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This is the archive for April 2007
The Move Which Made Saturday And Sunday Irrelevant...
Took place when the Raiders dealt Randy Moss and a Lombardi Trophy to be won in February 2008, for a 4th round somebody who basically equates to "nobody significant". Now sure, that wasn't a part of the press release everyone's been reading and I'm sure everyone in Patriot Nation is doing every flip in the book over, but that's essentially what the Pats got yesterday afternoon. Now allow me to walk all of you down memory lane here for a hot second and this is quasi-personal to a degree. About 9 years ago, I was a Cowboys fan and on Draft Day, I sat in front of my television amped over the possibility of Randy Moss becoming a Cowboy. Teaming up with Irvin to put the 'Boys on top of the NFL and simply put, Aikman, Smith and Irvin getting one more big threat to become 'The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse'. I mean, even though Chan Gailey was no Jimmy Johnson, even HE couldn't have screwed that foursome up, right? Well, Jerry Jones passed on him and took Greg Ellis. 21 other teams did the same and the Vikings jumped at him. I predicted on that day, Moss would make the Cowboys pay for the snub and on Thanksgiving Day that season, he did just that. As good as Thanksgiving Dinner was, seeing Moss run up and down the field at will took the flavor out of it all for me.
Oh and don't believe or even buy into that whole "Moss is a cancer, I'd never take a player like that on my team" crap. The morons and fans who believe that are your Browns, Colts and Eagles fans who are still wondering if they'll win one in this lifetime or in the case of the Colts, when #2 will come because it won't be next season. Or the season after that, or the one after that. Before I came to the library to type this up, I had a nice column all written out about the Draft and what not until the computer I typed it on locked up on me. Lost the whole thing. Then, the more I sat down and thought it over, the article itself was a moot point thanks to Moss going to New England.
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Those fruity Eagles.
The 1933 throwback Philadelphia Eagles uniforms are either the gayest thing ever or the most gay-looking thing ever.
It's not so much the fact that the baby blue and canary-piss yellow color scheme makes UCLA's uniforms look masculine as much as it is the fact that the team is making a 1933 throwback jersey in stretchy, shiny fabric that just seems to accentuate the gayness of the color scheme like stretch pants accentuate cellulite. I know today's players are kind of pussies, what with the breathable fabrics and non-leather helmets, but come on! Find a way to tone down the fucking sparkle so you don't look like Liberace's bedspread.
Maybe they'll look better in reality than they look on the website, but those aren't the best colors to painfully stretch across the ponderous bulk of a 350-pound offensive lineman. How about some matte finish, too? Would it kill you to bust out the 40-pound wool uniforms (or at least something not shiny!) for one game?
EDIT: It looks better with the helmet, but I don't like the pants, I don't like the fact it's so shiny, and I don't like the fact that the throwback isn't long-sleeved like the original (top left).
Vince Young, beware of falling anvils.
Sorry, Titans fans. It looks like Vince Young is officially the next Eddie George. I hope you enjoyed watching him scramble and win last year, because this year he's going to break something horribly and watch from the sidelines. Sorry about your luck (and his stupidity).
I do have one interesting thought, however. If you put the cover of Madden 2008 on the cover of Sports Illustrated, would that make coverboy VY10 immune to the Madden Curse, because the SI cover jinx would wipe it out? Or would this, in fact, compound the Madden Curse to the point where VY would be hit by a car being driven by Pacman Jones? Which voodoo is more powerful in this case?
These are the thoughts that keep me up at night.
Listen Up Texans...
That's the sound of your franchise choking on itself...AGAIN. Before I get this going, I give you a snippet from my not yet published "The Grimey Handbook On Running A Franchise 101."
Rule 3.01- If you take a quarterback in the 1st round and he flames out on you in under three years, your franchise is finished.
I've spent close to a decade watching the NFL [which is quickly becoming the National Felons League] and I swear, I could write a book on how many mismanaged franchises there are right now posing as professional football clubs.
The Texans go out and make David Carr their first pick
overall. The very first draft pick that they EVER had in a college draft, was used to draft this sidearm slinger from Fresno State. And while I won't be the first to say that it was a bust or wrong move at the time, methinks that somewhere along the line Bob McNair and Rick Smith missed the part of Football 101 which states, "your offense will not go ANYWHERE without an offensive line to keep your QB off his ass".
To this point, the Texans have not done that. They've wasted their last four picks in the 1st round on the defensive side of the football. But yet, I'm left to really scratch my head at the Millenian way of thinking these clowns are working under. They swap picks in the first round with the Falcons to get a backup QB [not a starter, a BACKUP] along with coughing up two other picks, this year and next year, for Matt Schaub.
[Crickets chirp...and then stop.]


Bipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mental illness that has been largely ignored by the National Service Framework (NSF) for Mental Health. This is particularly notable because it is associated with a higher suicide rate than schizophrenia and has a greater burden of disability. The NSF offers little guidance on service models that specifically consider BD. This is of concern because of the complexities that are inherent in the management of BD. These deficiencies in the NSF may have far-reaching implications for resource allocation, service organization, and patient management and well-being. Moreover, the standards and performance targets laid out in the NSF will be difficult to meet if this important and common mental illness is not specifically catered for in mental health services. Local Implementation Teams would be well advised to take note of the recently published British Association for Psychopharmacology guidelines for the management of BD.


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Zero Hero: the zero-rating phenomenon
What is zero-rating and why does South Africa need more of it?
By James Francis, Ghost Writer, Copywriter, Media Hack & Illustrator
Johannesburg, 14 Aug 2015
Jos'e Dos Santos
"Our education system needs help, and having access to Wikipedia would make a very positive difference. Just think of the boost it will give us as students and to the whole education system of South Africa."
So ends a heartfelt petition launched in 2012 by students at Sinenjongo High School in Cape Town. It was addressed to the country's mobile carriers and pleaded for free access to Wikipedia. In 2014, MTN responded, adopting Wikipedia Zero, a service that gives free access to the online encyclopaedia.
It's a practice called 'zero-rating.' The data that is used to access such a service does not count against that of the user's, and is, instead, supplied for free. It sounds like a great concept, especially in countries where bandwidth prices remain high. But it's also a controversial topic stirring a lot of debate.
The most obvious line of hostility is held to be with network operators. When Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the Mobile World Conference earlier this year to promote Internet.org, he was flanked by three network executives. Some commentators sought to read this as Internet.org, Facebook's zero-rated initiative, trying to create a picture of solidarity with networks that allegedly loathe the idea of zero-rated services syphoning their data revenues.
But that's not quite accurate, says Dr Jeffrey Eisenach, a senior VP at NERA, who authored a report on the impact of zero-rating: "Generally speaking, adoption has been favourable, but attitudes do differ from country to country. It depends a lot on who is doing what."
He raises the example of Canadian carriers that recently came to heads with the local regulator over zero-rating data for their own video-streaming services, even though Eisenach says the practice likely benefited consumers. In India, mobile giant Bharti Airtel is under scrutiny for Airtel Zero, which aims to allow developers to pay for zero-rated access to their services. In 2010 and 2012, Turkcell used limited zero-rated Wikipedia and Twitter deals as promotional tools for new signups.
Zero rating vs. net neutrality
Debates around zero-rating cannot avoid net neutrality, the principle that access to the web should be equal to all. At face value, zero-rating clearly violates this, especially when networks allow third parties to pay for users to access their services for free. Many see this as a way of raising the access barrier. Simply put, those with cash can benefit from zero-rating. It's certainly a concern and one that still has to be digested by regulators. But it would appear that some regulators are already shooting from the hip, banning services without making proper cases for the action.
Yet the net neutrality principle only really stands in developed economies with both high connectivity penetration and low data costs. In some developing economies, there is far less concern about anti-competitive behaviour. Instead, the impetus is on including more people into the digital society.
The fear of creating 'walled gardens' has pressured Facebook's Internet.org to open the platform to third parties. Other services, such as Wikipedia Zero, note their non-profit status, thus being both zero-rated and in line with net neutrality ideals. This has encouraged many to distinguish between commercial and non-profit uses of zero-rating.
These are reasons why zero-rating often comes up in net neutrality conversations (see sidebar) and there is still a clear regulatory grey area that needs addressing. Vodafone India has already said it would wait for clearer guidelines before following the Airtel Zero route. This may be wise: at the time of writing, India's regulators are already leaning towards zero-rating being anti-competitive, a stance somewhat reflected by Canadian regulators and other countries.
But the argument for a free and fair internet avoids the other side of the coin. Organisations such as Internet.org and Wikipedia Zero exist to bring others in from the cold. As with the petitioning students at the start of this article, there are many who simply cannot participate in the digital society. Zero-rating is held as an effective way to reach these people, offering them basic free services that may entice actual data spend.
"The trick is not to destroy value for shareholders, but to create long-term value," says Jos'e Dos Santos, Cell C CEO. "How does zero-rating affect me? It generally doesn't - the middle and upper-end customers still get their pictures and video, and pay for data. I still make my money. But I also help millions of people to get access to a platform that is the future of communication."
Cell C has been making inroads into the market with an aggressive zero-rated policy. Although its competitors also offer free services, Cell C appears the most eager participant and has near-future plans that involve Facebook. It already offers free access to the messaging service WhatsApp and as a result, claims to have more than a quarter of the country's user base on its network.
This play is not surprising, says Eisenach: "Adoption of zero-rating is more common with newcomers than incumbents. It's a competitive tactic, a way to differentiate." It's also an effective way to help people transition into data-using consumers, says Gaba Majola, a GM at MTN: "If a customer follows a (zero-rated) Twitter link to YouTube, we've just unlocked a paying customer. From a cost perspective, to zero-rate YouTube means too much risk. But the amount of data through Twitter is negligible and, instead, opens broader economies."
Zero-rating is a competitive tactic, a way to differentiate
Dr Jeff Eisenach
Majola is referring to a growing practice with zero-rating: basic access costs nothing, but premium services will require paid data. This is often the way groups like Internet.org find a balance with carriers: basic text-based access is free, but to access videos or movies will cost.
He notes another benefit: customers with free access to Twitter become participants, and to large brands like MTN, social media is becoming irreplaceable when communicating with their user base.
Slow to go zero
But is zero-rating really making a difference? There are some indicators: Wikipedia Zero claims it delivers 65 million free page views every month to 350 million people in 29 countries. But according to Eisenach, the data is still too thin to tell - an opinion shared by attendees at an internet governance forum roundtable.
Still, he says: "I think the impact on penetration can only be positive."
Zero-rating is still a niche movement. Adoption of the model remains lacklustre - despite voicing great intentions such as social responsibility, networks have been slow to implement. Many might never have done so were it not for the influence of Internet.org, Wikipedia Zero and their peers.
Dos Santos, normally quite candid, is careful to explore why Cell C's competitors have not been as prolific in embracing lifestyle-based zero-rating (for example, Vodacom's efforts mainly encompass educational services). But in his personal opinion, it has to do with being used to large profits: "There will always be somebody who asks why they should give anything away for free."
Zero-rating in South Africa
Zero-rating is most often used by local operators to make their own sites free for clients. But there are some other examples. Cell C is leading the charge with free access to WhatsApp, as well as plans to offer basic Facebook access. MTN offers Wikipedia and Twitter, and joins Cell C in zero-rating certain educational sites. Vodacom mainly focuses its zero-rating efforts on educational services. Telkom Mobile, when still in its 8ta incarnation, had a brief trial with free Google services but doesn't appear to be fielding any zero-rated initiatives at present.
But it's unfair to say they don't get it. MTN is approaching a million daily active Twitter users and has even zero-rated SMS access to the social media platform. It also engages sponsored content models, a sister concept where a third party pays for the bandwidth used. Another tactic is to provision data for a specific service, as MTN does by providing 10GB of free monthly data to users of its new FrontRow video platform. MTN also helped launch online radio station Cliff Central by facilitating free streaming over WeChat clients.
"Zero-rating certain elements creates opportunities," says Majola. "There's no risk to pay to try out. As those consumers mature, they try out more services. It's a win-win."
He hastens to add that it's a new concept and one that everyone is learning about. This speaks of the wider challenge networks face: how to monetise data services in new ways while keeping a balance with over-the-top (OTT) services such as Facebook. But there is a growing maturity about this: as Dos Santos declares, no network provider has any real hope of taking on services that have hundreds of millions of users. Models such as zero-rating allow for a more amicable relationship, something Eisenach calls 'coopetition' (as coined by the late Novell CEO Ray Noorda).
In a way, zero-rating is a mirror to South Africa's data price woes: some talk, a bit of action and quite a lot of apathy. Cell C is certainly finding value in disrupting the incumbents through zero-rating and MTN at the very least talks a good game. But it says something that school students had to petition some of the country's largest companies to free up access to a service like Wikipedia. At present, zero-rating is more of a future hope than a real game-changer.
This article was first published in Brainstorm magazine. Click here to read the complete article at the Brainstorm website.

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A crew tended to honeybee hives sent from North Dakota to pollinate Central Valley almond trees.
OAKDALE – In sheer numbers, it's the biggest migration of workers in the world. This month, nearly three-quarters of all the nation's commercial honeybees will be in California's ever-expanding almond orchards to do the work that only a bee can do: gather pollen from the blossom of one tree and drop it in the blossom of another.
Chip-making rivals Qualcomm and Broadcom said yesterday that they've agreed to dismiss legal claims against each other that involve four patents in two federal court cases.
Truckers gain freeway access in Mexico, U.S.
After more than a decade of fierce opposition, U.S. and Mexican officials came to the Otay Mesa border crossing yesterday to announce a pilot program that will open highways on both sides of the border to truckers from either country.
Should they sell or keep building?
PALO ALTO – Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg, is sitting on a gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich. But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's second-largest social-networking site also could turn into the next poster boy for missed opportunities if he waits too long to cash in.


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Ticket Division now integrates Google Analytics® to provide data on traffic to ticket pages and help event organizers improve their marketing campaigns.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic. The service collects anonymous data on visitors of pages where the script is implemented. By default, Analytics is enabled on every ticket page of Ticket Division, and offered for free to all event organizers. Analytics is made available for an event as soon as a ticket has been sold.
The idea is to provide event organizers and promoters with detailed information regarding users who are interested in buying their tickets, or who already have bought tickets to their events. Empirically, the average attendee is not always the average ticket buyer and with such knowledge, marketers can then fine-tune promotional campaigns and target a qualified audience to increase sales. For example, tickets to a family-friendly event may be mainly purchased by mothers while the entire family attends. By knowing who purchases tickets to such event, the event organizer may decide to target women on social media.
Analytics is available directly from your event dashboard. Scroll to the Analytics module and click "Fetch Analytics data", made available to you after your first sale. Please note that your request may take up to a few minutes as Analytics computes parameters and data collected.
Once the data is received from Google Analytics' servers, statistics will automatically be displayed on your dashboard.


However Improbable: "I say Vol, you say...?" "Vol...tron?"
"I say Vol, you say...?" "Vol...tron?"
Wherein Jack lost her wrist brace but found her glasses.
What else shall I regale you with? I can't stay long. I need to take a shower. Like you wanted to know that. I also can't stay long because without my brace it is hard to type for long. Maybe I will padlock it to my bed next time.
Hmmm.....I am so tired I am having trouble coming up with ideas to chatter about. Weeeeeeeeeeeell....I do have one thing I could chatter about but I am not willing to admit to that yet and will be sharing that new bit of information in a review once I finish the series. I have to prepare myself to owning up to what I have done and that takes time.
For now, have a lovely holiday. Eat some chocolate and listen to this song I keep putting on repeat.
Maybe you need a backup brace?
Voltron would've come to my mind as well.
I never have anything to chat about either.


Viking-Age and medieval archaeology; landscape archaeology (method, theory and practice); past environmental and coastal landscape change; heritage; public engagement and community archaeology. Geographic areas: England, Wales, Northern Isles of Scotland, Irish Sea region, North Atlantic, Scandinavia.
David has been a Lecturer, subsequently Reader / Associate Professor in Archaeology, and a Fellow of Kellogg College, since 1999. From Wirral, in north-west England, he studied History and Archaeology at Durham University, and was a visiting student and fieldworker at the University of Tromsø, Norway. In the 1990s he was a professional archaeologist working in the gas pipeline construction industry and for a planning consultancy. He has also been a temporary lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. From 1994 to 2004 he was Editor of the journal Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), Scotland (FSA Scot.) and a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA).
British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow, 2014-15.
Course Director and supervisor for Postgraduate courses - MSc Applied Landscape Archaeology and D.Phil in Archaeology (part-time stream). Also Course Director for the Undergraduate Certificate in Archaeology.
External Examinerships: University of Durham (BA in Historical Archaeology); University of Aberdeen MA and undergraduate programme; University of Cambridge ICE (current), Southampton, Birmingham and Chester (terms completed). M.Phils/PhDs examined at Cambridge, Durham, UC Cork, Glasgow, Nottingham, UC Dublin.
David is happy to discuss supervising or co-supervising topics which are a good fit with his academic interests in historical/medieval, Viking-Age, or landscape archaeology and heritage, either as part-time D.Phil students admitted through Continuing Education, or as full-time D.Phil students who would have to apply via the School of Archaeology.
Current Supervisees: Russell Weston (Kellogg College); Richard Walsh (St Peter's College); Sally Taylor (Kellogg College & Clarendon Scholar); Emma Bonthorne (Kellogg College); Louise Formby-Tiedman (St Catherine's College). Completed/passed: Jill Hind (Kellogg College); Lisa Hill (St Cross College); Jane Harrison (Kellogg College); Jamie Anderson (Hertford College).
David is Director of Studies in Archaeology which means (together with Dr Alison MacDonald) he oversees the part-time teaching programme in Archaeology and Anthropology, including (shared with Dr Paul Barnwell) the programme of Courses and Workshops in the Historic Environment. From 2014-18 he served a 4 year term as the Department's Director of Research, covering research policy, seminars and research-led training across the subjects represented on the full-time teaching staff at OUDCE. The new DoR (from October 2018) is Prof Tom Buchanan.
Birsay-Skaill Landscape Archaeology Project (Orkney, Scotland), funded by Historic Scotland, Oxford University and Orkney Islands Council. Since 2003, geophysics and selective excavation have revealed a wealth of exciting new data in this archaeologically-rich area. This project was nominated for 'Research Project of the Year' by Current Archaeology Magazine in 2012.
SPLAT - Salisbury Plain Landscape Transitions, with Dr Olaf Bayer and Richard Osgood of the MoD. In 2015 we were awarded an ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant to develop proposals and methods for a multi-period landscape investigation on Salisbury Plain Training Area. This resulted in a series of seminars and a successful pilot project surveying (with MSc Applied Landscape Archaeology students) the Neolithic Causewayed enclosure of Robin Hood's Ball, near Larkhill. Details can be found here.
East Oxford Community Archaeology Project - http://www.archeox.net A five year project has recently concluded, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Oxford University on the archaeology and history project on the urban landscape of East Oxford. This is based on partnerships with university museums, the School of Archaeology, local government and charities. The project was also successful in securing a CBA Community Archaeology Training Bursary for 2012-13. Nominated for 'Best Community Archaeology Project' by the BAA Awards 2012. Winner 2016 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Public Engagement with Research.
With William Wintle and Gill Hey, he has undertaken several geophysical surveys in the environs of the Roman and Medieval small town of Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in conjunction with the field training weeks of the MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology.
He has also undertaken and completed work funded by Cadw on the Viking Age sculptured cross 'Maen Achwyfan' in North Wales (see list of publications below).
He has been involved in an advisory capacity in two publication projects for recent Viking-Age excavations, Cumwhitton Viking cemetery (Cumbria, with Oxford Archaeology North) and Woodstown, a Viking defended river camp (Co. Waterford, Ireland, with National Roads Authority and OPW Ireland). (both now published). He was a member of the expert panel for EMASS, a major Irish project synthesising evidence for medieval settlement from recent development excavations, and a post-doctoral peer reviewer for the Irish and Icelandic Research Councils. In 2016 he chaired a funding review of LBI Arch Pro for the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Vienna.
David has given numerous lectures, conference papers and university research seminars in the UK and overseas, in Ireland, France, Greenland, Iceland, USA and Scandinavia. He has lectured twice to the Society of Antiquaries of London, and given named lectures including the H Addyman lecture in York and the Whithorn lecture. He continues to participate in international conferences and research workshops such as the Viking Congress, IMC Leeds, ISMARN, EMWARG and the St Magnus conference series in Orkney.
David has undertaken, with colleagues from Bangor, Liverpool and Lancaster, to organise the 19th Viking Congress to Wales and North-west England in July 2021.
David's initiation into public archaeology came early in his PhD studies as a consultant to the 1990 exhibition 'A Silver Saga' at Liverpool Museum. Meols, Archeox, Vikings of the Irish Sea and Birsay-Skaill have all featured as news and articles in British Archaeology, BBC HIstory Magazine and Current Archaeology as well as regular coverage in local/regional media. Archeox has been featured as a film in Oxford Impacts, a show-case for Oxford University's most innovative projects. David has also been an invited speaker at the 'Archaeology Live' conference at the British Museum, and has taken part in numerous Festival of Archaeology events, excavation open days, museum exhibitions and gallery talks.
David was a consultant to the BBC programme Blood of the Vikings, and appeared in a historical documentary for ITV presented by Eric Robson. David has been a contributor to the script and an on-screen commentator for a retrospective documentary on the history of TV depictions of the Vikings, made by 360 Productions, Timewatch, broadcast on BBC4 in July and November 2017.
In association with recent publications in Antiquity and the Orkney monograph Beside the Ocean, David has done several media interviews including a feature on BBC Radio Orkney: http://https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00045xn on 4 April 2019, from 7.27 to 11.59 minutes in.
Griffiths, D and Harrison, J. (eds) The Archaeology of East Oxford: Archeox, the Story of a Community (Thames Valley Landscapes Monograph Series 43, Oxford 2019).
Griffiths, D. 2019 'Rethinking the Early Viking Age in the West', Antiquity 93, Issue 368, April 2019, 468-77.
Griffiths, D, Harrison J. and Athanson, M. 2019 Beside the Ocean: Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick and Birsay Bay, Orkney. Archaeological Research 2003-18. (in conjunction with Historic Environment Scotland, Oxbow, Oxford).
Wintle, W. and Griffiths, D. 2017 'Dorchester Abbey Cloisters Geophysical Survey 2012'. South Midlands Archaeology, 47, 80-81.
Wintle, W., Griffiths, D. and Hey, G. 2016 'Geophysical Survey in Dorchester-on-Thames 2008'. South Midlands Archaeology, 46, 93-95.
Griffiths, D. 2015 'Medieval Coastal Sand Inundation in Britain and Ireland', Medieval Archaeology Vol 59, 103-121.
Griffiths, D. 2015 'Status and Identity in Norse Settlements: A Case Study from Orkney' in Barrett, J.H. and Gibbon, S-J. (eds) Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World, Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 37 (Maney, Leeds), 219-36.
Griffiths, D. 2015 'Irish Sea identities and interconnections during the Viking Age' in Clarke, H B. and Johnson, R. (eds) Vikings in Ireland and Beyond (Dublin, Four Courts Press), 470-484.
Griffiths, D. 2014 Early Medieval Whithorn, the Irish Sea Context, 21st Whithorn Lecture, 2013, (Whithorn Trust), Stranraer.
Harding, S, Griffiths, D, Royles, E. (eds) 2014 In Search of Vikings, Interdiscipinary approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis).
Griffiths, D. 2013 'Living in Viking Age Towns' in Hadley, D.M. and Ten Harkel, L (eds) Towns in the Viking Age,, (Oxbow), 1-13.
Griffiths, D. 2013 'The Context of the 1858 Skaill Hoard', in Reynolds, A. and Webster L. (eds) Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World, Studies in Honour of James Graham-Campbell, Brill, 501-26.
Griffiths, D. and Harrison, J. 2011 'Interpreting Power and Status in the Landscape of Viking Age Orkney', in Sigmundsson, S (ed.) Viking Settlements and Society, Proceedings of the XVI Viking Congress, Reykjavik, 2009 (National Museum of Iceland), 132-46.
Griffiths, D. and Harrison J 2011 'A Viking Age Settlement under wind-blown sand' Medieval Britain and Ireland, 2010, Medieval Archaeology Vol. 55, 321-6.
Griffiths, D. 2011 'The Ending of Anglo-Saxon England: Identity, Allegiance and Nationality', in Hamerow, H, Hinton, D. and Crawford, S. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, (Oxford University Press), 62-78.
Griffiths, D. 2011 'Towns and their Hinterlands', in Crick, J and Van Houts, L (eds) A Social History of England, (Cambridge University Press), 152-78.
Griffiths, D. 2010 (reprinted 2012) Vikings of the Irish Sea, Conflict and Assimilation AD 790-1050, (History Press).
Griffiths, D. 2009 'The Archaeological Background', in Graham-Campbell, J. and Philpott, R. (eds) The Huxley Hoard, Scandinavian Settlement in the North West (National Museums Liverpool), 13-21.
Griffiths, D. 2009 'Sand Dunes and Stray Finds: evidence for pre-Viking Trade?' in Graham-Campbell, J. and Ryan, M. (eds) Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings, Proceedings of the British Academy 157, 265-280.
Griffiths, D., Philpott, R. and Egan, G. 2007 Meols, The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast (Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph Series 68).
Griffiths, D. 2006 'Birsay and Skaill, Orkney, Landscape Survey 2003-4', in Jones, R.E. and Sharpe, L (eds.) Going over Old Ground: Perspectives on archaeological, geophysical and geochemical survey in Scotland, (BAR British Series 416), 213-24.
Griffiths, D. 2006 'Maen Achwyfan, and the context of Viking Settlement in North-East Wales', Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol. 155, 143-62.
Griffiths, D. 2004 'Settlement and Acculturation in the Irish Sea Region' in Hines, J, Lane, A. and Redknap, M. (eds) Land Sea and Home, (Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 20), 125-38.
Griffiths, D. 2003 'Trade, Exchange and Urbanisation' in Davies, Wendy (ed.) From the Vikings to the Normans, Short Oxford History of the British Isles 800-1100, (Oxford University Press), 73-104.
Griffiths, D. 2003 'Markets and Productive Sites, a view from Western Britain' in Pestell, T. & Ulmschneider, K. (eds) Markets in Early Medieval Europe (Windgather Press) 62-72 (volume was winner of 2004 BAA Award for best scholarly publication).
Griffiths, D., Semple, S and Reynolds, A (eds) 2003 'Boundaries in Early Medieval Britain' Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History Vol 12..
Griffiths, D. 2001 'The North-West Frontier' in Hill, D. & Higham, N. (eds.) Edward the Elder (Routledge), 167-187.
Dickonson, T. and Griffiths, D. (eds) 1999 'The Making of Kingdoms' (ed. with Tania Dickinson) Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History Vol. 10.


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Avenida Brasil est une telenovela brésilienne, diffusée du 26 mars au 19 octobre 2012 sur le réseau de télévision Rede Globo. Créée et écrite par João Emanuel Carneiro, scénariste de plusieurs autres séries télévisées pour Globo, elle est réalisée par Ricardo Waddington.

En France, elle est diffusée sur Outremer  depuis le 16 décembre 2013 et sur France Ô depuis le 24 février 2014. Elle est diffusée en Belgique sur La Deux depuis le  février 2016. Elle est diffusée à nouveau sur Nina TV en 2018.

La série est disponible sur M6 via la plateforme 6play depuis le 15 mars 2019.

En novembre 2022, elle est diffusée sur Novelas TV

Synopsis
Prêt à porter plainte, Génèsio, se fait accidentellement renverser par une voiture. Le conducteur, Jorge Tufão, dit « Typhon », célèbre buteur du Flamengo, s'enfuit après avoir pris l'identité de sa victime. Il contacte Carminha pris de remords. La veuve, voyant le footballeur prêt à tout pour se racheter discrètement, décide de frapper un plus grand coup, en le séduisant. Elle abandonne Rita dans un dépôt à ordures qu'elle connaît bien.
Carminha réussit à épouser Typhon. Rita alimente une haine et un désir de vengeance envers sa marâtre. Elle est néanmoins recueillie par Lucinda, une femme qui élève dans la décharge des enfants abandonnés comme le petit Patate, premier amour de Rita. Elle est plus tard adoptée en Argentine, dans un milieu aisé, où on la renomme Nina.
Pendant ce temps, déçue de donner naissance à une fille, Carminha se résigne à récupérer son fils biologique... Patate. Le garçon présenté comme un orphelin prend alors le nom de son père adoptif, Jorge (ou Jorginho).

Distribution

Enfance et jeunesse de Nina
 Débora Falabella : Nina García Hernández (Rita Fonseca de Sousa)
 Tony Ramos : Genésio Fonseca Souza (mari de Carminha et père de Rita)
 Mel Maia : Rita Fonseca de Sousa (enfant)
 Bernardo Simões : Patate (enfant)
 Jean Pierre Noher : Martin García Hernández, père adoptif de Nina
 Carol Abras : Begônia García Hernández, sœur adoptive de Nina

Famille de Tufão
 Murilo Benício : Tufão (Jorge Araújo)
 Adriana Esteves : Carminha (Carmen Lúcia Moreira de Araújo)
 Cauã Reymond : Jorge de Sousa Araújo, dit Jorginho / Cristiano Moreira (Patate)
Eliane Giardini : Muricy Araújo, mère de Tufão
Juliano Cazarré : Adauto, fiancé de Muricy
 Ana Karolina Lannes : Ágatha Moreira Araújo, fille de Carminha
 Marcos Caruso (V.F. : Lionel Henry) : Leleco Araújo, père de Tufão
 Débora Nascimento (V.F. : Aurélie Turlet) : Tessália das Graças Mendonça, fiancée de Leleco
 Leticia Isnard : Ivana Araújo Oliveira, sœur de Tufão et épouse de Max
 Marcello Novaes (V.F. : Emmanuel Karsen) : Max (Maxwell Pereira Oliveira), amant de Carminha
 Cláudia Protásio (V.F. : Mélanie Nostry) : Zezé, servante de Tufão & Carminha
 Cláudia Missura : Janaína, servante de Tufão & Carminha

Familles de Carlos
 Alexandre Borges : Carlos Eduardo de Souza Queirós (Carlito / Dudu)
 Débora Bloch : Vêronica Magalhães Queirós, femme n°1 de Carlos (alias Carlitos)
 Nathalia Dill (V.F. : Aurélie Turlet) : Débora Magalhães Queirós, fiancée de Jorginho, fille de Carlos & Vêronica
 Camila Morgado : Noêmia Buarque Queirós, femme n°2 de Carlos (alias Dudu)
 Ronny Kriwat : Tomás Buarque Queirós, fils de Carlos & Noêmia
 Carolina Ferraz : Alexia Bragança Queirós
 Bruna Griphao (V.F. : Aurélie Turlet) : Paloma Bragança Queirós, fille de Carlos & Alexia
 Lui Strassburger : Ruy, fiancé d'Alexia

Autres

Décharge

Divino & divers personnages

Doublage
Les voix françaises sont :
 Océane Ligier, Jeanne Brocard, Leonor Mariani, Daria Levannier, Aurélie Turlet, Joséphine Dupond, Marie Esposito, Mélanie Nostry,
 Louis Couronne, Léon Camé, Jean-Antoine Villanova, Pierre Bordeaux, Philippe Cobalt, Lionel Henry, Raphaël Poupier, Michel Boursier, Laurent Selva.

Distinctions

Nominations
 International Emmy Awards 2013 : Meilleure telenovela

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Avenida Brasil sur le site de Rede Globo

Série télévisée brésilienne des années 2010
Série télévisée de TV Globo
Série télévisée se déroulant au Brésil
Telenovela
Série télévisée en portugais
Série télévisée créée en 2012
Série télévisée disparue en 2012

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State made its case a changing of the guard could take place in Big Ten women's basketball this season as the seventh-ranked Buckeyes beat No. 5 Maryland 94-86 on Monday night.
''Obviously Ohio State was terrific tonight,'' Maryland coach Brenda Frese said. ''They came out ready to play from the tip and they played a really inspired 40 minutes.


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The story of Mark Okale at Festival Francescano, a young political refugee and now a farmer at Selva Maggiore farm
For the 11th edition of Festival Francescano (Bologna 27-29 September 2019), the festival audience was able to attend the fast conference "Dialogue: the result of working together".
The story of Mark Okale at Festival Francescano, a young political refugee and now a farmer at Selva Maggiore farm | Romagnoli F.lli Spa
Festival Francescano
Mark Okale, a 23-year-old Nigerian political refugee, told his story and talked about his new life as a farmer at Selva Maggiore farm in Pianoro (Bologna), which is owned by Romagnoli F.lli S.p.A.
Six years ago, at just 17, Mark tackled the long journey which led him first to Libya through the desert and then, by boat, to Italy. It was an incredibly arduous journey to an unknown far-off destination, with many attempts to find a "place" in a foreign country, before his arrival in Bologna.
Mark's words are testimony to a life experience that found its real haven in the welcome he received: in fact, it was in Bologna in 2016 that Mark met the Romagnoli siblings, Grazia and Giulio, who also attended the fast conference and own Selva Maggiore farm, where he started to work after he had finished his training period.
Alongside Mark, John and Saturday, another two young Nigerian farmers at Selva Maggiore, also shared their experience with the festival audience. Thanks to this job, they have been able to imagine the future of their dreams, with new plans for themselves and their families.
Grazia Romagnoli focused on the value of reciprocity and relations as the cornerstone for a relationship which gives new meaning to work, explaining how the meeting with Mark was one between two needs: the need to start a new life and the need to find someone who could look after the land and its fruits.
Giulio Romagnoli underlined how creating a working environment that can welcome your neighbour without any prejudice is a commitment to social responsibility for the company which, we hope, will be increasingly common in the business world.
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2018-10-17 - Romagnoli F.lli Spa obtains GRASP certification
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2018-07-26 - Revenue up 7,4% and strong performance all around: a successful 2017 for Romagnoli F.ll Spa
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                  SQL Injection

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"I just learned all this cool stuff about relational databases and SQL and can't wait to integrate it into my site!" Said...well, I'm sure at least one person in history. Rightfully so, I suppose, as from what we have touched on so far, these appear to be very powerful tools for handling and accessing vast quantities of data. With all this power though (oh yeah, I'm going there), comes great responsibility.

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                  Ruby vs. JavaScript

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I feel that I must preface this post by saying that my experience so far with JavaScript has been mostly very positive, enjoyable, and rewarding. I managed to piece together a game that does more than just print out text and takes more input than just a single command line instruction. That being said, you really need to lighten up JS. Seriously, like, way too many symbols and such. You're kinda high maintenance.

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                  Blocks, Procs, & Lambdas

                  by James Bomotti

 Posted on Sunday, June 28, 2015

By now you have probably dealt with a fair number of blocks. Maybe you didn't know that's what they were called, but as you will shortly see, they've been there at least since week 3. You might not have dealt with procs and lambdas yet, but perhaps after reading this, you will see some of the useful ways you might do just that.

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David Eric Hirst  (born 7 December 1967) is an English football coach and former professional footballer.

As a player, he was a striker who after initially playing with Barnsley he notably spent eleven years with Sheffield Wednesday, during his time at Hillsborough he played Premier League football and played in both the 1993 FA Cup and League Cup finals. He scored 106 league goals in 294 appearances and continuously played in the first seven Premier League seasons, which included three years with Southampton before retiring through injury at the age of 32. He was capped three times by England, scoring 1 goal and also made appearances at England U21 and England B level.

Since retiring, Hirst has worked at Sheffield Wednesday and Crystal Palace as an academy coach, he has also worked back with Wednesday as a host in their corporate hospitality suites.

Club career

Barnsley
Born in Cudworth, Barnsley, Hirst turned professional in 1985 with his local side, Barnsley. His debut season saw him score nine goals in 28 Second Division games.

Sheffield Wednesday
On 11 August 1986, he signed for Sheffield Wednesday. He was brought to Wednesday by then manager Howard Wilkinson, just before the start of the 1986–87 season. The fee was £250,000. Barnsley's financial troubles saw the young striker sold. His Owls debut came against Charlton Athletic which was the first game of the season as Wednesday began the season away in a 1–1 First Division draw on 23 August 1986. However the following week he made his Hillsborough debut as a substitute against Everton in front of over 33,000 and he scored within minutes of entering the field. He would go on to make 21 league appearances that season, scoring six goals. By 1988–89 he was firmly established in the first team.

He became a firm favourite and an idol of the Wednesday supporters, scoring 149 goals in 358 appearances during his eleven years at the club. He was capped three times for England, and scored once. He even managed to score and keep a clean sheet in the same match, (a 2–0 victory over Manchester City in January 1990) after he replaced an injured Kevin Pressman in goal.

In 1991, Hirst scored 32 goals as Wednesday were promoted back to the First Division at the first attempt, including a 4-goal haul against Hull City (a 5–1 win) on 1 September 1990. This form led to him being called up for the England B international against Switzerland, in which he scored both England goals in a 2–1 win. He was subsequently called into the full England squad for the tour of Australasia.

Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson tried six times to tempt Owls boss Trevor Francis to sell Hirst, but without success. Two of these occasions were in 1992. First, after a shortage of goals in the second half of the 1991–92 season had cost United the championship, Ferguson attempted to sign Hirst during the close season, but the offer was refused. In November 1992, with United's title challenge flagging once again due to a shortage of goals, Ferguson offered the Owls £3million for Hirst, but the offer was rejected and United signed Eric Cantona instead.

In 1992 during a game at Highbury, Hirst suffered a broken ankle. It was the start of his injury problems. He still scored in the game and managed 16 goals in 33 games. In the same season Hirst played in the Sheffield Wednesday team that reached both domestic Finals – they lost both to Arsenal, but Hirst scored Wednesday's equaliser in the FA Cup Final at Wembley in a 1–1 draw before Arsenal won the replay 2–1.

The injuries mounted up and from August 1993 to May 1995 he played just 25 games and scored five goals. After two more years at Hillsborough and the odd glimpses of form from Hirst, he was sold by manager David Pleat to Southampton after he had emerged fit once again returning to the Owls first team.

Southampton
His exit from the Owls came on 17 October 1997, when Southampton manager Dave Jones paid a club record £2million for his services. He made his debut the next day in a 1–0 home defeat by Blackburn Rovers in the league, and in his first season at The Dell scored nine times in 28 league games as the Saints finished 11th in the Premier League. Highlights of this season include scoring twice against Tottenham Hotspur in his second appearance, and scoring twice again as Southampton beat Liverpool at Anfield. Hirst also scored the only goal as his side beat Leeds United 1–0 at Elland Road.

However, his injury problems returned in the 1998–99 season and he played just twice – these games were the last of his career. He retired from playing on 26 January 2000, at the age of 32, after being advised to do so by medical experts.

International career
He made his international debut in the 1–0 win over Australia, but was replaced at half-time. He was named as a substitute in the next game against New Zealand. He came on at half-time and within three minutes of the restart he scored his first (and only) England goal. With Gary Lineker injured, he lined up with Alan Shearer against France at Wembley. Bryan Robson said that, "It's not a question of who will replace Lineker, but who will partner David Hirst". It became Hirst's third and final England match. Although he was selected for more England squads, injuries kept him out of the team.

Coaching career
In April 2013, Hirst was appointed as a coach in the Sheffield Wednesday academy set up. He also held a similar position with Crystal Palace.

Personal life
He is the father of professional footballer George Hirst.

He has worked as a corporate hospitality host for Sheffield Wednesday during recent seasons.

Style of play
Hirst was often considered a rare breed of 'total striker' and was blessed with pace, height, heading, strength, dribbling, creativity and being in the right place at the right time. Although predominantly left footed, he had an excellent right foot too and scored some spectacular goals from range with both feet.

Hirst previously held the record for the fastest recorded shot, hitting the bar at 114 mph against Arsenal at Highbury in September 1996.

Career statistics
Score and result list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after Hirst goal.

Honours
Sheffield Wednesday
 League Cup: 1990–91

Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 1990–91 Second Division

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Footballers from Barnsley
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Southampton F.C. players
Premier League players
People from Cudworth, South Yorkshire
Association football forwards
FA Cup Final players
Association football coaches
Sheffield Wednesday F.C. non-playing staff
Outfield association footballers who played in goal


That Nicole Hanley Mellon hosted a recent bash at the Pierre — where guests included Jean Shafiroff, Michelle Marie Heinemann, Nicole Noonan and Michele Gerber Klein — in honor of Mary Ourisman, who will chair the Red Cross Ball in Palm Beach on Feb. 8 . . . THAT Carmen Electra will host a fashion event Feb. 11 at the Sanctuary Hotel's Haven Ski Chalet at as part of STYLE360 presented by CONAIR.


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The Division of Performing Arts and the Theatre Department at DeSales University announces the 2019 Actor Showcase.
We are proud to present these emerging artists and hope you will join us in celebrating their talent as they perform for an invited audience of agents, managers, and casting directors.
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Finally have time to blog about my 5D4N Hong Kong Trip.
I would say it's a great experience to blog about my food and travel journeys. It's like writing a diary and I could just reread everything again and again to remind me of what I have been through.
I went to HK with my mom last month. We booked our flight and hotel everything in Expedia. It's a website where you can book your flight ticket and hotel together. My trip is around RM3700 for two if not mistaken. I'm not sure whether is it the cheapest deal, but i guess it's the easiest way to get everything booked. Thru this...I saved up a lot of time, don't have hassle around in different website to book the flight ticket and hotel separately. I'm lazy to do that, some more i booked everything few days before my flight. It's super super LAST MINUTE!
Although this is my 3rd times visiting HK, but i'm still blur with this places. BECAUSE, the previous time i visited HK is like 10 years ago, how could i possibly remember all the details? hahahah! So..it's like my first visit this time. I did some research from the internet before i go,but it's not really helpful for me. Add on, there's TOO MANY REVIEWS out there. It's really hard & it takes time to find " the ONE" that suits our literary.
My mom is a shopaholic, She wants to shopping everywhere she go.
So basically, My HK trip is more on SHOP, EAT, and a bit of side seeing.
Alright, let's get back to topic. Let me introduce you all some places i've been in HK.
They recommend this, MONG KOK. But honestly, i don't really enjoy shopping in HK because their shopping area is not centralized 集中 enough. You have to do a lot of walking because the whole area is damn HUGE, i spent a lot of time walking around.
This is Longham Place朗豪坊, the biggest mall in Mong Kok i guess.
You can find "Baby Cafe" here & the MTR station is right under the mall.
The Ladies Street(女人街) is there too! Just nearby Sneaker Street. So basically you can find everything in this place, prepare to spend 1-2 days shopping at Mong Kok.
Uses the MTR and go to Mong Kok station (not Mong Kok East).
Causeway Bay is a true microcosm of Hong Kong's shopping scene, with up-market fashion to be found in Lee Gardens One & Two, Hysan Place, Lee Theatre, Times Square and Fashion Walk, mid-price and luxury goods in SOGO Department Store and more. This place is always crowded, like Tokyo. Even if you're not planning to shop till you drop, the crowds, the noise and the neon all make it worth a visit with your camera.
There's a lot of shopping mall around this area, mostly branded.
All the shop is close, only manage to take photo around the place. LOL!
I think MOST of the branded goods are HERE. Yes, MOST!
You know what's the best things about shopping in HK? It's all duty free!
Note for shoppers : If you're looking for all the branded goods, can visit Tsim Sha Tsui/Central. But I personally think that Tsim Sha Tsui is better compare to Central. If you're looking for average brands + branded goods you can visit Causeway Bay. For those who are looking for cheaper stuff, visit Mong Kok (Ladies Street, Argyle Street etc).
This is a MUST VISIT place in HK, because this is the best location for HK night view. I love this place the most! Wish i could sit down a little longer and enjoy every single bit of the light. It's located at Tsim Sha Tsui area, just walking distance from the shopping area. Means you can walk to this place to enjoy the night view of HK after you've done your shopping nearby. It's easy to find, just follow the 天星码头/星光大道 sign will do. Just cross a road after the MTR exit and you'll find this place.
Just walk around, you will see 星光大道.
One of the most popular tourist attractions in Hong Kong. Where you can get to see the HK city view from the top. You can go at night too if you want, it is much nicer at night..i guess..
You can spend half of your day here..Taking photo of the view & visit the wax museum.
The ticket is around RM80++ per pax, check for better rate from those travel agency.
This ornate temple is shared by three religions: Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. It commemorates the monk, Wong Tai Sin who was born in the 4th century. Chinese pilgrims visit the temple to pray for good fortune through offerings and fortune telling.
Basically, most of the place & attraction can go by MTR. If you're really lazy to walk/ FIND the place, just take MTR to the nearest place and take a cab to the destination. It would be cheaper like that.
Okay, i think i started to miss HONG KONG already, because i missed out a lot of shopping.
WELL, That's all for today's sharing.


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Martech: Advertising
In eBay's DOOH campaign, the weather plays a starring role
The giant online marketplace has launched a campaign on outdoor digital signs across the UK that displays weather-attuned messages.
Barry Levine on April 2, 2018 at 10:41 am
eBay has found a way to take advantage of the UK's fickle springtime weather.
Last week, the giant online marketplace launched a Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) campaign there, featuring advertising messages that change according to weather conditions.
Three types of weather conditions spark different kinds of creative variations. If it's sunny, for instance, visual ads for gardening products might be shown. Rainy might result in messages about rain gear, and general/cloudy conditions can prompt ads for indoor do-it-yourself projects.
[Read the full article on MarTech Today.]
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Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.
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HomeSchmooze: Your Jewish Pop Culture Fix
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Nostalgia and Moderns on CD for Heritage Month
May 18, 2011 By Benjamin Ivry
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For background sounds to Jewish American Heritage Month, why not investigate some nostalgic treasures of Hebrew education from a half-century ago, available from Smithsonian Folkways, such as 1958's "Israeli Children's Songs" sung by New York native Miriam Ben-Ezra; or a charming 1955 lecture, "The Hebrew Language: Commentary and Readings" by Theodor Herzl Gaster, a UK-born scholar of religion and myth whose books Holy and the Profane: Evolution of Jewish Folkways and Festivals of the Jewish Year are still remembered fondly?
A different kind of nostalgia is provided by "Mosaic," a CD from Solo Musica/Naxos by violinist Orsolya Korcsolan and pianist Judit Kertész, featuring beloved salon works including Josef Bonime's Danse Hébraïque and Issay Dobrowen's Mélodie Hébraïque. Similarly, on "The Hollywood Cello: Concert Works from Film composers of the Golden Era," from Soundset Recordings, cellist Gregory Hamilton resonantly interprets works by Ernst Toch and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, among other Jewish composers who found refuge in 1930s California.
We feel excitement, not nostalgia, when familiar music is played majestically, such as on a newly transferred CD from Pristine Classical of the British Jewish violist Lionel Tertis anchoring a trio in a 1925 recording of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor. Comparably delightful is a newly recorded CD on Tudor Records of Mendelssohn's Trio & Sonatas, performed by the outstanding violinist Ana Chumachenco and clarinetist Eduard Brunner.
A degree of nostalgia may be heard on a new Cpo Records release of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's "Children's Notebook," played with astute innocence by the Russian-born pianist Elisaveta Blumina, although the extrovertedly urbane virtuosity of Weinberg's Piano Quintet, newly recorded for Haenssler Classic by the German pianist Matthias Kirschnereit and the Szymanowski Quartet has a freshly sophisticated modernist sound. As indeed does the charmingly Gallic-influenced Petite Suite by Polish Jewish composer Alexandre Tansman, fleetly performed by Belgian pianist Eliane Reyes on Naxos Records.
While nostalgia may make for comfortable listening, the joys of genuine discoveries are more resonant, as in a release from Divox Records featuring a pensively questing piano trio by Eduard Steuermann, played by the Ravinia Trio. Steuermann was a friend and colleague of Arnold Schoenberg, whose 1899 string sextet "Transfigured Night" he arranged in 1932 for piano trio formation (also heard on the same CD). Steuermann was also a witty observer of the modern music scene, whose selected writings appeared from the University of Nebraska Press in 1989. Jewish American Heritage Month is enriched by this panoply of something old and something new for the CD collector.
Listen to pianist Elisaveta Blumina play an excerpt from Mieczyslaw Weinberg's "Children's Notebook."
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Light in the West
The lost Light of the Two Trees
Long before the making of the Sun and the Moon, the land of the Valar in the West of the World had been filled by the Light of the Two Trees. Telperion the elder Tree filled the land with silver light, while the light of Laurelin the younger was golden. The Two Trees waxed and waned, mingling their silver and golden lights every six hours. While the Two Trees shone in the West, the rest of Arda lay in darkness under the stars, and so things stood for millennia.
The Elves of the Great Journey were brought into Valinor during the time when the Two Trees shone, and these Elves were therefore known as the Calaquendi, the Elves of the Light, who had seen the Light of Laurelin and Telperion with their own eyes. Fëanor was born in Aman under the Light, and he captured a part of it within the three famous Jewels known as the Silmarils. When Melkor stormed into Valinor and destroyed the Two Trees, he not only ended the Light of Valinor, but also stole the Silmarils and carried them back to Middle-earth.
Fëanor led his people in pursuit of Melkor, swearing to recover the Silmarils from the Dark Lord, and thus many of the Elves of the Light returned to Middle-earth. The Light they had seen in Valinor still shone in their eyes for a time, and they were held in awe by the Men they later encountered, who revered them as having seen the Light in the West, now long lost.
In Valinor, the Valar took the last fading Light of the dying Trees and used it to create two new great lights. The last flower of silver Telperion was used to make the Moon, and the last golden fruit of Laurelin became the Sun. Sending these new lights into the sky, the Valar thus created light for the whole of Arda, illuminating the lands of Middle-earth for the first time since the fall of the Lamps of the Valar many ages earlier.
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The Iranian Features
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Q: List Type Conversion Error I have two files that I am editing to check from sets of lists. I am getting the following error on one line of one of the files: "Cannot implicitly convert List(string) to List(G.E.RE.DC)" I can't seem to figure out how to fix the error. Nothing else is showing up as having a problem.
Here is the first set of code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;

namespace G.E.RE
{
    [Metadata("Claim", MetadataType.Object)]

    public class Claim
    {
        private List<string> diagCodes = new List<string>();
    }
    public List<DiagnosisCode> DC
    {
        get
        {
            if (testData != null)
                return testData.DC; //This is the line that shows the error

            return this.DC;
        }
        set
        {
            this.DC = value;
        }
    }
}

Here is the second set of code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using G.E.D.E.RE;

namespace G.E.RE
{
    public List<string> DC { get; set; }

    public class DC
    {
        public string Code { get; set; }
        public int ICDVersion { get; set; }
    }
}

A: Conrad pointed out that my property is defined as List so I changed other List to the same type.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using G.E.D.E.RE;

namespace G.E.RE
{
    public List<DiagnosisCode> DC { get; set; }

    public class DC
    {
        public string Code { get; set; }
        public int ICDVersion { get; set; }
    }
}

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How do you make sure that your other children are not over-burdened with caring for the sibling with special needs?
What is fair in terms of distributing your estate between your child with special needs and your other children?
First, public benefits programs are often inadequate. They need to be supplemented with other resources.
Second, both public benefits programs and individual circumstances change over time. What's working today, may not work tomorrow. Other resources need to be available, just in case.
Third, relying on one's other children to take care of their sibling places an undue burden on them and can strain relations between them. It makes it unclear whether inherited money belongs to the child to spend as he pleases, or whether he must set it aside for his sister with special needs. If one child sets money aside, and the other doesn't, resentments can build that may split the family forever.
The better answer for many of these questions is the Supplemental Needs Trust, also often called a "Third Party Special Needs Trust." Such trusts fulfill two primary functions: The first, to manage funds for someone who may not be able to do so himself due to disability. The second, to preserve the beneficiary's eligibility for public benefits, whether that be SSI, Medi-Cal, public housing, or any other program.
A trust is a form of ownership of property, whether real estate or investments, where one person – the trustee – manages the property for the benefit of someone else – the beneficiary. The trustee must follow the instructions laid out in the trust agreement as to how to spend the trust funds on the beneficiary's behalf – whether and when to distribute the trust income and principal.
In general, trusts fall into two main categories: self-settled trusts sometimes referred to as a "First Party Special Needs Trust" that the beneficiary creates for himself with his own money, and third- party trusts that one person creates and funds for the benefit of someone else. A self-settled trust for an individual, who is disabled, coming into an inheritance or proceeds from a personal injury or medical malpractice claim; A third-party trust for a parent planning for a special needs child, or one spouse planning for a spouse with a disability.
Each situation and each benefit program has its own rules that affect the drafting, funding and administration of special needs trusts. Generally, you cannot create a trust for your own benefit and have the funds uncountable for purposes of Medi-Cal, SSI and other public benefit programs. However, Medi-Cal and SSI have provided for "safe harbors" that permit the creation of self-settled special needs trusts in certain circumstances.
In general, if one person creates a trust for the benefit of someone else, and the trustee has complete discretion about whether and when to make distributions to the beneficiary, the trust funds will not be considered as available when considering the trust beneficiary's eligibility for public benefits. Unfortunately, matters get more complicated when the trust income and assets are actually used for the beneficiary. For instance, trust funds distributed directly to the beneficiary will reduce his SSI dollar for dollar. Trust funds used for food and shelter will also cause a reduction in SSI benefits. In other words, while the existence of a properly-drafted trust will not affect eligibility for benefits, the use of the trust funds could if care is not taken.
As a result, some supplemental needs trusts are written to restrict the trustee's discretion to make payments so that only those payments from the trust that will not affect eligibility for public benefits are permitted. Other trusts are written to give the trustee complete discretion, but the trustee receives instruction on how to make distributions to minimize their impact on eligibility for benefits. Since the future cannot be predicted with any certainty, flexibility permits the trustee to adjust to whatever may happen.
Choosing a trustee is one of the most difficult parts of planning for a child with special needs. The trustee of a supplemental needs trust must be able to fulfill all of the normal functions of a trustee – accounting, investments, tax returns and distributions – and also be able to meet the needs of the special beneficiary. The latter includes an understanding of various public benefits programs, sensitivity to the needs of the beneficiary, and knowledge of services that may be available.
There are a number of possible solutions available. Often parents choose to appoint co-trustees – a bank or law firm as a professional trustee, along with a family member. Working together, they can provide the necessary resources and experience to meet the needs of the child with special needs. Unfortunately, in many cases such a combination is not available. Professional trustees may not be available if the trust assets are below a certain level. There may not be an appropriate family member to act as a co-trustee.
Where the size of the trust is insufficient to justify hiring a professional trustee, two solutions are possible. The first is to have a family member trustee who would hire attorneys, accountants and investment advisors to help with administering the trust. The second is to use a pooled trust. Medi-Cal and SSI laws permit "(d)(4)(C)" trusts or "pooled trusts" for beneficiaries with special needs. Such trusts pool the resources of many beneficiaries, and those resources are managed by a non-profit organization.
To find a listing of pooled trusts in your state, refer to the Special Needs Answers Web site: www.specialneedsanswers.com where you will find a listing of pooled trusts around the country.
Where no appropriate family member is available to serve as co-trustee, the parent may appoint a professional trustee and direct the professional trustee to consult with named individuals who know and care for the child with special needs. These could be family members who are not appropriate trustees, but who can serve in an advisory role. Or they may be social workers or others who have both personal and professional knowledge of the beneficiary and the resources available for her care. This role may be formalized in the trust document as a "Care Committee." Again, where no such individuals exist, the pooled trust described above provides a solution. Both trusts have professionals on staff who can provide the care component of a special needs trust.
A number of issues arise with respect to the question of how much money to put into the trust. First, how much will your child with special needs require over her life? Second, should you leave the same portion of your estate to all of your children, no matter their need? Third, how will you assure that there is enough money?
The first question is a difficult one. The answer depends on what assumptions you make about your child's needs and the availability of other resources to fulfill those needs. A financial planner with experience in this area can help make projections to assist with this determination. But in all cases it's better to err on the side of more money rather than less. You can't be certain current public benefits programs will continue. And you have to factor in paying for services, such as case management if you are not available.
If these assumptions mean that your child with special needs will require a large percentage of your estate, how will you provide for your other children, as you desire?
One solution to the challenge of assuring that there are enough funds is life insurance. You could divide your estate equally among your children, but use life insurance to supplement the amount going to the supplemental needs trust for your child with special needs. The younger you are when you start, the more affordable the premiums will be. And if you are married, the premiums can often be lower if you purchase a policy that pays out only when the second parent dies.
So f ar, we've primarily been discussing estate planning by parents and the money they plan to leave for their child with special needs. A supplemental needs trust can also serve to hold any inheritance that may come from a grandparent or other family member. However, it should never hold funds belonging to the disabled individual. As a general rule, the funds held by such a self-settled trust would be considered available to the disabled beneficiary and render him ineligible for Medi-Cal or SSI benefits.
Fortunately, both Medi-Cal and SSI share two "Safe Harbor" trusts that permit a beneficiary to shelter his own funds, qualify for public benefits, and remain a continuing beneficiary of the trusts. These trusts fall in two categories: single-beneficiary and pooled trusts. The single- beneficiary trusts are generally referred to as "(d)(4)(A)" trusts, referring to the enabling statute, or "pay-back" trusts, referring to their primary feature that any fund remaining in the trusts upon the beneficiary's death be used to reimburse the state for any Medi-Cal expenditures it made on the beneficiary's behalf. Only funds that remain after such reimbursement may pass on to the beneficiary's family. The pooled trusts are generally referred to as "(d)(4)(C)" trusts, again referring to the enabling statute, or "pooled disability" trusts. Like the third-party pooled trusts described, these are established by non-profit organizations. Each of these safe-harbor trusts has its own rules, which must be strictly followed to qualify for Medi-Cal and SSI exceptions.
"Payback Trusts" -- also referred to as a "Self-Settled Special Needs Trust" -- must be created while the special needs individual is under age 65 and they must be established by her parent, grandparent or legal guardian or by a court. They must provide for the sole benefit of the beneficiary and at the beneficiary's death any remaining trust funds will first be used to reimburse the state for Medi-Cal paid on the beneficiary's behalf.
Many families who have children with special needs rely on SSI, Medicaid or other government benefits to provide food, clothing and shelter. You may have been advised to disinherit your special needs childthe child who needs your help most!to protect that child's public benefits. But these benefits rarely provide more than subsistence. And this "solution" does not allow you to help your child after you are incapacitated or gone. If your child requires governmental assistance to meet their basic needs, you should consider establishing a Special Needs Trust.
C OSTLY MISTAKE #2: Ignoring special needs when creating a trust for the child. A Trust that is not designed with your child's special needs in mind will probably render your child ineligible for essential benefits. The Special Needs Trust is designed to promote your child's comfort and happiness without sacrificing eligibility.
Special needs can include medical and dental expenses, annual independent check-ups, necessary or desirable equipment (such as specially equipped vans), training and education, insurance, transportation, and essential dietary needs. If the trust is sufficiently funded, your child can also receive electronic equipment & appliances, computers, vacations, movies, payments for a companion, clothing and other self-esteem enhancing and quality-of-life expenses: the sorts of things you now provide.
COSTLY MISTAKE #3: Creating a "generic" special needs trust that doesn't fit. Even some Special Needs Trusts are unnecessarily inflexible and generic. Many trusts are not customized to the particular child's needs even though the trust does not disrupt government benefits. Thus the child fails to receive the benefits that the parent provided when they were alive.
Another mistake I see is when lawyers put a government "pay-back" provision into the trust rather than allowing the remainder of the trust to go to other family members upon the death of the child with special needs. These government "pay-back" provisions are necessary in certain types of special needs trusts. An attorney who knows the difference can save your family hundreds of thousands of dollars, or more. All too often, attorneys make Special Needs Trusts "irrevocable" upon signing. While this is appropriate in some cases, most parents prefer to retain their right to improve and fine tune the trust as the years pass. Over time, their child's evolving needs can dictate the trusts provisions and, just as important, changes in the law can be reflected in the trust. If there's one thing that can be said for sure about the law in this area, it's that the law will be different in the future.
COSTLY MISTAKE #4: Procrastinating. Because none of us know when we will die or if we will become incapacitated, it is important to plan for your child with special needs early, just as you would for other dependents such as minor children.
Unlike most other beneficiaries, your child with special needs may never be able to compensate for your failure to plan. A minor beneficiary without special needs will have the ability to obtain more resources when he or she enters the workforce. Your child with special needs may not have that opportunity.
C OSTLY MISTAKE #5: Failing to invite contributions from others to the trust. A key benefit of creating a Special Needs Trust now is that your extended family and friends can make gifts to the trust or remember the trust as they plan their own estates. You can also consider whether making the trust the beneficiary of a life insurance policy makes sense now, while you are healthy and insurance rates are low.
In addition to the gifts and inheritances from other people who love your child, you can leave your own assets to the trust in your will. You can also name the trust as a beneficiary of life insurance or retirement benefits.
COSTLY MISTAKE #6: Choosing the wrong trustee. During your life, you can manage the Special Needs Trust. When you and your spouse are no longer able to serve as trustee, you can choose who will serve according to the instructions that you have provided in the trust. You may choose a team of advisors. You may choose a professional successor trustee. Make sure that whomever you choose is financially astute, well-organized, and, most important, ethical and caring.
COSTLY MISTAKE #7: Relying on your other children to use their money for your child with special needs. You can rely on your other children to provide for your child with special needs from their own monies or from an inheritance. That can be a temporary solution for a brief time, such as during a brief incapacity, if your other children are financially secure and have money to spare.
Ho wever, relying on siblings is not a long-term solution that will protect your special needs child after you and your spouse have died. Even well-intentioned siblings have their own lives and financial concerns because of the many potential problems they face.
What if your child with the money divorces? His or her spouse may be entitled to half of it and may not take care of your child with special needs. What if your child with the money dies or becomes incapacitated while your child with special needs is still living? Will his or her heirs then care for your child with special needs as thoughtfully and completely as your child with the money did?
What if your child with the money loses a lawsuit and has to pay a large judgment or has other significant creditor problems? The court will certainly require your child to turn that money over to the creditor. If you create a special needs trust, you protect all of your children. The trust facilitates easier record-keeping and allows your other children to rely on the assistance of a professional trustee, if needed.
Siblings of a child with special needs often feel a great responsibility for their sibling and have felt so all of their lives. When you provide clear instructions and a helpful structure, you lessen the burden on all your children and you support a loving and involved relationship among them.
COSTLY MISTAKE #8: Failing to protect the child with special needs from predators. An inheritance from parents who fund their child's Special Needs Trust by will rather than by revocable living trust is in the public record. Predators are particularly attracted to vulnerable beneficiaries, such as the young and those with limited self-protective capacities. With a trust, you limit access to the information about your children's inheritance. This protects your child and other family members, who may be serving as trustees, from predators.
COSTLY MISTAKE #9: Failure to properly "fund" and maintain the plan. Every trust-based estate plan requires changes to asset ownership and beneficiary designations. If the plan includes life insurance protection (done with an "Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust"), these asset transfers become complicated. Your attorney should direct which asset goes where, and why. If you suspect the assets were not properly transferred or if you are unsure as to what you need to do, take action! Call your attorney and request a report. Improper fund maintenance is one of the most common reasons that estate plans fail.


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And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favor with all the people.
The next thing I notice is that the church is filled with great joy and a sense of praise. Read again the terms used toward the end of Acts chapter 2. "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favor with all the people." Now that is how the Christian church is meant to be. Great joy, great praise to the Lord Jesus Christ and to God, glorying in this great salvation, in the new life they have received, and in this sense of heaven.
It is but the simple pattern of what has been repeated so frequently when God has poured out His Spirit upon the church. I never tire of quoting something I remember reading in the journals of George Whitefield. He was preaching on one occasion in Cheltenham, England, and he said, "Suddenly the Lord came down amongst us." Do we know anything about that? Do we believe in that sort of thing or that it is possible? Now George Whitefield, even at his worst, was probably the greatest preacher this country [England] has ever known. But there were variations, even in his ministry. On this occasion he was surprised himself. There he was, preaching and having a very good service, when suddenly he knew that the Lord had come down among them. That is the wonderful thing, and it resulted in great joy, praise, and thanksgiving. When the church is in a state of revival you do not have to exhort people to praise—you cannot stop them, they are so filled with God.
When the church is in a state of revival you do not have to exhort people to praise—you cannot stop them.


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Response to tonybgood (Reply #439)
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448. Then how to explain WC exhibits CE 567, CE 569 and CE 840?
All fragments of the bullet that hit JFK in the head, taken from the front seat of the limo and from under the left jump seat. How about that?
Oh, and far as there being no mention in the WCR of evidence being taken from the limo:
"In addition to the three cartridge cases found in the Texas School Book Depository Building, a nearly whole bullet was found on Governor Connally's stretcher and two bullet fragments were found in the front of the President's car. 2 The two bullet fragments weighed 44.6 and 21.0 grains, respectively. 43 The heavier fragment was a portion of a bullet's nose area, as shown by its rounded contour and the character of the markings it bore. 44 The lighter fragment consisted of bullet's base portion, as shown by its shape and by the presence of a cannelure. 45 The two fragments were both mutilated, and it was not possible to determine from the fragments themselves whether they comprised the base and nose of one bullet or of two separate bullets. 46 However, each had sufficient unmutilated area to provide the basis of an identification. 47 Based on a comparison with test bullets fired from the C2766 rifle, the stretcher bullet and both bullet fragments were identified as having been fired from the C2766 rifle. 48 " - WCR, Appendix 10
In addition, a large fragment of JFK's skull was recovered from the limo. An x-ray of this fragment exists.
The HSCA provided a report on how this fragment was recovered from the limo.
Arguing with the JFK CTists - like shooting fish in a barrel.