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Prince William And Prince Harry Slam 'Offensive,' 'False' Story In Rare Joint Rebuke
01/13/2020 09:07 am ET Updated 5 days ago
The Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Cambridge came together to issue a denial.
By Carly Ledbetter
Princes Harry and William have briefly joined forces to speak out against a story "speculating" about their relationship amid the chaos surrounding the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's decision to "step back" as senior royals.
The brothers released a rare joint statement on Monday in response to an unnamed story that they viewed as "potentially harmful."
"Despite clear denials, a false story ran in a UK newspaper today speculating about the relationship between The Duke of Sussex and The Duke of Cambridge," according to their statement, released on Monday and shared with HuffPost.
It's extremely rare for the royals to publicly issue a personal rebuke on an individual story, especially in a joint statement. The royal family rarely comments on the veracity of reports written about them.
While the brothers didn't name the story in particular, multiple outlets have reported that the story in question seems to be a report from the U.K.'s Times that says the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were on the receiving end of a "bullying" attitude from the Duke of Cambridge.
William, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrive for an Armistice Service at Westminster Abbey on Nov. 11, 2018.
A report released over the weekend claimed that William told a friend he's "sad" he and Harry are now "separate entities."
"I've put my arm around my brother all our lives and I can't do that any more; we're separate entities," William reportedly said, per The Sunday Times. "I'm sad about that."
"All we can do, and all I can do, is try and support them and hope that the time comes when we're all singing from the same page. I want everyone to play on the same team," the Duke of Cambridge added.
Harry addressed rumors of a rift with his brother back in October in the ITV documentary "Harry & Meghan: An African Journey."
"We are brothers. We will always be brothers," the prince said. "We are certainly on different paths at the moment, but I will always be there for him as I know he will always be there for me."
"The majority of the stuff is created out of nothing," he added. "But as brothers, you know, you have good days, you have bad days."
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William and Harry attend the annual Remembrance Sunday memorial at The Cenotaph on Nov. 10, 2019 in London.
On Saturday, it was announced that William, Harry and Prince Charles are expected to meet with Queen Elizabeth on Monday for an emergency family meeting. Meghan Markle, who flew back to Canada to be with the couple's son, Archie, will reportedly dial in to the talks.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced last week that as they step back from their roles as royals, they will be working toward financial independence, reexamining their relationship with the media and splitting time between the U.K. and North America.
Only Buckingham Palace has publicly commented on the move, saying Wednesday that talks with Meghan and Harry are still "at an early stage."
"We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through," the palace added.
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Last year, I wrote about the open shop referendum in Virginia, calling it the most important election for the labor movement in 2016. While Virginia has been a "right-to-work" state since 1947, supporters of the referendum argued that a constitutional amendment was necessary to prevent Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring or future Democratic legislative majorities from overturning the statute.
In a year where the election of an anti-labor president coincided with votes in Alabama and South Dakota that affirmed the open shop, Virginia gave labor its brightest victory: Almost 54 percent of voters across the Commonwealth rejected the constitutional amendment. And the "no" vote was spread out across the Commonwealth, with places as disparate politically as urban Arlington and rural Accomack voting against the measure, which was bitterly opposed by Virginia's labor movement.
Much like the open shop referendum last year, this year's gubernatorial election in Virginia is significant for labor. It's a chance to contest the open shop in a region that has long seemed closed to any pro-labor advances on the issue. The primary vote is set for Tuesday and the labor movement would do well to make its presence felt.
Politically, the open shop has been something of a settled matter in most of the South.
Floridians would go on to approve the measure with about 55 percent of the vote. While the open shop would end up spreading to places like Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa over the next three years, it was the South where the concept really took hold. By the end of the 1950s, nearly all of the southern states would have right-to-work legislation on the books.
Given that history, it may not come as much of a surprise that the political support for Virginia's status as an open shop state has been bipartisan. The current governor, Terry McAuliffe, gave a speech to business leaders pledging his full-throated support for the law during his 2013 gubernatorial run and has stated that he would not seek to change it as governor.
This brings us to the Democratic gubernatorial primary this year, which features a race between Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and former U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello.
Northam, a former state senator and erstwhile potential party-switcher, began the race as the favorite after Herring decided to forgo a run for governor and seek re-election as attorney general. He lined up the endorsement of McAuliffe as well as a fundraising advantage of about half a million dollars. Perriello, who upset arch-conservative U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode in the 2008 congressional election, has closed the gap by turning the election into a referendum on Donald Trump.
Sick leave and a minimum wage increase are important, for sure, but without a strong labor movement, it is hard to get the popular groundswell needed to prod legislators to make positive moves on those issues, either. Democrats should be united in their opposition to a policy that drains resources from labor unions and seeks to undermine the growth and stability of the movement as a whole.
Another major victory for the labor movement in Virginia could have major implications for the AFL-CIO's strategy in the South further down the line. We should ensure that such a big opportunity is not missed.
This article was originally published on Inthesetimes.com on June 12, 2017. Reprinted with permission.
About the Author: Douglas Williams is a doctoral student in political science at Wayne State University in Detroit, where his research centers around public policy, disadvantaged communities and the labor movement. He blogs at The South Lawn.
The most important election in Virginia this year has no candidates on the ballot.
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of Virginia that the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or nonmembership in any labor union or labor organization.
So why do this? The easy answer is that Virginia Republicans are fearful that, should the open shop meet a legal challenge in state court, Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring would not seek to defend it. The sponsor of the bill and defeated 2013 nominee for Attorney General, State Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg), stated as much in the deliberations on the bill. In addition, should the Assembly find itself in pro-labor hands in the future, they could overturn the open shop with a simple majority vote. Never mind that the extreme amounts of gerrymandering in the Assembly (particularly in the House of Delegates) makes a unified Democratic state government unlikely for decades to come.
The vote this November will be the first popular referendum on the open shop since 54 percent of Oklahoma voters approved State Question 695 on September 25, 2001. In this, an opportunity presents itself to the labor movement in this country, and it is one that labor unions must take.
In the fifteen years since the Oklahoma referendum, every open-shop law has been passed through state legislatures. This, of course, advantages corporations and anti-worker conservatives as they can flood state capitols with their donations and their lobbyists at a relative distance from public scrutiny. Combined with the gerrymandering described above which ensures that an anti-worker vote will not result in the loss of an election, the deck is often stacked far too high for labor advocates to overcome. The only hope for those who live in the thirty states with a Republican legislature is the presence of a pro-labor governor and legislative procedures that require a higher threshold than a simple majority to override a veto.
West Virginia workers just found out what happens when you have the former, but not the latter.
There are demographic reasons to feel good about this campaign: 18-34-year olds are the generation most supportive of labor unions, and Black workers have both been more supportive and more eager joiners of labor unions than their white counterparts. Virginia has been a prime destination for young people over the last couple of decades due to the economic boom occurring in Northern Virginia, and the state has always had a large number of Black residents.
But the campaign against the open shop this fall cannot rely on demographics to save it. Given the opportunity that labor unions have with this referendum, the goal should not simply be to win: it should be a realignment of the conversation surrounding the role in labor unions in Virginia's—and America's—political economy.
There have been many issues stemming from the precipitous decline in union density in this country. The stagnation of working people's wages, widening inequality, and a sense of alienation and disillusionment amongst the working class can all be tied back to the decline of organized labor in the United States.
But there's another thing that declining union membership has produced, and it is, perhaps, the greatest victory of all for capitalism: the sense that, rather than being a representative of America's working class, unions are no different from any other interest group. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean sought to mobilize this sentiment recently in support of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign when he stated that "[Democrats] don't go after" political donations from labor unions because "labor unions are Super-PACs that Democrats like".
Part of this has been on the labor movement: too much money, time, and energy has been devoted to electing Democrats at all costs to federal office, even when they are absolutely terrible. But most of it has been a concerted effort by neoliberals in both parties to erode unions' once formidable approval ratings by associating them with the most unsavory parts of the legislative process. How unsavory? In 2013, Gallup polled Americans on the honesty of several professions. Those who engage in lobbying, a key part of the legislative and policymaking work that any interest group engages in, were at the bottom with a six percent approval rating. By comparison, an August 2015 Gallup poll saw 58 percent of Americans approving of labor unions, with 37 percent believing that they should have more influence.
[W]hen a respondent moves from unsorted to sorted, he is much more likely to move his ideological beliefs into alignment with his partisanship than the reverse, strongly suggesting that party is the key causal variable.
Therefore, when working-class Republicans think about labor unions, they are less likely to consider the fact that union members make 21 percent more than non-union members or that 29 percent more civilian workers have access to retirement plans if they are a member of a labor union. No, they are more likely to think about Democrats receiving 89 percent of the donations given out by unions in 2014. The fact that the last two Democratic presidents have supported trade deals that acted as accelerants on the continued deindustrialization of America certainly does not help matters at all.
But the labor movement has been given a golden opportunity in 2016, and it is one that should not be passed up: the opportunity to engage in the largest labor education program that this country has ever seen.
Over the next eight-and-a-half months, unions should be running ads that focus on the specifics that so many American labor ads skirt around.
We can tell people that it is illegal for union dues to go towards political action at the federal level. While dues money can go towards political spending at the local and state levels, their dues mostly pay for representation, access to the industry-specific research needed to make negotiations more fruitful, and strike funds to support workers when their meeting their demands requires direct action.
We can tell people about the union difference in wages, benefits, and retirement.
But even more important than that, we can talk about the ways that labor unions benefit the communities in which they exist. Not just through increased spending in local businesses, but also through programs that benefit a community's most vulnerable.
That last point is important, because it is how we will begin to develop the culture of unionism that we so desperately need in the South. It is important to ensure that the positive feeling that today's youth have towards labor unions does not turn into anti-labor sentiment through a lifetime of one-way conversation dominated by capitalists and their PR lap dogs like Rick Berman.
If the labor movement must invest in politics, it would be wisest to do so at the community/local/state level. It is there, our 'laboratories of public policy', where the labor movement can have the most positive impact on the lives of working people.
There is no time like the present for the labor movement to take this advice to heart.
This article originally appeared on inthesetimes.com on March 3, 2016. Reprinted with permission.
Douglas Williams is a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of Alabama, researching the labor movement and labor policy. He blogs at The South Lawn.


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"Darkside In Riverside": A three-day SoCal Halloween horror fest…
Posted by A Middle Aged Geek on October 21, 2019
Horror Close To Home…
As a longtime horror fan, I was pleased to learn (via Instagram) that a 3-day horror convention was coming to nearby Riverside, California (20 minutes away from me). "Darkside In Riverside" took place from Friday October 18th through the 20th, and was the very first in what I hope will be an annual event for this old So Cal city. I bought a 3-day VIP ticket for $75 (for three days of programming with premium event seating at the old Fox Theatre and hour-early autograph room attendance).
First Night: Friday the 18th (or was it the 13th?….).
Our first night, Friday the 18th.
A lovely view from our Marriott hotel room on the 10th floor; giving me a very different perspective on the city I called home back in my bachelor days. Our hotel was right next to the Riverside Convention Center, where (ironically) none of the "Darkside In Riverside" horror convention took place; the convention was decentralized, taking place in locales all over the city, including the Municipal Auditorium, the local library, and the famed downtown Fox Theatre.
Blood Night.
The very first stop for me that first evening was to do something that's becoming a convention tradition for me; donating blood. For all the time I used to spend in hospitals, it only seemed fair that I give something back, so I try to donate a unit or two whenever I can, and somehow donating blood at a horror convention seemed oddly appropriate. At the Lifestream Blood Drive, located downstairs at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium, they had a refreshments bar renamed the "Mos Eisley Cantina" (you can't get away from Disney or Star Wars… even at a dedicated horror convention). They also screened Christopher Lee's "Dracula" for donors as we lay down in our couches, compressing the heart-shaped squeeze toys every five seconds to keep our blood flowing. I finished my blood donation at 7 pm sharp, just in time to walk down the street to the historic Fox Theatre…
The historic Fox Theatre in downtown Riverside.
Thanks to my VIP ticket, I was able to pick a seat (any seat) a half hour early at the Fox Theatre for a screening of the 1980 original "Friday The 13th." I got a nice 2nd row spot, as well as a free Jason Voorhees mask. Before the event began, I took a couple pics of the beautifully restored 1930s vintage Fox Theatre, which never gets old for me, no matter how many times my wife and I have seen it since its restoration. This was where "Gone With The Wind" had its very first audience preview screening back in 1939, ahead of its Hollywood premiere. The Fox was fully restored about 10 or so years ago and, as you can see, it looks absolutely gorgeous inside, recalling the look of 1930s California Spanish Mission architecture. I lived in Riverside a bit over 20 years ago, and at that time the Fox was fairly dilapidated; badly worn seats, faded upholstery/curtains, outdated equipment, etc. It almost looked abandoned. From then to now, it's been fully restored and has become a great venue for local entertainment. My wife and I have seen comedians Lewis Black, Bill Maher and a (pre-arrest) Bill Cosby perform at this theatre since its restoration. Rumor has it the place is haunted, but the only ghouls and ghosts I saw this past weekend were in the audience…
… such as this good chap.
One of the attendees of the "Friday the 13th" panel both with and without his complementary Jason Voorhees mask! This spirit of fun pervaded the almost concert-like atmosphere of the screening. There were serious diehard Friday the 13th fans in the audience, and their energy was infectious.
Puck off!
Wearing my own free "Friday the 13th" Jason Voorhees' (antiquated) hockey goalie mask, it was very easy to get into the 'spirit' of the event. To be honest, I'm more a casual fan of the "Friday the 13th" movie franchise (the Universal monster classics, "Halloween" and "The Exorcist" are more my speed), but I got into the groove of it all very quickly, and wound up having a delightful time. I dare say, this event (which I considered skipping after donating blood shortly before) became one of my favorites of the 3-day weekend.
Q&A with Ari Lehman and Harry Manfredini.
Before the film screened, there was a discussion with original "Jason Voorhees" actor Ari Lehman (in leather), who was only 14 years old when he jumped up from the water to menace costar Adrienne King in the final moments of the film. Many actors (including Hodder Kane) have played the role since, but Lehman was the "First Jason" (which is the name of his metal band as well). Lehman was joined onstage by original "Friday the 13th" composer Harry Manfredini, who created the iconic 'ki-ki-ki-ha-ha-ha' Jason motif used throughout the Friday the 13th film series. The discussion was hosted by Joe Moe ("Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine; my very first magazine subscription when I was a kid). During the Q&A, I had the second question in which I asked Manfredini about the origin of his now famous "Jason theme." Manfredini said it was an abbreviation of "kill her mama" that he deliberately distorted with echo effects to create that 'ki-ki-ha-ha' sound. It gave the killer (not Jason in the first film) a theme as easily memorable as the shark theme in JAWS, and it works very well. Manfredini also joked that since I made that very sound myself during my question, I owed him 55 cents in royalties. Great guy. The audience gave both of them a standing ovation, and we posed for a mass selfie wearing our free Jason goalie masks (and yes, I wore mine too…).
During the screening of the film, the audience saw Ari Lehman silhouetted against the screen (arms raised in rockstar mode) during Jason Voorhee's epic 'jump-out' scare near the end (that moment nearly gave me heart failure when I was 13). After the credits rolled, Lehman walked onstage once again to thank the audience for attending and to salute "Friday the 13th" fans for keeping the film series alive. He also promised a little something special to be given away at his autograph table the next day to those fans in the audience who remembered a certain password. I took him up on that promise the very next day, and he honored it. Of course, I won't repeat the password since it might ruin it for Lehman at any future horror events.
Jason Lives!
Vampira lives!
An excellent Vampira drag cosplayer outside the Fox Theatre, whom I took a pic of as I walked back to my hotel. After the screening of "Friday the 13th", there was a screening of "Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark" (1988), as well as a short film on Maila Nurmi, who played Elvira's horror movie-host antecedent "Vampira" back in the 1950s (and of course, in the classic Ed Wood movie "Plan Nine From Outer Space"). I would've stayed for both films, but after giving blood earlier that evening I was a bit sleepy. My family and I used to love watching standup comic Cassandra Peterson's "Movie Macabre" TV series, where she mercilessly skewered b-movies as her Elvira character. I've seen Peterson dressed as "Elvira" many times at conventions, and she is definitely a crowd pleaser. Sadly, the hilarious Peterson wasn't attending this particular screening herself, or I might've been tempted to tough it out and stay…
Darkside in Riverside, Day (of the Dead) Two...
Day Two of the convention was (for me) all about getting autographs. I brought a few personal collectibles of mine, and was hoping to get them signed. Having my VIP ticket helped, as it got myself and fellow VIP attendees into the Riverside Municipal Auditorium an hour early to get first pick at the autographs. Unfortunately there was a bit of miscommunication as to exactly how to get autographs (they never bothered to mention anywhere that you had to first wait in another line to buy separate tickets for each autograph). Many attendees were standing patiently at celebrity booths, only to find out they needed to get a ticket beforehand. Granted, this is a standard practice at some conventions (such as Star Trek Las Vegas) but not all. While the crowds at this convention were fairly small, it was nevertheless a minor annoyance that could've been solved with a mention or two on the organizer's website or in the information pamphlet. Each attendee was screened (TSA-style) before entry as well (a wise precaution that I wholeheartedly support for everyone's sake) and soon we were inside the RMA, ready to get our autographs and check out the dealer merchandise…
Parked along curbs and in parking lots around the city were various prop cars, such as the post-zombie apocalyptic police car from 'Kearny County' (not sure where that vehicle is from… "The Walking Dead", perhaps?) and, of course, the two versions of "Ghostbusters" Ecto-1 hearse; the '84 Cadillac (from the 2016 reboot) and the '59 Caddy (from the 1984 classic).
There were other interesting vehicles as well, such as this Dark Side mobile driven by Kylo Ren. Disney and Star Wars manage to permeate every pop culture event, even a dedicated horror convention. Though in fairness, Kylo Ren does looks appropriately horrific.
Where Evil Lies…
Riverside Municipal Auditorium, where most of the Darkside in Riverside convention was based, including the dealer hall and autograph area. Through the back doors of the main auditorium area were merchandise vendors (and yes, I bought a couple things…), and outside vendors were selling handmade horror-themed jewelry, trinkets and artwork. The auditorium's somewhat gothic Spanish Mission architecture lent itself well to a horror convention…
Totally P.J. Soles.
The first autograph ticket I bought was for P. J. Soles, who starred in so many films that defined teenage and horror cinema throughout much of the 1970s and early 1980s. While I brought a Halloween DVD for her to sign, I ultimately opted for a photo, which defined one of her most iconic horror moments; her character Linda's meeting with "Michael Myers" from 1978's Halloween. Some of Soles' most iconic roles (beside "Halloween") include 1976's "Carrie" (where she played one of the original 'mean girls'), "Rock and Roll High School" (1979) and opposite Bill Murray in the US Army comedy "Stripes" (1981). Soles usually plays airheads or mean girls ("Totally!") but she couldn't be further from that image. She is fluent in several languages, world-traveled and very cultured. Not to mention a kindly, down-to-earth lady. Very much enjoyed meeting her.
The incomparable Tony Todd.
Actor and all-around great guy Tony Todd ("Candyman," "Platoon," "Night of the Living Dead [1990]", "Star Trek: The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine" and 1996's "The Rock" as well as the new 2019 movie "Candy Corn" with PJ Soles). I just loved talking with this guy.. He had fun saying my name (Sebastian) in multiple accents (impeccably so, I might add). Todd told me a story of when he first watched the original 1968 "Night of the Living Dead" in a drive-in theatre as a kid, and how he was inspired to act by the late Duane Jones' performance, whose role of "Ben" was brilliantly reinterpreted by Todd for Tom Savini's 1990 version. He felt he was destined to play that role (or a role like it) someday. Todd also spoke very fondly of his aunt who raised him in poverty, yet gave him a wonderful appreciation for acting just from watching classic movies on television at night. We shared a warm handshake after he signed my copy of the "Deep Space Nine Companion". I've been a fan of Todd's work for nearly 30 years, and it was a sincere pleasure to meet him.
The Hands Have Eyes!
That is character actor Michael Berryman ("One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" "The Hills Have Eyes" "Star Trek: The Next Generation") choking the life out of me! Berryman is a horror star with an artist's soul. He and I talked about his days getting started in show business. Berryman had one day of on-set movie experience (making 1975's "Doc Savage" for producer George Pal) before Milos Forman's "Cuckoo's Nest" gave him months of on-set experience and dramatic training. He parlayed that experience into playing all sorts of unique character roles, all in stark contrast to his personality. Berryman also claims to have helped named the blue-skinned alien race ("Bolians"), of which he played a member of, on Star Trek TNG (Captain Rixx, in TNG's "Conspiracy").
Spoils of Horror.
Some of my autographs: Ari Lehman, the original "Jason" from 1980's "Friday the 13th" (Lehman honored his promise to 'give something' to those who spoke a password he mentioned at the "Friday the 13th" screening the previous night). Also got P.J. Soles' and Linda Blair autographs. Blair autographed a rare, thick collection of "The Exorcist" essays I'd bought on Amazon a few years ago. I'd previously met Linda Blair (of "The Exorcist") about 8 years ago, at an event in City of Industry. I was surprised that Blair actually remembered that signing event too. Blair wasn't allowing personal pics at her signing table (unless you paid extra, and I didn't), so I took my own pics of her later on during her Q&A (with P.J. Soles) at the Fox Theatre. These days, Blair devotes her time to her animal rescue foundation http://lindablairworldheart.org .
The Empire Struck Back!
Once again, Disney and Star Wars are on the scene…even at a horror convention (let's face it; Disney is in everything everywhere, all the time…). Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine and their accompanying Imperial stormtroopers (all members of the Star Wars' charity group, the 501st) make their way through the Riverside Municipal Auditorium…
Linda Blair and P.J. Soles' Q & A at the Fox Theatre.
Cool orange mohawk-sporting host Kelly J. (Hot 103.9/103.3 FM; The Mix) interviews actresses Linda Blair ("The Exorcist" "Exorcist 2: The Heretic") and P.J. Soles ("Carrie" "Halloween" "Stripes" "Candy Corn") about their careers and current lives. Linda Blair runs an animal rescue charity ( www.lindablairworldheart.org ), and Soles remains active in entertainment, including her new movie "Candy Corn", costarring Tony Todd ("Candyman" "Night of the Living Dead 1990" "Star Trek"). Blair talked extensively about her passion for animals, working with Richard Burton in "Exorcist 2", her enjoyment of the horror spoof "Repossession" (costarring Leslie Nielsen) and growing up as a shy person dealing with the pressures of celebrity. Soles talked about her life growing up overseas, living in Germany, Istanbul, speaking several languages fluently, and her original desire to work for the United Nations as a translator! Soles couldn't be more different from her usual airhead/mean-girl characters. I will never see her character of 'Linda' in "Halloween" quite the same way ever again…
Killer Cosplay!
Some excellent cosplay of "Halloween" heavy Michael Myers (Instagram ID: _the_real_michael_myers ), Michael Keaton's titular "Beetlejuice" and 'Jason Voorhees' (Instagram ID: @punisher_from_hell ) from "Friday the 13th" (the hockey mask was an addition to the character's ensemble, seen in "Friday the 13th 3D"). Kudos to "the real michael myers", who gave me the heads-up on their Instagram IDs! All three looked terrific.
What's in TV tonight?
Some really cool horror-themed handmade dioramas of various movies, including "ALIENS," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", Freddy Kruger (chasing the Scooby Gang), "Hellraiser" and many others. I love how the artist (I lost his card…d'oh!) built the dioramas inside of hollowed out CRT TV sets with built-in VCRs. Very clever!
It's the Great Pumpkin(s), Charlie Brown!
The famed Mission Inn hotel in downtown Riverside gets into the Halloween spirit with their annual "Pumpkin Stroll" (lining the walkways with hundreds of pumpkins). The Mission Inn hotel is locally (and nationally) famous for its annual Festival of Lights at Christmastime (they usually do the lighting ceremony the day after Thanksgiving). It's also the hotel where the late ex-president Richard Nixon honeymooned (I can't even imagine Richard Nixon having a honeymoon, but sure….).
Night of the Living Dead.
Some of the zombies (and victims) of the "Zombie Run"; I personally didn't partake in this event (old man…need my rest), but these pics came courtesy of my brave wife, who decided to take a look. The event was staged over several hours, increasing in intensity with each stage. These pics were taken during the 6 pm stage of the Run, which was touted as medium-strength. I can only imagine what happened at the 8 pm stage…
Darkside in Riverside Day Three: Final Destination…
Sunday the 20th, the final day of the convention, we were packed and out of our hotel room by 8 am or so. However, thanks to the convention being so close-by, I drove back with my badge and wristband to attend one last event… a Q & A with actors Tony Todd ("Candyman" "Star Trek" "Night of the Living Dead"), Michael Berryman ("One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", "Star Trek" "The Hills Have Eyes") and John Kassir (the voice of "the Cryptkeeper" from the "Tales From The Crypt" TV series and later movies). It was well worth returning for…
Panel discussion at the Fox Theatre with Tony Todd ("Candyman" "Night of the Living Dead [1990]" "Platoon" "Star Trek TNG/DS9/VGR"), Michael Berryman ("The Hills Have Eyes" "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" "Star Trek: TNG"), John Kassir (voice of 'The Cryptkeeper' from "Tales From The Crypt") and host Joe Moe (Famous Monsters of Filmland, FX artist/sculptor). Kassir had a sore throat from doing voices for fans all weekend, but he managed. All three told fascinating stories of how they broke into the industry, the roles that inspired them, and how much they appreciate their fans (particularly Berryman, who asked for a round of applause for the fans in attendance).
Todd, Berryman and Kassir also spoke of how they overcame challenges such as poverty, lack of opportunity (young Tony Todd was raised by his single aunt), birth defects (Berryman's neurosurgeon father was exposed to radiation at Hiroshima, which led to Berryman's own birth complications) and lots of pavement-pounding (Kassir hustled his way into auditions, with limited success) in order to fulfill their dreams. Todd told of how he flew his aunt (who'd never flown before) to a film set where she could see firsthand how her faith in her nephew paid off. Berryman also told of his early art career ambitions, which were somewhat derailed when he lucked into an acting career after being discovered by producer George Pal ("War of the Worlds", "The Time Machine", "Robinson Crusoe On Mars" "Doc Savage"). Pal thought that Berryman's unique appearance would work well for him as a character actor, thus bringing him to the attention of Milos Forman, who was casting for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and a career was born. As moderator Joe Moe said, perhaps these actors' own stories and struggles might've inspired some of the fans in the audience.
Sum Of All Fears.
The "Darkside In Riverside" horror convention is now launched. Yes, there were many glitches common to a first-time convention (some misleading/lacking program information, miscommunications between staffers, etc) but I think that once the bugs are worked out, "Darkside In Riverside" could be a nice draw for the old city. I was comforted to see staffers carrying clipboards, carefully making note of guest issues and complaints. For the price, you got some decent horror bang for the buck (a three-day VIP ticket was $75). I definitely plan on attending in the years to come, if this newborn convention continues.
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Crown Castle Announces Cash Tender Offer for the 7.750% Senior Secured Notes Due 2017 of CC Holdings GS V LLC
HOUSTON , Dec. 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crown Castle International Corp. ("Crown Castle") (NYSE:CCI) announced today that its subsidiary, CC Holdings GS V LLC ("CCL"), has commenced a cash tender offer (the "Tender Offer") for any and all of its outstanding 7.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2017
Crown Castle Announces Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call Details
HOUSTON , Jan. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) ("Crown Castle") plans to release its fourth quarter 2020 results on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 , after the market closes. In conjunction with the release, Crown Castle has scheduled a conference call for...
Crown Castle to Present at the Citi 2021 Global Technology, Media and Telecom West Conference
HOUSTON , Dec. 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) ("Crown Castle") announced today that Dan Schlanger , Crown Castle's Chief Financial Officer, is scheduled to present on Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time at the Citi 2021 Global Technol...
Crown Castle Releases 2019 Corporate Sustainability Report
HOUSTON , Dec. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) ("Crown Castle") announced today the release of its 2019 Corporate Sustainability Report ("CSR"). The CSR is posted in the "Investors" section of Crown Castle's website at http://investor.crowncastle.com ....
Crown Castle Appoints Kevin A. Stephens to its Board of Directors
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HOUSTON , Nov. 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) ("Crown Castle") announced today that Dan Schlanger , Crown Castle's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer is scheduled to present on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 11:10 a.m.
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FBI reveals it uses CIA and NSA to spy on Americans
washingtontimes.comJanuary 12, 2023
The FBI revealed how the bureau uses the CIA and National Security Agency to probe the private lives of Americans without a warrant in its updated rulebook, which is the first version made public since the Obama administration.
The handbook, rewritten in 2021, confirms a decade-old leak showcasing the bureau's collaboration with the CIA and NSA for FBI probes that may involve surveillance without court orders against people not accused of any crimes. Such probes are known as "assessments" at the FBI.
The revelations will fuel critics who have long accused the FBI of abusing its national security surveillance powers.
The FBI's partnership with U.S. intelligence agencies that are focused on foreign threats is expected to get intense scrutiny from the new Republican-run Congress. The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and House Judiciary Committee are digging into how intelligence agencies target Americans. Plans include a new panel to examine the weaponization of the federal government against U.S. citizens.
New information about the FBI's work with other federal agencies and state and local officials is included in the 906-page rule book authored during the Trump administration and revised under President Biden. The bureau published the updated Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide online after rejecting requests to make it public...
The NSA declined to comment and referred questions to the FBI, which also refused to comment.
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Recently YouTube updated their requirements of the Partnership Program, which is going to demonitise all of my existing videos and kick me out of the program. Maybe this will not really matter much in the long term. I will simply look at it as an opportunity to release some longer, higher quality, videos, and finally I might focus more on types of content that attract subscribers.
However, I still view this as a breach of trust, and a failure on YouTube's part. It is simply unacceptable. However, there is a 30 days termination notice listed in the partnership agreement, so according to this they did nothing wrong. But this notice is clearly not enough to protect the interests of small channel owners, and maybe it is time to extend this notice?
The question is if we can trust this is going to be the final limit? It has only been some months since they implemented the 10.000 lifetime views requirement, and already they are changing it?
I estimate that I am going to loose around 400$ this year – so it definitely adds up! I was supplementing my website income with YouTube, so I am maybe one of the few who got paid.
The new requirements is 4000 hours watched within a 12 month period, and 1000 subscribers. The change will not only affect new channels, but also existing ones, regardless of the channels history. Even well behaved channels will be affected. So, apparently, partnering with Google or YouTube is pretty much a one-way street.
Currently, I feel uncomfortable about uploading future videos to YouTube, as it has been a strong reminder that we have almost no control over how the videos are monetized, or what will happen to our videos. I assume they will be available in the future. After all, YouTube is the leading video platform, and hopefully it will stay around for many years to come.
I personally find their new requirements very problematic. This means that smaller channels will be strongly discouraged from participating, and for those who only occasionally supplemented their Adsense income with YouTube, this may prove to be a major setback.
I am in no doubt that Beamtic will be able to meet these new requirements within a year or two, but I still find it unfortunate. Creating content is an investment of my time, and if that investment does not pay off in some way, I might as well stop creating new material. While the lost income in my case was below $100 per month, it was actually a nice income when combined with the revenue from the website.
A possible solution could be to embed more YouTube videos in relevant pages on the website itself. This would likely both attract new subscribers, as well as indirectly allow us to monetize videos. I still get the benefit of free hosting for the videos, but the money I save on hosting is minuscule, so that would be one of my last reasons for using YouTube.
YouTube is taking a big cut of our revenue (45%), and that money should be spent on improving their service. One way to do this, is by hiring people to manually review channels, and having algorithms in place to prevent spammy channels from uploading too many videos. So, in my opinion, they simply have no good excuse to limit who is able to join their partnership.
There has been a lot of complaints about inappropriate content, and some companies apparently stopped advertising on YouTube as a result of this content. The problem is not with small channels, however. Maybe part of the problem lies with advertisers growing too concerned over where their ads appear. I do not think YouTube should give in to such pressure.
When they made the first changes to their partnership program, I thought it was a small inconvenience, as I was planning to create a localized channel. However, the 10000 lifetime views were far from impossible to reach, (with a bit of patience). So, I started preparing some localized content. Now I may be forced to upload this to the main channel instead, but it just does not really fit there, since it is in a different language!
The new requirements is that we need 4000 hours watched in a 12 month period, plus 1000 subscribers. This change not only comes without warning, it is also extremely unfair! Things like this should never be implemented with this short notice. YouTube could at least have given us a year to catch up.
However, I am also looking to expand the types of content on the website, which I think could open doors to new types of content for YouTube, and likely, it will attract much more viewers than basic tutorials. Who knows, I might even start creating animation movies, since this is also something we are experimenting with in my education.
YouTube changed the requirements to join their partnership program. Read this if you want a few tips to quickly reach 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watched.


There's no explanation for the unusual trading situation.
Well you don't need me to tell you that Apple (AAPL) hovers dangerously near 185 right before expiration. Quadruple Witching Expiration no less.
Wait a sec, that's such a big event, it needs all caps.
QUADRUPLE WITCHING EXPIRATION. If you have CNBC on and take a chug every time you hear it today, you'll be under the table before Morning Call.
Oh yeah -- Apple. It's an interesting one today. On Wednesday, the September 185 calls traded roughly 42,000 times versus an open interest around 15,000. All that trading only bumped open interest by 1,000 contracts.
Then it went completely on tilt on Thursday, trading 77,000 more times, It's just an oddly large volume a day before expiration -- particularly in a stock that isn't exactly off the radar.
And frankly, I don't have a great answer as to whether this makes it more or less likely to pin. The fact that actual open interest hasn't moved much leads to a more "none of the above" answer. But we can infer that if nothing else, we at least have some new hands on the open interest. But those folks could go either way. If it moves away from strike, the "new" options shorts will need to cover pretty quickly, and would add to the move (on the margins). Conversely, if it's hovering, the "new" longs will exit pretty quickly and push it towards the pin.
Bottom line is, it's a pretty unusual situation, seeing 4.5 times the open interest trade with one day to go. I have a position here, but not on this line, so will keep an open mind if I see it look one way (pin) or another (away from strike).


Is there anything better than a fluffy vest? I think not. Well, yes there is…chilled Pinot Grigio, Sticky Toffee Pudding hot out of the oven, the feeling after a hot yoga class, time spent with family and my closest friends….
However, when it comes to fashion…I'm all about the fluffy vest these days!
Lately, I've been loving this vest from Southern Ties in Mocksville, NC. Make sure y'all go check them out! They have lots of vests to choose from, but the key is to choose the right vest to fit into your wardrobe. If you make the right choice, you can wear you vests with so many clothes you already have in your closet.
I paired my vest with these skinny oxblood jeans, brownish grey booties, a simple long sleeve white shirt, and a tasseled pearl necklace (booties, shirt, vest and necklace from Southern Ties).
Keep it Classic. Rock an outfit similar to the one I'm wearing above. Here's the formula: skinny jeans (or jeans that are streamlined), a basic shirt or turtleneck, fluffy vest, and booties or boots. You can add on a tasseled necklace for an extra touch of sass!
Dress to Impress. I also love to pair my vests with dresses. Take a look at my post HERE in Davie Life for more information on how to rock the vests. It's essential to make sure the vests are long enough and fit loosely.
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Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike "the enemy within." With the publication of this book, the full irony of that accusation became clear. Seumas Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain's miners' union. There was an enemy within. It was the secret services of the British state, operating inside the NUM itself.
Milne revealed for the first time the astonishing lengths to which the government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain's miners' union. Using phoney bank deposits, staged cash drops, forged documents, agents provocateurs and unrelenting surveillance, M15 and police Special Branch set out to discredit Scargill and other miners' leaders. Planted tales of corruption were seized on by the media and both Tory and Labour politicians in what became an unprecedentedly savage smear campaign.
In this new edition, published for the twentieth anniversary of Britain's most important postwar social confrontation, new material brings the story up to date – and, in the wake of the Iraq war intelligence scandals, highlights the continuing threat posed by the security services to democracy today.
One of the most remarkable demolition jobs ever.
The most important expose of contemporary political Britain I have read.
A tribute to detailed journalistic investigation ... strips away the myths and lies.


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The main reason why it's so difficult to control federal spending is because so much of it is on automatic pilot. Spending for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare rises automatically and cannot be cut except by changing the law governing them. They are also so large and complex that small, almost invisible changes in formulas for calculating benefits can end up costing billions upon billions of dollars.
One of these changes involves Medicare Part B, which pays for doctors visits. Part A pays for hospitalization and Part D pays for prescription drugs. When Part B was established in 1966 Congress expected 50% of the cost to be covered by premiums paid by beneficiaries, with the balance covered by general revenues. Because health costs have long tended to rise faster than the prices for other goods and services, Part B premiums rose faster than ad hoc Social Security inflation adjustments, which was a growing burden for those living on Social Security.
In 1972, Congress decided to automatically index Social Security to inflation and provide annual cost of living adjustments (COLAs). In the same legislation it also ordered that Part B premiums not rise more than Social Security COLAs even if health costs rose faster.
The result was that the share of Part B costs covered by premiums steadily fell from 50% to just 22.6% in 1983. At this point, Congress began enacting temporary legislation setting Part B premiums at 25% of costs with taxpayers subsidizing the elderly by paying the rest. In 1997, this became a permanent part of the law.
Increases in Part B premiums take effect at the same time COLAs increase Social Security benefits, so beneficiaries generally don't notice them too much since COLAs are usually larger in dollar terms than the increase in Part B premiums. However, this is one of those years when that is not the case.
The problem is that Social Security miscalculated the COLA that was paid out in January of this year, giving Social Security beneficiaries a 5.8% increase--5% more than justified by inflation last year. This resulted because COLAs are calculated based on changes in the Consumer Price Index between the third quarter of one year and the third quarter of the next.
As former deputy Social Security commissioner Andrew Biggs explains, at the time the 2009 COLA was calculated, energy prices were spiking. But subsequently, they fell sharply, causing the CPI to fall in October, November and December of 2008, thus giving Social Security recipients an unintended bonus. Since prices have not risen enough this year to compensate for the unintended bonus, Social Security recipients won't receive a COLA in January.
This created a problem for Medicare because Part B premiums can't increase more than Social Security COLAs increase--at least for most beneficiaries. But some 27% of Part B participants are not held harmless. These include those with low incomes who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, those with incomes above $85,000 ($170,000 for couples), new Medicare enrollees and those whose premiums are not automatically deducted from the Social Security checks.
These beneficiaries would see their Part B premiums rise from $96.40 per month to between $110 and $120 per month--considerably more than the $104 premium that would be the case if all Part B participants shared in the rising cost of the program, but still only a fraction of the total cost.
In reality, the vast bulk of those affected by this premium increase are also held harmless because their premiums are covered by Medicaid. So the individuals would not be any worse off, but the increased cost would be borne by the states. New enrollees are not really suffering because they haven't been paying Medicare premiums at all until now, and the number of people who don't have premiums deducted automatically is very small.
The main people affected by this situation are those with high incomes for whom paying $6 to $16 a month extra can hardly be considered burdensome. Nevertheless, the alleged unfairness of their predicament moved the House of Representatives to extraordinary action.
On Sept. 23, Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., introduced H.R. 3631, which would freeze all Part B premiums for one year--including those for couples with incomes over $170,000. It would pay for the $2.8 billion cost by raiding the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund and the Medicare Improvement Fund. This legislation came up the following day and passed the House by a vote of 406 to 18.
Of course, nothing is really paid for here. Federal borrowing will be $2.8 billion higher than it would otherwise be--and all to primarily benefit 2.1 million seniors who could very easily afford to pay slightly higher premiums for their very heavily subsidized Medicare Part B benefits.
Interestingly, the only representative willing to speak against this unjustified give-away was House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. He mocked the fact that multimillionaire Ross Perot's Part B premium would be frozen by the legislation, as well as those of members of Congress covered by Medicare such as himself, and asked how can we afford to take care of everyone regardless of their ability to pay? At some point there won't be sufficient resources for the truly needy, Hoyer said.
Although this legislation was portrayed by its supporters as a one-time fix for an unanticipated technical glitch in the Medicare law, it could easily turn into a permanent financial drain. For one thing, with inflation expected to stay low, there may not be a Social Security COLA paid until 2012, which means that the exact same problem H.R. 3631 is dealing with will arise next year as well.
More importantly, there is the fact that the law requires Medicare Part B beneficiaries to bear 25% of the program's costs. Since those costs are continuing to rise rapidly, there is going to have to be some kind of catch-up in the future to ensure that beneficiaries continue to pay 25%. When they are in effect forced to pay two or three years of premium increases all at once, the elderly are going to raise a major stink. History suggests that they will get whatever they want regardless of which party is in power.
The real point of this story is not to complain about a $2.8 billion drain on the Treasury, but rather to show how technical many important budgetary problems are and how difficult it is to even understand them. Yet many conservatives seem to think that all they have to do to get the budget under control is show up at a town hall meeting and scream about the deficit at the top of their lungs. These people were nowhere to be seen, however, when a little bit of opposition might have derailed this boondoggle.
To be fair, even many of the Congress' strongest budget hawks were AWOL in this case. Among those voting for it were right-wing heroes Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. Nor was I able to find anything about this legislation on the Web sites of various conservative think tanks. The day after the vote, only The New York Times reported it, running a brief AP wire story on page A18.
For this reason, those who had both the knowledge and courage to vote against yet another give-away to the well-to-do elderly deserve recognition: Todd Akin, R-Mo.; Brian Baird, D-Wash.; Melissa Bean, D-Ill.; Paul Broun, R-Ga.; Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah; Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Scott Garrett, R-N.J.; Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas; Baron Hill, D-Ind.; Steny Hoyer, D-Md.; Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; Doug Lamborn, R-Colo.; Tom McClintock, R-Calif.; Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; John Shadegg, R-Ariz.; and Adam Smith, D-Wash.
It's easy to rail against deficits in the abstract. It's a lot harder with the following circumstances: when voting on legislation that is popular with a key constituent group like the elderly, when the amount of money involved is small, when there is a genuine element of unfairness involved, when there is no opposition whatsoever, when the legislation is extremely technical and brought up for a vote almost immediately after it's introduced with no hearings, no committee mark-up, no committee report and under procedures reserved for noncontroversial bills. Those who think tea parties are the answer to our budget problems should keep this in mind the next time they feel moved to say that controlling deficits is a simple matter of will.
Bruce Bartlett is a former Treasury Department economist and the author of Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action and Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. Bruce Bartlett's new book is available for pre-order: The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward. He writes a weekly column for Forbes.com.
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The fatigue crack growth and fracture resistance of a 5083-0 aluminum alloy plate were investigated at four temperatures in the ambient-to-cryogenic range—295, 111, 76, and 4 K. J-integral test methods were applied using compact specimens 3.17 cm thick, and the value of J required to initiate crack extension (JIc ) is reported as an index of fracture toughness. The fracture toughness was orientation dependent, with anisotropy accounting for JIc variations of up to a factor of 2. For specimens having fracture planes parallel to the rolling direction, JIc increases progressively from 9 to 25 kJm−2 as temperature decreases between 295 and 4 K. In contrast, the fatigue crack growth rates (da/dN) are insensitive to specimen orientation. The fatigue crack growth rates at cryogenic temperatures are up to 10 times lower than in air at room temperature, but are virtually constant between 111 and 4 K.
Tobler RL, Reed RP. Fracture Mechanics Parameters for a 5083-0 Aluminum Alloy at Low Temperatures. ASME. J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 1977;99(4):306-312. doi:10.1115/1.3443545.


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Q: redis cache and LazyInitializationException in Hibernate : could not initialize proxy - no Session The project use hibernate 4.2.0 and spring 3.1.3.
I'm adding redis for second cache in my project.
There are class A,B,C. Their relation is a.getB().getC()
The code like:
Class A{
    @ManyToOne(targetEntity = InternalOrganizationImpl.class, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @Cascade(value = { org.hibernate.annotations.CascadeType.SAVE_UPDATE })
    @JoinColumn(name = "bid")
    private B b;
}

Now i get object A from database and put it into redis.
Then i get it from redis ,but when i use a.getB().getC(),throw the Exception that could not initialize proxy - no Session
I have read the question How to fix org.hibernate.LazyInitializationException...
set the property is effect,but it makes project too slow
<prop key="hibernate.enable_lazy_load_no_trans">true</prop>

the annotion @Transcation not work
Is there any butter solution?

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This is the home page for current links to materials documenting the XDI graph model -- the XDI data interchange model that builds upon the RDF graph model as defined by the W3C Semantic Web activity.
The XDI TC maintains a visual guide to XDI graphs called XDI Graph Patterns (PDF version, Powerpoint version). This is the easiest document to review to gain a quick understanding of the XDI graph model. The latest version is dated 2014-04-03.
A companion document, XDI Graph Statements (PDF version, Excel version), contains the XDI statements corresponding to each example in XDI Graph Patterns. NOTE: This document is currently one revision behind the XDI Graph Patterns document, and hasn't been 'symbol shifted'.
XDI ABNF - formal ABNF rules defining the XDI graph model.
XDI Serialization Formats defines the JSON serialization formats (and 2 plain text display formats) for XDI.
XDI Messages specifies the template for XDI messages.
XDI Link Contracts - how XDI does portable semantic authorization.
XDI Policy Expression - how XDI does semantic policy expression.
XDI Discovery specifies how the XDI protocol is used to discover the endpoint URI(s) associated with any XDI resource.
XDI Validator for validating XDI documents.
XDI Converter for converting XDI documents from one serialization format to another.
XDI Local Messenger for testing XDI messages.
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China and Innovation
Over the past couple of years a number of articles about innovation in China have been written. The reason for this interest might be the fact that "between 2006 and 2009, the number of patent applications in America, Europe and South Korea largely held steady. But filings in Japan sank while those in China soared." ["Trading places," The Economist, 30 September 2010] Patents are often used the article noted, as "a crude but useful measure of innovation." The article continued:
"The change shows that Chinese inventors are developing a stake in intellectual-property protection, which is welcome. And because national patents protect the technologies of foreign firms too, the trend reflects how global companies are ploughing into China as a market and a manufacturing base."
In a subsequent article, The Economist played down the importance of patents as a true measure of innovation. It noted that, "Chinese firms are filing lots of patents," but asked, "How many represent good ideas?" ["Patents, yes; ideas, maybe," 14 October 2010] The reason that the numbers of patent applications has exploded in China is that "the Chinese government has created an ecosystem of incentives for its people to file patents." The article explained:
"Workers and students who file patents are more likely to earn a hukou (residence permit) to live in a desirable city. For some patents the government pays cash bonuses; for others it covers the substantial cost of filing. Corporate income tax can be cut from 25% to 15% for firms that file many patents. They are also more likely to win lucrative government contracts. Many companies therefore offer incentives to their employees to come up with patentable ideas."
The article also noted that patent officials in China "are paid more if they approve more patents." All of this leads to a certain amount of skepticism about the value of Chinese patents. The article indicated that analysis by Thomson Reuters concluded that only about 20 percent of Chinese patents "were of high quality." The article nevertheless concludes that "it is clear that China really is growing more innovative. And the fact that the government now takes intellectual property seriously can only help."
In January 2011, The Economist published a review of two books that focused on innovation in China. ["The red menace, reconsidered," 27 January 2011] The review began with a few questions: "Will China eclipse America as the world's innovation powerhouse? And where will the good, well-paid jobs of the future come from in developed countries if Asia's rise continues?" The review stated, "Those are the questions taken up by two thoughtful new books on innovation." Although the headline of the article, with it reference to a "red menace," tends to stir up fear and nationalism, the article asserted, "Asia's rise does not necessarily foreshadow America's decline. One reason for this is that innovation is not a zero-sum game." It goes on to state, "One company or country can benefit from the development and marketing of a clever invention, while the robust diffusion and adoption of such inventions can also benefit many others." Adam Segal, the author of one of the books reviewed, indicated that he wasn't too concerned that China would overtake the U.S. He believes that "America's economy will remain on top." The review continued:
"While accepting that Asia will probably surpass America in absolute spending and sheer numbers of graduates, he remains sceptical about the foundations of Asian innovation. He points to troubling evidence that challenges the quality of the many patents, papers and engineering degrees seen in India and China."
In late 2011, John Bussey wrote that a number of U.S. business executives agree with Segal. He noted that during a dinner discussion of intellectual property theft in China one U.S. executive "with a big U.S. tech company leaned forward and said confidently: 'This isn't such a problem for us because we plan on innovating new products faster than the Chinese can steal the old ones.'" ["Does History Say China Wins?" Wall Street Journal, 4 November 2011] Bussey continued:
"That's a solution you often hear from U.S. companies: The U.S. will beat the Chinese at what the U.S. does best—innovation—because China's bureaucratic, state-managed capitalism can't master it. The problem is, history isn't on the side of that argument, says Niall Ferguson, an economic historian. … Mr. Ferguson, who teaches at Harvard Business School, says China and the rest of Asia have assimilated much of what made the West successful and are now often doing it better. 'I've stopped believing that there's some kind of cultural defect that makes the Chinese incapable of innovating,' he says. 'They're going to have the raw material of better educated kids that ultimately drives innovation.' Andrew Liveris, the chief executive of Dow Chemical, has pounded this drum for years, describing what he sees as a drift in engineering and manufacturing acumen from the West to Asia. 'Innovation has followed manufacturing to China,' he told a group at the Wharton Business School."
Despite what analysts like Ferguson are saying, in January The Economist published another article that insists that "America is wrong to fear Asian innovation." ["Brain Gain," 21 January 2012] The article cites a report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that warns "that America is losing ground fast to Asian rivals, especially China." It quotes Subra Suresh, the Foundation's director, who said, "We must re-examine long-held assumptions about the global dominance of … American science and technology." The article goes on to note that "the ten largest economies in Asia now spend roughly $400 billion a year on research and development (R&D) — as much as America, and well ahead of Europe's $300 billion. China's investment leapt 28% in a year, propelling it past Japan to become the world's second-biggest spender. 'Troubling trends,' declares one of the report's overseers." But the article states, "Hang on a minute. Merely counting pennies is no way to measure national prowess." It explains:
"Research spending is an input, not an output. Many a clever gizmo produced by well-endowed Japanese corporate labs has turned out to be worthless. Useful innovation means fresh thinking that creates value. Booz & Co, a consultancy, has found that firms that spend little on R&D do indeed fare poorly by this measure. But those that spend a fortune do not, on average, outperform their more parsimonious peers. The NSF boffins fret that America's share of global R&D spending is falling. In the decade to 2009, it tumbled from 38% to 31%, whereas Asia's rose from 24% to 35%."
The article then reiterates what it said in an earlier article about innovation, "science is not a zero-sum game." It continues:
"One reason why spending in Asia has risen is that American firms nearly doubled their R&D investments there in the decade to 2008, to $7.5 billion. GE recently announced a $500m expansion of its R&D facilities in China. Such investments give American firms access to a wider pool of brains, many of them fizzing with ideas. Products developed in or for emerging markets are making their way to developed ones. … Foreign innovation may threaten American firms; but it can also make them more competitive."
To learn more about the trend of products coming from emerging markets going into mature markets, read my posts entitled Innovation in (and from) BRIC Countries and Reverse Innovation Continues to Garner Attention. McKinsey & Company analysts have also taken a look at Chinese innovation. Their conclusion is that "Chinese innovation is evolving in diverse ways and at an uneven pace across a range of different industries." ["Three snapshots of Chinese innovation," McKinsey Quarterly, February 2012] The articles look at innovation in the automotive industry, the semiconductor industry, and the pharmaceutical industry.
In the automotive industry, Glenn Leibowitz and Erik Roth, conclude "that innovation in China's auto industry is more about commercialization models than technical achievements." In the semiconductor industry, McKinsey's Bob Dvorak, Sri Kaza, and Nick Santhanam conclude, "China, … has one of world's best-funded and ambitious tech industry policies, and acquiring semiconductor know-how and IP remains a high priority." Concerning China's pharmaceutical sector, Steve Yang concludes, "new models of innovation … could emerge from China, as well as the long-term commitment to talent development." One reason for this is that there is a "different disease prevalence" in China than there is in the U.S. Writing in Forbes, Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, asks, "Is China the next hub for innovation?" ["Can China Eclipse the U.S. on Innovation?, 11 July 2012] He concludes:
"The Chinese have a long tradition of copying others; not respecting intellectual property or having a culture that even recognizes it; a bias towards conformism; and a government that quells dissent. Given this vast cultural difference, it may be a stretch for the Chinese to shift from manufacturing to innovation. But they are certainly trying, and their strategy is respectable."
Frankly, a little competition to get America's innovative juices flowing can't hurt. In all the rankling associated with this year's presidential election, it would be great to hear some creative ideas about how we can get America's education system back on track and prepare coming generations to compete in a world that will be increasingly more innovative.


Phil Orenstein posted a reply, here, to my post More about the controversy over the Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA). Phil, I'm sorry about the delay in moderating your comment, which was posted during my recent hiatus from this blog. Anyhow, here is my further reply.
My post The "Stop the Madrassa" Coalition and its campaign against the Khalil Gibran International Academy has been quoted on the FrontPage magazine site in an article titled Fantasizing "The New McCarthyism" by Phil Orenstein, FrontPageMagazine.com, Friday, May 23, 2008.
Islamism (the totalitarian ideology) does pose a real threat. But it's a threat that needs to be addressed with surgical precision, not blind hysteria.
Alas, Phil Orenstein's article comes across to me as hysteria-mongering: a flood of accusations against various people, combined with a blatantly fallacious dismissal of the civil rights concerns of Muslims. But his article has inspired me to research several topics more deeply this past week, including hate crime statistics and the recent history of bigotry against both Jews and Muslims.


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After completing its planned incremental availability (PIA), US Navy aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) got underway from Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton to complete its flight deck certification and other training on September 1.
Flight deck certification is a key milestone for the aircraft carrier's return to operations at sea.
The underway also marks the first time Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 aircraft and personnel have been on board conducting flight operations in more than eight months.
For many sailors aboard the Stennis this will be their first time conducting flight operations at sea.
Once flight deck certification is complete, John C. Stennis will conduct flight deck qualifications, as well as other training.
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She gave up on family a long time ago. Now she's been 'adopted', is there anything she wouldn't do to protect those brave enough to take her on? Heck no there isn't!
Brenda Munroe was mercenary even as a child. It was that or going hungry, or worse. From stealing school lunches, she'd moved onto bigger, better and even legal things. Life is finally looking up for her when her carefully created world comes crashing down. Stuck thousands of miles from home and broke, it's going to take every ounce of her street smarts to survive this time.
Strapped for cash — and with a real aversion to the old nine-to-five — Brenda opens a residential school for girls, teaching them in weeks what it's taken her years to master. Namely, how to get by on good looks and a bucket-load of charm.
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All this effing white! Jeez, Martin might just as well have popped his clogs already. Cue the sodding harp music.
Brenda hates hospitals with a passion and adding to this misery, her arse hurts, thanks to a chair designed to ensure any visit is brief. It hasn't been upholstered: the bloody thing's been panelbeaten.
Holding the clammy hand of her elderly lover, Martin McGowan, she can't help but feel responsible for his current condition. It had been her idea to try that particular position and it was only due to her rough and ready mouth-to-mouth that he hadn't snuffed it on the spot. Although, he'd assured her while they were waiting for the ambulance that he wouldn't have minded kicking the bucket in such a spectacular fashion.
A vision in white pops her head inside the door of Martin's private room. "She's on her way."
"Bloody hell, I'd better go." Brenda disengages her hand and is unable to stop herself from wiping it on her jeans. A quick kiss to Martin's forehead confirms this is also covered in a fine sheen of cold sweat, though how anyone could feel chilly in Melbourne in the middle of a stinking hot February is beyond her. If anything, it feels even hotter inside the air-conditioned hospital than it had outside where there had at least been a lacklustre breeze.
Thoughts of longer goodbyes are forestalled when they both hear Mrs McGowan's strident tones at the other end of the ward, already ordering people about.
"You'd better go or we might have another heart attack on our hands," says Martin, grimacing.
Brenda isn't sure if he's referring to his harridan of a missus or if he's experiencing more chest pains. Either way, she punches the call button before hightailing it out of the room, managing to disappear into the patient lounge just along from his room without being spotted.
Waiting in hopes that Mrs McGowan's visit will be of the brief variety, Brenda stares out the large window that allows unforgiving light to flood the room. If it hadn't been an emergency, Brenda doubts Martin would be in a public hospital but the ambulance had come here and so here he stays. His bitch of a wife hasn't stopped living up to her reputation since the first hospital corner had been tucked in using a T-square and protractor.
She's flipped through all the women's magazines and is down to reading pamphlets on prostate health before she decides to bail. Bloody woman's arse cheeks must be iron.
After a steadying breath, she readies to make good on her escape, releasing her long, dark hair from the ponytail high up on the back of her head and draping it artfully around her face. Pulling her jacket on to cover her skimpy red boob tube, with head down, she hurries past Martin's glass-windowed room as fast as her platform shoes and ankle-trapping flares will allow. It's not that she's worried about having a showdown with Mrs McGowan but she'd prefer to avoid anything that might upset Martin.
She'd take that cow on in a heartbeat.
Taking a quick sneaky peek into Martin's room as she speeds past, she's pleased to see a nurse taking his pulse. If nothing else, this will gag the pile of crimplene and pearls that's spread like cottage cheese over the visitor's chair.
Brenda's surprised at how upset she is over Martin's ill-health. Sure, he'd started out as a meal ticket, but she's come to care for the old codger. Even the sex hadn't been too bad, although she'll be cautious about that in the future. It wasn't as if either of them wanted to risk necrophilia.
Near the double doors fronting the ward, she hears Mrs McGowan's cut-glass tones. "For goodness sake, if you haven't managed to find a pulse by now, he doesn't have one."
Freezing, Brenda listens hard. Unable to hear the nurse's response, she retraces her footsteps to one side of the door to Martin's room. On hearing him trying to placate his wife, she slumps back against the wall.
"How much longer must I suffer visiting my husband in this, this …?"
Brenda can clearly envisage the expression that must be pasted on the woman's face. It's the 'poo under the nose' look she uses at the least provocation and Brenda's borne the brunt of it in the past. So what if she was caught swimming in the McGowan's pool in her undies? Martin hadn't given a hoot.
The distinctive rattle of the clipboard being unhooked from the end of Martin's bed follows, then the sound of charts being flipped.
"It looks as though it'll be another week," says the nurse, her voice firm. She adds "Maybe even longer," and Brenda hears a touch of glee.
"For goodness sake, this simply won't do! I'm going to arrange a transfer right now."
The visitor's chair screeches in relief and Brenda knows she'll never make it out of the ward in time. Luckily there's a door right behind her and, without hesitation, she opens it, walks in and closes it quietly before sliding to the side so she's not visible through the tall skinny viewing pane. Her hopes that the room is vacant are dashed when a creaky and rather hopeful voice says, "Are you here to give me my enema?"
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How U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson is buying up Israel's media
May 1, 2014 at 1:51 p.m. EDT
Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson in a 2013 file photo. (Julie Jacobson/AP)
JERUSALEM — Las Vegas casino magnate and GOP super donor Sheldon Adelson is gambling on a new venture. On Wednesday, after the Israeli antitrust authority approved his purchase of two more news outlets, the Jewish American billionaire upped his ante in the country's media market.
Adelson already owns one of the four mainstream newspapers here, a free daily tabloid called Israel Hayom (Israel Today). He started that newspaper in 2007 and helped it grow to have the largest circulation in the country.
With his latest purchases, Adelson will now also control the main religious daily, Makor Rishon, which caters to Israel's Zionist religious right, and NRG, the news Web site of the Maariv newspaper, which has faced a multitude of financial woes in the past few years.
While the antitrust authority decided that Adelson's acquisitions are not crossing any competitive red lines, media watchdogs (and not a few political pundits) worry about Adelson's growing influence. Adelson is an avid supporter and long-time friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"As a very strong backer of Prime Minister Netanyahu – not that there's anything wrong with it – Adelson owns a paper that is rarely, if ever, critical of the PM," wrote Shmeul Rosner, an Israeli commentator, in Jewish Journal. "He now owns two papers, and one might suspect that now two papers will never be critical of Netanyahu."
Israel's news media are lively, but venues are not infinite, with four main national newspapers, three television news broadcasters and a handful of radio and news Web sites vying to inform and sway public opinion in a country known for its rough-and-tumble politics.
An investigative report by Channel 10 aired last year claimed that Adelson's newspaper Israel Hayom was spinning the news to show Netanyahu in a more positive light. The newspaper's editor, Amos Regev, dismissed the report, saying, "This so-called evidence doesn't prove anything other than the routine workings of a news organization."
Adelson's new ventures are seen as a good thing for Netanyahu. Israel's media is often very critical of Netanyahu — and loves engaging in what the Prime Minister calls "psychobabble" about his motives. Though he makes plenty of public pronouncements, Netanyahu rarely grants on-the-record interviews or does not host regular news conferences. Adelson's purchase might also be a plus for Netanyahu's wife, Sara, who regularly faces media scrutiny for what critics call her imperial lifestyle (she recently came under fire for yelling at a staffer for buying bags of milk instead of a proper carton).
Adelson has played a big role in GOP politics and is vocal about his support for Israel. In 2012, he spent millions backing the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney, not only in a bid to beat President Obama but also to ensure strengthened support for Israel in domestic U.S. politics.
And, more recently, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) apologized to Adelson after referring to the West Bank as "occupied territories" in a speech at the spring leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, an event Adelson hosted at his Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Alvin And The Chipmunks : Chipwrecked Is Fun For The Whole Family
Alvin And The Chipmunks : Chipwrecked is out in theaters this Friday, December 16th!
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Check out my review and why it's fun for the whole family!
In an interview with director, Mike Mitchell, he stated that "it shouldn't be torturous to take your kid to a movie." "We should all enjoy it." When parents and kids "laugh together that is magic to me." Well, Mike I'm pretty sure you created magic with Alvin And The Chipmunks : Chipwrecked. From the crazy mischief that Alvin always seems to get himself into to the reference to things like Lee press on nails, I do believe there's laughs for every age group.
I would have to agree with Jason Lee, also known as Dave Seville, that Chipwrecked is the best chipmunk film to date. The progression of the relationship between Dave and the chipmunks is quite touching. They've gone from annoying little animals in the first movie to his beloved kids in Chipwrecked, kids that he cares deeply about and would do anything for. I think all parents who see this film will be able to relate to Dave's parenting frustrations but also his love for his kids that trumps any frustration that can come our way. (Anyone ever worn a pasta necklace for an entire day??)
"Through all the fun and typical ALVINNNN!!! ness, I love how Alvin and the Chipmunks : Chipwrecked challenges young and old alike to look beyond the surface of a person to really see the depth of their character. It's so refreshing to see a movie where love between parent and child, or in this case chipmunk, is beautifully displayed despite the many parenting frustrations that can arise. If you're looking for fun with a great message, look no further than Chipwrecked!"
I was quite surprised to see a bit of depth in this film. I was prepared for a fun movie that made me laugh at Alvin's mischievousness. I was NOT prepared to see a depth that speaks a great message to kids. There's much more to a person than the labels that are so often put on them. Maybe you're always pegged as the "fun one" but that doesn't mean you can't also be the "responsible one."
Alvin And The Chipmunks : Chipwrecked happens to be the ONLY G rated movie out this holiday season and I have to say that it's definitely worth a gander to the movie theater to see it. I happened to see it twice in 9 days (first at the press junket in L.A. and second at a screening in Dallas). The second time I had my kids with me. They LOVED it! They've rattled off their favorite scenes more than once and you can frequently hear songs like "Bad Romance" and "I Whip My Tail Back And Forth" being sung around the house.
I was so happy to be able to talk to the chipmunks while I was in L.A. Alvin assured me I was the first on island, so I got the inside scoop for all of you…
A short synopsis:
The vacationing Chipmunks and Chipettes are turning a luxury cruise liner into their personal playground, until they become 'chipwrecked' on a remote island. As the 'Munks and Chipettes scheme to find their way home, they accidentally discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked is in theaters nationwide December 16th.
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Disclosure: Fox flew me out to L.A. to attend the press junket for Alvin & The Chipmunks : Chipwrecked. My airfare and lodging were paid for, but I received no monetary compensation. Any thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.
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I was quite surprised to see a bit of depth in this film. I was prepared for a fun movie that made me laugh at Alvin's mischievousness. I was NOT prepared to see a depth that speaks a great message to kids.
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