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Chris Pratt stopped by Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital to brighten up the lives of some sick children by embracing his Jurassic World character.
The 36-year-old re-created his now famous scene in the new film as his character Owen Grady tries to tame three ferocious velociraptors – this time it was three very excited kids.
The dad-of-one was in his element as he entertained, played and revved up the children who had been patients in the hospital for some time and due for a cheer up.
As well as passing on his impressive dinosaur whispering skills, the Guardians of the Galaxy actor gave the kids some toys and signed posters during his lengthy visit.
The staff at the hospital shared on their Facebook page touching photos of the Hollywood Hunk's visit writing, "Chris Pratt recently used his "raptor whispering" skills to cheer up patients at Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital."
The added: "[He] took time out from filming his latest movie to visit with our #AmazingKids at Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital. Our patients were all smiles and we are so thankful to Chris for lifting their spirits by visiting and handing out Jurassic World goodies."
Chris' daddy skills show as he chatted to the kids and being a father of a once unwell boy, understands how precious little lives are.He and wife Anna Faris gave birth to Jack Pratt prematurely in 2012, he had to stay in neonatal intensive care for some time as doctors prepared the new parents that their son may have learning difficulties.
Just like his superhero dad though, little Jack proved them wrong as he approaches his third birthday, happy and healthy!
Chris Pratt is truly one of a kind!


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By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Two consumer advocacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission yesterday to investigate online advertising practices of Internet companies, asserting that the practices violate consumer privacy.
In a 50-page complaint, the D.C.-based Center for Digital Democracy and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group outlined online consumer tracking and profiling systems that they said are "deceptive and unfair to millions of users."
"Our online travels are increasingly becoming part of vast databases that comprise the source material for sophisticated analytical engines designed solely to make us more susceptible to online marketing," the complaint said.
The groups asked the FTC to investigate Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other online companies and software firms, which they said were "aggressively" building new tools to analyze and classify consumers' behavior across the Internet and other digital media -- computers, cellphones, video games and televisions.
They singled out a Microsoft service that allows advertisers to take information gleaned from watching the millions of people who use the company's MSN Internet network. The information is combined with demographic data from credit bureaus and other sources to tailor ads to people based on geographic location, sex, age group, lifestyle and time of day. Microsoft's ad system "is deceptive and unfair," the report said.
The report also described new Web software programs that allow marketers to monitor people as they click and scroll online, logging where they enter a Web site, how long they linger on a page, even which part of the page they move their mouse across.
The groups urged the FTC to halt advertising practices that "abuse consumers" and to recommend federal legislation to protect them.
Mike Hintze, a senior attorney for Microsoft, said in an e-mail statement that "transparency" with consumers is "extremely important" and "will continue to be a central focus" of Microsoft's design of online services: "Consumer trust is essential to the success of online business and helping protect consumers' privacy is a top priority for Microsoft in our development and implementation of online services."
Google spokesman Barry Schnitt said that Google recognizes "that privacy is important" and that as it develops its advertising programs, it comes back "every time to the idea that the trust of the user is paramount." Yahoo spokeswoman Nissa Anklesaria said consumer trust and privacy were important and that the company had "a longstanding commitment to providing users with clear notice and choice" on the way their data is used.
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Taking the Pain Out of Self-Promotion
How to communicate confidently about yourself & your business
You know when you're out and about, having a conversation with a kind human, and then they ask, "So, what do you do?" Ever find yourself stumbling over your words trying to find the right response? 🙋 Yeah, me too. When you love what you do, describing your work to others can often leave you feeling flustered and vulnerable.
In that moment, it feels like there is a right and a wrong answer. The pressure of defining what it is you actually do, with the hopes that you will also make a good impression and "sell" what you do, can be intimidating. As a consumer you know you don't want your pitch to feel scripted, but as your business' VP of Sales you also want it to be rehearsed enough that you can answer prospective client's questions with ease and confidence. This can end up feeling like a Catch 22, and trust me you are not alone!
Self-promotion asks us to share our work with others, in turn opening us up for judgment and potential criticism. It also has a weird way of fueling that fire of self-doubt to where we begin to question everything we're doing, sometimes mid-conversation. And self-promotion can feel particularly lonely when we invest our time and heart into crafting a perfect message, only to find out it falls flat.
Add these feelings on top of the daily stressors of building and growing a small business, and it's no wonder we can feel so paralyzed answering something so simple!
In fact, this is a concern I hear often from many of my clients and fellow small business friends. As solopreneurs, we don't feel as confident as we would like when communicating about what we do. In a general sense, talking about yourself is inherently uncomfortable. Selling your work on the spot is even more awkward. And, if you're a service-based business where you ARE your product then—yikes, welcome to Panic Attack City!
Unless you are a bonafide egoist, gaining the confidence to talk about yourself and what you do eloquently, is a learned skill. And, particularly for female entrepreneurs, the years of societal pressure telling us that we should be humble and meek, essentially starts us at ground zero, leaving a long(er) climb ahead. But, I'm here to tell you this hill is not insurmountable! We can slowly but surely work our way up. And we have to! Because in order to survive as a small business, we have to share who we are and what we're working on with our audience.
So how exactly do we build our confidence and speak about our business with ease?
Looking back over the last two years of crafting thoughtful content and attending countless networking events, I have tried to identify ways to quiet these irrational thoughts that tend to creep in at the most inopportune times. As is with the best lessons in life though, the only way to end up on the other side is to go through it. With that, I started asking even more questions of myself to better determine how I could better translate the experience of what it was like to work with me and to determine what it is that I really want from each interaction (whether online or IRL).
Some of the main questions I kept coming back to again, and again were:
How do I want this person to feel when they walk away? (How you make someone feel will almost always be more memorable than your words. Manners matter. Be kind.)
What is it that I really want from the experience? (Do I want a business card so I can email them later? Do I want us to follow each other on Insta so we can lay some groundwork first?)
What am I best at? (This is the point I need magnify whenever possible.)
How do I want to be known? (Having a clear idea of the end goal is always helpful for me to know if this next step is helping me along that path.)
How do I define success? (Everyone has a different version of success. Knowing mine has helped me tremendously with feeling confident about the growth of my business. Which reminds me, I should write a blog about how I'm not mad with a 3-figure launch because my definition of success is all about relationships, not revenue.)
These are all really tough questions, but when you can get down to the essence of who you are as a business, then you discover a newfound confidence in talking about what you do because you have purpose. And with that purpose, you are able to take thoughtful, calculated steps toward supporting Your Why.
I want to take a minute here to say that, while I started this blog post with the intention to help you (and me!) find better ways to talk about what we do in person, this exercise has a much larger wingspan. The results of this can be used for your About page, how you talk about your services on social media, or in emails to potential clients. So keep that in mind as you continue reading. :)
The tiniest details matter.
One way I've seen clients incorporate the Own Your Why™ process into their own self-promotion/marketing strategy is by discovering an entirely new call-to-action that feels authentic to them. Maybe they're like me and don't like to use the phrase "HIRE ME", so instead they have the option to sign up for "Coffee Chats" (or Virtual Office Hours in my case) to simply talk with their customers. Or maybe they have an interesting offer where they'll give you 3 personalized tips on an aspect of your business that pertains to the work they do when you sign up for their email list.
These are possibilities for potential customers to engage with you in new and unique ways. We are cunning creatures, and the majority of us turn off at the faintest hint of a sales pitch, so what can you do that is fun, inspiring, educational, or entertaining to initiate the conversation? This ask is intended to be a low-pressure way for you to get to know your audience, and for them to get to know you.
What is your unique call to action?
If you're still feeling a little stuck, I encourage you to do a thorough observation of how OTHER brands successfully communicate with their audiences.
Ask yourself questions like:
Whose newsletter do I receive and eagerly anticipate. Why?
Which social media profiles do I find myself reading all the way to the end? Why? What are they writing about?
When I find myself aimlessly scrolling through someone's site, what was the first step in their process that caused me to seek out more information? Why was this prompt successful?
Instead of continuing as an innocent bystander and consumer of media, work to flip that switch and analyze what others are doing. The times where you are naturally drawn in, analyze what they did and see if you can incorporate that technique the next time you post about your work.
I write more about this in a recent blog post about compassion & business, but one important piece of marketing is to remember that we are all human. While our business is our entire world, unless we are working with a business partner or a small team of co-founders, nobody will love it like we do. Maybe we mentioned our badass new offering last Tuesday, but we can't be upset if nobody reached out because that was one post, in a sea of 95 million other posts that were published that day. (Yeah, no joke! In a report from Nov. 2016, Instagram verified that on average there are 95 million photos shared PER DAY.)
The biggest mistake I see business owners making when it comes to sharing about themselves in the social media realm is that they don't do it nearly enough! I know that it can start to feel really redundant on your end, but from the consumer's point of view, they're likely only seeing it a small fraction of the time. And if you have a super fan that reads everything you publish, they love you so much, that they won't mind if they read it a couple of times.
Remember that part about we're all humans and we're flooded with so much info these days? Think about your business communications from the perspective of the consumer. The last time you published promotions for your offering:
Where did you publish those? Are there any other channels or avenues you could use to spread the word? Oftentimes we forget about the power of sharing with our friends, family, current/past clients who might be the most inclined to spread the word on our behalf.
When were they published? Did you stagger the timeline so that you could hit people at different times of the day and different days of the week? Timing can be everything, so it's a best practice to have at least a 14-21 day launch period to ensure you're catching people at some point when they have the capacity to absorb what you're sharing.
How did you present the information? What new ways can you talk about it? Instead of repeating the same components of the offering, tell us more about the results. Testimonials are great for this! You could share your favorite part of it, the inspiration for getting started, answer some frequently asked questions, etc.
And this is why we have to continue showing up to tell our story, who we are, what we do, who we do it for, again and again. It's not glamorous. It's not rocket science. It's consistently showing up and practicing new ways to reach your audience in a way that engages them.
So, once you have made your observations and have an idea of what might work well, start by taking small steps out of your comfort zone and attempt to find new ways of communicating with your audience that feel in line with core values. You can test drive new ways of describing what you do through social media to see how it sticks. If it goes over well, try it the next time you have the chance to say what you do in conversation.
After taking time to evaluate what felt authentic to me, here are a few ways I've made conscious decisions for minor details in my own marketing strategy:
I started asking questions on social media. Even if it's something as banal as, "What are you doing this weekend?" If you can get your audience in the habit of responding, then those tougher questions like, "What do you look for most when considering to hire a marketing consultant?" become a little easier to ask.
It has never felt right for me to write the words "HIRE ME". Since the work I do is so collaborative, I aim to always talk about the work "we'll" do together. For me, focusing on the partnership aspect took some of the pressure off of it feeling too sales-y.
I began offering Virtual Office Hours every week, and it's an opportunity for me to connect with people in an intimate setting—just us, one-on-one. I use these chats to get to know the people who engaging with me, and use it as an opportunity to gather information I need to know my audience better. When I know them better, I can provide better content and services. After all, that's the whole point, right?!
Obviously what has worked for me, may not work for you and your business. Unfortunately, there is no one formula that works for every business, whether you're pitching prospects at a mixer or writing the About page on your website. The best advice I can give on how to to cope with the inevitable anxiety of communicating about yourself, your business, or Your Why, is to give yourself plenty of time to practice and iterate. Just like with any other muscle or artistic pursuit, we will improve by doing it over and over again!
As a way to kickstart these efforts and hopefully provide a helpful framework for you, I've included a free downloadable Self-Discovery Worksheet that will guide you to practice self-promoting your business to your ideal clients, as well as help you answer that dreaded 'what do you do' question the next time someone asks—no matter who they are. Just fill out the form (below) to have this interactive PDF emailed directly to your inbox!
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By D.E.Levine
Director: Philip Ridley
Writer: Philip Ridley
Cast: Jim Sturgess,Clemence Posey, Nigel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Justin Salinger
Producers: Pippa Cross and Richard Raymond
Executive Producers: Steve Christian, Steve Norris, Marc Samuelson, Nigel Thoman and Charlotte Walls, Timothy Spall
Co-producer: Andrew Fingret
Line Producer: Alexander O'Neal
Original Music: David Julyan
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Country of Origin: United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Horror
This is a psychological thriller that has a lot of heart despite being called "Heartless."
Jamie, a shy, East Londoner facially disfigured by a wine-colored birthmark is still suffering from the death of his beloved father 10 years before. An introverted photographer, Jamie has learned to endure the gawking stares of neighbors and strangers.
Extremely watchable, Jim Sturgess, as Jamie, fatefully interacts with supernatural beings in a suspenseful thriller. Even when pushed to murderous extremes, Jamie is extremely sympathetic to the audience.
One night, when wandering through the East End Jamie discovers that the gang of thugs wearing demon masks and terrorizing the neighborhood are actually demons. However, before he can tell anyone, Jammie and his mother are attacked, and his mother is killed.
While the film initially makes Jamie appear to be going the vigilante route, after a meeting with Papa B the "patron of random violence", Jamie is seduced into a Fasutian agreement where Papa B will remove his disfigurement and make him normal in return for his doing some extremely bad things.
While special effects are used sparingly, there is a strong supporting cast that helps achieve a truly scary experience for the audience.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
By D.E.Levine
Posted by D.E.Levine at 10:20 PM
Labels: demons, disfigured, Facebook, Londoner, psychologically, thriller, wine-colored


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Kia Adams and Spencer Mikesh were married July 21, 2012, in Oxbow, N.D.
Parents are Mike Adams and Julie Adams, Oxbow, N.D.; Scott and Naomi Wadena, Leonard, N.D.; and Lamonte and Doris Mikesh, Bismarck.
Attendants were Sara Reid, Minneapolis; Jessica Mikesh, Jenna Prien, Brynn Radcliffe, Elisha Washburn, Sean Miller and Mark Adams, all of Fargo; Audra Mikesh, Leonard; Andrew Hebl, Kindred, N.D.; Alex Cossette and Tyler Cossette, both Oxbow; and Aaron Solomonson, Washburn, N.D.
Kia graduated in 2008 from Fargo South High School and in 2011 graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in human resources and industrial relations and entrepreneurial management.
Spencer graduated in 2008 from Kindred High School and attends North Dakota State University where he is pursuing a bachelor's degree in radiologic sciences.
The couple will make their home in Fargo where Kia is a project manager with North Dakota Grain Inspection and Spencer is employed by Gander Mountain.


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I've been in a weird place with Twitter for a while now.
Around the time I recognized just how much I myself have changed in the last few years (post-undergrad existential crises are lots of fun), I started thinking about how I could solve or at least minimize this mysterious, increasingly uncomfortable feeling I had towards tweeting.
I think this feeling was influenced by the fact that over the six years I've been using it, how Twitter functions has mostly stayed the same even though the habits of its users have evolved (although this has definitely started to change recently). Right around the time I was thinking about this, The Awl published an excellent piece on how on Twitter, time and privacy are connected, calling Twitter a "massive rolling context experiment." This inspired me to dig into ways other people have deleted their tweets in order to start with a clean slate. This isn't new ground — Kanye West did it back in 2012, ffs — but it got me thinking about self-destructing tweets, an idea related to a line of thinking I talked about in a different post about Snapchat.
Having tweets self-destruct instead of linger forever alters a unique and powerful part of the message's context: time. It's not just starting over, it's playing by a different set of rules.
I think (and desperately hope) that having tweets self-destruct after they're posted will make Twitter better in the moment by getting rid of the feeling that old, regretful thoughts from the past are looming over your shoulder. Despite that, for some weird reason I'm also still a little attached to those old tweets and don't want to lose them all forever — that's where the archive comes in. This is an attempt to create some balance in a place that I increasingly believe lacks it.
How it works
Eventually I'd like to build a single system that will handle all of this (and even more I hope that one day Twitter lets us do this natively), but for now I'm using two tools:
- This Google Doc uses a script to update my tweet archive every day
- TweetDelete.net automatically deletes tweets one week (or longer) after you post them
This documentation will help you set up an archive of your tweets in a Google Drive folder, as per number 1 above. By stashing your tweet archive in Google Drive, the G-Apps plugin can read and write to the JSON structure that Twitter provides when you request your tweet archive to update it every 24-hours in the same format that Twitter provides it in. Now you have a complete and constantly up-to-date archive of all the mindvomit you've ever shared with Twitter even though your tweets on Twitter dot com disappear after a week.
There's a more fully-featured application that does this and more called Tweet Deleter, but they charge $15 per month and to be honest I don't want to have to pay someone (especially a third party) to let me control my data.
Google Drive keeps the folder private by default, but if you make the folder where you stash your tweet archive public you can share your tweet archive with anyone. You can find a link to my full tweet archive at http://tyler.gold/tweet-archive
If you have feedback or just want to talk about this concept, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to tweet me @tylergold or shoot me an email.
Time is a Privacy Setting, The Awl
I Delete Everything, The Fader
What Twitter Can Be, by Chris Sacca
The Shame Eraser, BuzzFeed


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Dr. Lyn Mueller
Lead Teacher
This is my 15th year as lead teacher and I consider working at CFI the highlight of my 30+ years in education. I am fortunate to have been involved at CFI since its inception as one of the founding parents as my children, Zach and Lora, were members of the first kindergarten and fifth grade classes. Prior to my "Center days" I directed the Writing Improvement Network, a statewide organization to support K-12 literacy instruction, and worked at the South Carolina Department of Education in the Office of Research. My graduate work in education was completed at The Ohio State University and I have served as an adjunct faculty member at USC since 1988.
I live in Blythewood with my husband, Michael, who is an Elderlaw attorney. Our son, Zach, is a published poet working on his Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska. Lora, our daughter, graduated from USC last May, danced for USC as a Carolina Girl for 4 years, and is currently working in a new job and choreographing for high school cheerleading teams. We have always had a variety of animals living with us. Right now, we have two cats and a comical rescue yellow lab mix named Balou. When I'm not at CFI, I'm usually tending flowers or in our vegetable garden. Two of my favorite things in the whole wide world are dancing and swimming. When I tell my friends that I get to dance with a couple of hundred kids every Friday morning, they are so jealous! I love my job.
Dr. Heidi Mills
University Partner
I am an Endowed Professor in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina, as well as Curriculum, Research and Development Specialist at CFI. As one of the founding members of the Center for Inquiry, I consider this unique university-public school partnership the most important work of my career. Together, with the CFI faculty, we have developed a nationally recognized state-of-the-art site for inquiry-based curriculum, pre-service education, research and professional development. My collaborative research with CFI teachers is featured in professional journals, videotapes, national conferences and books by leading publishers in education. From the Ground Up: Creating a Culture of Inquiry by Heinemann (http://www.heinemann.com/products/E00267.aspx) is an edited volume featuring critical incidents as well as the beliefs and practices that shaped our school culture from the beginning. Looking Closely and Listening Carefully: Learning Literacy through Inquiry by the National Council of Teachers of English (https://secure.ncte.org/store/looking-closely-and-listening-carefully) illustrates the role of inquiry in Tim O'Keefe's literacy curriculum. Most recently, I captured the joyfully rigorous ways our current CFI faculty unite content and literacy instruction across the curriculum in Learning for Real: Teaching Content and Literacy Across the Curriculum by Heinemann (http://www.heinemann.com/products/E04603.aspx).
I have the gift of raising two remarkable young men with my husband, Tim O'Keefe. Devin O'Keefe is pursuing his Doctorate in Physical Therapy at MUSC. Colin O'Keefe is an undergraduate in sociology at USC and plans to complete a MT degree to teach high school social studies. Both boys attended CFI as children. Beyond a doubt, the Center for Inquiry has been central to our family life and it is the school of my professional dreams.
Angie DeBeaugrine


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The story takes place in a small southern Florida town, just far enough away from a military base to make it safe from the nuclear blasts, but not big enough or aware enough to keep it from missing all of the hundreds of things that we've become accustomed to having and can be wiped out over-night.
As I listen, I'm wondering if much has changed in the 60 or so years since this story was dreamed up. Is the US prepared for an atomic blast in many of their large cities? Are citizens self-reliant enough to bear up to being without computers, television, radio, electricity and even water? Have we taught our children the basics of living a life without these luxuries? Can you start a fire? Can you rough it in a home without electricity or heat - for an extended time? Where will you get your water if the well doesn't pump? Would paper money have any worth? What if the bank closed down.
It is a bit of a study in times-gone-by, though. The language is rough (remember, this is the deep south in the 50s, so skin-color was a big thing) and the reliance on a "tele-type" for communication, and "Western Union offices" for telegrams was amusing. Things have certainly changed.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the book. I'll let you know how it goes!
(Honestly, why hasn't this been made into a movie? These characters are so vivid, I can't believe they didn't do that. I wonder if it was because the Russians are the bad guys in this novel, and maybe we were trying to make "nice" with them. Who knows...)
From the book publisher:
This true modern masterpiece is built around the two fateful words that make up the title and herald the end - "Alas, Babylon." When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly.
But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness. Will Patton's narration paints this classic tale as an ominous picture of the terrible possibilites of the nuclear age.


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Description of problem:
when installing rhel3.9 manually on rhel5.5,rhel3.9 can't be installed for the following reason. rhel39 guest cannot mount the cdrom for installation on rhel55kvm
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
uname -r
rpm -q kvm
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1.run following command:
/home/autotest/client/tests/kvm/qemu \
-name 'vm1' \
-monitor stdio \
-drive file='/home/autotest/client/tests/kvm/images/win2008-32.qcow2',index=0,if=ide,media=disk,cache=none,format=qcow2 \
-net nic,vlan=0,model=rtl8139,macaddr='02:B8:C4:E7:45:33' \
-net tap,vlan=0,ifname='rtl8139_0_8000',script='/home/autotest/client/tests/kvm/scripts/qemu-ifup-vbr0',downscript='no' \
-m 2048 \
-smp 2 \
-drive file='/home/autotest/client/tests/kvm/isos/ISO/Win2008/32/en_windows_server_2008_datacenter_enterprise_standard_x86_dvd_X14-26710.iso',media=cdrom,index=1 \
-drive file='/home/autotest/client/tests/kvm/isos/windows/winutils.iso',media=cdrom,index=2 \
-cpu qemu64,+x2apic \
-soundhw ac97 \
-fda '/home/autotest/client/tests/kvm/images/floppy.img' \
-redir tcp:5000::10023 \
-vnc :0 \
-spice port=8000,disable-ticketing \
-qxl 1 \
-rtc-td-hack \
-M rhel5.5.0 \
-usbdevice tablet \
-boot d
2.run "sendkey ctrl-alt-f2" in qemu
3.the system will stop ,and you will watch the message about this problem
Actual results:
Expected results:
Additional info:
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
This request was erroneously denied for the current release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The error has been fixed and this
request has been re-proposed for the current release.
can not reproduce in kvm-83-225.el5


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Unpriced Quality Number
Title: Unpriced Quality Number
Author: COURTY, Pascal
Date: 2009
Publisher: European University Institute
Series/Number: EUI ECO; 2009/16
A monopolist deliberately charges the same price for differentiated products when high quality products are more likely to be allocated to low type consumers under uniform pricing. The argument can explain the use of 'unpriced quality' for concert tickets, sport events, and in many other situations.
Subject: Price discrimination; second degree price discrimination; queuing; rationing; D42; D45
Type of Access: openAccess
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Pretty Things: New Favorite Holiday Card Idea
Every Christmas Eve, my parents make mulled wine. They pull out the same worn light blue card with stains and crinkled edges. and begin combining a bottle of red with cinnamon sticks, cloves, juices and more.
The blue card arrived in my parents' mailbox over 30 years ago, from friends of friends twice their age who included the recipe in the Christmas card they sent out that particular year. Whenever I see the hand-written note sitting on the counter next to a simmering pot of holiday-season goodness, I re-read the same warm message from old friends now long gone, and wonder how many, if any, former recipients might be doing the same thing at the same time.
So that's why my heart warmed when I saw my friend Tracy Martin post a photo of the holiday card she sent out this year, which featured an illustrated guide to making hot mulled cider.
But the card didn't arrive on its own. The ever-so-chic Martin, who lives in Hudson, New York, spent a day putting together packages featuring all the ingredients that recipients would need for the recipe.
"The cider & bourbon are local to Hudson Valley," Tracy told me. "And I'm handing these out to our neighbors, electrician, mailman and more."


text: I'm excited to see the most recent issue of Packard Children's News, the donor magazine for the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. This issue features three scientists leading efforts at the cutting edge of research to find cures for childhood diseases once considered incurable. It's a pleasure to work with Jen Yuan at the foundation on this magazine. And this issue we were joined by Tom Ahern writing one of the scientist stories.


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We're suckers for a good throwback thursday clip, so we were stoked when we saw that videographer Chito Tafy had thrown together some long lost footage from his archives. After watching all of these clips, we're wondering why it took him so long to put this one together in the first place, but either way, here it is for you to feast your eyes on now.
This one will not disappoint, with old, never before seen clips from Theotis Beasley, Chad Timtim, Furby, Louie Lopez, Antwuan Dixon, Ray Barbee, Beagle, and others.


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Brexit – the tragic end of a love story
A (randomly funny) comment about a serious political situation
Have you ever loved someone so much that it has broken your heart when the relationship came to an end? You surely have. Me, too.
When I moved to the UK in my early twenties I decided to do so, because I was in love with Britain. Since I turned 16, my parents forced me to spend my summer holidays in the UK to improve my English. One day I loved it so much that I spend at least two weeks in the country of my choice every single year. And when the option popped up to go and study in my favourite city (in London), I took it.
I was Britain's biggest fan and started to travel the entire country to figure out differences between Welsh and Scottish people, English people from the south and the north, the British food and traditions, traditions, traditions. I just loved it. And because I loved the UK so much, I worked really hard so the UK would love me back.
I worked on my English and I went to the pub straight after work to listen to the Brits and what they had to say about life, politics, the European Union, the past of their country, the Germans, the French and so on. I learned the national anthem. I studied British history at university. I visited all British counties and spoke to the local people. I also tried to pick up on the British humour. I just loved it.
After five years in the UK I realised that I started to feel more familiar with the British culture than my own. When I relocated to Germany, I felt quite alien within my own society. A society in which nobody says sorry when bumping into you on the street. I missed the British politeness. I missed the good old British humour. When I made a joke about Kim Jong-un or Hitler in England, my British friends joined in and we had a funny discussion. When I made a joke about Kim Jong-un or Hitler in Germany, I was kicked out of the pub and it all ended in a very serious conversation. I missed my British friends. I missed Britain. But I still felt like we were together. We were close friends and whenever a German came up with a dirty joke about crazy British island monkeys, I defended my love.
I still loved the UK and I thought that my destiny would give me the chance to come back one day. After five years I did not feel alien in the UK anymore. I speak English fluently and my appreciation for British oddities had granted me with the love of my fellow British citizen, friends and folks.
I developed the idea to write a PhD dissertation that was supposed to teach the British all about the Germans that they need to know to understand each other. I wanted the British people to understand that cooperation with the German people was an excellent idea and would eventually strengthen their position in the world: I finally understood that this point seemed to be of tremendous importance for the British and their political decision-making. Whereas the Germans (because of their rather intimidating history) were afraid of showing any intentions of hegemonic power, the British would have loved to do so. In fact: like in a relationship that is condemned to fail, we wanted something else from life.
Still, I wrote this thesis and I thought: we would be one of the strongest and dearest couples in the world, if we would only listen to each other and try to understand why we think the way we think. I wanted this relationship to work. History has shown us that strength lies in cooperation and unity. I wished for it so much. But the UK decided to break up with me.
When the Brexit came through I was on a conference in Portugal, where I had just promoted my British-German-military-cooperation plan. I woke up to the news which broke my heart. In the taxi on my way to the airport I asked the driver if he felt European or if Portugal might also drop out of the European Union if there would be a referendum, too. Although, he was much more concerned with Ronaldo and the European Championship (which they won, bless them), he said that he felt quite European and that he liked the EU, because it supported Portugal.
My dream of the European Union is the dream of a union in which, one day, all parties would be equally strong. And the only way of getting to this point, at least in my humble opinion, was to fight bureaucratic difficulties and stupid reforms together. Together. Call me naïve, but I believed and still believe that cooperation is the foundation stone for peace. If all states would cooperate closely, they might not fight each other. So much for the theory.
Like in a real relationship, sometimes (not always) it is easier to break up and to start something new. But many relationships have grown over the years and only because we have Tinder and Co. and it's so damn easy to find yourself someone new, it might be worth working on a relationship once in a while.
I watched an interview on TV with a couple that has been married for 70 years. He was a very small old man sitting on a bench next to his wife holding her hand and the reporter asked him:
"Wow, 70 years! How did you manage to stay together for so long?"
And the old man said: "You know, I grew up at a time, in which we fixed something, when it got broken and didn't go and buy something new."
The majority in the UK had decided to go and do something new. Of all historical events happening throughout my life, including 9/11, the Brexit - at least felt like - the saddest of all. I was devastated.
I have spent almost four years of my life writing a thesis that compares the British and German army cultures in order to help soldiers and officers for a better understanding of each other in the years to come. Cooperation and unity were at the core of my motivation to conduct this research. Had I wasted four years of my life to someone who doesn't love me back?
Many British people who were in favour of the Brexit (and that I have spoken to so far) argued that they still like Europe and they hope that the Brexit will solve a couple of the problems that they are facing at the moment. That's not going to happen. I'm not Nostradamus, but I'm still quite sure that Britain has made a bad, a really, really bad decision.
History has taught us that unity is one of the core strengths of humanity: The soldiers in past wars have fought for this unity and millions gave their life for us to be able to unite as a continent. Britain dropping out of this unity saddens me to an extent that I could not have imagined.
Thinking of the millions who voted against Britain's decision to leave the union doesn't help. I am heartbroken, because I have failed to promote my dream of an Anglo-German cooperation. I still hope that we will remain to stand side by side in all the challenges that we will face in the future, but it saddens me that we are not together any more.


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The West Country 2016 Picture Gallery!
Take a look back at all the action that happened in 2016 across the West Country in our fabulous picture gallery!
1. Tim Peake
Wiltshire astronaut Major Tim Peake, from Salisbury, made history by becoming the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station.
2. Baby hippo born at Bristol Zoo Gardens
A baby pygmy hippo arrived at Bristol Zoo in 2016. The birth is great news for the species which is endangered and rarely seen in the wild. Pygmy hippos are, as the name suggests, much smaller than the common hippopotamus, with proportionally longer legs, a smaller head, less prominent eyes and ears more towards the side of the head. The pygmy hippo's nose and ears can be closed underwater, an adaptation to aquatic life.
3. Olympic turned jockey at Cheltenham Festival 2016
Her is Victoria Pendleton prior to the St. James's Place Foxhunter Chase Challenge Cup during Gold Cup Day of the 2016 Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse.
4. Lionel Richie at Gloucester's Kingsholm Stadium
The 'All The Hits' tour, the pop superstar delivered in front of a packed Kingsholm crowd. The American singer went through his entire repertoire, from The Commodores to his solo career, belting out hit after hit in the process.
5. Eddie the Eagle film based on the life of Gloucestershire's - Stroud Born, British Ski Jumper!
Hugh Jackman, Taron Egerton, Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, attending the European Premiere at Leicester Square, London. Edwards entered the 1988 Olympics as Britain's only ski jumper. He came last in both the 70m and 90m events, and some skiers were unhappy with the popularity of Edwards, whose dogged determination and position as the underdog attracted many admirers. They accused him of making a mockery of the sport, but the more Edwards lost, the more his popularity seemed to grow.
6. Heart's Face in Space!
As locally trained astronaut Tim Peake was preparing to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in early June following his mission onboard the International Space Station, we sent photos of your faces into the outer atmosphere on board a high altitude weather balloon. Heart Breakfast teamed up with The Times Cheltenham Science Festival to run this amazing 'Face in Space' competition.
7. Adele Glastonbury 2016
Adele headlined the incredible Glastonbury Festival this year.
8. Swindon Guinness World Record exercise ball attempt
HUNDREDS limbered up to make a new world record for the most people taking part in a Swiss exercise ball in Swindon. There was a sea of blue inflatable balls as 404 people moved, bounced and grooved to the music while also raising thousands of pounds for local charities.
9. Baby Gorilla Born At Bristol Zoo
The baby girl since being born has almost doubled her birth weight, now weighing 2.2kgs. The infant was born after an emergency caesarean procedure – a rare occurrence in gorillas and only carried out a handful of times in the world. She is now being hand-reared round the clock by a small team of experienced gorilla keepers at the Zoo
10. Tour of Britain 2016
The 2016 Tour of Britain started on the 4th of September in Scotland and finished on September 11 in London. The Tour of Britain will pass through the Forest of Dean during stage 5 of the Tour Of Britain, Stage five began in Wales and continued through to the Forest of Dean into Gloucestershire and Stage 7 through Bristol finishing in Bath
11. Kangaroo on the loose in Bristol is spotted in garden
Pictures of a kangaroo on the loose in a residential garden, was spotted in Bristol in 2016!
12. Jeremy Clarkson and co are back in their new show The Grand Tour!
Its interesting to know that the Grand Tour's new track is at the former airbase RAF Wroughton
13. Bristol's Carol Vorderman and Joel Dommett on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 2016
I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here 2016 saw Bristol's Carol Vorderman and Joel Dommett taking part in flirty behaviour and bush tucker trails!
14. Whitchurch Lane In Bristol Flooding
Bristol had some terrible traffic and flooding on Whitchurch Lane In Bristol
15. World Record for 'Largest Living Nativity' broken in Wiltshire town
More than 1,200 people came together in Wiltshire to break the World Record for 'The World's Largest Live Nativity'. The joint effort saw 1,254 people come together, wearing traditional costumes. The previous record was set by 1,039 volunteers in Utah, USA in December 2014.


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33 dead, 15 injured in Virginia Tech shootings
Monday, April 16, 2007
Two shootings at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia have left 33 people dead, gunman included, in the deadliest civilian shooting in the United States. A further 15 people are being treated in a hospital. According to police, the gunman committed suicide.
At a 4:45 p.m. EST press conference, it was stated that no names of the injured or killed will be released soon. According to the press conference, the shooter shot and killed two people at an on-campus dormitory in a "domestic dispute." He then walked to the other end of the campus and began to open fire on students.


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A Tryst with Astrology
During a newspaper reading session on a lazy Sunday afternoon, my father comes up to me and takes my hand in his. Taken aback, I certainly did not want this hand-in-hand father son bonding talk to ruin my holiday. But without saying a word, he started pressing the base of my fingers and various points on my palm, lost in deep concentration, murmuring to himself.
For a minute, he seemed hysterical. Then out of the blue, he utters, pointing to the contours of my palm. "See that," he said. "That's your Shani (Saturn). It's really weak. It's the planet that follows you everywhere and is responsible for accidents in your life. You must do something for it. Listen to "Astro Uncle" and it will do wonders for you".
I was dumbstruck. Brought up in a world where planets were the discoveries of man and everything to be proven, had to have a science or logic behind it, and made me smirk. Just to see him blindly believe a man on a study that involves personal opinion without scientific backing was unthinkable. Why would he believe a so-called, prima facie vast field of science without any scientific accountability? How is it possible that their prediction can affect the millions of myriad people who have the same zodiac? Such questions always haunt me when we have this conversation. Moreover, the fact that intrigues me is his taking refugee in astrology only in the negative situations. If he is successful in something, it would be hard work; if not, it would be karma.
This blind faith is a little difficult to comprehend keeping in mind it governs majority or almost all of his actions in day-to-day life. From instances like removing slippers the other way round is a sign of indecisiveness to having claw-like fingers in a normal hand position signifies evil. If that is so, blame God and let my fingers be. It sure makes me meet my saturation point
Or is the difference in ideology the effect of our upbringing in a radical environment where freethinking was encouraged? We believe that if science cannot provide proof, nothing else can. Thus, if science cannot tell the future with certainty, astrology is a waste in our eyes. It is just like the interpretation of the Quran. At the end of every interpretation, the Imam gives a disclaimer that it his opinion and only Allah knows best. Ditto is the case with these astrologers. Where the slightest change in the position of the stars and heavenly bodies leads to a drastic change in prediction, how can it be relied upon with so much faith? A blind belief in religion leads to Jihad, blind faith in this could lead to anything.
On the lighter side, when have we seen these "scientists" (they research don't they?) coming up with negative predictions? None predict a zodiac dying the very next day at 12:39pm do they? At the end of the day who would want to displease the audience and lose TRPs? This is what I call implementation of simple marketing techniques. What happened to sayings like "hard work pays in the long run" and "do your best and leave the rest"? Why do our elderly have to retrace their own words? Why do they tell us to believe in ourselves, when they trust old bearded fools to tell them in which direction their nose should face, while they are sleeping? Maybe that IS the difference between generations. The adage, "what has to happen will happen" has changed to "what has to happen will be made to happen". Thy shall blame no one but their own. That more or less justifies all.
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The Daily Beast reports, "A senior National Security Council official proposed withdrawing some U.S. military forces from Eastern Europe as an overture to Vladimir Putin during the early days of the Trump presidency, according to two former administration officials." As The Daily Beast notes, "the proposal was ultimately not adopted," but, "it is the first known case of senior aides to Donald Trump seeking to reposition U.S. military forces to please Putin". The Daily Beast continues, "The official who offered the proposal, a deputy assistant to Trump for strategic planning, mused in February 2017 about withdrawing U.S. troops close to Russian borders as part of a strategy proposal to 'refram[e] our interests within the context of a new relationship with Russia,' the former official told The Daily Beast, who heard this directly from the official, Kevin Harrington." The spelling error authenticates that this is indeed the regime's doing. The Daily Beast notes, "Harrington is the NSC's senior official for strategic planning. He had neither military experience nor significant government experience before joining the White House. But he had an influential credential: As a managing director for the Thiel Macro hedge fund, he was close to Trump patron and ally Peter Thiel". He also can't spell, so he fits right in.
From The Daily Beast.
PBS NewsHour reports, "President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to develop rules for disclosing the names of Americans whose identities are blacked out in classified spy reports disseminated across the government." Who might Trump be trying to protect here? Just a week after his ex-Chief Strategist and one-time member of the National Security Council Steve Bannon was disappeared from public life following accusation that Uday, Donald Trump Jr., behaved in a "treasonous" way, we can only guess this is the beginning! PBS NewsHour notes, "he issue prompted a heated partisan debate after Republicans alleged that Obama administration officials improperly shared the identities of members of Trump's presidential transition team mentioned in intelligence reports." You know, "The Deep State". Recall Trump lackey on the Hill DARKNESS AT NUNES, "the chairman of the House intelligence committee, wrote a letter to Coats in July saying that senior government officials in the Obama administration had 'easy access' to the names of Americans omitted from intelligence reports and sometimes provided little justification for requesting their identities." Treason is not justification for the Trumpistani elite; it is their raison d'état. This is so short sighted however; what will they do when it is theirs or Russian enemies they wish to pursue and expose? Rules will have to be changed again, then, at a later date. Especially when the hour comes to really take down the Clintons and lock her up!
From PBS NewsHour.
ABC News reports, "Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal attorney and close confidant, says he filed a pair of lawsuits on Tuesday, one in federal court against the private investigative firm Fusion GPS and the other in state court against the popular website BuzzFeed. In both suits, Cohen claims that the infamous dossier of salacious but unconfirmed allegations of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russian agents compiled by Fusion GPS and later published by BuzzFeed contained 'false and defamatory' allegations that resulted in 'harm to his personal and professional reputation, current business interests, and the impairment of business opportunities.'" The New York complaint "names BuzzFeed's top editor Ben Smith as well as Ken Bensinger, Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs".
From ABC News.
The New York Times reports, "Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday unilaterally released a highly anticipated transcript of the committee's interview with one of the founders of the firm that produced a salacious and unsubstantiated dossier outlining a Russian effort to aid the Trump campaign. The interview, with Glenn R. Simpson of Fusion GPS, took place last summer and was expected to shed light on the origins of the firm's work, its concerns about the Trump campaign's activities, and what the F.B.I. may have done with the information." POLITICO adds, "Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, whose firm commissioned a controversial dossier alleging secret ties between President Donald Trump and the Kremlin, told congressional investigators last summer that the FBI found the dossier credible because an undisclosed 'human source' associated with Trump had offered the bureau corroborating information." The Washington Post, citing reporters for Business Insider and NBC News, reports that the "human source" was George Papadopoulos, who was first to be indicted. Additionally, "Steele later briefed a senior FBI official in Rome, Simpson testified, but later 'broke off' communications with the bureau," POLITICO adds. By way of explanation of Steele's decision, "Chris was confused and somewhat disturbed and didn't think he understood the landscape and I think both of us felt like things were happening that we didn't understand and that we must not know everything about, and therefore, you know, in a situation like that the smart thing to do is stand down". According to the transcript, "there was concern that the FBI was being manipulated for political ends by the Trump people". The BBC adds, in a detail that has been given remarkably short shrift by the very normalizing American media that, "The ex-British spy who compiled a dossier on Donald Trump feared he was being blackmailed by the Kremlin." Does that mean Russia or domestic fascists because those are his people? TRUMPISTAN WATCH is still combing through the transcript, but you can follow along as TRUMPISTAN WATCH does so in a Twitter thread set up for the purpose.
From The New York Times, The Washington Post, POLITICO and BBC.
The New York Times reports, "Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election fits into a nearly two-decade pattern of meddling with governments around the world, and the United States' response to its brazen attack is being hindered by President Trump, a new report prepared by Senate Democrats concludes. The report, which is to be released on Wednesday, is one of the most extensive to date on foreign interference by Russia and President Vladimir V. Putin. It tracks Russian efforts in 19 countries, chronicling misinformation campaigns, the funding of far-right political causes and the manipulation of energy supplies long before 2016 in an attempt to glean lessons for American officials considering how to counteract similar efforts here." The New York Times adds, "the report offers more than 30 recommendations to safeguard the country's electoral process and to work with allies, primarily in Europe, to establish new standards to address these types of threats." Among the recommendations: "sanctions to punish states that initiate cyberattacks on elections or critical infrastructure, an international summit meeting centered on such threats, an allied commitment of mutual defense against cyberattacks, as well as forcing social media companies to disclose the sources of funding for political ads."
From The New York Times.
The Daily Beast reports, "Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, warned in a closed-door briefing with lawmakers on Tuesday that the U.S.-Russia relationship would be 'done' if the Kremlin tries to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections." The briefing with members of the House foreign affairs committee "was unequivocal in stating that Russia interfered in the 2016 election." Ambassador Huntsman also "offered a stark warning: Russian actors were on course to meddle in U.S. elections again in 2018 and 2020, in addition to elections in other countries." Huntsman was clear, "I don't think Russia is going to quit," adding, "Putin probably has never been stronger," which might be a misread as pressure has built against him considerably. Arguably Putin was at the pinnacle of his power immediately after the occupation of Crimea.
From The Daily Beast.
Axios reports, "Twitter missed a Monday deadline to respond to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian online interference in the election, the panel's top Democrat said on Tuesday." Warner told Axios he is "disappointed" with Twitter and, "Facebook and Google met the deadline, and [with] voluminous amounts of information, Twitter did not".
From Axios.
Russan state-run Sputnik whines, "The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has demanded that international news agency and radio Sputnik's partner in the country, RIA Global LLC, should register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act due to its alleged political activities on US soil." They are sad about having their intelligence and disinformation front outed – sad! Russian state-run Sputnik notes, "According to the DOJ [Department of Justice], the registration should take place within 30 days starting from January 5."
From Russian state-run Sputnik.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, "The local government in Washington, D.C., has approved a measure to rename the street in front of Russia's embassy after slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. In separate votes on January 9, the District of Columbia Council passed the Boris Nemtsov Plaza Designation Act in its first reading and unanimously approved the renaming". According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, "The city initiative renames the block of Wisconsin Avenue that is home to the Russian Embassy in honor of Nemtsov, a reformist politician and fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin who was shot dead on a bridge near the Kremlin in 2015."
From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Reuters reports, "A Dutch court has issued a provisional order to freeze the Netherlands-based companies of the flagship business group owned by Ukraine's richest man in connection with a long-running $820 million lawsuit. Systems Capital Management (SCM) is owned by Rinat Akhmetov, who has amassed a multi-billion dollar fortune through his conglomerate's industrial and financial holdings, and owns Ukrainian soccer club FC Shakhtar Donetsk." He is also closely linked to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who fled in disgrace and fellow Ukrainian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Dmytro Firtash as well as the boss of bosses, Semion Mogilevich. Reuters adds, "In December, a Cypriot court issued a provisional worldwide asset freezing order against Akhmetov and various SCM companies – part of a legal dispute with Cyprus-based firm Raga, which says SCM has not paid it in full for the 2013 sale of telecoms group Ukrtelecom." The walls are not tumbling down just yet, but they are closing in on the perps.
From Reuters.
The Guardian reports, "Ecuador's foreign minister has said Julian Assange's five-and-a-half-year stay in her country's London embassy is 'untenable' and should be ended through international mediation." Given what past hosts have had to say about Asswipe, it is amazing he lasted so long there. According to The Guardian, "Ecuador's foreign minister, María Fernanda Espinosa, said her country was now seeking a 'third country or a personality' to mediate a final settlement with the UK to resolve the impasse and said it was 'considering and exploring the possibility of mediation'."
From The Guardian.
Stars and Stripes reports, "The USS Carney cruised into the Black Sea on Friday, the third U.S. destroyer since August to patrol the tense region." Stars and Stripes notes, "Moscow views the increased U.S. presence in the Black Sea as part of Washington's more aggressive posturing since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014." Officially, "Navy officials say the ships are being sent there to bolster allied defenses and protect waters of economic and military importance," Stars and Stripes adds but we all know why they are there so read between the lines.
From Stars and Stripes.
The Moscow Times reports, "A volunteer that was beaten while canvassing for Ksenia Sobchak's presidential campaign over the weekend has been identified as a one-time member of a pro-Putin nationalist group." Recall a line from yesterday's TRUMPISTAN WATCH quoting Spiegel on Russia's political system: "Imitated democracy relies more on deception than on violence." The Moscow Times notes, "Sergei Selyukov was assaulted and hospitalized after collecting signatures for Sobchak in a northern Moscow suburb last Sunday, the presidential candidate said in a statement on her blog. Social media users recognized Selyukov as an ex-National Liberation Movement provocateur who took part in multiple attacks on local opposition activists, The Insider news website reported Tuesday. A YouTube video screenshot depicting Selyukov kicking an activist was posted on Twitter by Vladislav Zdolnikov, an IT consultant associated with opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund." The fake opposition even has fake incidents to accompany Russia's fake elections in their fake democracy. Ironic: the violence against a Sobchak volunteer is intended to authenticate her fake campaign because Russia.
From The Moscow Times.
BuzzFeed News reports, "Rick Gates — former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's longtime associate and codefendant — can get out of house arrest while his criminal case is pending if he agrees to forfeit assets if he flees, stays under GPS monitoring, and doesn't leave Richmond, Virginia, without the court's permission, a judge ruled in an order unsealed on Tuesday." BuzzFeed News adds, "Under the order unsealed Tuesday by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in order for Gates to be released, he'll have to agree to post a property that he owns in Richmond as well as two other properties owned by individuals whose names are redacted in the order. Gates will also have to agree to forfeit other assets, including a life insurance policy and retirement and investment accounts, if he fails to show up to court. Jackson wrote that if the amount of those assets didn't add up to a combined value of $5 million — and she noted elsewhere in the order that they did not appear to — a person who had agreed to serve as a surety would be required to make up the difference. That person's name was redacted." Restrictions on Gates include, " the court's permission for any domestic travel beyond Richmond, except for visits to Washington, DC, for court appearances and to meet with his lawyers. He'll have to abide by an 11 p.m. curfew. He won't be allowed to travel abroad, and he'll be required to stay away from 'transportation facilities,' such as airports and train stations, except for approved travel."
From BuzzFeed News.
BuzzFeed News adds, "Jackson has yet to issue a release order for Manafort. As of Tuesday afternoon, Manafort's lawyers hadn't filed the forfeiture agreement and other documents Jackson asked for with the court. Manafort's attorney Kevin Downing did not return a request for comment." According to BuzzFeed Nws, "Once released from his home in Alexandria, Virginia, where he's lived since his first court appearance, Manafort will have to live at his home in South Florida, get the judge's permission for most domestic travel — he won't be allowed to travel overseas — continue GPS monitoring, and abide by an 11 p.m. curfew. Manafort will have to agree to forfeit four properties in New York, Florida, and Virginia if he fails to show up at court. If Manafort does flee and the value of the four properties ends up being less than $10 million, Manafort's wife and daughter have agreed to serve as sureties to make up the difference." Is he still around or did he flee by submarine or fake his own death yet?
From BuzzFeed News.
The Hill reports, "The White House on Monday remained firm in its rejection of Stephen Bannon's apology for attacking President Trump's children in a new book, saying that first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, are 'sacrificing' to serve the American people." Other than their dignity on the daily, what might they be sacrificing? According to Trump spokesman Hogan Gidley, "They both gave up personal and private lives to come work at the White House and work for the American people." Of course, "Gidley's remarks come after the former chief strategist was quoted in Michael Wolff's new book, 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,' as saying Ivanka Trump is 'dumb as a brick' and that Kushner conducted some 'greasy' business with Deutsche Bank," The Hill notes. That sounds more accurate, less alternative fact-y.
From The Hill.
Business Insider reports, "A fierce, but muted, battle erupted last year between banker-turned-human-rights activist Bill Browder and the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which produced the explosive, unverified dossier that detailed President Donald Trump's alleged ties to, and escapades in, Russia." In the transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to Congress released by Senator Dianne Feinstein's office yesterday, "Simpson said his work for the American law firm BakerHostetler – which was representing the Russian holding company, Prevezon, accused by the US government of laundering money into New York City real-estate – was focused 'on trying to get William Browder to testify under oath about his role in this case and his activities in Russia.' Browder, according to Simpson, had told the Justice Department that the laundered money was stolen from Russia as part of the tax-fraud scheme that his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, had uncovered in 2008." Business Insider notes, "Magnitsky was arrested and imprisoned that year, and Browder's reputation has become inextricably linked to the global human-rights campaign he launched after Magnitsky died in prison in 2009." Now we learn from the transcript that according to Simpson, "Simpson told lawmakers in August that Browder would not answer any of BakerHostetler's questions about Magnitsky and Prevezon's purported involvement in the tax-fraud scheme. Browder also evaded subpoenas." Business Insider adds, "In December 2016, Browder lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Justice alleging that Fusion's work for BakerHostetler on behalf of Prevezon violated disclosure requirements." Of course, "That complaint caught the eye of Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who wrote a letter to then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente demanding to know whether the Justice Department was investigating Fusion for alleged violations of FARA." Grassley also wants the Justice Department to probe Fusion GPS over the Steele dossier. For its part, "Fusion has denied that its opposition research against Browder on behalf of BakerHostetler was an effort to undermine the Magnitsky Act. The basis for that claim is that Browder was never able to prove that Prevezon engaged in the tax-fraud scheme Magnitsky allegedly uncovered," Business Insider notes. However, "Simpson acknowledged during his testimony in August that BakerHostetler had instructed Fusion to give its Browder research to the Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin. Akhmetshin then lobbied Congress".
From Business Insider.
POLITICO reports, "Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon stepped down Tuesday as executive chairman of Breitbart News, amid a fight with President Donald Trump and after a key financial backer abandoned him." Sad! As The Washington Post columnist and Soviet historian Anne Applebaum writes on Twitter, "I feel that the further fate of Steve Bannon need not concern us". Latvian family consulted in the making of this item believed the Trumpistani elite would begin to erase Bannon from past photographs "immediately". Ergo, here are TRUMPISTAN WATCH's favorite images with Bannon's likeness before the former Chief Strategist and member of the National Security Council vanishes.
From POLITICO.
The New York Daily News reports, "Former Trump adviser Carter Page made his first court appearance Tuesday — acting as his own lawyer — in his ongoing defamation suit against media giant Oath. Page told the federal judge she should ignore a motion to dismiss filed by Oath's lawyers — and let his case continue." Page whined to the judge, "They were false allegations. I gave a speech in Moscow in 2016. It was totally misrepresented". The suit stems from, "A report from Yahoo News said that American intelligence was looking into Page after a July 2016 trip to Moscow, as well as the possibility that he met with top Russian officials. Page then sued Yahoo's parent company, Oath, as well as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, whose outlet Radio Free Europe wrote an account based off of the original story. He has also slammed HuffPost, another Oath outlet, for defamatory articles." Evidently it's libel if you don't refer to Page as king of all knowledge and instead opt for the truth.
From The New York Daily News.
Reuters reports, "A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's crimes angered state officials is due to begin enforced psychiatric testing this week amid fears he will be falsely declared insane, his lawyer said on Tuesday." Reuters adds, "Yuri Dmitriev, 61, is on trial in northwest Russia on charges brought by state prosecutors of involving his adopted daughter, then 11, in child pornography, of illegally possessing 'the main elements of' a firearm, and of depravity involving a minor." These are classic Soviet charges for a man who by all accounts was dedicated to exposing Soviet crimes and the slaughter carried out by Stalin's henchmen. Reuters notes, "Some of Russia's leading cultural figures say Dmitriev was framed because his focus on Stalin's crimes – he found a mass grave with up to 9,000 bodies dating from the Soviet dictator's Great Terror in the 1930s – jars with the latter-day Kremlin narrative that Russia must not be ashamed of its past."
From Reuters.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, "The head of the prominent Russian human rights group Memorial's office in Chechnya has been detained on a drug charge, according to Chechen officials and a lawyer for the rights defender. A fellow activist at Memorial dismissed the accusation against Oyub Titiyev as absurd, saying that it would be 'more credible to accuse him of killing Napoleon.'" Why not? He did that too!
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In My LIfetime - Where The Blue Have Been Few !
Friday, 17th May 2019 14:00
Since the early 1960's a lot of things have happened in World History, in a week where again it is one of failure for the Blue Few here we take a look at what has happened at both ends of the M27 or A27 as it used to be.
Since 1961 there have been 58 League seasons Saints and Pompey have been in the same division for just 10 of them approx 17%.
Out of those 58 seasons Saints have been in a higher division or finished above Portsmouth in the League for 51 of those (88%)
Saints have been a top flight club for 42 seasons (72%) and Pompey 8 seasons (13%) indeed even taking into account the Pompey glory years when games were interrupted by dinosaurs on the pitch, they have only been in the top flight for only 34 seasons in total, 8 less than us and about to become 9.
Saints highest top flight finish is 2nd in 1984, Pompey's 8th in 2008, in 58 seasons we have had 13 seasons of 8th or higher.
Saints have been in League One(old Div 3) for 2 seasons(0.30%) Pompey 8 seasons(13%).
Saints have been in League Two(old div 4) for 0 seasons (0%) Pompey 6 seasons (10%)
Saints have spent 2 seasons in the bottom 2 divisions (0.30% ) Pompey have spent 14 seasons (23%)
Of 58 seasons Saints have had a bigger average attendance in 54 of those seasons (93%) including having a bigger average in our first season in League One where we averaged 20,982 with only 18,249 turning up at Fratton an average of 2,600 empty seats per game.
Saints have won 1 FA Cup so have Pompey, likewise the EFL Trophy is 1 apiece, this would be the Johnstones Paint Trophy when we won it but the Checkforafan trophy this season.
Saints have also appeared in 1 losing FA Cup Final so have Pompey.
Saints have also appeared in 4 losing FA Cup semi finals Pompey 1.
Saints have appeared in 2 losing League Cup Finals , Pompey 0
Saints have had 9 seasons of European Football, Portsmouth just 1, however it should be noted that they did qualify in 2010 as FA Cup runners up but had failed to obtain a UEFA licence so could not participate and their place went to Liverpool.
So the overall message here is that although Portsmouth have won more of us in the far distance past, indeed no one under the age of 80 would remember their last title win and the one FA Cup win they have more than us was won at a time when Hitler had still not started a World War, in the modern game they have mainly been staring up to us and in our shadow,
Yes we have not had the most successful of times in the last 58 seasons in terms of winning trophies, but it still has been a time when we have actually challenged for something in each of the last six decades where their glory years have been mainly confined apart from one season in the early 90's to a few seasons a decade or so ago when their corrupt owners spent money they didn't have and although it won them the FA Cup it drove them into administration and the brink of extinction being only minutes from being wound up on several occasions.
Football has changed in the last decade we will perhaps never win a Premier League title, but then again the likelihood is that 6 clubs aside no one else will again unless a European Super League comes into being.
Yes Pompey have won League titles but Huddersfield have won more but don't spend their entire lives telling everyone they are a sleeping giant and will once again return to their true place in football.
Of course Pompey are below their true place, that is in the Championship where they have spent 36 of those 58 seasons covered here, that is where the rest of the footballing world sees them as a perennial mid to lower table club, indeed that is where they have spent 63% of their time since 1961.
Indeed given that they have spent 90% of the last 58 years outside of the top flight is there any football fan in the land outside of a PO postcode that would consider them a Premier League club in all but name ?
The crumbling stadium and the fact that the bottom three divisions contain around 20 clubs who could truly make a better claim in the last 7 decades to be a top flight club in terms of years spent at the top level, ground size, average support etc.
Another season for Pompey in League One will only make these statistics worse.
Over the years The Ugly Inside has engaged in various levels of banter with our friends from down the M27, we have usually kept in light hearted and not personal, after all Pompey fans arent that much different than us, aside from the extra fingers and scales on their backs from a distance aside from one of them they could all be mistaken for the average man in the street.
But the balance needs to be addressed, we sat tight throughout the season and watched the videos on social media as their number 1 fan led the customers in the pub through lusty renditions of a song about Pompey going up and Saints going down and what they would do to us in the Championship next season.
It turned out that neither club kept their side of the bargain and the Championship will be a South Coast free zone next term and perhaps the gap will widen still further.
But looking back over my time on this Earth I would not swap our last 58 seasons for their's, the greats in football who have played for our club whether coming through the ranks of signed is countless, for them it is another case of Blue Few.
I'm sure this will rile some Pompey fans up, in truth it's meant to a little, although one aim is also to remind Saints supporters just how well the club has done in this time when compared to most clubs outside of the now Big Six.
The main message though is that Pompey and Saints is a rivalry that matters, it is not just about football it is a tale of two cities that just don't get on, it is a rivalry that unlike say Spurs and Arsenal or Liverpool V Everton and Man Utd V Man City is about more than just a game, there is a cultural divide, a distinct boundary where no matter how badly either team is doing you support your home town team and that is how it should be.
The likes of Bournemouth have tried to muscle in, but they never will for us it is about Pompey and whatever the fans of either side will say about not caring about the other, deep down they do, the final whistle at Fratton Park last night was greeted in those watching on TV in Southampton with almost as much enthusiasm as those watching back in Sunderland.
Sadly we rarely play them as has been illustrated here, that is sad in one respect in that some would say that it would be nice to have regular local derbies, but in another as it is such a rare occurrence it makes it that much more special, that much more intense, that much more passionate.
But in conclusion for us we can see a better future with Ralph Hasenhuttl whilst for them in the words of Phil Collins it looks like No Jacket Required.
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What do you want from that audition?
Sunday musings...
Last Sunday I gave a Music Theatre Workshop in Toronto with the help of the multi-talented Blair Irwin, who not only has the artistic soul, but the organizational skills (!) and the marvellous Michael Barber at the piano.
I had the privilege of working with 10 talented singer-actors - taking a song and breaking it down into the audition cut. I wanted to address more fully this process here - because it is another way of thinking and processing!
The most evident "issue" that we experienced in that workshop is that the artistic spirit often clouds the audition process. Learning your music for the business of audition is a completely different process than what we imagine as artists. We must set our artistic soul aside for a minute, in order to access the business of that audition. It will want to lead - and thank god for that! - but in times of business, it is not necessary. In fact, it gets in the way!
So business it is!
As you look at repertoire - and you learn it fully, then start asking questions, as it pertains to the audition.
What KIND of song is it? SIMPLIFY! Again, our artistic spirit will want to break it down, flesh it out, find the depth, breadth, life...NOT FOR THE AUDITION.
Remember - the audition is TO GET THE JOB. It is a job interview. We don't need your life experience, your blood, your family tree. JUST GET THE JOB. It becomes non-emotional, but committed in a very different way.
So back to the song: simplify - what does it DO? Narrate? speak about? speak to? characterize? what? decide...simply to one simple action if you can. "Narrates", "contemplates", "internalizes", "sobs", "laughs" et al.
Then, what does the song SHOW about YOU? And what do you want to SHOW about you through that song? Again, make it simple!!! Do not show us what you would like to be able to do, or what you THINK they want to see (this is a downward spiral of insanity!) but WHAT YOU DO WELL and what that song cut can do in a blink of an eye.
The most important thing is NOT to think about what "they" want to see or hear!!!! PLEASE!! You must show them what you DO.
What do you do well? What are your strengths? The honesty of that is SOOOOO important. Just like any job interview, we want to see you are right for the job, not kinda/sorta, not ill-equipped, not wrong.
Let us SEE you first - what is your type? Demonstrate that! Suggest it, intrigue us to pay attention and LISTEN.
Present that cut - what do you want to SHOW? Your high notes? Your belt? Your mix? Your story-telling prowess? Your acting intelligence? Your low notes? Your legit sound? Your musicality and line? Your comedic side? Your ability to send chills down somebody's back? WHAT?!?!?!? YOU decide!!!! BE SPECIFIC!!
If your REASON TO DO something is strong and very focused, you will go in and DO IT. You will not be waiting to see if it's good enough, or wonder what they want to hear or see. You will decide what you will be showing them, and the action and decision will be STRONG AND FOCUSED.
There isn't time in an audition to get creative - from either side of the table! There isn't time to guess or wonder...
So it is YOUR job as the performer to audition with purpose - to not be timid or afraid to show WHAT YOU DO and convince them you are right for the job!!
Let that audition BE BUSINESS!!!! Know your worth, know your product, KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! BE WHAT YOU ARE! BE WHO YOU ARE! Prepare to show WHAT YOU DO with authenticity and clarity and no apology.
When you begin to approach your audition with this clarity and sense of purpose - the audition is then in your hands. No gimmicks. No jazz hands. Just you, your voice, your talent, and your INTENTION. What do you bring??? Figure it out, claim it, and GET THE JOB!
What do you want from that audition? You want a job. Simple. You don't need people to like you, to tell you that you are talented. You want the job. Figure out how to simplify the process to get it - and let the artistic depth happen when you get the job and have a character to inhabit! Til then, don't confuse the two.
Now, GO GET THE JOB!
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