RAPID CITY, S.D. — Kansas City Mavericks captain Rocco Carzo said his team is playing "Mavericks hockey," and that is the perfect way to head into the Kelly Cup playoffs with some momentum.
Carzo had a goal and assist as the Mavericks extended their winning streak to four games following a 5-1 victory over the Rapid City Rush Friday at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center.
"We're back to playing Mavericks hockey," Carzo said. "During that slump (a seven-game losing streak that has been replaced by the current four-game win streak), we weren't playing Mavericks hockey.
Rapid City had just 10 shots on goal against Mason McDonald during the first two periods.
McDonald finished the night stopping 20 of 21 shots on goal.
Kansas City improved to 36-30-3-2 on the season with 77 points. The Mavericks will finish the regular season at 8:05 p.m. Saturday against the Rush.
Rapid City took an early 1-0 lead at 3:02 in the first period when Justin Faryna scored on assists from Dexter Dancs and Cedric Montminy. Just a little more than two minutes later, Mavericks forward Jared VanWormer slipped a puck between the legs of Rapid City goaltender Adam Carlson to tie the game at 1-all. Greg Betzold and Loren Ulett earned assists on the play.
Kansas City then took the lead for good on a short-handed goal from C.J. Eick as he caused a turnover in the neutral zone and tucked it behind Carlson at the 9:51 mark in the first. Eick netted his second goal 19 seconds into the second period and Carzo and Brayden Sherbinin got the assists to make it 3-1.
Carzo then scored on a power play with 11:46 to go in regulation to balloon the lead to 4-1. Darian Dziurzynski and Mike Panowyk had assists on the play. Willie Raskob capped the win with a goal at the 8:30 mark and was assisted by Dziurzynsk and Eick.


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In defence of the combat sport cage
Opinion The Drum Stephanie Convery Wed 4 Mar 2015, 9:47 AM AEDT
From the point of view of participants and the martial arts community, the cage ban is ridiculous.
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Despite moves to overturn the ban on using cages in mixed martial arts it remains the victim of demonisation. But conflating the sport with street and domestic violence is a dangerous rhetorical move, writes Stephanie Convery.
If you had told me a year ago that I could have a great time on a Friday night sipping overpriced beer and watching people punch each other, I would have laughed at you.
But that's exactly what happened two weeks ago when, in an underground function space in Parkville, I watched a number of my friends from boxing class get into the ring for the first time.
I've been an amateur boxer for eight months. When I first told people about my training, eyebrows were raised. Their surprise wasn't unexpected: women have been boxing for as long as the sport has existed but have been sidelined for much of that history by trainers, other boxers and the law.
Queensland only legalised women's boxing in 2000, with NSW refusing to lift its ban until 2008. It was a mere three years ago that women's boxing was finally accepted as an Olympic sport.
The attitudes that underpin this discrimination are depressingly familiar. Women are taught to think of themselves as in need of protection, inherently weaker and less resilient than men, less physically capable. We are told that virtue is found in being skinnier, smaller, prettier. But there is nothing more guaranteed to puncture those stereotypes than women's participation in combat sport.
Boxing teaches you to focus on strength, stamina and speed rather than appearance. It requires you to be alert, observant and poised to act. It teaches you that the physical and emotional parts of yourself are not independent of each other and that you have the capacity to control and direct that energy. It brings all of this to bear because it forces you to confront the limitations of your body, but also to recognise its great potential for resistance.
For women in particular this is often the revelation that allows them to internalise and accept their own capacity for independence and agency. But it is also why there are so many stories of young wayward men joining a boxing gym and turning their lives around for the better. The self-discipline, control, commitment and presence of mind required to even get to the ring on a fight night is transformative. Boxing, as Joyce Carol Oates wrote, is not a metaphor for anything else. In a fight, after all, what's at stake is not just a championship, an accolade or a pat on the back from your coach, but you.
Mixed martial arts, a much newer form of combat sport, has been growing in popularity over the last three decades. Originally devised as an open competition in which to test different martial art forms against each other, the sport has developed into its own discipline. Like traditional boxing, however, MMA has a bad reputation because the explicit objective of the sport is to physically dominate your opponent, and this comes with an obvious potential for injury.
MMA is ideally performed in a cage - an octagon - comprised of padded posts and chain link fences covered in vinyl. But while mixed martial arts is legal in Victoria it must be performed in a traditional boxing ring, after the Labor government in 2007 banned the use of the cages, although not the sport itself. During that incident, and in subsequent debates in Victoria about the legalisation of the cage, MMA has been characterised as a brutal, thuggish practice that invokes and glamorises blood lust. And despite Labor now indicating it will overturn the ban on the use of the cage, this characterisation is still used.
In a way it's easy to understand why. A combat sport performed in a cage conjures up images of gladiatorial duels, mistreated animals or "human cockfighting". The chain-link fence suggests seedy, back-alley bouts run by shady gangsters. The cage has an image problem, no doubt, but its bad reputation belies its important function in the sport.
It is, quite simply, a safety apparatus: it allows a competitor on the ground to move themselves into a standing position, thus limiting head strikes. It also prevents the competitors, who engage in a lot of grappling on the mat, from rolling off the edges of the ring on to the ground or into the audience and officials, while still allowing the spectators to view the action. Without it, referees must stop the match when the competitors come close to the edge of the boxing ring, move them back to the centre, rearrange them, and restart the match.
The bruises, broken arms, blood noses and concussions that may be sustained in a legal fight may not look any different to those sustained in an assault, but context is crucial. It takes many, many months of committed training to participate in a match, which is then performed under the scrutiny of experienced and qualified referees and judges, with attendant ringside doctors. The sport is fully regulated and sanctioned under the Professional Boxing and Combat Sports Act, which requires all competitors to undergo mandatory blood tests, physicals and pre- and post-match examinations.
If injuries are sustained, competitors are referred for further medical attention, barred from training for six to eight weeks, and medical clearance is required before they resume. Injuries are not unique to combat sports and risk is not something that any sporting code takes lightly. MMA is no exception and the cage ban simply makes risk management within the sport more difficult.
In October last year the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Ken Lay, argued against the legalisation of the cage:
It concerns me when we start considering cage fighting in the world's most liveable city, especially when we're seeing such great progress in reducing violence in our community.
But to conflate an organised and regulated sport with street violence, domestic violence, assault and battery is a dangerous rhetorical move. It fundamentally misrepresents the people involved in combat sport and does nothing to solve actual violent conflict in the community.
From the point of view of participants and the martial arts community, the cage ban is patently ridiculous - a political move designed to score easy public image points in a campaign against street violence with no evidence to back it up. Meanwhile, issues such as outdated gender roles, economic instability and racial discrimination that are the real causes of violence within the community remain unfixed.
It's time we stopped making combat sport the scapegoat, and allowed the men and women who love it to practice their discipline freely and safely.
Stephanie Convery is a Melbourne-based writer. On Twitter, she is @gingerandhoney.
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London, 15 January 2020 –Hopster, the award-winning preschool educational and entertainment digital platform that develops young children's learning through kids TV shows, music, games and books has launched in Africa partnering with South Africa's Vodacom and Congolese telecom provider MTN.
Hopster has partnered with mobile & web application platform provider AfrikaStream to deliver its video content in the Congo with telecom provider MTN. The service which launched in October, allows MTN's mobile customers to access hundreds of Hopster's educational localised French preschool shows, books and music as part of its time-based data plan packages. Preschoolers will be able to enjoy family favourite and educational shows that are loved around the world such as Pingu and Peppa Pig, as well as the much loved African animated series from Nigerian animator Adamu Waziri - Bino and Fino. Children can also sing along with Mouk, Les Patapons and the traditional and beautifully animated African and West Indian Nursery Rhymes, sung by parents from around Africa. Kids will also be able to discover books like Henny Penny, the classic folktale that teaches kids about the dangers of being too gullible and trusting strangers.
Earlier this year Hopster also partnered with South Africa's biggest telecom provider Vodacom, allowing its customers access to Hopster's video content via Vodacom's new Video on Demand Service, Video Play which can be accessed via Vodacom's premium package or as part of the family micro-bundle package from 5 RND / day. Preschoolers will be able to enjoy hundreds of handpicked age-appropriate family favourite shows and original animated TV series from Hopster Studios which includes science-based show Clever Brenda, fast-paced Grimm's Fairy Tales series Two Minute Tales and empathy-focused show Saturday Club.
The partnership also features a direct carrier billing service that allows Vodacom customers to access the Hopster's ad-free app, paying via their mobile bills, again, prices start at 5 RND / day. Customers will be able to access Hopster's fun shows, inspiring songs, educational games and beautiful books that are built around an international early years curriculum which can be downloaded via their mobile or tablet for free from the App Store and Google Play.
Nick Walters, Founder and CEO at Hopster said: "We are absolutely thrilled to have launched in Africa with both Vodacom and MTN. We see real potential for Africa to be a 'leapfrog' market - with a new generation of users moving straight to finding their favourite content mobile first, rather than on TV. We hope that South African and Congolese preschoolers will enjoy our fun, educational content and that we see growth in our subscribers and in future partnerships across the continent."
Zunaid Mahomed Vodacom' Group Digital and Fixed Officer said "As a brand with a purpose, education is a key pillar of our strategy. It is clear that children of today are living in an exponentially evolving digital era and the increase of smart device usage for education and entertainment purposes is therefore a natural progression. It is with great excitement that we have the opportunity to partner with a brand like Hopster, whose passion is educating the youth. Through our video on demand platform, Video Play, we have the opportunity to bring education and entertainment to the young minds of our country, whom we hope to someday shape into great leaders."
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On Aug. 22, 2018, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, affirmed that the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) can mandate the use of combined reporting by interstate unitary businesses, but permit intrastate unitary companies to choose either separate or combined reporting.1 After independent review, the Court found that there is a legitimate state interest to require combined reporting of taxable income of interstate unitary entities to accurately compute all income attributable to California, despite any potential discriminatory effect on interstate commerce.
Background The taxpayer, Harley-Davidson, sued the FTB for a tax refund following an FTB examination that resulted in a finding that two of Harley-Davidson's business lines, consisting of a motorcycle business and a financial services business, comprised a unitary business and had to file its corporation income/franchise tax returns on a combined basis. Following an unsuccessful protest, Harley-Davidson paid the additional assessed taxes under protest and subsequently filed suit against the FTB to recover a refund of the assessed amounts.
Noting that intrastate unitary businesses are afforded the choice of computing their tax on either a separate or combined basis, unlike interstate unitary companies, Harley-Davidson alleged in its complaint that the difference in the treatment of interstate and intrastate unitary businesses violated the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.2 The FTB filed a demurrer to Harley-Davidson's claims, which the trial court sustained, on the basis that Harley-Davidson's allegations as to a Commerce Cause violation were not sufficiently pleaded.
The California Court of Appeal ruled in Harley-Davidson's favor and reversed the trial court's demurrer ruling, with instructions to conduct further proceedings. In doing so, the Court of Appeal stated that the appeal arose from an order sustaining a demurrer with an undeveloped record "with respect to whether the [FTB] has identified a legitimate reason for differentiating between and discriminating against intrastate and interstate unitary businesses and, if so, whether that legitimate reason can be 'adequately served by reasonable nondiscriminatory alternatives.'"3
On remand from the California Court of Appeal, the San Diego trial court granted an FTB motion for summary judgment on the issue of whether a California statute discriminates against multistate taxpayers under the Commerce Clause by providing only intrastate unitary businesses with an election to compute their tax on a separate accounting method or combined reporting method.4 The trial court ruled that although the statute may be discriminatory, the law is permissible because the state has a legitimate interest in ensuring the accurate accounting of business income from interstate activities. Harley-Davidson appealed, resulting in this controversy.
Court of appeal decision The sole issue facing the Court was Harley-Davidson's claim that the disparate treatment between interstate and intrastate companies harmed the flow of interstate commerce by providing a direct commercial advantage to intrastate unitary entities. While the Court agreed that there were triable issues of fact around the issue of discrimination, it ultimately found the need to accurately measure and tax all income attributable to California to be a legitimate state interest to require combined reporting of taxable income of interstate unitary businesses. Further, it ruled that this interest outweighs any possible discriminatory effect.
While Harley-Davidson appeared to agree with the FTB that there was a legitimate state interest to require combined reporting of unitary interstate businesses, it contended that there are reasonable, nondiscriminatory alternatives to the current reporting system. However, the Court disagreed and noted that Harley-Davidson was unable to point to facts in the record to support this position. Citing previous decisions, the Court noted that "separate accounting cannot be extended to interstate corporations because it 'ignores or captures inadequately' the transfers of value that take place among the many entities that can make up a unitary enterprise, and can lead to 'the manipulation and hiding of taxable income.'"5 The Court rejected Harley-Davidson's contention that the FTB has "'tools at its disposal' to seek out all the 'subtle and largely unquantifiable transfers of value' among the entities of a unitary business and to prevent manipulation."6 Instead, the Court noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the formula apportionment of unitary business income is both constitutionally permissible and "often the only reasonable and practical manner in which a state may levy and collect taxes to which it is constitutionally entitled."7
Further, the Court determined that Harley-Davidson was unable to show that prohibiting intrastate unitary companies from using either the combined or separate accounting methods would yield a more reasonable alternative. The Court stated that, because all of the income earned by an intrastate unitary business is taxed by California, intrastate unitary businesses have less opportunity to hide and/or manipulate taxable income among separate entities. Simply put, the Court provided that "intrastate entities are not similarly situated to interstate entities for purposes of filing taxes" and that Harley-Davidson had provided no support for its claim that requiring intrastate unitary businesses to always file using the combined reporting method would be a reasonable, nondiscriminatory alternative.
Commentary The Commerce Clause issue addressed in this decision has garnered significant attention over the past several years as this case has progressed through the California court system, with a focus on the potential implications to California from a revenue perspective if a finding of discrimination were sustained. This most recent ruling is likely to result in an appeal by Harley-Davidson to the California Supreme Court.
As this case has developed, given the stakes involved, many taxpayers have filed protective refund claims for tax years that are now closed for assessment under the applicable statute of limitations. Such taxpayers should be aware that, based on this decision, they may not prevail in their efforts. However, the claims will remain open at least for the moment, as Harley-Davidson determines whether to file an appeal. In the event an appeal is granted, a possibility remains that California's tax scheme would not withstand strict scrutiny. While the term "strict scrutiny" at first blush would make it seem like there is a high bar to strike a finding of discrimination, finding a legitimate state interest often lowers the bar substantially, and courts are often receptive to arguments revolving around state revenues. In this case, the ability of the FTB to argue that the need to accurately measure and tax all income attributable to California is a legitimate state interest was persuasive here. It would not be surprising for the FTB and other state tax authorities to continue to lean on these types of arguments in future challenges to tax regimes.
Taxpayers may also wish to consider the impact of filing on a separate accounting or combined reporting basis for open tax years or on a prospective basis. However, taxpayers wishing to make a separate accounting election on an originally filed return, even with disclosure, are cautioned that they may potentially be subject to penalties in the event the FTB ultimately prevails.
1 Harley-Davidson, Inc. v. California Franchise Tax Board, California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, No. D071669, Aug. 22, 2018.
2 The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes." U.S. CONST. art. I, § 8, cl. 3. As explained by the Court of Appeal, "[t]hough phrased as a grant of regulatory power to Congress, the clause has long been understood to have a 'negative' aspect that denies the states the power unjustifiably to discriminate against or burden the interstate flow of articles of commerce." Citing Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality, 511 U.S. 93, 98 (1994).
3 Harley-Davidson, Inc. v. Franchise Tax Board, 237 Cal.App.4th 193 (2015).
4 Harley-Davidson, Inc. v. California Franchise Tax Board, California Superior Court, San Diego County, No. 37-2011-00100846-CU-MC-CTL, Oct. 31, 2016 (minute order).
5 Citing Barclays Bank PLC v. Franchise Tax Bd., 512 U.S. 298, 303 (1994); Container Corp. of America v. Franchise Tax Board, 463 U.S. 159, 164 (1983).
6 Citing Container Corp. of America, 463 U.S. 159.
7 Citing Handlery v. Franchise Tax Board, 26 Cal. App. 3d 970 (1972).
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2015 is the year the old internet finally died – Vox
Here are five stories that couldn't be more different but are, at their base, animated by the same basic fears.
After Gawker's managing partners pulled a widely derided post outing an executive at a media company who was being blackmailed by a man he had solicited, two of the publication's senior editors and many other writers resigned out of fears that the company's business side had too much influence over its editorial side.
Just shy of its second birthday, the film criticism site the Dissolve ceased operations in mid-July 2015. Its end prompted renewed concerns for the future of film criticism as a profession.
The Washington Post ran an article claiming that comedian Amy Schumer's jokes about Latinos are racist. A few days later, the Interrobang revealed that the author of the article has never seen Schumer's standup or TV show.
The online aggregation site ViralNova sold to Zealot Networks for $100 million.
In the wake of the banning of several subreddits that had engaged in harassment and the firing of a popular employee, Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao resigned after a lengthy campaign against her, often conducted via racist and sexist language. A few days after her departure, credible sources suggested she had nothing to do with the firing, not that it helped matters.
What links these seemingly dissimilar stories is a very basic fear — the idea that the internet as we knew it, the internet of five or 10 or 20 years ago, is going away as surely as print media, replaced by a new internet that reimagines personal identity as something easily commodified, that plays less on the desire for information or thoughtfulness than it does the desire for a quick jolt of emotion.
It's an internet driven not by human beings, but by content, at all costs. And none of us — neither media professionals, nor readers — can stop it. Every single one of us is building it every single day.
How every media outlet became a syndication service
The Gawker of August 5, 2005. (Archive.org)
Take a look at your browser tabs if you're reading this on a computer. Inevitably, you have at least a few that are weeks, if not months, old, things you've always intended to get to but just never have. Odds are these are so-called "longform" articles that will take a while to read. (Here's one of mine, which I've had open since October: a GQ feature about "the last true hermit.") A fair number of you are going to open this piece in a tab and just never get back to it.
These longform pieces are the pinnacle to which lots and lots of us writers and the websites we work for aspire. They win awards. They garner attention from other journalists. They're often why we got into this business to begin with. Even BuzzFeed turned out to be using all those cat GIFs as a Trojan horse for a lot of great investigative journalism.
And I don't want to suggest, even inadvertently, that nobody reads these longer pieces. A well-written, well-reported longform piece can break out as well as anything, as Gawker found out with (among many others) its influential, over-9,000-word essay "On Smarm."
The problem is scale. A larger, general-interest site can't be built purely atop longform, because longform takes time — both for writers to produce and readers to read. Therefore, as both Buzzfeed and Gawker realized early on, well-done longform could be the steak, but it couldn't be the meal.
Some of this was driven by the greater knowledge the internet has given publications about just who's reading what on their sites. Newspapers could suspect nobody was reading the city council report or the dance review; with the internet, we know nobody is. The internet has made it clear that the kinds of things that people want to read are sort of an endless collection of what's cool. And that might be a longform story, or it might be the quick, clicky little things that repackage the best flotsam and jetsam out there in a more presentable fashion. And if longform takes time, then aggregation is its opposite, easier to throw together in a few minutes with huge potential upside (though, it should be said, with much bigger potential for disaster, since everything is moving so quickly).
The theory always went that BuzzFeed couldn't be all cat GIFs, because it would very quickly wear out its welcome. But that theory was wrong in one crucial aspect — with the rise of social media, a site's brand identity is a little less important with every year. Gawker is important to those of us in the media because it's Gawker, with its strong institutional voice. But to someone not entrenched in the world of the media (which is the vast majority of everybody), it's just another Facebook content provider. Social media has, essentially, turned every content provider into a syndicator. Vox's own Ezra Klein argued something very similar recently.
And the best syndicators were always those who could take the most crowd-pleasing stuff and get it before as many eyeballs as possible. Think about, say, comic strips or advice columns — fun to read and ultimately disposable. That's precisely the philosophy a site like ViralNova, which essentially only collects fun little things and repackages them, operates upon. And its growth has been phenomenal, so far avoiding the pitfalls that eventually took down earlier contenders like Upworthy.
And if you work in online media, that's terrifying.
How the internet of 2005 was different — so different
Facebook on August 6, 2005. (Archive.org)
Now think about, if you remember, the internet of 10 years ago. It was a world not of articles as standalone entities, but of blogs and sites with strong, central identities. That was the world in which a site like Gawker thrived, because it was a world built almost entirely around voice — whether that voice came from a single person or from a carefully crafted editorial identity. Gawker was the site that gave no fucks. It exposed secrets and reported on gossip and became a witty, trashy tabloid that thumbed its nose at the pomposity of old media.
The internet of 2005 existed as an unending series of office sitcoms, where writers and comments sections blended together to feel almost like the same thing. You went to Gawker or a beloved blog as much to hang out with your friends as you did to get information.
Gawker founder Nick Denton seemed to recognize this, too, in an email to Jordan Sargent, the author of the post that prompted the companywide meltdown. "You need to know you did nothing wrong," wrote Denton, according to New York magazine. "These are the stories we used to do. But times have changed."
That was also a more limited internet. Fewer people read it, and those people tended to be whiter, younger, and more male, on average. That internet's greatest enemy was the hidebound traditions of old media — a world of stuffiness and a supposedly "objective" voice that was anything but. In that economy, the readers only had power in aggregate. Get enough of them, and you'd have a site that stuck around. Get too few, and you would fade.
Two things have happened to change all of this: the rise of mobile, and the rise of social media. Mobile has ultimately downplayed the importance of words. Indeed, the fewer, the better. (God forbid you are reading this on a phone.) Images and video are king. Nilay Patel has written about this brilliantly over at our sister site The Verge.
And the rise of social has flipped the old writer/reader balance, restoring power to the reader. On social media, you share an article because you agree with the take, sure, but also because it says something about you, whether that fact is that you're angry about a political issue, or that you like cute bunnies, or that you love Back to the Future. Your social media feed is a curation of things you want people to know about you. Inconvenient truths, negative views, or anything too dark will be pushed aside.
There are good things about this — namely the increasing diversification of our readership and the fact that there are enough readers now that one can make something of a living doing this. In particular, the Gawker story that caused such a flap would have been published without much pushback in 2005, I'd wager, where it rightly drew much criticism in 2015. And the fact that Reddit is fighting a very public battle over the place of retrograde, hateful views within a community driven by a shallow ideal of what free speech should be is ultimately a good thing for bringing to attention, visibly, that the internet is not all white men in their 20s and 30s.
But this is also a seismic shift in the way online news is consumed. The internet of 10 years ago has become the old media it railed against, and many of us regard this shift as nothing less than an existential struggle for our very professional lives.
The end of quirky, specialty sites
The A.V. Club of August 6, 2005. (Archive.org)
The Dissolve was founded by former employees of the A.V. Club, a pop culture publication that started out as the silly but serious arts and entertainment section of the print version of the Onion. (As will become quickly obvious, I also worked at the A.V. Club, and I owe my career to Dissolve founder Keith Phipps.) At the center of the Dissolve's founding origin story was a rift between the A.V. Club of 2005 and the A.V. Club of right now, a similar rift to the one that consumed Gawker, if not such a public or acrimonious one.
The split, essentially, was this: The Dissolve bet that the internet of 2005 could exist peacefully alongside the internet of 2015. It wagered there were enough movie fans out there who would click, each and every day, on a Dissolve link in their bookmarks list and read a bunch of long, movie-related features, before reading some shorter, aggregated news articles. On some macro level, it was betting the shift to a pure social web was wrong. You didn't need to keep churning out more and more content to see what stuck on Facebook. You could still get enough diehard website fans to keep the lights on. And once you did, you could build from that base.
The A.V. Club flipped that ratio around. The longform stuff was the fun stuff you got to do, but it was ultimately there in support of the stuff more likely to bring in looky-loos from Google or Facebook. And when it did come to longform writing, a traditional review would never go viral on Facebook in the way that a think piece based on sociopolitical readings of a film would.
Now, two years after that rift, it's become obvious that sites like the Dissolve — quirky, specialist sites that thrived in 2005 — are an endangered species in 2015. (See also: Grantland, whose future is very much in flux with the departure of founder Bill Simmons.) In an ideal world, the Dissolve might have built itself up from humble beginnings, might have started out as a part-time blog on the side of a day job. But then it never could have paid its employees a living wage, or produced work as high in quality as it did.
The future belongs to the fleet, to the fast, to the instantly assembled hot take. Thoughtfulness is almost beside the point, in many cases, if you can produce something enough people will want to associate with the curation of their core beings.
We're all looking for the middle ground
SB Nation (the oldest Vox Media property) in late August 2005. (Archive.org)
There are, of course, many sites trying to chart a middle ground. I think the A.V. Club found its way to just that, and it will come as no surprise to you that I believe I write for one currently — which may explain why Vox figures so heavily in the meta-drama surrounding Gawker.
Gawker doesn't fear becoming Vox because we're intrinsically evil (at least I hope not); it fears becoming Vox because Vox is one of the more obvious exemplars of whatever the new world is, and that new world necessarily requires letting go of a lot of the assumptions of the internet of 2005.
In particular, it requires the idea that making money on this new internet requires scale, and if you need to always keep scaling up, you can't alienate readers, particularly those who arrive from social channels. The Gawker of 2015 can't afford to be mean, for this reason. But the Gawker of 2005 couldn't afford not to be mean. What happens when these changes scrub away something seen as central to a site's voice?
And I miss that old internet, too. As Hossein Derakhshan writes beautifully at Medium, that was a world, ultimately, of communities, where a hyperlink could boost a fledgling site's traffic for a few days. It was a world that had many, many flaws, but it was one eventually built around the idea that if you created a place where people could gather based around shared interests, they ultimately would. It was the ideal of the original internet made real, an actual, virtual web spreading its tendrils about the world.
Now, however, our articles increasingly seem to be individual insects trapped in someone else's web. The internet has the exact opposite problem of every other medium. Instead of going from something for everybody to something for a large series of hyper-specialized niches, we're navigating the choppy seas where once stood an archipelago and increasingly stands a continent. As TV and music and even publishing become the internet, the internet is becoming everything else — and it's taking so much of what seemed to make it special with it.


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'Swarm A.I.' Predicts When the East Will Win the NBA Finals
It's going to be a minute.
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Alasdair Wilkins
8.8.2017 1:48 PM
The NBA's Eastern Conference has been a joke for longer than some of its players have been alive. Since Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls wrapped up their second threepeat in 1998, the West has seen multiple dynasties rise — the Los Angeles Lakers, the San Antonio Spurs, and now the Golden State Warriors — while the East has been LeBron James, a couple brief blips from the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics, and little else.
With the Warriors looking nearly unbeatable for years to come, the question isn't even when the East will tip the balance of power back their way. When, exactly, is a conference with almost none of the league's top players going to win even one title? Unanimous A.I. had a swarm of Inverse readers weigh in, and they predict that we are in for a wait.
In a nutshell, each participant controlled a little golden magnet below, and used it to drag the puck toward the answer they thought was the most likely outcome. Also, the closer a user puts the magnet to the puck, the greater the pulling force. This is where the hive-mind comes in: If a user sees the puck move toward an outcome, it triggers a psychological response. The user starts to readjust their decision-making, building toward a consensus. To read more about how Unanimous A.I. uses swarm A.I. to reach scarily accurate predictions, check out our previous article on how Unanimous A.I. uses "swarm intelligence" to make predictions.
When Will an NBA Team from the East Win the Finals?
For a second there, it looked like the swarm was thinking the 2019-2020 season could be when an Eastern team could break through. But a last-second move saw the timeline pushed back a season. The swarm predicts there is another three seasons of Western dominance ahead of us.
That suggests Inverse readers aren't confident in the ability of LeBron James and the Cavaliers to win another title, as they did in all-time legendary fashion by rallying from a 3-1 deficit against the 73-9 Warriors in 2016. Considering fellow Cavalier Kyrie Irving has reportedly asked for a trade before this season, and there's plenty of speculation James may leave after this coming season, that all makes sense.
The swarm didn't need to have any specific team in mind when making this prediction, but the likeliest candidate for a first title in 2020-21 is the Boston Celtics. The team just added Gordon Hayward to a 53-win team, but it's all its young prospects — Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, and a bunch of future high draft picks — that have the team and its fans looking a few seasons ahead for when its championship window will be most open.
This prediction is also a reflection of just how ridiculous the Warriors now are. Golden State dominated en route to their second NBA title in three years, coming one Cavs win short of an undefeated 16-0 run through the playoffs. Whatever weaknesses were revealed when the team lost in the 2016 finals were erased by the addition of megastar Kevin Durant, and the team looks set to dominate for the foreseeable future. Even if they do lose — injuries are always possible, and were a factor in the 2016 defeat — most of the non-LeBron contenders are in the West: The San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, and Oklahoma City Thunder all at least have a shot. And, of course, none of them winning would end the Eastern Conference's run of futility.
Want to join us? Participate in the next Inverse Predictions experiment here.
More "Swarm AI" predictions from the Inverse NBA series:
Carmelo Anthony Will Go to the Houston Rockets
The NBA's Next Top Scorer Will Be Russell Westbrook
Where LeBron James is Taking His Talents Next
The NBA's Rookie of the Year Will Be Lonzo Ball
Kyrie Irving Will Stay in Cleveland This Season


(Yes, zero since this is really intuitive but many miss) Start by trying to answer the question yourself. Read the relevant pages of the rulebook. If you don't know what happens when someone fails a fear test, then read the book first. And only if you do not understand what it says can you ask in here.
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Please try and explain yourself as best you can, and also if possible give out page numbers of the rulebook/chronicles/army book that deals with the situation. This makes it easier for people to look up the relevant pages and answer you. If we continue with the Fear question from point 2, then you could say "pages 81-82 in the rulebook deal with fear, but I don´t really understand..." and then describe whatever has you confused. If you do not know if there even is a rule about it at all then you of course wont be expected to know the page number.
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tourism and cultural change »
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Tourism and Cultural Change
Series Editors:
Mike Robinson (The Ironbridge Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, UK)
Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow, UK)
More information about the editors are available on their university websites:
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Understanding tourism's relationships with culture(s), and vice versa, is of ever-increasing significance in a globalising world. Tourism and Cultural Change is a series of books that critically examine the complex and ever-changing relationship between tourism and culture(s). The series focuses on the ways that places, peoples, pasts, and ways of life are increasingly shaped, transformed, created and packaged for touristic purposes. The series examines the ways tourism utilises/makes and re-makes cultural capital in its various guises (visual and performing arts, crafts, festivals, built heritage, cuisine etc.) and the multifarious political, economic, social and ethical issues that are raised as a consequence. Theoretical explorations, research-informed analyses and detailed historical reviews from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are invited to consider such relationships.
All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed.
Proposals for the series are welcome and should be submitted to Sarah Williams. Please read our notes about how to submit a book proposal.
The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World
Nieves Herrero, Sharon R. Roseman
Identity and Intercultural Exchange in Travel and Tourism
Anthony David Barker
Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism
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Spices and Tourism Destinations, Attractions and Cuisines
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Railway Heritage and Tourism Global Perspectives
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Management Options for SLE
Internists gain some guidance on identifying systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and why they should work with rheumatologists. Meanwhile, two UK studies outline paths to successful gout treatment and lower mortality rates after hip replacement surgery. Finally, the use of imaging, including ultrasound, are refined for diagnosing sarcoidosis.
Last week's articles on rheumatology topics in the major non-rheumatology journals.
Systemic Lupus ErythematosusAnnals of Internal Medicine, October 1, 2013
This clinically-oriented continuing medical education review is directed at internists identifying and treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and assumes a consultation with a rheumatologist after diagnosis.
Seminar: SarcoidosisLancet, October 1, 2013
The indications for endobronchial ultrasound (US) for diagnosis and positron emission tomography (PET) in the assessment of inflammatory activity are now better specified for sarcoidosis. Recognition of unexplained persistent disabling symptoms, fatigue, small-fiber neurological impairment, cognitive failure, and changes to health state and quality of life, has improved.
The molecular mechanisms for inflammation, granuloma formation, and genetics are reviewed up to 2012. The pulmonologist and radiologist authors review current diagnostic techniques, including endobronchial US-guided transbronchial needle aspiration for mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy, and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET. The diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis, without consensus, is the most challenging. Treatment, including infliximab, etanercept, adalimumab, rituximab, apremilast, and dexmethylphenidate is reviewed.
Clinical Review: GoutBMJ, October 1, 2013
This review, and a patient perspective, follows UK practices for Gout diagnosis and management, which are similar but not identical to U.S. practices. Two of the authors are advisors to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
90-day mortality after 409 096 total hip replacements for osteoarthritis, from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales: a retrospective analysisLancet, September 28, 2013
In a retrospective national registry analysis of more than 400,000 primary hip replacements for osteoarthritis (mean patient age 64), surgical mortality dropped by almost half from 0.56% in 2003 to 0.29% in 2011.
Four modifiable causes were associated with lower mortality:
1. A posterior surgical approach, which has more muscle preservation and less bleeding than a lateral approach;
2. Mechanical thromboprophylaxis;
3. Chemical thromboprophylaxis with heparin with or without aspirin; and
4. Spinal rather than general anesthesia.
The type of implant had no effect. Being overweight was associated with lower mortality.
Molecular medicine:PLS3 Mutations in X-Linked Osteoporosis with FracturesNew England Journal of Medicine, October 2, 2013
Plastin 3 (PLS3) is a protein involved in the formation of filamentous actin bundles. Variants in PLS3 were identified as a cause of X-linked osteoporosis in five families, and a different variant was identified as a cause of osteogenesis imperfecta type I in an additional five families.
Severe skeletal defects were confirmed via an in vivo analysis of zebrafish with knockout pls3 genes. This is distinct from another pair of mutations, COL1A1 and COL1A2, which code for collagen type Iα1 and collagen type Iα2, and are associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and osteogenesis imperfecta.
IL-29 Is Produced by TH17 Cells and Mediates the Cutaneous Antiviral Competence in PsoriasisScience Translational Medicine, September 25, 2013
Patients with psoriasis vulgaris are less likely to have cutaneous viral infections than patients with atopic dermatitis or even normal controls. It was determined the T helper 17 cells produce IL-29 in these patients, which is an upstream promoter of antiviral proteins such as MX1, BST2, ISG15, and OAS2.
LupusArthritisImaging in RheumatologyOsteoarthritisWomen's HealthGout
Rheumatology Network: Top Articles of 2022
Lupus Year in Review: 2022
A Growing Trend Towards Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcomes in the Treatment, Management of Rheumatic Diseases


Woodward said there are extended office hours for tax collection the spring of 2015 will be as follows: May 4th,5th,6th,7th,8th,and 11th – 8:00am to 5:00pm.
Please ask them to please bring their tax bill with them.
Woodward also noted taxes can be paid in a variety of locations for convenience.
Locations are as follows: in the Treasurer's office, drop box in the southeast window of the treasurer's office, at any location of First Harrison Bank ( must have tax bill), mail ( must be postmarked 5/11/15 or before) or taxes can be paid online at www.washingtoncountytax.net (credit or debit card plus a fee).


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italespanso » Folk & World » Hank Williams Jr. - I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You / No Meaning And No End
Hank Williams Jr. - I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You / No Meaning And No End Album FLAC
Performer: Hank Williams Jr.
Album: I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You / No Meaning And No End
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2 I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You (But Your Name) 2:25
K-13857 Hank Williams Jr. I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You / No Meaning And No End (7") MGM Records K-13857 US 1968
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Vicarious liability and other news in brief
News in 60 seconds
The Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that supermarket chain Morrisons is liable for compensation claims arising from the actions of a former employee jailed for leaking payroll data. Morrisons plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Disclosure duty
A revised prosecution code of practice requires prosecutors to consider whether any material held by the police could affect their decision to charge a suspect. Outgoing director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders said a 'rigorous examination' is required of evidence that assists the defence.
Ashurst women
City firm Ashurst said it wants a partnership that is 33% female (currently 24%) by the end of 2021/22. It also wants 30% of 'legal leadership' roles and 50% of senior business services roles to be held by women.
Powerlist lawyers
Joshua Siaw, partner at international firm White & Case, and the World Bank Group's general counsel Sandie Okoro, appear on the annual Powerlist, which celebrates 100 of Britain's most influential people of African and African Caribbean heritage.
Insurance division
A new division of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers will support lawyers working in the London and Lloyd's market. London FOIL will be led by Jennette Newman, partner at global firm Clyde & Co.
Judicial barriers
Breaking down barriers to solicitors in the judicial selection process will be the subject of a Law Society Solicitor Judges Division seminar in Manchester on 1 November. Details: tinyurl.com/y8l6mw5t.


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Carla said "Scrappy" when channeling my dead cousin Robert – how could she have known that?!!
Posted byPsychic Carla Baron June 9, 2011 July 14, 2022 Posted inPsychic Carla BaronTags:death, ghosts, karmic relationships, medium, predictions, psychic, Psychic Carla Baron, psychic reading testimonials, psychic readings, spirits, tarot
Dear Carla,
Thank you so much for my reading today, what you were able to pick up…. Amazed, Amazed, Amazed!
First of all, I asked about whom in my family is being quiet or not aware of what is wrong with them health wise. You asked for both of my parents' names. You then advised me it was Dad; you said that he is not preparing himself, he is in total denial and that admitting to his health would affect his pride. (This is a typical Maltese trait). You went on to say that he didn't get over his parent's deaths, he still thinks about this and has not really moved on, and that his Mother's passing is what really affected him. You further stated that he will suffer from an instant heart attack, it will be very quick but he will ensure that Mum is not left out. Mum will receive an inheritance and Dad has ensured she will be well looked after.
I stated that he now pretty much has nothing due to him selling his business and putting the money into her (his girlfriend's business) which went belly up and lost everything. You stated that his name is still on the Lease and that she is doing something illegal, you saw her behind bars, being incarcerated, she will get caught but there will be a weird turn of events and Dad will be fine. Dad will end up doing something that will make him successful, and everything will turn out and he will keep to his deal in reference to Mum.
The lease I know was in his name as I was present when he picked it up with his girlfriend from the Real Estate Agents. Only family knew that there was no way that you could have known that as the business was in her name, it had nothing to do with him. Whether it was a flaw by the Real Estate Agents as he used the home as Collateral for the Lease / Business or he requested it, it was certainly a shock to her when she saw it and she wanted it changed. But to re-do a Commercial Lease Agreement costs extra. There is absolutely no way you could have known that, and I was seriously shocked as you would've seen in my eyes.
Work (I have been off work – work related leave) for a while and I asked you upon my returning from Annual Leave (which I go in a couple of weeks), will I still be with the same Organization?
You said 'YES', however, not the easiest thing to return to. That there is a Woman who is jealous / envious of me. She is a new staff member and you said it was trading places as such. This woman I do not know.
I also asked you as I have been on a fixed term rolling Contract for the past 3 1/2 years, if I would be made a permanent employee? You said 'YES' that the Organization will see they really need me when I return from annual leave, and it will be a sense of relief on their behalf as this woman is causing a lot of problems. You also stated that there will be a position where I will be temporarily assigned but it will be a position that this woman is doing and that I will basically take over the position giving me permanency.
You also stated that this woman is spoilt rotten, and didn't expect me to return, that she assumed that I would be looking for work in other Organizations and that she will be shocked when I return.
Family – My first cousin Robert who was aged 42 when he passed, he had two lots of cancer, he fought the first one, but with the second one, it was the one that took him. I asked if he was upset that I did not see him as I was told he was unrecognizable from the damage of the Cancer except for the three small moles on his face. You said he had a secret insurance policy before this took place that he was aware, but he kept this policy quiet. You also said he is proud of me picking myself up. I have been through a lot in the last couple of years, both physically and mentally and he was proud that I am fighting back.
Now, for the 'Skeptics'…….
Then Carla said he keeps talking funny, he was a character, but you said, "SCRAPPY". I almost fell off my chair when you said this, once you said this, I knew it was him. He used to call me Scrappy as in Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo, I was Scrappy Doo as I always followed him around. He used to do up 69 Chevy's and race them in the Variety Club Bash to raise money for cancer. He showed me the tools and I use to hand them up to him when he was working on these cars. Scrappy, my god, you picked that up! I still have goose bumps – but nice Goosebumps writing this.
You also said that he was fine that I did not go and see him, he knew he was dying and that he wanted that time with his immediate family, and I wanted to remember him, the way I remembered him. 🙂
I asked another question, what is important / extreme that I need to know about regarding my family, in-laws etc. You said my husband, that he is isolating himself around me, that he is a little unrest at the moment. He was dreaming about another woman that he just tended to go off into his own dream world. (Which he does!) That he couldn't do it, he was attracted to her, but nothing happened. That I am surrounding him too much. (With me being off work, I think I have become a little OCD). You said that I need to make him miss me again that he will get kind of neurotic and go into hiding. This will occur for about 6 months. You also said that you do not see any separation between us, thank God as I love him so, so much. But you also said that I need to just let him do it, go through it and not push him and he will be fine.
My last question was something that happened to me when I was 16 years of age made a big impact on me and would I learn it again or be able to control it? This was in relation to a family friend, her father passed; we were always told as kids that he had a heart attack, when in fact he took his own life. I saw everything, from what occurred that day, to what he was wearing when his eldest son found him. Carla advised me that I need to learn to tune the noise out. That sometimes, I catch a glimpse for a couple of seconds, then lose the connection and try and make it out. That I need to invest in some good earplugs that block out noise or headphones and this will help.
I know that this reading was meant to be, this was meant to take place. I mean 'Scrappy' for crying out loud – he was with us! You answered my questions and so much more, what you saw is unbelievable that I am still spinning over my reading.
Also, I was bragging about you to one of my co-workers, who is also a really good friend, so you may end up with another 'Aussie Girl' reading.
Carla, I am eternally grateful for what you had done, I cannot thank you enough…. I mean 'SCRAPPY'!!!!!! This has never been advertised via a website, social networking, nothing… and you got it!
Eternally grateful,
Kristy (SCRAPPY)
Australia 🙂
"I'm still blown away by the psychic session – even my husband was telling his co-workers today at work about our reading. He even said, I never knew you had 'that' nickname! He is blown away by your reading Carla, he saw in my eyes when I was telling him when he got home from work, he saw the emotion in my eyes when I said 'Scrappy.' He revealed that after I said it has never been advertised, not on Social Media, Internet, nothing. He told me, "I didn't know about that." He knew, pardon the pun, you were dead on!
I still feel like I am floating after our reading. I think I have just 'referred' another co-worker who is also a good friend too. I sent her the link to your official web page with my Testimonial and she seems really interested.
Thank you again, you are so 'dead on!'"
"Simply amazed how dead-on Carla was when describing my Grandfather who crossed over!"
"Carla's reading was AMAZINGLY accurate – everything occurred the way she predicted – despite my trepidation."


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Ask Again, Yes
by Mary Beth Keane
The triumphant New York Times Bestseller * The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick *
Named one of the best books of the year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle
"This is one beautiful book. I was wowed by Keane's writing and narrative skill--and by what she knows about trouble." --Stephen King
How much can a family forgive?
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses--the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come.
In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.
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Mary Beth Keane's well-wrought, emotionally affecting third novel, Ask Again, Yes, chronicles the lives of two neighboring working-class families over the course of four decades.
In the early 1970s, Francis Gleason, an immigrant from Ireland, and Brian Stanhope attend the New York City police academy together and are paired in field training. Francis quickly marries Anne, a nurse and Irish immigrant. Brian marries Lena, the daughter of Polish and Italian immigrants. Though their career trajectories are different, within a year or two, Francis and Brian end up as neighbors in a suburban town about 20 miles north of New York.
The families are not close. In fact, Anne is unstable and aggressively antisocial. But Brian and Anne's only son, Peter, and Francis and Lena's youngest daughter, Kate, develop an extraordinary bond. When Peter and Kate are in eighth grade, Anne commits an act of violence that rips both families apart.
All of this happens within the first quarter of Ask Again, Yes. The rest of the beautifully observed story is about the course of Peter's and Kate's lives—and through them, their families'—as they find and lose and find each other again. Not surprisingly, it is a fraught journey, shadowed by the dark bruises of their histories. Time, it seems, does not heal all wounds. But it does heal some. To say much more would betray a narrative that holds many surprises, large and small.
Keane sets her story among seemingly regular people in a normal-seeming American suburb. But Ask Again, Yes is a tale that will compel readers to think deeply about the ravages of unacknowledged mental illness, questions of family love and loyalty and the arduous journey toward healing and forgiveness.
ALSO IN BOOKPAGE: Read a Q&A with Mary Beth Keane for Ask Again, Yes.


Honourable Verlyn Olson, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, led a mission to Asia from May 18-30, 2014 to foster Alberta's agricultural trade development, investment attraction and market advocacy in the region.
Minister Olson's trade and investment mission included visits to Tokyo (Japan), Guangzhou (China), Hong Kong and Singapore. Minister Olson's mission strengthened Alberta's ties to these important Asian markets and provided direct support to Alberta agriculture and energy companies looking to expand their international exports or attract investment from abroad.
China, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore are priority markets for Alberta's export-oriented agricultural sector. Alberta's 2013 agri-food exports to China and Japan were valued at $1.5 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively. Agri-food exports to Hong Kong and Singapore were valued at $153 million and $39 million, respectively.
During the mission, Minister Olson met with key industry and government stakeholders in each of these markets, and spoke at investment-related events in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Minister Olson gained important market insights from each of these meetings and laid the foundation for the continued promotion of Alberta's key trade and investment priorities in Asia.
Government-led trade and investment missions are important in helping open doors and increase opportunities for Alberta's small and medium-sized enterprises. These missions build Alberta's reputation abroad and help Alberta companies to diversify their export markets, key elements of Alberta's International Strategy.
·	Profiling Alberta as a preferred supplier of agriculture and food products through meetings with key industry and government stakeholders in each market, as well as through a retail food promotion event in Japan.
·	Promoting Alberta's agriculture sector as a destination of choice for outbound investment by leading investment seminars in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and an Agri-Investment Roundtable in Singapore.
·	Enhancing market advocacy in Alberta's key export markets, particularly through targeted meetings with government and industry leaders in each market to explore areas of possible collaboration and barriers faced by Alberta's agri-food sector.
Minister Olson's delegation joined an Embassy of Canada representative in a meeting with Senior Vice-Minister Yoshikawa of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Minister Olson voiced support for the Canadian federal government in on-going bilateral and multilateral trade agreement negotiations related to the Canada-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
During the meeting, the Senior Vice-Minister raised the issue of recent logistical challenges within Canada regarding shipping grain to port as this situation significantly impacted the business of Japanese importers in meeting their commitments. Minister Olson provided an overview and status update on the issues and progress that has been made.
Also discussed during the meeting was the potential for mutually beneficial collaboration between Alberta and Japanese entities (such as government, institutions and industry) on research and development opportunities.
During Minister Olson's visit to Tokyo, the National Azabu supermarket conducted an Alberta promotion event of a new sausage product being launched in the Japanese market. National Azabu and affiliated outlets specialize in international imported food products from around the world and cater to the expatriate community and Japanese consumers seeking higher-end imported food products. The Government of Alberta will assist National Azabu in identifying new retail food products to import from Alberta.
In Guangzhou, Minister Olson met with Ms. Shao Ren, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Commerce of Guangdong Province. Guangdong represents a strong economic province within China, accounting for more than 10 percent of China's gross domestic product (GDP). From 1978-2013, the average annual growth rate of Guangdong's GDP was 18.1 per cent.
Minister Olson profiled the province of Alberta's strengths in energy, agriculture, tourism, and explored the possibility for future partnerships with Guangdong. Minister Olson highlighted Alberta's efforts towards deepening its partnerships with Guangdong province, including the upcoming opening of an Alberta International Office in Guangzhou to help enhance business facilitation on both sides.
Minister Olson invited the Ministry of Commerce of Guangdong Province to visit Alberta, and encouraged them to open an office in Alberta to build closer ties.
In Hong Kong, Minister Olson visited the Cathy Pacific Airline Terminal to witness the processing of a shipment of Alberta boxed beef to the Cathy Pacific Air Cargo Terminal. The state-of-the-art terminal is complete with an advanced material handling system and warehouse operating system, as well as a full range of facilities catering to the specific requirements of numerous types of cargo.
Minister Olson toured the facility together with representatives of a Hong Kong meat import company. Minister Olson gained market intelligence and knowledge regarding the logistics and customs requirements for Alberta beef shipped to Hong Kong, and profiled Alberta's strengths in the livestock and meat processing industry.
In Singapore, a productive meeting with Singbridge Corporate generated opportunities for Alberta's agricultural industry to utilize the Sino-Singapore Jilin Food Zone in China's Jilin province for business benefits. Positioned as a premium food zone with an emphasis on food safety, the Jilin Food Zone spans 1,450 square kilometers with a core area of 57 square kilometers.
Minister Olson heard a report on the current development of the Jilin Food Zone, including location, local transportation, weather, soil and water supply condition, and local labor costs. One of the advantages of the Jilin Food Zone is that the products manufactured there will have the opportunity to be certified by standards and veterinary officials from both China and Singapore. Minister Olson invited Singbridge to Alberta to increase their links with the Alberta agri-food industry.
Alberta hosted investment seminars in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and an Agri-Investment Roundtable in Singapore. Four Alberta agri-businesses seeking growth capital from Asia participated in these events, as did seven energy companies and two municipal regional associations.
·	258 Asian investors, companies and investment facilitators participated in the three seminars.
·	The four Alberta agri-business firms held 49 one-to-one meetings with potential investors.
·	The Alberta energy firms held 65 one-to-one meetings with potential investors.
·	These companies are currently following up on the qualified investment leads generated through the mission.
Throughout the mission, Minister Olson successfully held high-level meetings with important industry stakeholders, including local industry representatives from agri-food importers, distributors, retailers and manufacturers, to help support the Alberta agri-food industry's efforts in each of these markets.
·	Minister Olson engaged with key Japanese stakeholders, such as trading houses and food and beverage manufacturers, that source Alberta agriculture and agri-food products and inputs, including grains and meat.
·	In Guangzhou, Minister Olson met with representatives from a meat import company, a high-end retailer and an Alberta agricultural service company located in Asia.
·	In Hong Kong, he met with key beef and packaged food importers.
·	Minister Olson's industry meetings in Singapore focused on key grain, pulse and oilseed traders.
Overall, these meetings helped to further enhance export opportunities and identify potential investment interests in these markets. Minister Olson learned about each market's demands and client needs, and profiled Alberta as a reliable supplier of safe, high-quality agri-food products. Minister Olson promoted Alberta's export strengths and highlighted investment opportunities in the agri-food sector.
During many of these meetings, the topic of the recent transportation and logistics issues within Canada grain was raised by industry stakeholders. Minister Olson responded by providing an overview and status update on the situation and progress that had been made. Minister Olson emphasized Alberta's commitment in working together with the Canadian government towards finding a long-term solution.
This information published to the web on July 29, 2014.
Last Reviewed/Revised on August 5, 2015.


Students will use a grid to copy and enlarge a portrait. They will use the blending technique to shade a range of values.
12''x18'', wooden pencil, blender, ruler, Image of portrait.
STEP #1 Grid drawing is a very old technique of transferring images. Always make sure that the number of squares on the original picture match the number of squares on your drawing paper. You will draw a 2''x2'' grid on the drawing paper. The grid must be drawn very lightly because you will be erasing later.
STEP #2 Pick a portrait you will copy. See portaits at the bottom of the page.
STEP #3 You will copy the lines and shapes one square at a time. You will be doing this in RIGHT BRAIN MODE. Dont make any assumptions. Just focus on the lines and the shapes. Draw exactly what you see. Use the sides of each box to guide you. Find where the line enters the box and exits the box. There are many shapes inside each square. Some of them are well defined, some are blurry. You will copy them all. DO NOT shade anything yet!
STEP #5 Start shading the values in each square with the blending technique. Refer to your 5 point value scale. Start with the lightest values first 2's and 3's and then add the darker values, 4's and 5's. Erase your 1's completely. The drawing must have a full range of values #1-#5. Use the blender to blend the graphite.


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Edwin Broni-Mensah, you could argue, is an academic or a philanthropist whose scheme is either naively idealistic or brilliant or both. Either way, as soon as you've read about his idea, you'll be kicking yourself for not having thought of it. We're sitting beside the Serpentine on an unusually warm winter morning in London's Hyde Park. Broni-Mensah is patiently expounding the perils of toxic BPA plastic bottles while I try to hide my bottle out of shame. Phasing out these hateful bottles is the aim of his project, now in its second year. Two minutes in, he spots mine, politely balks and I apologise. Major eco fail.
It was through playing squash at university that Broni-Mensah came up with GiveMeTap. Throughout his PhD, sport was his sanctuary, yet something didn't add up: "Tap water is free and portable yet I was spending a fiver a day on bottled water. I was like, 'Wha'?'"
The concept of GiveMeTap was born, launched online for a song, and last year won him an award as "most outstanding black student in Britain". It works like this: you buy a tidy blue bottle made from recycled aluminium for £7 from his website and take it into any cafe which has signed up as a "provider" of the scheme. Your bottle is then filled with tap water for free, thus reducing the wastage in landfill sites, helping communities in Africa install clean water pumps (70% of the £7 goes towards this) and saving you money.
Although the scheme currently operates solely in the Manchester area, Broni-Mensah has moved in with his parents in Edmonton, north London, in order to launch it in London, it's hoped, in time for the Olympics. In theory, he'll be providing 1 million people with access to clean water by 2013.
How did he manage to launch the project while also completing his PhD? "I follow Parkinson's Law: work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. I think that captures it very nicely."
Broni-Mensah thinks our "peculiar obsession" with buying plastic bottles is "little more than a cultural conditioning". Furthermore: "We're too proud to ask for free water in the same way we feel the need to buy crisps to use a cafe's loo."
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Die ZfP-Gruppe Baden-Württemberg ist ein Unternehmensverbund von sieben rechtlich selbständigen Anstalten des öffentlichen Rechts, die aus den staatlichen Psychiatrischen Landeskrankenhäusern (seit 1996: Zentren für Psychiatrie) des Landes Baden-Württemberg hervorgegangen sind und unter Gewährsträgerschaft des Landes stehen.

Zur Gruppe gehören folgende Unternehmen:

 Klinikum am Weissenhof in Weinsberg
 Klinikum Nordschwarzwald in Calw
 Klinikum Schloß Winnenden in Winnenden
 Psychiatrisches Zentrum Nordbaden (PZN) in Wiesloch
 Zentrum für Psychiatrie Emmendingen in Emmendingen
 Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau in Reichenau
 ZfP Südwürttemberg mit drei Hauptstandorten:
 Standort Bad Schussenried (auch Verwaltungssitz) in Bad Schussenried
 Standort Weißenau in Ravensburg
 Standort Zwiefalten in Zwiefalten

Siehe auch
 Liste von Psychiatrien in Baden-Württemberg

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 Website der ZfP-Gruppe
 Rahmenleitbild der ZfP-Gruppe

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Susan Sarandon voices support for Democrat challenging Pelosi after Speaker defends Biden against rape allegation
Both Biden and Pelosi had previously preached about the importance of "believing all women" when now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault two years ago, making a mockery of his confirmation hearings.
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Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon just praised the Democrat who is challenging Nancy Pelosi for her congressional seat after the speaker of the house defended presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden from the sexual assault allegations against him.
Sarandon expressed her support for self-described "democratic socialist" Shahid Buttar after Pelosi defended Biden during a Thursday press conference.
"I have complete respect for the whole #MeToo movement," Pelosi said according to Breitbart News. "There's also due process, the fact that Joe Biden is Joe Biden. There have been statements from former employees around his office that there was never any record of this… I am so proud, the happiest day for me this week was to support Joe Biden for president of the United States."
This did not sit well with the "Thelma & Louise" star. "In November, San Francisco has the opportunity to vote for someone willing to speak up even when it's not politically expedient," Sarandon tweeted. "Check out @ShahidForChange."
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Should Nancy Pelosi resign?
Biden has denied the allegations made by Reade, who claims he assaulted her when she was working as a Senate staffer in his office back in 1993. "It is not true. I'm saying unequivocally it never, never happened and it didn't," Biden said Friday morning while appearing on "Morning Joe." "I don't remember any type of complaint she may have made. It was 27 years ago. And I don't remember, nor does anyone else that I'm aware of. The fact is that I don't remember. I don't remember any complaint ever having been made."
Both Biden and Pelosi had previously preached about the importance of "believing all women" when now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault two years ago, making a mockery of his confirmation hearings. They are being criticized now for changing their tune simply because a Democrat was accused.


Work requirement programs have become the main focus of Trump administration's plans for Medicaid, but the HHS and CMS are being urged by two Democratic lawmakers to consider how the new rules would affect low-income families.
In a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CMS Administrator Seema Verma, Reps. Elijaah Cummings, D-Md., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill said that certain implementations of work requirement would make it impossible for some families to obtain health coverage. They added that could really affect black families.
"The disproportionate impact that these coverage losses will have on black mothers in particular raises serious concerns that may implicate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination ... in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance," the congressmen wrote.
One of the lawmakers' chief concerns are states trying to implement work requirements without simultaneously expanding Medicaid eligibility. There are concerns in such states that any job that would meet the work requirements would place that person out of Medicaid eligibility. This could force families into a donut hole where they qualify for neither Medicaid nor ACA subsidies.
"Mississippi has proposed requiring Medicaid beneficiaries in the state to work at least 20 hours per week. A mother working 20 hours per week at minimum wage in Mississippi would earn $580 per month. This would make her ineligible for Medicaid because her monthly earnings would exceed the state's threshold for Medicaid eligibility by $113. In addition, since this mother would earn so little, she would not qualify for the Affordable Care Act's premium tax credits, which are designed to help individuals who do not qualify for Medicaid afford insurance on the private market," they wrote.
The congressmen asked CMS to turn over seven pieces of evidence demonstrating how the administration intended to ensure coverage for those projected to lose it as a result of work requirements.
Work requirements are the latest healthcare controversy to reach the courts. In June, a federal judge struck down a Medicaid waiver in Kentucky that allowed for the requirements, arguing that CMS "never adequately considered whether Kentucky HEALTH would in fact help the state furnish medical assistance to its citizens, a central objective of Medicaid."
However, that decision has yet to be cemented into precedent, if it ever does. Three other states—Arkansas, New Hampshire and Indiana—are still moving forward with their work requirement programs. As Cummings and Krishnamoorthi noted in their letter, 11 states have nevertheless submitted proposals to implement work requirements. Two others, South Carolina and Oklahoma, are in the process of drafting their proposals.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar has said the agency is "undeterred' by the Kentucky ruling and has told staffers evaluating proposals that their "mantra should be common sense."
Critics of work requirement arrangements say the regulations are cruel and counterproductive. Not only are the measures punitive to low-income populations, they make Medicaid harder and more expensive to administrate.


Many of us over 50, WAY over 50, or on the way to 50 are quite confused about how we should present ourselves. We're unsure about the kind of image we are projecting and whether or not we are correct as we try to conform to current fashion.
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12. Short shorts and varicose veins.
13. Inline skates and a walker..
I got my prize in the mail yesterday. The note cards are way fun--written correspondence is always a nice touch. And the bookmark and postcards are great.
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Tests on a continuous action low pressure electro-pneumatic linear motion servomechanism are described. Data from individual tests on the components of this system, including the servo valve and the actuator, is used for analogue computer simulations. The simulations are shown to model the experimental system over a wide range of conditions. A simple linear equation is shown to model many aspects of the behaviour of the system. This equation is presented in a form which enables the importance of many system parameters to be easily assessed.
An all pneumatic linear-motion servo using discrete fluidic components is described. This system uses pulse-width modulated signals to control on/off valves. Tests on components of the system, including beam deflection proportional amplifiers, Schmitt triggers, valves and a fluidic displacement sensor and also on the complete servo are described.
to limit the performance of both systems, and modifications necessary to improve their closed loop behaviour are proposed.
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Q: dnspython - get AAAA, A, NS and other records with one query I'm trying to build fast script for parsing all DNS records for a single domain name. The 'ANY' command seems to do the trick, but I have strange problems with TTLs. When using ANY like this
domain = dns.name.from_text(domain)
nameserver = '127.0.0.1'
query = dns.message.make_query(domain, dns.rdatatype.ANY)
response = dns.query.udp(query, nameserver, timeout = 2)
print response

The returned data is what I need, but when the TTLs expire the script just don't return the expired records. The 'DIG domain ANY' command seems to have this problem too.
So my question is what is the fastest way to get all DNS records for a single domain?

A: The TTL problems with the ANY query are inherent in the DNS protocol. Once a cache has one RRtype for a given name, it will return what it has in response to an ANY query and not query the source to see if there are any more. RFC 2181 has a short discussion on this:

5.2. TTLs of RRs in an RRSet
Resource Records also have a time to live (TTL).  It is possible for
     the RRs in an RRSet to have different TTLs.  No uses for this have
     been found that cannot be better accomplished in other ways.  This
     can, however, cause partial replies (not marked "truncated") from a
     caching server, where the TTLs for some but not all the RRs in the
     RRSet have expired.

It doesn't actually say that having RRs in an RRset with different TTLs is discouraged, but the authors clearly didn't think highly of doing this.
So the short answer is that, given that ANY doesn't work very well, there is no other solution besides issuing one query per RR type that interests you. You can save time by doing all those queries in parallel is that helps (but the Python library probably doesn't make this easy).

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