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Pro-Thaksin demonstrators have reach Bangkok ahead of a rally today (Sunday). The government has deployed about 40,000 security personnel. The Internal Security Act has also been invoked, giving the military extra powers to impose curfews and restrict numbers at gatherings.The last major protests, in April last year, turned violent, with two deaths and dozens of people injured.
This protest comes after the Supreme Court ruled that former PM Thaksin Shinawatra's family should be stripped of more than half a contested US$2.3 billion. The court said US$1.4 billion of the assets were gained illegally through conflict of interest when Mr Thaksin was prime minister. The funds were frozen after Mr Thaksin's elected government was overthrown in a military coup in 2006.
He, who is living abroad, has denied any wrongdoing.
The Economist reported two issues ago: "The court's verdict exposes Mr Thaksin and his family to a range of civil and criminal charges. Prosecutors may go after members of his cabinet and officials accused of helping Shin Corp. The government can also try to claw back lost revenue from Shin Corp, and particularly its lucrative mobile-phone unit, AIS."
Readers will be aware that SingTel has a 21.4% stake in AIS. No wonder Shin's executive chairman and acting president Somprasong Boonyachai said to BT two weeks ago (juz after the court's verdict) that Temasek could divest its stake in Shin Corp if the right buyer comes along.
Maybe Temasek is prepared to cut loss? It lost abt US$4.6 billion on Merrill Lynch so a loss of around US$655 million (assuming that its interest in Shin is only 42%, and not the 79% economic interest that some analysts have calculated) would be "Peanuts" as Mrs SM might have put it, though she did not. I mean waz US$655 million when you dropped US$4.6 billion?
Time to call John Paulson? He is the hedgie who bot BoA (that bot ML) when Temasek was selling.
But on Friday that same Thai said Temasek had no plans to sell its stakes in Shin or in satellite unit Thaicom. Either he is the Thai version of Gopalan Nair or Temasek has changed its mind in two weeks
Anyway, the repercussions of the Shin deal go on and on https://atans1.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/better-at-destabilising-than-investing/
BTW a conspiracy theorist or one who practices the art of guessing what is going on behind the scenes: dietrologia in Italian, literally "behindologypoint", has argued that the Shin purchase was a gd deal that went wrong because of the coup.
A Pakistani (you know how mad they can be) of my acquaintance has connected the dots between these three indisputable facts
1 When Thaksin was PM he had proposed spending 1.7 trillion baht between 2006 and 2010 (then US$47 billion) on mass transit systems, water pipelines, communications technology and other projects to boost the economy and improve the country's infrastructure.
2 TLCs have the expertise to do these projects.
3 Thaksin has been found by the Thai courts to be venal.
My mad Paki wonders aloud if someone might have tot of the billions of $ that TLCs could from the Thai government win if Shin was bot at a more than fair price? Note that the price was so fair to shareholders that brokers recommend that they sell to the consortium
I told him S'pore Inc. does not bribe: if we did we would be more successful than Taiwanese and Hongkies in China. He pointed out that S'poreans learn from their mistakes.
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Tens of thousands of Thai opposition supporters have rallied in Bangkok and gave Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva until Monday afternoon to call fresh polls. They vowed to demonstrate across the capital if he refuses to do so. The government insists it will not stand down and has tightened security.


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mayo | rights, freedoms and repression | feature Thursday April 01, 2010 08:21 by Andrew N Flood - WSM - personal capacity
25 out of 27 people prosecuted for resisting Shells experimental gas pipeline have cases withdrawn or dismissed
Around the time of the visit of Shells pipe-laying ship the Solitaire in June it became clear that the Gardai had been told that they could do anything to remove Shell to Sea campaigners from the scene and they would be looked after. Rulings from the district court, in particular the denial of bail to 7 campaigners charged with the most minor of public order offences removed people with vital water skills from the area by interning them in Mountjoy and Castlerea prisons. Local fisherman Pat ODonnell had one of his boat sunk from under him when four masked men boarded the boat in the middle of the night and held Pat and the other crew member at gun point while they sabotaged the boat leading to its sinking. When Pat took to sea in another boat as the Solitaire arrived he was arrested under the Public Order Act for loitering and once more sent to prison leaving the way clear for the Solitaire.
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What happened in Erris in the spring and early summer of 2009 reads like some sort of B Movie film script. First news arrived that one of the security guards who worked for Shell had been shot dead in Bolivia and that he was part of a terrorist group that aimed at starting a civil war there. Within weeks it became clear that he was not alone, that in fact several security guards from the Shell compound had traveled to Bolivia with him where some were arrested and others are wanted for questioning. The environmental prize winner Willie Corduff was beaten by masked men while conducing a peaceful overnight sit in at the Shell compound. Then Pats boat was boarded and sunk by more masked men, an event the Gardai failed to investigate for weeks. Finally as Shells pipe lying ship the Solitaire arrived off the coast two Irish Navy gun boats were deployed alongside a Air Force spotter plane, 300 Gardai and 200 Shell private security. All to watch, surround and repress no more than one hundred Shell to Sea campaigners. Rumors abounded of unmarked military jeeps and everywhere secret police men were to be seen. A huge media smear campaign swung into action seeking to paint the Shell to Sea campaigners as crazed terrorists despite the facts that showed such types were to be found on the other side.
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by Dave Donnellan Thu Mar 25, 2010 21:53
Another great piece of writing. Very helpful in putting the week's events in context.
by Davy Carlin - WSM Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:54
Excellent and informative piece Andrew on this essential stand.
by Bangor Billy Fri Mar 26, 2010 14:36
any photos/footage of the protests concernerd??
by FSB! Fri Mar 26, 2010 16:27
On the 28th of June last year the events concerning a majority of the cases thrown out at Belmullet District Court on Thursday happened. I was there then to cover those actions for this august independent newswire. I remember too that those actions happened in an environent of extreme hostility, an environment manufactured by the presence of hundreds of Gardai, two Naval Service ships, a Garda and Air Corps aerial presence, and plainclothes cops and other assorted 'spooks' up lanes and behind ditches. All to prevent peaceful ordinary people protesting Shell's corrupt project. The demeanour and behaviour of Gardai of all ranks 'on duty' there during that time was mostly of violent disregard for the rights of citizens to favour Shell, particularly from those in command. Looking back, the behaviour of the Gardai at those times was amongst the worst and most violently antagonistic I have ever witnessed or experienced from anyone - and that's from someone who has been mugged at least once in his life!
by Mise Tara 7 Sat Mar 27, 2010 13:24
Charges dropped in Mayo as they have been last year in Meath (m3) because the state is well aware that in both instances those arrested had "lawful excuse " for their actions and did not want the evidence on public record.
by Boadicea Sat Mar 27, 2010 15:46
I don't think the two situations (Tara and Rossport) are exactly the same, although there are of course many similarities.
by Bangor Billy Sat Mar 27, 2010 15:50
Excellent footage.. Any further footage/pics.. held back until now??
by Alexandry Mon Mar 29, 2010 09:44
Yeah,it's really cool photo)
by Shell Watcher Wed Apr 07, 2010 17:15
The recent loss of ice coverage in the arctic is resulting in a flurry of excitement among the capitalist carrion. Apart from the mineral wealth suddenly available to the "Arctic nations" (Canada, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, USA, Sweden) there is also oil suddenly available. Canada has been busy conducting military exercises in the region in preparation to asserting it's "rights" there, including a share of the oil. Currently there's a meeting on to thrash out what those national rights are and whether Shell and Exxon should be allowed to cause further damage. See link for more:
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by Sceptic - None whatsoever Mon Apr 26, 2010 22:27
very informative article , well done .
by Teddy Ruxpin Tue Apr 27, 2010 15:42
A problem that keeps coming up time and again is the twisting of facts by the media; RTE news and the independent papers especially-selective journalism so to speak.


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It's possible that Woody Allen's new film, "Midnight in Paris," is an elbow to the ribs of his fans, himself or both. Regardless, it's fresher, funnier and more original than anything he's done in a long time.
The film stars Owen Wilson as Gil Bender, a self-loathing "Hollywood hack" screenwriter struggling to finish his first novel. He's in Paris on vacation with his fiancée (the hopelessly miscast Rachel McAdams) and her parent, but his incessant cooing about how magnificent Paris is, especially in the rain, or the 1920s, bores everyone to tears. To this day Gil kicks himself for not having lived there when he was younger and really trying to write seriously.
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"Midnight in Paris" is as close as you can get to a trip to the Paris of the '20s and still feel good about going home.
"Midnight in Paris" made its world premiere today as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival. It goes into limited release stateside on May 20.
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In the latest battle over the separation of church and state, the ACLU of Southern California has filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to restore a cross to the county's official seal.
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court, the ACLU claims adding the religious symbol violates the constitutional guarantee of the separation of church and state.
Supervisors voted 3-2 last month to put a cross atop the seal's depiction of historic San Gabriel Mission.
"Supervisors Antonovich and Knabe have attempted to get around our constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state by claiming that the cross is a symbol of history, not religion," said Mark Rosenbaum, chief counsel of the ACLU SoCal. "But Mr. Antonovich and Mr. Knabe are historians in the same way SNL's Father Guido Sarducci is a priest. These supervisors have exacerbated the constitutional slap at all religions by reinserting a Christian cross on the seal by means of a Pinocchio-style fib."
The original seal had a cross over the Hollywood Bowl, but it was removed when the seal was redesigned in 2004 after the ACLU threatened legal action.
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The latest redesigned seal went into effect on Friday.
Knabe said in a statement that he was disappointed over what he called a "frivolous" lawsuit.
"Our motion to add the cross to the County seal was in the name of historical correctness, not political correctness," Knabe said.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 23, 2013) – The U.S. Men's Volleyball Team finished fifth at the Pan American Cup after defeating Dominican Republic, 25-20, 25-19, 25-14 on Friday in Mexico City, Mexico.
The victory gave the U.S. Men a winning record in the tournament at 3-2. Dominican Republic (1-3) will play Trinidad & Tobago on Saturday to determine which team finishes sixth.
"Finishing in fifth place was not what we really wanted," U.S. Team Captain Ryan Ammerman (Parker, Colo.) said. "Our goal was to defend the title. We are disappointed, but I hope this can help us as an experience to improve."
The U.S. Men played their best match of the tournament, leading in kills (43-25), blocks (6-3) and aces (9-2). Every athlete on the U.S. roster got playing time and every athletes scored, save for libero Michael Brinkley (Huntington Beach, Calif.), who was credited with three digs and nine excellent receptions.
"Yesterday we had the opportunity to win in four sets and we couldn't," U.S. Head Coach Shawn Patchell said. "I was worried that the players would be down, but we responded well."
Outside hitter Taylor Sander (Huntington Beach, Calif.) led all scorers with 17 points on a match-high 11 attacks (78.6 kill percent, .786 hitting efficiency), a match-high two blocks and a match-high four aces. Opposite Shawn Sangrey added nine points on seven attacks, one block and one ace.
Among other U.S. players, middle blocker Dan McDonnell (Glendale, Ariz.) totaled eight points on six attacks, one block and one ace. Outside hitters Josh Taylor (Honolulu) and Joe Sunder (Greensburg, Pa.) each added five points on four kills and one ace.
Opposite Will Price (Laytonsville, Md.) scored four points on four kills. Middle blockers Jacek Ratajczak (Warsaw, Poland) and Russ Lavaja (St. Charles, Ill.) each totaled three points. Lavaja scored on three kills while Ratajczak had two kills and one block. Setter Connor Olbright (Orange, Calif.) added two points on one attack and one ace.
Outside hitter Ryan Jay Owens (Evanston, Ill.) scored one points on a kill and setter Ryan Ammerman (Parker, Colo.) scored one point with a block.
Olbright was credited with 13 running sets and Ammerman with six. The two combined to set the U.S. Men to a 63.2 kill percent and a .529 hitting efficiency.
U.S. Men's Team Roster for Pan American Cup
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Connor Olbright (S, 6-4, Orange, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 Josh Taylor (OH, 6-7, Honolulu, Hawaii, Pepperdine)
5 Ryan Jay Owens (OH, 6-6, Evanston, Ill., Orange Coast College)
6 Joe Sunder (OH, 6-7, Greensburg, Pa., Penn State)
8 Michael Brinkley (L, 5-10, Huntington Beach, Calif., UC Irvine)
9 Dan McDonnell (MB, 6-6, Glendale, Ariz., UC Irvine)
12 Will Price (Opp, 6-5, 207, Laytonsville, Md., Penn State)
14 Ryan Ammerman (S, 6-8, Parker, Colo., UC Irvine)
15 Shawn Sangrey (Opp, 6-5, Columbia, Pa., Ohio State)
17 Jacek Ratajczak (MB, 7-2, Warsaw, Poland, Cal State Northridge)
18 Russ Lavaja (MB, 6-7, St. Charles, Ill., BYU)
19 Taylor Sander (OH, 6-4, Huntington Beach, Calif., BYU)
Head Coach: Shawn Patchell (Concordia University)
Assistant Coach: Allan Vince (Cal Baptist University)
Team Manager/Technical Coordinator: Nick MacRae (Long Beach State)
Physiotherapist: Jamie Rodgers


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A newspaper guest column by Associate Professor Michelle Ferrier argues that government can play a role in developing the next generation of storytellers.
The following column appeared recently in the (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News and the Roanoke (Va.) Times via the Elon University Writers Syndicate.
In My Words: The case for government investment in journalism
By Michelle Ferrier – firstname.lastname@example.com
The North Carolina General Assembly this moment is considering the rollback of a long-time requirement for some local governments that legal notices be printed in the local newspaper, a revenue stream for publishers totaling millions of dollars a year. States across the country, including neighboring Virginia, have been gnawing on the issue as well.
Should HB 504 become law, nine North Carolina counties, and municipalities within those counties, would no longer be dependent on their local newspapers as a vehicle for notification of bids for state contracts, announcements of property foreclosures, or disclosure of other government or legal business. The counties represented in this bill could instead post notices on their own electronic servers.
What might be lost? The local newspaper itself, most likely, as publications face technological disruptions and the "great collapse" of revenue from classified, display and subscriptions income streams. It's no secret that the print journalism industry is already struggling to reinvent itself in our brave new digital world.
Since 2007, more than 120 newspapers nationally have succumbed to these struggles. A troubling number of communities across the United States no longer have access to fresh, local news and information. We are more knowledgeable about events around the world than happenings in our own backyard.
Governments should certainly not feel compelled to make a foray into the Fourth Estate as a direct replacement for folded newspapers. Lawmakers should, however, study how they might use their savings to instead trumpet the values that community newspaper represent. We need to preserve the public service that captures community stories and that gives us a sense of ourselves and our place in the world.
Consider using the funds saved from no longer printing legal notices to train a nationwide media corps, "community storytellers," if you will, much like the writers of the Works Project Administration. Use our underemployed talent, whether fresh out of journalism schools or displaced from the profession or newer community voices, to bolster civic news and information functions.
Even more importantly, boost open government initiatives to create greater transparency, especially in communities that have lost their newspaper watchdog functions. Despite what some individual politicians may think, it truly is in the government's best interest to be as forthcoming as possible with public information.
There are some who will wring their hands and say that government shouldn't be funding our news and information. They'll point to the arguments over our public broadcasting such as NPR and PBS. They'll say that in this political and economic climate, it would be impossible to redirect these government monies to funding community news and information for a more informed citizenry. We need less government control, not more.
Let someone else pick up the slack, they'll say, we don't need newspapers now. We have the Internet.
They will ignore that government is already in our media. They will ignore history that shows that this innovation called a free press was started with government licensing, preferential postal rates, even government-purchased printing presses in places. They will ignore that we would not have the democracy we enjoy if we did not have a free press.
They will believe that newspapers achieved their heights on their own and can figure their way out of their fast race to the bottom on their own, thank you very much. But we're talking about something more vital to our civic discourse than newspapers. We're talking journalism, that vital community information function. One that serves our communities and its residents first, by whatever means necessary.
Community news and information for the people, by the people, of the people. And, maybe, funded by the people. Because that's what the government should be, the collective voice and actions of the people.
For if we do not care now, we will grasp too late the enormity of what we have lost from journalism: The marketplace of ideas, the gathering of stories of about our reality and perhaps the democracy we hold dear.
Michelle Ferrier is an associate professor at Elon University and vice president of Journalism That Matters, a collaboration of journalists, technologists, librarians, educators and others helping to shape the new news ecology through journalism innovation, technology and interdisciplinary conversation.
Elon University faculty with an interest in sharing their expertise with wider audiences are encouraged to contact Eric Townsend (email@example.com) in the Office of University Communications should they like assistance with prospective newspaper op/ed submissions through the Elon University Writers Syndicate.
Viewpoints shared by this syndicate are those of the author and not of Elon University.


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Abhijit Dutt, instructor in information sciences and technology at Penn State Beaver, has been selected as an associate editor of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) which will be held June 10-13, in Barcelona, Spain.
ECIS is considered the premier information systems event in Europe and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed academic research.
Prior to joining Penn State in 2008, he worked in the information systems industry for a variety of companies, including Motorola, Tellabs, Cabletron, and Putnam Investments. In addition, he was a visiting assistant professor of computer information systems at Edgewood College, an adjunct instructor at the University of Wisconsin, an adjunct assistant professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and a lecturer at Shepherd University.
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Add Indoor Cycling or Spinning as Activity Type
add activity indoor cycling or spinning or rpm
vote please
add activity indoor cycling or spinning or rpm
vote please
Please note that the Strava mobile app cannot record indoor or stationary activities. If you are recording an indoor training activity with a compatible 3rd party device you can upload that to Strava. More information how how to share your activities to Strava here: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/223297187-How-to-get-your-Activities-to-Strava
If you do not have a separate device and you do perform a non-GPS backed activity you can always upload a manual entry and select any sport types from the list of currently supported activity types. For more on manual entries please see: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000584924-Uploading-Manual-Activities.
We need spinning as an activity now that "Winter is comming"
Definitely should be feature.
We need spinning as an activity now that "Winter is there"
Maybe I'm not fully understanding the feature suggestion here?
Would a spinning activity type be different than a ride activity type? Right now, you can add a stationary cycling activity, or you can manually enter your ride data for an indoor spin session.
Is there something specific that would be helpful with a spinning activity that we don't currently offer?
Elle, you are correct that spinning or other indoor cycling activities can be recorded or added in Strava in the normal manner (for example, with a Garmin device), and they will show up with the "Stationary Trainer" tag; but these activities automatically get classed as activity type "Workout". And there seems to be no way to change the activity type after the fact. If you change the "Activity Type" to, for example "Cycling" in the "Edit Activity" box, the activity type will revert back to "Workout" after you hit "Save & View Activity". So it would be nice if it was at least possible to change these activities to "Cycling".
Thank you for reacting Elle,
I agree with Mark. That's the issue. It would be nice to have an activity type (in the pull down menu on the app and on the web) referring to Spinning as a cycling type.
kind regards
Needs to be a feature. Stationary comes up as an option when I load a ride with my Garmin but when I spin I'm just getting a reading from the Keiser computer. That data is not recorded anywhere. I need to be able to add Spin as an activity - I'd like to track my spinning time and distance separately from my "real" cycling.
Just noticed that if you add a manual ride entry, save it and then go to edit it, the stationary option appears in that screen.
That's true Randy,
but the issue is: with an app or a garmin synchronizing with extra data (hartrate,cadans and power) the option isn't there in Strava when i edit the activity.
So we need it there as an option
When I check my stats I don't want it to say I average 2 rides per week with zero miles, which is what it does when I make a manual entry and then edit it to say I was on a stationary trainer. I want my ride stats to just be my ride stats and not lump spin sessions in with them. So definitely Strava should have a Spinning category for Activity Type. After all they have a category for Elliptical and Stair Stepper, why not Spinning?
The only way I've been able to track a 90 minute workout on a spin bike (incl. heart rate) using the iPhone app is to change it when I get back to my laptop to, "workout." Then it is listed as a "workout" not cycling. the iPhone app should have a simple indoor spinning as activity that doesn't require GPS. With the amount of spin classes, seems like a no brainer, yes?
Spinning should definitely be a type of activity. What's more, it would be great if it would record your heart rate for the whole time. Even better if they teamed up with Flywheel or Peloton to include your power rankings.
"stationary trainer/ bike" is a checkbox option under the "ride" category but when I list all of my activities I'd like to be able to search for "spinning" the same way I'd like to be able to select for "rides" and "runs"
HI Elle,
Thanks for your help with this..
The issue - from my perspective - is that cycling and spinning are different activities and I'd like to be able to 'categorize' them differently and not just click 'stationary bike' under the cycling activity.
I realize that how Strava sees the 'workout' initially may be as a workout - depending on where the data is coming from - but having the ability to distinguish between cycling and spinning means (as previously stated) my cycling stats won't be distorted by my spinning stats.
I hope this clarifies why we all believe there's a need for a 'spinning' (indoor cycling, etc) activity.
The difference between a Stationary cycling activity and spinning is the flyweel (no distance). This affects Est. Moving Time and other statics.
I would also like to see a spinning option as an activity with the ability to record the time and distance of the spin class.
guys, how things are up to date since the first comment on Oct 2014? Any update from Strava on this?
I d like to resume the current situation with you, as I am gonna soon start doing Indoors. Thx!
@Strava: can you please implement 'Indoor cycling' function as a new feature?
I'd like just to add indoor cycling workouts together with my cycling stats
Or at least to be added and counted on my weekly total stats....,in this case separate from 'normal' cycling
URGE alguna manera para integrar SPINNING. O bien, como mínimo al crear una entrada manual, poder elegir SPINNING y agregar la opción de calorias
we definitively need it, and it should be integrated with fitness & freshness..
This feature idea is two years old, and nothing is happening.
The lack of spinning as an activity is irritating.
I totally agree with Stephan Sliver: This feature idea is two years old, and nothing is happening.
The lack of spinning as an activity is irritating.How difficult can it be to add this as an activity?
I hope all followers will react the same way as I just did, maybe it will help
The people have spoken: Time to add a "stationary trainer" / "spinning" as a legit category. The "ride category" should be used for cycling activity with a spatial component; the requested category is its own category with a different set of data categories.
Yes we need indoor Spinning to be added. Monday to Friday I do a 90 minutes spinning class every mid week day, as don't get time to hit the roads after work.
It would be nice to be able to record HR like normal and then be able to manually enter time and distance. My current workaround is to record my HR through Wahoo's activity app, importing it into Strava, and then adding a manual workout activity in Strava for Time and distance under another activity. This results in two activities with the HR in one and the time and distance.
Winter is here, we need Spinning to be added. Otherwise I don't see why should I keep the Premium during the winter.
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"Amazon.com apologized Monday for an 'embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error' that led to the sales ranking being removed from tens of thousands of books.....On Monday, Amazon spokesman Andrew Herdener said that 57,310 books had been affected.
Amazon has handled this communications crisis in the worst possible way, which is to ignore the outrage and throw corporate-speak at the issue. I was aware of the controversy early Sunday morning: there was no response from Amazon until late afternoon, and the company spoke through a press release to the Associated Press. Amazon is an online business, suffering an online publicity massacre, and they offered no online response of substance. No blog post of their own. No direct dialogue attempts on Twitter. Imagine that you're on an arena stage in front of tens of thousands of angry people, and instead of speaking into the microphone, you get on your cell phone and call someone to take a memo to send those folks. That's essentially how Amazon handled it.
(1)Sometime in the middle-distance past—maybe a couple of months ago, maybe a year, it doesn't matter—somebody decided that it would be a good idea to make sure that works of straight-out pornography (or, for that matter, sex toys) didn't inadvertently show up as the top result for innocuous search queries. (The many ways that this could happen are left as an exercise for Making Light's commentariat.) A policy was promulgated that "adult" items would be removed from the sales rankings and thus rendered invisible to general search.
(2)Sometime more recently, an entirely different group of people were given the task of deciding what things for sale on Amazon should be tagged "adult," but in the journey from one department to another, and from one level of the hierarchy to another, the directive mutated from "let's discreetly unrank the really raunchy stuff" to "we'd better be careful to put an 'adult' tag on anything that could imaginably offend anyone." Indeed, as Teresa pointed out, it's entirely possible that someone used a canned list of "adult" titles supplied from outside, something analogous to the lists of URLs sold by "net nanny" outfits, which would account for the newly-unranked status of works like Lady Chatterley's Lover. (As one net commenter observed, "What is this, 1928?
All weekend, as the firestorm spread, Amazon maintained silence. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who's on Twitter, has yet to write a word about the brouhaha. Finally, today, Amazon's director of corporate communications, Patty Smith, blamed the issue on a "glitch," which was not explained.
Whether the incident is a glitch or the work of a hacker is rather beside the point. Amazon should have been monitoring its brand in social media 24/7. And clearly it wasn't. It should have responded much sooner and much more clearly. If it didn't know the cause, it should have said so and explained what it was doing to find out.
Herdener did not respond to requests to clarify the cause of the error, nor about why works such as the "Milk" pictorial -- which did not appear to be listed in any of the categories mentioned by Amazon -- may have been removed from the search listings...
In striking contrast to all of the online uproar, Amazon -- a leading Internet company and media pioneer -- remained nearly silent. It issued a brief statement Sunday evening, citing "a glitch," then waited most of Monday before issuing the mea culpa.
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We're addicted to Facebook
Facebook continues to reign supreme as Australia's most popular social media website and Victorians are among the networking giant's biggest fans.
On average, Victorians have 253 Facebook friends or social media followers each, the most in the country, are the most likely to check their accounts more than five times a day, the second least likely to not have an account and average 21.3 visits each week.
That's according to the Yellow Social Media Report, published today by Sensis, which has also found that LinkedIn and Twitter have almost doubled in popularity nationally among social media users.
Social media users aged 40 to 49 are the most likely to use LinkedIn, while Twitter is most popular with users aged 20 to 29.
Facebook has a 98 per cent penetration of Victoria's social media users, the highest of any mainland state, compared with 19 per cent for LinkedIn, its nearest rival.
Myspace was mentioned just once in the 52-page report, when 37 per cent of the users who said they had stopped using a social media site nominated the website.
On average, the number of friends or followers for each man was 246, growing from 209 in the 2011 report, but for women, the number dropped from 224 last year to 211 this year.
The report authors surveyed 1015 Australians about their internet and social media usage — of that, 606 used social media. Nationally, 33 per cent said they check social media first thing in the morning and 40 per cent said they checked it as the last thing before bed.
''What we're actually seeing is that it's at the top of mind all day ... it really is becoming a primary communication point,'' Sensis emerging business & innovation group general manager Simon Betschel said.
Almost half of all respondents said they did not notice advertising on social media.
Of the 409 internet users surveyed who did not use social media, overwhelmingly, their reason was that it didn't appeal to them or they weren't interested. Security concerns came second, followed by thoughts it was too time-consuming.
Just over 30 per cent of social media users said they had increased the amount of time they spent social networking in the past year, highest in the over 65 age group with 44 per cent. But 40 per cent of 14 to 19-year-olds said they had cut back and when asked of their perception about how much time they spent on social media, 49 per cent said it was too much.
And the next time you go to borrow a friend's smartphone, remember this: 5 per cent of users said they had accessed social media in the bathroom, and another 5 per cent said they had used it on the toilet.


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With his third film, Sightseers, director Ben Wheatley has clearly defined his wheelhouse. He makes surreal, darkly comic, horrifically violent tales about ugly people doing terrible things. The humor slightly faded in his last film, the twisted thriller Kill List, but Sightseers returns him to the pitch-black comedy of his debut feature film, Down Terrace. This time, instead of giving an emotional bubonic plague to the platonic family, Wheatley fiercely savages the banality of relationships growing out of the puppy-love stages and into something serious. For the two lead characters in Sightseers, the relationship grows into something seriously demented and ruthlessly perverse.
Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) are going on their first trip together as a couple. They're still getting to know each other, but they have a fun week ahead of drving a camper around the British Isles, and going to such exotic locations as a viaduct and a pencil museum. They would be the most boring, sad, pathetic people in the world except Chris has a minor secret: he's a serial killer who takes out anyone who makes him feel the slightest bit insecure. As for Tina, she's already insecure and desperate for Chris' approval, so murdering innocent people isn't necessarily a deal breaker. So the couple may be sad and pathetic, but they're certainly not boring.
Wheatley takes Lowe and Oram's script and revisits the territory he visited with Down Terrace. Like Wheatley's 2009 film, Sightseers takes what should be a safe and loving relationship, replaces it with a cancerous growth of paranoia and resentment, and then magnifies this corruption to the point where it becomes comically grotesque. This replacement and enlargement makes the situations and characters become surreal, but Wheatley always wakes us back up with immediate, unflinching, and unrelentingly brutal violence.
The film practically spits venom at the shallowness of its protagonists. "We don't care about being fair," Tina whines at one point. "We care about being happy." Fans of Falling Down will spot the thematic similarity between the 1993 Michael Douglas movie and Sightseers' two characters going to extreme measures when greeted with any crack in an idealized experience. For Tina and Chris, being made to feel inadequate is a crime richly deserving of agonizing, skull-crushing death. But they are in adequate. They're sad, lonely people who have found each other, but are still rotten inside. They're worse than mundane and they're an insult to ordinary.
Acts of large, disturbing murder conducted by such small, insignificant people is inherently comic and Wheatley, Lowe, and Oram take devilishly glee in seeing how decidedly fucked-up they can make their characters. There's a grand sense of escalation as the movie refuses to coast on simply having Tina and Chris murder someone in between museum trips. It's a fun dichotomy, but the filmmakers work for something greater by trying to find a mirror in the wreckage of these callow, deplorable excuses for human beings.
It's rewarding to see a director clearly stake out a bold and fresh identity in the span of only a few films. I believe Ben Wheatley will continue to evolve as a director, and he's already growing from a fascinating starting position. He holds up an image, then distorts it, breaks it, mutilates it, and hands it back to us. We cringe because we can still see ourselves in the ugliness, and yet we have no choice but to laugh because sometimes absurdity is the only escape from the repulsive.
Rating: 7.9 out of 10
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Warren police chief takes job days after graduating from academy
John Semertgakis was once a restaurant manager
A former restaurant manager elected to become Warren police chief, despite having no law enforcement experience, began his new job this weekend.
New Police Chief John Semertgakis graduated from the police academy last Friday. On Saturday, he was sworn in. And by Saturday evening, he was already on patrol.
It's a police department of one, and the former restaurant manager said despite it being a bit overwhelming, he is ready to go.
"I am chief. I am patrolman. I am dog officer and all," said Semertgakis.
Semertgakis said as a kid, he never dreamed he'd grow up to be a police officer.
And after living in Boston and then Manchester, moving to the small town of 900 was a change for him. But, after living in Warren for the past seven years, Semertgakis said he is truly home.
"I didn't take this job to do it for a year. I plan on doing this for a long time," said Semertgakis.
The police chief job in Warren opened up after the former chief lost his job and people started looking for a replacement.
"(I) didn't think about it seriously until the position became open," said Semertgakis.
Semertgakis was elected in March, but in title only. He had to complete the police academy before he could take on all the responsibilities as chief.
Now, Semertgakis said he takes the job very seriously.
As a firefighter and youth sports coach, he already knows many of the residents.
"We are starting a new chapter in the town of Warren, and hopefully it will be all positive," said Semertgakis.
While the Grafton County sheriff and New Hampshire state police helped cover the area, there hasn't been a Warren police presence in about two years.
"So for the citizens and business owners to see a police officer out there, it gives them a better feeling when they go to bed at night," said Semertgakis.
The chief said he doesn't plan on coming in and being heavy-handed. He just wants to focus on serving the people.
Traffic safety is one of his main concerns, and he said everything else will branch out from there.


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Tell your story with the "Tree of Love Book" After Effects template! This lovely book animation has eight pages with twenty placeholders for your photos or videos! The flourishes, hearts, and flowers make this a great template for Valentines Day, Weddings, or Anniversaries! There are 10 areas for text inside the book along with customizable front and back covers!
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The Potato Chip that packs a crunch like no other, Kettle Brand Chips, is celebrating 30 years of producing their famous all natural, flavorful kettle-cooked potato chips and all of the amazing flavors that have been created over the years.
To commemorate this milestone Kettle Brand Chips is bringing back four of its favorite retired flavors for a limited time: Red Chili, Jalapeño Jack, Salsa with Mesquite and Cheddar Beer. These flavors will only be around for a limited time as they hit store shelves beginning in August and will disappear again next summer. To celebrate Kettle Brand Chips and Splash Magazines are giving away a sampler pack that contains the four limited edition flavors plus a bag of Sea Salt chips.
Carolyn Ottenheimer, Kettle Brand's Chief Flavor Architect, has been developing the brand's recipes for more than 13 years and is behind some of its biggest sellers, from Salt & Fresh Ground Pepper to Sweet Onion. Trying to narrow the choice of flavors down to four for this was collection was a tastey yet difficult process.
"Reflecting on 30 years was a great reminder of how flavor innovation is so rooted in everything we do at Kettle Brand," said Ottenheimer. "Looking back now, it's easy to see how we've often been ahead of our time, on the cusp of culinary trends hitting American culture. Our limited batch collection is only a small selection from the more than 40 flavors introduced over three decades."
The collection includes a group of four incredibly flavorful chips that have previously been retired. Make sure to give them a try and if you love them let Kettle Brand know and hopefully a few of these can make it to store shelves permanently!
• Red Chili –Introduced in 1982 after Unsalted and Lightly Salted, this flavor mirrors the taste of sriracha sauce combined with a vinegar tang and Cayenne pepper for a searing red chili heat. While it may have launched ahead of its time, this chip is making an on-trend comeback with the flavors and foods of today.
• Jalapeño Jack – Originally debuted in 1989, this flavor not only has a visual resemblance to a slice of Pepper Jack cheese, but has the same creamy, salty Jack cheese base mixed with the spice of red and green peppers and a strong jalapeño flavor.
• Salsa with Mesquite – First launched in 1999, vocal fans have long mourned this favorite's absence. Tomatoes, bell peppers, onions and garlic blend with the bright flavor of lime to create an unmatched combination that's sweet, smoky and salty.
• Cheddar Beer – After debuting as a fan pick during the brand's first People's Choice vote in 2005, this flavor earned a cult following. A combination of tangy sharp cheese with malty beer notes forms a perfect balance of smooth and salty flavors.
Kettle Brand Chips are really more than a chip, they are an experience and you can also feel a little better about the snack you are eating as the chips are cooked in small batches in pure, all natural oils under the watchful eye of dedicated chip cooks. The 30th Birthday collection and all Kettle Brand products are made with a Natural Promise – all natural ingredients, no trans fats, no artificial colors or flavors and no preservatives. Kettle Brand products are made with Non-GMO ingredients and it's the first and only potato chip brand to be verified by the Non-GMO Project.
To enter the contest follow @KettleChips and @SplashMagWW on www.twitter.com and retweet the following :
Retweet: @KettleChips celebrating 30 years of making tasty chips, sampler pack #giveaway to celebrate @SplashMagWW http://lasplash.com/publish/food/kettle-brand-chips.php
The winner will be chosen randomly by all valid entries on August 17th, 2012.


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High progress with low test scores means... that students are starting at a low point but the school is doing a great job at supporting their academic growth compared to most other schools.
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the 5th World Water Forum High Level Panel on Finance
Istanbul, 17 March 2009
Dear colleagues, friends, good afternoon.
I am pleased to participate in this Panel to discuss the current crisis and water financing. We are in a global downturn of a scale and reach we haven't experienced since the great depression. It is bad, and might get even worse.
What does this mean for the mission to improve financing for water and sanitation for all?
The current crisis and the water sector
Here is one scenario. The credit crunch means that finance is harder to get for water utilities and municipalities. Public finance for infrastructure maintenance and upgrades is under strain. And as consumers face the fear of losing their jobs, it becomes politically difficult to raise water tariffs. The financial viability of the utilities is threatened; maintenance and rehabilitation work is postponed. The vicious circle of low tariff - poor service - low willingness to pay is perpetuated. This is the worst case.
But there is an alternative scenario. Crisis is the mother of bold innovations. Crisis provides an impetus to push forward difficult reforms. It opens a window of opportunity to drum up the political will needed to act. If the efficiency and governance of the water sector is improved, it could well attract funds from financial markets. Economically, it makes sense: the water sector provides a steady, stable rate of return that makes it attractive to risk-averse investors. Politically, it is inevitable: water has growing strategic importance especially as water scarcity is expected to get worse in the coming decades.
Governments are launching large fiscal stimulus packages. While much political attention in the stimulus packages is on environmental efficiency, we need to get the message across that water efficiency needs a higher profile. In fact, there are huge opportunities for job-creating and "shovel ready" investments in the water sector, particularly for water saving and the rehabilitation of networks, which require relatively short design and construction planning, compared to new roads, energy, or other types of infrastructure. Water represents the best example of "double dividend" spending that packages offer the opportunity to spend in. Better water management and infrastructure can be crucial to raise conditions for sustainable long term growth at global level.
Let me tell you how these opportunities could be captured.
OECD is working on solutions
The OECD has been working to address both the current crisis and better water management. The OECD's Strategic Response to the Financial and Economic Crisis is making the case for fixing the failures of the financial markets, and embarking on policies for recovery and long-term growth towards a stronger, cleaner and fairer world economy. The Ministerial Meeting of the OECD on 24-25 June will discuss the impact of the fiscal stimulus packages and how best to promote green growth beyond the crisis.
While seeking solutions to the crisis, we are also keeping an eye on water management challenges. Just this morning I launched the latest OECD report Managing Water for All: An OECD Perspective on Pricing and Financing. This report culminates the OECD work over the past two years and takes into account the cross-cutting nature of the water challenges. It aims to help countries to better manage this vital resource, and to strengthen financing arrangements in both OECD and developing countries for improved water supply and sanitation services.
Let me illustrate the key lessons in the context of the current crisis.
1) The economic benefits of investment in water supply and sanitation services. Especially in developing countries, awareness among political leaders and citizens more generally of the positive social returns to investing in water and sanitation is still too limited. Yet we are talking about big numbers, between 4 and 12 times, in the forms of reduced health care costs and increased productivity. Efforts to spread the words deserve all our attention. There is still time for fiscal stimulus packages to allocate funds to the water sector. But we have to act quickly and persuasively.
2) The need to strengthen water sector reforms and improve the efficiency and creditworthiness of utilities. The water sector itself needs to become more credible. How to achieve this? Our recommendation to policy makers is that they must tackle water governance and water investment risks. Enhancing the operational efficiency of utilities requires reduced leakages. Resources from fiscal stimulus packages with a water investment component should be directed to improve the performance of utilities. The signalling effect of improved water governance is potentially enormous. In fact, it could act as a catalyser for increased and more stable private and public finance over the long term.
3) The leveraging role of fiscal transfers. Along with tariffs and taxes, fiscal transfers to local governments and municipalities can be one of the main sources of finance for water sector investments. But they could be designed better, particularly with a view to attract matching funds from municipalities, for example, or to serve as guarantee for private finance. Take the example of the United States' State Revolving Funds: big moneys, USD 3.9 billion, which come on top of the 4 billion from the fiscal stimulus package. It will fund 1,700 local water and sanitation projects. The strong emphasis on co-financing arrangements means that the effective level of future water spending could be much higher.
4) The role of strategic financing plans. The current economic climate requires smarter financing plans for water infrastructure investments. Our report focuses on the "3Ts": taxes, tariffs and transfers but it also stresses the importance to find a balance between these ingredients, and how they could leverage or guarantee other sources of finance. One example is the OECD's FEASIBLE, a financial planning tool to help countries develop realistic financial strategies for water and sanitation. We are already working at several country pilot projects with Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho and Georgia. The European Union Water Initiative and others promote wider use of the approach. Also, the World Bank has started using the FEASIBLE tool in Cambodia and may do so in other places in the future.
The financial crisis and the global economic downturn are having far-reaching effects, especially on developing countries. We all agree on the importance that the international community remains committed to its goals of fighting poverty and promoting economic development in poorer countries. This has also to include a strong commitment to meeting the water-related Millennium Development Goals. Governments in the OECD Development Assistance Committee and the recent Doha Conference on Financing for Development have pledged to maintain aid flows in line with earlier commitments. That gives us some ground for optimism.
I truly believe that the current crisis presents an unexpected opportunity for the water sector. But we must use it to push much-needed reforms. Only then will investments in the sector become more attractive for both governments and private investors.
A crisis is an opportunity that should not be wasted; but we have much work ahead of us.
Thank you.
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Soil resources are limited and need to be preserved for feeding the growing population of the world by 2050.
Maintaining healthy soils required for feeding the growing population of the world and meeting their needs for biomass (energy), fiber, fodder, and other products can only be ensured through a strong partnership.
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Cavemud wrote:There's some formation damage but doesn't appear to be intentional. They were off trail looking for more cave that doesn't exist in that passage.
Every cave has it's on circumstances and best practices for conservation. In some cases secrecy works, and in other cases some openness and sharing helps. We have some delicate areas in caves here in Colorado on public land where there is no additional passage. In these cases it can help to communicate via flagging, and on the map, that there is no going passage and not to cross a certain point. If we didn't have open communication about these areas, then every single caver would cross these delicate areas in order to see for themselves. I recently heard of a caver disobeying these signs in order to see for himself because he thought the signs and warnings on the map were a ploy to keep other cavers out of an important extension (that in reality didn't exist). When you have a culture of secrecy then it's difficult to know when someone is telling the truth. Fortunately this was an isolated incident by a caver with lower than average intelligence.


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Razer has today announced the launch of a brand new 'elite gaming controller for the Xbox 360' – the Razer Sabertooth.
Available initially only in the UK and USA, the control pad looks similar to the official Microsoft 360 pad, but features six additional buttons which you can map to your specific needs with the help of the built-in OLED screen.
Two of these buttons reside on the shoulders while two removable rocking switches live on the undercarriage. The Sabertooth pad also has a fully detachable cable that screws onto the controller, and comes with a carry case for ferrying your pad round to your mates' house.
TechRadar has been testing the new pad over the last few weeks - we like that it retains all the things that make the Xbox 360 pad design the best out there, while adding extra functionality to push it over the top.
But at £69.99/$79.99 is it worth buying? You'd probably best read TechRadar's Razer Sabertooth review to find out!


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So first there was all this handwringing because all the American superhero roles were going to Brits, but now the script has been flipped by Jessica Chastian, who will follow in Meryl Streep's footsteps to play an iconic Briton.
Chastain is attached to play the lead role of Princess Diana in "Caught in Flight," reported IndieWire. The film will tell the story of a secret two-year affair the royal had with a Pakistan-born heart surgeon.
The princess met Dr. Hasnat Khan in 1995, at the Royal Brompton Hospital, while visiting a friend who was recovering from heart surgery. Diana was so serious about "Mr. Wonderful," as she called him, that she wore traditional dress while visiting his parents in Pakistan, and seriously considered converting to Islam so she could marry him.
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Khan maintained his silence about the affair for more than a decade, before spilling the beans to The Telegraph in 2008
The script by Stephen Jeffreys ("The Libertine") is said to paint Diana in a not very flattering light, and shows her all but stalking Khan after he broke off the relationship. Oliver Hirschbiegel ("Downfall") is directing.


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Docs to marathoners: Pay attention to diet
Thousands of people will hit the streets of Baltimore this Saturday for the annual Baltimore Running Festival, and those who do need to pay special attention to their diets.
"In preparation before the race, you want to make sure you're balancing your diet. You may want to increase your carbohydrate intake to 60 percent of your calories," said Mercy Medical Center internist Dr. Jonathan Rich.
"It can make a huge difference to your performance and endurance," said Mercy dietician Kelly O'Connor.
She said along with complex carbohydrates, runners need to eat lean proteins. The combination will keep the body going longer.
"Basically, you're looking for foods that give you energy and foods that kind of enhance those that keep the energy all the way through, if you can help it," O'Connor said.
She said if you're eating on the go, some good choices of snacks include sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fresh fruit and Greek yogurt.
"It's a particularly good choice because it has protein and carbs," she said.
As for dinner the night before, O'Connor said it's not necessary to carbo-load and that runners should think balance instead.
"A meal that's really more complex carbohydrates and lean protein -- go a little bit light on the fat. Your body takes longer to digest fat, and you don't want that happening the day before," she said.
Experts said all runners, no matter the experience, have to know that the food they eat has more of a job than just satisfying hunger.
"It's your gasoline. It's the fuel that your body burns to keep it going," Rich said.


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The high definition scientists over at HD Guru make a possibly obvious but nevertheless important point. You should not buy a DVD upscaler—though not for the reason you think. It's not because DVD upscaling doesn't bring some benefit to watching DVDs on HDTVs; it's because most TVs are upscaling already.
Not only can HD Guru not tell the difference between many standalone and TV upscalers, they point out that:
As seen in the HD Guru tests of 2008 HDTVs, the internal scaling circuits have been upgraded, compared to previous year's models and are generally superior to the scalers within many upconverting DVD players.
Extrapolating that point, you could actually be doing yourself a disservice by using an old DVD upscaler with a fancy new television.
Needless to say, HD Guru recommends you stick with Blu-ray players if you've got a few hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket. [HD Guru]