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Chris Waugh, in reply to
and has failed conspicuously to detect actual threats in their area of concern (Rainbow Warrior bombings, Israeli passport fraud).
Perhaps of tangential relevance.
blindjackdog, in reply to
And comparing Hager to Assange is preposterous. Oh, they couch it nice and vaguely, but given their readership of increasingly befuddled and reactionary boomers, it seems to me like a pretty calculated slur against a member of their profession they might actually think to admire rather than slyly to defame.
blindjackdog, in reply to
I might have to reinstate my subscription just to have the satisfaction of cancelling it again.
(Lord, it's been nearly ten years since I ended that destructive relationship, and I've never felt better -- more confident, sure of myself, less consumed by rage and doubt....)
Craig Ranapia, in reply to
The entirely predictable Listener editorial: "Hager, of course, is no less guilty than Slater of trying to exert influence on the political process."
Well, yes of course he bloody is. If anyone at The Listener is lurking hereabouts, I can state the blindingly obvious like it's a startlingly new insight into the meaning of life. And I'll lowball whoever is doing it now by at least 5%. My line is open...
izogi, in reply to
Just heard the podcast below*
Sheesh. That whole Morning Report interview could have been a National Party ad in itself. Suzie Ferguson might as well have just given him a podium.
I just watched this John Campbell interview with Phil Goff. I've always thought of Phil Goff as a basically decent guy.
John Key looks a bit rattled.
I might have to reinstate my subscription just to have the satisfaction of cancelling it again.
The Listener used to be part of whatever it was that made up the fragile pickings of intellectual life in NZ, but no one even bothers discussing it anymore. It is just another "lifestyle" magazine printed on worse paper than North and South. I guess the people who wrecked it will claim they did it to save the magazine, but destroying the village to save it was, is and never will be good policy.
Quite sad, really.
Video of John Key (taken just after the SIS OIA was released to Cameron Slater) saying he'd been told by Tucker that he had to release it... It rather directly contradicts the "I was never told" message.
Just .... I don't even.
giovanni tiso, in reply to
I've always thought of Phil Goff as a basically decent guy.
Okay, let's not say things we can never take back now.
izogi, in reply to
But, but, (my butt) he was on holiday now. say Harold
And now Fairfax has dug up a video from days after the release, where John Key refers to having been briefed.
"What happened is Warren Tucker didn't come to me, he went to his legal adviser and his legal advisers told him this is the process they have to follow and when he was going through that process it was at that point he told me he'd release it because he has to tell me that under the no-surprises doctrine," Key says on the recording.
izogi, in reply to
Video of John Key
Hey, you bet me too it. I should reload more frequently.
Stephen R, in reply to
Hey, you bet me too it. I should reload more frequently.
You added the damning transcript, so superior service slightly slower.
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Hey, you bet me too it. I should reload more frequently.
And I linked to the story at te Harold on t'other thread. I should reload more often!
Also, we were saying the other day. Every day that JK says anything ,there will be another day he would have said a contradiction. If journalists dig they can find more I'm sure.
Pete George, in reply to
Phil Goff blatantly lied to Campbell.
Campbell: Can I ask you a question? You were a leader of the Labour Party, up against and extraordinarily popular Prime Minister John Key.
Did you ever seek to do what you're accusing him of doing, or use your office to do it, which is to get really dirty behind the scenes, arms length?
Goff: No no not at all…
Campbell: Never, not once?
Goff: No, no, because fundamentally to me the integrity of our political system is important.
Goff has a history of misleading and leaking and accusing others of lying. He has been involved in:
– Leaking and misleading over the Don Brash 'gone by lunchtime' statement in 2004.
– His office leaks from MFAT in 2012 which led to a fight through the courts to hide the identity of the Labour associated leaker.
– A Goff office leak led to the forced resignation of National MP Richard Worth in 2009.
– Goff "appears to have broken the law by releasing pages from a suppressed Court of Inquiry report into the death of a Kiwi soldier in Afghanistan" in 2013.
– Accused SIS director Warren Tucker of lying about briefing him in 2011.http://yournz.org/2014/08/22/goff-blatantly-lies-about-dirty-politics/
Perhaps coincidental but the 'diry parties' - National, Labour and NZ First all went down in the latest NZ Herald poll.
The 'clean' parties - Greens in p[articular, Conservatives, Maori Party, Act and United Future - all went up in the poll.
Pete, I'm not sure that those leaks count as playing dirty behind the scenes. For a start, with the possible exception of the Richard Worth business, which I don't remember well, the other matters are all actually about politics. Those leaks were all things in which there was public interest.
The problem with the SIS release of documents on Goff to Slater is not that the documents were released - it is with the fact they were released only to Slater, and that the PM's office was apparently involved in advising Slater on just how to ask to get them; and the current possibility that Key has lied about whether his office had anything to do with that release.
I'm not arguing Goff is squeaky clean - I really never got a sense of what he was like at all, which was part of the problem with his leadership - but leaking doesn't count as dirty politics all on its own.
My recollection is that nice Mr Key was saying that David Cunliffe couldn't be trusted to run the country because he couldn't remember a letter he wrote in support of Mr Liu 11 years ago, and was therefore shifty and unreliable.
Since Mr Key now appears to be unable to remember a briefing five years ago, does that make him twice as shifty and unreliable?
Pete George, in reply to
and that the PM's office was apparently involved in advising Slater on just how to ask to get them;
That is speculation only isn't it? Slater has just given his version of what happened.
I watched Phil Goff on TV slam into the SIS about not being briefed about the situation with Israeli tourists. I thought to myself…that can't be right, he is the Leader of the Opposition he must have been briefed. So I decided to write an OIA.
In the meantime several sources, none of which work in the PM's or any other Minister's office or indeed any National MPs office contacted me, about the very same thing.
When politicians dump on civil servants who cannot speak for themselves then sometimes they get pushed too far.
I put in the OIA and within hours I was being pressured by the PM's office and others senior in the government to withdraw the request. I refused. I was told that people wouldn't speak to me etc. I said so what. I won't be told what to do by anyone. About the only person who can even try to tell me what to do passed away two years ago.
So I waited, and I waited. I was then phoned to be told that the release was coming and that It was being posted to me, it was also being released to other media the same day by post…I was livid. I was the first one to put in an OIA. Selwyn Manning was a couple of days behind me I'm told. I was livid because it was being posted…and being in Auckland I was at a distinct disadvantage.
I received the letter the next day and scanned it and rang TV3, they agreed to a joint release and at 6pm that night the story broke.
Far from the mad conspiracy theories of Phil Goff, the government actually tried to stop me asking the OIA.
I am happy to swear under oath what happened, and then I expect a personal apology in writing for publication on the blog from Phil Goff for lying about me.
I haven't seen anything yet that contradicts this.
While it's possible the SIS leaked to him or someone in the Prime Minister's office leaked to him (John Key emphasised that was an imprisonable offence it's quite feasible that someone outside of those with experience of OIA and perhaps the SIS gave him advice on the best way to request the information.
This possibility should at least be considered seriously.
Sacha, in reply to
His office leaks from MFAT in 2012 which led to a fight through the courts to hide the identity of the Labour associated leaker.
I thought the leaker was never identified, let alone their associations?
Lucy Telfar Barnard, in reply to
I haven't seen anything yet that contradicts this.
I haven't seen anything yet that would make me trust a single word that Slater says or writes.
JLM, in reply to
My recollection is that nice Mr Key was saying that David Cunliffe couldn't be trusted to run the country because he couldn't remember a letter he wrote in support of Mr Liu 11 years ago, and was therefore shifty and unreliable.
Since Mr Key now appears to be unable to remember a briefing five years ago, does that make him twice as shifty and unreliable?
This is what I would rather the media would focus on, rather than the minuteae of who said what, when.
I also hope that David Cunliffe resists the temptation to drag this out in the leader's debates, by which time most people will be starting to flag. These debates really should be about policy, with a wee bit of trust and leadership on the side.
But when policy (ooh say for example combating cyber bullying) is promulgated by people who engage in contrary behaviour, what confidence can you have in those policy statements?
Rufus McEwan, in reply to
Two flags for me here:
1) How is anyone outside of the Prime Minister's office gaining access to classified information to then leak it to Slater. If confirmed this surely raises new questions about the running of the SIS.
2) The PMs office is directly encouraging him to withdraw the request still implies more involvement in this particular release then they are currently prepared to admit and only confirms Hager's assessment that the Prime Minister's office works closely with Slater. -
simon g, in reply to
I think this sums it up pretty well:
I won't be told what to do by anyone.
I am happy to swear under oath what happened
Feel free to take Slater - or anyone else - at their word, that's your prerogative, but don't expect the rest of us to fall into line.
Angela Hart, in reply to
I haven't seen anything yet that would make me trust a single word that Slater says or writes.
The more he says/writes, the less credible he appears. Given the now exposed duplicity I couldn't accept any of his statements without independent evidence.
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"Children and women will not be spared," warned the leaflet. It wasn't an idle threat. On May 1, Islamist insurgents from the Pejuang Kemerdekaan Fatoni — the Fatoni or Pattani Fighters — opened fire on villagers outside a grocery store in Thailand's restive deep south. A 2-year-old boy was killed along with his father and four others. Gunmen reportedly fired point-blank into the head of each victim to make sure they were dead. Afterward, the leaflet and its blood-curdling message were circulated around mosques, markets and tea shops, leading to fears the decades-old conflict may have taken a new terrifying twist — from targeting combatants to the shocking murder of teachers and now the callous slaughter of the very young.
Just a stone's throw from the idyllic white sand of Koh Lipe and its throngs of beetroot-red Western tourists, a civil conflict has waged for generations. Fighting in Thailand's Muslim-majority southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat has claimed more than 4,000 lives since 2004. Home to around 2 million people, this region became part of Siam, the ancient name for central Thailand, in 1909 and remained relatively peaceful until the 1960s. Subsequently, a separatist movement blossomed, growing markedly more intense over the past decade, as locals chafed under what they saw as the economically unjust and corrupt rule of the Thai state. Security forces are now deeply entrenched in the area — more than 150,000 soldiers and paramilitaries battle an estimated 3,000 to 9,000 insurgents, known locally as juwae.
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Sadly, the killing of children is far from a new phenomenon. Between January 2004 and December 2007, at least 30 children were killed and 92 injured as the result of the unrest, according to the U.N. What is shocking about the latest attacks, say aid workers, is the explicit naming of children as legitimate targets, whereas previously they had been considered collateral damage. "Separatist insurgents showed monstrous brutality when they shot a toddler and others point-blank with assault rifles," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), in an article on the organization's website. He called for rebel leaders to publicly condemn all attacks against civilians. Meanwhile, the boy's widowed mother now intends to leave the area, telling local journalists, "I don't want others in my family to be killed."
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(MORE: No Peace: Why Conflict Persists in Thailand's Deep South)
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Professor Duncan McCargo, an expert on the southern Thailand insurgency based at Leeds University in the U.K., tells TIME that the younger and more aggressive elements in the militant movement are seeking to raise the political temperature out of disillusionment. "It's really time Bangkok accepted that this is a political problem — it's not about drugs, smuggling or ordinary crime," he says. Observers believe a U.S.-style system of affirmative action could go a long way toward empowering local people, yet none has been attempted. "The ill-fated peace talks need to be followed up with a more realistic and low-key initiative based on plans to decentralize power to the region," adds McCargo. Otherwise, that most simple of desires — for children to be safe — will likely remain a distant dream.


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This is profound. I will have to think about it.
The only easy way to create a budget is to start with what you spent last month (and last year) and copy the numbers forward. If you don't do that, you're going to miss some important expenses. However, you don't want to just uncritically accept those numbers, or even those categories.
In Kate Luther's excellent post on Making every penny count, she uses the term "zero-based budgeting" to mean tracking every penny, so that every expense goes into the budget, with zero left over to just vanish (spent on little things that didn't make it into the budget). It's a great idea--that's the way to find the little blind spots where your spending doesn't match your true values. But I've heard the term zero-based budgeting used to refer to something else that's also a good idea.
A few years ago, back when Jimmy Carter was president, something that he called "zero-based budgeting" actually blew up into a big political issue.
Jimmy's idea was to avoid the common practice of starting your budget by just filling in whatever you spent last year as your starting point. Instead, start from zero, and figure out what you really need to spend. It's a powerful notion, because it gives you a chance to take a fresh look at expenses that otherwise seemed locked in.
In the normal budget process, you'd fill in the "electric bill" line on your budget with what you paid last month or last year. (If you were very conscientious, you might go so far as to get a year's worth of bills, come up with a summer average and a winter average, and then adjust both for expected changes in electricity costs.) What Jimmy Carter called "zero-based budgeting" was to start at zero, and then figure out how much power you need to run your household, and then budget for that much.
Now, on the electric bill, that's not so easy to do. (Jimmy would have had you looking on the back of each appliance, reading how many amps it takes, estimating how many hours a day it'd be turned on, and then adding it all up.) But it's a powerful concept, because it's your best chance to find savings.
Once you get beyond putting in compact fluorescents and turning out the lights when you're not using them, how can you make real headway in cutting your electric bill? The only way is to get down into the nitty-gritty detail of where the electricity is going. How much goes for power adapters that are left plugged in when the device they charge isn't in use? How much goes for TV and stereo devices drawing power when they're idle? Does your old refrigerator draw so much power that you'd come out ahead buying a more efficient one? Jimmy's style of zero-based budgeting gives you a structure for looking at expenses this way.
The electric bill is probably the toughest one to do a zero-based analysis on (although there's enough money there to make it worth putting some effort into). Your other line items aren't going to require quite so much research and calculation.
Probably the biggest pay-off comes when you can start with a category at zero and then just leave it there.
That, by the way, was why it was such a big political issue for Jimmy. Everybody was used to the process where you started with what was spent last year, adjusted it up for inflation, and then considered making a cut if necessary to balance the budget. Everybody in government had a program, and nobody liked the idea of their program starting at zero, for fear that it just might stay there.
No doubt every line item in your budget has somebody who wants you to spend the money that way (even if it's just you). But there's a lot of power in the idea of starting each line at zero and then figuring out how much money you really want to spend there. Even the big line items (in fact, especially the big line items) are worth revisiting from time to time, even if those expenses seem locked in.
Consider starting your budget with zeros in every category. It's a powerful tool for finding savings, and a powerful tool for making sure that your spending aligns with your values.
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I'm no partisan but Jimmy Carter as an example? The man that literally wrecked the economy? For a supposed nuclear engineer, he was a true Nitwit.
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"Jimmy would have had you looking on the back of each appliance, reading how many amps it takes, estimating how many hours a day it'd be turned on, and then adding it all up."
That's Jimmy alright.
As far as zero-based budgeting, a good idea but no one's going to do it. A regular home budget isn't done by most households. What percentage of Americans even write out a budget, do you figure?
I'm sure the next 30 years will treat Jimmy Carter much better than the last 30 years. In particular, on the topic of energy, Jimmy knew what was coming long before most people did. If we'd spent the past 30 years using cheap oil to build non-auto transportation infrastructure and renewable energy generation infrastructure, then the next 30 years would be a lot more pleasant than they're going to turn out.
As far as wrecking the economy, that was mostly the Fed's fault--and Jimmy was the one who fixed that, getting the Fed chairman to resign and appointing Paul Volker. The corrective actions didn't really take hold until Jimmy was out of office, though.
Finally, as you say, a full-blown zero-based budgeting effort would probably be more trouble than it's worth for most households. But I think there's a lot of value in the concept of setting all the budget categories to zero from time to time, rather than just accepting that next year's spending is destine to look a lot like the last.
Jimmy Carter was the last "fiscal conservative" to hew to the definition of "conservative" as "one who conserves."
Since his ignominious defeat, the country's been on a debt binge, veering between borrow-and-bomb Republicans, and borrow-and-build Democrats.
It's gotten so bad that, today, most of the prudent Liberal Democrats I know think twice before voting for yet another education bond.
Nice article. It definitely is a good idea every once in a while to look at each budget category with a more radical eye.
I do find, however, that the iterative process of tracking my expenses and income and adjusting my budget every month does a very very good job.
Jimmy Carter was way ahead of his time on energy issues. So far ahead that the culture wouldn't listen. It's always more appealing on the surface to just consume more stuff if it's available--which it has been. But i think that's changing, unfortunately, and I think this economic crisis/housing/credit bubble is really part of a larger and more fundamentally skewed environmental bubble. We need to start paddling hard away from the waterfall starthave any chance of not having terrible shocks and repercussions in the next 30 or so years. It will definitely be interesting.


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to his mother and said, "Mama, I don't want to go out there. It's dark."
The mother smiled reassuringly at her son. "You don't have to be afraid
of the dark," she explained. "Jesus is out there. He'll look after you
and protect you."
The little boy looked at his mother real hard and asked, "Are you sure
he's out there?" "Yes, I 'm sure. He is everywhere, and he is always ready
to help you when you need him," she said.
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It's great news for Smashwords authors and publishers. Some publishing industry pundits have poo-pooed B&N's U.K. entry as too little too late. I think the pundits are underestimating Barnes & Noble, and not just because they're flush with $300 million cash from a recent Microsoft investment.
Here's why I think their U.K. launch is compelling: Brick and Mortar Distribution. For day one of their launch, Barnes & Noble amassed a massive network of brick and mortar retail partners that will display, promote and sell the NOOK family of e-reading devices. According to B&N's press release yesterday, their retail network will soon include over 2,500 store locations in the U.K. To put this in perspective, Barnes & Noble operates 689 stores here in the U.S. In the same way that B&N leveraged its U.S. brick and mortar presence to become a powerhouse in U.S. ebook retailing, it's now poised to do the same in the U.K, only this time it's amplified by a broader footprint. The benefit of broad retail footprint is that it makes it easy and non-threatening for prospective customers to touch, feel, test and buy NOOK devices.
Also innovative in their approach is that they're not just merchandising the devices in book stores. One of the new partners they announced yesterday is Asda, a large supermarket chains that will carry the NOOK line in 300 stores. If you assume that most book buyers spend most of their out-of-home time in places other than bookstores, it makes sense to get your devices in front them in as many different outlets as possible. In addition to Adsa, the other retail partners include John Lewis, Argos, Sainsbury's, Dixons and Waitrose, Blackwell's and Foyles.
The Foyles home page prominently promotes NOOK |
Earlier this year, B&N was rumored to be courting bookseller Waterstones as its flagship brick and mortar partner. Waterstones has less than 300 stores. Waterstones surprised the industry in May by wedding itself to Amazon instead. At the time, the deal was viewed that as a setback for B&N's U.K. aspirations. In retrospect, the loss now appears inconsequential, and Amazon looks to be the online ebook retailer at a brick and mortar disadvantage.
It will be interesting to see if B&N utilizes the same partner strategy as it enters other countries. I expect it will, and I also expect they'll have an easier time than Amazon signing up retail partners. In a sign that 2013 will likely be a year of rapid international expansion for B&N, the company announced last month they hired Patrick Rouvillois for the new position of Vice President - International. Previously, Rouvillois headed marketing and ecommerce for Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer with 15,000 stores in 30 countries.
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The ongoing global expansion of our retail partners to multiple markets means that it's now fast, free and easy for our 50,000+ Smashwords authors and publishers around the world to reach readers that just a couple years ago were impossible to reach with either self-published or traditionally published books.
Also exciting is that markets outside the U.S. (long the world's largest single book market), will begin to dwarf the U.S. market in the aggregate (lots of smaller markets combining to create a single large global market). As I mentioned in my post last week about Apple's iBookstore expansion into 50 countries, Smashwords authors yielded 46% of their iBookstore sales in September (2012) from stores outside the U.S.
The U.S. ebook market has grown exponentially in recent years. In 2007, ebooks represented a mere 1% of the US market. For 2012, ebooks will probably surpass 30%. Despite the growth, the U.S. market is already showing signs of maturing. The exponential growth the US has experienced cannot continue forever. Although there's still much room for growth in the US, gone are the recent years where the market grew over 100% per year.
Not so in the global market, where most countries are now entering the steepest and most exciting periods of their exponential growth phases.
Screens are the New Paper
The competition among ebook retailers is quickly shaping up to be a battle for eyeballs. The eyeball glue is the e-reading device, whether is a dedicate e-reader, a multi-function tablet, or a smart phone. The ebook retailer who puts their devices in the most hands will become the dominant ebook seller of tomorrow. The major device makers, drawn from conventional booksellers such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon, consumer electronics manufacturers such as Apple and Sony, and online-booksellers such as Kobo, are all battling it out in the marketplace to get their devices into consumer hands.
Each operates their own ebook store, and for most of them, their store is tethered to their device so that the quickest, most convenient path (and sometimes the only path) to book discovery and purchase is through their own store. This is why B&N's broad-based brick and mortar strategy for getting its devices into the hands of readers is so compelling, and why I think B&N is likely to be successful in its endeavor. It also means that B&N's entry into each market is likely to accelerate the growth of that market, rather than just steal customers from existing players, because B&N will reach customers not reached by the other ebook players. To the extent B&N is successful, there will be more readers for Smashwords books.
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SALISBURY — Gildan Activewear, which is hiring 200 workers for a $43 million yarn-spinning plant on Heilig Road, could invest another $127 million in Rowan County and create 184 more new jobs.
Gildan, a Montreal-based company, is the mysterious "Project East" discussed earlier this month at the Rowan County Board of Commissioners meeting. Gildan has spent about $10 million so far on the massive renovation of the former PGT Windows plant and now is considering building a second textile facility next door on vacant land owned by the county.
The T-shirt and underwear-maker announced plans earlier this week to open two more facilities in the southern United States. A notice posted on Rowan County's website for a public hearing on an economic incentive grant confirms that Gildan is considering Rowan for one of the plants.
Robert Van Geons, executive director for RowanWorks Economic Development Commission, said he's optimistic.
"We've always been hopeful that there would be future expansion in the county," Van Geons said.
To seal the newest deal, Gildan is asking county commissioners to donate about 28 acres of land, as well as return 75 percent of the new tax revenue the company would generate for seven years. Commissioners will hold a public hearing Oct. 7.
Van Geons said it's his understanding that Gildan wants to build two facilities in one state, either North Carolina or another southern state. In a press release, Gildan said it expects to invest more than $200 million in 2014 and 2015 for the construction and ramp-up of two new facilities, in addition to the renovation underway in Rowan.
Gildan said the future yarn-spinning plants would support projected sales growth and further reinforce the company's position as a global low-cost manufacturer.
The facilities will be built with the most modern product technology, which will continue to differentiate the product quality of Gildan branded products, the company said in the press release.
Total investment in Gildan's U.S. yarn-spinning facilities, including the current plant in Rowan County and the refurbishment and modernization of the company's open-end facilities in Clarkton and Cedartown, Ga., is expected to create more than 700 jobs.
The company likes the L-shaped parcel that runs next to and behind the former PGT building, Van Geons said.
Because the deal involves two North Carolina communities as well as possible state incentives, "there are a lot of moving parts," he said.
"They are looking at a major investment," he said. "A lot relies on the governor's office, the state Department of Commerce and Rowan County and the other potential project in North Carolina."
Van Geons said he's compiling an economic impact analysis that he plans to submit to county commissioners today.
So far, Gildan has hired 30 people at the formerly shuttered 400,000-square-foot PGT building and plans to add 170 more employees in the next six months. Production is set to begin in early 2014.
Gildan said it would provide further details of its capital investment program for fiscal 2014, including expansion plans, when it releases fourth-quarter financial results.
Gildan is a leading supplier of basic apparel, including T-shirts, fleece, sport shirts, socks and underwear. The company sells its products under a diversified portfolio of company-owned brands, including the Gildan, Gold Toe and Anvil brands and brand extensions, as well as under license agreements for the Under Armour and New Balance brands.
Gildan is also one of the largest suppliers of branded athletic, casual and dress socks for retailers in the US. In addition to socks, the company is developing Gildan as a consumer brand for underwear and activewear.
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Book one in a new fantasy romance series by Ella Frank.
Due out January 2015.
Book Description:
"Tell me about this place. This…Arcania."
What if your life as you knew it ceased to exist?
That is the question Naeve Brannigan and her three sisters are faced with on the eve of their 25th birthday.
Continuing a tradition they've hidden from their mother for years, the four women arrive at a tarot shop to have their futures told.
Only this time their futures aren't predicted—they're forever changed.
They've awoken in a strange time and place with no knowledge of how they got there. All they have to go by is the word of a man who claims to be family—a family they've never heard of.
He tells them of a world they could never have imagined. One that has been cursed by an Empress fueled by old revenge—revenge their mother appears to be at the center of.
As they fight to survive the people and dangers of an unknown land, they slowly begin to unravel its mysteries to find that they hold the key to saving this world…this Arcania.
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James Bond at 50: Is Bond 50 the Best Blu-ray Box Set Ever?
"I am arrogant enough to claim that these films have made one of the greatest contributions to the cinema in 50 years" – Dr. No director Terence Young
It's hard to believe the only gentleman secret agent with a license to thrill has turned 50. With Dr. No's debut now five decades ago, 007 still looks as good as when he first donned a black tuxedo and we first saw him casually sitting at a baccarat table uttering the immortal words, "Bond, James Bond."
Over the years, I've bought the James Bond movies in a variety of formats ranging from VHS to laserdisc and then numerous times on DVD, but there has simply never been a set that comes close to matching this ultimate BD collection. Bond 50 includes all 22 official Bond movies as well as an empty space for Skyfall (coming on disc early next year), along with virtually all the copious bonus materials that have been created over the years ranging from the giant Goldfinger and Thunderball laserdisc special editions to the original DVD box sets from a decade ago.


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Since that time, the company has expanded to 340 employees in India. AFour Technologies enables software companies to accelerate their modernization and digital transformation by providing product engineering, cloud migration, mobile enablement, and app framework upgrades while delivering excellence in software reliability engineering through managed services and packaged IP services. In 2010, the company also started an office in Seattle, US, and onboarded ex-Disha founders to its advisory board.
During these 14 years, the company accomplished significant milestones, beginning with the introduction of Reliability Engineering Services in the Storage and Systems space in 2010, followed by Mobile Test Automation Services in 2013, and DevOps Services in 2014.
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Adult content was reportedly responsible for 20 percent of traffic to Tumblr.
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Adult content was reportedly responsible for 20 percent of traffic to Tumblr.
The social networking and microblogging site Tumblr announced on Monday that from December 17 it will no longer host adult content on its platform. The Washington Post reported that the policy "removes one of the last major refuges for pornography on social media".
But the move will affect more than just porn.
Over time, Tumblr has become a haven for fanfiction writers, artists, sex workers, kinksters and independent porn producers who have built subcultural community networks by sharing and discussing their user-generated content.
Tumblr's definition of what constitutes permissible adult content fails to recognise the value of this kind of work. It separates sex from politics, preserves a class-based distinction between art and pornography, and limits representations of female nudity to reproduction and health.
The result is the loss of a dynamic cultural archive and the unnecessary sanitisation of public space.
Read more: What the latest data reveals about our passion for pornography – and its legality
In updates to Tumblr's Community Guidelines:
Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content—including photos, videos, GIFs and illustrations—that depicts sex acts.
Aside from the obvious regulatory dilemma of ascertaining which nipples appear to be "female-presenting", this kind of targeting of women's bodies has met with public criticism. For example, the Free the Nipple campaign has protested the criminalisation, censorship and fetishisation of women's breasts.
Tumblr's new policy still permits:
… exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments.
These policies are presumably a response to campaigns to normalise breastfeeding. Nipples are also permitted in:
… health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.
These policies restrict representations of women's bodies to their reproductive functions and repeat the tired framing of women's bodies through medical lenses, at the expense of pleasure.
Tumblr will continue to allow written erotica and artistic nudity, which is defined as "nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations". But this policy reinforces a tenuous conceptual distinction between art and pornography.
The demarcation of art as something distinct from pornography was influenced by the increasing availability of photography in the 19th century, which threatened the very existence of art. While traditional paintings sought to imitate the real, photography was considered "too real" and "too close". It prompted fears about proximity (its corporeal effect on the viewer), danger (its seductive power) and contagion (its potential to harm or infect).
Pornographic photography became a scapegoat. It was used to distinguish lowbrow forms of cultural consumption for the masses from highbrow forms of art for the elite. Pornography became a pejorative term that served to preserve and maintain the status of art.
Phanatic/Flickr, CC BYRead more: Virtual reality could transform pornography – but there are dangers
Although Tumblr maintains its policy change was unrelated to its failure to effectively filter child pornography, the decision comes against the backdrop of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which was passed in the United States in April.
FOSTA prompted platforms such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook to amend their terms of service to preclude nudity, sexual content and sexual services in order to avoid charges of promoting or facilitating sex work.
Unfortunately this legislation has not improved grievance avenues for those experiencing exploitation. Instead, this blunt law has shut down sites that law enforcement could use to trace criminal activity, platforms where survivors could seek assistance, and forums where sex workers could screen safety information.
Sex workers were pioneers of the web. They designed, coded, built and used websites and cryptocurrencies to advertise and transact in the context of criminalisation.
They helped sites like Tumbr to flourish by populating the platforms with content, increasing their size and commercial viability. Indeed, adult content was reportedly responsible for 20% of traffic to Tumblr.
Now sex workers are now being effectively erased from social media.
There is evidence about the human rights impact of anti-trafficking campaigns, which can victimise those they are intended to protect.
But the pressure to be seen as proactive partners in response to trafficking and child abuse is so significant that tech companies are willing to erase sex completely from their platforms and accept sex as a necessary casualty.
The sequestering of sex is not an inevitable response. It has not always been the case that adult content has been treated as something external to art, culture or society.
Depictions of sexual practices can be traced back to ancient civilisations. The sexually explicit frescoes of ancient Greece and Rome were displayed publicly and integrated into daily life rather than being, as Walter Kendrick describes, "locked away in secret chambers safe from virginal minds".
It was the process of archaeological extraction in the 18th century that commenced a process of identifying and labelling ancient artefacts as "pornographic", and removing them from public view.
Historians have found that the modern regulatory category of "pornography" was invented at the same time, alongside the emergence of technologies (such as the printing press) that allowed for mass-distribution. As Lynn Hunt argues, it was created:
in response to the perceived menace of the democratization of culture.
As the evolution of the internet promises increased access to technologies and rapid circulation of cultural materials, regulatory attempts to restrict them are being met with contest, protest and resistance.
Read more: Porn viewers prefer women's pleasure over violence
Private corporations have now become the arbiters of community standards, making decisions about what content is permissible to circulate. Corporate monopolies now have a greater impact than national classifiers on what material the public can access.
Apple, which dropped Tumblr from its App Store on 20 November, has had a "homogenizing and sanitizing effect on the internet". It refuses any apps that contain "pornographic" or "offensive" content, including hook up apps with "overtly sexual content".
Steve Jobs himself has stated:
We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone.
Designating representations of sex to the private, personal realm, outside of the public or political sphere, obscures the fact that heterosexual intimacies saturate public culture. Tumblr has been a site for LGBTQ, kinky and geeky individuals to build spaces, networks and cultures, and for sex workers to share skills and referrals for safety.
From December 17 (coincidentally, International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers), Tumblr will only permit nudity "related to political or newsworthy speech". This positioning reflects the historical development of obscenity law that has viewed representations of sex as devoid of merit unless they are redeemed by "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value".
In removing sex and nudity entirely from the platform, Tumblr's new policy misses the fact that sexual subcultures are a crucial part of public life and contribute to critical social conversations and meaningful political alliances.
Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust is a PhD Candidate in Arts/Media & Law at UNSW.
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...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
template <typename Graph, typename MateMap> void edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching(const Graph& g, MateMap mate); template <typename Graph, typename MateMap, typename VertexIndexMap> void edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching(const Graph& g, MateMap mate, VertexIndexMap vm); template <typename Graph, typename MateMap> bool checked_edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching(const Graph& g, MateMap mate); template <typename Graph, typename MateMap, typename VertexIndexMap> bool checked_edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching(const Graph& g, MateMap mate, VertexIndexMap vm);
Both edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching and checked_edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching find the maximum cardinality matching in any undirected graph. The matching is returned in a MateMap, which is a ReadWritePropertyMap that maps vertices to vertices. In the mapping returned, each vertex is either mapped to the vertex it's matched to, or to graph_traits<Graph>::null_vertex() if it doesn't participate in the matching. If no VertexIndexMap is provided, both functions assume that the VertexIndexMap is provided as an internal graph property accessible by calling get(vertex_index,g). The only difference between edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching and checked_edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching is that as a final step, the latter algorithm runs a simple verification on the matching computed and returns true if and only if the matching is indeed a maximum cardinality matching.
Given a matching M, any vertex that isn't covered by an edge in M is called free. Any simple path containing exactly 2n + 1 edges that starts and ends at free vertices and contains n edges from M is called an alternating path. Given an alternating path p, all matching and non-matching edges on p can be swapped, resulting in a new matching that's larger than the original matching by exactly one edge. This method of incrementally increasing the size of matching, along with the following fact, forms the basis of Edmonds' matching algorithm:
An alternating path through the matching M exists if and only if M is not a maximum cardinality matching.The difficult part is, of course, finding an augmenting path whenever one exists. The algorithm we use for finding a maximum cardinality matching consists of three basic steps:
When quoting time bounds for algorithms, we assume that VertexIndexMap is a property map that allows for constant-time mapping between vertices and indices (which is easily achieved if, for instance, the vertices are stored in contiguous memory.) We use n and m to represent the size of the vertex and edge sets, respectively, of the input graph.
Understanding how the verifier works requires a few graph-theoretic facts. Let m(G) be the size of a maximum cardinality matching in the graph G. Denote by o(G) the number of connected components in G of odd cardinality, and for a set of vertices X, denote by G - X the induced graph on the vertex set V(G) - X. Then the Tutte-Berge Formula says that
2 * m(G) = min ( |V(G)| + |X| - o(G-X) )Where the minimum is taken over all subsets X of the vertex set V(G). A side effect of the Edmonds Blossom-Shrinking algorithm is that it computes what is known as the Edmonds-Gallai decomposition of a graph: it decomposes the graph into three disjoint sets of vertices, one of which achieves the minimum in the Tutte-Berge Formula. An outline of our verification procedure is: Given a Graph g and MateMap mate,
template <typename Graph, typename MateMap, typename VertexIndexMap, template <typename, typename, typename> class AugmentingPathFinder, template <typename, typename> class InitialMatchingFinder, template <typename, typename, typename> class MatchingVerifier> bool matching(const Graph& g, MateMap mate, VertexIndexMap vm)The matching functions provided for you are just inlined specializations of this function: edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching uses edmonds_augmenting_path_finder as the AugmentingPathFinder, extra_greedy_matching as the InitialMatchingFinder, and no_matching_verifier as the MatchingVerifier. checked_edmonds_maximum_cardinality_matching uses the same parameters except that maximum_cardinality_matching_verifier is used for the MatchingVerifier.
These aren't necessarily the best choices for any situation - for example, it's been claimed in the literature that for sparse graphs, Edmonds' algorithm converges to the maximum cardinality matching more quickly if it isn't supplied with an intitial matching. Such an algorithm can be easily assembled by calling matching with
Suppose instead that you want a relatively large matching quickly, but are not exactly interested in a maximum matching. Both extra_greedy_matching and greedy_matching find maximal matchings, which means they're guaranteed to be at least half the size of a maximum cardinality matching, so you could call matching with
An undirected graph. The graph type must be a model of Vertex and Edge List Graph and Incidence Graph.IN: VertexIndexMap vm
Must be a model of ReadablePropertyMap, mapping vertices to integer indices.OUT: MateMap mate
Must be a model of ReadWritePropertyMap, mapping vertices to vertices. For any vertex v in the graph, get(mate,v) will be the vertex that v is matched to, or graph_traits::null_vertex() if v isn't matched.
Let m and n be the number of edges and vertices in the input graph, respectively. Assuming the VertexIndexMap supplied allows constant-time lookups, the time complexity for both edmonds_matching and checked_edmonds_matching is O(mn alpha(m,n)). alpha(m,n) is a slow growing function that is at most 4 for any feasible input.
The file example/matching_example.cpp
contains an example.
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Aaron Windsor (email@example.com) |


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Finding the elusive Damson plum in the wild (aka the farmers' market) is like hitting the culinary jackpot. I somehow stumbled across the diminutive fruit two years ago, where I made a batch of what is still one of my favorite jams. It was a complete fluke that I saw the fruit that first time, and sheer luck that I stopped and took a closer look, rather than dismissing them as abnormally large grapes (I can't stand grapes).
Alas, last year I struck out, not quite remembering when I had found them the year before so I didn't know whether to start looking in July or September. My plum-lessness could have also been due to the unusual heat that assaulted us last summer, perhaps preventing the plums from coming to fruition at all (or fruit-ion, if you will). Either way, I was bummed. Plum bummed.
This year, I struck gold indigo. During a quick trip to the market for a tomato or two, I could barely contain my glee when I spotted a vendor filling a basket with dark purple gems. In fact, they kind of look like mutant blueberries, with the same mottled skin and clear flesh. Giant blueberries with pits.
As I observed two years ago, the plums themselves aren't anything special. The skins are tart and tannic, and the flesh, while clear and sweet is not nearly as flavorful as the more common plum varieties. They're really not worth eating on their own.
In my mind, they are destined for one thing and one thing only: jam. Glorious jam.
This year, however, while I used the same base recipe as before, I decide to add a generous swig of gin. I know one of the other uses for these plums is an infused gin, so I figured that gin and plums are a proven combination. While the gin flavor is subtle, it does add a slight herbal fragrance and spicy finish that the jam wouldn't have otherwise.
I hope you all don't think I have a drinking problem, despite the boozy nature of my posts recently. Rather, I have a baking problem: the bottles of bourbon and gin and wine and Taylor's precious beer are more apt to end up in baked goods or jam than my glass, which 90% of the time is filled with ice water or gingerale. Go figure.
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Damson Plum & Gin Jam
- 3 pounds damson plums, pitted
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup gin
- Place pitted plums in the bowl of a food processor; pulse briefly until coarsely chopped (do not purée). You can also chop the plums by hand if you prefer a coarser texture.
- In a large nonreactive bowl, gently toss the plums with the sugar. Cover and let stand at room temperature for at least 4 hours or in the refrigerator overnight.
- Prepare canner and wash/sterilize 6 half-pint (or equivalent) canning jars. Keep jars in hot (not boiling) water until ready to use. Place 2 or 3 small plates in the freezer.
- Transfer the plums to a large nonreactive saucepan and add lemon juice and gin. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce heat to medium and cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Spoon 1 teaspoon of jam onto a chilled plate to test if the jam is ready (the jam is ready if it wrinkles when nudged gently with a finger). If it isn't yet ready, continue to cook for 1 to 2 minutes, then test again on a clean plate.
- Ladle hot jam into jars, leaving 1/4-inch of headspace. Remove any air bubbles and adjust headspace, if necessary. Wipe the rims clean and top with lid; screw on ring until finger tight. Process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes. Remove from water and let cool completely, 12 to 24 hours. Check seals. Any unsealed jars should be refrigerated and used within 1 month.
Adapted from The Art of Preserving.
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