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Google, gag orders and WikiLeaks: who's lying?
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The Supreme Court on Monday will hear the appeal of a man who went to prison for posting violent rants on Facebook. The case will shape the future of what people can and can't say online, and is being closely watched by the tech industry, domestic violence groups, and civil libertarians
As Emily Bell of Columbia pointed out in a recent speech about the disruption of journalism by technology, publishing has never been easier — but now it is controlled in a disturbing way by proprietary corporate platforms like Twitter and Facebook
Viral "news" sites are exploiting Facebook and other social media channels to make a buck off the ebola scare, but, for now, there appears to be no practical options to stop them.
New Zealand's highest court has ruled that a blogger was engaged in journalism, and therefore is entitled to certain protections afforded to journalists, even though he was not affiliated with a traditional media organization
As the legal budgets of traditional news rooms keep shrinking, they have been unable to fight the public interest battles of the past. Will tech companies be willing or able to pick up that torch?
Some businesses use contracts that say customers have to pay large penalties if they say something negative online. A new California law turns the tables on that.
Police in Ferguson reportedly told protesters to turn off their cameras. The law is clear they have no right to do so.
Google is telling British media companies that it has removed articles from its index as a result of an EU decision on "the right to be forgotten." Critics say the company is deliberately over-reacting, but it is just doing what it can to call attention to a bad law
Microsoft won the right to unseal documents in a case over an enterprise customer; the ruling is a major legal victory against the federal government's blanket use of gag orders in its national security investigations.
A judge described Baidu's blocking of Chinese-language pro-democracy sites as an "editorial decision" protected by the First Amendment.
Twitter says it is not only fighting the Turkish government's recent ban on the service, but it is also fighting a request to remove a specific account that has been tweeting about government corruption, because it is committed to upholding free speech
Singer Courtney Love won a closely-watched court case that raised questions about how libel law should be interpreted when it comes to the free-wheeling world of Twitter.
Hunter Moore, who tormented hundreds of people through his nude photo website "Is Anyone Up," was arrested this week. The feds appear to have finally found a way to stick him with criminal charges.
An appeals court has struck a blow for free speech and freedom of the press by ruling that First Amendment protection should be available to bloggers, regardless of whether they fit the definition of who qualifies as a journalist.
A studio published a Times' critic's tweet about Inside Lleywn Davis without permission — despite what some are saying, neither Twitter or the critic can do anything about it.
When can you sue someone for what they say on Twitter? A court case scheduled for January could establish a precedent — and clip some of Twitter's free-wheeling ways.
Should Twitter users be held in contempt of court if they retweet information about a sensitive court case? The UK government is reminding them of the risk.
People retweet lies and errors on Twitter all the time. Are there special cases where they should be punished for doing so? That's what happened in the UK, raising questions again about how to regulate speech on not just Twitter, but other sites where you can slander with a single click.
Facebook originally allowed users to post videos of beheadings, arguing that it was similar to a TV news network, but now the company has removed them — making it unclear how strong its commitment to free speech is.
Is liking something on Facebook a form of protected expression akin to putting a bumper sticker on your car? The 4th Circuit…
An incident in which a British journalist was subjected to hundreds of abusive tweets has highlighted Twitter's ongoing struggle to balance its defence of free speech and the rights of its users with the need to curb abuse.
A woman in Britain who says she received hundreds of rape threats an hour on Twitter has criticized the service for not making it easier to take action against such abuse, and supporters have started a petition and are organizing a boycott.
Critics say Twitter is "bending" to the French government by finally handing over data to comply with the country's hate speech laws.
Facebook has admitted that it failed to apply its policies about offensive content to some disturbingly misogynistic pages. But is this a victory for the social network's critics, or just another stop on the slippery slope of censorship?
After a fan posted a video of a horrific crash at a NASCAR event, the organizer removed it claiming copyright infringement, but Google over-ruled the company — an example of a decision that happens all too rarely.
Being falsely accused of a crime like child abuse is a traumatic experience that has become worse with social media. Two recent incidents in the US and UK highlight the problems — and show America's approach to libel works better in the age of Twitter.
An article at Jezebel identifies high-school students who posted racist tweets in the wake of the election, raising a number of questions about what we consider to be an appropriate response to that kind of behavior, and when the cure is worse than the disease.
Is this the great firewall of Russia? Free-speech campaigners oppose a new agency that is blocking objectionable content. But, so far, outlawed sites contain child porn and drugs, not political dissent.
When the man at the center of the 'Twitter Joke Trial' had his conviction quashed, it seemed some sanity had returned to the British legal system's approach to online offensiveness. But that's not how things worked out.
North Carolina wants to ban students from signing up their teachers for online porn sites or engaging in other forms of cyber-bullying aimed at school officials.
Most of the recent attention around WikiLeaks has been focused on the legal issues surrounding its controversial founder, Julian Assange. But we shouldn't let that blind us to what the organization has accomplished and the critical role it plays as a "stateless news organization."
Facebook is stepping in to support a deputy sheriff who was fired for "Liking" his boss's rival. The case, which will determine whether a "Like" is like a bumper sticker, is helping to define free speech in the age of social media.
Twitter set off its first major public relations crisis this week when it suspended the account of a journalist who had been criticizing the social media site's corporate partner, NBC, over its Olympic coverage. It is finally trying to fix things.
Twitter has restored the account a U.K. journalist who is at the center of a firestorm over corporate control of media and speech. And the tweet that landed him in trouble is still visible on his timeline.
July celebrations this week were marked by hot dogs, fireworks and three proclamations to preserve the revolutionary spirit of the interent. Here's a guide to what's going on.
As general counsel for Avvo, Josh King has responded to hundreds of lawsuit threats — all for activity that is soundly protected by the First Amendment. Here, King outlines three areas where he believes companies can take a stand to protect free speech on the Internet.
How many restless women wouldn't fall for an animal-loving firefighter who sent gifts and liked to talk on the phone?
The National Labor Relations Board has bad news for employers that want to restrict their employees' speech rights on social media. Employers can either update their policies to allow for the same types of speech the NLRA allows elsewhere, or they can find themselves in court.
Bowing to the reality of modern technology, Canada today said it is changing a 1938 law that forbids broadcasting election results before po…
The case of "investigative blogger" Crystal Cox reinforces that some governments are lagging behind when it comes to extending freedom-of-the-press protections to non-traditional journalists like bloggers. When anyone can be a journalist, how do we decide who gets protection and who doesn't?
A new copyright bill proposed in the House would give governments and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet completely, on the flimsiest of grounds, and would also force internet service providers to play the role of copyright police or face penalties.
A new voluntary effort by the major U.S. Internet service providers to help enforce copyright restrictions and protect content owners from pirates, parodists and cheap teens who are sharing files could result in some folks losing access to their broadband.
Amazon has refused to remove a book from its Kindle store despite criticism from hundreds of commenters on the self-published title, which advocates pedophilia. The retailer says it doesn't believe in censorship, and that customers should be free to buy such books if they wish.


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I come from a family of immigrants. My great-great-grandfather immigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1909 on the Carpathia (the same ship that would later rescue Titanic survivors). While my last name is Italian, I also have random quantities of Swedish, Irish, French, and Scottish blood. I am who I am because of immigration. America is the country she is because of immigration.
Immigration offers the best from every culture
We live in an age of multiculturalism. It is the doctrine preached from universities and dictated by lawmakers. Multiculturalism says that every culture is equal. It claims that no culture is in any way 'better' than another culture. This thinking says that you cannot criticize another culture. You also cannot learn anything better from another culture.
Part of America's success is her original rejection of multiculturalism. Sometimes we might have been a little too proud of our culture, but we certainly didn't view all cultures as equal. Because we realized that different cultures have different strengths, we were proud about our strengths. We also realized that other cultures can teach us. We were open to being taught. Immigration helped to bring different strengths to our shores. From pizza, to log cabins, to common law, immigration has provided America with good things from many different cultures.
Immigration offers the best to immigrants
When one of my great-grandfathers moved from Italy to Chicago, it may not seem like he made a positive move. Chicago, then and now, had some negative connotations, at least for new immigrants. Yet whatever temporary setbacks he experienced, my great-grandfather had left Italy behind. My family had a new start. We finally had the opportunity to advance based on hard work. We aren't limited by class systems or caste. Immigration did not 'give' us anything, but it did 'offer' us opportunity.
Immigration offers the best for America
You cannot have a strong economy without an expanding population. America's capitalist system has brilliantly outperformed any other economic system that the world has ever seen – even when it reveals some rather painful flaws. Much of that performance only happened because immigration provided the 'fuel' for the system.
Immigration brings talent to our country, allowing the best and the brightest an opportunity to advance. The class system is all about keeping people in their place. America has a different ideal. We want to give everyone an opportunity, and those who work hardest will advance. Many of America's hardest workers – and most brilliant minds – were immigrants. They offered, and we accepted, their best.

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Guru Nanak Jayanti is a very important day for the Sikh community. On this day the people of Sikh celebrate with happiness and joy. This especially day is a birth anniversary of the Guru Nanak Dev ji. He is the first Guru of the Sikh religion and the Sikh people follow all the teachings of the Guru Nanak. On this day Sikh community people share happiness, sweets to their loved one. Also in this post we have shared beautiful pics and images of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Send these beautiful pics to your friends, family and make others happy on this auspicious day. Not only Guru Nanak Dev Ji is a first Guru of Sikh but also founder of Sikh religion in India.
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Beer & Taxes
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100 and if they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20." So drinks for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free…but what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'. They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before…and the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
January 23, 2012
RIP: Joe Paterno
January 20, 2012
Newtonian Indignation
Did you watch the debate last night? I did not. I did get a kick out of the replay this morning of the opening salvo between CNN host John King and the Newtmeister.
January 17, 2012
Backyard Creek on January 16
January 10, 2012
2011 BCS National Champs: Alabama Crimson Tide
January 9, 2012
Today is the day
The only football game I really care about for the rest of the year kicks off tonight at 7:30. I predict the Tide by three, 27-24. Any takers?
January 4, 2012
Someone just barfed on iowa
What we learned from a vanilla field in the Hawkeye state:
– The Perry charade is over.
– Bachmann's even crazier than we thought. Vowing to hunker down in South Carolina until nagging her way to a nomination.
– Ron Paul is his own worst enemy. Allowing nuclear weapons in Iran makes you unelectable. Period.
– Mitten is mitten. He's got the resources, not the charisma.
– Newt was so mad I thought he was gonna turn green and rip his shirt off.
– 39 people still like Herman Cain. Now before you go googling how many black people live in Iowa, the answer is seven.
The rest of the way is gonna be a blood bath. Newt will spend the remainder of his campaign pummeling the plastic-faced one from Massachusetts. Santorum was a fluke in the the fact that everyone had a ride on the Iowa pony. His just came at the right time.
The bad news is, none of these clowns are beating Obama. He's stockpiling the warchest, waiting for a wounded animal. A broke-ass, wounded animal.


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Meadow Brook Theatre presents the musical life story of Rosemary Clooney in "Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical." Created by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman, the musical drama tells the life story of Rosemary Clooney, star of film, TV and radio for more than 50 years.
The MBT production stars Kim Rachelle Harris in the title role and Ron Williams as The Doctor. Performances are through March 11 at Meadow Brook Theatre, located on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester.
Details from MBT:
"Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical" follows the star from her start in Kentucky through her rise to stardom, with familiar songs like "Come On-A-My House," "Straighten Up and Fly Right" and, of course, "Tenderly."
"This is a great life story. There were a lot of ups and downs along the way," said Travis Walter, MBT artistic director. "Rosemary Clooney lived an amazing life and telling the story through her songs is perfect."
Meadow Brook newcomer Kim Rachelle Harris is Rosemary Clooney while audience favorite Ron Williams is The Doctor.
"Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical" is directed by Travis W. Walter. Terry W. Carpenter is the stage manager with set design by Kristen Gribbin, costume design by Corey Collins, light design by Scott Ross and sound design by Mike Duncan.
Jeffrey Campos is the music director, conductor and plays piano in the band, which also includes Ryan Crum (bass) and Nick Matthews (percussion).
Tickets range from $28 to $43 and are available by calling the Meadow Brook Theatre box office at 248-377-3300 or going online at www.ticketmaster.com. Student discounts are available at the box office. Groups of eight or more should call 248-370-3316 for group pricing.
In a special event, Rosemary Clooney's nephew, Carlos Campo, will be joining the audience for a talk back after the performance on Friday, February 16. The talk back is included with ticket purchase for that evening.
"Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical" is made possible through the generous support of The Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kresge Foundation, The Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and the Meadow Brook Theatre Guild.
Meadow Brook Theatre is located on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. For additional information, please visit www.mbtheatre.com or call 248-377-3300. Meadow Brook Theatre is a nonprofit, cultural institution serving southeast Michigan for more than 50 years.
The photo above depicts Kim Rachelle Harris and Ron Williams in Tenderly, The Rosemary Clooney Musical.


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You know that sort-of M-shaped steel sculpture right out the front door of the One City Center Dunkin' Donuts? The one that in recent months was dressed up by guerilla knitters (see the knit-bombed version above)?
There's a whole story behind it, and during the Friday Art Walk tonight, you can have all your questions answered. Leading a 5:30 p.m. talk about the sculpture, titled "Michael" and part of the city's public art collection, will be Portland Public Art Committee member Pandora LaCasse. This talk is the latest in a series of presentations — "Art In Our Front Yard" — about pieces in the public collection (some previous posts on the series are here and here).
Here's some background on "Michael" as provided in a city announcement:
Installed in May of 1974, Michael is the results of the collective efforts of the Maine Arts Commission, the Portland Museum of Art, Maine College of Art (then the Portland School of Art), Canal Bank and local artist in residence John Raimondi. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Raimondi worked with students at the Portland Vocational School for nearly a year in designing, fabricating and finally installing Michael.
During the 1970s, Raimondi's work consisted of strong angular lines and planes known as his Geometric Minimalism series, which emphasized repetition, the negative span around forms, terminating points, and varying appearance from different viewpoints. Named after Raimondi's best friend in the army, Raimondi drew inspiration from the letter M, the Archangel Michael – the angel of courage, strength and integrity- and the images of wings, birds, fluidity and flight. Michael embodies the tension between downward and upward movement, and between the wedges of the voids and angles of the mass.
John Raimondi is a contemporary American sculptor of international distinction and renown. Raimondi's works are formed, rolled, and welded – fabricated into shape from large sheets of bronze. He has completed more than 100 monumental sculptures for public, corporate and private collections worldwide. He studied at the Portland School of Fine and Applied Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Harvard University. He lives and works in Massachusetts.


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NH Legislative Committee Says "No" to Federally Funded Rail Study - THIS IS NOW OUTDATED
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The effort to use federal money to initiate an in-depth study of commuter rail service between Manchester and Boston has been defeated.
From Kevin Landrigan of the New Hampshire Union Leader:
"On Wednesday, the House Public Works and Highways Committee voted along party lines to strike a $4 million grant for commuter rail from the proposed 10-year highway program.
Gov. Sununu requested the grant since it was a critical part of the state's application to try to lure Amazon to locate its second national headquarters here.
After the state was bounced from that competition, leading GOP legislators said Sununu told them he "wouldn't lose sleep" if the House took it out."
Mr. Landrigan concludes, "One thing is for certain; supporters won't be giving up and they've put together a broad cross-section of businesses that are on board with this request."
Passenger rail service in NH remains the domain of the State of Maine - the Downeaster!
January, 2018 NNEPRA Board Meeting
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The NNEPRA Board met at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. The well-attended meeting heard reports on the Downeaster's performance numbers and further details on the proposed Coastal Connection.
Representatives from the MidCoast were present to add their support for the proposed summer weekend service expansion.
Ridership & Revenue Report:
The first six months of NNEPRA's fiscal year delivered record-breaking numbers or as Executive Director Patricia Quinn put it, "It was a good story - the best ever!"
Ridership in FY2018 saw a 13% increase over FY2017. On the revenue side, income grew in FY2018 by 26%! Ms. Quinn noted that the last three months of FY2017 were plagued by extensive tie-replacement work.
Rockland Residents Enthusiastically Support Proposed Downeaster Expansion to the MidCoast
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NNEPRA's Executive Director Patricia Quinn briefed Rockland residents and officials last night about the proposed seasonal expansion of Downeaster service to several mid-coast towns and cities. Bath, Wiscasset, Newcastle/Damariscotta and Rockland would be added to the route.
Those in attendance, more than 70, listened, asked questions and learned that the service could run from July to Labor Day in September with direct trains to and from Boston on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
29th TrainRiders/NE Annual Meeting
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- Published: 15 December 2017 15 December 2017
Our Annual Meeting was held at the Holiday Inn By The Bay in Portland on December 15th, 2017. We heard presentations from NNEPRA Executive Director Patricia Quinn (The Downeaster continues to grow in ridership and revenue.), MDOT Commissioner David Bernhardt (Maine is forging new alliances with rail companies and states.), President David Fink of PanAm Railroad (We are committed to supporting on-time Downeaster service.), Gene Skoropowski, Former Sr. VP of All Aboard Florida (Florida's first privately-funded passenger rail service will begin operation this month), Chairman Wayne Davis and Executive Director George O'Keefe.
Ms. Quinn regularly updates our membership on the Downeaster 'numbers.' They were impressive and her presentation can be seen here.
Gene Skoropowski proudly presented an overview of Floridays private passenger rail system now coming online - Brightline. You can view his presentation here.
In this year's video, the city manager of Bath, town managers of Wiscasset, Newcastle, Damariscotta and the executive director of Rockland Main Street spoke of what the proposed seasonal weekend service from Brunswick to Rockland would mean to their communities and the travelers on board the Downeaster.
Adjournment was at 3:30 pm. Many of those in attendance then boarded the Downeaster (on us) for a trip to Freeport to see L.L. Bean's spectacular Christmas display and program. Afterwards, they took the 5:25 pm in Freeport and continued on to points south. It was a train-friendly event.
UPDATE: NNEPRA Proposes Summer Weekend Rockland Service from May through October!
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Annual Meetings are always important because the NNEPRA staff summarizes FY2017 Downeaster performance and future goals. The fiscal year ended with 511,422 riders (8% over FY2016), revenue of $8,620,119 (a new record) and passenger miles of 40,742,792 (7% over FY2016)!
One announcement at this year's meeting took many by surprise as proposed Downeaster service to Rockland was unveiled. That means that starting as early as next May, after analysis of the route and public meetings, riders boarding the Downeaster in Boston would be able to add Bath, Wiscasset, Newcastle or Rockland to their weekend tickets. The seasonal service would end in October.
UPDATE: At NNEPRA's November Board Meeting, the board approved the expenditure of funds by Executive Director Patricia Quinn to proceed with route analysis using an Amtrak train/crew as well as utilizing the Geometry Car to determine the quality of the tracks. It is hoped that at the late January board meeting, a decision as to whether to proceed with the proposed service can be made.
There was universal approval of the decision by those present. As one attendee said, "Make it happen!"
We interviewed NNEPRA Chairman John Melrose and TrainRiders/NE Chairman Wayne Davis about the decision.
The Annual Report, which was passed out at the meeting, is filled with interesting statistics and eye-catching graphics. It can be read here.
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We were disappointed in this tour. The guide was a professional photographer so only looked for unique items to photgraph. He didn't really tell us much about the area. I would suggest an option for a tour through Montmartre to Sacre Coeur who could talk about the history of the area.
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What a wonderful introduction to our week in Paris! Richard was the perfect guide on our tour through the Montmartre area, showing us interesting places not frequented by many tourists. It was only our family on the tour, so the children received individual instruction on the manual settings of their cameras. This made a huge impact on their photos for the duration of our holiday. Well worth the money.
Richard provided a great deal of helpful information on lighting and composition, all the while commenting on Paris history and places. We didn't know to bring information on our cameras, but understand that will be added to the info sent out prior to the event.
Richard taught me so much about my camera and photography. It was a wonderful way to wander a lovely part of Paris, seeing the street life through the lens and learning much about the area as well. Thank you Richard.
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Gente del Po
One of the very greatest films ever made, ten minutes worth a hundred. The credits appear in those stencils from the Jeu de Paume under the Occupation in Frankenheimer's The Train.
Men and women on the river "tick the cabin clock." The little daughter needs medicine from a town, gets it and a bedtime story. Storm.
Juvenal's hussies, "pray they never throw aught on your pate but merds."
Manet's Ragpicker.
The suggestion is that Vigo (À propos de Nice, L'Atalante) is the main influence on these early films, of which it has been unjustly said that their fame rests on Antonioni's later work.
Of course, Chaplin's City Lights.
Black cat, broken mirror. And then, the sublime traditions of the people, a sort of narrative poetry.
L'amorosa menzogna
The fotoromanzo, drawn and photographed.
Cronaca di un amore
It ends in 1943 when she breaks it off and marries an industrialist, it resumes seven years later when the husband out of curiosity hires a private detective to look up her past, disturbing the embers.
Canby of the New York Times saw the film twenty-five years later and pronounced it laughable, "completely without intentional humor," even "tacky."
Antonioni tells the greatest joke, if you owned the biggest paper in town, what would you do? Nothing.
Thus critics like Canby. The lovers look on as a girl dies, but can't bring themselves to continue, same with the husband when he too dies accidentally. They will and they won't, some are like that, always were.
La Signora senza camilie
The title evokes Duse and Bernhardt. Ten years later, Fellini recomposed the whole affair as 8½ (via La Dolce Vita), ten years after that came Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon, then the next decade brought Antonioni to the remake and companion piece, Identification of a Woman.
The central point occurs fairly early on in a film studio with a piece of a set, just a bed and a wall or two with a window. The producer is there with writers, grips, the costume department, actors, all holding conversations around the nondescript painted flats and props, it's decided to have a run-through, the camera finds itself in position for a two-shot of a passionate kiss, and suddenly the set is perfectly authentic, the starlet (a new discovery with one film under her belt and no previous experience whatsoever) is very photogenic, so much so that her new husband, the man who discovered her, shuts down the film and invests millions in a Joan of Arc for her. Its failure in Venice restarts the production.
Alain Cuny, who plays the actor, counsels her doubts by advising her to take acting lessons. Her new lover, a diplomat, has no wish to marry her. Reading Pirandello doesn't bring her any roles worth signing up for, and the star of Addio Signora and La Donna senza Destino ends up working on Slave of the Pyramids, smiling through her tears for the press. And so, the girl behind the counter becomes an actress after all.
Serafin's cinematography (which excited the jealousy of Rohmer) is matched by Fusco's score for saxophones and piano out of La Création du Monde.
I Vinti
"The generation that were children during the war and when they opened their eyes saw only one thing in the world, the general mobilization of violence."
It seems to them a good idea, murdering a rich Parisian schoolchum who isn't.
Serafin, Fusco, Rosi assistant director, Alain Cuny in Paris to assist.
Thus it is the war in miniature, as it were, The Losers. In Rome, fall and extinction of a murderous black marketeer. In London well before Blowup, death of a lady in the park.
And how have the dunderheads of the Press responded to this magnum opus? "Ambitious, resolutely downbeat" (Michael Hastings, Rovi).
Le Amiche
The artist goes his way, the fashion maven goes hers, and that's that.
Cukor's The Women with men, for what that's worth, gives the title.
Men don't understand women, women say, women don't understand men, men say.
The tale told to impossible limits, ahead of Il Grido.
Many writers have noted the superb technique, the camera in motion, etc.
The two personages travel on parallel tracks, leaving old times (a model, a workman) to fend for themselves.
The other pole is Lumet's The Group, Antonioni's men are a foil to his girl talk, one is just in from Rome to open the Turin branch of a fashion house, one takes sleeping pills for love, one is a grass widow to tame a husband, one is a more talented ceramicist than one's painter husband, one is terribly beautiful and the center of the known universe.
A.O. Scott of the New York Times on the belated American release, "shot through with longing, ennui and existential anguish."
J. Hoberman (Village Voice) points out Mekas and Sarris saw it and liked it.
One David Fear of Time Out has "this muted melodrama". A colleague finds "intensity and grip."
TV Guide, "Antonioni delves deep beneath the exterior of his characters to explore their mental makeup... a concern with man's psychological relationship to an isolated environment is the prime factor in establishing this approach."
Il Grido
The idea is essentially to convey photographically an entire film, as though touring the gallery where pictures are hung. This accounts for the criticism sometimes leveled at the two leading actors. All of the emotional content of the film is in the pictures, which are as beautiful as any ever taken.
The initial exposition presents a slight difficulty, and this in turn accounts for the critics' general assertion of vagueness. It can be very clearly stated. A village woman is told by an official that her husband, working in Australia, has died. She tells the man with whom she has been living for seven years, and by whom she has a daughter, that they are finished. She rejects his reasoning and his pleas, he slaps her and commands her to come home (before witnesses on the street), she refuses definitively. This discharges him of all further responsibility, he maintains his dignity and leaves town with the daughter.
His adventures on the road might conceivably be described as "picaresque", an old flame, then a buxom widow who runs a wayside gas station bought with the sale of a farm she couldn't maintain, on to dredge workers, finally a prostitute among the fishing shacks. He sends the girl home, and eventually returns there himself.
Army guards bar his path, the town is set to be turned into an airfield. The farms are ablaze, the villagers are protesting. He gets past the guards, sees his mistress with her new baby, walks to the empty refinery tower where he used to work as an able mechanic ("I could see my house from there") and falls to his death, eliciting a cry from the woman.
It is all of a piece, yet very few critics have "followed the affair", and the best of them (young Godard in Arts) reflected peripherally that "Antonioni, for instance, wasn't able to make it in Il Grido." It all sufficed Welles for a look in Othello, and Pagnol ends it happily ever after in La Femme du boulanger.
Hitchcock said his field was the melodrama. The purity of Antonioni's analysis shows Rebecca in a rugged light and encapsulates the stylistic accomplishment of Notorious in that floating camera on the anchored boat.
Anna takes a powder, the diplomat's daughter. Her architect fiancé lands on his feet with her best friend.
Crowther really should have seen this coming, it's strictly from Hollywood.
You know all about it if you've seen Chaplin's A Countess from Hong Kong, for example.
The details multiply, and to very great effect.
Just one of those lordly things, her father doesn't approve, the friend is a true friend, but she disappears, poof.
All the way through Antonioni's œuvre.
La Notte
The writer's life seen very satirically through the eyes of his wife as a fight among tall boys, boys sending up rockets, a boring occasion for signing books, a dull millionaire's party.
Out of her mouth comes wisdom, however. As for the writer, he expresses the literary position of a Char, "here we are again alone in tête-à-tête, o Poesy. Your return signifies that I must once again measure myself with you, with your juvenile hostility, with your tranquil thirst for space, and hold quite ready for your joy that equilibrating unknown at my disposal."
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times, "here, as in L'Avventura, it is not the situation so much as it is the intimations of personal feelings, doubts and moods that are the substance of the film." Anton Bitel (Film4), "nearly two hours of chilly stasis." Time Out, "bourgeois alienation."
Andrew Sarris, with L'Eclisse and Il Deserto rosso "films in which he sought to graft Antoniennui onto the world at large" (The American Cinema).
A young woman leaves her abstract intellectual fiancé because she is diffident, "I don't know" is her byword.
She meets a young trader on the Roman stock exchange and gradually falls in love.
In between, it amuses her to dress up as an African tribeswoman in the apartment of a white Kenyan girlfriend. The music of the drums is heard at night in the wind along a modern structure.
Civilization and Its Discontents, as in Welles' The Trial a species of inhability. The market rises and falls on the floor, the girlfriend is not attuned to culture, the fiancé leaves her to it, the full moon fills the screen (an image in the photographer's studio of Blowup), a streetlight at night.
Il Deserto rosso
Continuing plainly from L'Eclisse, and with an industrial view rather than the cityscapes of Welles' The Trial, Red Desert sends up the postmodern in a madwoman drifting from the world her husband lives in (he runs a large factory or refinery) into a disconnected dream of opening a shop on Via Alighieri that sells—what, she doesn't know.
Metropolis is mockingly indicated, and The Seven Year Itch is compared (Giuliana in the factory, her hair ruffled, avoiding a steam vent), the theme proceeds from Sette canne, un vestito and looks ahead in quite another way to The Passenger, with Il Grido mentioned significantly.
Images, Repulsion, A Woman Under the Influence, all figure as more or less distantly related in various ways.
Beckett's "Dante and the Lobster" takes part in the joke, which is very much along the lines of Pinter's "Trouble in the Works". A similarity exists with Losey's The Servant, the project entails a factory in Patagonia, importantly.
The considerations of the painter are foremost, who creates his work unmoved and later admires it for some aspect, "this leg". His work lacks the immediacy of the photographer's, to which the latter's manager adds "knocked off" captions.
The painter lacks precision of a kind, the only photograph remaining after the studio and darkroom are burglarized is the one ambiguous shot of the body in the park, it resembles the painter's style. The crucial blowup shows quite plainly a man in the shrubbery behind the fence, holding a silencered pistol.
Either version of The Man Who Knew Too Much has the pistol in the concert hall and seen by only one person.
Antonioni likens the critic to a tennis-player who has a net but neither ball nor racket. The game is serious and intently pursued but wholly insubstantial.
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times, "how a picture as meaningful as this one could be blackballed is hard to understand. Perhaps it is because it is too candid, too uncomfortably disturbing, about the dehumanizing potential of photography."
Andrew Sarris (The American Cinema), "half mod and half Marxist."
Zabriskie Point
From Here to
Eternity via anti-gravitation.
The persistence of American vision—this film was understood at once in Cancel My Reservation, echoes appeared
in The Last Wave, Straight Time, Altered States, etc.
The student body transferred from Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, its dreams and nightmares, North by Northwest (and The Longest Day), Woman In The Dunes, Greed...
The beautiful finale is an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Pioneers!" or Blow-Up Goes West. An incipient pan anticipating The Passenger finds its completion there.
Professione: reporter
The famous apotheosis at the Hotel de la Gloria establishes it as "a clean, well-lighted place" amid the bloody wrack of a Spanish sundown.
The Passenger is kaleidoscopic before this, full of Italianate sparsity of line, the flying genius of 8½ and the eternal feminine leading us on, all of which is particularly suited to an understanding of Rimbaud, popularly and academically thought to have a mythical aspect.
The opening desert expresses his dilemma among the Parnassians, whereas his true position arises with the towers of Casa Mila (Gaudí), whilst he is busy raising the dead body of commerce to life, and finding himself without a leg to stand on in "the mercantile Gehenna".
Beckett at 29 almost went in for commercial aviation.
Il Mistero di Oberwald
Cocteau's Castle of Paradox, L'Aquila a due teste. "The King was killed because he wanted to build theaters and castles. They want to kill me because I am like him. What can you do if our families have such a strong passion for art?"
Sturm und drang, armed search for the proscribed poet who so much resembles the assassinated King. Darkness in the wood, heedless rabbit, careless owl, snails in their thousands, a thrashing wounded antlered deer. Sole refuge with the widowed Queen, hidebound under the dowager Archduchess her mother-in-law "who is etiquette, I am the storm."
A great and vivid hallucination. The colored gels of Joshua Logan's South Pacific here recur in a different way but much the same critical response followed, after a manner of speaking. Meanwhile Antonioni addresses with Hammer-like precision the stage effect of the late King's entrance in travail, as it were.
The castle staff speak German, the peripatetic Queen's retinue Italian. The dog and the cat in the comfy kitchen. The inspiration is perhaps Rossellini's great Giovanna d'Arco al rogo, Monica Vitti leading the sublime cast takes in stride even the window aria "La tempesta è finita" (Eine Alpensinfonie) and sleeps in a chair to end Act I, disappearing into Verklärte Nacht by moonlight.
The Queen grieves in isolation, never showing her face publicly since the day of the assassination, her wedding day. A police state is maintained by Count de Foehn who tells her, "Your Majesty, if she will permit me, is wrong to take an interest in poets. Such people always end up bringing disorder to our society." The poet has made an essential mistake in blaming the monarch, an admirer of his poem "The End of Royalty", and has been sent by the anarchist leadership to kill her. She gives him three days to do the job or die at her hands (she is an excellent shot, carries poison on her person, and longs to join her husband in death), and makes him her reader. A question of assassination set on by the Count and the Archduchess, the assassin to be eliminated afterward.
The subplot describes the tormented, jealous love of her former reader, Edith de Berg, a tool of the Archduchess, and the Queen's devoted Felix, who has never seen her face but once, secretly.
A composition of supreme interest (screenplay by the director and Tonino Guerra). "'The Queen thinks she is a poem. The murderer thinks he is a poet,'" thus the Queen on her police chief, adding this admonition to the poet, "your group think more or less the same." The two of them are "an idea facing an idea... a solitude facing a solitude... a man and a woman in the hunt, two equal persons," the last a repugnant notion to the indignant scribe.
"Then a Regent would be appointed, as prescribed in the constitution. The Archduchess would reign, but it would be Count de Foehn reigning. Ecco la politica."
L'amore e la morte (Don Juan). "They wanted me to become Queen and they wouldn't teach me how to spell." The poet's orders, tell the Archduchess off, make Felix de Willenstein a commanding general, govern, no need for a dissolution of parliament or change of ministers, "no-one will touch you, I assure you" (horn call, Brahms' First, the Queen on a white horse amid splendid abstractions of yellow sky and blue mountains). "We die of legends," says Count de Foehn, "they suffocate us" (cf. Kazan's Viva Zapata!).
The Queen asks the poet, "did you think of me always?"
"My poor love!"
"Now my rebellion will be against those who want to do you harm, who conspire and intrigue against you because the only thing they want is power."
Tod und Verklärung.
Vincent Canby of the New York Times, "an almost perfect festival film. That is, it's a movie that probably wouldn't last five minutes in front of an audience in control of its wits and with no more than a passing interest in Art for its own sake.
"It's based on a foolish play..."
TV Guide, "a must-see". Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader), "singular, to say the least." Time Out, "oddly misjudged". Michael Hastings (All Movie Guide), "psychological period piece".
"A beautiful trifle," Pauline Kael called L'Aigle à deux têtes (dir. Jean Cocteau).
Identificazione di una donna
A woman is identified with sunlight, the star of this planet, whose mysteries are invoked in a mind-shattering final image (by way of Maj. Amberson's monologue) which is like the end of 8½ in reverse, the director's quest for an ideal expression ("an idea with feminine contours") becomes a jejune science-fiction image that signifies the dialogue with nature he has been seeking.
His frotteuse of a tribade vanishes in a fog, reappears at his country house, and departs for good. A liaison with a Nature Theater of Oklahoma dancer is abridged in Venice when she learns that she's pregnant by a former attachment.
The taut irony of La Signora senza camilie is rethought in terms of a more direct utterance. Small details are turned to account in this way, the chastening husband of the actress in the earlier film was seen to enter the shot with OLD ENGLAND behind him as a neon sign, here the frotteuse has a tale of English university life (Atlantic College, in Cardiff moreover). The characteristic smear of light on oil portraits is repeated unchanged. The famous fog sequence almost echoes "Toby Dammit" (there's a give-and-take with Fellini all along, a friendly rivalry), and Venice is viewed more fully.
When Vincent Canby wrote his review, a marvel of perfect inanity, it was evidently decided that one of them had to go. Which is why Antonioni is no longer served at court.
12 registi per 12 città
The eternal city.
Beyond the Clouds
The director's viewpoint, above it all in a passenger jet, on a terrace, in a hotel window.
All the stories are the same, as explained. Carmen, the girl who killed her father, the mistress-métier, the girl who goes to God.
With a gloss on copyists, the master impulse (Cézanne).
Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo
The Romans knew how to carve a face like Antonioni's, glimpsed amid the sculpture. They did not know how to carve the Moses.


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How is Artificial Intelligence Solving Healthcare Challenges?
In the world of healthcare, information is flowing faster than ever—and artificial intelligence (AI) will be needed to realize healthcare's big data potential.
A recent analyst report found that data related to healthcare was one of the fastest growing of any industry. It's predicted that the total volume of medical information will rise from 153 exabytes in 2013 to 2,314 exabytes1 by 2020.
While the growing immensity may be overwhelming for an individual doctor, practice or even network, it's good news for applying AI and machine learning which can help manage the challenging scale of this data.
But there's a bigger problem. The bulk of that information is unstructured, or dark data. Instead of being stored in spreadsheets and databases, it's free-form digital notes and other documents. Or worse, the information is written comments scrawled on paper or physical images, like x-rays.
What are the ways we can clean up and apply artificial intelligence to put all this healthcare data to use? We spoke to three companies who are leveraging AI in different ways to tackle the healthcare data deluge head-on.
1) Prepping for Artificial Intelligence: Adding Structure to the Unstructured
How do you begin to make sense of "messy" healthcare data? A good start might be to try to give it some structure. Ciox Health manages the health records for 60 percent of hospitals in the U.S., and is working on standardizing and indexing all the data these hospitals collect so it can be leveraged to make better business and care decisions.
Florian Quarre, Ciox's Chief Digital Officer says the company starts any engagement with a hospital by getting records into some form of digital shape.
"Ideally we prefer direct database access," he says, "but when that's not available we often resort to screen scraping through optical character recognition—turning an analog scan into digital text."
In the worst cases (think: handwritten scribbles), human workers may have to manually enter the information into the system. "Then we can apply artificial intelligence natural language processing tools to curate the information by pulling out names, addresses, and diagnoses," he adds. By giving structure to formerly unstructured data, physicians get a much more complete look at a patient's history and can diagnose conditions with better accuracy.
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While structuring data is a great start, machine learning developer DataRobot is using AI to take things a step further by searching for patterns and trends amid mountains of medical data.
"Today we can take structured and unstructured data and analyze it to build insights—insights we can use to make a proper medical prediction," says Bill Moschella, DataRobot's GM of Healthcare.
In medical fields such as clinical research, turning data into medical insights is a tried and true process, albeit an incredibly complex one.
"Today a researcher has to acquire sample data, import it using various tools into a digital notebook, and eventually attempt to use that data to train a model by feeding it into various algorithms," says Moschella. "The problem is that this is a months-long, arduous process requiring a data scientist with lots of skill. You spend more time tuning the analysis than actually solving the problem."
DataRobot makes this process faster by building hundreds of these algorithms, and then putting them to work simultaneously to determine what are the best artificial intelligence models. After it identifies the most suitable algorithmic model, DataRobot's machine learning platform continuously refines that model as new data is received. This tool is used in a range of applications, from understanding patterns in a clinical experiment to predicting how an individual will respond to a certain treatment plan.
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In addition to improving things like diagnosis and treatment, companies like Health Catalyst are using unstructured data to improve safety in hospitals and reduce needless financial expenses for both patients and healthcare providers.
Mike Dow, Senior Director of Product Development at Health Catalyst, offers one example: Say a patient is admitted to the ER after a heart episode—what are the risks of that person being readmitted after their release? The goal is to keep patients out of the emergency room by understanding the underlying factors that feed into a readmission.
"We might find out through our machine learning algorithms that whether a patient has transportation available is a key factor in determining readmission, because they can't keep doctor's appointments," Dow says.
This, in turn, might be used to convince an insurance company to pay for a (less expensive) taxi ride to the doctor to avoid a (pricey) trip back to the ER.
For any given scenario, Dow says, "we want to understand the risk, and determine at the point of care what we can do to change that risk. If you can show that the risk of readmission drops by 35 percent based on factors that you've unearthed, you have a great financial argument in front of you."
Unstructured data isn't going away any time soon: Hospitals and doctors still routinely fax one another, only adding to the glut of dark data information. But while the medical industry is slowly moving towards digital processes, AI and machine learning tools are increasingly being put to the task of making sense of this information ultimately helping patients, doctors and administrators alike.
How do you see artificial intelligence improving the medical field/use of medical data?
Let us know in the comments.
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August 22, 2018 | Brainwave Science
The 20-year old student Mollie Tibbetts disappeared July 18 while out for a jog in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Her family reported her missing the following day when she didn't show up for work. Her disappearance set off a massive investigation and weeks of fruitless searches. Just over a month after her disappearance, Mollie Tibbetts has been found dead. The man suspected of killing and hiding her body in a cornfield is due in court today. Twenty-four-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an undocumented immigrant who lived near Tibbetts, is charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bond. According to reports as well as Rick Rahn, special agent in charge at the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, investigators had been searching the area where she was found for weeks but corn stalks were placed on top of the body believed to be Tibbetts. All that the investigator Rahm said regarding suspect, "He tells us that he had seen her before but beyond that, I can't tell you anymore," said Rahn.
Police sifted through more than 4,000 tips but say the big break came over a week ago when investigators obtained surveillance video of Tibbetts jogging and noticed a black Chevy Malibu following her. Police traced the car to Rivera and brought him in for questioning on Monday. Investigators charged Cristhian Bahena Rivera with the abduction and murder of Tibbetts.
According to NamUs, an acronym for the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, operated by the National Institute of Justice – Over 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States every year. Fortunately, many missing children and adults are quickly found, alive and well. However, tens of thousands of individuals remain missing for more than one year – what many agencies consider "cold cases".
It is estimated that 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered each year, with approximately 1,000 of those bodies remaining unidentified after one year. Adding to an already terrible outcome in this case is the detail that Rivera has been employed by Yarrabee Farms for the last four years. The Brooklyn-based company said it was shocked to hear that Rivera was charged in Tibbetts' death. Yarrabee Farms is owned by the family of Craig Lang, a prominent Republican who previously served as president of the Iowa Farm Bureau. The main red flag is that the undocumented immigrant who police say murdered Mollie Tibbetts passed a federal government employment background check and was working for a Republican official in Iowa.
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Britain is already in trouble without the IMF making it worse
What goes around, comes around. Hard though it is to believe, one of the architects of Britain's economic catastrophe, Ed Balls, will soon be able to claim official validation for the looser fiscal strategy he has been advocating since losing power three years ago.
In their annual health check of the UK economy, due to be released on Wednesday, International Monetary Fund officials are expected to go along with the criticism of the Government's deficit reduction programme recently voiced by their chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, though they might phrase it more diplomatically. It would indeed be pretty odd if they didn't, for it would leave the IMF even more open than usual to the charge of mixed messages.
Not that it matters. As ever, the IMF is somewhat behind events. To be advising that the UK should be going slow on fiscal adjustment in response to slow growth, when in fact it has been going slow for nearly two years now, and to be giving such advice just as the economy starts picking up, demonstrates curiously muddled thinking, to put it mildly.
When George Osborne became Chancellor, the IMF praised his plan for correcting the public finances from the rooftops, and even as recently as last year, Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, said she "shuddered to think" what would have happened had it not been implemented.
However, beneath the surface, the IMF has been gradually shifting its position from an overtly "fiscal consolidation good" to a more nuanced "let's worry about the fiscal consolidation later after the growth has returned" approach. Unless there has been some blinding flash on the road to London, the IMF is this week expected openly to back the latter, "give growth a chance" advice. This will be music to the Opposition's ears. Already at war over Europe and gay marriage, the Government's economic strategy would seem dead in the water, too.
Yet whatever the political ramifications of the IMF's musings, they are likely to be of zero economic importance, and that's not just because the Chancellor will politely ignore anything that's said. Nobody expects the IMF to advocate an outright discretionary fiscal stimulus – if it does, that certainly would be a surprise – so the argument is really about quite marginal differences in the speed of the consolidation.
Osborne has been such a keen advocate of austerity that he cannot politically admit to anything else. Yet in reality, he's quite substantially shifted his fiscal stance over the past two years, and has therefore already done much of what the IMF seems to be calling for.
Lack of growth has automatically slowed the pace of consolidation to "just" 1pc a year, which is about middle of the pack for fiscally challenged advanced economies. Abandoning the debt target has also allowed the Chancellor to recalibrate the consolidation, pushing a chunk of as yet unspecified spending cuts into the next parliament so as to give space for some minor tax cutting before then.
What is more, the Funding for Lending and Help to Buy schemes amount to a fairly substantial, off-balance sheet stimulus. Professor Blanchard was apparently unaware of these initiatives when he made his remarks, even though they had been announced by then.
In any case, the Chancellor got his retaliation in early at last week's CBI annual dinner. If we'd had more accommodative fiscal policy, he pointed out, it would only have been offset by less supportive monetary policy; regardless of what the IMF says, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility had found no evidence that austerity has reduced growth by more than was expected; the shortfall is better explained by the damage to demand from higher commodity prices in conjunction with the eurozone crisis than fiscal consolidation; and so on.
In truth, Osborne is already on much the same wavelength as Blanchard, though for somewhat different reasons and he certainly won't concede it. Slow growth has forced the Chancellor to delay large parts of the planned consolidation in exactly the way Blanchard advocates. Indeed, the two seem as confused as each other.
Osborne preaches austerity while simultaneously practising an admittedly inherited but so far largely uncorrected extreme form of deficit spending; Blanchard, meanwhile, advises fiscal laxity in Britain while being party to fierce fiscal austerity in the depression engulfed eurozone periphery. At best, his strictures are guilty of intellectual inconsistency.
This is perhaps unsurprising given all the noise. The sound of intolerable austerity is heard echoing all around Whitehall in response to the latest spending round. This is because what cuts there are tend to get focused on comparatively small areas of public spending.
The big spenders, together with one tiddler – health, pensions, education and overseas aid – are either ring-fenced or in some other way effectively protected. The result is that there are screams of very real pain from some departments for very little in the way of overall gain.
Why, you might ask, is disposable income and consumption rising at a time when private sector earnings are being squeezed by high commodity prices? One of the primary reasons is that benefits were indexed to inflation last year (though not any more). The Government has successfully managed to mothball the last aircraft carrier, but the leviathan of entitlement spending continues unchecked.
And Professor Blanchard wants Britain, with the highest deficit in Europe, to do more of this nonsense?
Democratically elected governments in ageing societies find it very difficult to resist the pressure for ever more spending on health and pensions (see charts above for UK projections). The Junker curse has it that politicians know what needs to be done; they just don't know how to get re-elected after they've done it. So they tend to duck serious structural reform, and prioritise spending on the past over investment in the future.
The Government's cutbacks might seem harsh, and in some instances, they indeed are, yet in overall terms they are staggeringly unambitious. Even after the current fiscal consolidation is complete, well into the next parliament, government spending is returned, at around 40pc of GDP, only to where it has been over much of the post-war period. Yet unfortunately, there will be little left for anything else after paying for rising health care, pensions and debt interest costs.
This is a potentially disastrous position for any nation to find itself in. Eventually the country won't be able to afford a standing Army, let alone its own nuclear deterrent. We could tax more, say some, yet research as Simon Walker of Henderson Global Investors points out, Britain has never tolerated a tax burden of more than 36pc (excluding North Sea oil revenues) of GDP on a sustained basis. The nation would only be undermining its future to tax more. Britain already faces a sea of troubles. It scarcely needs the IMF, with its fantasy economics, to make matters even worse.
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My next activity for the C&G course was reverse appliqué. I've done some on the machine before, but not by hand. Instead of just basing the design on one of my images of lines I decided to make something a bit more challenging. My first place to look for inspiration was the book 1000 Patterns by Drusilla Cole. I've mentioned this book before on here. It's a book I am always referring to. The chrysanthemums in the Japanese section first caught my eye, but then I saw the daffodil in the index. As they are my favourite spring flower and are just starting to come out here in Frankfurt (but not yet in Schmitten!) I changed my mind. Here are my first sketches from last weekend:
During the week I did some browsing around the web and came across these drawings of daffodils. These were another source of inspiration. I also came to the conclusion from looking at some stencils on the web that my original sketches were too complicated. I was fixated on making lines with the reverse appliqué instead of shapes. Having realised that, my final design became much easier to sew.
Here is the finished design:
When my final sketch was finished I realised that I hadn't really left enough space between the shapes for the edges to be turned under when sewing. So when I traced the design onto vellum to make my template I moved them all out a bit to make room. I used a 2B pencil to trace the design onto the green fabric. I prefer using pencil to the coloured marking pencils. It washes out well, takes a good point and they are a darn sight cheaper than the "quilters marking pencils" 😉 I usually don't have trouble seeing the pencil lines on most fabrics.
The actual sewing went quickly. I was finished in one evening. No thick paint layer to get the needle through!
And here's a view of the back so that you can admire my stitching 🙂


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Not quite a birdie, however they have learned to fly, haha.
A shout went up in my office "there's a dalek outside". After a few puzzled looks, we ran out.
Yes, there was a lone dalek. There was no sign of David Tennant, to our dismay.
He was wandering about, shooting water at us and telling us "what are you doing" and "go back to work". Then after a bit he went out onto the road and zoomed off. Blimey, he got a bit of speed up.
A very random thing to see on a Monday afternoon.
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The House Of Tomorrow tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
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Chiropractic Care - What You Need To Know Today
Everyone at some point in their life experiences different issues with their back. It could be a minor tweaking of the back where you feel just a little bit of pain, or it might be something major that requires surgery. Back injuries are very tricky to heal, so it is important that you take good go now care of it. Below is helpful advice on chiropractic care, so keep reading!
A chiropractor can help you in boosting your body's immunity. Your nervous system and immune system are affected when your spine is out of alignment. Spinal alignment from a good chiropractor can increase blood flow to your body's nervous system. The new blood flowing through the body makes it easier to fend off new infections and diseases.
If you have problems with your back, it is never a good idea to sleep while lying on your stomach. Even if this is a comfortable position for you, it can result in damage to the vertebrae. This is because there is no spinal support when lying in that position.
Don't be surprised if after a chiropractic adjustment that your body feels worse. It will go away. For some people, treatment gives them an immediate boost of energy, but for others it can seem to worsen the issue. Really give it time. The pain will subside, and you'll start feeling a lot better.
Don't be surprised if after a chiropractic adjustment that your body feels worse. It will go away. For some people, treatment gives them an http://www.healthsparks.org/chiropractic-care-advice-everyone-need-to-know/ immediate boost of energy, but for others it can seem to worsen the issue. Really give it time. The pain will subside, and you'll start feeling a lot better.
Try asking your primary physician for suggestions regarding good chiropractors. Though the referral is probably not needed, they often know who to suggest that can be right for you.
To find a reputable chiropractor, look for one who limits his practice to the conservative handling of back discomfort as well as other musculoskeletal issues. Ask your general practitioner for a referral to one that fits this criterion and has a reputation for being trustworthy. This will weed out a lot of the quacks.
Try using the "90/90 rule" when working at a desk. Knees and elbows need to be bent 90 degrees. Keep your feet on the floor directly under your knees instead of under the chair. This prevents hamstring strain. The computer monitor needs to also be at or above your eye level. If you have to, prop some books under it to view it straight ahead. Looking down at the screen can strain your neck.
Research what chiropractic really is prior to going to a chiropractor. A lot of people have strange ideas about what these doctors do. They think chiropractic does strange things to your bones or muscles. It's not true. There's a lot of great information online that will help you understand the benefits of chiropractic.
Be wary of any chiropractic clinic that tries to get you to purchase a package of treatments. A qualified professional will not need to sell packages of treatments to get your business. If you feel you can make full use of all the treatments, check out the clinic carefully before signing a contract.
Learn about your back problems from your chiropractor. Generally, what is happening to your spine isn't something that occurred overnight.It's usually caused by damage that has built up over time. One visit will not instantly rectify your issues. Make sure your care is consistent with your care. This also means sticking with your treatment plan. After that plan concludes, go in for regular monthly visits to prevent recurrences or other issues.
There are many great chiropractors all over the U.S. As far as health care providers, chiropractors rank as second largest. It happens to be the quickest growing one as well. There are more than sixty thousand chiropractors in the United States. Also, 10,000 students are currently studying to enter the profession.
It is easier than ever to find a skilled, trained chiropractor. There are a lot of people that have turned to chiropractic care to help take care of what ails them. You can feel confident that licensed chiropractors must undergo rigorous training to obtain certification. They need to take 4 years of college and they need to understand the human body. You want to be certain that you are making an appointment with a certified chiropractic doctor.
One of the great benefits of chiropractic care is that it promotes proper nerve supply, thereby helping to boost your immune system. A misaligned spinal cord messes with your nervous system, and this "subluxation" is not good for your immune system. Thanks to chiropractic care fixing this, your nerves, organs and cells can function correctly.
If you suffer from back pain and exercise regularly, avoid sit ups and crunches. When your back hurts, try the yoga posture known as the plank pose. This is like a stationary push-up that depends upon isometric tension to tone your muscles.
Don't stand or sit with the back bent wrong for a long period of time. Incorrect posture strains the back and spine and can lead to several painful conditions. If you have to hunch over, take a lot of breaks and stretch frequently.
The headrest on your car seat is one of your most helpful allies in the fight against neck strain. Most of your day at work is spent staring at a screen, which points your neck downward. Give your neck a break by leaning back while you drive. This will bring your chin up and ease the load on your neck muscles.
Get a chiropractor adjustment if you suffer from high blood pressure. Research study conducted by WebMd has concluded that an adjustment of the neck's first cervical vertebrae has the same effect as taking two medications for blood pressure simultaneously. The "atlas adjustment" in particular has shown great effects in stabilizing and lowering blood pressure.
After reading the previous paragraphs, you have all kinds of knowledge about chiropractic care. If you hesitated before, you should feel more relaxed about it now that you've read this. See a chiropractor soon and get started on the path to better energy and mobility.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Etc. Review: WWE Dog Tags 2015 (Topps)
Recently, at the request of my three year old, I have purchased dog tags for Adventure Time, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Big Hero 6. Those have all had their similar qualities, as the Big Hero 6 and TMNT ones came with stickers, but there are some glowing exceptions with these WWE dog tags. For one thing, there was no checklist type of sheet in here which surprised me. There are thirty of these WWE dog tags in total and as such a checklist would have been nice but why would they want to do what everyone else is doing I guess.
The first dog tag I purchased here for WWE from Topps is of Rob Van Dam. Rob Van Dam isn't even in WWE right now but I think he's on good terms with them and, well, it's not like he's in TNA or anything either. With each dog tag also comes the corresponding trading card which means of course that this RVD dog tag comes with the RVD trading card. I think I kind of lucked out here by getting Rob Van Dam first because it helps me to decide that I'm probably not going to get anymore. Having that checklist is where it would be nice to say, "Oh yeah, that one looks nice. I've gotta get that!" so maybe Topps/WWE is talking themselves out of some sales.
What it boils down to my friends is that each of these dog tag + trading card combos will run you $2.99 at Target. It is their suggested retail price so I doubt you will find them cheaper at mass retail unless they go on clearance. Being that there are thirty differen dog tags, you stand to pay $90 plus applicable taxes trying to collect them all and that's just if you don't get any doubles. That math right there is what made me think that perhaps this was not the product I wanted to collect after all.
It is worth noting that on his dog tag and trading card (the picture is the same) Rob Van Dam is wearing the same attire that his (so far) only WWE Elite action figure made by Mattel features and that is a nice touch, I think, as RVD has seemingly so many different singlets that they could have chosen. So while another one of these blind bags could produce Bray Wyatt or (I'm assuming) Sin Cara, we also run the risk of getting Big Show and that is not a risk I am willing to take. Perhaps that is why there is no checklist after all- because the good options are so heavily outweighed by the bad ones.
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Mama Joy is one of the most famous sports supporters in South Africa. Now, she is up for the inaugural gsport Supporter of the Year award and she is committing to shout for women's sport, too.
In a quick interview with gsport, she spoke about her love for sport and how she has become one of the most famous faces in the stands at local football games.
Mama Joy, how did you become one of the most famous sports supporters in South Africa?
By supporting pirates and going to all the games, wearing a nice outfit to represent my team and the cameras recognised me.
Where does your love for football come from?
My love for football come from home where my brother Denis had areas so I supported the team also at school I was a netball captain so I was also supporting soccer at Shingwedzi High School.
You are not just a football supporter; you are a true SA supporter. What makes you proud to be South African?
The love I have for my country made me support all national teams including rugby, cricket, etc.
What makes a good supporter?
To be a good supporter, you have to support your team win or lose.
What is the best sports event you have ever attended?
2010 world cup, especially the opening game vs Mexico, I won't forget it the vibe in our country.
Who is your favourite SA sportswoman?
Thandi Merafe! Working at a big team like pirates comes with pressure. The way she handles pressure and just enjoys the work she's doing, not complaining. She is a strong woman.
Can we count on your support for SA women's sport?
You can count on me! 100 percent!
Photo 1 caption: One of the most famous sports supporters in South Africa, Mama Joy is a finalist in gsport's inaugural Supporter of the Year Award. Photo: Supplied


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If you are in need of a granite, then you need to know that there are things that you need to have in your mind that will help you in choosing the best. The main thing here is to get the best deal on granite so what you are supposed to do is to ensure that you choose the best granite company for you to be on a safe side.
There are always a lot of confusion when looking for the best International Granite and Stone Company but today; there are tips that have been provided to help you in finding the best that will serve you well according to what you will need. You can be indeed highly confused when looking for the best granite company because you will find many of them and this increase have been caused by the increase of the people who are interested in granite.
Because of this effect, the below tips have been provided to help you in hiring the best granite company that will serve you well, so you need not worry. Depending on the type of granite required, the purpose of the granite and the locations that you are going to use the granite and things like timescales that are involved and any additional work that will be involved you are to choose the best granite company.
You need to check if your kitchen is completely new because there are type of granite that you will buy. The best company is that which will provide you with granite that matches your new kitchen unit and also they will offer you the best installer that will come and help you in installing it is a property.
The next thing that you need to detect is when you need a replacement worktop only and when this is going on you will not be having full control of your kitchen. The best granite company that you are to hire is the one that will ensure that they take the shortest time in your kitchen because you will also be in need of doing some work in that kitchen.
The next important thing that you need to have in your mind is that you need to know the kind of the experience that the company have and you can easily do this if you know how long the granite company have been existing. All you will need is to get original stuff, so the best thing that you are supposed to do is to ensure that the granite company that you are going to is licensed because this is the only way you will know this. To gain more knowledge on the importance of granite countertop, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble.


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Ethan Hawke and Robert Budreau On "Born to Be Blue"
Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker, whose tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. Join the Oscar-nominated actor and director Robert Budreau as they discuss the film. Interview at AOL HQ in NYC for AOL BUILD.


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Icking - Luginsland (Talberg)
Ludwig Dürr's first Icking house dates from 1903. This is a shot of his second house from 1909 which he, again, built for himself and his family. It was aptly called "Luginsland" (Countryside View), but as the photo shows is no longer entitled to that name: it's surrounded now by a high forest.
I don't feel too sad about that: extensions and changes have adulterated it.
I don't feel too sad about that: extensions and changes have adulterated it.
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Database management combined with a great marketing plan can be the key to your business success.
Database software can be in the simplest format such as Microsoft Word and as complex as using Microsoft Outlook which utilizes your database for a contact list, email, calendars, appointments, reminders and task lists.
You must have a system to keep in contact with past and present clients as well as any other key players in your business.