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'Argo' beats 'Lincoln' to Best Picture Oscar
LOS ANGELES - Iran hostage thriller "Argo" won the Best Picture Oscar on Sunday, the highest honor in the movie industry, while Ang Lee was a surprise choice for Best Director for "Life of Pi."
"There are eight great films that have as much right to be up here as we do," said "Argo" producer and director Ben Affleck.
The not-so-unexpected win for "Argo" was announced in one of the biggest surprises in the history of Oscar telecasts as first lady Michelle Obama made an unprecedented appearance from the White House to declare the film the top winner of the evening.
It was the first time since "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1990 that a film won the top prize at the Oscars without its director also being nominated.


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Women@Google is the largest employee resource group at Google consisting of 9000 women throughout the company. During Anna's 15 month tenure, the technical Women@Google's membership has more than doubled. The internal women's leadership conference at Google will be tech-only this year to focus on content and education specifically for rising women technical leaders.
She is also currently a trustee at Harvey Mudd College, a Claremont College, and a trustee at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute which focuses, one at a time, on a deep mathematical topic and gathers the world's authorities to make progress. She is a co-founder of Progressive Women of Silicon Valley which helps host women candidates and causes in Silicon Valley, and raises over $1 million a year for these causes.
While she was in Android, she was responsible for algorithms and infrastructure, including Google Play, Books and Search and Recommendations, and Infrastructure for scaling up Android from 40 million phones to over a billion phones. She replaced the Search and Recommendations of Android Marketplace then continued building Google Play through launching Books, Movies and Music. Google Play serves over a billion customers and is the world's largest app marketplace.
Before Android at Google, she was the architect and inventor of Google's large search serving system TeraGoogle which, when it launched, was 50 times cheaper per search per document than the previous search infrastructure. TeraGoogle won a Google's Founders' Award in 2007. She also led ranking efforts in web search through Google's IPO to determine the top ten search results, and led the rewrite of ranking function for TeraGoogle.
She is the co-founder of Cuil, a clustering-based search engine startup, and wrote Recall.archive.org, a history-based search engine out of the Internet Archive which showed trends over time. It was the first keyword-based search engine over the internet archive's data and when it launched in 2003 had an index of 11 billion web pages. She wrote "Why writing your own search engine is hard" in the ACM Queue about this experience. She spoke at Google I/O in 2013 regarding her career history in "7 techmakers and a microphone."
Anna Patterson received her B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois – Champaign Urbana with a dissertation entitled, "Implicit Programming and the Logic of Constructible Duality." In mathematics, she is most known for the CONCUR result that "Two finite Kripke structures are bisimilar if and only if they have the same set of valid formulas." She was a Research Scientist at Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence working with John McCarthy on Phenomenal Data Mining.
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Mehbooba Mufti wants revival of talks with Pakistan to open closed roads in Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Friday batted for revival of talks with Pakistan for resolving the Kashmir issue but said the neighbour's positive contribution is very necessary to 'open closed roads' in the state
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti Friday batted for revival of talks with Pakistan for resolving the Kashmir issue but said the neighbour's positive contribution is very necessary to "open closed roads" in the state.
Speaking at a public event in New Delhi, she also said that the recent NIA raids and arrest of separatists leaders in the Kashmir Valley was a temporary measure and not a solution to address the real problem.
File image of Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. AFP
"The PDP-BJP alliance has been on the belief and hope that we will be able to revive the magic of (former Prime Minister Atal Bihari) Vajpayee ji's time... Vajpayee ji did it," she said in her keynote address at the 'Understanding Kashmir' session hosted by social group BRIEF.
Citing the Lahore declaration in which Pakistan had assured that it will not allow its land to be used against anti-India activities, Mehbooba said, "We have to revive that... in spite of Kargil and attack on the Parliament house... We have had some setbacks but we need to revive it, if we want that the closed roads in Jammu and Kashmir open, then Pakistan's positive contribution is very necessary," she said.
She added that the idea of 'azadi' in the minds of people of the state needs to be replaced with something else. Mufti then drew attention to the 2005 working groups constituted to address the internal dimensions of the Kashmir issue.
"The working group reports (on Kashmir) have been thrown in the waste basket. We are not doing anything about that," she said.
When asked about the recent crackdown of the National Investigation Agency against separatist leaders in the Kashmir Valley, Mehbooba said such acts do not give a long-lasting solution. "Whatever happened with the NIA is an administrative measure. Such measures can just contain a situation, they don't address the real problem," she said.
She said such crackdowns have not resolved the problem, adding "So we need to address the problem and real problem is still there." While Mehbooba lauded the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she, at the same time, urged the Centre to do more to ease the situation in her state.
"I feel Modiji is the man of the moment and he has the potential to rise and become the man of history. His leadership is an asset which needs to be harnessed... and take Kashmir out of this present mess," she said.
Furthermore, she expressed her sadness and concern over the tinkering with the Article 35A, that accords special rights and privileges to the natives of Jammu & Kashmir, and that its constitutional validity has been challenged in the Supreme Court by way of a PIL.
"Who is doing it? Why are they doing it?... The separatists' agenda is different and it is totally secession. But you are weakening those powers which are Indian and trust India and participate in elections (by challenging the Article 35A)," she said.
The chief minister warned if there is an alteration in the special status of the state, there could be a revolt. "If any attempt is made... India will not get a shoulder to carry its national flag in the state," she said.
"This is one of the problem," she said stressing that both the articles 370 and 35A are very dear to the state and they help preserve her state's unique identity.
The chief minister was critical of some television news channel anchors saying that they were trying to project Kashmir in a bad light. "I am sorry to say that this India, that the anchors are trying to project, is not what India is about and that is not the India I know," she said as she stated that few channels were showing Kashmiris in a "bad light."
She said when she sees the retired 'beard-wallahs' from the other side (Pakistan) and 'mooch-wallahs' from this side screaming at the top of their lungs on television news channels, she feels they are taking out their "frustrations" about so many wars that the two countries saw.
"I see that their eyes are bulging out, so much anger and some time they sweat too. I don't want to be associated with this type of India or Pakistan...," she said.
Mehbooba said she wants to see an India which feels the pain of Kashmir. "I want to see that India which accepted us on our conditions. We are a diverse state with all kinds of multi-diversity of religion and every thing... sometimes they talk about our flag, sometimes about Article 370," she said.
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Earlier, a delegation led by Ashwani Sharma met Governor Banwarilal Purohit over the issue
UP polls: BJP tries to hit SP where it hurts most, projects rift in the Yadav 'unity' like in 2017
Five years ago, Mulayam Singh Yadav had disapproved of an SP-Congress alliance and his brother Shivpal had rebelled against Akhilesh.
Four ex-J&K CMs to lose SSG cover after UT decides to wind up elite unit
Officials said the decision was taken by the Security Review Coordination Committee, a group that oversees the threat perception of important leaders in Jammu and Kashmir
Telangana: Himanta Biswa Sarma slams Owaisi, says AIMIM chief will meet same fate as Article 370
Assam chief minister said as per India's history, Babur, Aurangzeb and Nizam cannot live long. He added that he was sure the legacy of Nizam will come to a complete halt and a new culture based on Indian civilization will emerge
SC directs Supertech to enter into contract within week with firm to demolish 40 storey twin-towers in Noida
The top court also directed Supertech Ltd to make the refund payments to the home buyers without prejudice to their rights and contentions
Denial of justice and fading away of people: Day that saw beginning of unending exile of Kashmiri Pandits
19 January 2022 marks the beginning of the 32nd year of exile of the Pandits. This day in 1990 brought misery to the community and subsequently led to their ethnic cleansing from Kashmir
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Lawyer's Voice, which has filed the plea, has sought an urgent hearing on the case stating that a professional and efficient investigation is needed to ensure it doesn't happen again


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Clement Berardo fell foul of the rules at the tournament in Spain.
France's Clement Berardo has been disqualified from a tournament after running out of golf balls.
Berardo lost the final ball in his bag on the 16th hole of the Andalucia-Costa del Sol Match Play 9 and was therefore disqualified for failing to finish his round.
The 32-year-old had suffered a nightmare start by running up a quadruple-bogey nine on the first hole and also bogeyed the sixth and eighth to reach the turn in 41.
Berardo, who had missed the cut in his last four Challenge Tour starts and is currently ranked 1,909th in the world, then double-bogeyed the 10th and dropped further shots on the 14th and 15th before running out of balls on the par-five 16th.
Tiger Woods came within one ball of being disqualified at the 2000 US Open at Pebble Beach
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Analyzing Kenny Atkinson's box-and-one adjustment that lifted Brooklyn
By Anthony Puccio Dec 27, 2018, 11:40am EST
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Kemba Walker hit his second straight three-pointer and gave the Hornets an eight-point lead with three minutes left Wednesday night at Barclays Center. Walker had just capped off his own 12-2 run, both daggers right in the face of Jared Dudley.
It was cold-blooded and the game looked lost for Brooklyn. They hedged on pick-and-rolls and tried to stop Walker, but he became unguardable in the second half ... especially when he saw a mismatch against a slower player like Dudley.
He wasn't doing bad against other player, either. He was going by everybody in one-on-one situations. That's when Kenny made one of his most unorthodox adjustments: A box-and-one zone focused on Walker. A box-and-one? The zone you played in seventh grade?
"It was a box-and-one, yeah. It threw Kemba's rhythm off, where they started picking on me with Malik Monk, so Coach went to zone where he couldn't pick on me," Jared Dudley told NetsDaily after the game. "So, they were still scoring but it came where Kemba had to make one or two passes. Really, it took the ball out of Kemba's hands and once he gave it up it was basically a box-and-one. Deny him and make someone else beat us."
... And when was that made?
"Kenny made the adjustment late in the fourth after he hit two threes against me."
So why a box and one and why does it contradict Atkinson's philosophy?
He'd prefer teams shoot mid-range jumpers versus open threes. By playing a zone, you're vulnerable to allowing three's. Players don't man up; instead they cover their area of the floor, which makes it difficult to cover if teams move the ball well enough.
The Nets used a box-and-one, but they were a little more aggressive. They used Rodions Kurucs and Spencer Dinwiddie to face-guard Walker the second he crossed half court. They gave a different look in terms of how assertive they were in blitzing and double teaming ... while at the same time, trying to stay somewhat true to the zone.
The point: Get the ball out of Kemba Walker's hands.
Watch Walker at the top of the screen. This is more of a blitz than anything, but the concept of the box-and-one is still the same. You're keying in on one guy and in this instance, it's Walker. Dinwiddie shows at half court, but the length and speed of Kurucs adds a different dynamic to the double team and forces Walker to pass just as he passes half court. Presence alone is sometimes enough to get the job done.
It takes a lot for Kenny Atkinson to switch into a zone, as noted. Deeper teams would make the Nets pay if Brooklyn gave them this much space. The Hornets showed their vulnerability —a lack of depth— when Walker is taken out of the game.
This play is a little more extreme than the first. Kurucs storms in like a tiger (his favorite animal) and shows the blitz before Walker even gets to the Brooklyn logo. This forces Jeremy Lamb and then Malik Monk to make a play.
Kemba is hardly involved.
It messed him up and eventually resulted in a loss for the Hornets in an important game. Monk had a chance to win it for Charlotte, but instead dropped the ball — literally — as Joe Harris stole it and neatly laid it up with over a second remaining.
Walker was flabbergasted after the game.
"It was crazy. The way they guarded me, I don't know if anyone else in this league is getting guarded like they guarded me. It was like a box-and-one," said Walker after the game. "I haven't seen that since I was in college. It was crazy. I guess that's what teams are going to do. I have to trust in my teammates to make plays."
The intriguing part about in-game adjustments is that you get to see the creativity from coaches and players; a peak into their mindset, if you will. Change is an answer to circumstance and in their shoes down eight with three minutes left, the coaching staff had nothing to lose.
And it was on-the-fly. There was no preparation, no premeditated plan such as a box-and-one zone, should a player go off the way Walker was. The Nets tried something new and it worked, because nothing else defensively was working.
"No we didn't [plan it]," said Dinwiddie. "We started to hedge the pick-and-roll a little bit, Kemba would stop behind the hedge, hit a couple three's and we just decided to be flexible, switch up our defense completely. It's something we didn't really talk about but it was effective for us and froze them a little bit and allowed us to get just enough stops to be able to win."
The Nets won and the Bronx native scored only three points on three shot attempts the rest of the way. He was hardly involved in the overtimes and that's exactly what Atkinson wanted to achieve. It was different, but it worked.
There are little things worth noting with a unique, yet crucial moment like this one. A month ago — maybe even a few weeks ago, Atkinson might not make the tweak. Take the loss to the Thunder for example.
It wouldn't be fair to compare Paul George and Kemba Walker or the Thunder to the Hornets, but it was still the same idea. Like Walker, George was going off in the fourth. The Nets made zero adjustments and he ended up scoring 25 points in the fourth including the game-winning shot. In some ways, it was the worst loss of the season.
The Nets probably don't get this win if they don't make this change either. Strategy changes, Dinwiddie hits a three and suddenly it's a ball game. Persistence is perhaps both Atkinson and the Nets' best trait. The best part is that Atkinson is blossoming with his young guys.
As Dudley said after the game, "Credit Coach Kenny."
Breanna Stewart joins the New York Liberty WNBA superstar Breanna Stewart has signed with the New York Liberty in free agency.
Nets begin February in Boston vs. Celtics Game preview for Wednesday night's matchup between the first place Celtics and the surging Brooklyn Nets.


Here we are then Suzuka's races will be live tonight and I can promise that they will also be on TORA TV tonight in HD, after they have aired on Motors TV.
I went to record the races and it says the 1st race is catalunya race 2 and the next programme is Suzuka race 1?
Yeah the programme info is a bit off - last week it said Sunset for the first programme, then Cata race 1 for the second programme.
Can't wait! Great promo vid!
LINK ME FOR A LIVE STREAM!!
but I wanna watch it now! Does MotorsTV have a blackout period before this?
Please remember to check your Sky boxes if you have this on series link, my box didn't pick up Race 2.
Pictures a bit huge somehow.
Some may have noticed I've got some of the names wrong.
You will not believe how much of a twerp I felt on the day we recorded this.


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Here's everything you need to know about applying for federal rental assistance
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Although the national ban on evictions that's been in effect for almost a year will expire tomorrow, there's still time for struggling renters to apply for federal aid.
Congress has allocated more than $45 billion in rental assistance to address the crisis, and only a sliver of the money has been spent so far.
If you're approved for the relief, you could get up to 18 months of rent covered. If you haven't applied yet, you should act quickly. Doing so could help you stay in your home longer.
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At least four states – Massachusetts, Nevada, New York and Oregon – are temporarily banning evictions against those with a rental assistance application pending.
Here's what you need to know about accessing the aid.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition has a state-by-state list of the 483 programs giving out the federal money. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also has a new tool to help you apply for rental relief.
To be eligible for the funding, at least one member of your household has to qualify for unemployment benefits or attest in writing that they've lost income or incurred significant expenses due to the pandemic. You'll also need to demonstrate a risk of homelessness, which may include a past-due rent or utility notice.
In addition, your income level for 2020 can't exceed 80% of your area's median income, though states have been directed to prioritize applicants who fall at 50% or lower, as well as those who've been out of work for 90 days or longer.
Some state and local programs have set additional priorities, and you may want to search for those.
For example, one fund in California is targeting the relief at Native American households. Another in Oklahoma is sending the money out first to those over the age of 62.
How much could I get?
You could receive up to 18 months of assistance, including a mix of payments for back and future rent.
If you've already been approved for rental funds but continue to be behind, you can typically apply again as long as you're requesting relief for a different period of time. The money usually goes to your landlord, unless they refuse to comply (more on that below).
I'm having problems getting assistance. Why?
To begin, you're not alone.
Housing advocates point to a number of problems with the rollout of the assistance, particularly around some arduous application processes.
Andrew Aurand, vice president for research at the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said he saw one application that was 45 pages long. Another required renters to document their income over the last six months.
"Public officials are more concerned about so-called scammers getting this money than they are about the people who truly need it," said Dan Rose, an assistant professor of sociology at Winston-Salem State University and an organizer with Housing Justice Now.
If you're unable to meet a documentation requirement for one program's application or are denied from a certain fund, look for other rental assistance resources in your area, experts say.
It may also be worth reaching out to the organization and explaining why you can't come up with a certain form. The most recent guidance from the Treasury Department encourages programs to take people at their word.
"I wouldn't be surprised if a case worker could work with the tenant," Aurand said.
Yet another issue is that some landlords are refusing to accept the money from the programs because they don't want to agree to its terms, which can include a ban on evicting that tenant or raising their rent for a window of time.
Running into that problem?
Experts recommend that you ask the program if you can receive the funds directly.
Some programs are now required to offer that option if they can't get your landlord's cooperation, Aurand said.
I'm worried about eviction. What should I do?
Beyond applying for rental assistance as soon as possible, familiarize yourself with your rights. Those will vary by state.
Most states have lifted their eviction bans by now, but some are still in place. Those policies have nothing to do with the federal moratorium.
In California, where as many as 1.6 million renters may be in arrears, most landlords can't move forward with evictions until October.
Renters in New Jersey can't be kicked out of their homes until January.
If your landlord has moved to evict you, try to get a lawyer. You can find low-cost or free legal help with an eviction in your state at Lawhelp.org.
In some places, including Washington, Maryland and Connecticut, tenants facing eviction now have a right to counsel.
Are you at risk of eviction? If you're willing to share your story for an upcoming article, please email me at annie.nova@nbcuni.com
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Rachelle Lewis, Owner & President of RLT, Inc
Rachelle Lewis has been a talent scout and top recruiter in the animation and visual effects industry for the past 19 years. Before launching her own company Rachelle Lewis Talent in 2006, she held the position of Director of Recruitment for Digital Domain, and was a Senior Recruiter at Sony Pictures Imageworks, and DreamWorks. She began her career as Director of Artistic Recruitment for Klasky Csupo, best known for the TV series Rugrats.
To compliment her expertise in sourcing and placement, Rachelle also brings a deep knowledge and understanding of all positions within the Animation and Visual Effects pipelines. Rachelle has a great eye for quality animation, VFX, and technical talent. This is an invaluable advantage when pursuing very senior and accomplished candidates. She speaks to both ends of the spectrum, from the production artist to the studio executives.
Rachelle lectures at universities and industry events throughout North America and Europe. She acts in an advisory capacity developing the animation and visual effects curricula with universities and works directly with artists in the area of career development. She resides between Los Angeles and Seattle.
Maryanna Aramian, Senior Recruiter
Maryanna began her career in broadcasting working in news, barter, and traffic.
She moved into animation, as a checker and supervisor, at various companies including 7th Level, Creative Capers, Duck Soup, and Klasky Csupo; movie highlights include "The Wild Thornberry's", "Rugrats Go to Paris", and "Rugrats Go Wild".
Next, as management, at Hyperion Pictures, she worked on projects for the WB and the Disney Channel, including "The Proud Family" episodic series and movie; this included work overseas in Korea, and India. Other projects include producing short films and the creation of several e-commerce websites.
For the last few years, Maryanna has been enjoying working with Rachelle Lewis Talent, seeking out animation and visual effects specialists, for positions at premiere studios around the world.
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Dana Vanhove, Senior Recruiter
Dana recently joins us after a hiatus from the vfx/animation industry, where she previously had a career recruiting for PDI/Dreamworks, Dreamworks Animation, Digital Domain and Zoic Studios. She was also a long-time production manager at Sony Pictures Imageworks, having worked on various vfx productions from 2004 to 2010.
She subsequently moved on to recruiting in the creative arena for Creative Circle (a creative staffing agency dealing with advertising, graphic design, social media, etc).
Her creative recruiting career began when she was an admissions counselor, recruiting students for education in the arts for The School of Visual Arts in NYC.
After recently recruiting for several years outside of creative fields, she's enthusiastic to be back among "her people" as she says, maintaining, reconnecting and building new relationships in the vfx/animation space.
Dana holds a BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.


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How to Cut IT Costs with Enterprise Social Computing
By: J.B. Holston | March 03, 2009
The struggle has gone on for a decade or more: How can we give workers all the tools they need to collaborate efficiently without breaking the bank? Knowledge Center contributor J.B. Holston shows you how, using an enterprise social computing platform in your company, you can give workers all the tools they need, while reducing IT costs, controlling enterprise assets and watching business performance soar.
/images/stories/70x50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_%282%29.jpgAs technology and the Internet mature, and as Generation Y floods the workplace, workers expect e-mail, calendaring, file sharing, social networking, knowledge management, expertise discovery, business intelligence, blogging, wikis, RSS, photos, video, chat and more. Progressive organizations typically try to provide these tools to ensure workers receive the right information and the right contacts, through the right channels at the right instant.
The trick, however, is providing these resources without spending too much in licensing fees or deluging the IT staff with implementation and administration burdens. One solution is a single, integrated social computing platform that synthesizes all these applications and functions into a "Facebook for the Enterprise" environment. With a single social computing platform, organizations can reduce their IT burden, licensing fees and operating costs-all while improving performance.
They can also better maintain control of their people and brand by keeping them on an enterprise social network versus consumer ones such as Facebook or MySpace. Here are five ways a "Facebook for the Enterprise" social computing platform does just that:
1. Less e-mail traffic
Aside from the burden of poring through e-mail, storing it typically costs $447 per GB per year. A Fortune 100 manufacturing company we work with estimates that reducing e-mail volume by merely one-half of one percent saves the company more than $600,000 annually. And, by letting employees interact in communities focused on work areas, conversation is streamlined and content is deliberately shared in context-including files that would formerly have been e-mail attachments. As a result, an organization can eradicate a lot of e-mail, transfer more knowledge and quickly pay off its enterprise social computing investment.
2. Reduced reliance on enterprise software
A comprehensive social computing platform is a natural environment for executing many of the activities that take place in far more costly customer relationship management (CRM), BI and human resources applications. On an enterprise social network, activities can involve a broader set of constituents working more organically around fresher information to solve problems faster.
3. Easy application integration
Why should a bank, for example, go into its mainframe and code a brittle alerting system to notify tellers of potential fraud when RSS and XML-the heart of better social computing platforms-can take care of it simply, cheaply and flexibly? Any information locked in high-cost legacy systems, applications and proprietary databases can be unleashed this way for easier consumption by the people who can benefit. Traditional enterprise application integration is especially costly in this era of perpetual restructuring, where it can take months and millions of dollars to code integrations to e-mail systems from merging companies.
4. Reduced printing costs
Organizations can significantly reduce costs of printing equipment, supplies and maintenance by reducing printer usage, which turns out to be a wonderful side effect of using RSS and social computing to build or update a company portal. For example, one of our customers cut its printing and toner budget by nearly two-thirds simply because employees were able to view important content from their start pages. They no longer had to drill deeply into disparate back-end systems to find and print out their reports and other documents.
5. Simplifying life for HR
Enterprise social networks simplify life for HR in a couple of ways. The first way is that they provide an environment attractive to Generation Y candidates and the way they expect to work. 77 percent of Millennials use social networking sites (which are brimming with non-work distractions and security holes), 50 percent subscribe to more than one social networking site, and a full 91 percent say newer, innovative technologies in the workplace would make them more likely to consider a potential job opportunity.
The second way enterprise social networks simplify life for HR is that they capture important institutional knowledge as their best workers retire. The enterprise social network also provides a support system and safety net during layoffs that mitigates the morale problems that ensue. Networking, on or offline, is by far the most common route to a new job. 70 percent of workers found their current position this way. With an enterprise social network, laid-off workers have a fighting chance to land on their feet, which everyone appreciates.
These are just a few of the ways an integrated social computing platform translates into hard cost savings for a company. There are even more savings in publication subscriptions, travel and software development. All this is good news because social computing is a fact of life. It's coming. All computing will be social. Better to have it happen in your enterprise environment and improve business performance than lose control of your brand and people to places such as Facebook and MySpace.
/images/stories/heads/knowledge_center/holston_jb70x70.jpg J.B. Holston is President and CEO of NewsGator. J.B. has run a wide range of technology and media enterprises over the last two decades. As President of Ziff Davis International, Holston managed Ziff Davis' operations across more than 100 countries, and launched Yahoo! Europe. He was part of the senior management team that led the successful LBO of ZD by Forstmann, Little, and subsequent sale to Softbank.
Since selling his last technology start-up, J.B. has helped create a wide range of for-profit and not-for-profit entities, including Media-x at Stanford, among several others. After receiving a BA in creative writing from Stanford in 1979, he taught English at Phillips Academy, worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Boston, studied and wrote in Paris, France, then worked in strategic planning for NBC and RCA.
J.B. received his MBA from Stanford in 1986, then worked on Jack Welch's staff at GE before moving back to NBC, where for five years he was responsible for strategic planning and NBC's international operations. He can be reached at JBH@newsgator.com.
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Q: Calculating an average from data in a variable  I am building a basic blog module that allows the user to rate the blog posts.
The ratings are submitted via an ajax extension and held in a data table as an INT value.
When I call the ratings onto the page using a variable I would like to calculate the overall average rating.
Could anyone shed some light on how I would go about doing this?
Here is my code:
var rating = from x in db.DT_Control_BlogRatings
                         where x.Blog_ID == int.Parse(codesnippets.Decrypt(Request["blg"].ToString(), true))
                         select new
                         {
                             x.RatingNo,
                             x.RatingID,
                         };

            string usercount = rating.Count().ToString();

            LB_UserRating.Text = "Currently rated " + usercount + " times";

Many thanks!

A: Have you checked out the IEnumerable Average method?
In your scenario you would use rating.Average(r => r.RatingNo).

A: // Extract the blog id before the query, because this instruction can't be translated to SQL
int blogId = int.Parse(codesnippets.Decrypt(Request["blg"].ToString(), true));

var ratings = from x in db.DT_Control_BlogRatings
              where x.Blog_ID == blogId
              select x.RatingNo;
var avg = ratings.Average();

A: I would say sum of all ratings for given post devided by their count will give you an average.
So you have how often given post was rated + how good it was rated function.

A: try
double ratingAverage = rating.Average (r => r.RatingNo);

A: I think you can do:
double avg = rating.Average(rat=>rat.RatingNo);

However given you have the count might be nicer to:
int usercount = rating.Count();
double avg = rating.Sum(rat=>rat.RatingNo) / usercount;


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"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." (Winston Churchill)
May 29, 2016 June 9, 2018 / madamebibilophile	/ 16 Comments
A friend of mine got married last weekend, and most lovely it was too. But enough about them; it gives me an excuse for indulgence of an enduring crush (who I planned to marry when I was six – with hindsight I suspect the age gap was insurmountable):
To celebrate I've picked two novels which explore the theme of marriage. Firstly, The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). Set at Brown University in the early 1980s, it tells the story of three undergraduates, Leonard, Madeleine and Mitchell, as they try and find their way through life, while realising that their academic and intellectual achievements have not prepared them in any way. As an English graduate, I particularly enjoyed Eugenides' evocation and gentle ribbing of this area of study:
"That left a large contingent of people majoring in English by default. Because they weren't left-brained enough for science, because history was too dry, philosophy too difficult, geology too petroleum-oriented, and math too mathematical- because they weren't musical, financially motivated, or really all that smart, these people were pursuing university degrees doing something no different from what they'd done in first grade: reading stories. English was what people who didn't know what to major in majored in."
Of course I disagree 🙂 Eugenides is very good a skewering the intellectual trends in academia, which at this time was semiotics, while not undermining idealistic Madeleine's belief in ideas and search for meaning. Unfortunately "Madeleine's love troubles had begun at a time when the French theory she was reading deconstructed the very notion of love." and she finds the theories don't really account for the messiness of real world relationships. In one pivotal scene, the writing of Roland Barthes is used to break her heart:
"I Love You je-t'aime/I-love-you. As she read these words, Madeleine was flooded with happiness. She glanced up at Leonard, smiling. With his finger he motioned for her to keep going. The figure refers not to the declaration of love, to the avowal, but to the repeated utterance of the love cry. Suddenly Madeleine's happiness diminished, usurped by the feeling of peril. She wished she weren't naked."
The Marriage Plot is comic but remains grounded in the three vulnerable characters trying to become the best versions of themselves. Once they leave university, the novel shifts from satirising academia to focus on the characters' relationships with one another. Eugenides uses a typical romantic plot (no-one is in love with anyone who can love them back) to create a metafictional commentary on how romance and marriage have been presented throughout the ages, particularly in novels. If this sounds truly dreadful, rest assured the novel stops short of being too smug about its own cleverness, and what emerges in the second half is a truly sensitive portrait of mental illness.
"That was when Leonard realised something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up."
Whether or not this is true, Leonard is both brilliant and extremely unwell, and the exploration of his bipolar disorder is non-sensationalist and balanced, showing the effect on Leonard and those around him; the price paid for something devastating which is no-one's fault.
"it was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart was in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected."
I didn't find The Marriage Plot quite as effective as Eugenides' debut The Virgin Suicides, and although I haven't read Middlesex, his lauded second novel (it's buried in a TBR stack somewhere…), I doubt this novel concerned the Pulitzer judges to the same extent. However, it is a novel with much to offer, and I recognised and cared about all the characters in it. The Marriage Plot plays with ideas and even destabilises itself with metafictional nods towards novels and novel writing, but never at the expense of a recognisable humanity.
"the novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance, In the days when success in life had depended marriage, and marriage had depended on money, novelists had a subject to write about. The great epics sung of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce had undone it completely. What would it matter whom Emma married if she could file for separation later?"
Pasta eating dogs melt even this non-romantic's heart
Secondly, The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (2004), which portrays the marriage between Michael and Pauline, from their courtship under the shadow of World War II through to old age. Their fledgling relationship is shown through the eyes of the small town where Michael has grown up:
"She had her read coat on, which is how they could all spot her from such a distance. They said 'Michael! Look!' and Michael turned at once in the right direction, although Pauline herself had not called out. When she came nearer they could see why. She had no breath left, poor thing. She was gasping and tousle-haired and flushed – really not her prettiest, but who in the world cared? She was holding out her arms, and Michael dropped his belongings and started running too, and when they collided he swooped her up so her feet completely left the ground, Everybody said 'Ah' in one long satisfied sigh – everyone except his mother, but even she watched with something close to sympathy."
Once the war – and its accompanying heightened experience, drama and uncertainty is over, the marriage is shown through the eyes of the couple, who realise they are entirely mismatched:
"by nature, Pauline tumbled through life helter-skelter, while Michael proceeded deliberately. By nature, Pauline felt entitled to spill anything that came into her head while Michael measured out every word. She was brimming with energy – a floor pacer, a foot jiggler, a finger drummer – while he was slow and plodding and secretly somewhat lazy. Everything to her was all or nothing…while to him the world was calibrated more incrementally and more fuzzily."
This being Anne Tyler, it is not a huge tragedy, but rather a psychologically astute portrait of two people and their family with the attendant hurt, frustration, disappointment, love and affection:
"Another time, Michael might have felt annoyed by this rouged and lipsticked version of the truth. Such concern for the looks of things even within the family! But today he was touched. It occurred to him that his wife had amazing reserves of strength, that women like Pauline were the ones who kept the planet spinning. Or at least, they made it appear to keep spinning, however it might in fact be wobbling on its axis."
If you've read any of Anne Tyler's 20 novels before, you'll know what to expect in The Amateur Marriage: set in Baltimore, concerned with ordinary people leading ordinary lives, with no huge dramas. This is not a criticism, however. She is brilliant at well-observed detail, of the meaning found in small moments, of what we learn to live with and the solace imperfect human beings can give one another.
"He believed that all of them, all those young marrieds of the war years, had started out in equal ignorance…Then two by two they fell away, having grown wise and seasoned and comfortable in their roles, until only he and Pauline remained, as inexperienced as ever – the last couple left in the amateurs' parade."
To end, a little something for another friend who was also at the wedding, and who I think will be the next bride I see. She has an agreement with her partner for a certain man to be her celebrity allowance:
"Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one" (Jules Verne)
May 23, 2016 August 12, 2020 / madamebibilophile	/ 27 Comments
Despite not thinking of myself as a remotely patriotic person, there was a 3 part programme on TV recently that was probably the most British thing ever, and I am so sorry it's ended. Paul Merton travelling around the island by train (is it me or is he turning into Ian Hislop?), only getting off at request stops and chatting to those he meets. That's it. Result: pure brilliance.
I share Mr Merton's love of trains, and so this week I thought I would look at novels where they feature heavily. This also enables me to fulfil the requirement of the Around the World in 80 Books reading challenge hosted by Hard Book Habit, to include a book about travel.
Firstly, Compartment No.6 by Rosa Liksom (2011, tr. Lola Rogers) which I was alerted to by Sarah's review at Hard Book Habit and also by bookarino, where I was sure I had read a review but now I can't find it on her blog – bookarino, if you reviewed please leave a link below!
The novel details the journey on the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Mongolia undertaken by the two inhabitants of the titular compartment. Liksom describes the landscapes they pass through simply but evocatively, and succeeds in capturing a sense of place and of travel:
"An unknown Russia frozen in ice opens up ahead, the train speeds onward, shining stars etched against a tired sky, the train plunging into nature, into oppressive darkness lit by a cloudy, starless sky. Everything is in motion: snow, water, air, trees, clouds, wind, cities, villages, people, thoughts. The train throbs across the snowy land."
The atmosphere in the compartment is intimate and oppressive:
"All of Siberia slowly brightened. The man in his blue tracksuit bottoms and white shirt did push-ups between the bunks, sleep in his eyes, his mouth dry and smelly, the mucousy smell of sleep in the compartment, no breath from the window, tea glasses quietly on the table, crumbs silent on the floor."
The man Vadim is repugnant: misogynistic, violent, anti-semitic, anti anyone who isn't him. His attitudes and behaviour are repellent. Yet as they are forced together, a comradeship builds between him and the female traveller. She is presented a step removed: we never know her name, her direct speech is given only once and then she is quoting. Yet this works brilliantly at evoking the girl's slightly numb, detached state as she runs away from her troubles and works her way back to facing them, with the help of the dreadful Vadim.
"The girl looked out of the window at an entirely new landscape…she thought of that July day when she came back from her summer vacation in Finland and Mitka was at the station to meet her. She thought about how they had gone to the boarding house, run up the nine flights of stairs hand in hand, how the hallway had been filled knee-high with the fluffy heads of dandelions, how they'd run up and down the hallway like children, the dandelion fluff drifting in and out of the windows."
Compartment No.6 is a short but haunting novel which will undoubtedly linger long in my memory.
Secondly, Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (1950), which was adapted only a year later into the famous Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, albeit with several changes.
Sadly my commuter train doesn't look like this, despite being full of people hatching murderous plots
Successful architect Guy Haines meets bored, spoilt alcoholic Charley Bruno on a long haul train journey. He is reluctant to engage in chat, but Bruno is insistent, and Guy ends up telling him that he is travelling to meet his wife to ask for a divorce. Bruno meanwhile, hates his father and wants his inheritance.
"Bruno could be violent. He could be insane, too. Despair, Guy thought, not insanity. The desperate boredom of the wealthy…it tended to destroy rather than create. And it could lead to crime as easily as privation."
It is Bruno who comes up with the idea that they swop murders, Bruno killing Guy's estranged wife for Guy killing his father. Guy doesn't agree, but Bruno goes ahead anyway. Needless to say, he is a sociopath:
"whether Guy came through with his part of the deal or not, if he was successful with Miriam he would have proved a point. A perfect murder."
"So long had he been frustrated in his hunger for a meaning of his life, and in his amorphous desire to perform an act that would give it meaning, that he had come to prefer frustration, like some habitually unrequited lovers."
Bruno ends up stalking Guy, entirely obsessed with him, and it is this, rather than the murders or closing net of the investigation that provides the thriller element of the novel. Bruno is completely unstable and there is no telling what he might do as he exerts increasing pressure on Guy. Yet Bruno is vulnerable too, childlike and confused, and never admitting that it is sexual desire which draws him to Guy.
"Guy! Guy and himself! Who else was like them? Who else was their equal? He longed for Guy to be with him now. He would clasp Guy's hand and to hell with the rest of the world! Their feats were unparalleled! Like a sweep across the sky! Like two streaks of red fire that came and disappeared so fast, everybody stood wondering if they had really seen them."
There are definite overlaps with Tom Ripley, the sociopathic protagonist of several Highsmith novels. Bruno is a much less attractive character than Ripley, but there is the desperation and loneliness of the sociopath, the thwarted gay desire, and the doubling between characters, which Guy realises, much as he is reluctant to admit it:
"And Bruno, he and Bruno. Each was what the other had not chosen to be, the cast-off self, what he thought he hated but perhaps in reality loved."
Strangers on a Train worked well for me as a thriller, but without any glorification of murder or murderers. Like The Talented Mr Ripley, what I was mainly left with was a sense of sadness at the destruction that desperate human beings can wreak on one another.
To end, a quick clip to shamelessly indulge my love of Buster Keaton:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." (Groucho Marx)
Last week I mentioned the indulgence of good friends, so this week I thought I would look at novels capturing female friendships. I'll try and redress the balance at some point by looking at male friendships, but this week, in the words of Lesley Knope, its ovaries before brovaries 😀
My future – I sincerely hope
Firstly, Animals, the second novel from Emma Jane Unsworth, described on the cover by Caitlin Moran as "Withnail with girls", which pretty much sums it up. Laura lives with her friend Tyler, a one-woman tornado:
"She didn't just change the temperature of rooms, she changed their entire chemical make-up so that anyone in the room would only be aware that the room was an extension of her and she was the thrumming nucleus."
Tyler is indulgent, defensive, funny, clever – a total nightmare with whom Laura feels an immediate bond:
"Someone who sees right to your backbone and simultaneously feels their backbone acknowledged."
But Laura is in love with Jim and is planning to get married, introducing a tension into the women's friendship. Tyler wants life to continue as it is, Laura is not so sure. It's not plot-heavy, as Tyler and Laura ricochet from one substance-fuelled experience to another, it's funny and sad and so very believable:
"And there it was, as always, swinging my way: The Night. With its deals, promises and gauntlets, by turns many things: nemesis, ally, co-conspirator, master of persuasion. It tosses its promises before you like scraps on the road, crumbs leading into the forest: pubs, parties, booze, drugs, dancing, karaoke…"
Amongst all this eventful partying, there is an elegiac quality to Animals: both the women are in their thirties and there's a sense that their life together cannot continue for much longer, and that it might not be so entertaining if it did:
"Next to the sink, two folded banknotes balanced on a rung of the towel rail, drying. I stood and looked into the bowl before I flushed, recalling the adage of a girl I'd once worked with: White piss good; amber piss bad. Orwellian in its visceral simplicity. Meanwhile the liquid I had dispatched into the toilet bowl was almost ochre."
A great film, but not a wise lifestyle choice, kids
The bawdy chaos of Animals is presented through considered, inventive storytelling; Unsworth's voice is compelling and like Laura on a night out with Tyler, I found myself carried along for the ride.
Secondly, the publishing phenomenon that is Elena's Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend (tr. Ann Goldstein, Europa editions 2012) and one more stop on my Around the World in 80 Books reading challenge, hosted by Hard Book Habit. This is the first in a quartet known as the Neapolitan novels which have sold millions worldwide, no doubt to the chagrin of authors everywhere stuck on a PR treadmill, as Ferrante remains determinedly anonymous. The novels detail the friendship between Elena and Lila from the 1950s onwards.
"She stopped to wait for me, and when I reached her she gave me her hand. This gesture changed everything between us forever."
I'm grateful to Kate's recent review which tempered my expectations somewhat. While I did like the novel, I think had I gone in with the astronomical expectations created by all the hype I would have been disappointed. As it was, I went in with moderate expectations and enjoyed being pulled into the poor Neapolitan neighbourhood Ferrante so vividly evokes. Elena summarises: "I feel no nostalgia for our childhood: it was full of violence." She's not wrong. Violence between strangers, friends and families seems to be constant. The poverty and accompanying lack of horizons takes its toll:
"At the Bar Solara, in the heat, between gambling losses and troublesome drunkenness, people often reached the point of disperazione – a word that in dialect meant having lost all hope but also being broke – and hence of fights."
Within this environment, Lila and Elena form a friendship that is full of the unspoken. Elena is mesmerised by Lila, who is tough, independent, and highly intelligent. Despite the time they spend together, the core of Lila – what she really wants, her hopes and dreams – remain mysterious to Elena.
"Would she always do the things I was supposed to do, before and better than me? She eluded me when I followed her and meanwhile stayed close on my heels in order to pass me by?"
It is this competitiveness, this desire to be like Lila, which spurs Elena on, to the point where this motivation becomes indistinguishable from her own preferences. She continues at school long after Lila leaves, her academic commitment a mixture of wanting to outstrip Lila, wanting to do well because it is what Lila wants, and wanting to do well for herself. Ferrante has an excellent understanding of how these early friendships are so vitally important, how they form us in ways we barely understand and how quickly it is impossible to say what feels intrinsic to us and what is the influence of others. She captures the ambivalence of friendships that are formed out of deep love and conflict:
"When school started again, on the one hand I suffered because I knew I wouldn't have time for Lila anymore, on the other I hoped to detach myself from the sum of the misdeeds and compliances and cowardly acts of the people we knew, whom we loved, whom we carried – she, Pasquale, Rino, I, all of us – in or blood."
While I'm not quite ready to proclaim myself a fully paid-up Ferrante acolyte, the quartet supposedly gets better as it goes along, so by book four I could well be (Marina Sofia has written a really interesting review of the quartet here).
To end, two celebrities (one of whom plays the aforementioned Lesley Knope) who claim to be BFFs and I actually believe them:
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." (Muhammad Ali)
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Every six months or so the friends I made when I was training for my profession meet up, which we did yesterday. They were remarkably good natured as the question "how are you?", when directed towards me, was met with a wail of despair and a twenty minute garbled monologue about how difficult I was finding things. Safe to say I've never really mastered the British stoic reticence thing.
My ongoing crisis aside, time spent with my lovely, indulgent friends prompted me to look this week at novels that focus on a profession. Firstly, The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (2004, Faber & Faber), which is about a tattoo artist. Undoubtedly this is a growth industry, certainly in the UK which is the most tattooed nation in Europe: one-fifth of adults have a tattoo, rising to almost one-third of those under 45. That's a lot of ink.
I recently wrote about Hall's first novel Haweswater, which I loved. I didn't feel The Electric Michelangelo, her second novel, was as accomplished as her first, but it was still strong. It follows tattooist Cy Parks from an adolescent apprenticeship with the alcoholic Eliot Riley in his hometown of Morecambe Bay to a career in carnivalesque Coney Island and back again. Growing up in early twentieth-century Morecombe, Cy's formidable mother Reeda runs a hotel for consumptives:
"They sucked it down in between their fits and held it inside their lungs like opium smokers in a den…Morecombe's air was renowned, if not nationwide then reliably in the north, for its restorative properties, its tonic qualities. That was how everyone described it…"
Cy is fairly directionless until his artistic skills catch the eye of Eliot Riley, a man who "lived as if trying to siphon out that darker portion [of life], with alcohol, with banter, with bad habits, bad politics, bad language, obloquy, anguish and despair." Riley offers Cy an apprenticeship, and for reasons he doesn't entirely understand, Cy accepts. "Tattooing was like being called by a siren song, or the music of the spheres, impossible to resist, impossible to explain."
We are drawn into the world of tattooing alongside Cy "a dreamscape type of world, where strange occurrences and dark-wrought ideas, if not normal, were almost commonplace." Hall is clearly respectful of this ancient trade and its rituals and rites: what the tattooists enact and what the customers endure.
"Riley paused for whisky. After ten more minutes the customer stood wearing art. The snake and dagger flexed on his back, weeping a little as he bent for his shirt. The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment."
After his apprenticeship ends, Cy moves across the Atlantic to Coney island, where he falls in love with circus performer Grace, who employs him to tattoo her entire body with eyes.
"the eye was in a league of its own. It had meaning upon meaning, there were currents writhing under currents where that symbol was concerned, like the sea. He had the distinct impression that Grace possessed a fast-flowing undertow also, a restlessness behind her own dark eyes."
Eye tattoo by Niki Norberg
Like the other relationships in Cy's life, his romance with Grace is characterised by the unknown and the unsaid. The man who works in images finds spoken language inadequate and lacking, unable to express pain, desire and love in the way his needle can. Sarah Hall certainly doesn't suffer from a lack of eloquence, but despite this, I came away feeling The Electric Michelangelo didn't quite add up to an entirely satisfying whole. However, she is such a hugely talented writer that this barely matters. The Electric Michelangelo is a beautifully written character study of Cy and of a profession.
Secondly, The Tango Singer by Tomas Eloy Martinez(tr. Anne McLean, Bloomsbury 2006), and one more stop on my Around the World in 80 Books Reading Challenge, hosted by Hard Book Habit. It was Sarah from Hard Book Habit who made me aware of this novel so a big thank you to Sarah 🙂
The Tango Singer is narrated by Bruno Cadogan, a student who is writing his thesis on Borges and the origins of tango. He travels to Buenos Aires to track down Julio Martel, the titular legend whose voice has never been recorded but is unforgettable to those lucky enough to catch one of his impromptu performances around the city:
"I was floating in mid-air, and when the voice fell silent, I didn't know how to detach myself from it, how to get back to earth…the Martel experience is like another dimension, almost supernatural."
Cadogan's search for Martel becomes entwined with the city and its history, ultimately indivisible: "the grass that grows over this field of music and lyrics is the wild, rugged, invincible grass of Buenos Aires, the scent of weeds and alfalfa." Buenos Aires is a city in a constant state of flux: politically, linguistically, architecturally, geographically:
"Every time I looked up I discovered baroque palaces and cupolas in the shape of parasols and melons, with purely ornamental turrets. I was surprised that Buenos Aires was so majestic from the second or third storey upwards and so dilapidated at street level, as if the splendour of the past had remained suspended in the heights and refused to descend or disappear."
"the language of Buenos Aires shifted so quickly that the words appeared first and then reality arrived, and the words carried on when reality had already left."
This layering is a theme throughout the novel. Martinez is interested in how reality is formed of the past as well as the present, the unknown as well as the known. It is a beautifully evocative portrait of a city and explores big themes around politics, memory, loss, time and truth in an extraordinarily short novel (243 pages in my edition) which cannot be read quickly. It is also a highly literary novel, peppered with allusions and quotes. Bruno becomes convinced the city houses Borge's aleph, all of the universe held at a single point. If the aleph is anywhere, probably it is Buenos Aires, which in this novel is a place where reality constantly reforms itself.
The Tango Singer is a sad novel, but not depressing; it is elegiac, and yet suggests that nothing is ever truly lost:
"I would have liked to explain that it wasn't her who attracted me but the lights that Martel had left on her face that I could half make out, the reverberations of the dying voice that were inscribed on her body."
To end – what else? – an Argentine tango being performed on the street in Buenos Aires:


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Breath Tests Found Unreliable & Thrown Out in Washington State Court
Once again the courts have gotten fed up with such sloppy and dishonest police practices that they have thrown out the whole procedure until it is fixed. This time it's in Seattle Washington. King County District Judges Steiner, Phillipson and Chow said there were so many ethical lapses at the state toxicology lab that the breath test result should not be admitted at trial.
The judges said the lab's work on breath tests over the past several years had so many problems that they were completely unreliable. Therefore, these tests will not be allowed into evidence in this court.
Prosecutors can still pursue their cases with other evidence, such observations of bad driving or field sobriety tests, but not the breath tests. This will affect not only future prosecutions but could allow defendants already convicted to appeal their convictions if based on these breath tests.
Although this ruling affects only the members of the panel of judges who made the ruling, it could influence the other eighteen district judges in the King County, the largest county in the state of Washington, and it could cause judges in other counties to follow suit.
King County prosecutes approximately 5,000 drunk driving cases every year. Previously, Snohomish County, Washington, judges threw out breath test results for about forty cases for the same reason of unreliability of the state lab work.
This ruling was the result of a hearing that lasted for seven days and produced evidence of false certification of solutions used to verify breath tests, improper rejection of data, mistaken switched data, and reliance on software that miscalculated data.
Many defense attorneys from the state joined to pay the $25,000 costs to pay for the expert witnesses, transcripts and other expenses it took to challenge the work of the state toxicology laboratory. One of these lawyers commented that they it was a matter of the integrity of the justice system.
The King County judges told prosecutors they could later try to admit evidence of breath tests after they demonstrated the lab's practices had been remedied. This will no doubt help put the burden of proof back on police and prosecutors rather than requiring innocent people to prove that false evidence is being used against them.
After all, our country was founded on the principal that the accused is presumed innocent, until proven guilty, not the other way around.
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Are Longer Sentences Effective at Deterring Crime?
Congress and many state legislatures have, for the past 20 years, shown little restraint in heading toward higher and higher sentences. Getting tough on crime is always popular, and raising sentences is perhaps a legislature's only way to do its part. There is no such thing as being too tough on crime.
Actually fighting crime is up to the law enforcement agencies, the prosecutors, the judges, and the prisons. But legislatures want to be seen as making their contribution, so they keep raising the maximum penalties and issuing mandatory minimum sentences.
But it hasn't worked, of course. It pleases the public to hear what the Congress and the state legislatures are doing: No more Mr. Nice Guy on Crime. But it has not deterred crime. And, by the way, the public is tired of paying for all this extra, extra, extra.
A New York Times editorial in October, 2007, in assessing mandatory minimum sentencing, said laws passed in New York during the 1970's "drove up the prison population tenfold and cost the state a fortune, did nothing to curb the drug trade, tied the hands of judges and destroyed countless young lives by requiring long prison terms in cases where lenience and drug treatment were clearly warranted."
Michigan has recently gone the other way. Michigan has repealed almost all of the state's mandatory minimum drug statutes long cited among the toughest in the country, replacing them with drug sentencing guidelines that give discretion back to the Michigan judges.
A 2006 National Center for State Courts survey found 29 states reporting no effort to counter mandatory minium sentence provisions, and six other states were creating new mandatory minimum penalties.
Oklahoma, however, may be learning from its mistakes. The Oklahoma Community Sentencing Act now gives courtroom judges the flexibility to sentence drug offenders to treatment programs instead of mandatory prison time. And an editorial in the Daily Oklahoman on February 3, 2008 suggested the Oklahoma state legislature shape its policies for tomorrow with the following:
"Lawmakers are part of the problem in maintaining a system that pursues justice by locking up too many people for too many crimes for too long. They can be part of the solution with sentencing reform and by admitting that we can't afford the status quo. Also needed are changes in the parole system."
It's time to realize simply lengthening all sentences has not worked, and other avenues for rehabilitation should be examined.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. Shunryu Suzuki
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. Khalil Gibran
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. John Leonard
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Plautus
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. Robert Hall
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends – you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Miller
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Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. Denis Waitley
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My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life. Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change – I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero. Philip Zimbardo
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.Jon Bon Jovi
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan. John C. Maxwell
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.Keri Russell
All things must change to something new, to something strange. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.William Feather
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.Joan Chen
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.Fulton J. Sheen
When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.George Lopez
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.Anthony Hopkins
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.George Bernard Shaw
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.Bob Hope
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.Niccolo Machiavelli
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.Dylan Moran
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.Barbara de Angelis
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.Alan Keyes
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.George Bernard Shaw
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.Robert Anthony
The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.Frans de Waal
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.Chuck Palahniuk
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Maurice Chevalier
If music be the food of love, play on.William Shakespeare
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.Victor Hugo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.Michelangelo
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.Wayne Dyer
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.Baltasar Gracian
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.Elizabeth Kenny
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.George Bernard Shaw
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It might not have snowed, but we still had FUN!
And Terri Poe, CNO expresses her sincere thanks for all the Nursing Services employees who were prepared to brave the weather and be here to care for our patients in the event that we did experience another "Snowmeggadon". UAB nurses are the best!


There must be giants! At least we think so….in this episode about Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" and Wishbone's "The Impawssible Dream" – with guest Kaitlyn Gallagher!
Kaitlyn is a native of New Jersey currently working in public relations for the non-profit sector. In her free time, Kaitlyn enjoys writing and performing sketch comedy, reading as many books as her busy schedule allows, watching Twitter feuds unfold, and sitting motionless on her couch re-watching the same episodes of 30 Rock on Netflix over and over.