This time the concerns about TVs are not because of the content, or excessive viewing time. No. It's because TV sets can physically fall on small kids and injure them.
On the face of it the claim does make some sense. TVs, especially ones from home-cinema sets, are big and heavy. But they're not so big that a child climbing on them won't have an effect. So if a kid climbs on the TV set the TV can fall, and it will likely fall on the child. That, in turn, can certainly cause an injury.
But this ignores what I think is a pretty big problem. The child, and a very young and small child at that, has to climb on the TV set first.
In order to do that the child will have to be able to reach the TV. From a position they can start climbing from. Assuming the average toddler can't pull him/herself up without at least a little help from the leg muscles, that means the TV set will have to be placed very low.
And TV sets aren't placed very low. People usually watch TV sitting. Sitting in chairs or sofas, not on a mat. And not just lying on the floor. So having a TV located at a height and location where a 3 years old kid can climb on it… sounds highly unlikely.
And somewhat negligent from the parents' side, who otherwise probably went around baby-proofing nearly everything else in the house. True, a TV isn't exactly the knife drawer, but parents should notice any piece of furniture with a top low enough that the kid could climb on.
Beyond that, these two articles include some more puzzling and suspect statements (emphases in quoted text are mine).
An estimated 2,300 children each year are injured by falling TVs and are sent to the emergency room because of their injuries, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
U.S. emergency room doctors treated 2,600 children younger than 5 who were injured by falling televisions in 2005, said Arlene Flecha, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The numbers, allegedly coming from the same source, don't match up. Those are 300 kids who are either invented, or unaccounted for, straight up. With this level of accuracy here, how reliable is the rest of the info supposed to be?
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center studied data on ER visits for 26 children – aged 1 to 7 years old – admitted to the ER after being hit by a falling television between November 2003 and October 2004. One-third of the children sustained injuries serious enough to be admitted to the hospital and stayed for between one to four days.
Wow. Those researches studied a huge data pool of hundreds and hundreds of cases, and… No, wait, scrap that. 26 cases? That's supposed to be research??
UT Southwestern Medical Center physicians conduct more than 2.1 million outpatient visits and treat thousands in our affiliated hospitals.
So out of more than 2.1 million patient's records, they had a whooping 26 cases of kids injured by a falling TV? Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to hear they had a similar number of patients who were struck by lightning.
Though of course there are two different, and mutually exclusive, problems with this tiny amount. Either these are not all the kids hit by falling TVs that they had, in which case whatever analysis they do on this group probably tells us nothing, or these are all the kids they had who were hit by falling TVs, in which case there are too few of these altogether in order for the analysis to tell us anything.
Although nearly two-thirds of the TVs in the study were in the 20-inch to 30-inch range, the researchers said they could not determine whether size had anything to do with the hazard.
Of course they couldn't determine anything. Which didn't prevent them from releasing all sorts of statistics. Lots and lots of factoids, all meaningless. Remember, with this sample size every kid is almost 5% of the cases. It's not realistic to infer any sort of connection from that.
Eighty-five percent of the TVs fell from a height of between two and five feet above the floor.
The range between two and five feet is huge. They may as well just say that the falling TVs… fell.
It's also disconcerting. 0.6 meters is very low for a TV. And 1.5 meter is taller than the average 7 years old kid, so how did the kid climb on the TV exactly? If a kid climbs up to a 1.5 meters high table, the kid can fall and get injured regardless of whether there's a TV there or not.
It also makes me curious about the other 15% (almost 4 whole kids) who were injured by TVs allegedly located either even lower than 0.6 meters above the floor, or higher than 1.5 meters above the floor. That's very high, so it would be even harder for the kids to reach. And quite uncomfortable to watch, requiring cranking the neck up towards the screen, from most chairs.
"More aggressive education to warn parents about the risk of injury must be implemented so that more families will take the time to display their televisions safely," researcher Dr. Robert Todd Maxson, an assistant professor of pediatric surgery at UT southwestern and medical director of the pediatric trauma service at Children's Medical Center Dallas, said in a prepared statement.
Yes, because there aren't plenty of other things for parents to worry about. Things that actually have a statistically insignificant chance of affecting their kid.
The Dallas researchers propose that warning labels be put on TVs to make more parents aware of the hazard.
Because nothing looks better, or more relevant, on a TV set than a big label stating "WARNING: Climbing on this television can be hazardous to your health". Sure. I'm convinced.
There is a new planned feature for TiVo devices that will allow a viewer to notify the TV advertiser of the commercial being viewed that they are interested in more info about the advertised product.
Under the new system, consumers can select an option to tell TiVo to release their contact information to an advertiser. For example, after watching an ad for an automobile or family vacation, users can use the remote control to request that a brochure be sent to their home.
Most people using the new feature are interested in the products, so any sort of brochure that will be sent will have a good chance of generating a sale.
Normally a viewer interested in an ad will need to invest some effort. Such as memorizing a phone number, and calling it. Probably some sales are currently lost because people often don't bother, or decide to wait until later and then don't follow through. But pressing a button on the remote is easy.
Sales pitch are often most effective when they're fresh. The ability to decide to ask for more info while watching the ad, means that many people may decide to do it. Including people who wouldn't have asked for more info even a few minutes later, not to mention much later when a different opportunity rises.
Many people will consider the procedure a simple button press, rather than an interaction involving providing a business with personal details. This is information which is valuable to business, and anyone asking for more info will provide the entire set of details which are guaranteed to be correct and to belong to an actual person.
The details sent to the advertiser will probably be a fixed set, including at the bare minimum anything needed to mail a valid information packet, and possibly more. In most other cases of responding to ads people can give a lot less info. When making a phone call it is possible to get details during the conversation, without giving up anything. On a web ad, it is possible to go to a page listing the details, without needing to provide any personal information, or at most having to provide an email address. And email addresses can be disposable. Real names and home addresses aren't.
It's easy. So if someone is interested, they may indeed press the button instead of finding out other ways. This isn't a problem per-se, it's actually an advantage, but it does make the other problems worse. it can be so easy that people won't bother thinking about the costs.
Ads are going to change to attract more and more attention. Just as with web ads, this is a method to get an equivalent of an accurate click-through rate. As the direct number of requests for brochures is easy to measure, unlike actual effectiveness in promoting sales, this will become a major decision in designing and choosing ads. And just like enough people are clueless enough to click on the more annoying flashing and pop-up web ads to keep them a viable concept, so it will happen with the TV ads.
In large part the details will depend on the actual implementation, both by TiVo, and by all the rest of the PVR devices which will probably rush to copy the concept.
They should set standards that will allow to transfer the minimal amount of personal information actually required. But the minimum is still a lot, and has to be. It is very unlikely that PVR companies will branch to provide the brochure mailing services themselves, and it's not a good idea even if it was.
As for the effect not the actual ad content and design, I doubt there is much that can be done. It is not the job of TiVo, or any of its competitors, to decide which ads are appropriate for the service and which aren't. They may do so at first, but it will be due to the technical reason of it being a new service and the need to individually handle each supported ad. But as a long-term solution, ad censoring isn't something they'll want to do, not something they should do.
There is another issue here, though I cannot predict what the effects will be. Currently ad pricing, and positioning, depend on things like the awfully crude viewer ratings, and on general estimates about the viewer demographics of each show. But if this thing catches on, there immediate follow-up on ads has a big chance of becoming the (or a large part of) new method of determining ad pricing and placing. The rates of people asking for more info on the ad will probably be perceived as directly related to the ads effectiveness. And if the same ad works differently on different shows, it may be considered to be related to the popularity of the show. There are plenty of possible ramifications, both on ads, and on network choices about the shows they broadcast.
It's a good concept overall, but given the world we live in I'm pretty sure it's going to be a mess.
You all know the concept behind TV pilots, right? If a show idea isn't scrapped to begin with, the crew shoots a single episode, to see how it looks like. It then goes to whoever needs to decide whether to finance and broadcast the show, so they could look it over. Then they have the difficult task of trying to guess if viewers are going to like the show, or not. And as can be easily seen by, well, simply opening up the TV, sometimes they guess right, and sometimes they guess horribly wrong. Though this is not a very good measurement, since we can't see the shows that were never aired. So lots of false positives, which they discover, but only after they already invested lots of money in the show.
And that doesn't solve the problem of false negatives. The decision makers may scrap a show even if that show, had it been aired, would have gotten a big enough audience to justify production.
But since there is no way to know whether viewers like the show before it's being broadcasted on TV, that's a moot point. Can't be done. Right? Well… wrong.
The number of people who downloaded it isn't huge, but it's quite large. Certainly matching the number of people downloading plenty of very popular show which are airing. The way WB sees it, this is a violation of their copyright. The way I see it, they just stumbled on one of the best ways ever to evaluate a pilot, and should embrace the opportunity.
Now they can (though that's not likely) come to their senses, change their minds, and air it. They already know that they will have viewers, and that there are plenty of people who like the show. And this huge public exposure test didn't cost them a dime, people volunteered. This would mean that the pilot distribution will cause whatever damages the downloading of other TV series may do (a lot less, if at all, than what the TV networks claim, but that's a different topic), but that is surely offsetted by the fact that they wouldn't have made anything at all without it.
I do hope that someone will realize the point, someplace. And that new pilots will be placed by the networks themselves for public evaluation. It doesn't cost them, and gives them better approximation of viewers than the guesses of the relevant people working for them.
True, that's not perfect. The viewer pool in that way is biased towards people who have some computer knowledge. But that changes very rapidly, and many people who are completely computer illiterate already know how to download files if they want to. Plus, even if the bias was strong, it would only mean that a small viewership isn't indicative, but a large one would still mean plenty of potential viewers.
As a final note, had I actually done something like downloading that pilot and watching it, which I of course would never imagine doing, I'd have probably said that it was pretty good. Very idiotic, but then again it is derived from a comic series. The story of the pilot, and the premises they lay for the series, are, allegedly, full of holes and make little sense. But it still would have been lots of fun to watch, and would have provided good entertainment. They also left plenty of open threads on the larger plot elements, so it could improve. Probably not enough for me to shell money on getting the DVD, but enough to warrant the time of watching it on TV.
TV-Tome was pretty much the site for information on American/British TV series. Actor information, episode information, broadcast times, and so on.
Unfortunately it seems that they didn't do such a good job on the financial front, and the site kept showing more and more ads, to no avail. Around last week it went away, and now redirects to TV.com (What is it with site operating companies feeling the need to have the ".com" as a part of their names? I thought everyone already realized this was a bad idea, no?), which seems to have all the TV-Tome content.
TV.com is a part of the ever growing CNet conglomerate. I never visited TV.com before, so I don't know what they did with it before TV Tome died. Right now it seems to be aligned along very similar lines. The most obvious difference is the high amount of screen area taken for community activities, like comments, forums, and ratings.
Saving the content and functionality that TV Tome provided is good, and CNet is in no danger of going broke in the near future. That said, they felt the need for a redesign, which is perfectly understandable, and some of the things they did were not so good.
The new design itself is probably supposed to feel slick and modern. Which it does, but that's very different from the more warm and friendly design that TV-Tome had, and the drastic change is a bit alienating. Just my own initial impression here, and YMMV.
Makes you want to cry when this is in a big site, from a big company that specializes in computer related stuff, isn't it?
Anyway, I'm not really concerned about the colour scheme, that's just eye candy, and as long as they don't do something horrible like put tons of huge pictures, or turn the site into Flash, I'm good with it. Having the information easily accessible is more important.
And they missed a few on that front as well. Two problems are with the episode list feature. Formerly this was a single page containing the order and titles of all the episodes in all the seasons of a series. An excellent thing if you were looking for an episode by name, or wanted to quickly locate several episodes in the series' timeline. Now the list is broken by seasons. Each season is in a seperate page. And that drastically reduces the functionality of episode list. Unless this was a way to ensure people will go to epguides.com instead, I have no idea why they did that.
Another bad design idea was on the episode guide page. This is a page that lists information (guest actors and their characters, plus a plot summery) on all episodes in a season. Seperating these into individual seasons does make sense, it's plenty of information, and is also the way it was before. But now there is a maximum amount of episodes which are shown in a single page. So now a full American season may be split over two pages. This is again highly annoying, and makes it much less simpler to do things like search for a guest actor across a season (yes, following to a second page is not just a minor annoyance, because it effectively doubles the time it takes, and requires searching inside a page twice). Plus, the page links on the top, for a series with 1-2 seasons, look similar enough to how you'd expect a season link to look, and I personally saw someone going to the second page of the first season, thinking it was the second season. Not fun, and very easy to mistakenly do in the current design.
Another problem is with the main show page. The new one is built to show all sorts of information at a glance, but it comes at the expense of not showing a complete anything. The previous design had at least included the full show summary. Now seeing a summary for an unfamiliar show requires one extra click. I know that this is a trade-off, people who already know the show do want the page as an index, and do not need the summary. Yet practically every single viewer who is not yet familiar with the show will want to see the summary, to know what the show is about. And this way requires more work, or gets people to decide based on less information.
The uniformity of the design of the main show page is also a problem . The first few sections are textual ones, and look exactly the same, but the kind of sections change from series to series. The uniformity is alright if you can get used to it, knowing that summary will always be followed, for example, by previous episode (their name for recently aired episode, I think). But it's like that on some shows, while other shows have first episode followed by last episode, and yet other shows something else. This forces you to read the headers in order to know what's there. Not terrible, but poor design. The visual cues should be clearer than that.
That said, I do like that the main page directly link to actor pages, and to recent news article relating to the show. I'm not sure how the headlines are selected, though, since I did see plenty of relevant news articles out there which were not on the list. I also don't like that they open the articles in a frame inside the TV.com site, and not providing actual links.
The search results page is clearer, and the new version provides a short exerpts from show summaries, which can help when confronted with a list of several similarly named shows. On the other hand, an upper limit of 10 results per page is very limiting. And now the results for shows and persons are intermingled, which makes no sense, since usually a searcher only wants one of those. Luckily it's easy to filter for only one kind, but for most seaches it does mean a little extra work, which a simple grouping of the results would have spared. The results also seem tweaked to show the more popular/likely hits on top, which is good, and very useful for common searches. Yet for cases with many results, the ability to choose alphabetical sorting would help tremendously.
TV-Tome, and now TV.com, also allow users to add and edit content. This makes a lot of sense, since there are plenty of people who care about series that they watch. But the new design puts "edit" button everywhere, which are only relevant for registered, and logged in, users. Pressing the button takes you to a registration page, which do not contain a special area for logging in as an existing user. This is alright, since a login form is placed near the top of every page, but if I were a registered user this would have annoyed me. As someone who isn't a registered user, I think it would be a lot better to simply not show the edit buttons to anyone who isn't logged in. That's not critical, though, since currently the buttons blend well with the background colour, and are not very conspicous. Hiding them would also prevent the pages from being simple static pages, so will probably incur a lot of work for the web team.
Another advantage of the old design was that the TV-Tome URIs often had a simple structure, consisting of the show name, and page name. It was sometime easier to navigate by entering the address directly, or changing the one of the existing page, instead of searching and clicking links. The new design contain things like numerical IDs in the URIs, which removes this possibility.
As an interesting note, the redirects from old TV Tome pages sometimes work well enough to deliver the matching page on TV.com, and sometimes just go to the home page. This applies to pages of the exact same kind and same structure, so I don't know what's the rule.
As a second interesting note, and a bit of sheer speculation, a new TV.com Mycroft search plugin for FireFox became available recently, just at the switch was taking place. Since getting something to show up on Mycroft can take a long long time, this was either a very lucky coincidence, someone planning ahead, or someone maybe using money or connections. For the speculation part, the search plugin is made by a web design company, Matt Austin, which does not strike me as a regular FireFox enthusiast user. Are they related to CNet, and maybe did the design for them?
This is fun, seeing how consistent press releases from the TV world are.
Not too many different ways to read this. She likes the show, and really wants the show to go on, and to keep playing Joan. Right?
BTW, I do think she's an excellent actor, and does a wonderful job there. And she's not the only one of that show's cast who does. Not the kind of series I normally see, but it's very well made, and well acted, so I do.
occasionally. And it will switch to healthier kinds of cookies.
On a side note, 36 seasons, that's impressive.
Our cable company recently updated the menus used by it's "digital"
the analog cable stations by themselves anyway, so no problem.
name), timetables, and so on.
I don't mind the extra features, some of them are even useful. But channel switching is slow.
as annoying as hell, it's just so slow. But that's it.
design and functionality of all the menus in the digital tuner devices.
guess it doesn't work like that around here.
old menus. Which work fine.
European and other countries. But there are a few local channels.
the days of the week between them.
get more, or less, viewers simply by getting "better" and "worse" days.
switch days. This is supposed to be fair.
And for the broadcasters, I suppose it relatively is. For viewers, it can sometime be very annoying.
many commercials. Way too many. So I tend to ignore them altogether.
[Note to broadcasters: Less commercials will improve the effectiveness of those that you do show! Seriously!].
front of the TV much more than I am) changed days.
Why is that a problem? Well… There was a show I wanted to watch which is later Thursday night (Alias, but that's beside the point). Surprise, surprise, it's there no more. It moved to Tuesday. Starting from this Tuesday. Yep, the one that just passed… And no, no reruns.
insane than in the US about it. But what if I was less Internet savvy?
viewers to download episodes from the Internet in a legal grey area?
The lead character (or the second lead, depends on who you ask) in the series JAG, Sarah MacKenzie (played by the excellent actress Catherine Bell), is fluent in many languages, including supposedly Hebrew.
information from a contact in Israel. But the information is in Hebrew.
They showed the computer screen, and the email. And it wasn't even close to the alleged content.
Second, it wasn't a personal dossier, it was a news bulletin, copied from the website of the Israeli government.
I do have to hand it to her, Catherine Bell is a very good actress.
screen, she probably didn't find it harder than any other acting chore.
the US and worldwide. They know some of them can actually read Hebrew.
not of getting relevant text.
government's website, and picked the first news link there?
totally unrelated, it's safer to make a random jumble of letters.
Israel, and have it done for the price of a name in the credits.
Hey, DPB : I'd do it myself if you need any Hebrew text for future episodes. No problems. Seriously.
If you don't like me, I can find other people here who will.


By road to Lachung is 102 km from the state capital Gangtok. The journey takes about 4.5 hours. Most visitors stay overnight at Lachung enroute to the beautiful Yumthang Valley. It is a scenic route with charming villages and waterfalls along the way. Visitors climb from Gangtok at 5,118 feet to Lachung at 8,610 feet. We travelled in a Tata Sumo driven by a Nepali driver.
Right by the roadside on the Gangtok – Lachung route is Seven Sisters Waterfalls. It is supposed to have got its name because the fall has seven steps on the way down. I could not make out the seven steps from down below. There is a footbridge across the stream for visitors to get a closer view. A large picture of Budhha overlooks the falls.
Cars pass along an old narrow bridge opposite the waterfalls. It is festooned with multi-coloured flags. The waterfall itself is beautiful and very chill. The flow of water reduces during the summer months.
We found this stall near Seven Sisters Waterfalls. Hungry travellers could buy momos, samosas and noodles. Biscuits, tea, colas and bottled water were also on offer. Most such shops down their shutters by evening.
Border Roads Organisation (BRO) built this modern bridge. The local MP inaugurated it in December 2016. BRO is engaged in many road building activities in the border area.
We stopped at Lungma Dara View Point for a sweeping view up, down and across the Himalayan mountains. We were really up among the clouds there.
A long descent began as the road swung north out over the very deep valley of the Teesta River. It flows through the length of Sikkim and is regarded as the lifeline of the state.
Ae a height of 275 metres is Bhewma Falls. In the local dialect it means Red Snake. Over the years, tourists have started referring to it also as Lachung Falls. It comes down in three steps.
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These are some of the search strings that led users to my website this month. Some of them make sense. Others…well, you can see for yourself.
I can't remember which one of my well-read LJ friends linked to this conversation between Paul O. Zelinsky and Brian Selznick, but it's a fascinating peek into their processes and perspectives on illustrating texts and creating stories with a few specifics about their books thrown in. As I read it, I kept thinking, "How should what they are saying affect the way I write picture book manuscripts?" There were some perspective shifts for me in their conversation that I think could be helpful to my picture book process.
One of these two fabulous illustrators once turned down a gig to illustrate one of my texts. (Not that the other accepted. No, in fact, I'm 99.9% sure the other one wasn't offered the text. And in fact the illustrator who ended up accepting is amazing and wonderful and absolutely perfect for the job.) I won't say which one and I won't say which text, but as I read their words I couldn't help but be awed by the fact that one of these two men actually *read* something that I wrote. (Yes, I know I am far too easily pleased.) Anyway, their honesty about feeling unsure or tentative or downright fearful somewhere along the process of making a book was not only endearing, but made me feel empathetic twangs of insecurity flowing between myself and these two men I don't even know but whose work I deeply admire.
Paul O. Zelinsky: Then once I'm into the process, I begin to worry and curse. It looked like a guaranteed smooth sail from sketch to finish but it isn't; I thought I knew how it should look and work but I don't; I thought I could do it but I can't.
Brian Selznick: When I'm working on a book, I always have this sense that I need some kind of "permission" to draw the pictures. It's not any actual kind of permission, in the literal sense, but it's my own need to own the content of the book.
There is plenty more to chew on in their conversation. I'm glad I didn't miss it.
We're just getting to CHINA, but boy has it been fun! We can't wait for Japan, d_michiko_f !
Fairy Tales can come true . . .
Once upon a time there was a story, and I was in love with it. It came to me in one fell swoop and got a lot of positive feedback. I revised it and received a scholarship with the Highlights Foundation Chautauqua conference using it as my manuscript sample. At Chautauqua, Patricia McKissack read it aloud to me and I cried to hear someone put a voice to words I had written.
I subbed it once or twice and received a couple of personal rejections. And then a year after Chautauqua, it was one of the picture book manuscripts that landed me an agent — a smart, savvy agent who soon sold three of my picture books.
But not this one. We got personal responses on it, along with "please send us more of this author's work" to the few places we'd sent it, and also two revision requests that both pointed to the same problem. You may remember my lamentations as I began to revise it. And then slowly, I gained my footing, and began to love the new version. We submitted the revision to one of the editors who had asked for it.
She asked for more detail.
I added a bit more context and sent it to her again.
And then yesterday, out of the blue (as if I'd forgotten about it), an offer.
Big Happy Sigh. This one feels like the long-coming culmination of a lot of hard work and believing and dreaming.
Today is my husband's 40th birthday. As far as birthdays go, today will be pretty laid back. We're having a huge party Friday night, so there's not much planned for today. Also, he's not particularly freaking out about the fact that he's 40. He's proud of the things he's given his life to up to this point and has few regrets for the way he's lived these 40 years. On the contrary, he's expectant for the next 40.
I met my husband when I was 8 years old, really a lifetime ago. We were friends and nothing more for years, but we have tons of shared life experiences. We have lived a lifetime together, and with that shared life comes a lot of perspective and grace. I am not the same person he married, much less the same person I was when he met me at eight years old. Nor is he the same. He's given me room to grow and change, sometimes hesitantly and sometimes prodding me. And we've learned the hard way that the way we feel about each other in one particular moment is not the way it always will be, for better or for worse.
Forty years sounds like such a milestone, almost like an arrival. I kept trying to think of something significant enough to celebrate forty years of my husband's life. But for the most part, everything he wants, we have. Anything else would just be a token. In the end, I remembered that forty isn't an arrival at all, but only one point along the journey. Who we are in one particular moment is not who we always will be, for better or for worse, and so I decided to write my husband a poem to try to put my gift into words. Happy Birthday, Demps.
together, would live love together.
the effort it takes to love in this lifetime.
and causes rain in Africa next week.
I did not know love now.


On August 25th, a construction crew working on a new Public Safety Facility for police and fire services in Thornton, in the metropolitan area of Denver, Colorado, stumbled across the remains of one of the top 5 favorite dinosaurs of every child who just got his first dinosaur book: a Triceratops. Dan Wagner, a construction inspector with Terracon Consultants, made the first discovery. It was just a small piece of brownish bone but he wisely investigated further. He swept the area and found more of the bone embedded in the soil. When he had uncovered enough to see that this one bone was about four inches wide, he realized it had to be a dinosaur fossil.
A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) excavated the fossil at the construction site. The excavation quickly yielded results. By August 29th, they'd unearthed a horn and a shoulder blade. The next day a second horn made its appearance, as did a piece of the frill, the lower jaw beak, a few ribs and vertebrae. As of September 1st, the bone count was up to 12.
The first bone to be fully excavated and removed from the site was a rib bone that weighs 40 pounds. Extrapolating from the size of the bones, Sertich estimates the Thornton Triceratops was rather petite, approximately the size of a rhino. Triceratops fossils discovered in Montana and North and South Dakota were notably larger than the Denver fellow, about the size of a medium elephant.
Because of its location on the K-Pg (Cretaceous–Paleogene) boundary — a thin geological stratum that marks the end of the Cretaceous Period and the beginning of the Paleogene Period — Denver sits atop a wealth of paleontological remains. There was a mass extinction event during this transition, one that took out all of the dinosaurs (except for the birdlike ones), so digging underneath the boundary in Denver can reveal a variety of fossils from the late Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago. Because Denver is so extensively built over, it's not often that paleontologists have the opportunity to excavate below the boundary layer, and when they do, most of what they find are plant fossils; large animals like dinosaurs are rare finds in the Denver area. Dr. Sertich believes this Triceratops is one of the most important finds of the decade in Colorado.
This wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for the conscientiousness and immediate response of the construction crew.
The excavation is ongoing even as construction continues at the secure site. When a bone is fully excavated, the team covers it in a plaster jacket so that it will be protected during transportation to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Once safely in the care of the museum's the paleontology lab, the plaster is cracked open like a cast and study and conservation of the bone begins. The conservation lab is behind glass in the museum's Prehistoric Journey exhibition, so visitors will be able to view the Triceratops fossils at various stages in the process.
Teachers, the museum will be hosting a two-way interactive webinar for classrooms grades 4-12 on Tuesday, 9:30 AM Mountain time. Registration and your basic desktop computer setup with internet access are required. Register here for a unique opportunity to hear about this exciting find from Joe Sertich himself, ask him questions and generally spend the early hour of the school day doing something awesome. The rest of us will have to make do with a Facebook Live update about the Thornton Triceratops on the DMNS page Tuesday at 9:30 AM.
This video has no commentary or background music or anything extraneous whatsoever. Only close views of the excavation accompanied by ambient sounds, not even explanatory interjections from the experts. This is so exceedingly rare I must take a moment to thanks the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for trusting in the raw material being fascinating to anyone who would watch videos like this in the first place. Keep your eyes peeled for a magical moment of whimsy starting at the 2:04 mark.
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My 5yo just watched the video with me, rapt attention the whole time.


In 1866, in the territory of Arizona, a treatie bewteen the Mescalero Apache's and the United States Government extisted, and as with most treaties with the Government, this treatie was broken. The question as to which side broke the treatie is still in question today. On May 16, a troop of Cavalry men under the leadership of a young Lieutenant, attacked and massacred a sleeping camp of Mescalero men, women and children. The Leader of that Apache band, along with his woman, were the only survivors. Ironically, he and his people believed in and were respecting the treatie. His name, Yellow Shirt. Once a peaceful man who had opposed killing, now became a feared and hated murderer. This is the story of his revenge.


Born on March 21, 1928 .
This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, William Cosper 83 years old , born on March 21, 1928 and passed away on June 12, 2011. We will remember him forever.
Happy Birthday Daddy! We miss you!
We will always remember our long-time friend Will as one of our dearest friends for his warmth, cheerfulness, wit, caring way, commitment to family, and perserverence in the face of physical hardship in his later years. Sally and I will greatly miss him!


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Michael Kofman serves as Director of the Russia Studies Program at the CNA Corporation and a Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on the Russia and the former Soviet Union, specializing in the Russian armed forces, Russian military thought, and strategy. Previously he served at National Defense University as a Program Manager, and subject matter expert, advising senior military and government officials on issues in Russia and Eurasia. Mr. Kofman's other affiliations include being a Senior Editor at War on the Rocks, where he regularly authors articles on strategy, the Russian military, Russian decision making and related foreign policy issues.
Mr. Kofman has published numerous articles on the Russian armed forces, security issues in Russia/Eurasia, along with analyses for the U.S. government. He holds a M.A. in International Security from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science from Northeastern University.
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There are so many gadgets and items we have at our possession that run on batteries. The batteries need charging from time to time. Take for example, your car's battery needs charging for proper functioning. Instead of going to a charging station and depositing your battery for a few hours or even a day, you can buy a battery charger at home and charge batteries every time you notice a low-level charge remaining. It is true for all types of batteries, and the following is the list of the top 15 best battery chargers in 2019.
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Q: Why does an immutable borrow in a loop last outside of its lexical scope? I am stuck on the borrow checker.
pub struct Gamepad {
    str: String,
}

pub enum Player {
    Human(Gamepad),
    Computer,
}

pub struct PlayerData {
    pub player: Player, /* actually this should be private */
}

struct Pong {
    players: Vec<PlayerData>,
}

fn update_game(_pong: &mut Pong) {}

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
    let mut pong = Pong {
        players: vec![
            PlayerData {
                player: Player::Computer,
            },
            PlayerData {
                player: Player::Human(Gamepad {
                    str: "mydev".to_string(),
                }),
            },
        ],
    };

    game_loop(&mut pong);
}

fn game_loop(pong: &mut Pong) {
    let mut vec: Vec<&Gamepad> = Vec::new();
    {
        for playerdata in pong.players.iter() {
            match playerdata.player {
                Player::Human(ref gp) => {
                    if gp.str == "mydev" {
                        vec.push(gp); //omitting this line of code fixes borrow checker issues
                    }
                }
                _ => {}
            }
        }
    }
    update_game(pong);
}

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This gives:
error[E0502]: cannot borrow `*pong` as mutable because `pong.players` is also borrowed as immutable
  --> src/main.rs:52:17
   |
41 |         for playerdata in pong.players.iter() {
   |                           ------------ immutable borrow occurs here
...
52 |     update_game(pong);
   |                 ^^^^ mutable borrow occurs here
53 | }
   | - immutable borrow ends here

While I can understand the error to some extent, but coming from a C and Java background, I really struggle to get out of this problem. I am mainly confused why the immutable borrow is not released after the for loop ends. How would you write this in idiomatic Rust?

A: The error is a bit poorly worded, but I see your problem.
The error says the immutable borrow occurs in the for loop, which isn't quite correct. Instead, it occurs on the line you marked: vec.push(gp).
gp is an immutable reference to an object contained within pong.players. When you exit the loop, there is no immutable reference to pong.players itself, but there is a vector full of references to objects inside that vector.
pong.players : [ a,  b,  c,  d,  e]
                 ^   ^   ^   ^   ^
vec          : [&a, &b, &c, &d, &e]

Since you have outstanding immutable references to objects within pong.players, Rust has to consider pong.players as "implicitly" immutably borrowed, to ensure that none of its contents are mutated while there is still an immutable reference to that item. Since pong.players is a component of pong and is "implicitly" borrowed, pong itself has to be "implicitly" borrowed immutably as well.
In other words, the borrow of pong in game_loop lasts as such:
fn game_loop(pong: &mut Pong) {
    let mut vec: Vec<&Gamepad> = Vec::new();    // <+ `vec`'s lifetime begins here
    {                                           //  |
        for playerdata in pong.players.iter() { // <+ `pong.players.iter()` temporarily immutably borrows
                                                //  | `players` from `pong` for the iterator. `playerdata`
                                                //  | is a borrowed portion of `pong.players`.
                                                //  | As long as any `playerdata` exists, `pong.players`
                                                //  | is immutably borrowed by extension.
            match playerdata.player {           // <+ `playerdata.player` is a portion of `playerdata`.
                Player::Human(ref gp) => {      // <+ `gp` is a borrow of an element of `playerdata`.
                    if gp.str == "mydev" {      //  |
                        vec.push(gp);           // <! At this point, `gp` is added to `vec`.
                                                //  | Since `gp` is inside `vec`, the reference to `gp`
                                                //  | is not dropped *until `vec` is dropped.
                    }                           //  |
                }                               //  <- `gp`'s *lexical* lifetime ends here, but it may still
                                                //  | be inside `vec`. Any `gp` added to `vec` is still
                                                //  | considered borrowed.
                _ => {}                         //  |
            }                                   // <- `playerdata.player` is not longer lexically borrowed.
                                                //  | However, since `gp`, a portion of `playerdata.player`,
                                                //  | may still be borrowed, the compiler flags
                                                //  | `playerdata.player` as still borrowed.
        }                                       // <- `playerdata`'s borrow scope ends here, but since
                                                //  | `playerdata.player` may still be borrowed (due to the
                                                //  | fact that `vec` may contain references to elements of
                                                //  | playerdata.player), `playerdata` is still considered borrowed
    }                                           // <- the iterator over `pong.players` is dropped here. But since
                                                //  | `playerdata` might still be referenced in `vec`, `pong.players`
                                                //  | is still considered borrowed... and since `pong.players` is
                                                //  | implicitly borrowed, `pong` is implicitly borrowed.
    update_game(pong);                          // <! When you reach this line, `pong` is implicitly borrowed because
                                                //  | there are references to something 'inside' it. Since you can't
                                                //  | have an immutable borrow and a mutable borrow at the same time
                                                //  | (to ensure you can't change something at the same time another
                                                //  | part of the program views it), `update_game(pong)` cannot accept
                                                //  | a mutable reference to `pong`.
}                                               // <- At this point, `vec` is dropped, releasing all references to the
                                                //  | contents of `pong`. `pong` is also dropped here, because it is the
                                                //  | end of the function.

That explains the why. As for the how to solve it: Theoretically, the easiest solution would be to implement Clone on Gamepad (which can be easily done with #[derive(Clone)] if all of Gamepad's fields implement clone; the standard implementation is basically creating a new object by calling .clone on all of the fields of the original) and then use gp.clone() rather than just gp.
This has a (probably negligible) impact on the memory use of your program, but moreover, it can be infeasible if Gamepad uses external-library types that do not implement Clone - you can't implement Clone on those external types, because you don't define Clone or SomeExternalType in your project.
If impl Clone isn't available to you, you may need to refactor your code; reconsider why you need certain mutable or immutable borrows, and remove them if they're unnecessary. If that fails, you might need to look into other types of pointers like Cell, which I'm not qualified to give information about!
If you don't need to keep vec around and do stuff with it after update_game is called, consider this solution:
fn game_loop(pong: &mut Pong) {
    {
        let mut vec: Vec<&Gamepad> = Vec::new(); // <+ Vec is created
        for playerdata in pong.players.iter() {  //  |
            match playerdata.player {            //  |
                Player::Human(ref gp) => {       //  |
                    if gp.str == "mydev" {       //  |
                        vec.push(gp);            //  |
                    }                            //  |
                }                                //  |
                _ => {}                          //  |
            }                                    //  |
        }                                        //  |
        for g_pad in vec {                       //  |
            // Do something with each gamepad    //  |
        }                                        //  |
    }                                            // <- `vec` is dropped
    // Since `vec` no longer exists, there are no more references
    // to the contents of `pong`, and `update_game` can be called.
    update_game(pong);
}

Hope this helps.

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SP-27 Clear Acoustic Tube Earphone
The SP-27 features a clear acoustic tube that is designed to be hidden behind the ear making it hard to see. This makes it an ideal earphone for security, hotels, restaurants, retail and airports.
Supplied with clothing clip and spare ear bud (Replacement ear buds are available as spare parts.)
1m length cord with 3.5mm threaded connector.
Compatible with a range of Icom Amateur, PMR and receiver products.
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The IC-E80D handheld VHF/UHF dualband, D-Star transceiver has been designed to be easy to use and contains a new 'DV mode' feature which allows the operator to access D-Star repeaters in just two steps. The IC-E80D has wideband receiver coverage and 5W output power on both VHF and UHF bands. The IC-E80D is capable of providing GPS position reporting functions in DV mode by utilising the optional HM-189GPS. The IC-E80D is ideal for a range of users including foundation licencees, anyone new to D-Star and Ham organisations such as Raynet that are looking for a simple GPS position reporting system.
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IC-F12/F22 Series
Four transceivers make up this family of products. The series is divided into the IC-F12 (16 channel) and IC-F12(S) (2 channel) for VHF and the IC-F22 (16 channel) and IC-F22(S) (2 channel) for UHF. The 16 channel models can be selected by a simple rotary knob whilst the 2 channel option can be selected by a simple switch at the top of the radio.
The IC-F15/F25 Series offers a lightweight, easy to handle, high-performance portable radio that's built for large and small businesses. The IC-F15 Series has only 3 buttons and 2 knobs, so no special training is required. It also has a very durable construction, which is resistant to shock and vibration. Add wide frequency coverage; Li-Ion battery pack and rapid charger as standard; built-in signalling; option unit connector and you have a radio series that is ideal for users who are searching for a simple yet dependable communication solution.
IC-F34G/F44G
Whether you are a large-scale construction site, warehouse, hospital or shopping centre, the new IC-F34G/F44G series provides the built-in flexibility to handle your communication needs. Offering advanced features including a wide frequency range, multiple signalling and loud audio, the IC-F34G/F44G series is a rugged and reliable 2-way communications tool.
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YouTube's latest hit 'Binging with Babish' brings film and food together
by Madeleine Gaudin April 5, 2017 April 20, 2021
When the "Rick & Morty" surprise episode that dropped last Saturday gave nod to a long lost Szechuan McNugget dipping sauce, the internet blew up and "Binging with Babish" was on the case to try to recreate the mysterious sauce.
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Andrew Rea, the man behind the hit YouTube channel has carved out his own little corner of the web cooking famous dishes from movies and TV shows. From the burgers of "Bob's Burgers" to the prison sauce from "Goodfellas," he's cooking his way through the screen canon.
"Since before movie theater snacks were a thing, people were sneaking Baby Ruths into movie theaters back in the '20s," Rea said. "You can't go see a movie in a theater without a box of popcorn or sneaking in some goobers in your jacket."
Although his mother taught him how to cook at a young age, Rea's background is really in film. He didn't go to culinary school, but his love of movies and television — fostered while at film school — led him to food.
"I've always loved television and movies and TV and movies always seem to love food," Rea said.
He started doing the show accidentally. After investing in a camera and light kit, he found he had the perfect set up for a cooking show and decided to give it a go.
"I had just seen an episode of 'Parks & Rec' where Chris and Ron had a burger cook-off, and Chris's burger was this list of bullshit foodie buzzwords," Rea said. "And I was like 'Would that actually taste good?'"
In the episode, Chris cooks a turkey burger with a papaya chutney, taleggio cheese crisp, micro greens and black truffle aioli all on a gluten-free brioche bun. So, yeah, basically a mess of trendy, pseudo-healthy food. Ron deftly beats him with a beef burger on a classic, white bun. In his video, Rea cooks both, and he comes to a similar conclusion. The beef burger wins, but Chris's burger does taste as delicious as Beyoncé smells.
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"I had to take some creative liberties," Rea said. "Like taleggio, that's an example of where I know the writers were just fucking around because taleggio is a soft cheese and there's no way you can make a crisp out of it, it'll just bleed oil and turn into a mess, I tried."
Instead, Rea blends Fontina and Parmesan to create a similar funky taste to the taleggio, but with a harder cheese. Rea does pretty thorough research for most of his dishes, synthesizing parts from various recipes to create something he thinks to be most true to the source material.
"For 'Inglorious Bastards' 's strudel I was looking at the oldest, Austrian / Viennese strudel recipes I could get my hands on to try to recreate something that would have been of that era," Rea said.
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Beyond historical and textual accuracy, Rea's signature is to make as much from scratch as possible, even when it's not necessary. He grinds his own beef, makes his own pasta and even made a whole Thanksgiving dinner for the "Friends" episode.
"There wasn't really any need for me to make an entire Thanksgiving meal and make every element as good as I possibly could," Rea said. "They like it when I'm a little over the top I think."
YouTube is the perfect platform for that sort of over-the-top content. With hundreds of super quick Tasty and Tasty-spinoff videos spamming newfeeds and timelines everyday, the internet seemed to be the right way to break into the food entertainment world.
"YouTube and Internet cooking videos in general are the way of the future," Rea said. "This is a generation that likes compact, information rich entertaining."
Rea was inspired by fast, aesthetically pleasing style of Tasty videos, but wanted to make videos for people who were more serious about cook.
"Let's do this same thing where it's like a nonstop barrage of information, food porn and let's throw a little entertainment in there as well," Rea said, "That's what I think people are after."
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The match Rea has made — that of food and film — seems to be one made in heaven, and Rea hopes to develop the channel into a fulltime career.
"I have a lot of ideas for verticals and spin offs, different little show concepts that I want to explore and as soon as I'm able to make this my full time job," Rea said. "Which I hope will be pretty soon."
In the meantime, he's going to keep binging on, well, everything.
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On my ever evolving journey to try to eat more vegetables, cabbage was one of the last things that I tried. Something about the entire head just intimidated me. I have to cut up and eat all of that? Eventually, I realized that if I could do it with a spaghetti squash, I could do it with a cabbage. And I'm so glad I did. Red cabbage has quickly become one of my go-to veggies every week.
So, why red cabbage? I'm sure you're used to seeing green cabbage more often, but I promise you that it's not for lack of deliciousness on red cabbages part. I just don't think it's as common in American cooking. My Hungarian mother always appreciated red cabbage and I just fell in love with how it looks. It's so beautiful, that I couldn't help but eventually try it on my own as an adult and fall in love with it. I'm a huge fan of eating with your eyes, and red cabbage is one of those foods that just delights my eyes!
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I serve this recipe alongside a bunch of different dishes. Whether it be fish, beef, or just a little veggie snack by itself, I love it. I think it's so important no matter how you eat to have an arsenal of just good veggies on hand so you can prepare quick, nutrient dense meals by just pairing veggies with protein without all of the hassle.
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The Broncos return home after a big win in Carolina last week for a tough matchup against the Buffalo Bills.
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2016 Fear vs Hope: Gene Editing— Terrible turning point?
The next year may represent our best chance to prevent the rise of a modern, uncontrolled and dangerously ill-considered techno-eugenics.
If new "gene editing" tools can be used to treat people who are sick, that would be a hugely welcome development. But applying them to human reproduction could all too easily open the door to a world of genetic haves and have-nots. Will it be possible for the distinction between responsible and irresponsible applications of human genetic technologies to hold, in policy and in practice? There is hope, but the signals from 2016 are very worrying.


Cloudy for Monday with a high of 57° and a 30% chance of showers. Winds will be from 5 to 10 out of the south. We're already in the 50's this morning as you head out to work and school. A light jacket is about all that you'll need. A slight chance (20%) of showers again tonight with a low of 50°.
The warming continues for Tuesday as we'll hit 67° with only a 20% chance of showers. When we're this warm in January, it can only mean two things. #1) Big thunderstorms are coming and #2) A huge drop in temps behind those storms. We'll see both of those scenarios play out as thunderstorms move in very early Wednesday morning. Some of these thunderstorms will be quite strong. They will last through the morning hours on Wednesday with winds gusting to 25 mph.
Cold on Wednesday night after frontal passage. Any lingering showers may turn into a brief period of snow showers. We'll see a high of just 42° on Thursday and another shot a some snow showers on Thursday night with a reinforcement of cold air. The low of 25°. We'll only go up to 32° on Friday.
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Portland Sanctuary Expanding?
Posted on October 6, 2013 by huffsantacruz
Tent city planned in fancy Portland neighborhood
By STEVEN DUBOIS, Associated Press
Updated 10:36 am, Sunday, October 6, 2013
In this Oct. 4, 2013, photo, a person walks by the Right 2 Dream Too homeless camp in Portland, Ore. Opponents of a city plan to put 100 people under a century-old bridge in the Pearl District are carefully choosing their words when complaining about the prospect of new, down-on-their-luck neighbors. Rather than express concern for their financial investments, they have criticized the city's expedited process and worried for the welfare of those willing to live in a parking lot under the west ramp of the Broadway Bridge. Photo: Don Ryan
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — One of the toniest areas of Portland might soon be home to a tent city.
If this were another town, the owners and developers of high-end homes and condominiums would scream to high heaven about diminished property values.
But this is Portland, where the citizens try their best to be tolerant of everything except intolerance — and gluten.
Opponents of a city plan to put 100 people under a century-old bridge in the Pearl District are carefully choosing their words when complaining about the prospect of new, down-on-their-luck neighbors. Rather than express concern for their financial investments, they have criticized the city's expedited process and worried for the welfare of those willing to live in a parking lot under the west ramp of the Broadway Bridge.
Tiffany Sweitzer, the president of Hoyt Street Properties, a realty and development firm that — over the course of 15 years — has helped transform a dying industrial area into a sparkling urban neighborhood, said "throwing a bunch of people under a bridge" should not be the city's solution to helping the estimated 2,000 residents who sleep outside each night.
"It's embarrassing, because that is not how you would treat anybody," she said.
Mayor Charlie Hales and city commissioners plan to decide Oct. 16 whether to move the camp to the Pearl District from its current home near the entrance to Chinatown. If approved, a coalition of property owners promises to sue.
The camp known as Right 2 Dream Too was established in October 2011 during the Occupy Portland movement. Four years earlier, the city forced an adult bookstore to close because of code violations. The building was later demolished and the lot remained empty for three years until the aggrieved owner allowed the homeless to lease the property for $1 a year.
Each night for two years, roughly 100 people have slept on prime downtown real estate — in tents shielded from passers-by with a barrier of old, colorful doors fashioned into an artsy wall. During that time, landowner Michael Wright racked up more than $20,000 in fines because of violations associated with operating a campsite without a permit. He responded with a lawsuit.
To extract Portland from this mess, city Commissioner Amanda Fritz brokered a deal in which the fines would be waived, the lawsuit dropped and the homeless campers sent to the Pearl District. It all happened in a matter of weeks, angering homeowners and developers who say the city was so desperate to settle Wright's lawsuit that it bypassed zoning laws.
Fritz, a former psychiatric nurse, acknowledged that the camp is not the ideal answer to homelessness. She said there is not enough money to provide housing to all, and Right 2 Dream Too has provided a much safer alternative than the street.
"It's been an option that's been better than nothing," she said.
Scores of people spoke for and against the proposal at a recent five-hour hearing. Though some older women testified their safety would be jeopardized, most Pearl District residents completely ignored quality-of-life and financial issues and repeatedly griped that the city did the deal in secret and delegitimized the zoning code. Not everyone in the neighborhood is rich, they added, and the fight has been unfairly cast as the greedy against the homeless, or "us against them."
"It's a sad, confrontational, divisive atmosphere because communication was intentionally closed," said Julie Young, a retired social worker who lives in the Pearl.
Besides condominiums and the low-income apartments for older residents, there are businesses nearby and a Marriott is scheduled to open next year. Those who have spoken to the potential financial impact of Right 2 Dream Too say hotel guests won't want to stay near a shantytown and commercial rents could fall by more than 15 percent.
Ziba Design spent $20 million to build its headquarters in the Pearl District. Its real estate adviser, Greg Close of Wyse Investment Services, said in a phone interview that his client represents a large Chinese apparel manufacturer that is considering Portland.
"What does my client tell the executive of that manufacturer when it asks: 'How can we trust you, Ziba, with our brand when we come to Portland and see you invested $20 million next to a homeless camp?'"
Homeless people, meanwhile, ask their prospective neighbors to give them a chance. Right 2 Dream Too (or R2D2) has an excellent safety record, and supporters say the camp — they call it a rest area — has helped people get back on their feet and into permanent housing.
"We're not there to bring property values down," said Ibrahim Mubarak, the R2D2 leader. "We're there to get people from sleeping on your sidewalk. We're there to stop people from sleeping in the doorways. We're there to stop the drug dealing. We're there to stop the drug use by our friends."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Tent-city-planned-in-fancy-Portland-neighborhood-4873496.php
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