there are a lot of biological and physiological reasons our moods tend to change with the season, Roecklein said. But a big factor in those seasonal mood swings is light.
"The scientific evidence says that length of day, which is shorter in the winter and longest in the summer, is the main seasonal variable that affects mood," she said.
And since those sunsets are well on their way to getting earlier and earlier as soon as fall begins, it's not unusual if you start to feel those mood shifts around the same time.
Your body knows when the sun is hiding
It's your body's circadian clock that monitors changes in day length, Roecklein explained. The circadian clock is the body's internal time-keeper; it tells us when to feel sleepy and when to wake up, and plays a big role in a lot of other systems in our body, like hormone release, temperature regulation, metabolism and mood.
So when there's less light during the day, some of those processes affected by the circadian clock, including ones that influence our mood, get disrupted. One study showed that individuals actually produce less serotonin ― one of the hormones that helps regulate mood and contributes to our feelings of wellbeing and happiness ― in the winter months, and more when there was more sunlight.
Other research shows changing light-dark cycles affect body temperature, how long it takes us to fall asleep, and how much we produce of melatonin, the hormone that triggers sleep. It also affects the production of stress hormones.
One key point to remember about the so-called "winter blues," Roecklein said, is that "it's a biological response to changing light levels ― NOT something we can overcome with sheer willpower alone."
These cold weather pick-me-ups really work
If your symptoms aren't that severe, your fall and winter don't need to be downers. Here are a few things you can do.
1. Let the sunshine in.
Light ― or more specifically, the lack of it ― is part of what contributes to your low mood in the first place, Roecklin said. So doing things like opening the blinds and taking a walk outside in the sun in the morning can definitely lift your spirits.
2. Get moving.
Exercise (even just one workout) has been shown to be a big mood enhancer and stress buster. There are decades of research in people with depression that confirms a little sweat is a good idea, Roecklein said.
3. Eat right.
It's raining. It's cold. And you haven't even dug that heavy sweater out of the back of your closet yet. While a batch of warm brownies may sound comforting, simple carbs and sugars can spike your blood sugar levels in your brain and then send them crashing down, with your mood tagging along for the ride.
Instead, focusing on fruits, vegetables, omega-3-rich foods, proteins and complex carbohydrates ― and drinking plenty of water ― can help keep energy and moodconsistently up.
4. Make time for your friends.
There's a reason a good chat with your bestie makes your day. Research showsspending time with your friends helps relieve stress, make you feel a sense of belong and improve well-being.
Spending time being social and engaging in hobbies and other activities you enjoy is a proven method to lift your mood, Roecklein said. It's recommended for people battling depression.
How to tell when it's more than a mood shift
All of us are susceptible to the mood-changing effects of seasonal shifts, but estimates suggest that about four to six percent of people have symptoms severe enough to warrant a clinical diagnosis of depression ― seasonal affective disorder, or SAD.
"It's is a well-defined clinical diagnosis that's related to the shortening of daylight hours," Matthew Rudorfer a research psychiatrist and psychopharmacologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an agency blog post. "It interferes with daily functioning over a significant period of time."
And the condition should be diagnosed and treated. Three treatments have been proven to be effective for treating SAD: bright light therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressant medications.
A psychologist can help determine if symptoms require treatment, but signs that you're experiencing more than the typical "winter blues" are the same as thecommon symptoms of major depression: if you are not able to keep up with work, family and your regular behaviors or if you think treatment would help.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 10 – Gor Mahia skipper Musa Mohammed has admitted that immediate former head coach Jose Marcelo Ferreira's sudden exit from the club has shocked the players, but insists it will not hinder their hunt for the league title this season.
Marcelo tendered his resignation at the club on Thursday and took the next flight home, barely four days after returning from mid-season holiday in his native Brazil.
"Of course you know when a father leaves, there has to be some effect on the children. As players it came as a huge surprise to us when he left, but again, that is the nature of football. Of course we are sad that he has to go, but that does not mean life stops there," the tough tackling defender said.
"We are still focused just like we have been throughout the season and our target remains one, to win the title," Mohammed added.
He says they have confidence that Zedekiah Otieno who has been Ze Maria's assistant will steer the ship to its destination which is their 16thdomestic league crown.
"Zeddy has been around Gor for a while and we as players have full faith in him. We know he will continue from where Ze Maria left from and we will still be a tough team to beat," Mohammed further commented.
The coach's first job in charge will be on Sunday when K'Ogalo takes on Sofapaka at the Kinoru Stadium in Meru as the KPL resumes following a three-week break.
Gor are looking to guard their lead at the top of the standings where they currently sit with 27 points, only separated from second placed Tusker by goal difference.
Against a team that has beaten them only twice over the last eight years, Gor will have a bit of confidence heading into the fixture.
"It is a very tough match because Sofapaka have strengthened their squad with new players and they are also looking to win the title. We don't expect it to be an easy affair," Mohammed said of the fixture.
Batoto ba Mungu have been on a signing spree, bringing on board 12 new players, most of whom are expected to slot straight into the starting team.
Among those who join the 2009 champions include left back Wesley Onguso from Western Stima and the Chemelil Sugar duo of Willis Ouma and Hillary 'Fordy' Echesa.
"We have worked to ensure there is coordination in the team because there are many new players in the team. So far I think I am impressed with how the training has been. It will be tough against Gor but hopefully, we can get a win," Sam Ssimbwa, the Sofapaka coach noted.
In other fixtures this weekend, joint leaders Tusker FC will be facing a potential banana skin encounter when they take on Kariobangi Sharks at the Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos. Tusker have won seven matches on the trot in the league and are looking to keep up the same form against Sharks.
The brewers are boosted with the arrival of two key players, left back David Mwangi who will be a direct replacement for Shafik Batambuze who left for Tanzania and forward Paul Odhiambo who joined from Sofapaka.
Sharks have not been as busy in the transfer window but have retained their entire squad which has been unbeaten over the last seven league matches with four wins and three draws.
Elsewhere on Saturday, new AFC Leopards coach Dorian Marin will take his maiden bow as the club's new boss when he leads Ingwe out against another struggling side, Mathare United.
Last season, both home and away fixtures ended in identical 1-1 results while overall, Mathare has a slight edge over Ingwe in the last 16 matches. AFC has won four, Mathare five while the remaining nine ties ended in draws.
Leopards' two new acquisitions midfielder Keziron Kizito and striker Alex Kitenge might be given their debuts for the club, same as the returning Musa Mudde who rejoined the club from Bandari FC.
Mungai Kiongera and skipper Bernard Mang'oli still have their futures undecided as their contracts end on June 30.
Mathare on their side have lost five matches on the trot and will be looking to bounce back to positive results. Head coach Francis Kimanzi, recently handed a new one year contract will hope for an end to his side's bleak past as they look to get off the bottom of the log.
Saturday: AFC Leopards v Mathare United (Nyayo Stadium), Chemelil Sugar v Nzoia Sugar (Chemelil Complex), Thika United v Posta Rangers (Thika Sub-County Stadium).
Sunday: Bandari v Western Stima (Mbaraki Complex), Kakamega Homeboyz v Zoo Kericho (Mumias Complex), Kariobangi Sharks v Tusker FC (Kenyatta Stadium Machakos), Muhoroni Youth v Nakumatt (Muhoroni), Sofapaka v Gor Mahia (Kinoru Stadium, Meru), Ulinzi Stars v Sony Sugar (Afraha Stadium, Nakuru).
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Following our series on films shot in western Canada, here's a story originally written by Brian Patton, one of our contributors, for our 2006 guide.
Marilyn Monroe stayed at the historic accommodation Becker's Bungalows, 5 km south of Jasper on Highway #93, Jasper National Park, during the filming of River of no Return during late July and early August, 1953. Baseball star Joe DiMaggio, her fiancé, visited her while she was there.
Bing Crosby yodelled his way along Sunwapta Gorge Viewpoint, 6.5 km north of the Icefield Centre on Highway #93. That was during the filming of The Emperor Waltz in the summer of 1946, but the film was released two years later. The glacier-clad mountains of the icefield and Jasper doubled for the movie's setting of Austria.
Though natives from the Stoney Reserve served as extras in numerous films from 1921 through 1953, the first major motion picture to utilize the scenic, foothills location of their reserve was Arthur Penn's Little Big Man (1970) starring Dustin Hoffman. Many films and movie stars followed, including Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) with Paul Newman, Legends of the Fall (1993) with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, Open Range (2003) with Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, and Annette Bening, and The Assassination of Jesse James (2006) with Brad Pitt.
Starting in the late 1970s, the town of Canmore on the eastern boundary of Banff National Park, became a centre for film-making activity. Among the movies filmed within town boundaries are Death Hunt (1981) starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, The Last of the Dogmen (1995) with Tom Berenger and Barbara Hershey, Mystery, Alaska (1999) with Russell Crowe and Burt Reynolds, and Snow Dogs (2002) with Cuba Gooding Jr. and James Coburn.
The shores of the scenic Upper Kananaskis Lake, Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, Kananaskis Country, have been trod by numerous stars, including Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin in The Edge (1996), Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry in X-Men 2 (2003), and Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the award-winning Brokeback Mountain (2005).
A few key scenes that tourists seem to want to replay involve some of Alberta's finest campgrounds. one is a shot of Upper Kananaskis Lake, actual sites at Elbow Falls and Canyon Creek. Then there's a bridge along the Galatea Trail, in Kananaskis Country, where Ennis del Mar (Heath Ledger) pick up supplies. And Ennis encounters a black bear at King Creek, near the junction of Highway #40 and the Smith-Dorrien Trail (Road), In Kananaskis Country.
Want to know where the cast and crew stayed during filming?
In Canmore, many stayed at the Marriott and ate at the Grizzly Paw. And when they were filming the campsites, Kananaskis Village was used as the base of operations by the crew.
Other important venues in the movie were Fort Macleod, Cowley and the jagged backdrop of the Three Sisters mountain peaks. Actually, more than 90 per cent of the scenes in Brokeback Mountain were shot within 21 m (70 ft.) of the road! That's perfect for travellers who want to experience grand wilderness without hoofing over mountain passes (though you can do that too!).


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I'll be at Wiki X DC this Saturday (which may or may not interfere with getting a news cast out on Sunday). If you can spare some cash, Podiobooks could really use the support to upgrade their servers right now.
Listener feedback is from Jonathan in response to my piece about being an autodidact. He recommends a couple of videos and David Brin's blog.
The hacker word of the week this week is fisking.
The feature this week is a somewhat rambling, speculative rant on the tragedy of the pseudocommons. This stems from a lot of recent attention on commons as economic and governance models, including the Nobel prize winning work of Elinor Ostrom and David E. Williams. The title is in fact a riff on Hardin's original critique of the commons. In discussing the ethos animating digital commons, I suggest the Free Software Foundation exceeds the core values by insisting on stronger notions of liberty. James Boyle's book does an excellent job describing the more obvious threat of enclosure. My pondering the pseudocommons is similar in some regards to my thoughts on the true burden of forking. Nicholas Carr pegs one extreme example of the form.
You have elucidated the concept of anomie (http://durkheim.itgo.com/anomie.html) . Where a state of limited order exists but one where abuse, mis-use, and outright banditry is still very common. You go to great pains to point to lawful developments but you still fall well short of offering some suggestion of enforcement.
The pseudo-commons as it stands now seems to only have a small number of people, relative to the entire online population who actually make large use of the commons: prominent bloggers, software developers, corporations, niche groups etc. The only social strength in the commons comes from either prestige or the numbers of voice.
Most people, like myself really, do not have enough at stake inside the cultural commons. Sure we share a great deal, but we might spread this over a large number of sites or not contribute with any regularity. The very nature of the digital ground on which the pseudo-commons are built must play its part in the fact we are viewed in a different light.
This aside, the creative commons hasn't shown much progress in the area of enforcement. The recognizance of individuals within crowd does not provide sufficient institutional oversight to promote a more even application of the functions of fair use. As much as it must pain many old-school technologists to hear it, there needs to be some sort of regulatory apparatus beyond just the apathies, and predilections of the some members of the crowd.
And that, given the very nature of the pseudo-commons, currently seems like a near impossibility. The state of the tangible commons on which the pseudo-commons are overlapped doesn't help matters: as often, the long arm of established common law reaches into the digital domain. After all in the digital commons we avoid the finicky issue of law and law enforcement of the creative commons with the current state of anomie.
So in a sense creative commons is marginally at odds with itself as there is no developed enforcement arm within the project. The crowd needs to somehow appoint community wardens to enforce the law of the pseudo-commons, as it is well exampled by history that individuals and groups, when given ample flexibility and space, will push the margins of acceptable and normative behavior.
I was attempting to point out the opposite of anomie. I think there is a robust set of norms and voluntary self regulation following from that. That is my point of departure from a healthy commons to consider the particular pathology of intentional failure in a pseudocommons. My point with open core projects is that one participant acts in some way in defiance of the accepted norms of fair sharing and the rules (CopyLeft) deriving from that ethos.
Size or scale doesn't enter into it in terms of ethos and rules. Not every user of free software exercises all four software freedoms, granted, but that doesn't reduce their importance or alter the expectation of any particular commoner of their ability to do so. A pseudocommons intentionally breaks that expectation, often in subtle and surprising ways.
In terms of the shared resources a proprietary vendor may furnish, I don't see those as essential to the intellectual commons that builds on them. Many former Sun/Oracle projects have easily enough moved their source code and efforts of their other labors to new hosts. The ones able to do so more consciously retained the true goods of the commons, the copyright assignments critical to legal enforcement of the commons rules, again CopyLeft. The ones stuck with their new, questionable corporate steward are the ones that gave up those copyrights. My point about adhesion is that I suspect sneaky vendors looking to set up a pseudocommons condition access to their resources on giving up the ability to enforce a more open commons. I'll concede that the essay does get a bit fuddled at that point.
In terms of enforcement, I'll partially concede that Creative Commons doesn't have an actor or agency pursuing enforcement as of yet. I am not sure it has so far proven necessary, not in the same way that the Software Freedom Law Center and others act on behalf of projects using GPL to press compliance where necessary. Negative press attention has so far served well enough, I suppose, to bring some potential pseudocommons around. That was my point about Carr's notion of digital share cropping. That stinging rhetoric, along with other debate and attention, helped raise awareness to prevent certain abuses. It's not perfect and I am sure there are those we simply haven't heard about who've had their license choices stomped upon.
I will cede that enforcement becomes more problematic the wider the sharing is spread, as is often the case with CC. Defending a software project is relatively concentrated with higher stakes making it simpler in some ways. Of course, that's the flaw of traditional copyright, too: the ability to enforce is unevenly distributed. In practice, the better ability to sue goes to those with more cash to do so. CC doesn't change that though it at least opens the door for more third party defenders and perhaps leverages more group strength. That is not only are the works and rights of a single complainant at stake but the validity of the license itself.
You still seem to have the mistaken view that everybody who engages in the use of the commons (grand, creative or otherwise) are also fluent with it's working, or even that they should be familiar with such commons.
Part of a lawful order is protecting the innocent, and those casual users who don't really know any better. Are you claiming that casual users are not permitted the same protections granted to more engrossed or educated participants? I don't think you, or the niche technology community as a whole, truly appreciate the extent of their creation. The Web has expanded access beyond just the geeks. Are you somehow implying that the other casual users (trolls etc.) are not deserving of such protections you claim should apply universally?
I doubt you would even fathom such a gross misappropriation of non-attributed content. But I just wish to emphasize that your narrow definitions of the pseudo-commons to just software and their developers forgoes a larger and more seeping social problem. How should we relate? How does the technologist interest in privacy conflict with their demands for attribution? How should this very interaction matter? Does it? Am I just a troll here pestering you with an uneducated and undeserved platform? I don't know. You must think I am just an just an unattributable commenter who threatens your sacrosanct view. I wish that not to be the case but I cannot judge your visceral reaction this discussion.
You beg the question when you categorically narrow the scope of my position. Is it even possible for a non-community member to be taken seriously by someone not part of the "in" group of the time? These are all questions that I have developed great interest in. One, do these questions even matter? Two, are they outside the scope of your interests and show? If they are I can spare you the trouble of reading anymore of my rants. The Web is a very large place.
Sometimes I wish that technologist could recognize that scope of huge and diverse multitude of opinions. With the "open sourcing" or public shareing of all these opinions why can't CC be more grand in scope? (Truthfully I thought it already was, are you implying a limiting of its use?) Shunning the greater commons by narrowly defining "commons" could sew the unmaking of the whole movement as just another divide between "haves" and "have-nots" just as the old system has done.
Creative commons is on the cusp of something great, I would hate to see it slip into the dust bin of history because one groups claims it's exclusive terms of application. Software is just one important aspect of a hugely encompassing social issue.
I also must ask, how can you self-regulate the entire commons with just a self appointed group? How is that any better then the traditional "unbalanced" system. CC can suffer the same monetary or prestige imbalance found in traditional law, in fact minus standard universal terms of application then this is bound to happen.
You may not realize it but community involvement is just one important aspect of law enforcment. The crime has to be reported first (the community's desire to correct a wrong) before something is done about it (the arrival of the police) subsequently followed by due process (Court). Currently Press and traditional lawful actions are still the primary method of enforcement (or lack thereof) for the CC. Given the CC's proponents usual insistence on due process I wonder how this sort of mob-policing mentality fits with that ideal?
To take an different tack, do you really think that short form works that make up most of the other forms of intellectual contribution to the larger commons (and there is a great amount of it) is actually self regulating. I guess, once again, I am trying to make a broader comment about ALL users of common space (all of the WWW) and not just the self-appointed "primary" users of those common resources.
For example, do web-masters have more freedom than, or more lawful power over website users? This is the current anomic reality, standards of use are different on every website. Some places like Sarah Palin's Facebook page delete content at the drop of a hat, others like BoingBoing are much more forgiving. But ask yourself aren't both part of the same commons?
So you may deny the anomie within the subset of software development. But I think you are doing that at the expense of the heated social friction that exists inside the Grand Commons (the WWW and anything publicly posted in it). I think your point about the misbehavior of corporations is enough to prove that an anomie still exists in the software realm ( but alas, I've already conceded you the point if you think it's working then I will take you at your word).
I can't emphasize enough that there can be no grand "commons" when just a select group engages in its "proper" use. Your examples bear out well within the subset of software developers, and perhaps the software developers can self regulate and ward themselves. But what of all internet users? Maybe I am pushing the scope of your show. Perhaps social issues and the issues of inclusiveness are not really what the technology community as a whole are interested in tackling. I guess I can't blame them for their discomfort with and disdain of greater society.
Whatever you do, just don't forget that the WWW represents more then one mind or one group mind can comprehend at any one point in time. And not all those who might need creative commons will have the knowledge of its protections. Aren't they entitled to that protection by virtue of their use of the commons (the WWW)? Doesn't your entire position demand the establishment of more standards of public behavior for the common space?
I think protecting commons relies on many things. I like Lessig's framework from Code and Code 2.0 and think it applies here: norms, laws, physical architecture, and the market. Norms could possibly cover your questions about knowledge and engagement but as you rightly pointed out, that's not the only dimension. Norms can also cover education and advocacy, to what I think you were referring when you mention "mob policing". Nothing is stopping the fine folks at Creative Commons from undertaking compliance actions like the Software Freedom Law Center does for the GPL. To date, they have not, relying more on communication and outreach. The fact that commons persist and thrive with different mixtures of those four factors doesn't make them anomies.
Nowhere did I suggest any sort of exclusivity for participation or upkeep of commons. I also think you are reading way too much into my urgings for commoners to learn more about the commons in which they participate. I personally do what I can to answer questions put to me about the commons I know something about, like FLOSS and CC. I don't think the fact someone has to ask about some part of the licensing means that somehow the license is less effective for them.
My intent in discussing the pseudocommons was to identify a particular antipattern. I think you've strayed well past that at the expense of further understanding examples of the antipattern. I will undoubtedly re-visit more aspects of commons as I continue my reading, providing more specific aspects we can discuss further.
Why do I get the feeling we have different conceptions of "commons". You appear to view something as "in the commons" if it placed under said license. I think I was trying to define "commons" in a more inclusive way, somewhat similar to a village square or a public park. Perhaps suggesting that anything published online would naturally fall under the "commons" license with no action or opting required by the writer or artist. That's kinda of how it is now, perhaps excluding the current anomic piracy, since at the moment this isn't an accepted standard or a requirement, or implicit in the use of any connective software. Rather we have "fair use" agreements that seek to control what is said in this public space about one individual or entity.
My criticism stems from the over-qualification of a normatively broad-based and inclusive term. Think of it as the CC still contains the intent of the term"common" yet it is fettered with a large number of qualifiers, the most glaring catch being the "opt-in" knowledge barrier.
Thanks for a thoughtful discussion.
While I was listening to your show, I thought about Michael Heller's idea of the tragedy of the anti-commons. I see a little over overlap between your idea of a pseudo-commons and Heller's anti-commons.
I like your characterization of content sharecropping and "open core" as pseudo-commons. Great episode!
While explaining digital commons, I think you over-emphasized copyright. By which I mean you only talked about copyleft as a governance mechanism. Successful digital commons that do not rely on copyleft (eg permissively licensed and public domain software and content projects, collaborations that ignore copyright such as "pirate" curators of cultural content) demonstrate that other governance mechanisms are at work that have nothing to do with copyright, or in some cases at least rely on copyright mechanisms other than copyleft — for example, access to participation, reputation, anti-copyfraud activities.
It's also worth mentioning that copyleft doesn't always work (but of course it doesn't, any governance mechanism has failure modes). Incompatible copyleft mechanisms are the most obvious. In the extreme, consider if each project tended to make up its own copyleft license. Any cross-project collaboration would require a painful relicensing process; the concept of anti-commons mentioned by John above would be useful in describing this scenario. Fortunately we're nowhere near this extreme.
Especially on larger scales (e.g., field, jurisdiction, worldwide), there are additional mechanisms for maintaining digital commons, such as working for increased copyright exceptions and limitations (granted I think you mentioned something like this), against copyright and related expansions and extensions — through law and legislation, changing the technological environment to be effect more freedom in practice, as well as content libera^w"piracy". Some of this is the digital equivalent of what Hyde recounts as "beating the bounds of the commons". None of this has anything to do with copyleft, except to the limited extent copyleft-governed projects motivate better policy.
Copyleft is a fantastic hack, and utterly necessary in the current environment; I'm a big fan. Just saying that a vision of digital commons governance limited to copyleft is impoverished.
Last quibble, you mention respect of author choice out of fairness. That's great, but there are definite limits to legally mandating such fairness if there is to be a commons at all — e.g., exceptions and limitations, public domain. It's a question of where those limits are drawn.
Thanks for the praise and the clarifications. I will definitely try to address your points when I get around to re-working my notes into an essay for posting on the web site. It may have to wait until I've had a chance for further reading as the over emphasis on both copyright and copyleft reveal the bias in my current reading.
Can you recommend any good titles just on the broader notion of commons as a governance model, regardless of mechanism? I have Bollier's "Viral Spiral" but haven't even perused the TOC yet. Judging by the title, I am guessing it also focuses more on copyleft.
It has been a long time since I've read "Viral Spiral", but I recall it is a journalistic history (not a criticism, it's a good book, love that such a history exists already); I don't think it covers copyleft policy or governance in general with any depth.
I don't know that there's much of a literature directly on digital commons governance. The most relevant material would probably be in the guise of community building and management, but off the top of my head see the work of Mayo Fuster Morell at http://www.onlinecreation.info and a recent post http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/02/the-open-by-rule-governance-benchmark/index.htm by Simon Phipps which distills a relevant subtopic pretty well.
Also I've been meaning to expand on http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/10/10/community-the-new-ip/ … for a number of years.


This was another extravagant wedding at Grand Manchester Hyatt. The floral arrangements and floral decor were captivating with the jaw dropping center pieces, Glass Mirror tables, floral backdrop with hot pink roses, hydrangeas, beautiful orchids and a number of candles. A beautiful lush hot pink floral wall with roses and orchids to frame the Bride and Groom on stage.
The elegant crystal candle holders floating across our floral pieces with shades of pink, fuchsia, blush and purple gives you the perfect definition of vibrancy with grace. The breathtaking Hot Pink backdrop floral wall was a sure hit! The large enormous floral centerpieces sweeps you to whole different realm. It definitely impressed the guests who were quite surprised and captivated with our whole design.
A huge thanks to our photographer 'Xavier Bailey' for capturing this wedding for us!.
Our mirrored dining table is elegant, sophisticated and glamorous. A perfect fit for the most glamours weddings and events. A beautiful frame with an antique finish. Mirrored panels cover every detail of this table. Crystal clear mirror top table that is exquisite paired with lush tall centerpieces and candles seats up to 10 guest per mirror table.
And finally... these lovely beauties have arrived are part of ArtQuest Flowers personal collection. I have always wanted glass mirror top tables to be incorporated in my design. These glass mirror tables are very elegant and beautiful. Perfect for family tables, head tables, bridal party tables or even a sweet heart table. Check out this wedding HERE where we incorporated these beautiful mirror tables for a head table.
A lovely short centerpiece with beautiful blush pink roses and lavender roses sits perfectly on a gold urn. I absolutely love an opulent tall centerpiece, it creates a spectacular view when your guest enter the room. With that being said, a table setting with a short centerpiece can be equally opulent. This table setting we design captures that opulence with a lush short centerpiece paired with an exquisite ivory lace from our personal collection.
White Wedding at Hyatt Regency La Jolla.
We love a wedding with white orchids, ostrich plumes and crystals. A timeless classic, white is so perfect for any time of the year! We adorned the church with tall centerpieces full with white roses and white phaleonopsis orchids that stood tall on clear acrylic pedestals. The reception had tall centerpieces with white orchids and ostrich plumes. We added white petal linen from our personal collection to go with the whole theme of the wedding! The family tables were designed with lush florals runner of hydrangeas and roses and mercury vases. Oh and my favorite, a fabulous back drop of white orchids and hanging crystals for sweet heart table. We used a white leather lounge embellished with crystals and a clear acrylic table for the sweet heart. And to top it all off, a fabulous cake embellished with jewels.