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Hutch/Kinahan gang war
Peace talks between Kinahan and Hutch gangs broke down before latest murders
Gardai believe representatives for the Kinahans met with members of the rival mob more than three months ago
(Left to right) Top: Gary Hutch, Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch, Derek 'Del Boy' Hutch Bottom: Daniel Kinahan, Christy 'Dapper Don' Kinahan, 'Fat' Freddie Thompson
Peace talks between the warring Kinahan and Hutch gangs broke down before the latest wave of killings, it can be revealed.
Gardai believe representatives for the Kinahans met with members of the rival mob more than three months ago, aiming to put an end to the bloody feud that has claimed 10 lives.
But a senior source said the discussions broke down almost immediately, sparking more violence from the Spain-based cartel.
He told the Irish Daily Mirror: "There were tentative peace talks between the Kinahans and the Hutches.
"Christy Kinahan wanted this finished, he wanted it stopped. So did Gerry Hutch . This was only in the last couple of months.
"But obviously they didn't get very far with the talks and the Kinahans went back to shooting and killing immediately."
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The Monk's nephew Gareth Hutch, 35, became the eighth victim of the feud when he was gunned down in broad daylight in north inner city Dublin at the end of May, right after the talks broke down.
Last month, innocent Trevor O'Neill was killed in a case of mistaken identity when he was blasted in front of his family while holidaying in Majorca.
The father of three was shot four times in the back as his wife pushed their child in a pram beside him.
Jonathan Hutch, 37, another nephew of The Monk, told gardai in the immediate aftermath of the killing that he was the intended target.
He has no involvement in crime but is believed to have come under the Kinahans' radar because of his family connections.
Just a few weeks later six shots were fired at his father Johnny's house in North Dublin.
Jonathan was also believed to be in the house at the time, although neither of the men was hurt in the botched hit.
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Johnny is a brother of The Monk and Eddie Hutch Snr – an innocent taxi driver who became one of the earliest victims of the gang war after the Regency Hotel shootings.
The source added: "All this is because the peace talks broke down. Christy wanted peace. Gerry Hutch wanted an end to the killing.
"But they couldn't make the talks work and the Kinahans have taken that badly. It seems to be one extreme or the other for them.
"That's why you're seeing all those attacks abroad and on Johnny and his son."
With the talks having failed, gardai fear the violence could escalate further.
But after the raids on the Kinahan cartel in Dublin and Spain this week, the gang could be forced to lay low.
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Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been super busy. I'm doing well in NaNoWriMo – currently I've written 23,450 words – but not as well as I would like. I've been spending a lot of time writing papers, and just finished my first draft of "From Ardashir I to Mahmud of Ghazna: Society, Culture, and Identity in Early Medieval Iran." Only two more lengthy research papers to write this month!
But, as promised, I offer you the prologue to The Divine Madness of Kings. As it's going, the book is going to need a lot of editing, but at least the ideas are getting out there onto the page!
The sound of bells rang throughout the fortress-city of Ulaanbaatar, bouncing between pyramids and obelisks, spires and domes, towers and pagodas, buttresses and minarets. The entire city rested on the top of a gigantic column of stone, expertly hewn out of the earth. Aircraft from all of the planets of the Terran Home Rule and all of the Tribes of the Tyrrhish Nomads circled the city, and few craft from far beyond the borders of the Human Empire joined them as well.
A Tyrrhish aircraft, bearing a striking resemblance to a metallic green fish, flew in low over the audience, circled the Grand Auditorium three times, and then sank down onto the floor of the stage, where several beings had been awaiting its arrival. A door opened in its hull and four Humans, dressed formally in the Tyrrhish fashion, with long robes in their tribe's color of green flowing around them and enormous golden pendants inset with emeralds hanging about their necks, emerged, bearing a golden stretcher. They walked forward and laid it down upon a stone table brought to the Auditorium specifically for that purpose, and then stepped back to their aircraft. The beings who had been standing on the platform before then proceeded to move forward, and stood in a semicircle behind the stretcher.
The stretcher was by no means empty. A cloth of green lay across it, embroidered with golden thread marking the symbols of every Tyrrhish tribe. The Humans standing at each end of the stretcher – one wearing a blue robe with a sapphire pendant, the other with a black robe and obsidian one – turned to face each other, bowed slightly, grasped both ends of the cloth, lifted it off, and let it fall to the floor. The cloth's removal revealed a still, peaceful corpse, arms crossed over his chest, and his eyes closed. He was dressed in the gray uniform of the Terran Home Rule's military, but wore a Tyrrhish pendant around his neck. He was a middle-aged gentleman, and had the faintest beginnings of a five o'clock shadow on his face. His short, jet-black hair blew gently in a whispering wind, and his immaculately polished black boots reflected the sun into the faces of the audience.
The Human standing in the center of the semicircle of beings began to speak. He wore a red and black beret, and his dark skin gleamed with sweat as it trickled into his thick beard. "We are gathered here today to honor the death of one of the best of us. A Human who has achieved remarkable things in his life. He will never be forgotten, for without him, we would not be where we are today. An exile and an outcast, thrown out of Tyrrhish society and unwanted by Terran society, this man managed to become one of the most respected soldiers in the Human Empire, earning the trust of every Human under the Home Rule. He was chosen on the basis of his impeccable record to be the representative of his adopted planet, Pallas, on the greatest Human expedition of all time, on board a ship we called the Ambassador. That ship brought a hand-picked crew to the Seven Seas star system, in order to investigate life-signs coming from one of those stars. It was to be our first successful attempt to find sentient life- other than us, of course – in the universe." The man paused for a moment and drew a small vial of water from a pocket. He gulped it down and wiped his brow.
"Despite many setbacks and terrible disasters, that expedition managed to return not only with the proven existence of sentient life, but also with that life itself. The survivors of the Ambassador expedition brought Juxtani Civilization to us all, and integrated us into a larger whole. We have emerged from this experience as a greater and better civilization. This man helped bring Juxtani Civilization to us, and us to them.
"But not only did he do these things. No, he also bridged the apparently irreconcilable gap between two peoples who had been separated for the better part of each's existence: the roving Tyrrhish Nomads and the sedentary Terran Home Rule. He risked his life to go and find the people who had banished him and bring them into the Human fold, uniting the two halves of humanity at last." The speaker smiled, and thunderous applause filled the stadium.
He raised his hand for silence. "But that is not all. No, not only did he unite Juxtani and Humans and Humans and Humans, but he also exposed the rotten core at the heart of the Home Rule. Along with the legendary Jakken Jalhalla Servidos and others, he helped to save the Human race from complete and utter annihilation at the hand of Banditry and then-Third Thiefking Roland van der Tyke. His work with the Order of the Bronze Dragon brought a terrible plot to slaughter all of humanity into the light, and thereby managed to help save us all, and bring the Home Rule out of the thrall of the Dervishes." A collective shudder passed through the crowd.
Michaela saluted the corpse stiffly and stepped from the speaker's platform, making room for a Juxtani dignitary, the Vizeri Lord Majias. Lord Majias spoke at great length about Mikhail's character, emphasising not the importance of his actions, but the depth of his compassion and his wisdom. The Chief Shortel Ambassador to the Humans, Thyrak, spoke next, and told of Mikhail's diplomatic skills and his impressive achievement of reconciling the Tyrrhs and the Terrans.
The last to speak in memory of the deceased was one Derekk Andres san Paolo, the husband of the vanished Jakken Jalhalla Servidos, and the director of the Office of Governmental Oversight. "Mikhail… meant many things to me. He was a close friend, and was a comrade-in-arms during the fight to save Earth and the Human race from Roland's schemes. As a head of the Order of the Bronze, he showed us all that he was not afraid to skirt the authority of the law in order to do what's right. He serves as the role model for the Office of Governmental Oversight, and has always been an indispensable part of our team. The world will be a much bleaker place without him. Rest in peace, dear friend." Derekk bowed his head deeply to Mikhail and stepped back. Jonah Michelson took the stand again to make closing remarks and to invite everyone to the reception to be held in Ulaanbaatar's Hagia building. Derekk did not wait for the First Governor to finish speaking before walking off the stage and into the wings.
"Yes, I'm done with that farce." Derekk put the boy down and grabbed his hand, walking him away from the Auditorium. His son waddled after him, looking up with eager eyes.
Derekk considered withholding that information for a few moments, and then gave in. Darien could be painfully stubborn, and Derekk had a feeling that his son wouldn't move until he knew everything.
Oh, you will be, said a voice in the back of the young boy's head. That and much more. Darien smiled.
"I could never be as great as you, dad." Darien hugged his father, and Derekk returned the embrace, eyes dancing with happiness.
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Asuma smokes and carries with him a lighter that appears to be an heirloom and very important to him. Asuma also plays Shogi with Shikamaru quite often, but never is able to win.
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Wildcats Release Plans for New Ballpark
By Zach Spedden on October 21, 2016 in College Baseball, News
More details are expected to be unveiled, but the University of Kentucky has released designs and preliminary plans for a new ballpark.
Approval for the ballpark was finalized today, which clears the way for a 2019 opening. The university will construct a brand new facility off of Alumni Drive, with the exact location being between a new football training facility and a soccer training complex.
The ballpark would offer 2,400 fixed seats, with additional berm seating extending the capacity to 4,000. In addition, the new facility will feature modern premium and suite level seating. It will also be built in a way that allows for temporary seating beyond the outfield for major events, with higher-profile games hosting upwards of 6,000 spectators.
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Return of the Holiday Storytellers!
A few days ago, Shawn Slater of Disney Parks Blog pointed out that the holidays return to Epcot's World Showcase today – November 29th. Or, should I say that he reported that the "Holidays Around the World" begin today?
I would venture to guess that many of us have enjoyed some aspect of Epcot's tribute to the holidays at one point or another. For instance, have you witnessed World Showcase's centerpiece event – Candlelight Processional?
Having said this, I would also bet that a lot of us have neglected the opportunity to watch the Epcot Holiday Storytellers tell their tales. Who are the Epcot Holiday Storytellers?
Courtesy of WDW's own website, let's meet them!
American Adventure – Meet Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, celebrate the traditions of Hanukkah, and discover the spirit of Kwanzaa.
Canada – Follow the Canadian Holiday Voyageurs (a NEW act featuring members of Off Kilter!) on a musical tour as you explore seasonal customs of the Great White North. But, will we still get to see "lumberjack" Santa (er, Papa Noel)? I hope so!
China – Watch the agile Monkey King weave his tall tale with twists and turns while celebrating Chinese New Year.
Japan – Hear the fascinating story of the Daruma doll and learn about the Japanese customs of the New Year.
Mexico – Celebrate with Los Tres Reyes Magos, the Three Kings, as they tell the story of their journey and speak of the traditions of today.
Morocco – Join Taarji, a Moroccan drummer, as he reflects on family traditions commemorating the holiday of Ramadan.
United Kingdom – Share in the vivid stories of Father Christmas, dating back to 15th-century England.
Frankly, for us, I feel that we were always in a bit too much of a hurry to make our way from attraction to attraction. In other words, we often failed to "stop and smell the poinsettias" – thereby missing this bit of Disney's magic.
How about you? Are you a fan of these seasonal entertainers? Which is your personal favorite? Or, alternatively, if you haven't seen them as yet and only had the time to stop and enjoy ONE performance, which one would you stop to watch?
In either case, help us combine our collective opinions and label one of these acts as the All in WDW Readers' Favorite Epcot Holiday Storyteller! Go ahead! Get into the "Epcot holiday" spirit! VOTE!
I always like to stop by the pavilions during this time and listen to all the storytellers tell their story. It's fun for the kids and me!
Thanks, Ken! I'm glad to hear that you stop to listen. I wish we had done the same. Not this year, but maybe in the near future we will.


Ok… the sit ~ rep for prayer group over block leave goes as follows: this was our last prayer group meeting (June, Wednesday the 27th 2018) till we reconvene on the second Wednesday in September (Sept, Wednesday the 12th 2018).
This last part of the journey is called Jesus, the King – the soon to come King!
This being the last email for summer break, I would like to ask you all that you share with us (email to mcfoffice@themcf.ca) what part of the journey that Jesus took for us – our salvation, what part inspired or encouraged you. What made you to talk to others about Jesus or just made you think of your own life.
For now I am going to wish you all a great summer break and a safe one. May Abba, our Father, watch over you and keep His hand of protection upon you all.
Please take the time to read: Revelation 19:11-16, John 14:1-3 and Matthew 28:18-20.


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Editor & Publisher to Shut Down
Filed under: Economics — DRJ @ 12:15 pm
[Guest post by DRJ]
The newspapers' newspaper, Editor & Publisher, will no longer edit or publish:
"Editor & Publisher, the bible of the newspaper industry and a journalism institution that traces its origins back to 1884, is ceasing publication.
An announcement, made by parent company The Nielsen Co., was made Thursday morning as staffers were informed that E&P, in both print and online, was shutting down."
There's no good time to lose a job but this strikes me as a particularly bad time, especially for those in the media. I really feel for these people but it's not surprising to see media businesses fail as other American businesses are also going under.
H/T Matador, with my thanks.
— DRJ
UPDATE BY PATTERICO: I don't regularly read E&P, but everything I have ever read there has been dishonest. No tears here.
45 Responses to "Editor & Publisher to Shut Down"
The editor was a shameless and dishonest dirty socialist what politicized the publication far far beyond the scope of its mission.
happyfeet (71f55e) —	12/10/2009 @ 12:19 pm
The editor's name was Greg Mitchell. And now it's all coming back to you, isn't it?
Official Internet Data Office (0a4bf0) —	12/10/2009 @ 12:25 pm
Thump, thump, thump.
Another one bites the dust.
Dr. K (eca563) —	12/10/2009 @ 12:29 pm
Not even worthy of a small stack of rocks to mark the grave.
AD - RtR/OS! (281bb6) —	12/10/2009 @ 12:38 pm
[note: fished from spam filter. –Stashiu]
Sammy (d54f04) —	12/10/2009 @ 12:42 pm
I hope the next is Chairman Navasky's leftist disinformation tome, CJR.
Bradley J. Fikes, C. O.R. (a18ddc) —	12/10/2009 @ 12:50 pm
quick! get them a bailout!!!
redc1c4 (fb8750) —	12/10/2009 @ 1:04 pm
They were way p.c.
Individual writers, I don't know; probably a highly talented group of then-herdlike and now-unemployed idealists. But the whole package tipped into not-editor, not-publisher, a highly politicized organ that took on promising topics and disappointed again and again and again. Opportunities squandered: that's an epigraph to mark that grave.
Happyfeet nailed this one.
m (37cf01) —	12/10/2009 @ 1:14 pm
once again, blaming liberal bias for the demise of traditional print… except in this case, there weren't a lot of conservatives reading E&P, so even if they all canceled their subscription because of creeping liberal bias it would have little if any effect.
as much as some like to gloat about liberal publications biting the dust, the cause has much less to do with their bias and much more to do with advertisers abandoning print to chase the fad of internet advertising.
and if liberal bias is the cause for all the disruption, what accounts for the not-liberal Washington Times slashing its staff and coverage?
steve sturm (369bc6) —	12/10/2009 @ 2:03 pm
JD (5375e6) —	12/10/2009 @ 2:04 pm
Okay, maybe the demise of print media was not completely due to liberal bias, but can't we gloat anyway?
Alta Bob (5daf3f) —	12/10/2009 @ 2:10 pm
Only became aware of them in the last few years.
What purpose did they serve?. I don't mean that as put-down. What service of value did they provide?
TakeFive (7c6fd5) —	12/10/2009 @ 2:18 pm
I like getting a daily newspaper, and subscribed for many years. But the local (Ontario) paper and the LA Times just became so rabidly extreme left wing that I just couldn't take it anymore.
Examples include a human interest article about a LA County Fair publicity cattle drive that ended in a minor stampede. Right in the middle of the article, there suddenly appeared a screaming rant about Bush and the baby killing war. Another article about area history in the 1800's took a sudden swerve to the evils of modern conservatives. There were too many others to count.
The newspapers expect someone else to pay for their soapbox, even though they are insulting at least half their customers. Of course, if the management had even a basic understanding of economics, the newspapers and magazines would be in far better shape.
I would probably still be a subscriber if they did not believe that their mission is to spit in my face.
GaryS (8351a3) —	12/10/2009 @ 2:25 pm
#8) I doubt that you actually know the political demographics of the readers of E&P. But lets say that you are correct. It means that lots of liberal readers, who believed in the ideal of objective journalism rather than advocacy journalism.
The former wants to make a living informing people, the later wants to change the world and informing people be damned. Why is it so hard for journalists to understand that news is a valuable commodity and that propaganda is not?
Getting the story right is worth something, but getting the story wrong isn't just worth nothing, it can actually cost you money.
You know the real joke about climate change? It is going to get colder, not warmer, and there is no way to spin that. Eventually, the "deniers" will be proven right by circumstance.
Appeals to authority, appeals to consensus, ad hominem attacks,refusing to debate the issues, and changing the subject are all common tricks used by con men and liars. No rational adult would buy a used car from a salesman using these tactics, but then lots of people aren't exactly rational, which is why these tactics are used.
It isn't good enough anymore and the public is catching on.
jack (e383ed) —	12/10/2009 @ 2:27 pm
That's the lefty megaphone E&P, right? Buh-bye!
gp (f596a1) —	12/10/2009 @ 2:51 pm
I had the exact same sentiments that you expressed, Bradley – not that it would surprise you. The Maoists are next on the chopping block – and for those lamenting their demise, I think that's what's called creative destruction in capitalism.
Dmac (a964d5) —	12/10/2009 @ 3:11 pm
Door, bang their asses on the way out. It is a useless shill outfit if there ever was one. Good riddance
bill-tb (541ea9) —	12/10/2009 @ 3:21 pm
There was, believe it or not, a time when E&P was just a solid industry chronicle. Kept us up on what everyone else was doing, some new ideas, people moving from place to place, promotions, all the stuff you're supposed to get from your trade rag.
E & P was, for many of us on the business-side of the business, a great resource for learning more about journalism, production, technology and other parts of the industry to which we were not otherwise exposed. That was particularly true at small papers I worked at, where the training budget might have consisted of payment of your E & P subscription.
Too bad, but they lost sight of that mission under Mitchell's command. Carrying all that liberal water, the ship was bound to sink.
Matador (176445) —	12/10/2009 @ 3:46 pm
The lesson is that even the choir will not pay to have the same sermon preached to them over and over and over.
Phil Smith (1cf25d) —	12/10/2009 @ 4:08 pm
I read, but don't have a cite right now, that Mitchell said he was surprised and thought the magazine was turning around.
That, if true, is the whole problem with journalism. If a publication's editor can't see beyond his or her own blind allegiances and accurately access the health of his/her own publication, then failure is the only possible result.
Ag80 (83c4ce) —	12/10/2009 @ 4:36 pm
#19, Phil Smith nailed it, and Brother Bradley at #6 predicts a faint ray of hope for the future redemption of print media. I remain somewhat hopeful but decidedly pessimistic.
ropelight (80456f) —	12/10/2009 @ 4:55 pm
Seriously, who is DRG? Maybe I'm not enough of a regular here to recognize the initials, but this is one site where I'd expect someone posting to understand what a sad disaster E&P had become as a stridently liberal publication. There's nothing to mourn at all. It's good news that professional apologists can't survive in the marketplace.
HUH (386122) —	12/10/2009 @ 4:55 pm
Why is it so hard for journalists to understand that news is a valuable commodity and that propaganda is not?
Because they are blinded by ideology, have contempt for readers, whom they consider illiterate right-wing Neanderthals, and mostly because they don't want to understand.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (fb7def) —	12/10/2009 @ 5:07 pm
Bradley, my appreciation for your candor increases in direct proportion to the extent you express opinions which coincide with mine. Funny how that works out.
Steve Sturm,
re #8
Another way of phrasing that is to say: absent conservatives, there weren't enough readers to keep the publication afloat. By focusing only on the patient's final days, you skip over the actual progression of the fatal disease, when a cure could have been effected before it was too late.
ras (1d003b) —	12/10/2009 @ 5:27 pm
Every single industry expert on this thread ducked Steve Sturm's question:
Sometimes, what is not said says it all.
For the record: The Wash. Times, which I believe is the home paper for the McCain person whose racist views have been debated here for days, cut 40 percent of its staff.
To paraphrase happyfeet: Good for those dirty socialist liberals. Hope they enjoy their holidays.
Myron (998393) —	12/10/2009 @ 5:31 pm
I'll take "Print is a dying medium" for $300, Alex.
Techie (482700) —	12/10/2009 @ 5:46 pm
Moron, the Washington Times is the new kid on the block. It's a startup and startups have a harder time when the economy goes south. All publications are having a hard time figuring out how to survive when classified ads have all gone to Craig's List and other on-line services, like Monster.com for help wanted. One lesson a lot of people learned when they went into business, even if it was a hot dog stand, is don't piss off half of your potential customers. I haven't agreed with the LA Times or the NY Times editorial policy for 40 years but, until the last five years, I subscribed. Somebody said that they didn't like having the paper spit in their face every day.
I for one liked Cottage Living, which someone on another site used as an example of a silly magazine. I was very unhappy to see Gourmet quit publishing and not very happy to be told I will get Bon Appetite instead.
Still, these people (newspapers) made an effort to piss off people who were potential customers. I think it is because they forgot it was a business and a retail business, at that. Very few of them had ever had any other type of job.
I quit the OC Register a couple of years ago when I got tired of them cutting back on local news and using the NY Times wire service for national news. They should know that their customer base is not going to like that. Well, they still deliver the thing every day. I don't know who's getting the bill but it isn't me.
I actually felt sorry for the LA Times and, one of the hundred times I was called and asked to re-subscribe, I said OK. That was a couple of years ago. Guess what ? A month later, before I had ever gotten a bill for the $2 a month they were billing me, I got a nasty letter that I was delinquent in paying. !
The phone almost caught fire while I was canceling again.
Boy, do they know how to run a successful business !
Mike K (2cf494) —	12/10/2009 @ 5:57 pm
I worked for Gourmet from 1990 – 95, Mike – and Conde Nast made a huge mistake when they switched editors (around 1999) to Ruth Reichel, who promptly tried to make the book "Bon Appetite Light." They screwed the pooch, and many of the alumni of the mag are not pleased.
Moron should also stick to subjects he knows about – like constructing strawmen and attempting to write like a male version of MODO. Both monikers make quite a similarity, actually.
ropelight,
Well, I hate to see inaccuracy and ignorance in the media, which is supposed to be obsessed with being factual, humble before uncertainty and scrupulous about correcting its errors. The shoddy excuse for cognition that goes into stories is disgusting beyond my capacity to express. A large number of them are pure frauds.
I have very little hope for print media. It's getting worse. (The LA Times is a perfect example of how dreadful print has become). The most frustrating thing is reading the pontifications and bloviations of print media solons wondering how to get back readership, and not even considering whether their disinformation-filled content could be part of the problem. Climategate makes the point very strongly, as I've been stressing in my blog posts. (click my name to get them).
I am much more optimistic about online media and blogs. Unlike print media, they are not ossified and filled with deadwood. Yes, many online sites have crappy reporting just like print media (Hello, Huffington Post!), but there are also truly excellent sites like this blog, and Watt's Up With That?
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) —	12/10/2009 @ 6:56 pm
They're failing because they SUCK!
I have zero sympathy for them.
thebronze (0ef15e) —	12/10/2009 @ 7:20 pm
At least the WaTimes is attempting rational moves to stay afloat. Has Moron commented on the pull-back from National/International coverage that the WaPo announced recently? Perhaps now there will be a real horse-race between the Times and Post as papers covering their little corner of the East Coast? Of course, the Post could further reduce their red-ink if they $hit-canned Newspeak?
AD - RtR/OS! (281bb6) —	12/10/2009 @ 7:34 pm
Steve Sturm and Myron,
Editor & Publisher may be a special case since it markets to a specific clientele. That's one reason why I think the primary explanation for its demise could be the downturn in the economy, and that's why I wrote the post the way I did. I also think today's media are more likely to fail because their capitalization is already in jeopardy, and that's due to the continuing decline in subscriptions that very well might be caused by biased reporting and articles.
In other words, the bad economy hastens the fall of already teetering media companies.
DRJ (84a0c3) —	12/10/2009 @ 7:46 pm
As someone once said: Yes we can!!
sherlock (e1e91e) —	12/10/2009 @ 8:07 pm
Myron:
I'll answer steve's question.
I read E&P for many years. As another poster has pointed out, it was an industry trade publication. In my former line of business, I read it regularly for information about my industry, for job openings and to see who was working where.
There is no question that Mitchell decided to play to his audience, which is largely liberal, rather than doing what an industry publication should do and that is provide the information that the people in its trade need.
This is only my opinion and you can take it or leave it. Print newspapers and magazines, left or right, are suffering because they simply cannot compete with the immediacy and economy of the Internet for advertising dollars. Their operating costs are astronomical.
Then, when you alienate at least half of your consumers, the end result usually is not good. Just look at Newsweek.
As to the Washington Times: where to start?
First: You know as well as I do that it is a Moonie paper. Conservative, yes. Staffed by some good thinkers and writers, yes. But still Moonie. And, believe it or not, some conservatives have a problem with that.
Second: Washington ranks right up there as part of the la-la left-wing wonderland of the United States at a close fourth behind San Francisco, Berkeley and Austin.
Here's how you can estimate the circulation of the Washington Times: Count about half the Republicans in Congress, add their spouses, add half the folks at the Pentagon and divide by two. That does not add up to a sustainable circulation.
I would like to say that liberal bias is killing newspapers, but it's not. It's just helping.
A lot of industries had, or have trade rags. They serve a valuable purpose–if they stick to that purpose. But realistically about the only political positions your average trade rag should take relate to warning or informing the industry about something that state or local politicians are proposing to do to or for the industry.
Beyond that, the rag is straying from its purpose and from its value.
Mike Myers (3c9845) —	12/10/2009 @ 9:25 pm
#36 Ag80:
Second: Washington ranks right up there as part of the la-la left-wing wonderland of the United States at a close fourth behind San Francisco, Berkeley and Austin
And a distant fifth behind The National Hippie Preserve®.
Even in the case of the WaTimes.
The WaTimes relies heavily on the wire services for its news, and the constant abrasion of the liberal bias in the wire stories finally wore me down enough that I didn't renew my subscription.
EW1(SG) (edc268) —	12/10/2009 @ 9:38 pm
Editor and Publisher will now become a better publication.
daleyrocks (718861) —	12/10/2009 @ 9:44 pm
You're right, Ag80. Liberal bias, and extreme sloppiness is not alone killing newspapers, but it's speeding the process. The larger cause is the Internet.
The Internet's allure is it provides a universe of information not gatekeepered by the MSM, and the MSM looks increasingly bad by comparison. I think there's a real decline in modern journalism, too, but it would be harder to see without comparison to quality sources outside the mediacracy. Just read the comments on most MSM stories on global warming: Many are far more intelligent than the reporter's half-understood drivel, regurgitated from activist to keypad with nary a brain cell firing.
No doubt that Greg Mitchell blatantly catered to the leftist political biases of his readership, but there's plenty of lefty sites out there. Why read E&P when you can get The Nation?
I wrote for a computer trade publication in the late 90s, and it's as Ag80 said: The first order of business is to give news that helps readers compete in their industry.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) —	12/11/2009 @ 7:03 am
Every article I read in E&P was trash. I'm not surprised it died.
PCD (1d8b6d) —	12/11/2009 @ 7:30 am
Every single industry expert on this thread ducked Steve Sturm's question
Coming from a guy who repeatedly ducks on economic issues when challenged, that's pretty ironic.
Another Chris (2d8013) —	12/11/2009 @ 7:54 am
For the last few years my local PBS station here hosts an annual roundtable of news opinion writers, reporters and editors, and each time they wring their hands and express dismay and chagrin over the evil internet and how it's killing their businesses. Nary is a word uttered about their contempt for their audiences, nary a word is heard regarding their biases and reluctance to confront them, let alone admit them. It's quite sad to watch at times, they're all dinosaurs on the brink of extinction, yet they still can't see the forest for the trees.
Dmac (a964d5) —	12/11/2009 @ 7:55 am
Some of this, I believe, goes back to the dichotomy between the math and science educated person and the math illiterate person. Now, many math and science people are left wing politically. Some of that is because they live in academia or they are cogs in big wheels like Microsoft and never have to face the issues that small business owners face. The AGW fiasco might, just might, bring a dose of reality to those people who understand science but are naive about politics. As this thing unfolds, it will be difficult for anyone who knows science or statistics to ignore the chicanery that went on in climate "science." A good discussion is here.
He compares the AGW science manipulation to the Challenger disaster.
In his own report Feynman described the terrible and corrupting influence of incentives and expectation upon science and engineering. Even literal rocket science was not exempt from human pressure. Feynman ended his discussion of the Challenger disaster with an observation that eerily speaks to the subject of "consensus" in scientific matters. Consensus doesn't matter. Only science and engineering does. "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
"If a reasonable launch schedule is to be maintained, engineering often cannot be done fast enough to keep up with the expectations of originally conservative certification criteria designed to guarantee a very safe vehicle. In these situations, subtly, and often with apparently logical arguments, the criteria are altered so that flights may still be certified in time. They therefore fly in a relatively unsafe condition, with a chance of failure of the order of a percent (it is difficult to be more accurate).
Official management, on the other hand, claims to believe the probability of failure is a thousand times less. One reason for this may be an attempt to assure the government of NASA perfection and success in order to ensure the supply of funds. The other may be that they sincerely believed it to be true, demonstrating an almost incredible lack of communication between themselves and their working engineers.
The management types, politicians in the AGW story, were far more certain of their safety than the engineers were. In this case, the science people seem to have been even more enthusiastic, probably to the grant situation. NASA engineers were on salary.
Mike K (2cf494) —	12/11/2009 @ 9:08 am
This from Greg Mitchell made me snicker:
"all our coverage on all subjects—is not to be partisan or not to be left or right or anything like that. But we believe in the—what should be the main principle of journalism, besides being accurate and fair, is to be skeptical—to raise questions, to not take what officials say as the gospel truth—unless it's really proven—if there's documents."
The spectacle of leftist journalists practicing leftist journalism while claiming they're being nonpartisan is unfailingly amusing.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (c1861a) —	12/11/2009 @ 4:04 pm


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History
First shown at the 1959 Tokyo Motor Show, it became available in 1960 at a cost of ¥390,000. It was powered by a rear mounted, air-cooled 493 cc two-cylinder engine with a single downdraught carburettor producing  at 5,000 rpm, driving the rear wheels through a three-speed manual transmission. The body was a monocoque, in order to be light and strong enough to reach the goal of seating four and reaching 100 km/h with such a small engine. Chassis code was A10, later A11.

500 Super DeLuxe
Buoyed by its sales success, it was given an enlarged  594 cc engine (NE35A) in August 1961 for improved acceleration and durability. This model was known as the Mitsubishi 500 Super DeLuxe. The succeeding Colt 600 used a great deal of the 500 Super DeLuxe's underpinnings, including the engine and layout. The Mitsubishi 500 was never a Kei car: Kei regulations at the time of introduction mandated an engine no larger than 360 cc, which remained the limit until it was raised to 550 cc January 1, 1976.

Motorsport heritage
Although they are now more renowned for their contemporary successes in off-road racing with the Pajero-based Rally Raid vehicle and Lancer Evo-based WRC car, Mitsubishi's first "homologation special" was a Super DeLuxe-based touring car which the company prepared for the 1962 Macau Grand Prix. In an auspicious debut Kazuo Togawa took class honours, as the diminutive sedan swept the top four places in the "Under 750 cc" category.

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Frank Conlon, PhD, co-led a study showing which proteins and pathways are conserved in four major animal models and humans, providing insights into which models are best for specific research of human disease.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Heart disease remains the most common cause of death in the western world, and cardiac defects are the most prevalent form of birth defect in the United States and Europe. Yet little is known about the proteins and cellular pathways that lead to the formation of the human heart or the roles various proteins and pathways might play in cardiac disease. Now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Princeton University scientists have found that unique sets of proteins and pathways present in specific animal models commonly used in research are also present and mutated in human disease.
The results, published in PLOS Biology, provide a glimpse into the evolution of the heart from amphibians to humans. More importantly, they allow researchers to understand which animal models can be used to study heart disease and ultimately test treatments for cardiac disease seen in humans.
First author Joel Federspiel, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton, took a computational approach to profile the abundance of protein complexes across four species. "This allows us to predict the appropriate animal model systems for studying specific cardiac conditions. We think integrating our findings with existing data on proteins responsible for cardiac disease should lead to the development of refined, species-specific models for protein function and disease states," said co-senior author Frank Conlon, PhD, professor of genetics at the UNC School of Medicine
Conlon, who is a member of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute, and Ileana Cristea, PhD, at Princeton University, led experiments to define the protein composition of four model vertebrates that are used to study human heart disease: two frog species, the mouse, and the pig. The labs compared each organism's protein composition to that of human hearts.
The researchers found that all species share a core set of proteins with humans, as well as protein pathways – a series of interactions between proteins inside cells that allow for a biological function to occur, such as the heart to beat properly. But to their surprise, Conlon and Cristea's labs found that each species shares a unique set of proteins with humans, and that these proteins are mutated in human disease states.
"Altogether, our study provides a resource for cardiac proteomes in four major model systems, uncovering conserved and divergent protein pathways and providing insight into selection of appropriate model systems for either modeling cardiac development or investigating disease," the researchers said.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Institute of Child Health and Development funded this research. Conlon is also a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Q: typescript: reference current class type Is it possible to reference current class type in type signature? so that I can do something like this:
 export class Component{
  constructor(config?: { [field in keyof self]: any }) {
      Object.assign(this, config)
  }
}

the idea is to pass a configuration object that would consist of current class keys.
I could go with interfaces but then I need to type same portion of code twise (in interface and in implementing class)
Another way would be to use generics. Something like this:
export class Component<T>{
  init(config?: { [field in keyof T]?: any }) {
    Object.assign(this, config)
  }
}

class TestComponent extends Component<TestComponent>{
  foo: number
}
const component = new TestComponent().init({ foo: 11 })

But having code like class TestComponent extends Component<TestComponent> makes me to search for better ways...

A: You can reference the current class using polymorphic this type
export class Component{
  init(config?: { [field in keyof this]?: this[field] }) {
    Object.assign(this, config)
  }
}

class TestComponent extends Component{
  foo: number
}
const component = new TestComponent().init({ foo: 11 })
const component2 = new TestComponent().init({ foo: "11" }) // err

You can't however use this as a type in the constructor
export class Component{
  constructor(config?: { [field in keyof this]?: this[field] }) { // error
    Object.assign(this, config)
  }
}

A: Doesn't this just work?
export class Component {
  test = 123;

  constructor(config?: { [field in keyof Component]: any }) {
      Object.assign(this, config)
  }
}

new Component({ test: 123 }) // valid
new Component({ test1: 123 }) // invalid

Playground
Even shorter would be simple (thanks to duck typing)
constructor(config?: Component) {

Maybe not really expressing what you want to say / not strict enough, but works.
Even the following is valid
constructor(config = <Component>{}) {

which directly gives you an empty object as the initial value.
Source: abusing this since TypeScript v1.

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BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh, who once vowed to rule the tiny West African nation for "a billion years", said he had accepted his shock election defeat on Friday, 22 years after seizing power in a coup.
Voting on Thursday against Jammeh was a rare show of defiance against a leader who has ruled by decree and who rights groups say crushes dissent by imprisoning and torturing opponents.
In an address broadcast by Gambian state-owned radio on Thursday evening, Jammeh said he would not contest the poll results showing opposition candidate Adama Barrow had won, which had been announced earlier in the day.
"If (Barrow) wants to work with us also, I have no problem with that. I will help him work towards the transition," Jammeh said, before later saying that he planned to move to his farm after leaving office following a handover in January.
Celebrations erupted in the streets of Banjul, a normally sleepy seaside capital whose white beaches lined with palm trees are a draw for European tourists, when the results were announced.
Gambians shouted: "We are free. We won't be slaves of anyone." Some waved the Gambian flag and opposition party signs.
Official results from the electoral commission head gave Barrow, a real estate developer who once worked as a security guard at retailer Argos in London, 45.5 percent of the vote against Jammeh's 36.7 percent.
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"African heads of state if they are defeated should take the example of Jammeh by leaving office honorably," said teacher Lamin Joof, celebrating in Banjul.
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Jammeh only this week said that his "presidency and power are in the hands of Allah and only Allah can take it from me".
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Jammeh's eccentricities have often made headlines. He once said he had invented a herbal cure for AIDS that only works on Thursdays. Once every year he also invited a few hundred women to the grounds of State House, where he personally administered another herbal cure he had concocted for infertility.
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Jammeh's supporters deny abuses and he has often criticized Western powers for meddling in African affairs.
Supporters of president-elect Adama Barrow celebrate Barrow's election victory in Banjul, Gambia, December 2, 2016. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon
The vote was marked by a blackout of the internet and international calls. Land borders were sealed. European Union observers were barred, though some African Union observers came.
The tourist flights that bring Gambia's main source of foreign exchange continued uninterrupted.
"Our resort teams in Gambia tell us that the situation is normal and that customers continue to enjoy their holidays," a spokesman for Thomas Cook, which organizes regular scheduled flights, said by email. He said the travel agent had 6,500 customers flying from Britain before end of the year.
Barrow somehow managed to unite and galvanize Gambia's opposition for the first time since Jammeh took power in the country of 1.8 million people.
He has promised to revive the economy, one of the region's poorest performers that pushes thousands of Gambians to flee to Europe in search of a better life.
Barrow has also pledged to end human rights abuses and to step down after three years as a boost to democracy.
It is unclear whether Jammeh, if he steps down, will insist on some kind of immunity for alleged abuses under his rule.
Gambia withdrew from the International Criminal Court last month, branding it the "Infamous Caucasian Court".
Karamba Touray, a spokesman for Barrow's UPD, said he would "stop plans to leave the ICC and ask to rejoin the Commonwealth immediately". He also said he would annul Jammeh's declaration of Gambia as an Islamic republic in December last year.
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"He wants Gambia to remain a secular state and respect the rights of all the people," Touray said of a country that is predominantly Muslim but has a small Christian minority.
Small protests in Banjul in April led to dozens of arrests, including that of the leader of the main UDP opposition party, Ousainu Darboe. Two UDP members later died in custody.
"I want him to face justice, they have to make sure he faces the full wrath of the law," the opposition's Diab said. "People have died, many of us don't know where our family members are."
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Q: Automatic maze solution So I'm creating a maze app(I read from string-array the maze, and after that with touch events guide a ball trough it) . Managed to create everything so far, the app works fine. But I want to include an option to solve it automatically.
I'm using this recursive algorithm found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_solving_algorithm
Basically I get the path in a boolean multi dimensional array (that has the size of the labyrinth).
Tried to achieve an MWC like design, so I have the following classes:
LabyrinthView - handles everything related to drawing the maze, and drawing the ball
LabyrinthModel - initialize the maze, handles ball movement, also I check here the end of the maze, and implemented recursiveSolve here to
LabyrinthActivity - this is where I bring everything together
Like I said so far solving the maze manually works like a charm.
Don't know how to animate the automatic solution.
So let me give you a maze example:
<string-array name="labyrinthEasy">
    <item>0000000001</item>
    <item>0111110110</item>
    <item>0100000110</item>
    <item>0101111000</item>
    <item>0101000010</item>
    <item>0101011010</item>
    <item>0101011110</item>
    <item>0101000010</item>
    <item>0101111010</item>
    <item>0100000010</item>
    <item>0111111110</item>
    <item>1000000000</item>
</string-array>

It will look something like this(E-Entry, F-finish):

And the solution:

This is how far I got so far:
private void selectControlMode() {
    final CharSequence[] items = {"Human","Machine"};
    final AlertDialog.Builder alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    alertDialog.setItems(items, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
            switch (which) {
                case 0:
                    dialog.dismiss();
                    break;
                case 1:
                    dialog.dismiss();
                    boolean temp;
                    temp = labyrinthModel.solveMaze();
                    if(temp){
                        new MazeSolver().execute();
                    }else{
                        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getApplicationContext());
                        builder.setMessage("The maze is unsolvable!");
                        builder.setPositiveButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                                switch (which) {
                                    case 0:
                                        dialog.dismiss();
                                        Intent intent1 = new Intent(LabyrinthActivity.this, MainActivity.class);
                                        intent1.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
                                        startActivity(intent1);
                                        break;
                                }
                            }
                        });
                        AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
                        alert.show();
                    }
                    break;
            }
        }
    });

}

Basically I choose between human and machine solving from a dialog. If human is selected dispose the dialog and the nothing ( the app continues and waits for the manual solution). If machine is selected I get the path and if it can be solved I think I should start a new Thread here where I can animate the automatic solution, otherwise if it can't be solved I return to the main menu of the app. Now here starts my problem since I don't really know how to implement this in my AsyncTask class.
I do the logic in the doInBackgroung method, but can't figure out the logic how to follow the correct path. Because if I iterate trough the array row by row the ball will jump from row to row, and won't follow the fluidity of the path.
Also I think I should redraw my progress after each iteration using the onProgressUpdate method.
This is how my manual logic works (movement and drawing):
    labyrinthView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        float x1 = 0, x2 = 0, y1 = 0, y2 = 0;
        float dx, dy;
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            float MIN_DIST = 5;
            switch (event.getAction()){
                case (MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN):
                    x1 = event.getX();
                    y1 = event.getY();
                    break;
                case (MotionEvent.ACTION_UP):
                    x2 = event.getX();
                    y2 = event.getY();
                    dx = x2-x1;
                    dy = y2-y1;
                    Log.v("log", dx + " " + dy);
                    if(Math.abs(dx) > MIN_DIST || Math.abs(dy) > MIN_DIST){
                        if (Math.abs(dx) > Math.abs(dy)){
                            if(dx > 0) {
                                labyrinthModel.right();
                                finishMessage();
                            }
                            else {
                                labyrinthModel.left();
                                finishMessage();
                            }
                        }else{
                            if(dy > 0) {
                                labyrinthModel.down();
                                finishMessage();
                            }
                            else {
                                labyrinthModel.up();
                                finishMessage();
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    break;
            }
            labyrinthView.invalidate();
            return true;
        }

    });

And this is what I have done so far in my assync task:
private class MazeSolver extends AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void>{
    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        for ( int row = 0; row < labyrinthModel.correctPath.length; row ++)
            for ( int col = 0; col < labyrinthModel.correctPath[0].length; col++ ){
                if(labyrinthModel.correctPath[row][col + 1]){
                    labyrinthModel.moveRight();
                }
//here to do the implementaion of the path following logic???

            }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
// here to redraw the progress ????
        super.onProgressUpdate(values);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
        super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
    }
}

If you can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.

A: Given that you are allowed to overwrite the path signaling two dimensional array you just need to follow the root from start to the end:
travel(correctPath, 0, 0, 11, 8);

void travel(bool a[][], int row, int col, int finalRow, int finalCol) {
   // if we are already there stop
   if(finalRow == row && col == finalCol) return;

   // avoid comming back
   a[row][col]=false;

   // if the input is correct only on of this moves will be valid
   // try each of them and see which move we can make
   if(col - 1 >= 0 && a[row][col-1]) { left(); travel(a, row, col-1, finalRow, finalCol)};
   if(col + 1 < 8 && a[row][col+1]) { right(); travel(a, row,col+1, finalRow, finalCol)};
   if(row - 1 >= 0 && a[row-1][col]) { up(); travel(a, row-1, col, finalRow, finalCol)};
   if(row + 1 < 11 && a[row+1][col]) { down(); travel(a, row+1,col, finalRow, finalCol)};
}


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