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"People who claim to be professionals in an industry that is all about security and protection of property shouldn't steal, right?"
Am I incredibly naive for making such a ridiculous statement and expecting the agreement of other security professionals?
As the years go by, I find that many in our industry have become desensitized to incidents of obvious dishonesty. No, I'm not talking about locksmiths and safemen who go bad and burglarize a customer or pilfer safe contents when nobody is looking. Thankfully, that is still a rare occurrence perpetrated by a few rogues who find themselves immediately ostracized by their colleagues and abandoned by clients if and when these indiscretions are discovered.
No, I'm referring to the subtle and common dishonesty. I'm talking about crimes like theft of intellectual property from web sites or stealing another's business name (and therefore his/her reputation) for use in scams. I'm talking about theft from association classes and trade show exhibitors or distributing, without permission, technical data created, collected and/or published by others. These are the little crimes that most in our industry don't pay much attention to, unless they become a victim. These crimes are motivated by personal gain, greed and laziness, just like robbery, burglary, credit card fraud or identity theft... so why would we consider tolerating them or sweeping the evidence of such misdeeds under the rug when they are discovered within our ranks?
Only three months ago, two of our industry colleagues discovered that photos from their own safe databases were turning up on CDs and DVDs that were being distributed (without their permission) by another well respected safe & vault professional that they also considered a trusted colleague and perhaps even a friend. This data was included on a class hand-out DVD that contained over 2 Gigabytes of safe photos, published articles, detailed safe and lock drawings and reams of material that was apparently downloaded from a popular, for-profit, online safe technicians forum. Of course, this isn't unusual or rare. Many of us are quite aware that safe & vault data is being traded, like baseball cards, at conventions, safe-opening parties and other industry gatherings. Maybe some of you already have some of this illicitly-obtained material in your own photo collections and computer databases? What's the big deal, right?
A few years ago, another friend told me that he had discovered that a guy, who he had shared his convention hotel room with, was attempting to copy safe data from his laptop computer while he wasn't looking. That same individual was later accused of stealing drill bits and other SAVTA property from classrooms. Pilferage from classes is, unfortunately, also nothing new. I've donated many tools and educational items to SAVTA over the years and many have disappeared into the pockets and tool kits of previous attendees and, therefore, are no longer available for use by current attendees. I'm not the only contributor who has experienced this phenomenon.
In 2005, a very expensive scope disappeared from my SAVTA exhibitor booth and, again, I am not the only exhibitor to experience these kinds of losses. At the last SAFETECH convention in San Diego, I returned to my room one evening to find my own notebook computer had grown legs and disappeared. Was it just a local burglar or an attendee? These are but a few of the incidents of which I am aware. Yes, SAVTA, exhibitors and attendees should be insured for these losses, but that's not the point, is it? Considering what we do for a living, this shouldn't be happening at all! Would I be scoffed at if I compared this larceny to a cop who takes a bribe to look the other way during a prostitution raid or a priest who molests an alter boy? Isn't this about abuse of trust? Where is the outrage within our community of so-called "professionals"?
In the safe & vault business, technical data is an extremely valuable commodity. One only needs to consider the cost of classes, association dues, drill point books, data CDs, videos and works such as the prized, hand-drawn illustrations made by Ed Willis to confirm that these things have enormous value to those of us who earn our living opening and servicing safes and vaults. Have we fostered a black market, that will eventually hurt our own bottom lines and futures?
I often wonder what goes through the mind of a technician or locksmith who would never think about stealing from a client, but who dutifully downloads and collects the photos and information shared by others on online forums, decides to burn a CD or DVD of it, then distributes it to friends and students or sells it. Maybe he doesn't think he will be caught. Maybe he doesn't care because making a few bucks or promoting himself by using the work of others is more important than personal loyalty, integrity, self esteem or his own good reputation.
As these kinds of abuses are becoming more common, i.e. no longer limited to those unethical purveyors, many of my friends and colleagues have decided not to post photos and details about openings in online technical forums in response to help requests. In fact, many have stopped replying to posts entirely, not only because of data theft, but because they are finding it much harder to make a living as more new techs enter their markets who, instead of creating their own database or legitimately purchasing the creative or technical work of others, have been equipped with tools, photos, data, drill point books and charts that have been supplied by the purveyors of the purloined. This pervasive "entitlement mentality", in addition to cheapening our industry, may have finally killed the goose. In my opinion, that naive goose should have gone belly-up, years ago!
© 2011 by Ken Doyle - The Safecracker
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|[June 07, 2021]
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — May Mobility, a leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and shuttle operations, today announced the appointment of Ryan Green as its first Chief Financial Officer. Ryan brings over 20 years of experience leading financial functions and will focus on positioning May Mobility for growth.
"With experience at the intersection of automotive, technology, and growth-stage companies, Ryan is an exceptional CFO for May Mobility," said Edwin Olson, Chief Executive Officer of May Mobility. "Adding his knowledge and experience to our team will help us continue to accelerate our business and execute May Mobility's vision."
Green join the company most recently from American electric vehicle maker and automotive technology company, Rivian, where he led their finance, accounting and corporate governance functions, growing a department of five to a staff of more than one hundred. Prior to Rivian, he served as CFO at Harley Davidson Financial Services, with previous experience at Ford/Visteon.
"I am beyond excited to join May Mobility and help the company continue to accelerate growth," said Green. "What drew me to the company is how we directly impact the communities we serve. The clarity of May Mobility's mission to provide a safer, greener, more accessible world through autonomous mobility is something I look forward to supporting in my role as CFO."
Ryan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance from Michigan State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Wayne State University.
About May Mobility
May Mobility is a leader in autonomous vehicle technology development and deployment. With more than 275,000 autonomous rides to date, May Mobility is committed to delivering safe, efficient and sustainable shuttle solutions designed to complement today's public transportation options. The company's ultimate goal is to realize a world where self-driving systems make transportation more accessible and reliable, the roads safer, and encourage better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant, and livable spaces. For more information, visit maymobility.com.
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National Drive Electric Week
Ambler, PA
Sep 15, 2018
|Saturday, September 15, 2018 NOTE: this event has already happened, find current-year events on the Attend page.
|1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
|Weavers Way CoOp / Amber Beverage Exchange
217 East Butler Avenue
Ambler, PA 19002
Event Report
Ambler Mayor Jeanne Sorg came out to see what all the talk was about, and she was happy to see over 50 Electric Vehicles parked between Weavers Way Co-Op and Ambler Beverage Exchange.
Representatives from Penn Environmental were on hand to explain how pending EPA clean car ruling will damage the health of millions of Americans, while giving a free ride to the lazy big three USA auto makers and fossil fuels industry.
Each owner had her or his own personal story to tell; most active in doing their part to save a livable biosphere. Rick Denzien, organizer of the event, is a Zero Emission Musician driving 90,000+ (one 7th of all 50 EVs at the show) gasless miles since 2013 reported that he has given 4,600 rides between his two Nissan Leaf vehicles, and now 33 in his 2018 Tesla Model 3. "MPG requirements should be going up not down", he says, "Allowing the antiquated 1800's technology that is ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars to be on the road, in an insult to inventive engineers everywhere, anti people and morally irresponsible."
Rowan Energy Integration visionary Dennis Rowan said, "ICE is like going back analog phones, which is ridiculous. How about going back to a 300 baud dial-up modem instead of fiber optics at a thousand meg a second? That is how bad ICE is. Only 16 - 20% efficient, thousands of parts, any one of which will cost the consumer thousands to fix. ICE is dirty, polluting, costs more money to operate and maintain, and that is just the upside".
ThriveFest.Us original music creators performed live during the event. We heard from :
Brian Bingaman - Rick Denzien - Bob Mecklenburger - David Kleiner - Julianne Ott - Tom Cooney
photo by: ThriveFest.Us - SK
Amy, loving every minute of the Electric Vehicle Showcase.
Event Description
Learn how to monetize your home charging. EV, and solar experts available to help you go Zero Emission in transportation and at home or work.
FaceBook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/540437116388305/ - Let us know you are coming there too - and share with your friends....
Saturday - September 15, 2018
1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Weavers Way Co-Op / Ambler Beverage Exchange
217 E. Butler Ave.
Ambler, PA 19002
AND hear live music from some of the areas hottest Zero Emission Musicians.
https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1264054886 https://youtu.be/sl1XxdW6bJw
New coming up next year -
Earth Day Weekend April 18, 19 & 20 2019
Registered Attendees
There are currently 123 attendees registered.
Owners of These Vehicles Have Registered To Attend
|Tesla Model 3
|Nissan Leaf (2011-2017)
|Tesla Model S
|Chevrolet Volt
|Chevrolet Bolt
|Toyota Prius Prime
|BMW i3
|Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive
|Nissan Leaf (2018+)
|Chevy Spark EV
|EV Conversion
|Ford C-MAX Energi
|Tesla Roadster
|Toyota RAV4 EV (2012 and later)
|Volvo XC60 AWD PHEV
|15 Models
Registered attendees report 772,027 electric miles driven.


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New Ancient Discovery in Jerusalem Recently Opened to Visitors
Herodian Water Channel
The Western Wall is arguably the most important archaeological site in Israel. As the focal point of Israeli archaeology, new discoveries are found periodically. However, the latest find has been particularly exciting to archaeologist and tourism alike. An ancient Second Temple Period water system linking the City of David to the area of the Western Wall has been uncovered.
During the last 7 years, archaeologist Eli Shukron from the Israel Antiquities Authority, has excavated this Herodian street and the tunnel underneath it, opening a window for today's visitors to visualize how the streets of Jerusalem looked 2000 years ago. This excavation led to the understanding of how the Pool of Siloam in the City of David was linked to the Temple Mount. According to the Gospel of John, it was at the Siloam Pool where Jesus healed the blind man. (John 9:1–11)
Tourists today can visit the excavated tunnel and walk through a section of the Herodian Channel that is approximately 500 feet long. The channel gathered water and drained it from the city of Jerusalem southwards, passing by the Pool of Siloam and outside the city. The tunnel also served as a place of refuge for the Jews who rebelled against the Romans. Within the channel numerous artifacts were found, pieces of history, which tell the story of Jerusalem and its destruction. At the end of the tunnel is the impressive foundations stones of the Western Wall at the foot of the Temple Mount, visitors exit onto the magnificent road, where the Jewish pilgrims walked, 2000 years ago.


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This week: improving LED light extraction by studying fireflies, simultaneous two-color lasing, and the right lifetime for lamps.
Learning from fireflies
Researchers have increased the light-extraction efficiency of an LED by up to 54 percent after adding an overlayer patterned on a structure found in a Panamanian firefly lantern.
The research group, from Belgium, France, and Canada, found that relatively large-scale (not nanoscale) irregular structures on the cuticle of the firefly lantern let out the most light. They modeled this behavior in software and then demonstrated it by constructing a "factory roof" patterned layer on top of a GaN LED. This overlayer served to improve light extraction into air from the diode's high refractive-index active material. The overlayer was constructed by direct-writing laser lithography.
Other research has looked to fireflies for inspiration on methods to improve light extraction from LEDs, but nanoscale features have been the structures of interest. The work described here is the first to use a micrometer-scale coating, and the efficiency improvement realized is the largest to date.
Two papers describing this work were published by the Optical Society of America.
Philips lighting sales flat, LEDs up 38%
Philips recently released results for the first fiscal quarter of 2013, and they are indicative of trends in the lighting industry. Overall revenue for Philips Lighting was essentially flat from a year previously, but LEDs were up by 38 percent, and now account for 23 percent of the company's lighting revenue. Thus, the gains from the LED boom are offsetting losses in traditional lighting lines. This is how it is going to go for the industry incumbents.
The chip-manufacturing Lumileds division, sponsor of this site, saw double-digit growth in the quarter and is expected to achieve profitability later this year. The rough patch that all LED chip-makers have experienced recently, with a market glut caused by the entry of a large number of Chinese suppliers, may be ending.
Lasing in two colors at once
Last fall, a research group from Arizona State University presented work at a conference, claiming to have achieved "simultaneous lasing in two visible colors at 526 [green] and 623 nm [red] from a single CdSSe heterostructure nanosheet at room temperature." Their paper has just been published by the Institute of Physics, and it is available for 30 days at the link above (free registration is required).
This work does not relate to LEDs, but rather to the earliest precursor of a technology that could ultimately lead to an alternate way to produce white light -- potentially at higher efficiency than LEDs can deliver.
On the lifetime of lamps
Joe Bloggs, lighting expert and publisher of the UK-based Lux Review, has a thoughtful essay in the March issue. It's on page 52, but that simple URL fails to take you there directly in most browsers, though Firefox worked for me. Go to www.luxreview.com and select the March 2013 issue, click Start Reading, then Contents, select Letters on page 50, and hit Next Page.
Bloggs starts off by describing the longest-lasting lightbulb known: it's an incandescent bulb at a fire station in Livermore, Calif., and it has been lit for 105 years. (Guinness affirms the record.) He goes on to describe how we could, if we wanted to, produce LED lights that would last for thousands of years. But what would be the good of that? Bloggs argues that a lifetime of 10 years makes more sense for a consumer product -- as long as the driver circuitry tolerates being switched on and off a sufficient number of times to cover that span.
— Keith Dawson , Editor-in-Chief, All LED Lighting


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A Tongue Twister poem is made up of lines/verses that are hard to say when read aloud
by using similar consonant sounds in succession (use of alliteration). In other words, the
poem ties your tongue into knots. This form does not require end or internal rhyme.
Example #1:
vile vintage vino
via violent varicose veins
vagrant vapors vacate
vast vascular vessels
vanity vamoose
while visions of
voluptuous vixens
vibrating vigorously
virtually vaporize
into a vast vapid vat
of venomous venules
Copyright © 2001 Lorraine Nisbet
Example #2:
Six Pink Minks And Finks
six pink minks think finks stink
six finks think pink minks stink
six minks in creeks with finks stink
if six pink minks pick stinking ink finks
if six pink minks had six sticks
with six pink ink finks in six creeks
then six minks and six finks
would have sixty six pink minks and six ink finks
then sixty six pink minks
and sixty six ink finks
would make six ink finks stink
cause six pink minks make finks stink
Copyright © 2001 Sean R. Ellis
Example #3:
psilanthropists sucking psilocybin
shrooms suddenly shriek,
"Say, see celestial sentients
surrounding simple psychedelic
Marijuana moochers munching moonpies
on morning meadowns meandered,
meeting mystical mountain madmen.
Tripping, twisting, tasting, turning,
tokers tapping tambourines,
shroomers singing songs
sigh subconsciously.
Wailing, whistling, whacked, and wired,
weird wanderers weep, "whoopie!"
and another aimless astral
avatar awakens,
Copyright © 2001 Christine Ann Kelley
Example #4:
Mystic moonlight, moments meet...
Softly, somewhere songbirds sweet...
Simple, soothing, soulful sounds...
Mem'ries murmer, mossy mound...
Wander wistful, winding ways
Linger, loving, lilacs lay...
Lazy langour, listless leaves...
Weeping willow, wonder weaves...
Pausing, picture, pristine plain...
Ruling romance, restive reign...
Rising rapture, rustic ride...
Perfect pleasure, peace presides...
Copyright © 2001 Natalie J. Case
Example #5:
Caterpillar catnapping, caught in cocoon
Silently sleeping, seeking sunlit sky
Awake, aware, and awing at atmosphere
Last leaving his lodging, little larva leaps
Spreading his sprouting wings, sailing so skillfully
Wandering with wonder of the whirling world
Lost amid light lilies, he lies
Illuminated in indigo, imagination stirs
Dreams of dancing delightfully in daffodils
Moon moves beneath massive mountains
Sun slides into celestial ceiling
Beautiful butterfly so bubbly and bouncing
Colorful and cleverly casting his charm
Copyright © 2001 Julie Wright


text: Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan were guilty of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was shot three times Feb. 23 after a white father and son - Gregory, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, - chased him down while he was jogging through Satilla Shores, a neighborhood two miles from his home in Brunswick. William 'Roddie' Bryan Jr., 50, captured the killing on video. Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were charged with felony murder and aggravated assault. William Bryan was charged with felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. All three men could face life in prison, with or without parole.


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Could you use a little justice?
As I read through Luke 18 this morning, one verse jumped out at me, and it happened to be the very first one.
"Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and noe to lose heart."
Have you ever prayed and lost heart? Have you ever prayed and felt like God was wasn't answering or that He didn't even hear your request in the first place? If you're anything like me, you've probably had this feeling more times than you would like to remember. So this passage really struck a chord with me. You see, I thought I knew this passage pretty well. But in doing my devotional this morning I tried to look at it with a fresh set of eyes. In the last I had always seen the first parable as a lesson in persistent prayer. After all, it's a story about a widow who kept "continually coming" to the unjust judge and ultimately wore him down. But is persistence the real point here? If so, then we run the risk of turning this parable into a license for asking for and getting whatever we want from God. Just ask loud enough, long enough, and persistently enough, and God will eventually have to give in to your request.
But the real point seems to be about the content of the woman's request, not her methodology. Yes, she ultimately got what she was asking for, but what was it that she was requesting? According to Jesus, it was justice. She had asked this judge for legal protection from her opponent. In verses 7-8, Jesus says, "…will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and wil He delay long over them? I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly." This woman was in need of justice. So she turned to the only source she knew coudl deliver it, and she asked for it consitently and persistently until she received it. Why? Because she was helpless and hopeless to do anything about it herself. This earthly judge was her only hope — for justice.
So what's the point? I need to pray for justice to be done. I need to believe that justice will be done. But when will it happen? According to Jesus, it will come "when the Son of Man comes." Ultimate justice on this earth will only come when the Lord returns and makes everything wrong right. But when He returns will He find His people praying faithfully and expectantly for justice to be done or will He find that we have long since given up and given in? The real message in this passage for me is about praying for the return of the Savior. It is about allowing the injustices I see in this world to remind me that the only solution is His return. When I see someone suffering from a potentially life-threatening disease, I am not only to pray for their healing, but to pray that justice be done. That this wrong be made right. When I encounter yet another marriage disentegrating before my eyes, I am not only to pray for restoration, but to allow it to remind me that the ultimage, long-term sotution is His return. Seeing and experiencing injustice in this world should cause us to pray for His return. I should long for His return more than anything else. To pray for anything less is to expect too little and to settle for far less than true justice.
Do you long for His return? Are you eager to see justice done? I am. And what a joy it is to know that that day is coming. His second coming will bring justice on the earth once and for all.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Hiimself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away." And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." –– Revelation 21:1-5a
Father, may I continue to grow in my understanding of and desire for justice, which is available only through Your Son and will ultimately come when He returns. Help me long for and pray persistently for that day more than anything else. Amen.
Ken Miller
Grow Pastor & Minister to Men


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Friday, March 23, 2018
I'm never getting naked again.
patterns for pirates - peg legs
OK. So.
This has now become a sewing blog.
I don't really like spandex much. Or leggings.
I got obsessed with the idea that I needed to make myself some spandex pants with pockets.
Yeah, there's a few holes (bad seams, an incident with a seam ripper), the waistband is rolling, the legs were too long… but I managed to not fuck up the pockets too badly and they fit pretty well all things considered.
Thing of note: spandex with wicked fucking hard to work with.Definitely not my brightest idea to start with.
Tomorrow, the man is working which means I'll probably be sewing.
I do have a shirt to make. Ideally, I want it done for next casual Friday.
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The latest NCAA baseball regional projections have LSU, Rice and Texas A&M as hosts of four-team regionals, while the Sam Houston State Bearkats would play at Baylor.
In the LSU regional, Texas, Saint Louis, and Tulane will be pitted against each other.
Rice would host Clemson, Oral Roberts and Southeastern Louisiana. The Aggies would host Arkansas, Valparaiso and Dallas Baptist. Sam Houston would compete against Baylor, TCU and Prairie View A&M.
LSU, Rice, Sam Houston and Baylor all have automatic bids after winning their respective conference regular season titles. Sam Houston is the only team that isn't the favorite to win its region, because of the Bears standing in the way. But Rice, LSU and Texas A&M are all expected to win their respective regions, barring upsets of epic proportions.
Read more news, notes and analysis on the local college baseball regional tournaments at SB Nation Houston and SB Nation Dallas.


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10 Basic RPG enemies: the goblin supplement
(Submitted by Redshrike)
- "Initial Fantasy" RPG
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- 16x16 RPG
- A Pool: Unsorted (GDN)
- Art used in Dusk Graphical MUD
- Battler
- Character - Static - Art Collection
- critters and creatures
- Doctrine of Darkness
- Enemies
- Enemies and characters (Pixel Art)
- Favorite Assets
- Generic Art Collection
- JRPG Engine Demo
- long licence fantasy modern game
- Monsters & Bosses
- N-RPG monsters
- OGA Staff Picks
- Orcish Adventure!
- Pixel Art - JRPG
- pixelart-game-by
- Pixeled
- Roguelike
- RPG Stuff Collection
- Sideview pixel art RPG enemy sprites
- TAoLM
- Top-down 2D RPG
- Used in Hero of Allacrost
- Zelda Like RPG
- zzStuff I've Downloaded
Yo! I had the idea to do this soon after I finished the 10 rpg enemy set a while ago, but it took a long time to put together between other projects and such. Fortunately, this is the sort of thing I can work on when I'm tired and frustrated. Anyway, this was sort of a unique challenge for me: I wanted them to be immediately recognizable as goblins, but not to be at least marginally different from the purely steriotypical version. As such I tried to depict them as a little more civilized and organized than they often are. And stuff.
So, yeah. If you do use them (please do), I would very much appreciate you dropping me a line here because I'm going to want to see it.
Very cool pictures! Good work
yup, nicely done. Although would have liked to see them a little bigger so could make out the features. Perhaps make them in .svg also so one could strech and see them in entirety.
I love these! You are an amazing pixel artist, so much expressed in so few pixels.
Thanks! I really appreciate that. There are things I would do differently if I were drawing these today, but they still hold a special place in my memory.
Of course! I wish I could pixel like that haha. I am a programmer first and a pixel artist second, though I'm working on becoming a better pixeler.
Great stuff!
One question: what is the beast that the last goblin is riding?
These Goblins, plus a number of other opengameart.org RPG enemy pieces by Redshrike and others, are featured in the recently-released game Vigil RPG for iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch!
TouchArcade review: http://toucharcade.com/2014/11/28/vigil-rpg-review/
Vigil RPG website: http://aggromagnetgames.com/
Redshrike, thank you so much for making these available! They are obviously a very significant part of Vigil RPG's success!
Thanks for letting me know! This looks like a really cool project, and it's really cool to see them used in something like this. I don't have an apple device myself, but I'll try it out on my dad's iPad as soon as I get a chance.
Redshrike, I actually sent you a PM here on OGA with a free code for Vigil RPG on November 10! Did you get that? If not, let me know, and I'll get you another one!
Oh, that's weird. I did a search and it looks like it got sorted into the wrong folder in my email and got buried with a billion forum notifications (gotta adjust my filters!). Thanks for that! I'll definitely check it out soon.
Thx for sharing ;)


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With the collapse of Murdoch's takeover plan for Ten, something else ended: the designs for his Sky roster to take a de facto Fox News to the mainstream. By Mike Seccombe.
Murdoch's failure to launch Fox here
Poor Andrew Bolt. Not long ago the right-wing blogger and News Corp columnist was in line to become the Bill O'Reilly of Australian television, leading the way into a Foxified future, assisted by changes to Australia's media laws.
But not anymore.
The scenario would have gone like this: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp buys control of Sky News, stacks it with a squad of right-wing opinion-mongers, led by Bolt. Then Australia's media laws, which have locked Murdoch out of free-to-air television for more than 25 years, are changed by the Turnbull government. Then Lachlan Murdoch and friends buy the struggling Ten Network. Then Sky takes over news production for the network. Then Ten's news division becomes increasingly like Sky's, which is to say, more about opinion than fact, like Fox News is in America.
This is not baseless speculation. In December last year, News Corp did take over Sky News, through its parent company, Australian News Channel. And Sky News has indeed been stacked with a long roster of right wing tub-thumpers – many of them with previous Murdoch connections. In May, the foundering Ten Network was reported to be considering drastic changes under project "Blue Horizon", which involved outsourcing news to Sky.
And Lachlan Murdoch and his elderly partner, Bruce Gordon, did indeed try to gain control of Ten. They drove it into administration in June. Their plan would have seen the network rid of a lot of its pesky debt and also put the weights on the Turnbull government to hasten the passage of regulatory changes advantageous to big players such as them. Then they would have bought it back from the administrators.
But they screwed it up. The government took longer than they planned to get the media law changes through the senate. They underestimated the hostility of creditors, staff and some minor shareholders. And they were gazumped by the American media giant CBS.
And so Bolt is left on the eighth floor of a Melbourne office building, holed up in a makeshift studio, broadcasting to an audience of almost no one. Guests ring a number to be let in and find their own way in the lift. There is no hair and make-up to speak of, none of the usual trappings of a television studio. This is as close as you can get to pirate radio without being on Mark Latham's show.
Sure, there's talk of further legal action by Gordon to try to stop the CBS takeover, and the Ten shareholders have not yet given final approval. But as Allan Goldin, a director of the Australian Shareholders' Association and media specialist, says, while the deal is "still up in the air in theory; in practice it's highly unlikely that CBS won't take over the company".
"Highly unlikely" is really an understatement. The prospect of a Murdoch owning the network now looks remote. And that, says Rodney Tiffen, emeritus professor of government and international relations at Sydney University, "is unequivocally good news".
"It's good news, first because it increases media competition, and second because CBS know what they're doing and they've got deep pockets. Whereas Lachlan and Bruce Gordon have had a long time running Ten and they've not done a lot of good for it."
Few would argue with him. Poor programming decisions, swingeing staff cuts, poor employee relations, a revolving door of management, multimillion-dollar losses and accumulated debt – Ten was, in the words of one senior staff member, "a sheer fuckin' disaster".
And CBS, though an American company, offers a deep roster of programming and, more importantly, a reputation for comprehensive and pretty straight news reporting, as well as corporate integrity – especially in comparison with the Murdoch empire.
"I think we've dodged a bullet," Tiffen says.
So back to Bolt – and the large stockpile of other right-wing media commentators, shock jocks, former politicians and straight-out reactionaries gathered by Sky News. Their chance of making it from niche television to the broadcast big-time appears equally remote.
The whole affair makes for an interesting case study of the influence of conservative media, and the extent to which the perception of it is matched by reality. Consider just some of the names assembled by Sky News: 2GB's Alan Jones; former chief of staff to Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin; former Liberal politicians Peter Reith and Ross Cameron; former Labor Right figures Mark Latham, now fired, and Graham Richardson, who lost his show; News Corp columnists Chris Kenny and of course Bolt, described by his employer as "Australia's most-read blogger".
So, how much influence does this dream team of influencers actually have? Not much, judging by audience size. Sky News's evening offering of relentless, strident opinion attracts a rather smaller crowd than an average AFL game. Not an AFL final, an average club game. A couple of tens of thousands.
Some might argue that their power should not be measured by viewership alone, that when Peta Credlin, for example, offers some new insight into Abbott's efforts to white-ant Malcolm Turnbull, it resonates through the broader media.
And that's true. The question is, though, does that really change anything in terms of the direction of public debate? Or has the Foxification of Sky News revealed an illusion of power, like when Toto pulls back the curtain in The Wizard of Oz and reveals the fearsome wizard is a rather inadequate little man using echo effects? There is a growing body of evidence to suggest the latter.
The word "Foxification" is not our invention, but has been used a lot over the past year or so by media analysts. One of Murdoch's then media writers, the venerable Mark Day, used it in May, in a piece in which he surveyed Sky News's line-up of stridently opinionated presenters, and pondered whether there had been a "brand reset" since News Corp acquired it.
"Will it be 'Foxified' – that is, turned into a Down Under version of America's most watched and controversial cable news channel, Fox News?" he asked, rhetorically, at the top. Later he answered his own question, saying that appeared "broadly" to be the case.
Day, an old-school journo at heart, suggested this was not such a good thing and that Sky News should "pull back to the core function of providing more news, at least part of the time".
"Why not packages on war zones, science news or the ways the world's climate or environmental problems are being addressed in other nations?" he asked. And again he answered himself: "because the numbers show audiences prefer opinion and debate programming".
That, however, is a proposition that lacks necessary nuance. And perhaps the best way to show that is to go to a case study. Andrew Bolt's TV career provides a good one.
There was a time when he was a regular panellist on the ABC's agenda-setting Sunday morning political panel show, Insiders. It really was Barrie Cassidy's show, but at least it provided an audience of several hundred thousand viewers for Bolt's conservative opinions.
Trouble was, the ABC program offered a range of views apart from his. So in 2011, Bolt jumped at the chance to have his own rival show, free of such pluralism, on the Ten Network. When The Bolt Report began in May that year, he declared his aim was to out-rate Insiders. His show aired at 10am, the same time as Insiders finished, initially for half an hour. In 2014, reportedly at the urging of Ten shareholder and Bolt supporter Gina Rinehart, it was extended to an hour.
It was competitive at the start, then began an inexorable slide. By November 2015, its audience had shrunk 60 per cent, to a little more than 110,000.
In January 2016, The Australian was the first to report that Ten had decided to can The Bolt Report. Bolt denied this. He had, he said, "decided to take the show to Sky instead, and keep my weekends free. News Corp did not refuse to keep paying for the show on Channel 10."
Leaving aside the interesting revelation that News Corp had to pay Ten to put Bolt on air, the most relevant fact is that Bolt's audience tanked further.
A few months ago, Fairfax Media's Craig Mathieson analysed the ratings for Sky News's nightly line-up. And what he reported was woeful.
On Tuesday, March 28, The Bolt Report drew a national audience at 7pm of just 27,000. Of those, 23,000 were aged over 55. Alan Jones's 8pm show did a little better, with 34,000 viewers, and Paul Murray Live at 9pm topped out with 55,000. Meanwhile Insiders powers on, with an average 550,000 viewers.
So, to Day's point that audiences "prefer opinion and debate", perhaps one should add a caveat. Says Barrie Cassidy: "They want fact-based debate, rather than ideological bombast."
Cassidy reckons Bolt probably did more for his conservative cause as a panellist – not just because of audience size, but because he might actually have been heard by some people who were persuadable. In this, I should make a disclosure: I am a panellist on Cassidy's show, as are a number of my colleagues from The Saturday Paper.
Data from the United States underline the point that right-wing media increasingly preaches to the converted. A Pew Research Centre study in 2014 found that among people with "consistently" conservative views, 88 per cent trusted only Fox. People with more malleable views, in contrast, engaged with a far wider variety of sources of news and opinion – public radio, cable networks, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times et cetera.
Furthermore, Fox viewers are literally a dying demographic. Nielsen ratings show the median age of its audience is 68. This is the TV they watch in God's waiting room.
It's not hard to see the political implications of this: the ranters on Fox may have a locked-in demographic of older, less-educated, typically white males, but they're not making many converts.
There's no denying, though, that Fox is big in America, unlike its imitator here. A partial explanation of that is that cable is ubiquitous in the States, while in this country only about a third of people get it. But perhaps a greater part of the explanation is that Sky's presenters have other primary gigs on talkback radio, or in the Murdoch press. Perhaps if you can get your fix of Andrew Bolt in the paper or online, you don't feel the need to watch him on TV.
The fact Sky News's presenters have other outlets, though, does not necessarily make them more influential. The reason is that, like the Fox presenters in the US, they are preaching to the converted, but not really shifting much opinion.
Rodney Tiffen made this point strongly in an analysis a couple of years ago, of the relevance of the Murdoch media in two remarkable state elections.
"Over the past eight months, Victoria and Queensland have ejected first-term Liberal governments despite the best efforts of the Murdoch press in those states," he wrote.
"Their slanted front pages, unbalanced coverage and combative editorials only highlighted their growing irrelevance to the electoral process."
He attributed this in part to the structural factor of declining newspaper circulation. Murdoch papers, he calculated, reached only about 10 per cent of the population in 2015, or "probably about half of their reach when they supported John Howard in the 2001 election".
Of that 10th of the population, he reckoned, more than half were already anti-Labor voters, and most of the rest "fairly settled in their political attitudes and largely immune to the papers' persuasive efforts".
Then there was the trust factor. He noted polling by Essential Media, showing 70 per cent trust in Fairfax's Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, compared with about 60 in News Corp's broadsheet The Australian, and only about 50 per cent for The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Herald Sun in Melbourne and The Courier-Mail in Brisbane.
Tiffen acknowledged the role of these media in agenda setting for what he called the "self-referential noise machine" of commercial radio talkback, but cautioned against mistaking its "volume and bluster" for persuasiveness.
Speaking to The Saturday Paper this week, Tiffen elaborated somewhat on his thesis. Now, he reckoned, the right-wing media actually presented more of the problem for the conservative side of politics than the progressive side.
"I don't think they have a big impact now on converting voters from Labor to Liberal, because there are not many in their audiences left to convert," he said.
"But when the Murdoch press and commercial talk radio get stuck into an issue that divides the conservative side of politics, they can still have an impact.
"If they run hard on an issue such as the greyhound racing ban, and mobilise the more conservative forces, that spooks the more liberal elements in the Coalition."
Indeed, it's not hard to identify other contemporary examples, such as coal seam gas mining. Here, some right-wing commentators, including Alan Jones, who back the anti-fracking farmers, are pitted against others who back the miners.
The result: tension between the Turnbull government, which wants more fracking, and states such as New South Wales, which see political peril in agreeing to that.
Or consider the response to climate change. The denialists on talkback and in the Murdoch media have utterly failed to sway public opinion against renewable energy, but they have played a big role in paralysing federal government policymaking.
Meanwhile, the dream team on Sky News seems to become ever more extreme and destructive, in what Mathieson called their "ideological obsession".
Credlin's loyalty to Abbott only fuels government disunity. Paul Murray cosies up to the extremists of One Nation and the libertarian gun enthusiast from the Liberal Democrats, David Leyonhjelm. He whales into the Liberal moderate Christopher Pyne as "piss-weak", "useless", "a wanker" and an "arsehole", among other things. Bolt, broadcasting from under the stairs, instructs his viewers that it's time to give up on the Liberal Party and back Cory Bernardi's breakaway Australian Conservatives party.
Truly, Bill Shorten must be laughing. And Malcolm Turnbull's only comfort is that hardly anyone is watching.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on October 7, 2017 as "Murdoch's failure to launch Fox here".
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Eva Mendes is reportedly seven months pregnant!
According to OK! Magazine, an inside source close to the 40-year-old actress confirmed that she and longtime boyfriend Ryan Gosling are expecting their first child together.
Several media outlets began speculating about Mendes' alleged pregnancy back in February when she refused to walk through an airport security scanner. She was reportedly overheard explaining to a TSA worker that she was pregnant.
When she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she was asked about the incident and the rumored pregnancy. The Hitch actress quipped about the incident and immediately refuted the rumors.
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Notes: Incommodious is heard more often than commodious, but there is a positive mate for this negative adjective. Commodious means, as expected, "roomy, spacious", but can also be used to mean "convenient", as 'a commodious location for a sports fan near the stadium'. The noun incommodity still hangs around dictionaries, but is less called upon these days than incommodiousness as the noun for today's word. Incommodiously works fine as its adverb.
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The Resistance is a good game to talk about how we here at Tiny Wooden Pieces feel about boardgames. There is very little 'game' to it, in a manner of speaking. You get some cards and some tokens, and a small board to keep track of them during the game. That is it. The Resistance is all about player interaction.
Some of the most fun I have ever had playing games has been with The Resistance, and I have had some evenings where I've brought it to the table and it's fallen almost embarrassingly, awkwardly flat. Where players just didn't buy into it. It's absolutely a game you can use to introduce non-gamer friends to the joys of boardgames, or just bring down the pub (sleeves recommended, here) or bring out at a family gathering. If people are willing to give it a try, to put themselves into the game, they will get a great evening out of it. If not, and you might as well be playing Connect 4.
So it's a good microcosm of what boardgames are about, for us: people. We play games to have fun, and to do so with our friends.
One caveat with The Resistance, though, is that numbers are important. You need more than 5. With 5 players you have 3 resistance and 2 spies. That means it's too easy for the spies, and too difficult for the resistance. The spies can just sit back and do nothing, and then it doesn't feel like you can do much as part of the resistance. Otherwise, it's a quick playing bluffing game that can really get a group interacting. Mostly by piling lies on top of accusations on top of deceit sprinkled with betrayal. But if you don't mind never trusting your friends again, this is great stuff.
So it seems like everybody's a spy in The Resistance.
In a game that divides people in to oblivious good guys and treacherous spies, it can be horribly difficult for the resistance members to choose players to go on a mission. Although only three successful missions are needed to win, the spies have a massive advantage in that they all know who each other are… And so with enough cunning, at least one of those Imperial spies should be able to wheedle their way on to every team and thus spoil the mission.
I actually really enjoy playing as a member of the resistance, using the power of logic to weed out those nasty government spies. In fact, the only responsible thing to do is to pursue the spies at all costs, challenging all other players in the game. Any former ties and relationships are coldly discarded in the search for the truth, as accusations of sabotage are flung across the table. All this while warily watching every single player for any unusual movement or twitch that might give them away.
But god help me, I do not make a good spy. I am absolutely, stupendously useless at bluffing. And if caught in a lie, an uncontrollable flush creeps across my face and everyone immediately knows the truth. So the best tactic I've found so far is to always convince myself that I'm a good guy. Which sometimes works? But maybe I just need a little more practice. Repeat plays can only help to make this great game even better.


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- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met with military officials, Islamic country representatives and some matyr families and addressed the needs of the world of Islam and division between Muslims:
- "The enemy's main design is to create divisions and conflict between Muslims, therefore the most essential need of the world of Islam is unity and cooperation."
- "[One] cannot believe that insults to Islam and Islamophobia in the world [exist] without the design of the powers' intelligence agencies and their financial support."
- Foreign policy was the topic of the third televised presidential candidate debates. Candidate positions are as follows:
- Said Jalili: "One of our fundamental discussions with America is that we have been placed between the two paradigms of Iranian and American foreign policies; there is opposition between them and our fundamentals are seriously opposed to one other. America is committed to the Zionists' security and we [are committed] to the opposite.... Commitment to the Zionist regime is one of the fundamental foreign policies of America, but the lack of the Zionist regime's legality is one of the fundamentals of Iran's foreign policies. The difference between these two principles is a theoretical topic; they say 'foreign policy is not the place for philosophy,' perhaps foreign policy is the place for contemplation. We say that occupation and invasion does not bring legality. Military powers and a monopoly [on nuclear weapons] do not bring legality. This is our intellectual basis and it is a vivid logic, and, actually, [one] can defend this logic well."
- Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said, "A government that is not accepted by its people will not be successful behind any negotiation desks." He then criticized diplomatic efforts for not fulfilling foreign policy objectives and stated, "It must be determined which goals our foreign policy should pursue. Foreign policy must guarantee our interests, security and national, religious and revolutionary identity." Ali Akbar Velayati criticized Qalibaf's remarks and said, "The most important subject in this field is training capable forces." Hassan Rohani retorted and discussed successful diplomatic efforts during his tenure as Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary: "...In [former president Mohammad] Khatami's administration we saved Iran from crisis, in circumstances when this era coincided with the Septmber 11 event when Iran was accused. After that two regional countries, meaning Afghanistan and Iraq, were invaded by the United States, but in circumstances when Iran was placed on the attack list, Iran exited this path with [correct] planning and design. We were even successful in helping Iraq during this era.... I do not believe that foreign policy during the past eight years has performed poorly either, and we do not plan on undermining foreign policy from the past few years." Current SNSC Secretary Said Jalili also criticized Qalibaf's remarks and said, "Foreign policy is one of the strong points of the Islamic Republic and our revolution [but] the expected foreign policy is more than the current situation and foreign policy capacity has distance with its original message."
- Gholam Ali Haddad Adel: "Certainly economic issues are related to sanctions; sanctions that the enemies have called 'crippling.' Although we believe that with better management [one] could and can reduce these sanctions and their effects....The day we did not have nuclear activities we were under sanctions and the enemies know better than us that our nuclear activities are not military. Our problem with the Americans is the fundamental problem of the revolution [for them], and because we sought and achieved independence and insisted upon our independence, they oppose us." Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf responded, "You said in your statements that this matter will not be resolved with management, while I believe that it is our diplomacy that cannot advance our policies they way they should to [address] the considered interests with the least effort."
- Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Supreme Leader Ali Akbar Velayati: "Many of the people, based on opinion polls, recognize foreign issues and sanctions relief as the highest priority, and for this reason individuals must be chosen who have this experience. My experience in [UN] resolution 598 [that ended the Iran-Iraq War] and implementing the 1975 agreement [with Iraq] is just such [experience]." Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf criticized Velayati's inability to make Iraq pay war reparations and said, "The relationship between military warriors with policy is a two-way relationship and I believe that during your Excellency's tenure for sixteen [years] we always used warriors and veterans' capacities in favor of foreign policy." Said Jalili reacted, "You said in your remarks that 'I will reconcile with the world.' I do not understand this. In international matters, neither reconciliation nor belligerent talk are put forth. The discussion of interests are at stake; if our interests are opposed to others we must defend ourselves."
- Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf's election documentary was broadcast on Iranian national television. Regarding his position on relations with the United States, he said, "A youth told me if relations with America are fixed the country's situation will be fixed, and I said [that] the country's situation is [because of] our inefficiency."
- IRGC Political Deputy Rasoul Sanaei Rad: "It is not the case that the result of the election is determined beforehand; rather, voting in Iran occurs in a free atmosphere and whatever the people vote is read and applied."
- Tehran Interim Friday Prayer Leader and Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said, "All eight candidates must obey the law and [accept] the people's vote on [June 14] and congratulate the elected person." Regarding the Syrian army's victory in al-Qusayr he said, "The conquering of al-Qusayr humiliated the treacherous muftis."
- Interior Minister BG Mostafa Mohammad Najjar stated, "Not even the slightest possibility of interference or influence exist in any of the election's stages or results."
- Following yesterday's Alef News Agency editorial about an unannounced Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance delegation sent to Lebanon two weeks ago, the ministry wrote a letter to Alef explaining that the hosts were from the Lebanese Hezbollah Cultural department. The letter reads, "It has been more than two years that the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance, with the cooperation of the Hezbollah Cultural department, has been responsible for training and implementing cultural and artistic programs in Lebanon and has done many joint activities in this field." The letter elaborates that the trip was announced by Minister Seyyed Mohammad Hossein, who traveled to Lebanon with a ninety-seven member group consisting of artists. The group also visited southern Lebanon and the Lebanese-Israeli border areas.
- Head of the Central Supervision Council on Islamic Council Elections Mohammad Javad Koulivand announced that the greatest number of disqualified candidate complaints have been from Tehran and Fars provinces.
Regional Developments
- A suicide bombing attack against two buses carrying Iranian pilgrims in Iraq resulted in sixteen deaths and forty-four injuries.
- Iranian media report heavy clashes between Syrian Kurds and the rebels in the vicinity of Homs. The fighting has resulted in many "terrorist" casualties.
- [E] The Syrian army has reportedly taken three villages near al-Qusayr.
- According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA), the head of the Tawhid Brigade Abdolghader Saleh AKA Hajjai Mara' was killed in al-Qusayr alongside 300 members of his forces.
- Artillery shelling has reportedly inflicted some material damage to the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine in Damascus.
- Thousands of Bahrainis are protesting the arrest of political activists, particularly women.
- In a letter, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Salehi congratulated Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary Hassan Nasrallah on the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2006. Salehi called the event "a prideful point in the history of Muslims' resistance against the usurper enemy."
- In reaction to the third presidential debate, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Salehi told ISNA that "our nuclear position will not change."
Military and Security
- IRGC Sarallah Unit (Kerman province) Commander BG Rouhollah Nouri:
- "The duty and work of the IRGC and Basij is to defend the sublime ideals and values of the Islamic Revolution and the velayat-e faghih, We must not play games or [engage in] factionalism. We must be aware and not [rally around a single candidate]."
- "The enemy has focused on themselves in Syria and have tried to [achieve their goals] through Arab rulers connected to the US, but thanks to the Islamic Republic system and the prayers of the people they have failed."
- "We must be careful that the place of the clergy is not weakened, because [this] is equal to weakening the revolution and the Iranian nation and you [must] know that everything that we have achieved is thanks to the Islamic Revolution and the blood of martyrs."
- IRGC Salman unit (Sistan va Balouchestan) Commander and Quds Base Deputy Commander BG 2C Hassan Mortezavi: "Today we observe that the Islamic Awakening, which is a result of the great Islamic Revolution of Iran, has grown throughout the world, and the current view of all the world's Muslims toward Iran is that they can achieve their own [goals] by using the successful model of Islamic Iran."
- Head of the Basij Organization BG Mohammad Reza Naghdi said that the future president must be "velayat-centered" and that the people's participation in the upcoming presidential elections will "defeat the enemies."
- In reaction to the increase of Chinese goods imported to support the Iranian oil sector, Oil Minister BG Rostam Ghassemi said, "Any contractor that imports goods and equipment into the oil industry that has a domestically built equivalent will be eliminated from the list of oil industry partners."
- The government issued a permit that allows the importation of goods by Iranian workers who are employed abroad.
Photo of the Day
- IRGC Quds Force Commander MG Qassem Suleimani attends a gathering of representatives of Islamic countries and Iranian regime officials addressed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran.


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- Anonymous22 November 2015 at 11:16
Tomorrow night on Channel 4 - ISIS : The British Women Supporters Unveiled. Beeboids - John Ware excepted - will watch in horror. Not horror at these British women, obviously, but horror that Channel 4 could broadcast such a thing.ReplyDeleteReplies
"Filmed during a 12-month undercover investigation, this programme reveals the British women glorifying jihadis and promoting an ideology that is supportive of Islamic State. Investigating their activities on social media and infiltrating their clandestine meetings, the undercover reporter discovers the identities of some of the leading female IS sympathisers in Britain who are urging Muslims to abandon democracy and travel to Syria to join Isis."Delete
That sounds like very brave reporting from Channel 4.
- Anonymous22 November 2015 at 14:10
Yep, This story should be front page. It goes to the heart of how we should deal with the Sharia threat. It seems clear the Police are not making any serious effort to identify and arrest the perpetrators. It's Rotheram all over again.ReplyDelete
We need to ensure that any Muslim who wants either to leave his religion or advocate reform of Islam is fully free to do so. Any attempt to prevent people exercising their rights should be met with 20 year sentences.
But making a big story about this might give permission for prejudice. Also, it's more evidence that the BBC values people's lives according to who kills them. Or, in this case, who assaults them.ReplyDelete
Having said that, I also would say that I've heard Nihal's show a few times over the years, and he's generally a rare credit to the BBC, although I may have complained about him once or twice.Replies
I''ve got a soft spot for Nihal too. He's certainly no BBC drone.Delete
This is still a treat to listen to (well, the audio embedded in it): http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/nihal-down-line.html
Yes but Nihal's insistence that getting complaints from both sides means "we must be getting it right" rather spoils the effect.Delete


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The New York Red Bulls played their worst home game of the season and dropped all three points to the visiting men from 'The Great White North'. The Whitecaps, who hadn't won an away game in something close to a year, took advantage of shocking mistakes/crap play by RBNY to take all three points. If you haven't already read it, check out this great report (from Dan Dickinson) for some great analysis/post game commentary and you can watch the low-lights below.
Most of us thought this one was 'in the bag' and that three points were ours. The only hold-out was the great You Suck Corrales, who predicted a 2-0 Vancouver victory. Horror outings by Eric Alexander (the NOT so Great - who was reponsible for the first goal and countless bad crosses), Dax McCarty (multiple bad passes, including the one that led to Olave's red card) and Kosuke Kimura (ball watching mother f'er) ensured that YSC's prediction was just about right. I'll add Steele to the list of those who didn't play well (even though he caused the own goal) and Peguy, who missed a sitter at the end that has to be seen to be believed. As the great Matt Conroy said after the match, 'we've not been playing well these last few games and today we got what we deserved'.
So now we're on a three week break from MLS action, although there is that little matter of a US Open Cup away match @New England (who just destroyed the Galaxy 5-0) on the 12th. Let's hope lessons were learned and that Mr. Petke takes a full A squad to that one.
Please click on the top video for all our drunken comments and prediction (with special guests Mark Fishkin and Johnny Toro). Please click here for a great photo album, courtesy of Matt Kremkau (slide show here) and here for a great one from Bob Larson (slide show here) who managed this 'action shot' of us at the top of 133.
Alright, let's hope for the best. I'll be down @The PPL for the away match against Philty on the 23rd. Hope to see alot of you there. If not, I hope to see you soon @The Cathedral of Football, Red Bull Arena (built by Makita). The big viper is out!


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Timor Leste: regional conference on women in the maritime sector
The Government of Timor-Leste, in cooperation with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and supported by the AMBERO-team on behalf of GIZ organized a regional conference on women in the maritime sector. The conference took place in Dili, Timor Leste, on 6-9 November 2017, under the theme: Transitioning from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals.
Gathering members of the Women in Maritime Associations for Asia (WIMAs), from 22 Asian countries, the conference is looking at ways to implementing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably SDG 5, which seeks to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
WIMAs aims at contributing to the Integration of Women in the Maritime Sector (IWMS), giving visibility and recognition to the role women play as key resources for the maritime sector.
Discussions have already identified challenges which will need to be addressed, such as the current political and cultural mind-set as well as varying levels of development among Asian countries. But participants agreed that the exchange of experiences and best practices that are taking place at events like this are already helping to enhance women's education, competency and career development.
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Way of Kings ebook for $2.99, Giveaway, & Tor.com Reread
Today Tor.com announced they're doing a reread for THE WAY OF KINGS. You can read the announcement here.
If you're not familiar with Tor.com's rereads, which they've done for The Wheel of Time and other series like the Kingkiller Chronicle, the Dresden Files, and the Malazan Book of the Fallen, it's a regular column focusing on a work in detail, broken down into small chunks of from one to a few chapters. If you like discussing books in depth, the rereads really get down to the nitty-gritty.
The reread for THE WAY OF KINGS will be helmed by Michael Pye of Mad Hatter Reviews. Columns will go up on Tor.com each Thursday, starting March 28th, and each will cover one or two chapters. I'm looking forward to seeing what Michael has to say about the book, as well as reading your comments each week.
In conjunction with the reread announcement, Tor is putting the ebook on sale for $2.99 for a month, so you can get a chance to read it if you haven't already. They're also giving away 50 copies of the paperback in this comment thread. Unfortunately, the contest is US-only, and the ebook pricing varies depending on country too, though it looks like the price also applies in Canada.
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Some of the world's most prominent automotive brands are setting up shop in the Kingdom of Morocco. Last year, French multinational vehicle manufacturer
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Morocco is aggressively marketing itself as a regional automotive hub and an attractive investment destination to the bigger players in the industry. The country's efforts to attract investments in recent years are paying off, with international juggernauts such as Renault,
I recently caught up with Ahmed Fassi Fihri, Managing Director of the Moroccan Investment Development Agency (AMDI) in Casablanca. He took some time to explain why Morocco is an attractive investment destination for the world's major automotive companies, and explained 10 reasons why companies are investing in the Kingdom.
Among the most compelling reasons: Morocco's political stability, steady economic growth, a thriving port and a strategic geographic position. In the midst of the turmoil seen in the North Africa region, Morocco has adopted a new Constitution that empowers Parliament by enlarging the domain of lawmaking and recognizing the opposition's status, enlarges individual and collective liberties and strengthens human rights. Economic growth o has averaged 4.9% in the past five years, while inflation has stayed below 2%.
Morocco has made improvements to its infrastructure to take advantage of its proximity to Europe. Its Tanger-Med port, located less than 10 miles from Europe, is one of the busiest ports in Africa and will have an 8 million container capacity by 2017. The port is connected by rail and highway to free zones and industrial parks. Tanger-Med was especially important to Renault's $1 billion investment, since the French manufacturer's production in Morocco is intended for export. A rail track connects the factory directly to Renault's terminal at the port.
Morocco also benefits from being at the crossroads of the world's most important maritime trade routes. This position is a major factor in Morocco's aspiration to become a global exporter.
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The Harding baseball team had its first home game on Saturday, Feb. 8. The baseball team hopes for a good crowd every year but has begun to take more practical steps to engage with both the student body and Searcy community to ensure their desired outcome.
"We have started trying to improve fan experience at games by adding different entertainment elements," senior baseball marketing intern Taylor Sexton said. "This includes everything from the music that is played, live National Anthem singers, free food, promotional items for fans and games between the innings on the field with fans. We have also started the tradition of throwing crackerjacks in the stands to fans during the games."
The baseball team won all three games last weekend against Southwest Baptist University. Senior team manager Grant Dowdy said it is meaningful to the teams when fans are there for them.
"They say it very much builds them up," Dowdy said. "I know the whole team loves it. They are always very excited when they see a full crowd."
Not only does the team benefit from a visible support base, but games are an opportunity for students and community members to spend a weekend or evening.
"These guys work really hard — any support you can give is great," head coach Dr. Patrick McGaha said. "Once the weather gets nicer, we will have night games. We will start a lot of games at 6 on Friday and Tuesday nights."
McGaha encouraged students to come grill out and hang out, especially along the new deck being built down the right field line.
The team is older and experienced this year, which McGaha said contributes to a positive forecast for the season.
"We are older," McGaha said. "We have a lot of seniors who have played the entire four years that they have been here … It would be great to have a little bit of the Rhodes Rowdies home field advantage, to get some of that out here, and let our guys know that the student body is behind them," McGaha said.
Sexton said last weekend's turnout was encouraging, and there will be several events to come throughout the season that fans will want to enjoy.
"As the season progresses into the spring, we have multiple events planned that we are super excited about," Sexton said. "Our home opener was this last weekend, and there were a lot of new faces at the game which made us super excited for the rest of the season."


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The majority of general internists and pediatricians in the United States are not comfortable serving as primary care providers for young adults with complex chronic illnesses that originate during childhood, according to findings from a new national survey.
The survey, conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Michigan, examined a random sample of internists and pediatricians to assess their comfort levels in treating young adult patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and sickle cell disease (SCD) – two hereditary diseases that involve single gene mutations.
"My interest is in how to improve the quality of care for youth and young adults with childhood onset chronic diseases," said Megumi Okumura, MD, lead author of the paper who is an assistant professor in pediatrics at UCSF and treats patients at UCSF Children's Hospital. "These individuals are a unique bunch, because they are born with their diseases, and the health care services they receive as children are not necessarily matched in the adult health care setting."
Survey findings showed that only 15 percent of the general internists said they would be comfortable providing primary care to young adult CF patients, while 32 percent reported being comfortable providing care for those with SCD. Among the pediatricians surveyed, 38 percent said they would be comfortable serving as the primary care provider for CF patients, while 35 percent said the same for treating patients with SCD.
Both the internists and pediatricians reported that they would be more comfortable treating young adults with common diseases, such as asthma and hypertension, than treating patients with a history of CF and SCD.
Findings from the survey are currently available online at http://www.springerlink.com/content/rj738l32700m35k1/ and will be published in the October issue of the "Journal of General Internal Medicine."
Advances in medical treatments have significantly extended the life expectancies for patients with chronic conditions such as CF and SCD, which had previously been fatal in early childhood, according to Okumura. Consequently, the prevalence of chronic illness among young adults has also significantly increased. Up to 30 percent of children today report having some sort of chronic condition, she said.
"The technology has been remarkable in keeping people alive. What we are so lacking in is how to keep taking care of them and give them the health services they need to have productive lives," Okumura added.
To effectively meet the needs of the growing adult population living with chronic conditions, experts now recommend that young adults begin transitioning from child-focused to adult-oriented primary health care when they are 14 years old. However, according to Okumura, the study findings indicate that generalists are not yet prepared to handle the wave of individuals with chronic conditions needing primary care, and this could have a negative impact on the patients' care overall.
"Generalists are the primary caretaker and safety-net for people with chronic disease. They are there to help any patient who walks through their door, and it's up to them to figure out which subspecialist to recommend and what other resources are necessary for their healthcare," Okumura said. "I consider them the foundation of health care, and when that falls apart the entire health system becomes fragmented and it becomes difficult to provide high quality care."
A total of 1288 physicians responded to the survey, which was issued by mail to equal numbers of general internists and general pediatricians between October 2005 and March 2006. Of those who responded, 537 were internists and 751 were pediatricians.
Each physician randomly received one of two survey versions – one containing a clinical vignette involving a patient with CF, or a second describing a nearly identical patient with SCD. After reading the vignettes, the physicians were asked to rate how comfortable they would be serving as the patient's primary care provider.
Survey participants also responded to questions about how certain barriers, such as a lack of training or lack of time during office visits, might limit their ability to provide high quality primary care for young adults with chronic illness. The findings indicated that internists were more likely than pediatricians to say that insufficient training limited their ability to care for these patients, while pediatricians were more likely to report barriers due to insufficient time during office visits.
Okumura said future studies should examine the factors that are directly affecting the quality of care for young adults with chronic illnesses, and how those factors impact patient outcomes.
The study co-authors include Michael D. Cabana, MD, MPH, with UCSF; Michele Heisler, MD, MPH; Matthew M. Davis, MD, MAPP; and Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH, with the University of Michigan Health System; and Sonya Demonner, MPH, with the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.
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Comedian Bob Newhart just listed his Wallace Neff-designed home in Los Angeles for $15.5 million! This isn't the first time it has hit the market; he listed it in 2006 for $18.9 million, but pulled it off the market after it hadn't sold in nearly a year. It looks like he's giving it another shot!
Newhart and his wife, Virginia, purchased the home in 1990 for $4.2 million. It was built in 1941, but has since undergone several remodels and expansions. The five bedroom, 6.25 bath home spans more than 9,100 square feet and is located on more than an acre of beautifully landscaped grounds.
The French Country estate has all the typical features of homes in this price range, including a cook's kitchen, maid's quarters, and a grand master suite with a sitting area, his/hers baths, and large walk-in closets. Outside, there's a large lagoon pool and covered outdoor entertainment area with a kitchen and two baths.
The price tag has a lot to do with the location; the estate is located in old Bel Air, home of celebrities and wealthy entertainment executives (it is right next door to Nancy Berry, the vice chairman of Virgin Music Group). Another factor is the famous architect; Wallace Neff is known as the creator of "California Style" homes, and is a favorite among luxury home buyers. Other celebrities who have owned Neff-designed homes include Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Madonna, Jenna Elfman and Rupert Murdoch.
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