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New faces at the Institute
January is finally here and we welcome our new staff members!
Director's Greetings: January – a month of cultivating hope?
Last autumn was my first at the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. I was delighted to be greeted by a brilliant staff, the vibrant city of Brussels, and many exciting projects. Three months flew by in no time and by December we were again facing new restrictions, rules and regulations. But as an optimist, I cannot help but look ahead at 2022 with hope, enthusiasm and energy.
We are looking for a Communications Officer
We're looking for a part-time Communications Officer to join our team starting January 2022.
Looking for a EUNIC intern!
EUNIC Brussels , The Brussels cluster of the European Union National Institutes for Culture, is looking for a trainee. The location of the internship is at The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, and the internship focuses on administrative, organisational and communication tasks. Are you interested in the field of international relations and cultural diplomacy? Apply now!
Possibilities of Potential Selves - Ervin Latimer x Morgane Gielen
Possibilities of Potential Selves is a fashion installation by the Finnish Young Designer of the Year 2020 Ervin Latimer, on show in Belgium as part of the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival from August 7th until August 14th. Linked to the exhibition, Ervin teamed up with Morgane Gielen, a talented Belgian photographer who also runs the inspiring body positivity focused platform No Babes.
Laura Boxberg appointed new Director of The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux
Laura Boxberg (Master of Arts) has been appointed the new Director of The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. She will be starting in October.
Suomen Benelux-instituutti etsii johtajaa
News, Finland
Suomen Benelux-instituutin säätiö etsii kulttuuri-instituutin johtajaa Brysseliin 1.9.2021 alkaen tai sopimuksen mukaan.
Our annual report for 2020 is out, giving your an overview of everything that happened in the previous cultural year.
EUNIC Brussels is looking for a trainee who'll be working within our team at The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. Are you interested in the field of international relations and cultural diplomacy? Apply before 20.03.21!
The year of DIALOGUES
Looking forward to a new year, in which uncertainty makes way for creative exchanges and discussions, new initiatives and events, and hopeful ways of working together.
MASCULINITIES: Thoughts and Reflections
Our new publication 'MASCULINITIES: Thoughts and Reflections' continues the conversation on masculinities, including different perspectives and viewpoints by artists and researchers.
Svenska dagen: The Finnish Swedish Heritage Day
Idag firar vi i Finland svenska dagen, som är en dag då vi uppmärksammar den svenska språkminoriteten och språkkulturen i Finland. Institutets projektansvariga Malin Bergström skriver om finlandssvenskhet och hur det berör institutets program.
Call to the Wild / L'appel de la nature captured by Frederik Vercruysse
Last summer our Call to the Wild / L'appel de la nature exhibition was captured in truly sensuous images by a talented photographer Frederik Vercruysse. The exhibition highlights a selection of works by Finnish artists Laura Laine, Kustaa Saksi, and Kim Simonsson.
(UN)Dressing the Man - Meet the speakers
Belgium, Finland, Article
Get to know the speakers of (UN)Dressing the Man, our talk about fashion and masculinity at Kämp Garden on 26.08.10.
This year has been one of strong turbulence, and it has forced us to face the deepest vulnerabilities and recognise the severest flaws of our societies.
Together Alone - the selected projects from the third round
On March 23rd, The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes network launched #TogetherAloneFI in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Nine weeks and 437 applications later, we have now commissioned 20 artists, creatives and collectives around the globe. For the third - and final - application round of Together Alone, we have selected eight projects out of no less than 166 applications.
Trainee's diary
The Benelux Institute's trainees Emil Kusnetsoff and Sara Martinsen are talking about work and life balance during the current global situation.
Together Alone - the selected projects from the second round
The second selection round of Together Alone is now completed! We were thrilled to receive (once again!) no less than 142 applications from homebound artists and collectives around the world.
5 Finnish Floral Artists
Hanna picked 5 Finnish artists doing creative things with flowers, whether it's photography, installation or making bouquets.
5 Finnish Movies of 2010s
Emil has selected his 5 favourite Finnish films of 2010s that are definitely worth watching. From an 80s style adventure to a BDSM-themed love story and a black-and-white boxing movie, spend your lockdown getting to know fascinating Finnish cinema.
Together Alone - the selected projects from the first round
We were happy to receive (and read!) 129 applications for the first Together Alone round, an open call for art projects organised by The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes network in response to the challenges of the COVID-19 epidemic.
5 Finnish Photographers
Sara has selected 5 Finnish photographers who are definitely worth checking out. Working in different styles, sectors and even cities, they all have a splendid aye for beauty and details.
Françoise de Saligny 1938–2020
In memory of Secretary of Cultural Affairs Françoise de Saligny, a great friend of Finland and Finnish culture.
5 Finnish Illustrators
In the coming weeks, we'll be sharing and highlighting organisations, artists, venues, etc. to support the people around us. We encourage you to click, discover, enjoy, support and stick together in these unreal times. First up: 5 Finnish illustrators at the top of their game, selected by Hanna.
Masculinity--what on earth is that?
Article based on the Youth/Masculinities panel discussion organised on the 6th of November 2019 in The National Museum of Finland, as part of the Institute's RE/defining Masculinities Helsinki week. The article is written by the journalist Nana Blomqvist, working as the Project Coordinator for Ekvalita's masculinity programme "Vem é man?" - an important partner in the Institute's RE/defining Masculinities project.
Presenting the artists of the Call to the Wild exhibition
Call to the Wild exhibition presents a refined combination of contemporary sculptural works by the glass artist Laura Laine, the textile artist Kustaa Saksi, and the sculptor Kim Simonsson.
Hello 2020, hello NEW Normal
News, Blog
2020 does not only ring in a new year, but also a new decade. In a world where everything is in a constant shift, ten years feel like an eternity. We are entering the new decade with question marks all around us. What will become of us, our lives and the world around us? Coming from these questions and ideas, we present NEW Normal as this year's overall theme.
Open Call for Advisors
We're looking for new local advisors in The Netherlands and Luxembourg, to keep in touch and stay up to date with all the trends and future directions in our countries of operation. Apply before 14/2/20!
Pieter Claes: "I can watch RuPaul's Drag Race and squat with 20 kgs on my shoulders, because—why not?"
Interview with Pieter Claes about men and masculinity. The interview was conducted by The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux as part of the RE/defining Masculinities project.
Kriticos: "Men Need to be Held Accountable"
Interview with the musician Kriticos Mwansa about men and masculinity. The interview was conducted by The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux as part of the RE/defining Masculinities project.
Renowned Finnish artists and rising talents: a broad cultural programme supporting the presidency of the Council of the EU
During Finland's presidency of the Council of the EU starting at in July, Brussels will be featuring some of the top names in Finnish contemporary art and culture, as well as rising new talents. The broad cultural programme supports the priority themes of the EU presidency period and The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux in Brussels is closely involved in carrying out the programme.
Kati Laakso: The Finnish Cultural Institute for Benelux's 2019 theme is RE/definitions
In 2018, the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux's programme focused on Transition. In 2019, our theme is RE/definitions.
Kimmo Rousku: You are chief (digital) risk manager of your life!
How did you wake up this morning? Maybe to an alarm on your cell phone? What was your first thought? For many of us it's "Can I sleep for another half hour?". And, what was your last thought of the evening? Maybe you thought about whether you could watch just one more episode on your streaming service or whether it was really time for you to go to sleep. In fact, it is likely that these were the first and last risk management decisions of your day. Each of one us makes hundreds of risk management decisions whether we are at home, in our free time, or at work. Do you know the kinds of risks you are taking while navigating the digital world in our everyday life?
Report a Finnish Creative Professional
Do you know (or are you yourself) a Finnish artist, producer, programmer, writer, designer or other creative professional working in the Benelux-area?
Risto Kuulasmaa chosen as our new advisor in the Netherlands
Besides Finland, the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux operates in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The Institute's offices are located in Brussels. In order to remain up to date with all the trends and future directions in its countries of operation, the Institute cooperates with local advisors.
Benoit Debyst: FESTIVAL MUSIQ'3 2018 : NORDIC VIBES
What if the future of music came from the Far North? There is no doubt that Nordic and Finnish musicians play an important role in the international music scene. Every category has a Nordic touch : vocal and instrumental music, metal, traditional and contemporary music, and jazz.
Kati Laakso: The Finnish Cultural Institute for Benelux's 2018 theme is Transitions
Less than two months ago I moved from Tokyo to Brussels, straight into the heart of Europe and the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux's great programming for 2018! We have our excellent previous Director Aleksi Malmberg to thank for carrying out the preparations for the start of the year, as well as our amazing team, with whom I now have the privilege of adding new initiatives and ideas to the programme.
Pirita Näkkäläjärvi: Bringing Sámi culture to the House of European History
Okay, so there's nothing here on the Sámi people", I noticed at the end of an introductory tour of the House of European History. I was visiting the relatively new House of European History at the beginning of February as part of a group of twenty odd individuals involved in the Remembering 1918 programme. Each one of us had the task that day of leading our own public tours of the House of European History. After the introductory tour, we were given a few hours to prepare to offer our own views on the museum's exhibition which deals with European history.
DAS Theatre visits the Baltic Circle Festival
For several years, this small international festival has been experimenting with new curatorial practices in a fierce and open way. The festival distinguishes itself by introducing co-curating, by politicising curatorship, and by rethinking the international. Baltic Circle hereby positions itself as a forerunner and is an ideal ground to visit with students who are themselves operating in the field of "expanding curation".


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Washington DC - Walking Tour by Miziker Entertainment Group Ltd.
Welcome to the Washington DC SelfTour GPS assisted audio walking adventure! You are about to visit, and hear the fascinating stories of, Washington's most legendary sites including the White House, FBI Headquarters, Capital Hill, Library of Congress, Smithsonian museums, Ford's Theater, the most famous watering holes for politicians and power brokers. Plus fascinating secrets of this historic and visually dynamic capital of the United States of America. While highly researched, the dialogue is light, involving and accompanied by effective music… all to make your walk enjoyable experience.
As you walk, the blue GPS ball indicates your approximate position. When you come to a red site indicator on the map, simply tap it to hear the description and more directions. To hear it again, drag the white slider on the bottom. Use the arrow buttons to jump one site forward or back. Tap pause anytime. The camera button gives quick access for snapshots. The menu bars top left gives a list of all sites. NO internet connection is needed. You must allow your device to "access you location" when using this GPS tour. If not connected, tap the notice in the lower right corner of you screen.
For more instructions go to our website SelfTour.Guide. Here you'll also discover more great SelfTour audio walks, and drives… and you can leave us your comments. If there's a tour worth taking, it's worth taking a SelfTour.
We remind you to take caution, use cross-walks, and remove your headsets while crossing streets.
Our suggested starting point is directly center in front of the White House.
Now… Let's walk through America's Capitol!


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Q: Bypass warnings in NetSuite SOAP request We are trying to create Invoices in NetSuite using a SOAP request. However, some of the Invoices don't get created because of warnings thrown in NetSuite. The response XML contains a "warning" node and a warning message. When doing manually through UI, we would just press "OK" to accept this warning and go ahead with Invoice creation. How do I bypass these warnings when doing through SOAP?

A: Check out the NetSuite docs here https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/netsuite/ns-online-help/section_N3536574.html.
It says warnings will either be treated as errors, or ignored when performing requests via their SOAP api.
There is also a boolean setting you can include in the request preferences called warningAsError.
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An unsettled week in store with plenty of rain – Met Eireann
Amy Forde
There's an unsettled week in store with outbreaks of rain and heavy showers, according to Met Eireann.
There will be mostly dry weather across the midlands, south and east of the country today (Monday), it said.
However, cloud will quickly increase with scattered outbreaks of rain moving down from the northwest with more persistent rain following from the west later in the afternoon and evening, affecting all area, it said.
There will be highest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees Celsius, in freshening southwesterly winds and Met Eireann has said that it will be coolest across Ulster and north Leinster.
Rain clearing southeastwards early tonight (Monday) with clear spells developing, it said, however some heavy showers will begin to move down from the northwest later in the night.
These showers will mainly affect west Connacht and Ulster and Met Eireann has said there will be lowest temperatures 3 to 7 degrees Celsius, coolest across east Leinster.
According to Met Eireann, tomorrow (Tuesday) will be cool and breezy and scattered heavy blustery showers.
Showers will be frequent in parts of the west and north, with the risk of thunder, it said and the best of any sunny spells will be early in the day with increasing cloud later.
Met Eireann has said there will be highest temperatures 8 to 11 degrees on Tuesday, with fresh and gusty northwest winds.
Tuesday night will be breezy with scattered outbreaks of rain, heaviest in the north and east, it said.
It will be a frost free night with lowest temperatures 6 to 9 degrees Celsius, Met Eireann has said in moderate to fresh northwest winds.
Looking to Wednesday, Met Eireann has said that it will be a breezy day with some outbreaks of rain for northern and eastern counties, amounts should be fairly small.
Elsewhere it will be nearly fully dry with some sunny spells and it said there will be highest temperatures of 9 to 12 degrees in moderate to fresh northwest winds, best values over Connacht and Munster.
Thursday will be mostly overcast with a little patchy rain or drizzle, most of which will occur closer to the Atlantic, according to Met Eireann.
It will be a rather mild day, with highest temperatures 10 to 12 degrees in light to moderate westerly winds, it said.
According to Met Eireann, it will be dry for much of Friday morning but increasing cloud will bring wet and breezy weather later, arriving into Atlantic counties by early afternoon.
There will be highest temperatures on Friday of 10 to 12 degrees Celsius, in fresh westerly winds, it said.
It was the driest October in parts for 12 years - Met Eireann
It was the coldest September in parts for 21 years - Met Eireann
ENVIRONMENT MET EIREANN WEATHER
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Envoi vs. envoy
The noun envoy has two main definitions: (1) a representative of a government who is sent on a diplomatic mission, and (2) a short closing stanza in certain forms of poetry (or an analogous closing section in any work of art). Envoi is an alternative spelling of the second sense of envoy. Though most major dictionaries list the literary definition under envoy, envoi tends to appear in writing on poetry. The word has also been extended into use in relation to other art forms. Book epilogues and musical codas, for instance, are occasionally referred to as envois—for example:
Marshall begins and ends her book with the Hawthorne wedding and, except for a brief envoi, leaves her three subjects in mid-life. [Washington Post]
But the second of this long-running series, imbued with the dynamism and rhythmic complexity of the Rite of Spring, made for an exhilarating envoi. [London Evening Standard]
Both words are conventionally pronounced in the French style—envoy being AHN-voy and envoi being AHN-vwa—but the Anglicized EHN-voy is sometimes heard.
reardensteel says
Strictly speaking, the French pronunciation is AHN-vwa.
I'm not sure how to notate the correct sound of the French "n".
It's just like "moi".
They would never say -voy or moy.
Cheers says
The word would be pronounced OR-nvoy if it was following French pronunciation, surely. AH-nvoy would be quite wrong. But thank you for your site.


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Sun 30 Dec 2012
Counting curves on Highway 1
Posted by DavidMitchell under The Point Reyes Light Newspaper, West Marin nature, Wildlife
Welcome back for another year. The management of this blog takes great pleasure in announcing that 2013 is being brought to you through arrangements made by SparselySageAndTimely.com. Portions of this year have been prerecorded. Any resemblance between persons living and dead would be ghastly.
Last week's rainstorms here may have made shopping trips less attractive to residents who had waited until the last minute to buy Christmas presents, but in another vein, so to speak, the rains also brought forth a seldom-seen beauty.
Point Reyes Station received more than 10 inches of rain in December, and outside Mitchell cabin, the downhill entrances to gopher tunnels turned into artesian springs.
Thirteen Turns on Highway 1 north of Dogtown.
The State Highway Commission's engineering staff half a century ago proposed straightening Highway 1 between Olema and Highway 101 at Richardson Bay. For awhile, West Marin residents were divided over the proposal.
Many residents worried that the character of West Marin would change if it were connected to East Marin and San Francisco by a high-speed highway. On the other hand, many members of the business community reasoned they would get more customers if West Marin were accessible to more people.
To demonstrate the need for a straighter and presumably safer highway, two men, Frank Myer and Lee Sefton, 52 years ago this January counted all the curves on Highway 1 between Point Reyes Station and Highway 101. As was reported at the time in The Baywood Press (the original name of The Point Reyes Light), there are 520 curves in that 30-mile stretch, and "33 of these are blind, sharp curves."
Kite flying outside Mitchell cabin on Dec. 30.
Here is the Highway 1 survey carried out by Myer and Sefton, whom the newspaper referred to as a "citizens curve-counting committee":
Point Reyes Station to Olema — 2 miles, 21 curves. Olema to Bolinas — 10 miles, 115 curves. Bolinas to Stinson Beach — 5 miles, 81 curves. Stinson Beach to Muir Beach — 6 miles, 166 curves. Muir Beach to Tam Junction — 6 miles, 132 curves. Tam Junction to Highway 101 — 1 mile, 5 carves.
This abundance of curves prompted a sardonic comment from Baywood Press publisher Don DeWolfe: "Makes us wonder what the motive is behind opposition to the improvement of this wonderful road."
Despite its support from members of the business community, such as Myer, Sefton, and DeWolfe, most West Marin residents — and finally the Marin County Board of Supervisors — came to oppose straightening Highway 1, and the state abandoned the proposal. In retrospect, most of us are glad it did.
Let me now close by wishing my English-speaking friends and relatives: Happy New Year! And my Spanish-speaking friends and relatives: ¡Prospero año nuevo!
Tags: Highway 1
Sat 22 Dec 2012
The winter solstice of 2012
Posted by DavidMitchell under General News, History, West Marin nature, Wildlife
The winter solstice came and went. Civilization obviously didn't collapse on Friday even though millions of people around the world had been counting on it.
Jungle has risen up to reclaim what it can from Mayan civilization, as I witnessed for myself at Tikal, Guatemala, back in 1983 (above). Despite the deterioration of their buildings, the ancient Mayans, as of Saturday morning, were once again renowned for civil engineering rather than apocalyptic prognostication.
Superstitious people are easy targets for hoaxes. Witness the 39 Heavens Gate cultists who committed mass suicide in 1997. Their leader, Marshall Applewhite, had convinced them that by doing so they would get a ride in a supposed spaceship trailing the comet Hale-Bopp. Harder to explain are all the people worldwide who believed that civilization would collapse last Friday. Why? Because there were rumors that Mayans more than 1,000 years ago had predicted it.
Wait a minute! Mayan civilization itself collapsed before 900 AD. If the Mayans could look more than 1,200 years into the future, why couldn't they have seen their own impending demise and avoided it? Significantly, today's descendants of those ancient Mayans didn't expect Armageddon last Friday — merely the start of a new era.
Fall's finale — Sunset over Inverness Ridge.
Like a modern Mayan, I'm ready for the challenges of a new era. In these parts, that new era is called winter. The era began with heavy rain, strong wind, thunder, and lightning on Friday night. The house lights flickered but stayed on.
A curious blacktail doe at Mitchell cabin.
With the rains has come green grass, and an abundance of wildlife is showing up around the cabin. Along with wintering birds and a healthy supply deer, foxes, raccoons, squirrels, jackrabbits, tree frogs, and salamanders, there is evidence of a badger. It's a zoo said a first-time visitor last week.
Keeping an eye on the does is a good-sized blacktail buck, who often drops by to graze before lying down to chew his cud.
A young raccoon watches me from a safe distance up a pine tree next to the cabin.
Social grooming — Youthful raccoons on my deck clean each other's coat of insects, parasites, and anything grubby. This is done for not only hygiene and appearance but also as a way of bonding, of reinforcing relationships.
This was the advice our late President gave the public at Christmastime in 1950, but I don't follow it. Sixty years ago, it may well have been just as thoughtful to give friends cigarettes at Christmas as to have fruitcakes mailed to them. But those were simpler times.
My partner Lynn Axelrod and I next to our Christmas tree.
We invited two people, including one visiting from overseas, to help trim our Christmas tree. The inter-nondenominational group included a non-practicing Jew, a non-practicing Muslim, a non-practicing Catholic, and a non-practicing Christian Scientist. Afterward we sat around the fire and sang Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Harry Belafonte songs. Plus a couple in Turkish with which I wasn't familiar. In Mitchell cabin too, the yuletide is evolving.
What remains unchanged is the pleasure we get in extending Season's Greeting to all of you. Merry Christmas! Heri za Kwanzaa! And a Happy New Year!
Tags: Mayan civilization, Ronald Reagan selling cigarettes, Tikal
Mon 17 Dec 2012
Shoreline School District blessed compared with a number of others
Posted by DavidMitchell under General News
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Shoreline School District's departing superintendent, Steve Rosenthal, received a warm sendoff Friday in Tomales' William Tell House restaurant and bar.
By grim coincidence, it was the same day a mentally ill young man shot to death 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and that tragedy was on the minds of many of Rosenthal's well-wishers.
Friday in Tomales, Steve Rosenthal received an etched-glass plaque honoring him for his 14 years as superintendent of Shoreline Unified School District. The guests included representatives of the district and the county schools office, as well as friends from the community.
School officials who arrived early at the party (from left): Jill Manning-Sartori, Shoreline School District trustee; Jane Realon, principal at Tomales Elementary and Bodega Bay schools; Tim Kehoe, president of Shoreline's board of trustees; Jane Healy, trustee; Susan Skipp, Shoreline business manager; Penny Valentine, special education director for the county office of education; Steve Rosenthal, retiring superintendent; Adam Jennings, Tomales High's principal; Nancy Neu, Shoreline's incoming interim superintendent; and Matt Nagle, principal of West Marin-Inverness schools. Other trustees showed up later.
Shoreline, like school districts everywhere, has periodically had its problems, but compared with too many schools elsewhere, the district was almost idyllic during Rosenthal's tenure. As it happened, the superintendent's farewell party unfortunately coincided with not one but two attacks on school children.
In China's Henan Province, a mentally ill man stabbed 22 grammar-school students as they arrived for classes. Most private citizens in China cannot own guns, so the attacker could only knife the children. All of them survived although seven had to be hospitalized. "No motive was given for the stabbings, which echo a string of similar assaults against [Chinese] schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50 people," the Huffington Post reported.
And you'll recall that here in the Bay Area a former student killed seven people in a shooting rampage at a private Christian university in Oakland last April 2. A month earlier on Feb. 27, a gun-toting 17 year old killed two students and wounded two others in a Chardon, Ohio, school cafeteria.
In a 2008 shooting spree, a former student killed five students and wounded 18 others at Northern Illinois University, and just 10 months before those murders, a 23-year-old gunman killed 32 people in a Virginia Tech dormitory before killing himself. Even an Amish School in Pennsylvania was the scene of a mass shooting in 2006 when a 32-year-old man killed five girls and then himself.
Probably the most-infamous massacre at a US school in recent years occurred in April 1999 when two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher, as well as wounded 26 others, at Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado.
A Newton Bee photo seen round the world shows students being kept in a conga line while being evacuated from Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Although he was also carrying two semi-automatic handguns, the killer, Adam Lanza, 20, shot his victims with an M-4 assault rifle designed for urban combat. Under current US law, civilians can buy such weapons, and apparently Lanza's mother owned at least five. She also taught Adam how to fire them, supposedly to give him a sense of responsibility. Instead he took three of her guns and murdered her before heading to the school.
Among those Lanza shot to death at Sandy Hook School was principal Dawn Hochsprung, who heroically tried to overpower him. On Sunday a Republican congressman from Texas, Louie Gohmert, wildly claimed that what really went wrong was that Hochsprung didn't have her own assault rifle to shoot it out with Lanza inside the school. Gohmert told Fox News he could imagine Lanza going down in a hail of Hochsprung's gunfire: "She takes him out, takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids."
Speaking more rationally, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California), announced on Sunday that she will introduce legislation to restore the federal ban on assault weapons, which expired in 2004.
The Associated Press on Monday reported: "Gun control was a hot topic in the early 1990s, when Congress enacted a 10-year ban on assault weapons. But since that ban expired in 2004, few Americans have wanted stricter laws, and politicians say they don't want to become targets of a powerful gun-rights lobby."
AP, however, added that gun-control politics may now change. The National Rifle Association (NRA) eight years ago pressured supporters in Congress not to renew the ban on assault rifles. In the wake of the Sandy Hook School shooting, however, Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia and a prominent gun-rights advocate, told MSNBC: "Never before have we seen our babies slaughtered. It's never happened in America that I can recall, seeing this carnage….
"Anybody that's a proud gun owner, a proud member of the NRA, they're also proud parents, they're proud grandparents. They understand this has changed where we go from here."
Supt. Rosenthal said he will begin his retirement with a visit to his vacation home in Arizona. "It's the only home I own," he told me with a laugh. Many of us will miss him.
Rosenthal leaves a school district that is debating its future, especially how best to educate students from Spanish-speaking homes.
Many teachers, parents, and other community members disagree over what approach to take, but debate is central to the operation of a public school. It's how school personnel and the community air opinions, warn of potential problems, and suggest solutions. But there are no crystal balls.
Sandy Hook Elementary thought it had taken all the proper security measures to keep students and staff safe; however, almost nothing could have protected them from a sociopath with an assault rifle who entered the school by shooting his way through a locked glass door.
The simultaneous merriment in Tomales and suffering in Connecticut last Friday once again demonstrated that even at schools that are well run, outside forces — good or bad — can sometimes determine whether all goes well.
Tags: gun control, Sandy Hook School shooting, Shoreline School District, Steve Rosenthal
Sat 8 Dec 2012
Pearl Harbor Day, Point Reyes Station's Christmas tree lighting, and a new era at MALT
Posted by DavidMitchell under agriculture, History, Point Reyes Station, West Marin nature
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"What kind of a day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times…." — Walter Cronkite
The USS Arizona burning after Japanese torpedo bombers attacked the battleship on Dec. 7, 1941.
Japan's attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killed 2,402 people and wounded another 1,247, plunging the US into a war that ultimately cost America and its allies more than 61 million military and civilian lives. Axis countries lost more than 12 million lives.
My father used to tell me about from coming home from church in San Francisco that Sunday, Dec. 7, when a neighbor shouted out the window to him that the Japanese had just attacked Pearl Harbor. Friday was the 71st anniversary of the attack, and heavily attended memorial ceremonies were held from Pearl Harbor, to the Coast Guard Station in Alameda, to New York and Washington, DC.
Some West Marin's responses to the attack were described in a Tomales Regional History Center bulletin earlier this year: Tomales High "student Kathie Nuckols (Lawson) clearly remembered the Monday morning of Dec. 8, 1941 — little more than 24 hours after Pearl Harbor was bombed. 'Our principal called all the students… into the auditorium to hear President Roosevelt call our country to war. His voice came through a small radio, and we strained to hear his words, overwhelmed by the drama as only teenagers can be.'
"Blackout shades lowered in the auditorium, tanks passing the school on their way to occupy Dillon Beach, the imposed limits on travel because of gas rationing, especially affecting the sports programs…. These are some of the things students of the war years remembered. Yet these events were undoubtedly put into perspective by the biggest effect of all, the nine Tomales High students who did not come home from the war."
The annual Christmas-tree lighting in Point Reyes Station drew a large crowd Friday evening. The tree is on the landscaped median between the Palace Market parking lot and the parking lot of Wells Fargo Bank, which handed out hot chocolate and sweets.
Phyllis Faber
Meanwhile at the Dance Palace community center, Marin Agricultural Land Trust held its annual dinner Friday. Now an octogenarian, Phyllis Faber, a biologist, and the late Ellen Straus, a rancher, founded MALT in 1984 to give permanent protection to family farms. It was a time when economic pressure to subdivide the coast was spurring ranchers to sell their land to developers. The farmland trust became the first of its kind in the nation.
A red-shouldered hawk is still able to hunt the pastures around Mitchell cabin thanks to a century and a half of ranching, which served to protect much of West Marin from over-development.
Bob Berner, who has been MALT's executive director since its founding 28 years ago, will retire next month, and Friday he gave an emotional farewell to MALT supporters in the Dance Palace.
Under Berner's leadership, MALT has bought agricultural easements from 69 ranchers, guaranteeing that at least half of all Marin County's family farms will forever remain in agriculture.
A herd of blacktail deer take advantage of West Marin's open land to graze near Mitchell cabin.
MALT's new executive director as of Jan. 14 will be Jamison Watts, who happens to be a great, great grandson of naturalist John Muir's sister, Margaret Muir Reid. Watts for the past six years has been the executive director of the Northern California Regional Land Trust (NCRLT).
Watts, who inherited the Muir family's interest in conservation, earned a degree from UC Davis in Environmental Biology with an emphasis in Conservation Biology. He spent the next 12 years as a field and wildlife biologist, while simultaneously earning a master's degree in Biological Sciences, before going to work for NCRLT in 2006.
Much of the Rich Readimix plant was under water when Papermill Creek overflowed its banks on New Year's Eve 2005.
In sadder news this week, The West Marin Citizen reported that the Rich Readimix plant on the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road is about to close after more than 60 years in operation.
Don and Doug Joslin created the cement plant during the 1950s, and it was so well known throughout West Marin that nearby Platform Bridge was commonly referred to as Joslin Bridge. After 35 years, the Joslins sold the plant to Rich Readimix, which also has a plant in Greenbrae. All the workers at the West Marin plant will now be transferred to Greenbrae.
Tags: Battleship Arizona, Bob Berner, Jamison Watts, MALT, Pearl Harbor, Phyllis Faber, Point Reyes Station, Red-shouldered hawk, Rich Readimix
Quietly photographing all natural neighbors
Posted by DavidMitchell under West Marin nature, Wildlife
They were also au naturel, of course; if they hadn't been, that would have been the topic of this posting. In any case, here for the third week in a row is a small gallery of new wildlife photos shot at Mitchell cabin.
A lone peacock has been hanging around this hill for almost a month. One or twice I've heard him scream, but for the most part he's been unusually quiet.
I don't know where this wanderer came from. Is he an escapee from somewhere? Perhaps he's a remnant of a flock that once congregated near Nicasio Square. Whatever the case, the variety of peafowl seen in West Marin originated in India and were introduced into California back in 1879.
The Indian peafowl belong to a family of birds called Phasianidae, which includes West Marin's wild turkeys.
Family members have now taken the lonely peacock under their wing, and he has become a member of a local flock of wild turkeys. Their companionship seems to have bolstered the once-shy peacock's self-confidence, for just last week I saw him boldly scanning the world from atop a neighbor's fence post.
A coyote has begun showing up on the shoulders of Point Reyes Station's heavily used levee road. It's a bit unusual but not altogether surprising. For much of its length, the levee road is what separates US Park Service-owned Olema Marsh from the county park at White House Pool. My partner Lynn and others had reported seeing the coyote along the road, and on Tuesday, I finally got a chance to see it for myself. Which gets us back to wild turkeys.
While Lynn and I watched from our deck last Wednesday, a flock of wild turkeys in a neighboring field drove off a different coyote.
When the coyote approached the flock, which was hunting and pecking in the field, the turkeys rather than taking flight turned and confronted him en masse. This stopped the coyote in his tracks. Wild turkeys are big, aggressive birds, and when the flock held its ground, the coyote apparently realized there would be no easy pickings. A couple of large toms followed by the rest of the flock then advanced a step or two toward the coyote, which turned tail and trotted off.
Later that day I told this story to LeeRoy Brock of Point Reyes Station, retired chief ranger for the National Seashore, and he told me he'd once seen a flock of wild turkeys chase away a blacktail buck.
The week's rainstorms have filled the two stockponds near Mitchell cabin, and yesterday Lynn and I saw a Great egret hunting in the closer pond. Nor was the egret alone. I also spotted a Green heron taking cover in the reeds.
Although it was drizzling at the time, the egret in its red and green surroundings provided an unexpected bit of yuletide cheer.
Great egrets hunt primarily for frogs and fish although they also eat insects, small reptiles, and an occasional small rodent. Their hunting consists of slowly stalking their prey or of standing motionless, waiting for their prey to approach them. Once their prey is within striking distance, the egrets spear it with their sharp bills.
Gray foxes, which show up at Mitchell cabin in the evening, continue to fascinate me, as regular readers of this blog know. These days, at least one fox drops by almost every night, sometimes accompanied by a second.
The foxes are so comfortable around the cabin that during a break in the storms last Monday, this fox chose the picnic table on our deck for a snooze in the sun.
Gray foxes tend to be nocturnal or crepuscular (active at dawn and twilight). That no doubt explains why this fox was so inactive during the middle of the day, which was fine with me. I believe in the old saying: "Let sleeping foxes lie."
Tags: coyote, gray fox, Great egret, peacock, wild turkeys


C&O Chessie SW9 returns to Detroit with hoppers from Grindstone City while below a PH&N ten-wheeler heads toward Bay City after leaving Detroit's Milwaukee Jct. Photo by Ken Zieska.
A PH&N ten-wheeler heads toward Grindstone City with a local passenger train while CN FP9s pull a passenger train from Detroit to Bay City. Photo by Brooks Stover.
A C&O Alco switches grain hoppers at Kings Mill. Photo by Brooks Stover.
A C&O Alco shuffles freight cars between Bad Axe and Kings Mill. Photo by Brooks Stover.
PM #1225 leaves the 3rd Street Yard in Port Huron with a local freight headed north. Photo by Dave Held.


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Client side of the console RPC API.
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class ConsoleAPI(nova.openstack.common.rpc.proxy.RpcProxy):
    '''Client side of the console rpc API.

    API version history:

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    def __init__(self, topic=None):
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                topic=topic,
                default_version=self.BASE_RPC_API_VERSION)

    def add_console(self, ctxt, instance_id):
        self.cast(ctxt, self.make_msg('add_console', instance_id=instance_id))

    def remove_console(self, ctxt, console_id):
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Who Said Jewish People Ought to First Hear the Good News of Atonement?
Well – actually, it was a well-known Jewish man! But, hold on a sec – before I go too far, this is not a quiz question and I also need to assure you that I have absolutely nothing against the people I am writing about. Why is that? Because if it hadn't been for the profound commitment of the man who had earlier been Saul from Tarsus, from a Hellenistic background in the Roman province of Cilicia, the good news would probably never have reached Europe when it did.
What am I on about? Quite simply that the good news of a full and free salvation won by Jeshua Messiach in his atoning death on the tree of cursing was spread widely over the old Roman world by a man who believed in that same Atonement. Saul, who later became Paul, was a member of the tribe of Benjamin, and a highly respected Pharisee, until he saw the risen Jesus. Then, such a profound new life was given to Saul, his world was turned up-side-down – or rather the right way up. Then, as Paul, he then spent the rest of his life strenuously working, teaching, praying, encouraging and writing to promote this single issue: Jesus of Nazareth, who once died, was raised as the one divinely appointed Messiach and Redeemer for Jewish and Gentile people alike.
Paul's message was often hotly opposed. It was controversial, to say the least, to those who held on to their old traditions. But gradually, and sometimes in large numbers, people from all walks of life and both ethnic backgrounds, saw they could not get right with God, whose law they had broken, by trying to repair and replace their misdeeds by better ones. They began to see that what Jeshua had accomplished on the cross, was the one final, authentic sacrifice of atonement, offered in astonishing mercy and grace. And they saw in the words of the Prophet Isaiah, how 'he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors' (Isaiah 53:12b), that he had already made the work of atonement, once for all. And it had been accomplished by Jeshua as the 'Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world' (NT, John 1:29) – to use the words of the Prophet John, the son of Zechariah.
When, you think about it, this is no ordinary message. This is revolutionary. That someone else should pay the price for sin and settle the dreadful account freely on behalf of others, so that they might be forgiven. That this was more than just another sacrificial innocent victim, for the One who paid the final price was none less than the Suffering Servant of Yahweh, the eternal contracted to a span – the Lord himself, for who else could pay such an infinite price to satisfy God's holy justice? So, do all then automatically receive this free forgiveness, peace with God and eternal life? No – each one of us must turn individually to Jeshua as Yahweh and Redeemer. Of all who come to him he will never turn anyone away. Trust him gladly and love him wholeheartedly for time and forever.
So, that is why it was Paul, who wrote, 'For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek' (NT, Romans 1:16). And it was largely through Paul's labours, along with his co-workers that the good news of Jeshua's atoning death spread far and wide, first among the Jewish people of Jeshua himself, and then into the far flung world of the nations – the Goyim, many of whom are delighted to have such a Saviour and Redeemer today. How about you?


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Honor Certificate
Obtaining the Registration of Trademark by Breaking though the Limitation posed by the Bad influence of religions
 2020-08-27  Trademark  Alicia AN
Briefing of the Case
Christian·Lacroix Company (hereinafter referred to as "the applicant") has applied for the registration of the trademark "CHRISTIAN LACROIX"(hereinafter referred to as "the applied trademark") under Reg. No. 31481764 on the goods "non-metal pallet" under class 20 in China, after the review, the State Intellectual Property Office held that the mark served as a trademark on the designated goods was likely to pose bad social influence, thus, to refuse the application for the registration of the trademark. Christian·Lacroix Company refused to accept it and filed the application for refusion of the review. Grounds for review were as follows: 1. "CHRISTAIN" is a common English name, also the name of the founder of the company's brand and the brand with the same name, belonging to the situation with "other meaning". The applied trademark has enjoyed a certain reputation in Chinese consumers by the publicity and usage in domestic and overseas for long time. Consumers will not regard it as "Christian" and then to cause bad influence. 2. The applicant has already registered the same trademark or trademarks including "CHRISTIAN" on goods and services under many classes, this means that the State Intellectual Property Office considered trademarks contain the vocabulary are registerable, are not pertain to situation with "bad influence". 3. Many judgements have shown that the applied trademark is not pertain to "bad influence".
Decision on Rejection of Review
Upon the review, there is no full evidence to prove that the applied trademark "CHRISTIAN LACROIX" as a trademark to use on the designed goods will likely to pose bad social influence, did not constitute the situation stated in Article 10.1.8 of the Trademark Law of P.R .C. The application of applied trademark has been preliminarily approved.
Analysis of Case
According to regulations in "Standards of Reviewing Trademarks" 2016, (5), those are detrimental to religious faith, religious affection or folk religion, "religions" in the standard include Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Christianity, and different branches of religions above. The folk religions in this standard mainly means Mazu and other folk religions.
With any of following situations, trademarks shall not be deemed to be harmful to religious faith, religious affection or folk religions: although words or designs of trademarks are related to religion or folk belief, they have other meanings or their meanings related to religions have been generalized, will not allow the public to associate them with a specific religion or a folk religion.
In this case, "Christian" has other meaning (name) and the meaning is stronger than the meaning of "Christian", further, "CHRISTIAN" is the name of the founder of the company's brand and the same name of the brand, pertaining to the situation of "other meaning". The applied trademark has enjoyed a certain reputation in Chinese consumers by the publicity and usage in domestic and overseas for long time. Moreover, many trademarks "CHRISTIAN LACROIX" have been approved to register on several classes, (including Class 20). Meanwhile, considering non-necessary correlation between "non-metallic pallet" and Christianity, as a result, the application for registering the applied trademark shall be approved.
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The Hounslow Urban Farm is certainly urban (being about a mile away from Heathrow airport) but it's spacious, full of charm, really well presented, and has a lovely selection of animals for children to see and interact with.
There are chickens roaming around and a large area full of spacious paddocks, where you'll find different types of goats, donkeys, sheep and even alpaca. On entering the farm you can buy bags of food to feed some of the animals, which is magical for the kids. You might also be lucky enough to also see a baby animal being bottle-fed.
There is also a farmyard, where you'll find peacocks, owls, guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets and other birds and animals. One of the highlights is the enormous pigs that you'll find lolling about in their pens or outside enjoying some mud! Daily activities include pig meet & greets and owl encounters, and there are often extra activities during the holidays such as tortoise washing and pony grooming.
Not all the attractions are outside though. There is also a marquee where their 'animal encounters' take place, which are the highlight of any visit. You can meet and interact with lots of the animals, including rats, guinea pigs, tarantulas, ferrets, a chinchilla, lizards, snakes and more. The reptiles are being looked after at the farm while money is being raised to build a new Tropical Zoo, which needs a new home since it closed at Syon Park.
Up in the paddocks there is an outside play area full of climbing frames and swings. In a huge barn close to the entrance, there's a bouncy castle for the kids to play on – so they'll definitely have fun whatever the weather! On Tuesdays during term time, there is a Parent & Toddler session between 10.30-11.30am, with animal encounters and free play. They also run children's parties, where you get to choose from a number of activities.
For lunch, the cafe serves kids lunch boxes as well as sandwiches, paninis and jacket potatoes. The menu is simple, but the quality of the ingredients is excellent and the finished products absolutely delicious.
All-in-all The Hounslow Urban Farm makes a fantastic fun and educational day out. It can be found on Faggs Road, Feltham TW14 0LZ, and contacted on 020 8831 9658. It is open all year round, apart from Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.


That was touching and I wouldn't have missed it, but I sure wish it didn't have to be. Miss you pal.
Enjoy life at the bridge, D. Even if we don't read about your adventures, we know you'll be having them. And they'll be better than ever! OK. Bye.
will miss having Dennis a round.
play & bar b q over the rainbow bridge.
Brought tears to my eyes! A great tribute and a wonderful place (the rainbow bridge) but I wish! Oh, How I WISH there were visiting hours!
Miss you Dennis! It was fun getting to know you. Mom and Boomer.
Thank you for inviting us to this lovely tribute and letting us know about the endless buffet. We are crying happy tears.
You will be missed here on earth for a very long time, Dennis♥ I hope you have met Maggie and Mitch and so many others. Make sure you eat a huge piece of chocolate cake and think of us poor furkids that aren't allowed to have it.
What a wonderful memorial service for Dennis. We'll miss you and we're sure the Hipster Kitties feel a bit lost without you right now. Please say hi to our Angel Sister Nina (and all the other Angel Sisters from here) for us. We didn't know her but we feel her and all the others that lived here before us. We are sending warm hugs to the Hipster Kitties and your momma and dada. Okay bye!
ok, I love you all.
Your post (and your comment to us) brought us to tears, but we are still smiling through the tears as Dennis is now in a state of perpetual joy.
*sniff& leak* Beautiful memorial service for a very special pup. You will bring smiles to everyone on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, Angel Dennis. OK, bye.
Mee-yow Mistur Jamess this iss one furabuluss Meowmoriam fore deer Dennis! Efurryone showed upss even thee turtell….
LadyMew dissolved inn to huge wet teerss. Shee just goess to peecess when shee comess over here…mee iss bee inn brave fore her…..
Mee lovess Dennis too….hee was furry kewl.
LadyMew has a card picced out fore you an yore Missus….now to get her to stop cryin to rite it fore you!
Dennis an Tucker an Trixie an Unkell Siddhartha an Auntyss' Nylablue an Mingflower wee LOVE you now an fur ever!
Tell Dory and Bilbo hi for us, Dennis!!
We are so happy the Hipsters will be returning!
I'm sure, though, that this will not be the last we'll see of your mischievous face!
Sorry to see you go, you've been a wonderful blogger. Condolences to all those who now have a gap in their lives.
Awfully sorry to read this. My heart goes out to you.
Dennis, we are certain that you have met up with Abby and are taking full advantage of Tucker's Everlasting Buffet. Feel free to join Abby when she does her fly-bys. Hipster Kitties, we are confident that you are more than able to carry on the level of craziness we have come to know and love!
We sure miss Dennis. So very much.
She is going to send you a message on your FB page, OK??
Farewell, handsome. It'll rock "up there" now that you've joined 'em!


Purchasing Training ~ Who is Responsible for Your Supplier's Performance?
I've been doing whirlwind business travel lately. Malaysia, Turkey, Brazil, Canada, Houston and now I'm in Dubai.
I finished doing a keynote in one of these locations (I'm being intentionally cryptic), and like always, I spoke with a myriad of people during the break.
During that time, I had the most interesting discussion with a purchasing manager and his purchasing director.
They were having a problem with one of their most critical suppliers. As I recall, it was a construction supplier. The supplier was constantly delivering late, and it was having huge impacts to the business.
So guess what their question was for me?
They wanted to talk about insurance. They were adamant that they needed to find insurance to compensate for the cost of cover (the cost of being made whole again) for supplier late deliveries.
Yes, for the failure of their suppliers to deliver on time.
The problem was, at least from their perspective anyways, that they called every insurance company they could find to get a quotation, and none of them would provide it. They wanted me to help them out of this situation.
What kind of help? They wanted help finding this kind of insurance, and they wanted me to point them in the right direction. Specifically, they wanted to know which insurance company I could recommend.
They didn't like my answer however, and that's because I wasn't intent on answering their question.
I asked them instead why their supplier wasn't performing in the first place. Then I asked them why they let their supplier's poor performance become their problem. Why should they insure someone else's poor work product, especially when they were paying for the supplier to do the job right in the first place?
Supplier late deliveries are a symptom. Getting insurance on a supplier performance problem does nothing to solve the problem. In fact, it encourages the problem to get worse and only feeds the symptom.
My advice for them was to stop looking for insurance immediately and to start holding their supplier accountable for performance. The performance they were *paying* for.
I also advised that they should put some liquidated damages in place in the contract so that the burden of remedy for poor performance shifts to the supplier, and so they have some motivation to perform.
But they didn't like my answer, especially the more senior of the two.
Now if I viewed my job as a popularity contest, I might have caved and agreed with them, telling them what they wanted to hear. But I can't and won't do that. Our profession needs to get over these hurdles. I have to tell people in our profession what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.
All of you need to go back and look at how you run your business and see if you are making your suppliers EARN the big fat PO they are getting every month.
Don't be afraid to demand excellence. It's your right.
All of you have a parking lot full of suppliers dying to do business with you. It is a privilege to do business with your firm, and you need to tell your suppliers this. Don't be arrogant, just be clear on the facts. They need to know this.
Don't ever forget who is the one with the money. YOU are the one with the money.
YOU are buying performance results, and if suppliers aren't delivering that, you need to get them to fix it or you need new suppliers. Suppliers cannot take you or your money for granted.
The last thing you should do however is run around doing diving catches and making supplier performance issues your problem to resolve.
Purchasing pros, I'm counting on you to help move our profession forward. Now go off and do something wonderful.
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Home › Contemporary economics › Between the Auction Theorists and the Nobel Committee, Technology Made Its Way
Between the Auction Theorists and the Nobel Committee, Technology Made Its Way
Posted in Contemporary economics, History of economics Tagged with: David Kreps, Glen Weyl, John Roberts, Karl Shell, Nobel Prize in economics, Paul Milgrom, Robert Axerod, Robert Wilson
A handful of developments in research economics in the early 1980s created sufficient excitement to attract the attention of journalists. As the saying goes, there were sovereigns in the air.
Paul Krugman edited a conference volume on strategic trade policy built around new ideas about economies of scale. Thomas Sargent, in "The Ends of Four Big Inflations," suggested that the Federal Reserve Board's battle against inflation might be less costly than was commonly thought. Paul Romer began investigating the logic of policies that might stimulate economic growth. Fynn Kydland and Edward Prescott, having already reformulated the terms by which central banking was understood, set out in "Time to Build and Aggregate Fluctuations," to identify the driving forces behind business cycles.
And in 1982, an eight-page paper contributed by four economists who shared Stanford University connections appeared in The Journal of Economic Theory, "Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma." Interest in the evolution of cooperation had recently been stimulated by an influential paper by political scientist Robert Axelrod. The authors were concerned with the machinery by which reputations were built and preserved (or not!), Having submitted to the journal rival papers setting out ideas about the analysis of what soon would become known as sequential equilibrium, involving the application of Bayes' rule, they were persuaded by the editor, Karl Shell, to prepare a short introduction setting out their common ground. They were quickly dubbed the Gang of Four.
Last week two members of the Gang of Four became the most recent of that cohort, most of them having begun their graduate studies in the 1970s, to be recognized by the Nobel Committee for the prize in economic sciences. Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson were cited for their contributions to auction theory, whereupon a collective sigh of satisfaction could be heard among their friends and colleagues. Frustration at the Swedes' failure to act had grown so great that Milgrom's students had resolved that, while waiting, they could compile a Wikipedia compendium as a temporary substitute for the citation they hoped to read one day.
The Committee's paper on the scientific background to the award told the story. Ronald Coase had advocated throughout the 1950s for government use of auctions to establish property rights for regulated public resources – such as broadcast spectrum and natural resources – oil, gas, minerals, timber, fish, As Committee chairman Lars Werin put it in his presentation speech, "it took some time" for Coase's insights to sink in. William Vickrey wrote it down a pair of seminal papers describing a theory of auctions in 1961 and 1962 – then waited 35 years to share the 1996 prize with James Mirrlees for contributions to the analysis of "incentives under asymmetric information."
Wilson, this year's co-laureate, was learning game theory from Howard Raiffa at Harvard College when Vickrey was writing on auctions. When he turned in a paper on the subject at his next stop, the Harvard Business School, for an MBA, he received a failing grade because auctions were thought irrelevant to managerial decision-making. Stanford hired him a year after he obtained a Doctor of Business Administration from HBS, and he has remained there ever since, playing a role second only to Kenneth Arrow in the integration of game theory and economics. Among Wilson's students, Alvin Roth and Bengt Holmström were previously anointed by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Wilson had become interested in competitive bidding in auctions where asymmetric information among bidders was the rule. By the 1970s, he was advising governments on the design of auctions of offshore oil and gas leases, and bidders on appropriate strategies. In 1978 his student Milgrom completed a magisterial Ph.D. thesis detailing "the seven main results of auction theory"; he went on to play a role in many of the advances of the 1980s, including, with co-author and fellow Gangster John Roberts ("Predation, Reputation, and Entry Deterrence"), the reformation of theories of industrial organization and antitrust doctrine from which Jean Tirole emerged with a Nobel Prize. When Vickrey died, in 1996, it was to Milgrom that the Committee turned to deliver the ceremonial lecture commemorating him.
In August 1993, President Bill Clinton signed legislation granting the Federal Communications Commission authority to auction electromagnetic spectrum licenses. FCC staff had been arguing for radio spectrum auctions since 1983 when MIT-trained economist Evan Kwerel was hired away from Yale. Ten years later the FCC hired Milgrom and Wilson to design a complicated auction. For background see Kwerel's foreword to Putting Auction Theory to Work, Milgrom's Churchill Lectures (Cambridge, 2004). Or read You Say You Want a Revolution: A Story of the Information Age (Yale, 2011), by FCC Chairman Reed Hundt, who had been Vice President Al Gore's friend since high school. In 1994 Gore exuberantly announced "the greatest auction ever" and the cell-phone era commenced. Sylvia Nasar made the event the climax of A Beautiful Mind (Simon & Schuster, 1998), her prize-winning biography of economist John Nash, since it was Nash's highly abstract work of 45 years before that had opened the door to auction theory and all the rest – for which he was finally on his way to Stockholm to receive, with two subsequent elaborators of his insights, a Nobel Prize.
The FCC auction and many subsequent others of greater size are proof enough that the technology works. More striking still was the speed with which Google adopted a variant known as a second price auction to permit the near-instantaneous sale of advertising on its search engine, based on the appearance of a keyword in the search. Auctions today are often all but invisible, but they govern an ever-increasing portion of modern life. And where auctions are not present, game theorists have devised countless other ways, most of them contracts, to arrange incentives to increase efficiency. Stimulated by John McMillan's Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets (Norton, 2002), I set out a dozen years ago to learn more about the transformation of the old-fashioned economics of prices and quantities as the strategists introduced incentives of all sorts to the question. When the financial crisis of 2008 posed what seemed a different and much more intriguing problem, I veered off to pursue that instead. It turned out, of course, to be intimately related.
In the aftermath of last week, there was a widespread sense of jubilation. David Kreps, Wilson's co-author on the Gang of Four, ("Reputation and Imperfect Information"), who continues to work on the wellsprings of cooperation, said Wilson's impact on the discipline "puts him in the company of giants such as Ken Arrow and Paul Samuelson: he is, as much as anyone, the founder of the School of Economic Theory as Engineering." Wilson and Milgrom, along with laureates Jennifer Doudna (chemistry), and Reinhard Gentzel and Andre Ghez (both physics), will stream their lectures in December from the Swedish consulate in San Francisco.
Meanwhile economist E. Glen Weyl kicked up a row over the summer when he asserted on the website ProMarket that a complex two-sided auction to reallocate spectrum from broadcasters to mobile communications companies had produced disappointing results. The design has produced hundreds of millions of dollars for private equity firms, he said, but failed to reallocate as much spectrum as had been hoped, and left the US at a disadvantage in a global competition to develop broadband internet. Milgrom's firm, Auctionomics, had been the principle designer; other close associates had been involved. Weyl called for greater transparency. Milgrom responded, in a guest post on Digitopoly, a website co-edited by a former student, Joshua Gans, and Weyl replied a couple of weeks later. Weyl, a former member of the economics department of the University of Chicago, now works for Microsoft as a political economist. He is the author, with Eric Posner, of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Princeton, 2018). Expect the argument about the perils of "technocracy" to continue.
Why so long a wait? Serendipity, vicissitudes, fads and fashion surely all played a part. But who could fail to notice that Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences began his streamed remarks announcing the prize speaking several sentences in Swedish? Or that the long citation noted that Stockholm's 1674 Auktionsverk may be the oldest surviving auction house in the world? Economics was no part of Alfred Nobel's will, but the Academy committee that now prepare a prize in his memory seems intent on demonstrating to its hoe audience, among others, that their Nobel program accords with the founder's intent to recognize "discoveries and inventions of greatest benefit to all humankind."


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So, we drove four hours down to Bakersfield Friday night (November 15) for the Western Bands Association State Marching Band Championships. Our daughter, Amanda, is a member of the Oak Grove High School Marching Band. She plays bass drum in the OG battery, as you can see in the photo to the right.
The air quality had been iffy, but within tolerable levels for several days, so we were hopeful. Saturday morning, we awoke in our hotel to a text from Amanda saying the WBA had canceled the event based on a forecast that the AQI was going to get much worse—above 150. I was bummed to the point that catching sight of Morgan Hill's Emerald Regime semi parked outside their hotel brought on sniffles.
But wait, there's more! Thanks to the perseverance of several intrepid band directors, including our host—West High School—an exhibition was quickly assembled and, in the end, five amazing, rebellious high school bands were scheduled to take the field in exhibition. They were King's Academy, Branham, Valley Christian, Oak Grove, and West.
We assembled at West High School around noon to do show prep, watching the air quality index. The bands ate, warmed up, drilled and got costumed and, by the time the first band took the field a little after 4PM, the AQI had fallen to 83—clearer than it had been in days.
We waived much of the usual exhibition decorum—everyone's props were assembled in the end zone and there was no time limit on setup or retreat. The kids for once got to watch other bands perform from the front stands and could spend a few moments at the end of their show pieces, soaking up the applause and adulation. They had a blast.
Below is a photo album of the day from the point of view of one Oak Grove Band Mom. If you hover your mouse pointer over the image, it will display a caption. Enjoy!


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The nature of Dance is becoming to others. It is also to detect others (already/always) in all the gestures and behaviors of others. I can be a dog, a woman, a rock, and even a buried house. What is the "others"? Fragments crashed (of/towards) me, scattering reflections (of/towards) me. What is something strange, something incomprehensible, something we cannot communicate with.
Indeed, Dance is a way that enables us to communicate with things we cannot communicate with otherwise. It is to go while laughing with slight fears. It can be both immersion, yet at the same time, impossibility.
Because our bodies are already/always living a crack. Our bodies are ripped up.


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What kind of films does Screamfest Film Festival screen?
Screamfest Film Festival screens American and International horror films. Please review our latest film guide to get an idea of the types of films we screen at the festival. The festival supports independent horror films and the filmmakers that create them. All horror genres are welcome: horror, horror-comedy, thrillers, horror-animation, Sci-Fi and more. From horror comedies to straight out gore fest, red carpet premieres to independent productions, there's a place for all things horror at Screamfest Horror Film Festival. We recommend you watch some of the films on our YouTube channel to get an idea of the types of films we screen.
The festival screens feature-length, extended-length short films, short films, super short films and student shorts.
Does the running time include credits?
Yes, the running time includes credits for each film category.
When does the festival take place?
Screamfest Horror Film Festival will take place October tba 2020 at the TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood, CA.
Do you accept fee waivers?
I don't have any money for the submission fee, will you watch my film's screener link and let me have a discount or get a waiver?
No we will not review your link or respond to your email. Screamfest is a non-profit 501 ( 3 ) ( c ) organization that supports the development of independent filmmakers and screenwriters of the horror genre. Each submission fee goes back into the festival.
When is my film due?
We prefer films to be submitted with a link to a password protected online screener. The online film submission form includes a field for you to enter your secured online link to your film by the submission deadline date listed on the website.
ALL DEADLINES CLOSE AT 11:59 PM PST
Will I be notified when Screamfest receives my film?
Due to the high volume of submissions, we are unable to notify each individual when we receive their film.
Can I submit an updated version of my film after I've already submitted an earlier version?
Sending in an updated version of your film after you have already submitted a prior version of the film is not allowed. It is not fair to the other filmmakers who sent their film in before the selected submission deadline. We will not view any replacement links emailed to us after their selected deadline date has passed. We will only view the first cut of your film that we receive with your online submission form.
When will I know if my film has been selected to screen at Screamfest Horror Film Festival?
We will notify filmmakers no later than September 15th. Please make sure that the e-mail address and phone number that you provided on your submission is working at that time, as we will be contacting you via that e-mail. NOTE: Please add our email address to your email safe senders list, address book or contact list so that any correspondence with Screamfest will not be blocked or filtered into your bulk folder.
What if my film gets accepted at another festival that takes place before Screamfest?
If you are accepted to another film festival, please email us with the subject heading "EARLY ACCEPTANCE NOTICE NEEDED." Let us know what festival you have been accepted to and we will inform you of your judging status.
What is Screamfest Horror Film Festivals premiere status requirement?
We require that all feature films must not have had any public or festival screenings in the Southern California region and prefer a World, North American, US, West Coast Premiere or LA premiere for feature films that will screen in our competition section. For short films we would like an LA premiere.
Premiere status (shorts & features) will be one of the factors considered when determining a film's inclusion in the Festival.
Do you accept work-in-progress films?
Rough cuts and works-in-progress are eligible for entry but can only be submitted in the final deadline and if the completed film will be available by September 15th, 2020. Please label your submission "Rough Cut" and specify what is missing (i.e., temp sound, needs color correction, etc.). Our programming staff is accustomed to viewing films that are missing minor elements. However, please be aware that our programming department may not be able to re-screen your film if you send a final cut after submitting a rough cut. To avoid confusion throughout the screening review process, we would prefer that you only send us ONE version of your film as our programming team may not be able to re-screen your film.
How many films can I submit?
You can submit as many films as you'd like. Each film must be submitted separately.
Can I submit my short film that is already online and available to the public?
Short films that are viewable to the public on YouTube or vimeo etc., before the festival dates are not eligible for consideration.
What screening formats does Screamfest Horror Film Festival accept?
We welcome submissions of password protected on-line screener links using such sites as Vimeo or YouTube. You may enter the link and password when you complete the online submission form.
What if my screener link doesn't work for the programmers?
Our programmers make every effort to view your film but it is your responsibility to ensure your link is working and the film plays all the way through with sound.
Did you watch my film? The play count on my screener link seems off?
Be assured that staff programmers watch every eligible film submitted to us within our submission deadline period.
Each online video player counts plays on their platform differently. Sometimes a play is recorded every time the content is started. So if it's paused, rewound or reloaded again the view count might increase. We have noticed that plays used through apps on streaming devices such as Chromecast often don't count plays at all.
Please check with your preferred viewer platform to see how they account for plays.
If I get accepted into the festival what is the screening format requirement?
For presentations at the festival, features and short films must provide a DCP for projection. For more technical specifications and formats, please read the Submission Guidelines.
Full details about submission requirements can be found in our Submission Guidelines.
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The Bechdel, Russo, and Race Test: Scream, "Hello, Emma" – Season 1, Episode 2
In the newest episode of Scream, "Hello, Emma," Rachel was killed and her murder was disguised as a suicide, so as far as the town knew, Rachel had hung herself. Two of the individuals who were most affected by her death was Audrey and Emma. To be more specific, Audrey was upset because her girlfriend had died, and Emma was upset because she believed that the video she had let her friends post had played a hand in Rachel's apparent suicide.
The Bechdel, Russo, and Race Test
"Hello, Emma" passed the Bechdel and Russo test but did not pass the race test.
The serial killer posts a GIF of Nina's death.
Named women talked to each other on several occasions in "Hello, Emma," and there were three instances in the episode where some of these named women talked to each other without mentioning men (e.g., Emma talked to her mom, to Audrey and to Riley and Brooke about Rachel on three separate occasions) so the episode passed the Bechdel test. "Hello, Emma" also passed the Russo test, and the episode passed this test because Rachel (who is gay) was in the episode; because Rachel was not solely defined by her sexual orientation (e.g., she was also known as a Catholic student who had issues with cutting and depression); and because Rachel was so important to the plot that it would have been impossible to have taken her completely out of the episode without changing a major plot point in "Hello, Emma."*****
Emma's home alarm goes off and she receives a call from a security office.
In regards to the race test, there were a few non-White characters in "Hello, Emma," but because none of the non-White characters in the episode ever talked to each other, "Hello, Emma" did not pass the race test.
*The Bechdel test entails three requirements:
1. It has to have at least two (named) women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man
**The Vito Russo test entails three requirements:
1. The show contains a character that is identifiably lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex and/or transgender
2. The character must not be solely or predominately defined by her sexual orientation, gender identity and/or as being intersex
3.The character must be tied into the plot in such a way that her removal would have a significant effect
***The race or people of color (POC) test has three requirements:
1. It has two people of color in it
3. About something other than a White person
****Just because a show passes the Bechdel, Russo and race test does not mean that it is not sexist, heterosexist, racist and/or cissexist, etc. The Bechdel, Russo and race test is only a bare minimum qualifier for the representation of LGBTI individuals, women and people of color in television. The failure to pass these tests also does not identify whether the central character was a woman, a person of color or a LGBTQI individual and it does not dictate the quality of the show.
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Top 100 cited articles on radiation exposure in medical imaging: A bibliometric analysis
Jason Kinnin, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
Tarek N. Hanna, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
Marc Jutras, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Babar Hasan, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Rick Bhatia, Health Sciences Centre, Eastern Health, St. John's, Canada
Faisal Khosa, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Paediatrics and Child Health; Women and Child Health
Background: Bibliometric analyses by highest number of citations can help researchers and funding agencies in determining the most influential articles in a field. The main objective of this analysis was to identify the top 100 cited articles addressing radiation exposure from medical imaging and assess their characteristics.
Methods: Relevant articles were extracted from the Scopus database after a systematic search by researchers using an iteratively defined Boolean search string. Subsequently, exclusion criteria were applied. A list of top 100 articles was prepared, and articles were ranked according to the citations they had received. No time restriction was applied. Descriptive statistics of the data were compiled.
Results: The top-cited articles were published from 1970-2013, with the most articles published in 2009 and 2010 (12 articles in each year). The citations ranged from 107-1888 with a median of 272. Manuscripts from our top-cited list originated from 20 different countries, with contributions made by 158 authors and 160 organizations. Eighty-eight percent of studies evaluated patient-related radiation exposure, 7% health care workers, and 5% both or were not specified. Thirty-two percent of studies examined adult populations, 14% pediatric, and 54% included both populations or did not specify. Seventy-two percent of studies were dedicated to Computed Tomography, 8% to radiography/fluoroscopy, 9% to interventional procedures, 4% to nuclear medicine, and 7% to a combination of 2 or more modalities.
Conclusion: The top 100 cited articles in medical imaging related to radiation exposure are diverse, originating from many countries with numerous contributing authors. The most common topics covered involve CT and adult patients. The recent peak in the most-highly cited articles (2010) suggests that increased attention has been devoted to this field in recent years. Based on these results, it would appear that research on radiation exposure in medical imaging is poised to continue expanding.
Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
Kinnin, J., Hanna, T. N., Jutras, M., Hasan, B., Bhatia, R., Khosa, F. (2019). Top 100 cited articles on radiation exposure in medical imaging: A bibliometric analysis. Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, 48(4), 368-378.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_women_childhealth_paediatr/876


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30 October 2017, 3.51pm EDT
Organisations Ask Prime Minister Trudeau To Take Action on Corruption
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Sherpa – MiningWatch Canada
(Paris/Ottawa, October 30, 2017) French anti-corruption organisation Sherpa and Canadian mining watchdog MiningWatch Canada today released a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, alerting him to the apparent failure of Canadian authorities to investigate serious bribery allegations against Kinross Gold. The organisations had submitted documentation to the RCMP in December 2015. Similar allegations are currently under investigation by the FBI and the SEC in the United States.
The organisations say the documentation shows that Kinross Gold, directly and through subsidiaries, appears to have engaged in illegal business activities in its West African operations. The detailed report, which the organisations say is too sensitive to be made public, is based on testimonies from whistleblowers – Kinross workers and/or former workers – along with corroborating information.
According to Sherpa director, renowned French lawyer William Bourdon, the evidence should have been sufficient as the base for an investigation. Bourdon commented, "For reasons which we do not fully understand, despite the quality of the evidence presented – evidence specific to a major Canadian mining operator – the investigation in Canada seems to have been stalled or suspended."
Bourdon confirmed that the organisations had had direct contacts with the RCMP, who had indicated that they were not in a position carry out substantial investigations.
The Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act is the only Canadian law that regulates the operation of Canadian companies operating outside the country. Jamie Kneen, spokesperson for MiningWatch Canada, said that his organisation has become disillusioned with the Act's enforcement. "Canadian officials will acknowledge that Canadian companies may be involved in corruption, but it's OK because we have a law against it," Kneen commented. "But if that law is not enforced, if there isn't any investigation, much less prosecution, it's not much help."
Canada enacted the CFPOA in 1998 to fulfill Canada's obligations under the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery in International Business Transactions, and amended it in 2013 in response to criticism from the OECD. However, enforcement efforts do not seem to have increased, leading to concern that the government is simply not committing the resources needed to investigate and prosecute notoriously complex and difficult corruption cases.
In the letter, Sherpa and MiningWatch point to Prime Minister Trudeau's stated support for the fight against corruption at the national and international level, and also his concern to promote better ethical behaviour for major business leaders.
William Bourdon, Sherpa, 01 42 60 32 60, [email protected]
Jamie Kneen, MiningWatch Canada, +1 (613) 569-3439, [email protected]


Your sample size is >40, as long as you do not have outliers.
Your population has a normal distribution.
The central limit theorem states that if sample size are large enough, the distribution will be approximately normal. The general rule of n≥30 applies.
There are three different tests that use the chi-square ; in each test, the assumptions and conditions are the same, including the Large Enough Sample Condition. To know if your sample is large enough to use chi-square, you must check the Expected Counts Condition: if the counts in every cell is 5 or more, the cells meet the Expected Counts Condition and your sample is large enough. Note that 5 is arbitrary and is open to interpretation. Some texts suggest that it's okay to have a few expected counts less than 5 (no more than 20%) as long as none are less than 1 (i.e. Yates, Moore & McCabe, The Practice of Statistics, 1999).
Calculating sample size can be one of the most confusing aspects of statistics, mostly because of all the rules (and rules of thumb) surrounding appropriate sizes for different distributions. You have to make sure your sample is sufficiently large, but not too large. For more techniques, see: Sample Size (includes techniques like using tables and calculators).


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