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Doesn't it bug you how everyone knows the world has changed but so few folks do anything about it? Or even worse, how whole industries choose to ignore the realities of today. We call something the the way it is, because THEY say it is, not because it actually is. Instead of moaning about it though, I find it heartening when some adjustments occur, bringing us closer to reality, even when it is not my community doing the readjustment. Each step closer to the reality gives me hope.
My twelve year old boy likes to point out that curses are curses only because we call them curses. Well, what we call success is only success because of how we define it. I do think we have to get far beyond money as the basis of most achievement, but all that aside, even in the revenue reporting we've got a lot of ground to cover.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that The Music Biz's paper of record, Billboard, has changed the way that they determine chart toppers, adding in digital download sales and streaming data. Yes, this has it's share of problems too, but I do think it more accurately reflects how people consume music (but what do I know). And I do wish something similar would occur in the Film Biz.
Imagine if we had VOD data and streaming data. Wouldn't that show what people are really watching? Yup. So when will we start having access to the VOD & Streaming numbers. Not until the numbers HAVE to be reported. Indiewire recently tried to explain the problem. But unfortunately there is even more to it. I found that many distributors have confidentiality clause in the contracts with the VOD companies & digital platforms, where they can report numbers but not terms. Even numbers though are difficult to extract. A producer recently complained to me how a distributors statement did not even break out digital revenue, let alone all the varieties thereof.
If we don't have the numbers available, we can not use success as something we can build upon. And it is not just the filmmakers, their supporters, and the fans that want this number. Theater owners want it too. What's it going to take to get the Film Biz to follow the Music's lead?


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A mill is a building equipped with machinery that processes a raw material such as grain, wood, or fiber into a product such as flour, lumber, or fabric. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Virginia's mills were powered by water in creeks or rivers. In a flour mill, water flowing over the mill wheel was converted by gears into the power to turn one of two burr stones. Kernels of wheat were then ground between the two stones. The grinding removed bran (the outer husk) from the wheat kernel, and then crushed the inner kernel into flour. Flour mills were an important part of rural communities across the country, including Waterford in the fertile Loudoun Valley of Virginia.
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I wrote this article for RiAus while I worked there.
I've recently returned from a round-the-world adventure, presenting at several conferences and workshops about my PhD research and exploring along the way.
During my adventures I was lucky enough to visit some of the world's coolest places that do science-art projects, as well as compare notes with some people working in these spaces internationally.
While I was in California I visited the Exploratorium and was enthralled by their tinkering studio. I spent a good ten minutes playing with their oscylinderscope. Even though I know I perceive music when sound waves tickle hairs in my ears, there was something compelling and affirming about seeing this at the same time as hearing it. We've done some cool music-themed things in the past at RiAus and I hope to see something about the physics of music happen in the future.
I also visited Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco that blew me away. They had a collection of 3D printers just sitting around that dwarfed the collection we had at our 3D printing workshop with ANAT. They also have a dedicated sewing room, woodwork room and bike wall (pictured) – so much space!
It made me appreciate how awesome Hackerspace Adelaide is, given the limited real-world space and resources. I guess that's why lots of projects end up happening out and about, like our Tour Down Under project in 2011.
I moved from the new-world technological frontier of California to a place steeped in science history – Florence. There I visited Museo Galileo and La Specola, fundamental to the history of astronomy and anatomy respectively. La Specola was fascinatingly creepy, while I found Museo Galileo profoundly educational for me personally.
I visited Museo Galileo fresh from talking about evaluation of science engagement at the Public Communication of Science and Technology conference, which made me more mindful of how I was engaging with the museum. At the moment I'm particularly interested in observational, ethnographic approaches to evaluating engagement, so was thinking about what someone might report from observing me interacting in the museum. I'm also interested in how engagement activities reinforce (or contradict) each other – and realised my own personal experience at Museo Galileo related to this.
I was involved in the RiAus Adelaide Reef project last year. This was a satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project. As science advisor on th
e project, I worked with mathematicians and scientists to develop the interpretive signage for the final exhibition – as well as learning to crochet to contribute to the project as an artist. I was much more comfortable with the environmental science and biology in the project, so spent more time trying to get my head around the idea of hyperbolic space with mathematicians David Butler and Simon Pampena who kindly helped out on the project.
In the final, interactive section of Museo Galileo, I came to an exhibit (pictured). Had I not been involved with the hyperbolic crochet project last year, I may have quickly glanced at it, pressed a button, then moved on. As it was, I spent a good ten minutes there. I pressed the buttons that moved the cone mostly full of water around, which changed the type of curve within. I tried to integrate in my brain how the level of water moving within a cone related to my understanding of hyperbolic space from the crochet project last year.
It would have been clear to anyone observing that I was engaged with the exhibit. I spent longer at the exhibit than others who passed through the whole room while I was there. However if people had been observing alone they would never have known why I engaged with the exhibit. Yes, this exhibit in Italy clearly stimulated my genuine learning about mathematics. However this learning built on my prior learning about mathematics through a craft project in Australia. In my evaluation research I'm interested in the steps that people take between projects that lead to more active citizens or more aware people, so it was profoundly useful to understand these steps within myself.
I went on from Florence to London, where there are too many amazing people and places doing science-art projects to mention. Keeping on the crafty theme, there are some people doing projects beyond London that I met who inspired me.
Something that appealed to me as a potential project for our 300+ group of science-art crafters involved in the RiAus Adelaide Reef is the Knit a Neuron project, created by Helen Featherstone and Anne Cooke.
This project appealed because, like the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, it allows people to contribute an individually crafted piece which, combined with others, forms a new entity. Through creating their individual pieces crafters can learn some science or maths about what they're crafting. Then the final exhibition gives everyone – viewers and crafters – something new to learn about, which in the UK version was the science of brain injuries and stroke.
I also had a great time throwing around crafty ideas with Julia Collins, who's a doctor of knots at the University of Edinburgh. She does an awesome range of projects there now. We enthused about Vi Hart and got excited about the possibility of doing crafty maths projects for the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the same year – fringe festivals across hemispheres united through math and yarn!
Moving from yarn to other festive things – I was lucky enough to be in Paris for the launch of the science humour exhibition (pictured) at Espace des Sciences Pierre-Gilles de Gennes in Paris.
Even if you don't speak French, if you can follow enough to click on 'visionnez les blagues' on this site you can discover a trove of science cartoons. I contributed by sharing my favourite cartoon and explaining why I liked it on a note – that cartoon and explanation are now part of the exhibition. I would love to see this participatory project happen in the RiAus FutureSpace Gallery down the track.
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10th Men's Hockey World Cup 2002
For the first time in the history of international hockey, Kuala Lumpur is the only city chosen as the World Cup more than once. The 10th men's Hockey World Cup will be held for more than 2 weeks starting from the 24th February till 9th March 2002. Countries participating to vie for this prestigious title includes from Europe, the defending champion Netherlands, European Champions Germany, 1998 World Cup runner-up Spain, England, Poland and Belgium. Asia has 5 nations participating for the first time - host nation Malaysia, Olympic silver medalist South Korea, four times World Cup titleholders Pakistan, past champion India and Japan. Argentina and World Cup debutantes Cuba are the representatives from the American continent while Olympic bronze medalist Australia and New Zealand bears the hopes of the Asia Pacific, South Africa, in the meantime is the sole entry from Africa. As the main venue for the tournament, the National Hockey Stadium Bukit Jalil, located 20 kms from the city will see 72 matches being played by 16 countries taking part.
In conjuction with the 10th Men's World Cup Hockey held in Kuala Lumpur, Pos Malaysia Berhad took the initiative to record this international acclaimed tournament by producing stamps and first day covers. These stamps priced at 30 sen, 50 sen and RM1, showcases paintings of world-class players in interesting moves.
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When it comes to advancing women to the highest levels of business and policy making, "We have to dare the difference and we have to speak about it," International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde told a World Economic Forum session on women leadership.
Among the participants on Lagarde's female-dominated panel: Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust.
The next panel Lagarde participated in told a different story: She was the only woman, joining two central bankers, two current and former cabinet ministers and the head of an international institution.
Thirty-nine years after the forum's annual meetings began in Davos, Switzerland, female participation hasn't topped 20 percent of delegates. And that's for the entire conference: Excluding moderators, there were only men among the bankers and policy makers discussing "Global Financial Context," for instance, and executives and lawmakers on the "Global Energy Context" were also all male.
"The debate is still dominated by males frustrated by the crisis created by male-oriented industries," said Kim Sung Joo, a businesswoman who co-chaired the election campaign last year for South Korea's first female president. "The forum is reflective of the industries that used to lead. It's not broad enough."
Kim, whose Sungjoo Group owns German fashion brand MCM, joins delegates who point to an array of mechanisms the forum, like the business and political world, could adopt to be more inclusive. The shift from a manufacturing to a knowledge, Internet-based economy is one element the forum is overlooking, and cheaper access might lure a wider spectrum of delegates including younger leaders, Kim said.
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Davos reflects a global community in which women are still struggling to become leaders.
Women represent just 17 percent of independent directors at companies in the U.S. Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, barely above the 16 percent level of 2007, executive recruiter Spencer Stuart said in a November report. In the European Union, women with board positions climbed to 15.8 percent in October, according to European Commission figures.
"The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting engages the highest levels of leadership from a variety of sectors," the forum said in an e-mailed response to questions. "Participation figures at the Annual Meeting are a reflection of the scarcity of women in this external pool."
Rising Share
The proportion of female delegates, 17 percent this year, is up from 9 percent in 2002, the statement said. Women accounted for 22 percent of speakers. In addition to the panel on women in leadership, "There are also public and private sessions focused on the gender digital divide, the empowerment of girls, and public-private collaboration on closing the economic gender gap," the statement said.
Women were feted at Davos even as they remained a minority. Ernst & Young Global Ltd. and Forbes magazine organized a Jan. 25 reception for the "100 Most Powerful Women" at the Hotel Steigenberger Belvedere, including Sandberg and Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer. Bank of America Corp. hosted an all-women networking reception at the Hotel Schatzalp, the former sanatorium perched 300 meters above the town.
For Huguette Labelle, Transparency International's chief and the only woman among the forum's six co-chairs, the success of this year's discussions would be determined by how much the gender gap featured in the debate.
"I'm looking for a distinct recognition that we cannot move forward without much greater gender parity at all levels," Labelle said in an interview on the conference's first day. "We need direct recognition that gender equality in both business and politics will be high on the agenda."
'Strong Message'
After the closing session, she focused on UBS AG Chairman Axel Weber's pledge to attack gender stereotypes and female empowerment. It was a "strong message," Labelle said.
The conference's founder, Klaus Schwab, also touched on gender equality as he bid farewell to the forum's attendees.
"What a wonderful way to end," said Schwab from the stage, pointing to The Davos Choir, which had performed for the forum. "With as many women as men, that's very important."
For some, the difficulty is that improving gender parity in Davos and beyond mask the fact that attitudes haven't changed.
"We need CEOs to believe in it, not to pay lip service," Lubna Olayan, deputy chairwoman and CEO of Saudi Arabia's Olayan Financing Co., said on the women's leadershippanel.
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Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at Fontainebleau, France-based INSEAD business school, who moderated the panel, saw the "cliff at the mid-career level" as one of the biggest barriers to progress in getting women to the top of organizations.
Talking about the hurdles would be a start, said Facebook's Sandberg. "Women are held back by the soft stuff that people don't talk about," she said.
Lagarde also encouraged speaking up.
"Because the measurements, the yardsticks, have been cast in stone by others before them, in order to compare and compete they have to use the same measurements," Lagarde said of women in leadership. "Explain, dare, stand up."
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European Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding also concluded quotas were needed: The commission has proposed European rules for a 40 percent quota to favor women over equally qualified men for supervisory board seats.
"I don't like to intervene very strongly, but I thought it was the only way," Reding told the women's panel on Jan. 25. "I tried to do it first with asking the companies to do it by themselves. What was the result? Nothing."


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Managing Generational DiversityBy Dianne Durkin | Posted 2010-08-17 Print
With four distinct generations of employees in today's information technology workforce, each with its own habits and priorities, the pressures facing managers are compounded.
Creating and maintaining a high-performing staff is at the core of nearly every business strategy. With the four distinct generations in today's workforce having different values, needs and motivations, the pressures on employee commitment are compounded, and the stakes are much higher.
Currently, Generation X and Nexters make up about 45 percent of the workforce. Together, these 18-to-41-year- old individuals equal the number of Baby Boomers, while the Veteran generation makes up the final 10 percent. To ensure long-term employee loyalty, enterprises need to learn about each of these generational groups, their needs and motivations.
Veterans (born between 1922–1944)
Their values, shaped by the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II and the Korean War, emphasize civic pride, loyalty, respect for authority, dedication, sacrifice, conformity, honor and discipline.
This generation is driven by duty before pleasure. In the workforce, they are stable, loyal, hard-working and employed with their company for 30 years or more. To them, work is a privilege: They respect the institutions and their leaders, believing that work and sacrifice pay off in the long term. Veterans seek a directive leadership style, with clearly defined goals, directions and measurements designated by the leader.
Baby Boomers (born 1945–1963)
The 74 million-strong Boomers were raised in an era of optimism, opportunity and progress—with values shaped by the moon landing, the Peace Corps, the Vietnam War, Woodstock and the Civil Rights Movement. They are determined to do better than their parents and provide their children with everything their hearts desire.
Many are the first college graduates in their families and go the extra mile on the job. Boomers—who have the distinction of having invented the 60-hour workweek—achieve their identity through the work they perform.
Gen Xers (born 1964–1979)
The Xers came of age during the economic wars of the 1970s and 1980s. Sandwiched between the ubiquitous Baby Boomers and the privileged Nexters, they are the middle children struggling to leave their mark. Their values were shaped by Watergate, the Challenger disaster, terrorism and computers. In many cases, both their parents worked. They are the plugged-in children who surfed the Web, played video games and watched MTV—with a chronic need for stimulation and instant gratification.
In the workplace, Xers hate micromanagement. They want to be told what is expected of them, provided with appropriate feedback and empowered to get the job done. Discouraged and disheartened when they saw their parents being laid off, they want to work on their own terms and aim to have a balance between their personal and professional lives.
Nexters (born 1980–2000)
High-tech shaped the Nexters' value systems. They are well-traveled, global citizens, and a lot of them speak second languages. Many Nexters are recent graduates who grew up in households with hyper-involved parents and overscheduled lives.
In the workplace, Nexters speak out. They will walk right into the CEO's office and let their opinions be known. Although viewed by many in the workforce as lacking a strong work ethic and having an unjustified sense of entitlement, they have a positive, can-do attitude about getting the job done well and efficiently. They aim to make things happen, hate indecision and want to move on to do the things they enjoy.
With this broad field of individuals populating the business world, it has become more difficult to recruit and retain a high-performing workforce. Studies show that, across the generations, 85 percent of the workforce wants to be given the means and the motivation to continually improve and grow. Younger employees will leave their jobs quickly if they are not challenged, valued and developed.
To keep employees engaged, organizations must involve staff in identifying and helping to solve major business issues. Ask, listen, engage and empower are the key strategies for creating a high-performing workforce of the future.
To successfully integrate the various generations—and achieve employee loyalty and translate it to customer and brand loyalty—organizations must take the following key steps:
• Build and promote a learning environment conducive to attracting and retaining a cross-section of individuals.
• Establish a strategic vision for motivating, coaching and developing diverse employees.
• Create a variety of learning and development experiences that engage and empower individuals to achieve shared business objectives.
Dianne Durkin is president and founder of Loyalty Factor, a training and management consulting firm based in Portsmouth, N.H. Durkin is the author of The Loyalty Advantage.
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Typhoid Mary, byname of Mary Mallon, (born September 23, 1869, Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland—died November 11, 1938, North Brother Island, Bronx, New York, U.S.), famous typhoid carrier who allegedly gave rise to multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever.
Mary immigrated to the United States in 1883 and subsequently made her living as a domestic servant, most often as a cook. It is not clear when she became a carrier of the typhoid bacterium (Salmonella typhi). However, from 1900 to 1907 nearly two dozen people fell ill with typhoid fever in households in New York City and Long Island where Mary worked. The illnesses often occurred shortly after Mary began working in each household, but, by the time the disease was traced to its source in a household where she had recently been employed, Mary had disappeared.
In 1906, after six people in a household of 11 where Mary had worked in Oyster Bay, New York, became sick with typhoid, the home owners hired New York City Department of Health sanitary engineer George Soper, whose specialty was studying typhoid fever epidemics, to investigate the outbreak. Other investigators were brought in as well and concluded that the outbreak likely was caused by contaminated water. Mary continued to work as a cook, moving from household to household until 1907, when she resurfaced working in a Park Avenue home in Manhattan. The winter of that year, following an outbreak in the Manhattan household that involved a death from the disease, Soper met with Mary. He subsequently linked all 22 cases of typhoid fever that had been recorded in New York City and the Long Island area to Mary.
Again Mary fled, but authorities led by Soper finally overtook her and had her committed to an isolation centre on North Brother Island, part of the Bronx, New York. There she stayed, despite an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, until 1910, when the health department released her on condition that she never again accept employment that involved the handling of food.
Four years later Soper began looking for Mary again when an epidemic broke out at a sanatorium in Newfoundland, New Jersey, and at Sloane Maternity Hospital in Manhattan, New York; Mary had worked as a cook at both places. She was at last found in a suburban home in Westchester county, New York, and was returned to North Brother Island, where she remained the rest of her life. A paralytic stroke in 1932 led to her slow death six years later.
Mary claimed to have been born in the United States, but it was later determined that she was an immigrant. Fifty-one original cases of typhoid and three deaths were directly attributed to her (countless more were indirectly attributed), although she herself was immune to the typhoid bacillus.


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I'm looking for the name of a black and white 1950's science fiction movie. It starts out with a man that finds a small black box with a little cone on one side at a construction dig site. A little boy, I think his son, asks to keep the box. He takes this box home and somehow drops it and it shatters into pieces. He goes to sleep with a piece of the object in his hand and next thing we know he teleports to a different world. He convinces someone in his family about this experience and takes them to this other world and they find many of these black boxes. They find a dead humanoid with a headgear that has a wire which is connected to one of these boxes. They put the head gear on and find out information that is contained in the box. The information they learn is about two different planets which are at war.
They then are able to teleport from planet to planet when they stand on a round platform. I thought it was called the Terminots or something like that.


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760 E 232nd St is a Multi-Family building located in Wakefield, Bronx constructed in 1926. This 4-story building has 12 units. The building is within Community District 212 and zoned for the following schools - P.S. 021 Phillip H. Sheridan, The Forward School, School Of Diplomacy. Nearby transportation include the 2, 5 subway lines.
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Alpha Gamma Delta - an international women's fraternity - was found on May 30th, 1904 at Syracuse University. The 11 founding members gather at the home of Dr. Wellesley Perry Coddington - a professor at Syracuse - who assisted in the early development of Alpha Gamma Delta. The 11 founders were; Marguerite Shepard, Estelle Shepard Beswick, Georgia Alberta Dickover, Jennie Titus Smith Morris, Ethel Evelyn Brown Distin, Grace Mosher Harter, Edith MacConnel Hickok, Mary Louise Snider, Georgia Otis Chipman, Emily Helen Butterfield and Flora Knight Mayer.
Currently Alpha Gamma Delta has 185 chapter and over 155,000 women have become sisters since this international women's fraternity was founded. According to the official Alpha Gamma Delta website, purpose of the Alpha Gamma sisters is:
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To start with, here are key facts of significance on our outreach based on existing estimates issued by IFAD Operations Department:
Estimated beneficiaries (3.1 million out of 11 Million rural population that is 28% of rural population)
Cost by beneficiary: 20 dollars
GNI 760 dollars
Cost by beneficiary is equivalent to 2.6% of annual GNI, which is very modest. If we consider that these 20 dollars are spent on average over a period of 5 or 6 years, it appears that the real annual cost per beneficiary is extremely low at less than 0.5% of the GNI.
So we reach a significant share of the rural population, mostly the poorest but we invest very little per capita. Can we claim in any credible way that this level of expense allows us to lift a comparable number of people out of poverty. I doubt it. I would expect us to have achieved the poverty reduction target with a much smaller number of families and people. Let us assume for a while that this is the case. Our problem becomes then not to increase the total outreach but actually to increase the proportion of people reached that are actually lifted out of poverty. The question is therefore: how and this is to what I would like to invite you to share views and keep in mind as we progress in our COSOP design.
To get the ball rolling here are some pathways we can think of some of which have already emerged in some of our discussions:
1. Adopt a programme-based approach to promoting innovation and scaling it up around successful or promising experiments (ours and those of others) such as the extension-GRF model etc. . See the booster (push and pull model we have been discussing)
2. Some programmes such as LASED (social land concessions for the poor) have not succeeded in their pilot phase but have potential for success and scaling up if redesigned and implemented in a decentralized way;
3. Supporting membership based farmer organization in their providing services to their members;
4. A deliberate and more systematic choice of activities and investments that maximize the poverty impact rather than outreach (to be identified)
5. Facilitating and mediating between farmers and the private sector (value chain development and contract farming)
6. All the above are very much investment project or programmes financing. I would like to put forward another option which is radically different. Why not identify first a single policy measure or a small set of policy measures that if adopted by the Government and adequately funded and properly implemented would have a far reaching and lasting impact on rural poverty with large mulitiplier effects. Once this is done the programme would work at making an evidence-based case in favour of this measure and allocate adequate resources to their implementation.
I look forward to hearing more on this subject. Meantime I would very much like to receive some feed back on the above ideas.


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Sesame Street is turning 40 this week, so consider these Sweets a few virtual birthday cakes for everyone's favorite Street.
Was Baby Cookie Monster ever on Sesame Street? More importantly, when the cake is this adorable, does it matter? :)
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Robyn and her mom made this adorable number for little Miller:
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Margaret Cho has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy for OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES for playing Kim Jong Il on 30 Rock.
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I'm so excited to have been nominated for an Emmy, especially for 30 Rock, which is an incredible show and also for playing a deranged and deceased world dictator who has divided the small country of my origin in two. That's the best part. I think that's what I'd call iron curtain irony.
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text: The Absolute Sound FLAC article 2012-01-07 03:19:00 My father subscribes to "The Absolute Sound," and in the latest issue they have an article about FLAC. Of course they have no (or very minimal) double-blind testing (something both my father and I believe is necessary for any review to be valid) and a history of endorsing bullshit, so we take their results with a truckload of salt.They score their comparisons on a scale from 0-200 points, with CD audio as 100 points. The scores are generated by A/B comparison (not A/B/X) to a variety of reference qualities. The first issue crops up with this. 0 = Kazoo. 50 = 320kbps MP3. 100 = Red Book CD, 44.1khz/16 bit. 110 = 48khz/24 bit upconverted CD. 120 = 88/24 upconverted. 130 = 96/24 upconverted. 150 = 176/24 upconverted. 160 = 192/24 upconverted. 170 = 192/32 upconverted. 180 = SACD/HRx/High-res downloads. 200 = "Master Tape?". There are no references between 50 and 100. Furthermore, a "very large" difference of 50 points would "require only one A/B comparison and is so large that a 24-hour hiatus between listening sessions would still elicit the typical audiophile expression of 'Holy Cow! This is a night and day difference!'"Both their reference systems used on-board sound cards capable of 192khz S/PDIF output into a PS Audio PWD DAC. Motherboard brand and model is not disclosed. Actual sound-card model is not disclosed.This seems quite suspicious to me. I have been unable to successfully detect differences between 320kbps CBR MP3, wave ripped from CD using Exact Audio Copy, and CD Audio using Foobar2000's ABX comparator plugin. I used Epica's "Design Your Universe" tracks "White Waters" and "Burn to a Cinder" as my references this time. I used the onboard audio of my motherboard (an ASUS P6X58D Premium, Realtek ALC889 audio, with 24-bit/192khz default output set in Windows 7) and a set of Grado SR-60 stereo headphones. My CD drive is a Lite-On iHAS424. I don't have a fancy $4000 DAC. My ABX test results were no better than guessing, nowhere near a "night and day" difference audible with a 24-hour gap. I sincerely doubt that the lower quality of my headphones and DAC would be enough to mask such a difference. Thus, I doubt their measurement scale's accuracy.They did their playback comparisons using JRMC (proprietary) with 192/32 realtime upsampling. They never once mention using the reference FLAC encoder/decoder, or even FLAC frontend.The top 3 programs in sound quality were:JRMC: 150 score for HRx 176.1khz/24-bit to FLACdBPowerAmp: 145Foobar2000: 140Original HRx wave file: 180So they're claiming a large drop in sound quality.Later they claim that converting from FLAC to WAV with Foobar can increase sound quality (where would the extra data be coming from?) and that other programs decrease sound quality. In all cases they claim a decrease in sound quality when compared to the original CD.They also (via listening tests, no md5 hashing or such) claim that Wav->FLAC->Wav conversions create cumulative degradation. This is, of course, a very big claim.So I took a wav file (a rip of "White Waters", mentioned above) and used the FLAC reference encoder to compress it. Then to decompress. I compared the MD5 hashes of the two .wav files, and they were the same. Just in case some strange miracle had occurred and I'd found an MD5 collision I compared the SHA-512 sums, and those were also the same. The two files were bit-for-bit identical. Just for fun, I repeated the wav->FLAC->wav process 10 times, and the files still had identical hashes. I then ABX tested the original and final files, and was unable to do better than guessing.TL;DR: Bullshit detected.


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BWW Reviews: FUNNY MONEY Scatters Over Oyster Mill Stage
British playwright and actor Ray Cooney is probably best known to Americans for authoring the classic 1983 farce, RUN FOR YOUR WIFE, which starred Bernard Cribbins. But he's also responsible for another West End hit from 1994, FUNNY MONEY, in which he starred. Audiences here are better acquainted with it as a 2007 movie starring Chevy Chase, but it's still a fine theatrical piece. It's also currently on stage at Oyster Mill Playhouse, directed by Oyster Mill regular Lois Heagy and starring local theatre veteran Nicholas Hughes in his first Oyster Mill production.
Nick Hughes is a perfectly convincing ball of nerves and near-insanity as Henry Perkins, the everyman accountant whose near-empty briefcase (save for some papers, a scarf and such, and half of a sandwich) is accidentally exchanged with another one containing one million pounds. Concluding quickly, and perhaps slightly drunkenly, that the money was the proceeds of an illegal transaction, he devises a simple plan: take the money and run, well before the people whose money it may be can find him. Although Heagy, the director, is anticipating complaints about Hughes' accent possibly not sounding authentic, he comes by it honestly as an English transplant.
Jean, his wife, played by Aliza Bardfield, is not so convinced of the wisdom of the plan, wanting to have a peaceful birthday dinner for Henry that night, remaining at home, and watching the cat - and most definitely not running off to Barcelona. Jean, who normally does not drink, takes to the bottle in the midst of chaos, and Bardfield is a spirited, feisty drunk throughout much of the performance. Although her accent slips a bit during her alcoholic slurring, her physical comedy during her increasing inebriation is a pleasure to watch.
The best friend couple, Vic and Betty Johnson, is played by Oyster Mill veterans Jack Eilber and Marte Engle. Engle has a specialty of comic relief characters, and that specialty comes out here, as Betty seizes on the wisdom of Henry's plan when no one else does, and makes some decisions to assist him that Vic and Jean can barely handle. Eilber's Vic wants to be the voice of reason in the midst of the million-pound turmoil - a voice quickly and loudly drowned out by circumstances.
A farce involving crime is nothing without police in the midst of it, and therefore Amy Nolan Jordan plays Fulham CID officer Davenport, and Andy Isaacs CID sergeant Slater. Davenport is as crooked as Slater is upright, and is far more alert to what's happening around her, and though Jordan's performance is a touch more relaxed than it might be for a detective standing to earn substantial money from her corruption, she's quick to exploit the possibilities that Henry's planned dash for Spain could mean for her. Isaacs' Slater is stolid, determined, and somehow completely unaware of the frequent switches of briefcase that take place nearly every time he enters the Perkins residence. Only a detective of his dogged persistence and deep perspicacity could walk off the scene, after all disclosures are made, with the assurance that the denizens of the residence are still model citizens. Less frenetic than the officers in many other plays, particularly the more recent UNNECESSARY FARCE, these London police, especially Slater, reassure us that there are still stage police performing thorough investigations and getting to the bottom of on-stage crime.
Anthony Geraci, last seen at Oyster Mill in LUCKY STIFF, plays Ben - no, Bill - the cabbie, the most put-upon man in London. His exasperation is palpable, especially considering that between the Perkins in-laws who aren't heading to the airport and having his auto hit by a police car, he's going nowhere rapidly. Stephen M. Jahn makes a brief appearance as "Mr. Big," the murderous criminal in search of Henry's newfound fortune who wants his briefcase of cash back.
There are a few small issues of pacing in this production, and this reviewer is not fond of the moment of the break between acts in the show, but the show is certainly entertaining and should keep the diehard Anglophile audience members more than content.
FUNNY MONEY is the sort of show that adapts well to Oyster Mill's stage, and sits well with a post-holiday audience in need of a laugh. It's on the Oyster Mill stage through February 10. Tickets are available at 717-737-6768 or through www.oystermill.com.
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The coordinators of the local Toys For Tots campaign are working to raise money and collect toys to serve 1,038 needy children in Galax, Carroll and Grayson this year.
Bob Hines and Kendy Sawyer said they anticipated serving 500 children, but the need was greater than expected.
On Wednesday, they bought a carload of toys at Roses department store in Galax, enough for 174 children from ages 0-3.
Bob Hines said the store gave them a discount on the toys and even helped them load the car. The store is also a drop-off point for toys, so people can bring new, unwrapped toys there or buy them at Roses and donate them.
Toys for Tots still needs toys — or funds to by toys — for 26 children in the 0-to-3 age range, Kendy Sawyer said.
"There is also a big need for toys for children in the 4-to-6 age range and some need in the 7-to-10 range," Sawyer said. "We're in good shape for those age 10 and up."
The couple already has delivered 358 toys to the Galax Elks Lodge during the campaign.
This is their first year running the local campaign, but they've done so before in North Carolina.
Children are pre-qualified for receiving toys through local Departments of Social Services. Sawyer said children in foster care also receive toys from the program, which is coordinated by the U.S. Marine Corps.
A bowling tournament on Saturday and Sunday at Blue Ridge Lanes in Galax also will benefit Toys for Tots.
This year, Hines said the Toys for Tots foundation provided the campaign with a $7,700 donation and Toys R Us provided a grant of $4,000.
Local toy drop-off points in the Twin Counties also include Dollar General stores, Family Dollar stores, Roses, Pro Careers in Woodlawn (across from the new Sears store) and Edward Jones Investments.
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(Oakleys)When my character developer decided to work on a fanfiction story, she transferred this technology into contact lenses. No doubt that will be reality long before the time-frame where the stories take place.
The 9to5Google.Com story follows:
We detailed the first information about the Google [x] Glasses project in December.
They are in late prototype stages of wearable glasses that look similar to thick-rimmed glasses that "normal people" wear. However, these provide a display with a heads up computer interface. There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be mistaken for normal glasses. Additionally, we are not sure of the technology being employed here, but it is likely a transparent LCD or AMOLED display such as the one demonstrated below:Since then, we have learned much more regarding Google's glasses…
In addition, we have heard that this device is not an "Android peripheral" as the NYT stated. According to our source, it communicates directly with the Cloud over IP. Although, the "Google Goggles" could use a phone's Internet connection, through Wi-Fi or a low power Bluetooth 4.0.
The use-case is augmented reality that would tie into Google's location services. A user can walk around with information popping up and into display -Terminator-style- based on preferences, location and Google's information.
Therefore, these things likely connect to the Internet and have GPS. They also likely run a version of Android.
Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said it looks something like Oakley Thumps (below). These glasses, we heard, have a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. It will also take pictures. The spied prototype has a flash —perhaps for help at night, or maybe it is just a way to take better photos. The camera is extremely small and likely only a few megapixels.
The heads up display (HUD) is only for one eye and on the side. It is not transparent nor does it have dual 3D configurations, as previously speculated.
One really cool bit: The navigation system currently used is a head tilting-to scroll and click. We are told it is very quick to learn and once the user is adept at navigation, it becomes second nature and almost indistinguishable to outside users.
(As an aside, I built a head mouse as a Masters Thesis project a few years back that used head tilts to navigate and control menus. I am ready to collect royalties!)I/O on the glasses will also include voice input and output, and we are told the CPU/RAM/storage hardware is near the equivalent of a generation-old Android smartphone. As a guess, we would speculate something like 1GHz ARM A8, 256MB RAM and 8GB of storage? In any case, it will also function as a smartphone.
Perhaps most interesting is that Google is currently deciding on how it wants to release these glasses, even though the product is still a very long way from being finished. It is currently a secret with only a few geeky types knowing about it, and Google is apparently unsure if it will have mass-market appeal. Therefore, the company is considering making this a pilot program, somewhat like the Cr-48 Chromebooks last year.
Yes, Google might actually release this product as beta-pilot program to people outside of Google—and soon.
FYI Motorola's got something cool in this area brewing as well (thanks commenter!).
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Deputy Larry Goodlett, who joined the staff when Coulter first became sheriff in 1994, and Chief Deputy Kyle Bennett, who has been part of the department since 2000, both recently confirmed that they would resign their positions when Coulter leaves office.
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Sony is fighting back. Once the gaming leader, the entertainment giant has been getting it from all sides: console competition from Microsoft and Nintendo, and portable gaming rivals like (again) Nintendo, not to mention the growing army of Apples. So, with the "smaller is better" idea in mind, Sony is about to release its newest portable gaming console, the PSP Go.
It's not due until October, but NBC Bay Area got a chance to play with the newest PSP (see it in action on Qik) and while the screen is still the star - and it is still impressive - the console itself has been radically downsized. Instead of a large bulky frame, the Go, perhaps in a nod to the Nintendo DS models, flips out to reveal its controllers. It's now considerably lighter, and doesn't require a purse to carry it around. A pocket will now do.
Game play is still good, and with 16GB of storage, the Go can now be your go-to device for movies and music as well. Thought still behind iTunes when it comes to ease of use, Sony's new PlayStation Store idea is a good one. Now your media can be downloaded to your device, from your PC or your PS3. If your Go gets crowded with content, just flip it back to the PC, and store it there until you want it again.
Good enough to beat the DS or iPod? Hard to tell. The Go is a different device than either of them. Like the PS3, it wants to do a whole lot. Also like the PS3, it's pricey. At @250, it'll cost almost as much as a PS3.
With families becoming a huge force in the gaming world, the PSP Go looks, at first glance, to be a good device arriving just in time. Now, instead of seeing a DS or iPod in the hands of every kid on a plane or in the back seat of a car, expect to see the PSP Go. Especially if the parents can afford the price.


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In addition to worrying that your kids are chowing down on razor blade-filled apples tonight, you need to be concerned about your dog dying from going through your Halloween candy. Xylitol, a sugar substitute found in an increasing number of candies, is toxic to dogs and other some other pets. If dogs eat even a single stick of gum containing xylitol, it could cause a drop in blood sugar that leads to weakness, loss of coordination, and seizures. As most people know, chocolate isn't good for dogs either, so the basic message here is that your pet doesn't need a bite of your candy on Halloween, or any other night.
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Right now I should be enjoying astounding views of the greatest natural wonder my country has to offer. I should be standing on the south rim of the Grand Canyon with my jaw on the ground, seeing what James Fisher described in Wild America with these words:
The world ended; began again eight miles away. Between the ends of the world was a chasm.
The chasm was awful.
Awe. Time brings awe to the traveler less often, no doubt, as time goes on; for time gives him, too, the accumulated, stored, recorded, experiece of those who have been before him. With all of these I had prepared myself – words, music, paintings, photographs, three-dimensional color movies, even. Yet all of these were, at that first moment of shock, reduced to a whisper, whispering, 'Yes, this is true; this is real; this is it; this is the greatest abyss on the face of the earth; this is the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.' The loud voice (I have never heard it louder) was the overwhelming voice of awe…never had my awful friend, awe, stood so long at my elbow, so close, as by the rim of the Grand Canyon. Never will it come so close again.
That was our plan, Daisy and I, that our little family would, with Daisy's family, make our way from southern California to northern Arizona to see one of the most incredible sights in the world. After all, seeing the Grand Canyon is something I have never done, and something I have always wanted to do. Daisy's entire family, except for her, have had the quintessential American experience of seeing the awful chasm and they wanted us to experience it. Mid-month we were researching hotels and routes and I had started digging into the possible birds we could see. Then, suddenly, it hit us. We can't go to the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is in Arizona. We are boycotting Arizona.
Back in April, when the odious and ignorant governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, signed Senate Bill 1070, a misguided piece of immigration legislation, into law Daisy and I said we would not go to Arizona until the law was overturned by the courts or repealed by the state. Why? When a state-level law causes the President of the United States to step in and say that the law threatened "to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe" it is pretty clear that something is wrong. When a law is passed that requires people to carry identity documents and for police to question and detain anyone who they think might be in the country without documentation it is obvious that basic freedoms are at stake. The fact that the law was passed in an environment of xenophobia and hysteria about immigration made clear that the law would be used as a cudgel against the brown, the foreign, the "other." We could not in good conscience support a state that passed such a disgusting and racist law by spending our tourism dollars there.
Of course, it was easy to say we would boycott Arizona when we had no plans to go there. After all, it is not as if we would miss going to a place we weren't going to anyway. From April until December the thought of a trip to Arizona never crossed our minds. Then Daisy's sister suggested the Grand Canyon as a fun destination while we were visiting her in southern California and the wheels in our heads started turning and I recalled descriptions like James Fisher's, and, well, started to get excited about seeing the canyon. After all, what could be better than seeing an icon of America for the first time with our one-year-old son?
So it is with sadness that we decided to instead travel elsewhere and spend our dollars supporting the economy of people who wouldn't decide to search, detain, and deport people who look different, act different, speak different. After all, you don't have to go that far back in my family tree to find those who came from Germany, Holland, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. And Daisy's entire family is immigrants who came here from Korea by way of Brazil. Should they be forced to show papers at the whim of a power-hungry cop? Should I? Should anyone? I want to experience an American treasure from a place where I can feel proud to be an American. Arizona, sadly, is not that place right now (and it is, amazingly, getting worse, with an attack on birthright citizenship being led by the racist state senator Russell Pearce).
I hope that someday, hopefully someday soon, the people of Arizona will realize that they have created a second awful chasm, a deep and terrible rift, between themselves and the ideals upon which this great country was built. I hope that they do everything they can to fix that rift and welcome with open arms those who are in the United States seeking a better life for their families. And I hope that when that day comes I am still young enough to make the journey to the rim of the Grand Canyon, guided by my immigrant family and my son, a descendant of immigrants, and see the only awful chasm left in Arizona.
Until then, enjoy Gogol Bordello!
For more information about the boycott of Arizona and other immigration issues related to the state please visit the following sites:
Liked reading your blog till you just had to bring up imagration and politics.I wont go into what Im for or against but since you had to let your readers know where you stand I'll tell you that I will not be reading your blog anymore.
"From the South" can make that decision. I'm DELIGHTED to hear your thoughts on "immigration and politics".
Well, said Corey. I am sharing! Human rights is not politics. Not a big loss. That guy from the South is a joke. Learn to spell: "imagration"! Jeeze!
BTW: SONY are discriminating bastards as well. Can't open the Gogol Bordello video. This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who have blocked in your country on copyright rights".
But hey, fortunately the video can be downloaded on
Do it fast before Sony finds out!
Or watch it on Vimeo!
I'd just like to say that there are still a LOT of Arizonans who think this law is the worst possible thing that could have happened our state, myself included. Sadly, we rational, ethical human beings who refuse to blame the Mexican immigrants for our own shortcomings are outnumbered by the sensationalist, fear-mongering people who actually supported that civil rights nightmare. Our governor is a poorly educated, uninformed, and racist woman who clearly has little grasp on how the world works. She's dragging our already bedraggled state down when many of us didn't think things could get any worse.
I have a sibling who works at the Grand Canyon and I would never discourage anyone from visiting it because it truly is one of the magnificent wonders of the world. I was born in Arizona and have lived in this state for 2/3 of my life. I love this state for it's culture, it's nature, it's beauty, and all of the other wonderful traits that make AZ great. But I am ashamed of my state, the people who have been elected to represent us, and the people who put those hateful people into office. Honestly, I don't blame you for refusing to come here. But don't blame all Arizonans! There are still plenty of good, rational people in this state who are trying to make things better. Hopefully we'll succeed.
I usually go on two birding vacations each year. I to have scratched Arizona off my list for the reasons you mentioned. You may lose a few readers like "From the South" but the fact is this is an appalling law and it will eventually be overturned in the courts. But until then, my tourist dollars are going elsewhere.
What is wrong with requiring people to carry documentation with them? Just about everyone except illegals has driver's licenses anyway. I thought the law was changed soon after it was passed to remove many of its problems but maybe I am wrong. Shouldn't we consider all the ecological damage the illegals cause in the National Wildlife Refuges along the Arizona-Mexico border as well? I think illegal immigration is a much more complex issue than it is often portrayed by both sides. While discriminating against all immigrants is obviously wrong, just letting everybody in isn't the answer either.
I think the occasional foray into politics is par for the course, and the natural extension of caring about birds, the places where they live and the places where we go to see them.
This is such a difficult subject, because of AZ's legit place on the short list of the USA's birding meccas and beyond the awful SB 1070, there's also the issue that current US immigration policy forces immigrants to cross over wilderness, including some pretty important habitat, instead of through the cities where they can be regulated and their impact on the surrounding country is minimized. Not to mention the offensive concrete slab barrier that claims to keep people out, but only forces them through the back-country.
So even leaving aside the humanitarian issues, birds are in a world of hurt because of the current federal and state policy's environmental impact byproduct. I can't say what I'd do, because I've been holding it in my mind to go back there and there are obvious bird-centered industries that want and deserve our business. But this political attitude is pretty terrible, and I can't fault anyone for taking a more draconian view on it that I might.
I am proud that you are my son.
Good for you. Maybe by the time the SB 1070 is repealed or overturned, your son will be old enough to remember a trip to the Grand Canyon.
A bit painful – but ultimately the right move! Hat's off to you, Corey!
Sad state of affairs, indeed.
Just as ignorant to boycott ALL OF A state for what some have done. We practice conservation and habitat restoration and creation. If tourists don't come here, another birding area gets destroyed.
A boycott is short-sighted. You are soooooooooo socially aware…
As you know, I'm right there with you on this. Well said.
I fully agree with you Corey.
Irrespective of your view of Arizona's politics, I question the wisdom of a boycott. As with most things of this sort (economic sanctions against nations, etc.) it seems like it hurts the little guy first and most. In this case a lot of those "little guys" might be the very immigrants that suffer a loss of civil liberties at the hands of this law. Many of them work in unskilled jobs maintaining lodging, serving food, and countless other jobs that are supported by tourism. Sure Ms. brewer won't get your sales tax, but neither will a lot of innocent folks get paychecks.
You also have to wonder, as mentioned above, how it could impact conservation. If the state starts feeling some serious economic hurt, the pipeline of cash to environmental causes will be among the first things to dry up.
Nothing is ever as black and white as it may seem, nor as it would be convenient for it to be. That goes for misguided laws, the wreckage from which fruitful action often springs, as well as boycotts which are often more emotional and myopic than wise. If I want to see birds in Arizona, I'll go to Arizona and spend my money at restaurants, campgrounds, motels, and other establishments that are run by and operated by decent, hard-working Arizonans. How do I know the guy that owns the motel isn't a Brewer supporter? I don't. But if we're going to be that righteous, it's best to never leave the house.
This isn't an indictment of your choice, Corey. On the contrary I quite admire your conviction in the face of temptation. I just like to paint a little gray into every argument – because that's how I see the world. Probably why I like gulls so much…
I'm with you, Corey.
If I didn't LIVE there, I'd be boycotting the place too. What a lot of loons.
Corey, I admire your tenacity and I certainly agree with your political position. Now I must ask, you have given up cigarettes , right ? WFD
Principled stands are almost always painful, which is why there are not more of them. Hopefully you are just as active in calling for the real solution to this problem which is to go after the people who provide the jobs and jail them.
Most important you stood by what you believe, made your daddy proud and stole Wayne's thunder all in one swell foop. Not a bad day's work.
Sympathies to all involved in the terrible Tucson shootings yesterday. Given the subject of this almost prescient post an update you might want to check out is the following YouTube video where the Sherriff of Tucson, Clarence Dupnik, says that Arizona "has become the capitol, the mecca for prejudice and bigotry": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwhOE32ijkc#t=01m30s. Amazing – and sad – stuff.
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Green Scare: How Animal Rights Activists Are Being Branded 'Agro-Terrorists'
from the give-a-dog-a-bad-name dept
As Mike wrote just under a year ago, so-called "ag-gag" laws are being passed in a number of US states. Idaho has just joined the club:
Idaho's governor has signed a bill into law that makes it illegal for undercover investigators and whistleblowers to expose animal cruelty on factory farms and slaughterhouses.
As Mike also noted in his post last year, the standard rationale for bringing in this legislation, which conveniently makes it hard for animal cruelty in factory farms to be documented by activists, is "terrorism" -- specifically "agro-terrorism". That's also the case in Idaho:
The bill, SB1337, was backed by the state's billion-dollar dairy industry after Mercy For Animals exposed dairy workers beating, kicking, and sexually abusing dairy cows. Under this new law, the whistleblowers who exposed the cruelty face criminal penalties worse than those who committed the abuse.
During a hearing before the Idaho Senate last Friday, Senator Steve Blair said: "I learned a new term when doing this research. It's called agro-terrorism... A lot of it happened very recently."
Both of the quotations above come from posts on GreenIsTheNewRed.com, which describes itself as follows:
Blair read from the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. But what he didn't mention is that this term he learned, and its counterpart "eco-terrorism," were made up by the industry itself.
This website focuses on how fear of "terrorism" is being exploited to push a political and corporate agenda. Specifically, I focus on how animal rights and environmental advocates are being branded "eco-terrorists" in what many are calling the Green Scare.
When an entire website can be devoted to this phenomenon, it's clear that this is no occasional rhetorical trick but part of a concerted campaign to stigmatize all kinds of legitimate dissent that happens to be inconvenient for powerful industry groups. Expect to see much more of it.
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