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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said he was confident that "good people" who left the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will return to its fold.
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The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday named the Agra airport after Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay, the ideologue of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh -- the forerunner of present-day Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Congress legislator Ginsuanhau Zou, who represents the Singngat assembly constituency in Churachandpur district, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today. The development comes two days after state health minister and National People's Party (NPP) member L Jayanta Kumar resigned from his post alleging interference by "many" in his ministry.
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MCD election 2017 - Delhi's civic body polls scheduled to be held on April 23 - is being viewed as a report card not just for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), but also the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.
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Tucson, Ariz. - Wisconsin sophomore forward Mike Bruesewitz is close to getting out of the trainer's room and onto the basketball court.
Bruesewitz, who sprained his right knee in UW's loss to Penn State in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Conference tournament, is participating in practice Wednesday.
He is still wearing a protective brace and isn't moving yet at full speed but before practice he sounded optimistic he will attempt to play Thursday when UW faces Belmont in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
"Yesterday I did some warm-up stuff, shooting and running up and down, and it felt pretty good," Bruesewitz said Thursday in the UW locker room at the McKale Center. "I'm going to practice today and there's no other way to tell if I'll be able to play tomorrow unless I'm able to prove I can go as hard as I can."
Bruesewitz, generally the first player off the bench for coach Bo Ryan, has played in all 31 games. He is averaging 4.2 points and 2.8 rebounds per game and has made 45.8% of his field-goal attempts.
More important than his numbers, Bruesewitz provides UW energy on both ends of the court. His return would also give UW another ball-handler against Belmont, which presses after made baskets and generally uses 11 players.
Bruesewitz did not practice Monday and participated in a light workout Tuesday after the team arrived in Tucson. He acknowledged Wednesday he is surprised he has recovered so quickly.
"I'm kind of amazed at how quickly I've come along," he said. "Every day I felt a little bit stronger and more confident and a lot less pain and soreness. Things are going well.
"If things go well today and I feel I can go out there and help this team contribute...I only really know one speed. If I can get out there and play as hard as I can and run through walls I'm going to be out there."
Bruesewitz suffered the injury in the second half of the loss to Penn State and acknowledged Thursday he thought the injury was season-ending.
"I thought the worst because it felt funny," said Bruesewitz, who also sprained his right ankle on the play. "This was different than pain. It was a goofy feeling in the knee. But we went in and did some (tests) and it wasn't as bad as I anticipated."
Junior guard Jordan Taylor said the obvious, that the team will benefit from any contribution Bruesewitz can provide.
"It means a ton," Taylor said. "He is a high-energy guy and he is really skilled as well. To have him on the floor for us would be huge.
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Definition Components Advantages Limitations Contents Definition Definition Normal Forms Normal Forms First Normal Form First Normal Form Second Normal Form Second Normal Form Third Normal Form Third Normal Form
Definition It is a process of simplifying a relation in such a form that no data is lost during simplification. Simplification is based on certain conditions. The process of normalization was first developed by E.F.Codd. The basic objectives of normalization are to reduce redundancy.
Normal Forms Data can be represented in any of normal forms : first, second or third if it satisfies conditions which are as follows : 1. Data must be represented in atomic form without any group (First Normal Form). 2. There should not be any key which is not completely dependent (Second Normal Form). 3. There should not be transitive dependency (Third Normal Form).
Example Consider a database that contains information of parts supplied by some supplier. Name of city in which supplier is located along with status value of city are also stored in database. Functional dependency diagram for this database can be : P# S# Status City Qty
Example Contd.. In this database S# and P# combination is used as primary key. Qty value depends upon this combination. City in which supplier is located and status value of the city are only related with S#.
First Normal Form (1NF) S#P#QtyCityStatus S1P1100Delhi30 S1P2150Delhi30 S1P3125Delhi30 S1P4140Delhi30 S2P2280Mumbai20 S2P3160Mumbai20 S3P4120Delhi30 A relation is said to be in first normal form if data items are represented in atomic form i.e without any group data item
1NF Contd.. In above table, data items are in two dimensional tabular form without any group, therefore, data is in first normal form. This representation shows a number of limitations : 1. Insertion : If we want to insert information of supplier S4 located at Jaipur with status value 40. We can't insert this information until that supplier supplies at least one part.
1NF Contd.. 2. Deletion : If we delete the supplier S2 we will loss the information that S2 is located in Mumbai and also that Mumbai has status value 20. 3. Updation : If we change the city of S1 from Delhi to Ambala it is required to search the whole relation otherwise inconsistency may occur. The solution of these problems can be obtained by using Second Normal Form.
Second Normal Form (2NF) A relation is said to be in second normal form if it is in first normal form and every non key attribute is fully dependent on primary key. The solution to the first normal form problems can be obtained by splitting the relation in two relations as follows : S#P#QtyCityStatus S1P1100Delhi30 S1P2150Delhi30 S1P3125Delhi30 S1P4140Delhi30 S2P2280Mumbai20 S2P3160Mumbai20 S3P4120Delhi30 S#CityStatus S1Delhi30 S2Mumbai20 S3Delhi30
2NF Contd.. The second normal form still have problems due to transitive dependency. In second relation S# determines city and city determines status, therefore, status is transitively dependent on S#. Problems of second normal form are : 1. Insertion : We can't enter the fact that a particular city has a particular status value. e.g. we can't enter information that particular city Jaipur has a status value 40 until some supplier is located in that city.
2NF Contd.. 2. Deletion : If we delete any record from second relation we will loss the information that a particular city has particular status value. e.g. if we delete the information of supplier S2, the information that the status of Mumbai is 20 is also lost.
2NF Contd.. 3. Updation : If we want to change the status value for Delhi from 30 to 50 the there is a problem of searching the whole second relation otherwise inconsistency will occur. These problems can be solved if we split the second relation and making the relation in Third Normal Form.
Third Normal Form (3NF) A relation is in third normal form if and only if it is in second normal form and every non key attribute is not transitively dependent on primary key. The second relation can be split into two relations which will remove the problems of second relation S#P#Qty S1P1100 S1P2150 S1P3125 S1P4140 S2P2280 S2P3160 S3P4120 S#City S1Delhi S2Mumbai S3Delhi CityStatus Delhi30 Mumbai20
3NF Contd.. Now these two relations are in third normal form. This normal form removes the insertion, deletion & updation anomalies of second normal form i.e. here, We insert the information that city Jaipur has a status value 40 even though no supplier is located in that city. We can also delete the information of supplier S2 & this deletion will not effect the status value of Mumbai. We can also modify the status of any city because changes has to occur at only one place.
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As Kit had already mentioned, equation-by-equation estimators (e.g., 2SLS) will not smear the impact of specification errors across model estimates to the same extent as global/simultaneous estimators (3SLS). You may want to see:
Turkington, D.A. (1985). A Note on Two-Stage Least Squares, Three-Stage Least Squares and Maximum Likelihood Estimation in an Expectations Model. International Economic Review, 26(2), 507-510.
Belsley, D.A. (1988). Two- or three-stage least squares? Computational Economics, 1(1), 21-30.
Kapteyn, A., & Fiebig, D.G. (1981). When are two-stage and three-stage least squares estimators identical? Economics Letters, 8(1), 53-57.http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=69366 ;
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> > Thanks. I was looking for a reference supporting the use of estimating
> > separately each equation by 2SLS instead of using the 3SLS. Do you
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> I am traveling, away from any books on the subject. Will check later this week.
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Rule #1: Moffat Lies
by Jesse Ulrich (@rant9space)
The fifth episode of Series 8 is called "Time Heist." Here is a description:
Written by Steve Thompson. Directed by Douglas Mackinnon.
A Doctor Who "heist movie". The Doctor and Clara come face to face with the mysterious Ms Delphox (Keeley Hawes) when they arrive on a strange and puzzling planet. Delphox is a powerful out-of-this-world character with a dark secret and she happens to run the most secure bank in the universe. Jonathan Bailey plays a cyborg. Features a minotaur-like monster.
Guest starring: Keeley Hawes (Ms Delphox), Jonathan Bailey, Pippa Bennett-Warner.
A Mysterious Ms. Delphox you say?
With a dark secret you say? Interesting. Now, it is completely possible that this woman is not the new Master. So maybe it is this other mysterious woman in a later episode...
the mysterious Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere, who is featured in two parter that ends Series 8 titled Dark Water/Death in Heaven. These episodes are described thusly:
A two-part finale. Features a Cybermen invasion of earth and the return of UNIT, Kate Stewart and Osgood. The Doctor also has to contend with the mysterious Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere.
So, we have two mysterious powerful women characters, with pasts we don't know and who seem very formidable. But, I can hear you know internet, saying that Steven Moffat said he was not bringing the Master back (for one example go here.) But remember children, rule 1: Moffat lies!
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In order to safeguard the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, the police must advise criminal suspects, prior to interrogation, that anything they say can be used against them in court, that they have the rights to remain silent, to consult with a lawyer and to have one appointed if they are indigent. The interrogation must stop if a suspect wishes to remain silent and, if a lawyer has been requested, until the attorney is present.
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Case No. 759: after his arrest, Ernesto Miranda was taken to an interrogation room. He was not informed of his right to counsel or of his privilege against self-incrimination. He signed a typed-up confession, which included a paragraph stating that he made the confession voluntarily and with full understanding of his rights. Based on this confession, he was convicted in an Arizona state court of kidnapping and rape. The Supreme Court of Arizona affirmed.
Case No. 760: during his interrogation, Michael Vignera made an oral confession to the police, and then signed a statement when he was questioned by an assistant district attorney that evening. He was not appraised of his rights to counsel or of his right to remain silent. During trial, the defense was barred from mentioning those facts and the confession was admitted into evidence. New York Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction.
Case No. 761: Carl Westover was arrested in Kansas City in connection with robberies in Kansas, and was interrogated. He was then handed over to the FBI, and after two more hours of interrogation, he signed two confessions to robberies in California (federal offenses). Confessions made to the FBI were admitted as evidence at trial in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Although he was appraised of his rights prior to questioning by the FBI, the FBI interrogation took place immediately after 15 hours of police interrogation in the same room. The FBI, did not appraise the defendant of his rights prior to their questioning. Defendant's conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Case No. 584: Roy Stewart was interrogated on 9 separate occasions during 5 days that he spent in a California police station. After denying his involvement in a kidnapping during eight of those interrogations, he finally confessed. The confession was introduced as evidence and he was convicted in state court. California Supreme Court reversed his conviction because he was never advised of his right to counsel or of his right to remain silent.
On certiorari the Supreme Court reversed Cases Nos. 759, 760 and 761 and affirmed Case N0. 584.
Telford Taylor, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the State of New York, as amicus curiae, in all cases. With him on the brief were Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Assistant Attorney General, and Barry Mahoney and George D. Zuckerman, Assistant Attorneys General, joined by the Attorneys General for their respective States and jurisdictions as follows: Richmond M. Flowers of Alabama, Darrell F. Smith of Arizona, Bruce Bennett of Arkansas, Duke W. Dunbar of Colorado, David P. Buckson of Delaware, Earl Faircloth of Florida, Arthur K. Bolton of Georgia, Allan G. Shepard of Idaho, William G. Clark of Illinois, Robert C. Londerholm of Kansas, Robert Matthews of Kentucky, Jack P. F. [384 U.S. 436, 439] Gremillion of Louisiana, Richard J. Dubord of Maine, Thomas B. Finan of Maryland, Norman H. Anderson of Missouri, Forrest H. Anderson of Montana, Clarence A. H. Meyer of Nebraska, T. Wade Bruton of North Carolina, Helgi Johanneson of North Dakota, Robert Y. Thornton of Oregon, Walter E. Alessandroni of Pennsylvania, J. Joseph Nugent of Rhode Island, Daniel R. McLeod of South Carolina, Waggoner Carr of Texas, Robert Y. Button of Virginia, John J. O'Connell of Washington, C. Donald Robertson of West Virginia, John F. Raper of Wyoming, Rafael Hernandez Colon of Puerto Rico and Francisco Corneiro of the Virgin Islands.
"The prosecution may not use statements, whether exculpatory or inculpatory, stemming from questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way, unless it demonstrates the use of procedural safeguards effective to secure the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination.
The privilege against self-incrimination, which has had a long and expansive historical development, is the essential mainstay of our adversary system and guarantees to the individual the "right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will," during a period of custodial interrogation as well as in the courts or during the course of other official investigations.
In the absence of other effective measures the following procedures to safeguard the Fifth Amendment privilege must be observed:
a) The person in custody must, prior to interrogation, be clearly informed that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says will be used against him in court; he must be clearly informed that he has the right to consult with a lawyer and to have the lawyer with him during interrogation, and that, if he is indigent, a lawyer will be appointed to represent him.
b) If the individual indicates, prior to or during questioning, that he wishes to remain silent, the interrogation must cease; if he states that he wants an attorney, the questioning must cease until an attorney is present.
c) Where an interrogation is conducted without the presence of an attorney and a statement is taken, a heavy burden rests on the Government to demonstrate that the defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his right to counsel.
d) Where the individual answers some questions during in-custody interrogation, he has not waived his privilege and may invoke his right to remain silent thereafter.
e) The warnings required and the waiver needed are, in the absence of a fully effective equivalent, prerequisites to the admissibility of any statement, inculpatory or exculpatory, made by a defendant."
Finding that "in each of these cases the statements were obtained under circumstances that did not meet constitutional standards for protection of the privilege against self-incrimination" the Supreme Court reversed the judgments of the Supreme Court of Arizona in No.759, of the New York court of Appeals in No. 760 and of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in No. 761. The judgment of the Supreme Court of California in No. 584 was affirmed.
The ACLU, as amicus curiae, urged reversal in Nos 759, 760 and 761 and affirmance in No. 584 of judgments of the lower courts; the Supreme Court reversed Nos 759,760, and 761 and affirmed No 584 in a 5-4 vote, giving the ACLU an apparent win.


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Well-managed mass transit and communication systems are very important driving forces for urban development. Not only do they help mobilizing people, goods and services, but good systems are also able to help lessening the magnitude of traffic problems and the costs of traveling for people in big cities.
Chiang Mai City is considered to be the second largest city of Thailand next to Bangkok. With the number of population in the city and its vicinity of around 400,000 people, including visitors, whether they are tourists, businessmen and students who come and stay in the area, good transportation services were expected to sufficiently facilitate their traveling.
Surprisingly, the services of mass transit within and nearby the City, so far have been unsuccessfully operated. This paper is an attempt to investigate the factors both of the server's side and of the user's side that have influence upon the operation.
Needed data were collected through the reviewing of related documents as well as interviewing of the local people. The collected data were then analyzed by means of content analysis. The findings can be summarized as follows.
On the server's side, the Municipality, the factors that induced the failure are:
1) the number of buses in service is still not enough when the number of population in the area is taken into consideration;
2) irregularity of the time schedules;
3) service routes are considered to be inappropriate;
4) a strong competition from locally operated means of transportation. On the user's side, the induced factors are found to be:
1) behavior of the local people that tend to have less traveling;
2) local people tend to patronage the traditional means of transportation (red four-wheel car);
3) no big businesses in the City.
The suggestions to improve the services of the mass transit in Chiang Mai City are as follows:
1) Municipality should invest more money buying the buses;
2) service schedules must be regulated;
3) improvement of public relation;
4) mass transit should be made more compatible by controlling the other means of transportation.
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That comes as bad news to the 20 million Americans who have to find something to fill the gaping maws of their pet snakes and other reptiles. In recent years, says Kraig Adler, a biology professor at Cornell University in New York, "the 'herps' [short for herptile, meaning reptiles and amphibians] have come on like gang-busters - the low-maintenance pet of choice for busy adults and kids alike".
What used to be a handful of businesses catering to a small straggle of enthusiastic backyard rodent-raisers has somehow turned into a $235m- a-year (pounds 150m) industry, complete with air-conditioned breeding rooms, Internet catalogues and competitors scurrying to expand. About 93 per cent of America's 180 million rats and mice raised this year will be sold as reptile food - and that's still not enough prime vermin. (Another 2 per cent are sold as pets; the rest are destined for research laboratories.)
David Loupe, an auditor at an aircraft company in Los Angeles, currently has seven monitor lizards and 13 snakes in his garage, along with 70 incubating bearded dragon eggs. "My monitor lizards have hearty appetites, especially the five-footer," he says. "I had to call rodent dealers all the way to Florida last week, and was turned down by the first six - just to buy 1,000 frozen mice." One of the breeders who refused Loupe's order was Jim Dykes, owner of the Pied Piper rat and mouse farm near Knoxville, Tennessee, and a former reptile keeper at the Knoxville Zoo. "I have to make sure there's enough for my regular customers," he explained.
Some rat breeders are responding to the growing demand by raising their prices. "Some people joke about a rat shortage, but it's true," says Dick Phelan, a marketing supervisor at SAS Supply, a rodent breeder in upstate New York. His company plans a price increase of up to 5 per cent this month, when millions of baby snakes will hatch in terrariums around the nation. Like nature, this business requires adaptability.
Susan Tippie is the general manager of D&H Pet Farms Inc (the name is to protect against angry neighbours and animal activists). The company started out by breeding hedgehogs, briefly a fashionable pet until people tired of their prickles. At that point Susan Tippie turned her attention to what are known in the trade as "prey mammals". "Your best rat or mouse isn't necessarily a fat one," she says. Raising rodents can be a dicey business. They won't mate if the air-conditioning is too high; yet if they get too hot, they die. Tippie's rats stay lean on a high-fibre diet that includes beet pulp and wheatgerm, which means they make healthier reptile food. "It's like someone who wants the best for their Mercedes," she explains. "They don't want junk parts." And predators can be picky: the more delicate reptiles are only able to digest the "pinks" (newborn rodents) and the "fuzzies" (those about 10 days to three weeks old). A large adult rodent, served alive, may gnaw a snake to death.
While some buyers are willing to take frozen rats, which can be stockpiled, shipping costs often make them more expensive than the live ones. Besides which, many reptiles insist on a live or freshly killed meal. "You can train them to eat thawed-out frozen, but some owners won't take the time," says Toby Cromwell, a herpetologist at Reptile World Serpentarium near Orlando. Anyway, he says, many reptile owners love watching the attack. "The snakes don't need that, but it fascinates a lot of people."
At the moment, evidently, a wave of so-called "power feeding" of reptiles is adding to the shortage. This means giving them two or more rodents a week, which encourages fast growth. "People are 'bulking up' their snakes and lizards. It's an image thing," says David Tetzlaff, an animal curator at Caribbean Gardens, a tourist attraction in Naples, Florida. "I've seen monitor lizards so overfed they look like footballs with legs." The sad truth is that small lizards and snakes just don't impress any more. The promotional slogan for the 1998 remake of Godzilla has embedded itself in the psyche of many a reptile fan: "Size does matter". James Murphy, a herpetologist at the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, says that these days he can easily distinguish between pythons or boas that have been reared in captivity and those found in the wild. "The captive- bred ones have bodies so big that the heads can't keep up with them." Never mind the rodents: all this eating can mean an unhappy end for the reptiles. David Tetzlaff delivers a gory warning about the risk of "hair impaction", which afflicted one of his monitor lizards last year. Too many rat snacks, he says, caused the creature "to form a hairball the size of an orange in its gut. A vet had to perform emergency surgery."
Working at a breeding centre is, according to many, a revolting profession. "It's filthy - and then there's the smell," says Susan Tippie. Her worker turnover rate is almost 100 per cent a year: "Some people quit during their first coffee-break."
She is careful, she says, not to rear animals that are too ferocious, putting down "the biters" with gas - "because biters breed biters". She herself has been bitten a fair few times in her eight years in the rat- and-mouse business, and the leather gloves she wears to work show the wear-and-tear of daily nibbling.
Paradoxically, in the midst of this surge in demand, some rodent breeders still haven't made much profit. "I heard there's a fortune in rats, but I haven't seen it," says Jim Dykes. "I sold about $100,000-worth of prey mammals last year, but I'm living on noodle soup. In fact, the rats eat better than I do."
Many new breeders make critical mistakes, such as keeping the thermostats in their breeding buildings at too low a setting, which can mean that they wipe out much of their stock overnight. That is what happened to Jim Dykes. One night last spring he allowed the temperature in his mouse building to fall and remain for several hours below the 70F at which the creatures thrive. He had forgotten to turn off a huge fan that helps to cool the building during the day: mice and rats often stop breeding if the temperature exceeds 80F.
The result: "Most of them died and our production of mice dropped to 400 from 4,000 a week." The financial disaster was compounded because, to keep his regular customers happy, Jim Dykes was forced to buy mice at retail on the open market to meet his orders. "So I got stuck as a buyer in a seller's market," he shrugs. In addition, he is beleaguered by buyers striking a hard bargain. "They'll call you up and say, '40 cents for a mouse? I can get them for 25 in California.' But when I ask them why they don't buy them in California, they say their breeder doesn't have any. So I say, 'Well, if I didn't have any, they would be free.'"
Another factor that savages new and relatively small breeders (to be "big" in this industry you need to produce at least 20,000 critters a week) is that often they are unable to fill orders, which they need to do if they are to develop a loyal clientele. "Your big commercial customers don't want a few dozen; they order by the hundreds and thousands. If you delay on one order, they'll find somebody else," says Jim Dykes. "I know I can sell every rodent that I can get my hands on." So just in case the rodents don't keep up, he has recently multiplied his breeding stock by buying out a nearby company. This has not only doubled the size of his business, it has also reduced local rat-and-mouse competition.
But expenses run high. When rats or mice are crammed into tight living conditions, they sulk and squabble, so Jim Dykes recently spent $20,000 on several hundred solid metal pans that were manufactured to hold cat litter, but which he uses for housing his rats. Dykes limits each container to about four animals, and thinks that the increased calm and comfort will result in a faster breeding rate. He admits to an unlikely admiration for the rodents. "A rat is a very intelligent and gentle animal, compared to a hamster or gerbil: very laid-back. I try never to get attached to my rats because it would be harder to 'off' them."
About half of the prey mammals sold in America are gassed by breeders and sold frozen. Jim Dykes, for one, considers this more humane than selling them to be eaten alive. "I personally think that's so the reptile owners can watch it more than anything else. I don't know why they don't get bored, watching it over and over again."
Freezing rats and mice for 30 days kills any parasites they may be carrying, making them safer for reptile owners to handle, as well as for the scaly diners. So says Bill Brant, owner of Gourmet Rodent in Gainesville, Florida, one of America's biggest and best-known rodent farms. His customers include the most prestigious zoos and theme parks, including Walt Disney World. Brant represents the polished business aspect of the industry: Gourmet Rodent accepts American Express, and an illustrated website updates the number of its Internet customers - more than 11,000 at the last count.
Brant takes a methodical approach. His bible, he says, is a novel about the manufacturing industry called The Goal, written by an Israeli physicist-turned-management guru whose name is, of all things, Eli Goldratt. Brant c ites Goldratt's formula: "He explains that you have to understand the nuts and bolts of production, inventory and distribution. The most essential is maintaining stock. We're manufacturing rats and mice, and we have to be ready for surges in demand. That's my real concern, as it should be for every astute rodent breeder."
Nice theory - but nature does impose limits on human management expertise. The gestation period for a typical mouse or rat is 28 days for a litter of three. They can bear almost continually between the ages of five months and one year on average. After that, fertility declines. Males begin mating at roughly six months, and do so effectively at a rate of about 20 times per day. Males usually stud for up to three years. After that their sperm count drops sharply.
Brant's market focus is national, and mainly to institutions and collectors rather than to traditional pet owners who are nurturing perhaps a single snake. "It's easier to sell 1,000 rats than 10," he says. He is concerned that some zoos and theme parks are starting to breed their own prey mammals, but he thinks they'll soon become disenchanted with that approach. "They'll find that management of a rodent colony is hard. It's easier to breed pythons and monitor lizards than all the rats and mice you need to feed them."
The ease with which reptiles can be bred is the main cause of the increase in demand for rodents, says James Murphy. "When I got into this business 20 years ago, it was rare for snakes to breed in captivity. It was all we could do to keep them alive. Most are very delicate, and there wasn't enough research to know what conditions they needed." Today, though, numerous breeders' shows feature serpents and lizards in customised colours from hot pink to bright orange. Murphy grins: "I never dreamed of seeing exotic reptiles on a production line."
Rodent breeders simply can't keep pace. Many mice and rats which are kept to maturity as breeders begin to grow tumours in early adulthood. "You have to wonder about all the cancer research based on mice getting tumours," muses Jim Dykes. "Seems like nothing more than air and water and grain cause tumours in my mice, because that's all they're exposed to."
That's as may be, but Susan Tippie has darker suspicions regarding a spate of recent overnight deaths among her stock. "I can't prove it, but I think some competitor is responsible. I could smell poison near the dead animals' cages." She adds, with a smile: "I smell a rat."
Robert Johnson is a staff writer for the 'Wall Street Journal'
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
License Request Day: Another look at the Japanese charts
This is an excellent week to look at Taiyosha's list, as I believe the entire top 10 is not out over here. To break it down:
1) Volume 11 of Arakawa Under the Bridge. This is a Square Enix title that runs in the seinen magazine Young Gangan, home of Bamboo Blade. It also has an anime in Japan (also unlicensed), with a second season coming soon. Sounds like a perfect pickup for Yen, except: it's over 10 volumes, and it's a bizarre comedy about weirdos. Which only sells if they fight each other in shonen comics. :)
2) Volume 46 of Glass Mask. This runs in Hakusensha's Bessatsu Hana to Yume, and I've talked before about its unlicensability, which is mainly due to its length and old-fashioned art style. This does not mean I would not LOVE IT here. It's one of the few series which if Viz licensed it online might tempt me into an iPad.
3) Volume 2 of Amagami - Precious Diary. Okay, if this *were* licensed, it'd have to be Tokyopop. It's a Hakusensha title, but this one from Young Animal, their seinen magazine for young horny guys. It's based on a datesim. And it's from the authoir of the Kimikiss manga, which TP has also licensed. It would do very well with the Kimikiss/Samurai Harem/"Look, boobs!" crowd.
4) Volume 10 of Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu. This is a Shogakukan title, and runs in the Shoujo Comic magazine. As with most titles in that magazine, it amps up the sex appeal. It's about a girl who's good at cutting hair, but otherwise is about as far from Beauty Pop as you can get. If Butterflies, Flowers does well for Viz, this may be a title they could pick up.
5) Volume 10 of Sora no Otoshimono. See my entry for Amagami, only it's 5 times as long and runs in Kadokawa's Shonen Ace. Again, if Tokyopop wants boobs manga, this could work for them.
6) Volume 4 of Kinou Nani Tabeta? Other bloggers have begged for this already, so I'll just note it runs in Kodansha's Weekly Morning magazine, and therefore Kodansha USA or Vertical seem the most likely. As for sellability, it's a Yoshinaga title starring gay men and food. It sells itself.
7) Volume 17 of Giant Killing. Speaking of Kodansha, this also runs in Weekly Morning. It also has an anime. However, it's over 10 volumes, and is a sports manga. Kodansha USA seems the only likely place for it.
8) Volume 24 of Iryuu - Team Medical Dragon. If I was a millionaire, and could toss money at Viz and tell them to license one lost cause, this might be it. It runs in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior, which I believe is one of the few major manga magazines to have no North American licenses at all. (Spirits, Original, and BC itself all have something.) It's about ferreting out the corruption of the medical profession, and is pure awesome. It's also over 20 volumes of gripping seinen medical drama. Unless Viz gets a good offer, don't expect it soon.
9) The first volume of Kanpachi. This runs in Ichijinsha's Comic REX, a boy's magazine that also hosts its predecessor, Kannagi. The Kannagi author is on hiatus, so this is a superdeformed version to tide us over. Kannagi's been licensed by Bandai, and if it does well, I can't see why this wouldn't come over here as well.
10) Volume 9 of Suki desu Suzuki-kun!!. Another Shoujo Comic series from Shogakukan, this one seems a bit less titillating than Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu, and might do well for Viz along the lines of their Sand Chronicles and We Were There licenses.
So what do people think? Any other thoughts on these manga? (No posting links to scan sites, I want them licensed, not scanlated.)
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If I had to pick only one, I'd be in trouble. I've made my feelings on the Yoshinaga title perfectly clear too often, and it should be obvious that I like both classic and mopey shoujo, so I'll fix my gaze on Iryuu, which sounds fricking amazing.ReplyDelete
Iryuu sounds great - it's just as unlicensable as one that's fascinated me lately, MURAKAMI Motoka's Jin. It's about a surgeon in modern Japan who somehow ends up in the Edo period. I'm waiting for the first volume to come in from Belguim (it's licensed in French). It's 18 volumes (ongoing in Super Jump), and set in olden times.ReplyDelete
Iryuu is available in French, too. ^__^ They're up to vol. 13. I know it's such a different market there but I'm jealous.
Kinou Nani Tabeta? would be an instant buy for me as well.
I'm glad to see Glass Mask get a mention. I keep searching AnimeNewsNetwork every day in the faint hope that it'll get licensed. Sadly, with the demise of CMX (and the company that published Bride of Deimos), there seems to be less and less chance of this ever getting released over here. Not to mention the new scanlation community that was going to continue where the last one left off has gone cold.ReplyDelete
The only way that we could ever get a proper release of the Shojo classic would be if it was released with omnibus collections of multiple volumes. I feel the same way with Grappler Baki, a fighting Manga that's gone on for too long.
The only widespread knowledge of the series was when the updated Anime was released last year. I don't know about other people, but I prefer the older old-school version better, despite it being cancelled after the Helen Keller storyline.
I second your opinion of Arakawa under the bridge. I saw a few episodes of the animated version and wasn't that impressed or interested to keep watching. It's a bunch of weird poor people in bizarre costumes and not much else. Maybe it gets better later on, but I wouldn't know.
Team Medical Dragon seems like an obvious choice for Vertical once they complete their Black Jack run. While reading the first couple volumes, I felt like I was reading a Manga version of House. That should be a good sales pitch right there.
I have to confess ignorance about the other titles, so I can't give my opinion about any of them, sorry.
I liked the anime version of Giant Killing, Crunchyroll was simulcasting it last summer. I think it's still legally available on the site. But I'm fond of football (soccer) anyway. It was nice watching a sports anime about a game I actually understood.ReplyDelete
After the anime ended I broke down and went looking for scanlations, only the first three volumes have been done. I liked what I read. I'd buy it if I could do so in a language I understood. I doubt that'll happen any time soon.
I would love to see Glass Mask get liscnsed but I probablly have a better chance of seeing my beloved Bitter Virgin get liscnsed before that happans but I dont really think "old school art style" would be a sticking point a bigger problem would be it's lingth and the inconsistent publushing schedule but still one can hopeReplyDelete


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Malaysia Day Statement
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Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (EMPOWER) wishes Malaysia a happy 51st birthday. We are saddened, however, that the exercise of nation-building and our collective sense of nationhood are not yet truly reflective of the diversity of our people.
The heavy-handed crackdown by the authorities through the Sedition Act is only the latest example of the ways with which voices are silenced when they become inconvenient to those in power. We have seen other tactics before, from formal controls such as the now-repealed Internal Security Act to informal controls such as the funding of extremist ethno-nationalist groups to shout down human rights defenders.
The right to freedom of expression is more than just about free speech. It is about our ability as citizens to participate in the governance of this nation and the shaping of its history, so that they are truly representative of us. These repressive laws and electoral irregularities reinforce existing barriers for marginalised people who are already finding it difficult to make their voices count: women, the Orang Asal, Sabahans, Sarawakians, the urban poor, and people of diverse sexualities and genders.
That their voices disrupt the status quo has often been perceived as a threat. EMPOWER believes, however, that they are a necessary check and balance against tyranny. A country where popular discourse is dictated by and serves the interest of a limited group of people is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy.
EMPOWER's work has brought the organisation in contact with some of Malaysia's most marginalised citizens, including women among the urban poor, the homeless community, and indigenous communities in Peninsular Malaysia. Deprivation is not the only thing that characterises these communities. In all of our interactions with them, we see repeatedly evidence of great strength and a keen interest in determining the society they want to live in.
They are often dismissed as "uneducated" or "ignorant" of what they "should want", and thus unable to make decisions for their own good. EMPOWER strongly rejects this. Instead, what is necessary is more inclusive and open systems of governance that does justice to their capacity for participation.
EMPOWER hopes Malaysia will one day achieve equality and sustain a thriving democracy that respects diversity for all. We have already seen the beginnings of such possibilities now – what remains is to dismantle all barriers in their way.


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Griffin Dunne adapts Dirk Wittenborn's guiltily pleasurable but not very good "emotional autobiography" about his youth spent among America's ultrarich and WASPy into an even worse film that was shelved for three years before release. Not even the always reliable Diane Lane can save this one.
New York City's Lower East Side, 1980: Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin) is leading a wayward, barely supervised adolescence in a grungy loft apartment with his drug-addicted mother, professional masseuse Liz (Lane). Liz became pregnant with Finn after a fling with famous anthropologist Fox Blanchard (Wittenborn), and this summer she's finally relented and is allowing Finn to spend the summer with the father he's never met, who's in South America living and working among the Ishkanani — the so-called "fierce people" of the Amazon basin. The Ishkanani live by a simple, brutal code: If you like something, you screw it. If you don't, you kill it. Finn's summer plans are abruptly canceled when he's busted by an undercover cop while trying to buy cocaine for his drug-sick mother. Finn is released into her care, and Liz immediately calls in a favor from one of her clients: fabulously wealthy mogul Ogden C. Osborne (Donald Sutherland), whom Finn assumes has been getting more than just a foot rub from Liz. So instead of the Amazon, Finn spends the summer in a very different kind of jungle — Vlyvalle, New Jersey, the kind of place where seersucker pockets run deep, "cottages" come with stables and the indigenous people refer to Jews as "Hawaiians" so they can insult them to their faces without being branded anti-Semites. Finn and Liz are offered the guest "cottage" on Osborne's 10-square-mile farm, and while the now-sober Liz attends to Osborne's needs between AA meetings, Finn spends his days and nights getting drunk and high with Osborne's grandchildren, 15-year-old Maya (Kristen Stewart), and her charming Harvard-aged brother, Bryce (Chris Evans). Despite the obvious disapproval of their mother, Pilar Langley (Elizabeth Perkins), who's never seen without a vodka-spiked Tab in hand, Finn forms his closest connection with the elder Osborne, who hires him to sort and catalog his vast collection of personal photographs. But a newcomer can't help but step on a few toes, and Finn soon learns that the moneyed residents of Vlyvalle also live by a primal code that can be just as inscrutable — and brutal — as that of the Ishkanani.
Wittenborn, an early writer for Saturday Night Live and flamboyant man-about-Manhattan in the late, coke-dusted 1970s, knows whereof he speaks: As a teenager, his middle-class, academic parents relocated to New Jersey, where Wittenborn grew up rubbing elbows with the Osbornes' real-life counterparts like a young Nick Carraway. (His sister eventually married into the Johnson & Johnson family; Jamie Johnson, who exposed the lives of his billionaire friends in the documentary BORN RICH, is Wittenborn's nephew.) Wittenborn knows exactly what can make such awful people so alluring, but that seductive quality doesn't come through in Griffin's film; they're simply awful. None of this is helped by casting the wan and enervated Stewart and the awkward Evans as Maya and Bryce, Finn's entree into this rarefied world. Only Perkins and Lane are worth watching, but even their characters have been defanged past the point of interest.
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Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner, American Gods and more
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