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Ignite TV
MobileSyrup ran an article recently called Are you experiencing platform subscription fatigue?. It focused on the mounting cost of the different services: Netflix, Crave, YouTube Premium, Amazon Prime, and so on. "I just wish there was one subscription service for everything", the writer noted. Which I found a bit funny. Doesn't that sound like a plea for the big, fat single cable TV bundle that streaming was supposed to save us from?
Nevertheless, I do sympathize. There are so many services now, with more on the way, and they keep raising their prices. The glory days of cutting the cord and getting by with $8 a month for Netflix are long gone.
Apart from the cost of all this, there is just the challenge of remembering what you're watching (or want to watch) where, then maybe switching from the cable PVR to grabbing the phone to cast from Netflix, the logging in to your Amazon account to see something on Prime. It's all rather inconvenient!
What I want, I've lamented for some time, is a Sonos for TV shows. Sonos is a wireless speaker system that, apart from allowing you control speakers in various rooms in the house, consolidates most anything you want to listen to in one place. Your own digital music library. Spotify. Google Music. YouTube Music. Podcast apps. Audible audiobooks. Apple music. Radio stations. Where applicable, the subscriptions are up to you to set up, but once have, you can search through it all, you create playlists that mix and match among them—you can have all your "sound" stuff organized in one place. (At least when you're home.)
Sonos menu of sound options
Rogers Ignite is kind of like that for TV. By "Rogers", I do mean, yes, the big cable company. Ignite TV is their IPTV (TV over the Internet) offering. Initially available only with expensive, premium packages, they now have cheaper tiers on offer, and we switched to it this summer.
Of course you get the cable channels you subscribe to, which in our case isn't a lot (just the $25 "starter package"). But we were also offered Crave + HBO free for six months, which we of course accepted. At regular price, Crave + HBO from Rogers cost the same as if you subscribed to them directly, but then you can access them from TV same as any other channel, including on-demand. (You should also have access to them through the Crave app with your Rogers login, but there is some bug there preventing that from working—Crave can't seem to recognize that you really do have a Rogers cable subscription.)
If you have a Netflix subscription, you can access that through your Ignite box as well. Also, YouTube. And apparently coming soon: Amazon Prime.
The Ignite box itself is this tiny little thing, compared with the large, power-hungry PVRs of the past. You get a ton of cloud storage with it, so you can record shows to your heart's content. And it's much smarter about recording those: if the same show plays three times in a week, it's only going to record it once for you.
The Ignite TV box is smaller than a Blu-ray case
The basic Ignite package comes with only one box; you can add others for $5/month each. We have two. All the same information (recordings, viewing history) is available on both. If wanting to move one to a different TV in the house, temporarily or permanently, that's quite easy to do.
There's also a lovely, seamless integration with anything available on demand. Previously I almost never looked at Rogers On Demand stuff; it was off in its own universe, on those special, hard-to-navigate channels. I often forgot it was even there. Now you can find and watch that on-demand content as easily as anything you've recorded.
To find things, as their ads point out, you can just talk to the remote. Wherever it is—on demand, available to record, online—it will show you and give you watch options. It remembers what you've already watched and makes logical assumptions based on that. It's all pretty slick.
Oh, and you can also watch on your phone, tablet, or PC, through the Ignite TV app—live TV, recordings, and on demand content. In many cases, you can download your recordings for off-line viewing. One thing not available? Chromecast, as I guess that would kind be competition. But since your Chromecast is typically on your TV, and you can already watch all the stuff on your TV, I don't see that as a huge issue. (Just if wanting to watch on someone else's Chromecast while away, I guess.)
Ignite TV app
So that does bring much TV content together, saving mental energy, though not money. I have no idea what we do about the ballooning cost. For now, I'll just try to resist the pending Disney service and YouTube Premium.
Categories: Music, Technology, Television | Tags: Music, netflix, sonos, technology, Television | Permalink.
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Ticketmonster
I was on vacation in Seattle, and awake before Jean was, for some reason, when I got an email about a pre-sale for a Who concert in Toronto nearly a year later. Buying a concert ticket on a tablet while on vacation isn't the ideal scenario, but I had the time, so I figured I might as well see what I could get.
As anyone who's tried it knows, buying tickets from Ticketmaster is a roll of the dice. Who knows what seats it will cough up for your consideration, and at what price, at any given time?
But this time the dice landed landed on: Floor seats! In the front centre section! And at the normal price, no VIP / resale nonsense!
Stunned, I started the checkout process…
Only to lose the connection partway as the flaky hotel wifi conked out.
Cue the swearing. (Quiet swearing, as Jean was still sleeping.)
Wifi returned, I tried again, and… So did my luck! I was still able to get front center floor seats at the normal price! And this time managed to complete the purchase. (The show was great.)
View from the floor was pretty good!
I have no idea how or why that happened or how I could possibly replicate it. I don't recall who I got this presale offer for, except that it wasn't the fan club and it wasn't American Express (I've never had an American Express). Was it just that the sale took place so far ahead? Did The Who just decide not to hold back that many seats as "VIP"?
We know the deal with Ticketmaster, that it's exceedingly difficult for any human to beat out the resell bots—that, it turns out, Ticketmaster is in cahoots with). And that presales (and even the general sale) only have a subset of seats on offer, giving a constant impression that they are going fast.
I have had great, even front row, seats at other rock concerts, but that involved either not dealing with Ticketmaster (Bob Geldof in Ottawa, Roger Daltrey at Casinorama), or paying for VIP (Adam Lambert, who, as a solo artist, at least has moderate prices. If you don't count the expense of getting to Berlin.).
Views from the front row
But for big shows in arenas, I think that Who concert was my once-in-a-lifetime good ticket-buying experience that won't come around again. Especially since Ticketmaster keeps finding ways to make things worse.
Their latest ploy is to not tell you what the ticket prices are ahead of time. I don't buy tickets often enough to know when this changed, but I'm certain that in the past you could look up ahead of time what ticket prices would be at different levels, so you could plan. They seem to not do that now.
I thought their main motivation must be that, in the frenzy, people might spend more than they otherwise would had they been able to plan ahead. But according to the CBC report on Ticketmaster, it's also because they sometimes raise the prices a few hours after they initially go on sale.
They're taking their queue from the airline industry.
Then there's the new "Waiting room". Admittedly, it wasn't ideal before, sitting on the ticket buying web page waiting for the on-sale time, then refreshing and hoping nothing crashed before you could get in there to roll your dice.
So now, about an hour before the on-sale time, you can click to go into a "waiting room". At on-sale time, it refreshes and you are "randomly" assigned a place in line.
I had over 2000 people in line ahead of me. The only other person I know who's tried this also started with over 2000 people in line ahead of her. Make of that what you will.
There's a little animation of your place in line that moves along as the number of people in front of you drop. You daren't go anywhere else, but it's not the most compelling viewing. (I can't find a screen cap of it. Everybody must be too stressed while waiting to take one.)
Finally, your turn comes up, you copy in your presale code, you see what seats come up! And how much they are!
My target this time was yet another Queen + Adam Lambert tour. It was awful. I switched between seeing what was available for general sale and what the "cheaper" VIP offered. You couldn't seem to look at both options at once, and of course, every time I went back to one or the other, the available seating was less. (Also, the Best Available sorting? Really wasn't in that order!)
I finally picked something. I winced at the total, but smiled at the seating chart.
I don't have a solution to this. If you want to see a big rock concert at an arena, Ticketmaster and resellers are your only option. Queen + Adam Lambert are encouraging use of Twickets, where people aren't allowed to sell the tickets at higher than the price they paid. So that's nice, but they currently have 0 tickets on offer. (Admittedly, there's a lot of time for people's plans to change.)
In Europe, they seem to have many more places where you can still buy general floor seats, then end up with a good spot if you're willing to wait in line for them. Not all that helpful for North Americans.
So, I'm just glad there aren't that many artists for whom I'm willing to go through this.
One of the few
Categories: Arts, Economy, Music, Technology | Tags: Adam Lambert, Bob Geldof, concerts, live music, Music, Queen, Roger Daltrey, technology, The Who, Toronto | Permalink.
Garbage election day
Monday, October 22 was the municipal election day in Ontario. Much as I rely on electronic calendars like anyone else, I still like to rock it old-school with the paper calendar, on which I note items such when garbage day (that is, the biweekly date on which the region picks up trash along with the recycling and compost they pick up weekly) and municipal elections occur. Those fell on the same day this year, so the calendar read: Garbage Election day.
Only it wasn't.
Nor was the historic US midterm election that took place on November 6. It wasn't immediately apparent how historic it was, because the counting and recounting, it turns out, goes on long past that date—it just finished last week or so. And the Democrats got the largest margin of victory in history, thanks in large part to that election having had the largest turnout for a non-Presidential election in a century.
Way to go, Americans.
Our municipal elections, of course, were far less consequential, and featured the usual poor voter turnout: 34% for the City of Waterloo (though 48% in the uptown Waterloo ward, so kudos to them). I don't see this ever changing much unless we bring political parties into municipal politics, allowing people to forget about the individuals running and just focus on party platforms. Which I don't want, as the partisanship would be a terrible side effect that we get enough of at every other level of government.
Municipalities try to increase voter turnout. This year, several cities and townships in Waterloo Region—not including the City of Waterloo—offered electronic voting from home. Though this greatly increased the days on which you could vote, a lot of people left it til election day. And then the system crashed under the load. Forcing extensions to the voting time, in some cases by an extra day.
Hence we didn't get all the results—including who the new Regional Chair would be—until a full day later. Whereas cities who used the old paper ballots had results counted in a few hours.
Also, it didn't really increase voter turnout.
Apart from the potential computer snafus, the most compelling argument against electronic voting is that some dominant person in the household could do the voting for everyone else. I'm sure that would be a very small problem, but there's no way to eliminate it. Whereas when you have to go vote in person, everybody gets a chance to mark their own x's in private.
Obviously, compared to the US wait, one day longer wasn't a big deal, but it was odd and I was curious about the results. If you are going to vote in these local elections semi-responsibly, you do have to do a fair amount of reading and research. And at least in these parts, there's no polling to give you any idea who might win!
There were some pleasing and somewhat surprising results.
In the absence of parties, incumbents always have a big advantage, with many getting re-elected for years. But in Cambridge, long-time mayor Doug Craig lost out to Kathryn McGarry (who had her own name recognition due to having recently been the city's MPP). To me, Doug Craig's political philosophy could be summed up as Cambridge First, characterized as an unwillingness to compromise and a large propensity to complain. I was happy that the people of Cambridge were also getting tired of that approach. (And now Craig is planning to run for the federal Conservatives.)
And Michael Harris, who had been unfairly (in my opinion) cast out of provincial politics by Doug Ford shenanigans, won a seat on regional council. He always seemed one of the brighter lights in the Progressive Conservative party, so I was glad to see him get another chance to serve (in a less partisan environment).
In general (and as in the US), a lot more women got elected. The new regional chair is Karen Redman; Kitchener City Council and two of the townships achieved gender parity. On both Waterloo and Kitchener City Councils, women candidates managed to defeat incumbents.
She defeated these three guys
She defeated this guy (the incumbent)
On the other hand, the two women I voted for (there are two seats) as Waterloo regional councilors both lost to men. But, at least the two men in question weren't unqualified, boorish, populists, so one can take some comfort in that.
In my city ward, the incumbent chose not to run again. One candidate captured the support of most of my immediate neighbours by expressing dismay about the planned residential high-rise building nearby. I considered joining that bandwagon, but ultimately voted for Royce Bodaly, who seemed to have a really good grasp of the local issues and a real online presence, and who made an effort to visit every household in the ward during the campaign. I must have talked to him for 20 minutes myself! He ended up winning the seat… By a margin of 11 votes. (And yet, there was no recount.)
By the way, I am not critiquing how long the US results take—or that they have recounts. Those are elections on a much bigger scale, of course, and conducted very differently (in ways I won't pretend to understand). Giving people various ways to vote and taking the time to count all the votes is good, even though that means you can't trust the narrative on voting day. It's not a blue wave! Unless, wait for it, wait for it, yes it is…
One of the challenges raised in the US midterms (in Maine) was over the use of ranked ballots, as the leader after the first round of ranked ballot voting lost his lead in the second. (The results were upheld.) Ranked ballots were also tried in one Ontario city this year: London. They had to do something like 14 rounds of counting, but in the end, the same person who was in the lead after the first round became mayor. People said that demonstrated that ranked ballots are pointless, but I'm not so sure. There were a lot of people running (hence the number of rounds of counting), and at least the winner now knows he's not a polarizing figure, and that the majority who voted are basically OK with him being their mayor.
I think it might be worth trying elsewhere. (Cambridge and Kingston voted to do so in the next election, though the results aren't binding in Cambridge.) When you do this local election research, you do generally end up with not only your #1 choice, but an idea of the other people you think would also be OK, and those you really don't want elected under any circumstances. So marking your ballot accordingly wouldn't really be so much more work.
Finally, municipally there was a period after the election where the previous council continued to sit and govern, til the new crew were oriented and took over about a month. There was no drama or scandal surrounding this that I know of—except perhaps Cambridge council voting themselves a raise without accepting the offsetting reduction in benefits. But they did that for selfish reasons that they wanted their cake and eat it too (many were re-elected), and not to hamstrung the newbies.
The US has a longer "lame duck" period during which some states, like Wisconsin, well:
Details: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/in-stunning-power-grab-wisconsin-republicans-pass-bill-weakening-new-governor_us_5c06e268e4b0680a7ec9a289
Democracy, man. It's fragile. But worth fighting for.
Categories: Politics, Technology | Tags: election, news, politics, technology, Waterloo | Permalink.
My relationship with the Globe and Mail is dysfunctional
I do think that, in these times, it's important to support the newspaper industry financially, if you can afford to. This might seem crazy, when so much news is available for free online—and there's certainly an argument that news companies haven't been that smart in making so much of it available free online. But, we need to support real journalists. Those who hold politicians to account. Who spend months on investigative stories. Who fact check. Who provide the background details on that "click-bait" headline. Someone needs to help pay for all that—or we'll lose it.
Photo by Kaboompics .com on Pexels.com
However, there is really no need to subscribe to as many newspapers as I do. Most of these subscriptions, I acquired at some great deal, but these deals gradually expire, I have to start rethinking some of these relationships.
Long-time companion: My local paper
If you're looking to subscribe to one newspaper, your local paper is a good one to consider. For one thing, if you even have one, you're lucky—just ask Guelph. And there have been studies that closures of local newspaper increase the cost of local government: no more watchdogs.
But you don't have to think of your subscription as a charity donation; it is actually a source of useful information—who's running for office in your town; local perspectives and comments on national and international stories (example: Greg Mercer's great investigative work on Doug Ford's shoddy treatment of former Kitchener MPP Michael Harris, later picked up by The Toronto Star); upcoming and ongoing constructions projects; festivals and other events; stores and restaurants opening, closing, moving, and expanding; and updates on when the heck those Ion trains are going to get here. The New York Times is great, but it ain't going to cover any of that stuff.
Wondering where this lovely neighbourhood trail is? Your local paper might tell you.
Plus, an e-subscription to my local paper, the Waterloo Region Record, is pretty cheap. For just under $8 a month, you get unlimited access to the website and a full replica of the print edition in a handy Android or IOs app. It's also a nice, I think, that The Record is not a Postmedia publication, meaning it doesn't run obligatory corporate editorials (that just happen to have a right-wing slant). The Record is owned by the TorStar, who allow the local staff to set their own editorial direction.
Cheap date: The Washington Post
So, this is how they lured me in: They said subscribe to our newsletter, and we'll give you full website and Washington Post app access for six month. And I said, OK. And it turned out their newsletter was kind of interesting, and I was reading a bunch of their articles (Trump era! You can't look away!), and when the six months was up they said, how about you give us $20 (US) and then you can keep getting the newsletter and having full website / app access for a year. And I said, OK.
Then the year was up, and I was like, oh my God, what is my price going to jump to now? But it didn't jump at all (except to the extent that the Canadian dollar fell); it was still just $20 US for another year. Or about $2 Cnd. a month. Which, I can totally afford, so I'm keeping it, because—you can't look away!
Weekly gentleman caller: The Toronto Star
Though this is soon to change, the Toronto Star doesn't currently have a online paywall, so my subscription is an old-timey one, to the paper version, but on Sundays only. And at this point, I'm still getting it at half price.
It is kind of nice to get a paper copy (in limited quantities), and I do usually get it read (though not necessarily all on Sunday). I'm also wondering if this small subscription will provide some access once the paywall does go up. So I'll hang on to this for now to see what happens.
Toronto Star special project: Daniel Dale keeps track of every false claim Donald Trump makes. (Maybe they should do Doug Ford also?)
Glamour boy: The New York Times
Yes, this is the prestige paper, but the thing that stands out to me about The New York Times is that its online experience is just head and shoulders above everybody else's. Their long-form stories are interactive and gorgeous. For example, though it broke my heart: Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change.
"Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario…"
You can seamlessly link to the responsive and attractive New York Times app from browsers and social media. As a subscriber, you can "set aside" any story for safe-keeping or later reading, something I'm now constantly expecting from all other papers! But alas, no one else has it. (Thanks goodness for Pocket.)
And if you like cooking? A vast collection of recipes is available, auto-organized, to which you can add external sources. And even get it all printed up (for a small extra fee). If you want the "full paper replica" experiences, that's available, too. And though it's not my thing, the crossword experience is apparently incredible as well.
The lovely (and far less depressing) cooking section of the New York Times
I had this subscription for a year at 60% off, and the full monthly price ($22; they let you pay in Canadian) is now a bit of a shock. Cheaper subscription are available—and even freeloaders aren't completely cut off. So I'll have to do some research on how much glamour I really need in my life.
Dysfunctional relationship: The Globe and Mail
If you think The New York Times is a bit pricey… Meet the Globe and Mail. I have the cheapest possible subscription, but now that this 60% off discount has expired, we're talking $27 a month. That's just to read stuff on the website—no amazing app, no replica of the full paper, no home delivery, nothing much extra other than… Report on Business magazine.
So I keep breaking up with The Globe and Mail. Which is always painful—because it requires a phone call, of course, no handy Cancel button. And the cancellation request is never immediately accepted. No, they first try to lure or guilt you into staying, but if you succumb, you know you're just putting off the pain to a later date.
But even when I succeed in ending the relationship, I often find myself lured back. Because for all the frustrations with this publication:
Why is Margaret Wente still employed there?
The world's most ridiculous federal election endorsement
The heavily investor-focused tools that I just don't care about
The often absurdly priced clothing and cosmetic items featured
They do have some very good columnists, and they do invest in long-form investigative pieces more so than any other Canadian newspaper. A prime examples is the Unfounded series that Robin Doolittle worked on for 20 months, revealing that an incredible percentage of reported sexual assaults were being dismissed as "unfounded", or without merit. It's a rare case of a newspaper story leading to nation-wide changes in policing.
There's also the simple fact that a lot of Globe and Mail stories are "subscriber-only", period. While there are ways around this (you can get the Globe digital replica free from the library, for example), they are not as convenient as just clicking and reading the story. But what price convenience? That's what I have to decide.
Categories: books, Environment, Food, Politics, Technology | Tags: media, news, newspapers, photography, photos, technology | Permalink.
Twitter break
We'd boarded, so I set my phone and tablet to airplane mode, and kept myself entertained with a novel. On the drive home from the airport, I decided: No more Twitter.
Going cold turkey
I made no announcements (who would care?), did not delete my account, didn't even uninstall the app or turn off the notifications. I just… stopped going to Twitter.
What struck me at first was that… I felt like I had so much time. To read other stuff. To get chores done. To talk to people (in person). To arrive places on time. Woah.
What surprised me next was that, I didn't miss reading Twitter at all. But I did miss tweeting out links to interesting stuff.
A few times, I just broke down and did that, the tweeting. (Alysha Brilla liked one of them. That was cool.) But I stayed away from the reading of the timeline.
The reason was nothing so dramatic as online harassment, thank God. It was just the stress of it, the anxiety.
Twitter was just Freaking Me Out.
Ontario was about to elect an incompetent populist as Premier. Canada was getting into a trade war with the US. Immigrant children were being separated from their parents. And reading about this (and more!) on Twitter, I worried about all of it.
Yet, it's not like a took a news break here. While not on Twitter, I was still reading and hearing about all of this (and other bad stuff going on). It just seemed so much easier to manage the information in the form of news articles, editorials, and TV reports than in the hot takes, inflammatory opinions, alarming speculation, and emotional responses on Twitter.
Twitter never warns you. (Source: Pearls Before Swine)
Twitter is a social media, and there can be some comfort in knowing that others are worried about the same things you are. But only to a point. The point where you start out seeking validation about one issue only to find yourself, an hour later, in a tizzy about ten other issues, three of which might just be inventions or misunderstandings.
So, I stopped. The generalized anxiety didn't immediately disappear. Initially, it transferred onto other targets (Inner monologue: "Is the cats' ear infection back?" "How do you get a skunk out from under the deck?" "Wait, is this just a mosquito bite, or…?"), like the angst needed somewhere else to go now that it didn't have Twitter to feed it. But with time that diminished also.
On election day, I was able to view the bad (but expected) results without getting overly emotional, and I managed have a decent night's sleep afterward. Sure, it was mostly an infuriating result, but my candidate won (easily), and she's a qualified, experienced women. And Ontario did elect its first Green MPP, a just reward for the party that had the best platform on offer.
Tonight, we made history. We showed Ontario what can happen when you vote for what you believe in.
Thank you to everyone who made this possible. #onpoli #onelxn #letsmakehistoryhttps://t.co/bpliU9sRB6
— Mike Schreiner (@MikeSchreiner) June 8, 2018
Today, after about a week off, I dipped a toe back into the Twitter. For all its flaws, it is a good way for me to find out about things that I care about, that simply don't make the headline news. (Queen and Adam Lambert have done a live version of "Lucy"! Rainbow Rowell is writing a sequel to Carry On!)
And all that G7 crazy-ness was pretty interesting. Until… I found myself getting kind of anxious about it.
And then… I closed the app.
Categories: Economy, Politics, Technology | Tags: election, ontario, politics, technology, Twitter | Permalink.
Finding time to listen
I have found a new (to me) podcasting app Pocket Casts and it's very good. It has solved all my podcasting problems: It gathers all podcasts in one app, whereas before I was bouncing between iTunes, Google, SoundCloud, and a browser. It keeps my spot in each podcast I've started, even when switching devices or playing through Sonos or Chromecasting. It can even cut silences out of each episode, making it each one slightly shorter.
Wait, did I say it solved all my podcasting problems? There's one it's likely only exacerbated, even with the seconds or minutes saved by cutting out silences: finding time to listen to all the ones I'd like to.
Some people do this by listening on what they call chipmunk speed, playing it at a faster speed than recorded. I tried that, but I just don't like the weird sound that results, even at only 1.5x faster.
I can't attend to a podcast while reading, or having a conversation, or working (because fortunately my job's not that boring), or writing, or anything else in which I have to attend to my thoughts. My commute is extremely short, which is wonderful in most ways, but means that it's really not enough time to make much of a dent in a podcast episode.
And I just don't want to give up my daily habit of listening to music while making dinner. I also don't think they would be as good as soundtrack to my Monday night cleaning routine as my "high-energy songs" playlists.
"Know what would make my life better? Listening to music less often."
— No one, ever.
So I found myself seeking out extra chores I can do, for which a podcast would be a useful adequate. Now, anything that can motivate me to do some tidying up is beneficial. But I still prefer cooking to tidying, so I also find that I'm now trying out more dessert recipes. The value of that is debatable.
(On the other hand, you can definitely overdo this podcast thing, as revealed in this article: I Listen to 35 Hours of Podcasts Every Week. Is That … Bad? Answer: yeah, kind of… And towhich I say… 35 hours a week! Jesus. When do you do… anything else?)
There seems to be podcasts about every topic under the sun, and I'm not always sure how I stumbled upon the ones I try to listen to semi-regularly. But here's a sampling of them and what I like about them.
These are nice because, being less attuned to current events, you can more cherry-pick through them and feel less pressure to listen to them soon after their posting date.
Good old CBC Radio—the original podcaster! This particular series is by Terry O'Reilly and is on the subject of advertising, or "the art of persuasion". Recent episodes have covered jingles (with a WKRP reference), use of celebrities (early Ellen Degeneres!), brand myths (no, little Mikey from the Life cereal commercial didn't die of pop rocks + coke. In fact, he's alive and works in advertising). I've always loved this show, but rarely catch it on the radio. Podcasts to the rescue.
Hidden Brain is by NPR: the CBC of the US! This is how it describes itself:
Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world – and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, the biases that shape our choices, and the triggers that direct the course of our relationships.
One three-part series that actually changed my own behavior a little was on the subject of sleep: The "Swiss Army Knife" Of Health. It makes a pretty compelling case that while sleep feels like a waste of time, it's really important. And that while those who routinely get only 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night might think they're managing just fine, they actually aren't. They just no longer notice how tired they are all the time. But they are chronically under-performing, both mentally and physically. To be at your best, you need an "uncompromising 8 hours of sleep." Every day.
Pop culture stuff is timely, but not that timely, especially since I almost never see movies on opening weekends, read books when they first come out, or watch TV live (love my PVR). So I can go back a few weeks on the pop culture ones without them feeling irrelevant.
Backtalk by Bitch Media
This one, hosted by two young women, looks at all aspects of pop culture—music, TV, movies, podcasts, books, magazines—from a feminist perspective. I've gotten some really good recommendations from it, along with some great insights; for example, their episode about the movie Get Out pointed out a whole lot of racial metaphors and symbols that I had missed, and made me admire the movie even more.
The only issue? And I don't know how to say this without coming across as a disapproving granny, but wow, they sure swear a lot. I know, there's a lot for American women to be angry about right now, and you gotta speak your truth. I just feel the arguments might be a bit more effective if the colorful language was applied more judiciously.
The Americans Podcast
Where Backtalk is very broad; The Americans Podcast is super-specific. It's not about all the people living in the country to the South, but about the FX TV series by that title that tells the story of Russian spies in 1980s who pose as an all-American couple, complete with all-American children. As previously reported, Jean and I love it.
It's currently in its sixth and final season, and I have just discovered this podcast, which contains interviews with the cast, crew, and creators of the show, and thus is strictly a post-episode listen, as it's rife with spoilers. This season is setting up to be epic.
Political stuff, especially American, is just moving with break-neck speed these days. These are the ones I don't like to wait too long after post date before listening.
Lovett or Leave It
Crooked Media was a response to the election of Trump. Most of its members used to work for President Obama in some capacity. So they're not unbiased, but the aim is to have "better conversations about politics." They have a ton of podcasts, and I've sampled various ones. But my favorite is Lovett or Leave It.
Some sincerely cool Crooked Media merch
Lovett or Leave It is taped live Friday nights in front of an audience, who participates in some segments. It's a humorous, improvised look at the week's stories in US politics. To add to the many other sources of humorous looks at US politics. What's different here, I guess, is that it's a lot of super well-informed people cathartically doing things like playing a clip from Fox news, saying "OK, stop", and responding to the stupidity. Or turning the ridiculousness into a game. Or spinning a wheel to decide which topic to rant about.
It's partly informative, it's partly therapy.
Oppo – Canadaland
This is a relatively new one, and it's about Canadian politics! I was drawn to it because they seem to be especially covering wonky issues I get somewhat obsessed with, like carbon pricing, why doesn't the NDP seem more viable in Ontario, and what's up with Sikh politics.
It features journalists Justin Ling and Jen Gerson, who are supposed to in "opposition" from left and right positions, but it took me two episodes to realize that was the idea, because neither of them is really that extreme or partisan. Which I think is good (and also kind of Canadian).
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I have not completely forgotten how to read
This Globe and Mail article, called I have forgotten how to read, was posted some weeks ago now, but the opening sticks with me [bold added by me]:
Turning, one evening, from my phone to a book, I set myself the task of reading a single chapter in one sitting. Simple. But I couldn't. There was nothing wrong with my eyes. No stroke or disease clouded my way. Yet – if I'm being honest – the failure was also not a surprise.
Paragraphs swirled; sentences snapped like twigs; and sentiments bled out. The usual, these days. I drag my vision across the page and process little. Half an hour later, I throw down the book and watch some Netflix.
Out for dinner with another writer, I said, "I think I've forgotten how to read."
"Yes!" he replied, pointing his knife. "Everybody has."
"No, really," I said. "I mean I actually can't do it any more."
He nodded: "Nobody can read like they used to. But nobody wants to talk about it."
I identified with the gist of the remainder of the article, which is that the Internet has rewired our brains and made it difficult for us to focus on extended text, such as a book. Heck, even a brief Internet outage (maybe 2.5 hours) one Sunday left and my husband and I feeling like lost, disconnected souls, missing our regular jolts of online distraction.
But still, that opening example… You literally can't sit and read one chapter? That just seems impossible. Like, how boring was this book you were trying to read? Maybe don't go for Moby Dick or Middlemarch. Try some hot fiction. A lively bio, maybe.
On the other hand, if actually true, it's made me feel slightly superior, because despite my web-addled brain and Twitter addiction, I still manage to read a book chapter pretty much every single day.
Sure, it takes a bit of conscious effort. No screens in the bedroom (other than an eReader), TV off by a certain time. And quite deliberately having at least two books on the go, so that my Internet-addled brain has variety and choice. Normally, I try to make sure it's at least one fiction and one non-fiction on the go.
Here's a few I've gotten through—or am working on—recently.
Caught by Lisa Moore
Nobody I've talked to seems to have of this book, even though it was supposedly a best seller. It's a Canadian novel, set in 1978, about a young man convicted of drug dealing who escapes from prison. He then connects with his former partner in crime, who evaded incarceration, for another possible job. But he might not be evading the law as well as he thinks….
This was a well-written novel, with each chapter acting like a short story in itself, with its own suspenseful arc.
I was pleased to see that CBC has adapted the novel as a mini-series, and even more pleased that they've changed some plot elements in an interesting way. Now I don't know how this version will end, as I'm thinking it can't be the same as in the novel…
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Yes, it was about time I read this, and yes, it came to mind because of the popular mini-series, even though I only watched the first episode of that, because then the free Bravo preview ended, plus I found it kind of dark.
Compared with that one episode of the mini-series, the novel was not as depressing as I'd expected. The episode quickly presents the story of Offred's capture and "orientation" into the life of handmaiden; the novel spends more time with her immersed in that life, with flashbacks occurring only later on in the book. And it's overall less graphic, I suppose.
I "enjoyed" reading it, if that's the right word? It kept me engaged, anyway. And not having seen the rest of the mini-series, I didn't know how everything would play out.
Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK by Bonar Menninger
This a non-fiction work about what I think is the most convincing take on the Kennedy assassination: that the President was accidentally killed by one of his own security men. It documents the work of ballistics expert Howard Donaghue, who was asked to prove whether Oswald could possibly have fired three times in the necessary time span for him to have acted alone. Donaghue managed to replicate that feat, but wanted to do more research before giving his own stamp of approval on the official account. Hence begins years of research.
He discounts some of what conspiracy theorists insist prove their case; the "magic bullet" problem. He explains that by how Kennedy and Connolly were seated relative to one other, and by the type of bullet used. But he couldn't buy everything about the official account, either, concluding, for example that the first shot did ricochet onto Kennedy but not Connolly. And he was especially troubled by the fatal head shot: both its trajectory and its effect. Leading to his eventual conclusion that it was actually fired from a different location and type of gun.
I know exactly nothing about gun and ballistics, of course, but the evidence laid out here just works better for me than any other I've heard. The official story, about one deranged man acting alone, makes it hard to explain why so many officials did act in such weird, suspicious, cagey ways—breaking Texas law by stealing away the body, later losing the President's brain (!). But arguing that Oswald was either just a patsy or a party to some government conspiracy doesn't work that well, either; he really did seem the deranged loner type to try something like this, and he did murder officer Tippet.
But that Oswald alone tried to murder the President, and that one of the security men reacting to the shooting tripped and accidentally fired? And that officials didn't want the world to know that accident happened? Yes, that makes sense to me.
There was a documentary made about this theory in 2013. (The book was published in 1992.) Trailer below, but the whole thing seems to be posted on YouTube.
Someone had recommended Jo Walton to me as an author, and I picked this particular novel because it was the only one immediately available for borrowing (as an ebook) from my library. It's a novel about a woman whose life starts off on one trajectory, then splits off in two directions based on a pivotal decision. After the setup chapters, the book alternates between what happens when she says "yes" versus what happens when she says "no".
It's not only her own personal life that veers in different directions in each case, but world history itself. Early on we learn that in one case, President Kennedy (him again!) was killed, while in the other he was not. So you initially think that one life will take place in "our" world vs. an alternative one. But no. Kennedy is killed is different way, and a whole other history follows (such as his brother not being assassinated and instead becoming President himself).
With the mix of two personal stories and two alternative world histories, I got totally caught up in this. My original plan was to read what I could doing the three-week borrowing period then check it out again later, but no, I found I really wanted to finish it! The only downside to that was that it meant reading the later chapters in rapid sequence, which got pretty confusing—there was so many characters (friends, children, partners, grandchildren), not to mention varying historical facts—to try to keep straight in each "life" at that point.
I was wondering how this would all come together in the end. The answer wasn't entirely satisfying, but I didn't regret the journey one bit.
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
The current read, one I am still working on. (Plus, it's a book club book, so discussion is to come.) Early part is a really sad story, told by a very funny person.
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Just anticipating this will be my next fiction read, as that is the Oscar-nominated movie that really had my heart this year. Whereas my brain said Get Out might have been the best in terms of ideas. But the Academy thought Shape of Water, of course—it was also good. Jean and I liked The Post also, but it was more conventional than the other five nominated movies I saw.
I did not watch the actual telecast, beyond the opening monologue. I had reading to do.
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The park was created in the middle of the nineteenth century round a Manor house dating from 1789 using plans by D. Noisette.
It was acquired by the City in 1912 when it was still in the open country, but now is an irreplaceable green lung for the West of Nantes. Over the last 30 years, it has been gradually restored and various collections have been developed such as rhododendrons, magnolias, fuchsias, dahlias and heathers.
Among many remarkable trees, the most remarkable is the tulip tree Liriodendron tulipifera which is one of the oldest in France. In addition, the park has acquired a number of large plants, such as camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons, which have been rescued from building sites and successfully transplanted. On the boulevard des Anglais side, the fountain in the middle of the ferns has been decorated with statues from the former fish market that used to be at the tip of Feydeau Island.
At the top of the park, the four statues symbolising Agriculture, Forestry, Botany and Sculpture come from the former Trocadéro palace in Paris. There are also an art gallery and cafeteria in the former Manor, as well as a roundabout and a rocker to amuse the children.
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Michail Antonio's 85th minute winner gave the home side all three points, though the Cherries boss felt that his side could have picked up a winner of their own in the second half.
"It's a tough afternoon," the manager told BBC Radio Solent.
"With 20 minutes to go I felt we could potentially be on for three points, let alone one.
"We were much improved in the second half and looked dangerous. They hadn't really got near our goal, so to end up losing the game is a bitter pill to swallow.
"I think we will look back and kick ourselves that we didn't come away with something. That's got to be the ultimate disappointment."
Harry Arter was given his marching orders by Craig Pawson on 77 minutes after committing a second bookable offence.
And Howe earmarked that incident as having a huge bearing on the outcome of the match.
"We need to keep our discipline and stay in the moment," he continued.
"We need to keep our cool and we didn't, that has cost us today. It's a disappointing moment for us - the red card has had a huge bearing on the result.
"It's certainly something we need to learn from quickly. We pride ourselves on our discipline and making sure that we are smart and savvy, but in that moment we were not."
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Brazil World Cup protest clashes with police near Rio's Maracanã
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RIO DE JANEIRO/SÃO PAULO – Military police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have clashed with anti-World Cup protesters near the famous Maracanã stadium as the city's first match of the month-long tournament got underway.
As Argentina faced off against Bosnia and Herzegovina on the pitch, protesters marched in streets near the stadium to voice their anger at World Cup spending by the Brazilian government and what they view as serious underfunding of public services.
The march reunited around 300 people at its height, but riot police ensured they did not breach police lines formed to prevent the protesters from getting to the stadium.
UPDATE: See my report for Mashable on eyewitnesses reports of police using live rounds at protest.
A small number of protesters vandalised bank branches and threw homemade petrol bombs at police, who responded with tear gas, stun grenades, pepper spray and rubber bullets in a bid to disperse the group.
Around fifty of the protesters were in masks, local media reported, and at least one was injured by rubber bullets in the ensuing clashes with police and was taken to hospital.
"The majority of Brazilians don't have any rights. None at all. People are confronted by police, murdered and tortured," a protester identifying himself as Rafael told the Anadolu Agency.
"What's more, people are tortured every day with a lack of health and education. This World Cup is only for the rich," the protester continued.
"The World Cup is theft," another protester, who wished to remain anonymous, told AA. "Thirty billion reais for 30 days. And we don't have anything."
Correspondents at the tense scene said the number of protests grew as the march progressed, and that protesters tried to regroup after the main confrontation with police.
Clashes between protesters and police also marred the opening day of the tournament Thursday in São Paulo, at which a number of people, including journalists, were injured by police ordnance.
More protests are planned in the coming days.
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Akhand Bharat or Hindu Rashtra, both projects are doomed to failure. However, the ambition of creating a Greater India has some chance of success by forming a federation of like-minded nations, a Bharat Mahasangh.
Hindu nationalists have long dreamt of a Greater India. They aspire to rebuild a nation matching the size and glory of ancient India – Akhand Bharat (Undivided India) and Hindu Rashtra (Hindu Nation). RSS and BJP leaders have often pushed for these aims much to the chagrin of India's secularists. There is no doubt both projects are daring and excite many Hindus.
But both are doomed to failure. Recreating Akhand Bharat is unrealistic, and establishing a Hindu Rashtra is ultimately self-defeating. However, the ambition of creating a Greater India has some chance of success by forming a federation of like-minded nations, a Bharat Mahasangh.
Akhand Bharat, in its most expansive version, is envisioned to include territories that constituted the third century BC empire of Chandragupta Maurya. This would incorporate the modern day nations of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Tibet, Bhutan and Bangladesh. One can immediately see that such an ambitious project is a chimera.
As recently as December 2015, the issue turned into a major controversy. During Modi's surprise visit to Pakistan, BJP national secretary Ram Madhav declared that "RSS still believes that one day [Pakistan and Bangladesh] will again, through popular goodwill, come together and Akhand Bharat will be created." BJP quickly distanced itself from Madhav's statement.
Now, making India a Hindu Rashtra is the nationalists' limited new objective. "Our one supreme goal is to bring to life the all-round glory and greatness of our Hindu Rashtra," says the current RSS mission statement. Last year 150 Hindu outfits met in Goa to discuss plans for a Hindu Rashtra by 2023.
Hindu Rashtra is easy to declare but its pitfalls are menacing. The chief danger is that it would turn India into a theocratic state similar to Pakistan. It would weaken our national unity, encourage fissiparous tendencies, cause greater internal strife, and hurt India's image. Ironically, it would damage the spirit, practice and reputation of Hinduism, the one thing the move's proponents want to showcase the most.
Even more importantly, Hindu Rashtra would forever kill the dream of establishing India as Vishwa Guru, a world leader. No sovereign nation would enter a union or follow India on a principle other than genuine secularism.
Hindu nationalists are going by two theories behind their push for Hindu Rashtra. One, Hinduism is inherently secular, hence India won't become another Pakistan. And two, when Indian Muslims realise they must cower before the wishes of the majority, communal strife would end. But religious fervour is a terribly slippery slope, as we have seen recently in mob lynchings by cow vigilantes and open murders in the name of checking love jihad. We must remember how religious hatred took over Indians' sanity during Partition.
Surely, Hindu nationalists don't wish to create an India where a segment of the population lives in constant fear, as aliens. To a Muslim, or a Parsi, or a Christian, a Hindu Rashtra would never be his nation. Also, do we want an India, an age-old civilisation famous for its diversity and tolerance, to have to explain to the world how it is different from other religion-based countries, such as Pakistan, Iran, or Saudi Arabia?
Hindu nationalists can turn blue in their face trying to tell the world that Hindu Rashtra is based on Hindutva and hence not Hindu. But nobody is going to buy it. Hindutva is too intertwined with the religion of the majority. And on the ground, it has become just as fanatical as other religions.
Building a Greater India requires a more innovative approach. It would have to be envisioned along the lines of the European Union or United States of America, as a federation of sovereign states coming together voluntarily for greater common welfare.
Such a Bharat Mahasangh would have to be based on principles of liberty, egalitarianism, individualism and laissez-faire. Its structure must provide local autonomy with federal administration of specific duties delegated by member states.
Bharat Mahasangh would have to be rooted in genuine secularism. Not today's pseudo variety that allows governments to freely interfere and engage with religions. But one that provides for full freedom of religion with strict separation of church and state.
Granted, at first Bharat Mahasangh may attract only Hindu-minded states, say Nepal and Bhutan. But if structured and pursued properly, it could interest neighbouring Buddhist-minded states of Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. In its full glory, Mahasangh could even attract Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
If Greater India is our dream we must take realistic steps towards it.
This article was first published on The Times of India Edit Page on 20 March 2018.


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David Kent, president and publisher of Random House of Canada since 1991, has been named president and CEO of HarperCollins Canada, effective today, March 12. Kent succeeds Claude Primeau, who is retiring after 12 years with the company. Primeau will act as an adviser to HC Canada until the end of the year. Kent had served as executive v-p of HC Canada in 1989, before moving to Doubleday Canada. He will report to David Steinberger, president of corporate strategy and international.
HC president Jane Friedman credited Primeau with helping to turn around the company's Canadian unit. Sales at HC Canada rose by more than 100% over the last four years, and the publisher had record profits in fiscal 1999 and 2000. Friedman commented that Kent, "shares our vision of global publishing, recognizing the growing need to capitalize on the advantages for Canadian authors that come from being part of a worldwide publishing business."
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Choona Season 1 Release Date: Renewed or Cancelled? Check Here!
Netflix is one of the most popular OTT services for streaming content. It always has a wide variety of episodes, series, and movies from all around the world available to its users. As a result, everyone can enjoy their preferred genre in the language they like.
Choosing a Bollywood series to watch if you've become tired of foreign series is the finest alternative. We'll be discussing "Choona," the newest upcoming series, in this article.
Released Date of Choona's Arrival
On Netflix's official Twitter account, they've announced the series. They have also shared a little poster of the Choona series. In addition to the photo, they also included a brief comment that reads "The hustle is genuine."
Don't be tricked. The creators are keeping a tight lid on information regarding the show. While we have heard that filming began earlier than expected, we must still wait for an official announcement of a release date. The planned Netflix series "Choona" will premiere on December 29, 2022.
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Talented actors are featured in the show. The lead part will be played by Jimmy Shergill. On the other hand, we've seen him in a number of other films and television shows, like Maachis and Mere Yaar Ki Shadi Hai.
Gyanendra Tripathi, Namit Das and Atul Shrivastava, Aashim Gulati and Vikram Kochhar, and Chandan Roy and Niharika Lyra Dutt are among the other cast members. Other cast members' identities are still being kept a secret. Besides Asha Negi and Rajshri Deshpande, you'll also see this show.
Jimmy Sheirgill: Indian actor and film producer Jimmy Sheirgill (born Jasjit Singh Gill; December 3, 1970), often known as Jimmy Shergill, is an Indian actor and film producer. Maachis was Sheirgill's first feature-length film, released in 1996. Since his breakout performance as Mohabbatein (2000),
the highest-grossing Bollywood film of the year, he has appeared in several additional blockbuster films including Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai (2002) and Munna Bhai M.B.B.S (2003), With the romantic comedy Tanu Weds Manu: Returns (2015) and the comedy-drama Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006),
He has two of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time on his resume: Filmfare nominated him for his performance in the latter as a best-supporting actor.
Aashim Gulati: Gulati made his television debut in 2015 with Gulmohar Grand. Tum Bin II, in which he starred alongside Neha Sharma as Amar, was his feature film debut in 2016. When Yeh Hai Aashiqui came out, he was cast as Ayush.
Smiriti Kalra and Gulati starred together in Star Plus's Dil Sambhal Jaa Zara in 2017. He portrayed Karn in Star Plus's Karn Sangini alongside Tejasswi Prakash in the next year.
Namit Das: He is an Indian film, television, and theatre actor. A number of commercials featuring him have aired. His father, Chandan Dass, is a well-known ghazal performer in the Indian subcontinent. In addition to working for Delhi All India Radio and Doordarshan, his maternal grandpa, K. Pannalal, was a master musician. Jaidev Kumar, a well-known Punjabi music director,
Is one of his maternal uncles, as is Ajay K. Pannalal, a well-known Punjabi film director. Even though he's a classically trained vocalist (having studied under Chandan Dass and Bhavdeep Jaipurwale's tutelage), Namit has always favored acting over singing.
Plot of Choona
Whether you're looking for something lighthearted or dark, Choona has something for everyone. Unique in concept and storyline, it is one of a kind. The series centers on deceiving someone and state politics in Uttar Pradesh. The series will feature Jimmy as a politician.
It's going to be about a bunch of people coming together to avenge a corrupt politician and get him back on track in this new series about how politics and crime are intertwined.
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Pushpendra Nath Misra directed the film. It is also here that Pushpendra's thoughts on the series, "What comes to mind when you hear the name Choona??" 'Choona Lagaana' has a distinct Indian taste to it for me.
His other words were that he found it "incomparably exciting" to figure out who had fooled whom and how they had done it. There isn't a word to describe how I feel. When it comes to drama and supporting the underdogs, we're all about it!
As a final note, he noted how well it blends heist storytelling with the "lightness of a comedy." "Choona" is the result of combining this with some of the most gifted actors in the business in a long-form series style.
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I love the word embezzlement. It's a funny word. However what's not funny is Dane Abdool. Some of you old timers may remember the original post about Dane Abdool. Then 20-year-old Abdool was arrested for killing his 17-year-old girlfriend Amelia Sookdeo by setting her on fire. That post unleashed a torrent of comments from Abdool supporters claiming that he was innocent. Yeah, Amelia must have spontaneously combusted.
Anyway Abdool must have been so innocent that he was not only convicted he was also sentenced to death.
Now criminal activity may run in the family because his mom, Nazreen Mohammed, is not only being accused of stealing money from a dead woman's bank account but she's also been accused of embezzling $80K from a credit union in order to fund her son's appeal.
Now they may have matching jumpsuits in the next family portrait.


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How a Patentee can Protect the Right to claim Damages for Infringement
A patent gives the patentee the right to sue for infringement if others enter the market with an invention similar to that protected by the patent. In most cases, the existence of the patent discourages competition. However, a patentee needs to ensure that, if third parties do infringe, they will become liable to pay damages for that infringement. To ensure that there is a right to damages, we always advise patentees to mark their products with patent numbers. The patent numbers can also be applied to packaging, and included in advertising and on websites. In addition, when they become aware that a competitor is somewhat close to their patented invention, we also suggest to patentees that we write to the competitor to put it on notice as to the existence of the patent.
The consequence of not adhering to this good practice was felt by Schenck Rotec GmbH. In a case in the Patents Court, Schenck v Universal Balancing [2012] EWHC 1920 (Pat), Schenck's European patent (UK) No. 1520161, claiming a device for fastening balancing weights to rotors, was found to be both valid and infringed.
However, their victory was phyrric. Universal Balancing argued that they had not known that the patent existed, and that they had no reason to believe that the patent existed. HHJ Birss, sitting as a judge of the High Court, accepted their arguments and held that Schenck were not entitled to damages from the moment Universal Balancing began infringing the patent until they were told of the existence of the patent at a meeting in July 2010.
The judge found, as a matter of fact, that Universal Balancing did not know that the patent existed until the July 2010 meeting. Schenck argued that Universal Balancing could not establish that it had no reasonable grounds for supposing the patent existed. Schenck pointed out that there were only four significant players in the propshaft balancing industry, of which Universal Balancing have a 30% market share, and that the three companies other than Universal Balancing patent their inventions. It was also argued on behalf of Schenck that a company the size of the defendant ought to employ the services of a patent attorney and should be undertaking clearance searches.
On behalf of Universal Balancing it was argued that there was only one place where Schenck had described their machine as patented and that was in a brochure which had not been seen by Universal Balancing. The company also believed that the industry was one where patenting was not relevant. They believed that there was very little possibility for new developments in the technology, and that machines were sold on the basis of the computer software provided, on accuracy and timing, as well as on after sales service and price.
The judge ruled that the facts known to Universal Balancing were not such that would lead a reasonable person to think that the patent existed. He rejected the submission that Universal Balancing ought to have been doing patent clearance searches. He also noted that Schenck, who had sent a copy of their patent to another competitor, had only themselves to blame for the fact that Universal Balancing had no reasonable grounds for supposing the patent existed until the meeting in July 2010. Therefore Universal Balancing did have a defence to damages under Section 62 until the July 2010 meeting.


Looking at Noelia Madiedo's captivating images gives us no clue that she started her professional life in a very different field, although we get an inkling that her passion for photography is somehow connected to the mystic places of the far East. Her dream in high school and later college was to be a clinical psychologist. After graduating from Florida International University in Miami she went on to work with children as a behavioral modification therapist. It was an emotional roller-coaster ride for Noelia as classroom theory met the reality of working with autistic and disabled children. Still loving her work helping children, but wanting to balance the hectic pace and years of mentally draining days, she took time out to visit the far East and the places she felt inexplicably drawn to—Nepal, Bhutan, the Himalayas. Once there, Madiedo fell in love with the landscape, the culture and the people living on the roof of the world. It was the spiritual connection she needed, and in her mind, there was no better way than photography to capture the essence of the people and places she grew to love so much. Noelia had found her purpose and her calling. Having heard the siren call of the East, Madiedo, who was born in the Dominican Republic to a Cuban father and Dominican mother, moved to Singapore in 2010. It was a world away and far different from the Latin culture of her native DR and Miami, but it was the perfect launching pad for her travels to the destinations that are the backdrop for some of her most inspiring images. Today, her photography attracts the attention of magazines, galleries and book publishers, and while the East still holds a special place in her heart, her photography now explores all continents, from the megafauna of Africa to the verdant landscape of the Cuban countryside and the frayed glory of old Havana. Madiedo currently splits her time between Singapore, home base for her Asian travels; Miami, where she promotes her work and had an exhibit in April 2014, where she has family and is planning to open a gallery soon.
WHAT IS MEDITATION ? Meditation has roots in the contemplative practices of nearly every major religion, the most ancient and Beth know one of which is Indian Buddhism. Essentially, Buddhist meditation refers to the cultivation of basic human qualities, such as a more stable clear mind, emotional balance, a sense of caring mindfulness, even love… Continue reading What is Meditation 🙏🏼?


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The Fort Myers Metro-McGregor Kiwanis will hold the 8th annual Calusa Bug Chase 5K run and BUG Crawl on January 30 at the Calusa Nature Center, 3450 Ortiz Avenue in Fort Myers. The race will benefit the Fort Myers Metro Kiwanis Club's BUG (Bringing Up Grades) Program. Participants can register online at ftmyerstrackclub.com.
The Bagel Factory of Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres Gazette and Calusa Nature Center are committed to in-kind sponsorships. Additional sponsorship opportunities are available starting at the $150 level.
The course, supervised by the Fort Myers Track Club, travels the trails at the nature center and a portion of the asphalt bike path on Ortiz and will be timed with Chrono Track Big Tag Technology. Packet pick-up will take place the day of the race from 6:30 to 7:15am. Race day registration begins at 6:30am and race time is 7:30am. Adult pre-registration up to January 22 is $20, January 23 to 29 registration is $25 and race day registration is $35. Youth (17 and under) discounted pre-registration is $10, January 23 to 29 registration is $15 and race day registration is $25. Registration includes a long-sleeve commemorative T-shirt, complimentary race day admission to the Calusa Nature Center and refreshments. Overall and age group awards for the 5K run will be presented.
All proceeds benefit the Fort Myers Metro-McGregor Kiwanis BUG (Bring UP Grades) program, designed to provide recognition to local elementary students who raise their grades to an acceptable range and maintain or continue to raise them from one grading period to the next. The Metro-McGregor Kiwanis currently has BUG programs at Orangewood and Littleton Elementary schools and is actively seeking more schools to participate.
The Metro-McGregor Kiwanis Club is looking for more service-minded individuals and business professionals who would like to make a direct impact on the community through volunteering. Meetings are held every Tuesday at 11:30am in Fort Myers. For details on joining the Metro-McGregor Kiwanis Club, call club president Heather Chouinard at 332-4440. The Metro-McGregor Kiwanis Club can be found on Facebook or online at www.Metro-McGregor.com.
This article originally appeared on December 25, 2015 at http://riverweeklynews.suncoastpress.com/?iid=134213#folio=4.


I just wanted to say simply, thank you Blizzard for expansion and game experience that I am thoroughly enjoying.
+1 and another +1 from my friend who is too busy enjoying the game to post.
Piling on. I haven't tried the crusader yet but the new content and revamped gameplay are top notch.
So far so good! This game is finally moving in the right direction.
Agreed. It's not perfect but I am having a heck of a time playing again.
When 2.0 patch came out. I convinced 4 friends to simply re install and try it out. Now they are regulars, and we all purchased the Digital CE.
We have been playing non stop since 2.0 patch dropped last month.


The semi-peripheral and peripheral situation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region has been intensely hidden in the World Social Fora (WSF) and the European Social Fora (ESF) since the beginning, and was proven in the low numbers representation as both for the speakers and the activists. The various left-wing parties of the core countries, circumventing the principles of the WSF Charter, have been hiding behind Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). Large Trade Union confederations of Western Europe and rich non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have dominated the forum processes and the social movements themselves. Already in the middle of 2005, in opposition to the ESF centers (i.e. Florence, Paris and London) it has been formulated in written form that the specific, similar historical experiences and the marginal (very much underrepresented) situation of the CEE make it necessary to organize the CEESFs, where the more radical speakers and activists of the region should be present in greater (visible) numbers. In 2005 our efforts were opposed by Elisabeth Gauthier (French Communist Party) and Christoph Ventura (French ATTAC), so this idea was then too early.
After the dying out of the ESF or more precisely after its termination in 2012, the first CEESF under the title of "Revolt on the Periphery?" was organized by the Prague Spring 2 Network (PS2) and it took place in Vienna Austria on May 2-5, 2013. The Final declaration of 1st CEESF joined the anti-capitalist current of the WSF process.
Due to the dying out of the ESF, the focus of the Western social movements was channelled into the events of the trade union based Alternative Summits (AS), which are open both to the great European trade union confederations and the left-wing parties (mainly the Party of the European Left). There is no question of disagreement, but the specificity of the CEESFs are still embody some more radical currents of the civil movements of our CEE region.
The 2nd CEESF was held about 2 years ago and initiated by our Polish friends, namely Monika Karbowska and Ewa Groszewska, and was financially supported heavily by Russian comrades. The basically anti-capitalist forum was held in Wroclaw/Poland in March 11-13, 2016, with about 100 to 130 participants from 12 countries. The explicit goal of that Forum was not only to demonstrate the semi-peripheral status of Central and Eastern Europe, but also to develop a much closer cooperation with the other peripheral countries and to strengthen the solidarity.
According to our idea, the 3rd Central and Eastern European Social Forum ( in other words the Assembly of Resistances-in abbreviation: AoR) will be held on the first weekend of March 2018 (2-3-4 March) in Hungary. The planned venue of the event would be at the Regatta Leisure Center in Horány near Budapest, which can give shelter for up to 150 people, with all technical facilities for the program – a plenary room and 3-4 additional seminar rooms. Alternative venue is VITTA Hotel, Újpest/Budapest.
The second preparatory meeting of the 3rd CSESF (AoR) was held on December 3, 2017, in Bratislava/Slovakia, (the first was held in Budapest, Kossuth Club in May 2017). The third preparatory meeting of AoR will be here again in Budapest on Friday January 12, 2018. The main organizers of the event are the key players of the "Prague Spring 2 Network", namely: 1.) Leo Gabriel (Austria), 2.) Hermann Dworczak (Austria), 3.) Tord Björk (Sweden), 4.) Mirek Prokes (Czechia) and 5) Matyas Benyik (Hungary).
The purpose of this 3rd CEESF (AoR) is to shake up and encourage civil society organizations in our CEE region, and we are trying to bring together anti-systemic organizations and progressive people for our common anti-capitalist struggles.
Our AoR is part of WSF 2018 to be held in Salvador de Bahía/Brazil between 13th and 16 March 2018. In the run up to the WSF 2018 – ATTAC Hungary being part of the PS2 Network and the Hungarian Social Forum – will participate in the meeting Europe in Movement, to be held in Barcelona on January, 19th-20th. This is a preparatory meeting for popular organizations and movements in Europe towards the International Assembly that will take place in Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, between February, 27th and March 6th and our comrade – a key environmentalist expert, an economist György Droppa is delegated from Hungary. In this our effort we requested the financial support of the Venezuelan Embassy in Budapest/Hungary as well as the Operative Secretariat of the People`s Assembly.


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All policemen in Ajah division transferred — PPRO
Lagos State Police Command spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin has announced that all policemen attached to the Ajah police station in Lagos State have been transferred out of the division.
According to Hundeyin, this would fully materialise in a couple of days. The statement read;
"I can confirm that this publication has been overtaken by events. The new DPO Ajah, CSP Adolf Ogwu, had earlier in the week dismantled all the shanties around the police station.
"In addition, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Abiodun Alabi, has already effected the transfer out of ALL personnel of the division, with replacement from other divisions. This would fully materialise in a couple of days.
"While appreciating @MobilePunch for the exposé, we encourage more Lagos residents to, as usual, say something whenever they see something, as this would translate to a better policing experience for all. Remember, security is everyone's business."
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Bilali Mack, superviseur VFX chez Alkemy X
A new episode of the Chaos Group audio podcast is online . On the menu, an interview with Bilali Mack, VFX supervisor working on films and series ( Power Book II: Ghost, One of ours ). The interview evokes in particular the tool Flame of Autodesk, the way in which Bilali Mack directs smoke and blood in the service of the narration.
5 Questions Facing the Film Industry in 2021
The movie business is ready to shake off 2020 and the world-shattering pandemic that fundamentally altered the way films are made, distributed and enjoyed. But before the box office can roar back to life, there are still major issues that Hollywood is grappling with, involving everything from cinemas' red-ink-filled balance sheets to the evolution of studios' comic book universes.
Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition, and Rush in Apple M1
According to Adobe, the Creative Cloud builds of Premiere Pro, Premiere Rush, and Audition with native Apple M1 chipset support are now available in beta.
The 5 Best FREE Audio Editing Programs Available
So, if you're more on the beginner side of things, there's really no need to pull your wallet out just yet. No matter the type of content you're going to be editing—whether it's podcasts or just general narration/VO—you want something that's going to allow you to make simple cuts, add transitions, and control the decibels. If you're looking to do anything else, like adding effects, you'll need to try out one of the paid programs.
Media Composer 2020.12 – Native H.265/HEVC Suppo
Avid Media Composer 2020.12 is here and this time the update includes the possibility to import H.265/HEVC files and use them on the timeline without transcoding. It also offers updates to Avid Titler+, multiple improvements to the Audio Mixer, and several more aspects.
Dear Adobe, Blackmagic and other post software
Here is my open letter to companies like Adobe, Blackmagic Design and all the other non-linear editing and post-production software makers out there...
'Palm Springs' Editor on the Alternate Beginning Y
"Palm Springs" editor Matt Friedman tells TheWrap there was a whole other beginning of the film that they ultimately decided not to use.
The Most Popular Sound Effects Libraries of 2020
2021 is almost here, but let's not pass up an opportunity to recognize some of the talented SFX creators who contribute to the site - here are 12 of the most popular libraries from 2020...
In our Color Code column, Luke Hicks chooses a handful of shots from a favorite film in order to draw out the meaning behind certain colors and how they play into both the scene and the film as a whole. For his fifth entry, he digs into Todd Haynes' Carol.
Converting Videos to MP4
I am often asked about transferring VHS or another format to MP4. Since my typical transfer job for a customer is usually to convert a lot of videos to either DVD or USB, I need to carefully consider the most efficient way to do this. One approach is to use a simple interface between the VHS deck and my computer. A device like the"Video 2 PC" converter from Ion enables you to bring the tape into your computer. But you can only do one at a time. Some of the tapes, however, are six hours long. That's too long to tie up a computer.


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Dr. Stephanie Daher
Dr. Stephanie Daher is a researcher at the European Foundation for Democracy. She is also a research fellow in contentious politics - MENA at the Centre for Social Sciences Research & Action. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and Tunisia, in addition to visiting research periods at the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Durham University (UK) and Centre D'Etudes Maghrébines in Tunisia. She has worked as a research consultant on violent left wing and anarchist terrorism in EU Member States within the framework of a project-based collaboration between Italy and Greece.
She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Sant'Anna Advanced School of Studies in Italy, where she specialised in contentious politics and protest movements in the Middle East and North Africa. She also has an MA in World Politics and International Relations from the University of Pavia (Italy) and a Masters Degree in Law from the Lebanese University. Her main research interests include contentious politics in the MENA region, social movements, and security studies.
Email: stephanie.daher [AT] europeandemocracy.eu


Whether you're filling up for a day of exploring or refueling after seeing the sights, wondering where the best place to eat in Jasper will likely be at the top of your mind! Here's a shortlist of some of the top joints for quick bites, loaded sandwiches, and delicious dinners, all in the picture-worthy town of Jasper, Alberta.
Mediterranean inspired, the Raven Bistro has a menu full of fresh food with a touch of local flair. Lunch items include the buffalo chicken wafflewich (yes, that's a thing), and the tasty Vietnamese pho soup, whereas dinner specialties consist of the colourful vegan chorizo spring rolls, and the hearty beef tenderloin Wellington.
In true Fairmont style, Jasper Park Lodge's signature restaurant has paired stunning mountain views with some of the freshest ingredients in the region. In partnership with local Twin Meadows Farms, Orso Trattoria specializes in delicious northern Italian dishes, and they are the only establishment in Jasper to have Peroni beer on tap!
Welcome to the local's favourite. Tucked away in a hole-in-the-wall spot on Patricia Street, this little deli serves up fresh and delicious sandwiches, wraps and soups that are consistently raved about online. If you're heading out for the day on a tour, hiking, biking or skiing, you can message your order on Facebook ahead of time and they'll pre-make it for pick up.
Okay, this list wouldn't be complete without a local craft brewery. Jasper Brewing Co. ticks all the boxes when it comes to North American dishes (think tasty burgers, sliders, salads, and nachos), and the beer sampling on offer completes the menu. Try one of their seasonal ales on tap, or the 6 x 6oz sampler of the different flavours of beer.
Cakes, coffee, sandwiches. Stop in for a sit or pick up a snack before you head out for the day. This bakery in Jasper was so popular that they opened a second location in town called…wait for it… 'The Other Paw Bakery'.
The town of Jasper is located 288km (178 miles) from Banff, Alberta via one of the best drives in the world. The incredible Icefields Parkway is a well maintained and highly accessible route full of jaw-dropping scenery and more camera worthy viewpoints than memory card space on your camera. Jasper is also only a 1-hour drive to the CMH Cariboos helipad, open for Summer Adventures this July.