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The problem, of course, is that because this is a contest to determine who will be the next person to wear the label 'most powerful person in the world', it attracts contenders whose most striking asset is the size of their heads. I've long believed that the criteria for candidates—must be born in the USA; must be at least 35 years of age—should exclude anyone who actually wants the job. In case anyone thinks that I'm lecturing the United States on how to run its politics, I happen to believe that such a rule would bolster the democratic credentials of any country that adopted it, including my own.
There are actually two types of US presidential election, and the political landscapes that characterize the two are strikingly different. The first type is an election where neither of the candidates has any prior experience of the job. This type is comparatively rare—only six of the seventeen presidential elections held since the end of the Second World War have not involved an incumbent president—although the election to be held in 2016 will fall into this category.
Only three of the eleven elections involving a sitting president resulted in that president being booted out. And in two of those cases, there were significant factors that militated against the re-election of the incumbent (Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon; Jimmy Carter failing to resolve the Iran hostage crisis). It is even possible that George Bush lost in 1992 because a third candidate, Ross Perot, received almost 20 million votes, more of which would have gone to Bush than to Clinton had Perot not been standing. It really does seem that a president has to perform spectacularly badly in office to fail to win a second term, although there may be another factor that bears on the result: the quality of the challenger.
I've begun to wonder whether there is a tendency by whichever party does not hold the White House to field an obvious no-hoper against the man in power. Republicans may, looking back, regard Barry Goldwater (1964) as a good conservative candidate, but from the other side of the Atlantic, he was seen as a lunatic likely to trigger a nuclear war.
The Democratic candidate in 1972, George McGovern, was a single-issue politician who had no chance against a slick operator like Richard Nixon, while Mitt Romney in 2012 was a rich man with no idea of what it is like to be poor. Bob Dole in 1996 might have seemed like a good choice, especially given the impeachment of the incumbent, but Bill Clinton was able to ride the crest of an endless wave of good economic news, and I was left wondering whether Dole was handed the nomination as the reward for a lifetime of service to the party, given that the party was unlikely to win.
I do sometimes wonder whether Ronald Reagan was this stooge in 1980, and it was only Jimmy Carter's problems in Iran allied to Reagan's undoubted skills as an actor—in B movies, lest we forget—that upset the usual order of things.
It seems that the Democratic Party is more likely to field a strong candidate against a sitting president—former vice president Walter Mondale in 1984 and John Kerry in 2004 are recent examples—but this doesn't explain why the party fielded probably the weakest candidate to represent one of the major parties in an election not involving an incumbent (Michael Dukakis in 1988) during my lifetime. Adlai Stevenson may have been a reasonable choice to go up against Eisenhower in 1952, but the Democrats must have been short of potential challengers in 1956 to give him a second go following his landslide defeat in the previous contest.
In fact, with the exception of 1988, elections without an incumbent president have been fought between strong candidates on both sides, and I expect next year's election to be no different, although it isn't yet clear who those candidates are likely to be. Given the low approval ratings of the current president, I expect the Democratic Party candidate to lose, which is probably a good thing if Hillary Clinton is that candidate.
"Wouldn't you like to see a woman president?"
This has been a prominent slogan since Clinton began her campaign for the presidency, and it is hard to gainsay. Some people will vote for her merely because she is a woman, without examining her credentials, her suitability for the job. I couldn't help but notice how much was made of the sheer distance she covered around the globe as secretary of state, as if this is somehow a reflection of how well she did the job. Meanwhile, I noted her public haranguing of China, which marks her out as a grade-one ignoramus.
However, a Republican victory would also be a bit of a worry. There is the possibility that the next American president will believe that the Earth was created a little more than 6,000 years ago and will encourage more public schools to teach 'creation science' instead of real science. Some of the current crop of Republican hopefuls wear their religious convictions like badges of honour and do their best to repudiate the intentions of the founding fathers that church and state be kept separate.
Is John McCain standing again? I'm certain that he would have won in 2008 had he not been lumbered with a running mate who made stupid people seem clever, but that is yet another reason to be worried about the Republican Party. Sarah Palin remains a star as far as the Tea Party movement is concerned, and you have to worry about any candidate chosen by such people.
What the party needs is a white knight who will ride to the rescue. And, guess what? It has one. After several electoral cycles during which he toyed with the idea of putting his name forward before deciding against it, Donald Trump has declared his candidacy this week. I haven't yet found the time to listen to the entire proclamation, but the following brief extract gives a flavour of what this embodiment of the American dream is likely to sound like on the campaign trail:
…How are they going to beat Isis? I don't think it's gonna happen. Our country is in serious trouble. We don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.Send in the clowns? Don't bother, they're here.


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I get BookBub every day, and every day I skim the list and ignore most or all of them. My biggest reason for not clicking on anything is that they tend to sound alike. The romances are all about billionaire rock stars and the women who reluctantly fall for them; given what little I know of billionaire rock stars (or Wall Street guys or billionaires in general) that's a bad, bad idea. The paranormal seems to be clustering around dangerous shapeshifters. The mysteries are about murder and pastry or inns at the shore. Women's fiction is about women who must go home again and rediscover themselves. YA still tends to dystopia. I know some of those books must be good, and I know that a lot of what's working there is a signal that "this book is that kind of book" which has nothing to do with how well it's written. My question is, how do I tell which ones are the same cookie cutter plot and which ones are worth my click?
Okay, obviously, the easiest way is to go read the sample on Amazon or wherever. But I don't have time to read twenty samples a day, so there has to be something that triggers my click. A good PW or Kirkus review will do it if the book sounds at all out of the ordinary, especially if the quote says that it's funny or fast-paced. I've been stung by "heartwarming" too many times, and "sexy" at this point makes me scroll faster. And even a good review won't make me click on "billionaire;" I keep thinking of Mnuchin and his blonde bride soaking the country for their fancy travel and bragging about it on social media, not to mention the rest of Trump's rapacious cabinet.
The real key comes down to the coding, I think. I am probably not going to like a billionaire book, so it's good that I don't click on that one and end up leaving a bad review. But for people who really love the King Cophetua or Cinderella or whatever trope it plays on, that's a powerful ping on the imagination. The same with "woman goes home and opens a pastry shop or takes over the family inn." There's a cosy, nesting factor there, the idea that this protagonist is going to spend her life taking care of others that's retro enough to be comforting while putting her in charge of whatever business it is, with a callback to Gilmore Girls. The similarity in the plots says "This is the kind of book you like," which is a smart way to market.
Except it makes them all sound alike. "Will Jess/Tess/Bess find happiness with her billionaire?" Sure. "Will bodyguard Dan/Jack/Joe be able to resist the temptation he feels for his comely client?" No. "Will there be a hunky handyman/handsome client/gorgeous pastry freak at Melanie's/Patricia's/Brittany's Come On Inn?" You betcha. So if the reader wants the same hit over and over again, she's safe. The last thing she wants is for the pastry freak to turn out to be a serial killer and bake Brittany into one of her flans. She wants that story. And that blurb gives tells her this book is it.
But it also cuts out the reader like me who thinks "cookie cutter plot" (there's Brittany and her baking again) even though the book might be marvelous, just badly blurbed. On the other hand, if the book has a quirky blurb–"When Brittany meets notorious serial killer Daniel, will her muffins be enough to keep him from killing again?" –it'll lose all those cosy readers. Although, I gotta say, I'd click to read more about Brittany and Daniel.
So I'm thinking enough clues to let the reader know the kind of book it is (if starts with two people at odds, it's either a romance or a serial killer book, possibly both given Brittany's taste in men) and then hit whatever the overall mood and tone of the book is: cosy, quirky, suspenseful, whatever.
And no billionaires. Those guys are ruining the country.
(You know, I kinda want to write that Brittany book . . . )
(Please give me credit for my not using my "Brittany is a cake baker, Daniel is a cookie cutter" blurb.)

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Moral Blindness, Cruelty, and Three Faces of ResponsibilityFebruary 16, 2015
I just read an interesting and thought-provoking argument from Dana Kay Nelkin [1] to the effect that psychopaths – understood here as agents which are morally blind in a particular way – could not be cruel, no matter what they do to people. I'm worried that this argument is too cautious in its application of that term, but in order to express my worry I'll need to first talk about responsibility generally.
I've always thought that there are three kinds of responsibility discussed in Gary Watson's seminal "Two Faces of Responsibility" [2]: the attributive kind, the aretaic kind, and accountability. Watson yokes the first two together, and I wish he had fleshed out the relation between them.
Attributability is a matter not of attributing properties like blame- and praiseworthiness to agents, which is the usage some of the literature following Watson seems to have settled on – after all, Watson intends to argue two kinds of blame need to be distinguished – but of attributing actions to agents. My going to the grocery store reflects my aims in a way that my accidentally dropping a vase does not. Accounts of attributive responsibility differ along what is required for an action to be attributable to me: must it reflect my deep self, my practical identity, or merely be something I do for a reason? So understood attributive responsibility is not a moral notion, except in the broadest of senses, for to assign this kind of responsibility is not yet to level censure or give praise. It's also important to note that the appropriateness of ascriptions of this kind of responsibility do not obviously require anything more than bare agency: an ability to set (some) aims and act for (some) things seen as reasons.
When Duties HarmApril 9, 2014
Can duties harm us? Can being obligated to do something of itself make a person worse off, at least sometimes?
Duties and obligations – or the conditions which trigger preexisting duties and obligations – are often greeted with resignation by those who have them just as if they were bad news, at any rate. Even if Yann quite likes his job teaching philosophy and understands that he may be assigned administrative duties as a condition of employment, he might also be quite disappointed when he remembers all the graduate student applications he must read tomorrow, just when he was hoping to spend a day on research. He just found out that things are a little bit worse for him than he thought. Shante might hate the very idea of a monster truck rally but go to one for the sake of a friend who wants her to have a "cultural experience." What motivates her is a sense of duty to the friend, not any desire to see cars smashed; she would have preferred never to have been invited, because then she wouldn't have to go.
Of course a good friendship is usually not a burden, and having obligations and filling them can indeed be part of what is good about a friendship. Such duties do not even seem pro tanto bad for those who have them. Joseph Raz puts it best:
Some activities and relationships which cannot be specified except by reference to duties are intrinsically good. Friendship is such a case in which the two properties coincide. Friendships ought to be cultivated for their own sake. They are intrinsically valuable. At the same time the relations between friends, the relationship which constitutes friendship, cannot be specified except by reference to the duties of friendship. When this is the case the justifying good is internally related to the duty. The duty is (an element of) the good itself. [1]
Let's suppose it's the duties themselves which can be said to affect our well-being in the cases above. If that's so, then what makes their effect positive or negative? When do duties enhance our well-being, and when do they detract from it? Here's one answer:
Obvious Account (OA): New duties benefit us to the extent that they increase our expected future well-being and harm us to the extent that they decrease it.
In this post, I want to suggest that OA cannot account for a way in which a duty can itself be a harm.


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"In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is constant. If leadership performance is high, the average will go up. The effective [leader] knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass." -Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker is one of the top business thinkers and executive coaches of the 20th century. He believes, and I agree with him, that people need to learn business and leadership skills, that they do not come naturally to people. It is like learning to play the piano, if you have never played, you cannot expect to sit down and play a beautiful song. Only through hard work can you play a beautiful song. In this book he teaches us the tools to be an 'effective executive'.
According to Drucker we know very little about self-development. What we do know however, is that people grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature – without any more effort than is expended by the non-achievers.
From my own experience, I know this to be true, except for the part about effort. I think it does take more effort. For me it required time reading, thinking, discussing one's self-improvement. It also requires the mental energy to get out of one's comfort zone. The best way to improve the performance of your team is to lead by example. Your high standard of performance will raise the bar for everyone. It is very simple. The key is whether you have the will.


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|Fixed star: ASELLUS BOREALIS
|Constellation: Gamma (γ) Cancer
|Longitude 1900: 06LEO09
|Longitude 2000: 07LEO32
|Declination 1900: +21.50'
|Declination 2000: +21.28'
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Gamma (γ) Cancer, Asellus borealis, the Northern Donkey; delta (δ) Asellus australis is the Southern Donkey.
Among the stars of Cancer is a small grouping appearing on the back of the Crab's shell which includes the Aselli, or Asses, along with Praesaepe (M44) the Beehive or Manger. Popularly this configuration was known as the "Manger", or "Crib" in which Christ was born (it has been suggested that this is because Cancer was the "Gate of Man"). They were the Greek Onoi, or Asses, of the second-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy and the Greeks; the Aselli, or Asini (Asellus is the singular), of the Latins, and now popularly known as The Donkeys. Other names were "A Resting Place", "Ending of a stop", "The Aselline Starlets".
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Star Names, Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889.
[A scanned copy can be viewed on this webpage]
The Arabians similarly knew them as Al Himarain, the Two Asses. Bailey, in his Mystic of 1858, calls them the Aselline Starlets.
The Italian astronomer Riccioli's (1598–1671) strange title, Elnatret, doubtless was from that of the lunar mansion Al Nathrah, which the Aselli (Delta δ Asellus australis, and this star gamma γ Asellus borealis), and Praesaepe constituted.
In astrology they were portents of violent death to such as came under their influence; while to the weather-wise their dimness was an infallible precursor of rain, on which Pliny (23-79 A.D.) thus enlarges:
"If fog conceals the Asellus to the northeast high winds from the south may be expected, but if the southern star (this star Asellus Australis) is concealed the wind will be from the northeast."
Our modern Weather Bureau would probably tell us that if one of these stars were thus concealed, the other also would be.
Inconspicuous though it be, the Babylonians used delta (δ Asellus australis) to mark their 13th ecliptic constellation Arku-sha-nangaru-sha-shutu, the Southeast Star in the Crab; and Brown says that the Aselli, with eta (η) and theta (θ) Cancer, and Praesaepe (M44), were the Akkadian Gu-shir-kes-da, the Yoke of the Enclosure. They also marked the junction of the nakshatras (Hindu Moon Mansions) Pushya and Aclesha (Ashlesha).
[Star Names, Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889].
A Greek myth tells us that these asses were ridden by Bacchus and Vulcan in the war between the Olympians and the Titans. The braying of these animals, aided and added to the gods shouts, frightened a group of fierce giants who were coming to avenge their brothers, the Titans, to such a degree, that they fled the scene of battle. The asses were placed in the heavens flanking the mysterious glow called the Manger or Beehive - M44 (Praesaepe) to make sure they never lack food. Manilius alludes to these outstretched stars as a Yoke.
The Northern Donkey is said to be male and this Southern Donkey female.
The Arabic manzil Al Nathrah, the Gap in the hair under the muzzle of the supposed immense ancient Lion that the Arabs had here, was chiefly formed by Praesaepe; but later gamma (γ this star Asellus borealis) and delta (δ Asellus Australis); the Aselli, were sometimes included, when it was Al Himarain, the Two Asses, a title adopted from the Greeks. The Arabs also knew it as Al Fum al Asad and as Al Anf al Asad, the Mouth, and the Muzzle, of the Lion, both referring to the early figure. [Star Names, Allen, p.110.]
*, p.71]The Gap or Crib. Causes love, friendship and society of fellow travelers, drives away mice, afflicts captives and causes their imprisonment. [Robson
*, p.71]navigate. [Robson
In this constellation, with some slight variations as to boundaries at different times in Hindu astronomy, — gamma (γ this star Asellus borealis) and delta (δ Asellus Australis) – the Aselli - always being included and occasionally eta, theta, and Praesaepe, — was located the 6th nakshatra Pushya, "Flower", or Tishiya, "Auspicious", with Brihaspati, the priest and teacher of the gods, as presiding divinity. It was sometimes figured as a "Crescent", and again as the "head of an Arrow" it was also called Sidhaya, "Prosperous". [Star Names, Allen, p.110.]
*, p.71]Ruled by Saturn. A light asterism belonging to the Kshattriya caste (military and ruling order) and favorable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ornaments, medicine and purchase of carriages when containing the moon. Those born on the lunar day will deal in barley, cereals, crops, will be ministers or rulers and will live by water. With Moon here at birth, native will be popular, self-controlled, learned, wealthy, and charitable. Rules houses and the face or upper lip. [Robson
Hercules during his fight with the Lernean Hydra, and was placed amongst the stars in gratitude by Juno, the enemy of Hercules. [Robson*, p.33.]This constellation represents the crab that bit the heel of
Cancer is associated with the Hebrew letter Tzaddi and the 18th Tarot Trump "The Moon." [Robson*, p.33.]Ptolemy's observations are as follows: "The two stars in the eyes of Cancer are of the same influence as Mercury, and are also moderately like Mars. Those in the claws are like Saturn and Mercury." By the Kabalists
"Shining at the hinge of the year by the blazing turning-point which when recalled the Sun rounds in his course on high, the Crab occupies a joint of heaven and bends back the length of day. Of a grasping spirit and unwilling to give itself in service the Crab distributes many kinds of gain, and skill in making profits; he enables a man to carry his investment of foreign merchandise from city to city and, with an eye on steep rises in the price of corn, to risk his money upon sea-winds; to sell the world's produce to the world, to establish commercial ties between so many unknown lands, to search out under foreign skies fresh sources of gain, and from the high price of his goods to amass sudden wealth. With heaven's favor he also sells seasons of idleness at rates of interest to his liking, wishing the swift passage of time to add to the principal. His is a shrewd nature, and he is ready to fight for his profits." [Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century AD, book 4, p.235.]
Praesaepe) into heaven. [Robson*, p.141.]The Aselli (Latin for asses or donkeys) represent the asses ridden by Bacchus and Vulcan in the war between the Gods and Titans. The braying of these animals so frightened the latter that they fled, and the Gods in gratitude translated both the asses and their manger (
Asellus Australis) from the Latin asellus, a little ass, situated in the body of the Crab (Cancer).Two straw-colored stars known as the North Asellus (γ, gamma Asellus borealis) and the South Asellus (δ, delta,
Asellus Australis, called the Mare Ass, A Resting Place, and the Ending or Stop) like the Sun and Mars in semisquare. Together they give care and responsibility, with a charitable and fostering nature, but danger of violent death, serious accidents and burns. [Robson*, p.141.]According to Ptolemy both the Aselli are of the nature of Mars and the Sun, but Alvidas states that the North Asellus (Asellus Borealis, identified with Balaam's Ass) is like the Sun and Mars in sextile, and the South Asellus (
*, p.142.]Identified with Balaam's Ass. It gives patience, beneficence and courage, and makes its natives heroic and defiant leaders. [Robson
The two Asses outflank the "Manger" (Praesaepe). This might be the origin, as seen in nativity pictures of the birth of Christ, of the positioning of a donkey always behind the manger*. The two Asellus correspond to the Sun and Mars, both these fixed stars are therefore to count as a positive influence, if in conjunction with the Ascendant, MC or stellar bodies of the same character, but especially if grouped with the Sun or Mars. These people will have an aggressive nature and will not take insults easily. They may, by their own lack of caution, or by being dare-devils, put their life in danger and they will not hesitate to use brutal and violent means. When the Asellus are with the Ascendant danger by large animals (horses, bulls) may exist. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.47-48.]
*The baby born in a manger might relate to the idea of Cancer being the 'Gate of Men', according to Chaldaean and Platonist philosophy, through which souls descended from heaven into human bodies, or into creation. Its opposite sign Capricorn represents the 'Gate of the Gods' where souls of the departed ascended back to heaven.
The patient donkey is a lovable creature, but it can be very self-willed and unco-operative indeed, at times of its own choosing. The Aselli (this star and the other donkey Asellus Australis) display all the moodiness of Cancer at its most negative, while in Leo. A conjunction with the Moon, Mercury, Venus or Neptune, well aspected, will often reveal the poet, painter, musician unusually gifted, composer, psychic 'medium' or astrologer. In all cases too, there is a patience for which the donkey is respected, a quality necessary for all really reliable psychism. Perhaps when the donkey is being stubborn, he is seeing something in the path which his impatient master cannot, or will not see. [The Living Stars, Dr. Eric Morse].
*, p.142.]Burning fevers, bad eyes, blindness of left eye, injuries by beasts, quarrels, slander from low women or vulgar persons, martial preferment. [Robson
*, p.142.]Disgrace and ruin, often violent death. [Robson
*, p.142.]Blows, stabs (operations nowadays), serious accidents, shooting, shipwreck, beheading, hanging, murderer or murdered, violent fevers, danger of fire, disgrace and imprisonment. [Robson
*, p.142.]Favorable for dealing with the public and influential people, business success. [Robson
*, p.142.]Inflammatory fever, pains in the head, blindness. [Robson
*, p.142.]Favorable for material success, honor through public positions, help from friends, favorable for gain, danger of accidents to the head, fevers, inflammatory ailments, and heart weakness. [Robson
According to Vehlow, the Chinese gave this group of stars (the Asses and the manger; the Aselli and Praesaepe) the name "the spirit of the ancestors" and were of the opinion that if conjunct the Moon, they would have peculiar experiences with the realms of the dead. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.44.]
*, p.142.]Power and authority after many difficulties, little gain, numerous expenses, losses by writings, mortgages and bonds. [Robson
*, p.143.]Proud, opinionated, help from an influential friend, favorable for gain. [Robson
*, p.143.]Courageous, generous, noble, just, power and authority. [Robson
*, p.143.]Great gain and influential position, favors from churchmen and gain through legal and ecclesiastical matters, benefits from foreign affairs. [Robson
*, p.143.]Somewhat sell-centred and self-seeking, loss through enemies, high public office, but eventual retirement with public censure. Favorable for gain, unrelenting nature, domestic disharmony caused by antipathy between one of the children and the native or partner. [Robson
*, p.143.]Energetic, reformer, blunt in speech and often bitter, fixed ideas, honest, careless or broad in religion, many friends among the public, some of whom abuse confidence, enemies among the higher classes, governmental position, involved in disputes with corporations owing to socialistic interests, favorable for gain and domestic matters, likelihood of unexpected death abroad. [Robson
*, p.143.]Proud, haughty, great self-esteem, occult interests, prominent and influential position in a company concerned with stocks and shares or speculation, connected with schools or places of amusement, early difficulties with parents, favorable for gain but danger of loss by fire or theft, favorable for marriage but sometimes one of convenience. With Mars also, accidents and danger of fatal injuries. [Robson
*[Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923].


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Data collection for my recent research into use of mobile telephones in Papua New Guinea's health sector communications involved driving thousands of kilometres to rugged outposts for interviewing health workers.
I talked to 43 people in Western Highlands and Jiwaka provinces using mobile phones to communicate with the provincial office or with colleagues—including specialist doctors—to seek information that would assist them handling health cases.
Data was collected in three weeks (June 30-July 22) among health workers in seven districts from the two provinces.
I endured risky and treacherous road conditions—which were quite challenging—to reach my interview subjects.
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Bob Nutting, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Ogden Newspapers
Taking "baseball on the cheap" to a new level
Baseball on the cheap (a continuing story)
Robert Nutting owns the Ogden Newspaper chain and he's the principle owner of baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates. Editorials found in his papers regularly brag about his company's commitment to journalism. In his media interviews about his baseball team, Nutting repeatedly asserts his . . .
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Ogden: Newspapers and baseball on the cheap
Two recent stories that didn't make the local "newspapers"
Ogden buys Ogden (UT) newspaper and then lays off 29 employees
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Standard-Examiner newspaper has let go of 29 employees as it undergoes a transfer to new ownership.
The northern Utah newspaper reports that the employees were told Thursday their positions . . .
Politicizing baseball: Pittsburgh Pirate mascot shows up at a Republican rally
Bob Nutting's baseball organization becomes a team player in supporting Ogden newspapers' backing of the Republican Party and its rightwing candidates
On Thursday night, the Pittsburgh baseball club's mascot, the Pirate Parrot, and its president, Frank Coonelly, appeared at a Republican function that also included Kellyanne Conway and the Republican candidate for the hotly-contested special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, Rick Saccone. From KDKA Pittsburgh:. . .
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Another look at Ogden's business plan for baseball and newspapers
Baseball and newspapers on the cheap 2
Two months ago, I wrote a post about how Bob Nutting essentially runs the Ogden newspaper chain and the Pittsburgh Pirates the same way: do it as cheaply as possible and don't worry about the quality of the product -- the profits will be there.
Here's an update on how that business plan is working for the Nutting-owned Pittsburgh . . .
Not just the front page
This morning's Intelligencer edits and slants an AP sports story
According to the Associated Press:
David Freese thinks Pirates are not trying hard enough to win
That's the headline that most news sources placed atop the AP story about Pittsburgh Pirate third baseman David Freese. This morning's Wheeling Intelligencer headline isn't as specific:
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Weirton Medical Center suspends Ogden advertising to protest McCutcheon trade
From Adam Bittner in yesterday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Weirton Medical Center, based in West Virginia, announced Thursday that it is pulling advertising from three publications owned by Ogden Newspapers over "the failure of the Pirates to craft a deal to keep Andrew McCutchen a Pirate." Nutting is Ogden's CEO.
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On the cheap: the Nutting's business plans for newspapers and baseball teams
News on the Cheap: The Ogden Newspapers' Business Plan
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Essay on 'Internet Protocol Television (IPTV)!
IPTV stands for internet protocol television. Any person who's watched a clip online has experienced a form of IPTV. In order to compete against cable's triple play, telecommunication companies started offering TV programming through their high speed internet connection. This makes it possible for teleconpanies to offer the quadruple play, which is a combination of wireless phone, internet, land-line phone and TV programming.
IPTV can be viewed in several ways. A computer may be used to reassemble protocol packets and convert them into a television signal that can be recognized by standard television set. Another option is the set top box, commonly used by cable companies. The set top box would be used in place of a computer and would do the same job a computer does.
Other than wireless communication, another advantage of IPTV is that if the customer has quadruple play (internet, television, telephone, mobile phone service) with the same company, the cell phone can be used to schedule the recording of a program. Excluding cell phone service and having only three services with a company is referred to as triple play.
There are some limitations to IPTV. Because IPTV is based on the Internet Protocol, it is sensitive to packet loss and delays if the IPTV connection is not fast enough and it also does not support HDTV at the moment. AT&T is currently experimenting with HDTV and its U-Verse service in the Houston area according to Cable Industry Insider.


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No One Owns Homecoming
Homecoming is supposed to be a time where the student body and alumni come together to celebrate their university and engage in time-honored traditions, not a time for one organization to flex its muscles and promote itself. No one owns homecoming.
During Wednesday's Student Senate meeting, a motion to create a Homecoming Development Task Force passed - a result that should benefit all parties involved with the celebration.
The task force, which is scheduled to consist of the MSSA Student Affairs Committee and 11 other members, hopes to recommend events, planning and organizational structure to improve next year's homecoming (see "Senate to Take Closer Look at Homecoming Celebration" on page 1).
The problem? Some senators felt the task force would be stepping on Student Events Team's toes and one senator even called the proposal a slap in the face because Student Events Team had not been asked to collaborate on the motion.
While both those opposed and those who supported the idea made valid points, this year's homecoming is proof that Student Events Team could use some help. In fact, after hearing what those opposed to the motion had to say, it's even more clear assistance and recommendations should be welcome.
The opposing senators reminded everyone that Student Events Team does open its doors to anyone who has feedback or suggestions in concerns with homecoming - except the Student Senate, apparently.
Another senator said the homecoming coordinator position demands a wealth of time and is hard work. If there is a great amount of work, why not welcome help?
For these senators, Student Events Team or anyone else to turn their back to aid or recommendations with homecoming is, as Afolayan said best, silly. We'll add that it is also selfish.
No individual or organization should have absolute control over homecoming. It's our celebration - all of us. For one group to take an "it's our's, so go away" attitude is ridiculous.
Student Events Team dropped the ball with homecoming this year and the administration is content with a dry weekend filled with poorly attended events. The Student Senate - well, this year's Student Senate - will not be satisfied with another homecoming filled with events so juvenile high school kids wouldn't attend.
The task force is scheduled to meet at least five times before submitting a report to the MSSA, MSU Administration, Alumni Association and even the Mankato Area Chamber of Commerce by March 7.


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Globally, the U.S. ranks only eighth in innovation and is in danger in falling behind even more. Such is the conclusion of a joint study (PDF) prepared by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and The Manufacturing Institute (MI), who find that American innovation is in danger of being further surpassed. "U.S. manufacturing innovation leadership is at risk," said NAM President and Chief Executive Officer John Engler. "We've fallen behind countries in East Asia and Europe. America cannot afford to lose its manufacturing innovation edge and the wealth and jobs that it generates throughout our economy." The study ranks 110 nations on an index which weighs the business outcomes of innovation and governments' encouragement and support of innovation.
Singapore leads all countries, followed by South Korea, Switzerland, Iceland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Finland, the U.S., Japan and Sweden.
In the U.S., the top states for innovation are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York and Washington. Among the worst are Alaska, Florida, Kentucky, Maine and Missouri.
In order to improve innovation, the report recommends that nations do six things: strengthen the work force, lead by example, make innovation easier, maintain a strong manufacturing base, improve the payback in profit and be consistent in tax policies and benefits.
The authors of the report call for more government support for U.S. companies. "Government can help move America up the innovation index by enacting more competitive tax, trade and workforce policies that enable U.S. manufacturers to innovate and succeed globally," said Engler.
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Freezy Pups Treats
For the dog days of summer
- Easy, organic frozen treats for your pup
- Mix the packet with water and freeze
- Four delicious flavors made from real ingredients
When the mercury is rising and your dog's tongue is lolling out, it's time for a cool treat. The hose is fun, but who wants to clean up the house when Fido runs inside to shake off? The pool is great too, until a claw goes through the liner. And of course, there are dogs like our Harley who will eat anything thrown in the air, edible or not. Definitely hilarious but definitely unsafe.
If your dog has discriminating tastes, or you are eco-minded, you're going to love Freezy Pups. Each kit of Freezy Pups Dog Treats comes with one bone-shaped ice cube tray and a sample packet of four organic gourmet recipes. So organic and gourmet, in fact, all the ingredients are real words and real foods. (Yes, this means you could eat them yourself if you were in the mood for frozen Chicken Soup.) Serve them as a treat on a hot day or melt a couple over your dog's dry food for a delicious gravy. And if your dog is concerned about its waistline, each Freezy Pups treat has only 4 calories. Refill packs are available so you can get more of your dog's favorite flavors.
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- Easy, organic frozen treats for your pup
- Mix the packet with water and freeze into 14 bone-shaped treats
- Freezy Pups kit contains:
- Bone-shaped ice cube tray (food grade, recyclable materials)
- 4 packets of Freezy Pups: White Cheddar, Juicy Apple, Sweet Potato 'n Maple, Chicken Soup
- Refill boxes contain 5 packets of one flavor. Each packet makes a tray of treats (14).
- White Cheddar ingredients: Organic cheddar cheese, organic non fat milk, organic whey, salt (just a pinch)
- Juicy Apple ingredient: Organic freeze dried apple juice
- Sweet Potato 'n Maple ingredients: Organic sweet potato, organic maple
- Chicken Soup ingredients: Organic chicken broth, organic carrot, salt (just a pinch)
- "How many Freezy Pups can I give my dog a day?"
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Summer in Newark
While we're sure you'd love to be somewhere in the tropics enjoying the sand and the sun, downtown Newark isn't too bad of a place to be as the weather warms up. The city offers many activities, events, and places for you to make the most of. Here are some tips to make summertime in downtown Newark one to enjoy and remember.
Enjoy our outdoor seating and new parklets:
On Market and Mulberry, you can find our outdoor seating area, filled with colorful chairs and big umbrellas to keep you cool while enjoying lunch or charging your phone at our charging station. Just a couple blocks away on Halsey Street, in front of Teachers Village and across the street from Toni's Minis, is the Newark Downtown District's very first parklet. In March, our urban planners held a two-day class for 7th and 8th graders to teach them the essentials of urban city living. In the first class, they discussed the importance of streets and sidewalks, the difference between commercial, industrial, and residential buildings, the need for various forms of transportation, and of course – the benefits of city parklets. On the second day, the students were ready to design their very own parklet layout! They were broken up into teams, and at the end of the day, one design was chosen to be made into reality.
You can find another mini-parklet in front of Stars Cafe on Commerce Street. These are for your enjoyment! Being such a busy city, seating areas are just one way to ease the sometimes hectic and overwhelming lifestyle. Have a seat, take a breather, enjoy lunch, coffee, and the sounds of the city.
Register for our Walking Club:
Become a part of the crew! If you haven't already heard, the NDD Walking Club is back for another year. With four walks a day, the Walking Club is an excellent way to explore the city, meet new people, get your heart pumping, and start to live healthier. The walks welcome all fitness levels, including light upper body and cardio exercises. The NDD made getting fit accessible to everyone with a "stationary walk" located outside of PSE&G Plaza. Between 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm, each day, the NDD's certified personal trainer, Brandi Coleman, holds an in-place workout where attendees can work out at their own pace, and get the same health benefits of the traditional walks. Three other walking times that take people throughout the vibrant downtown are available.
The 2017 NDD Walking Club schedule:
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm (stationary walk)
1:30 pm – 2:00pm
Registration can be found here. All walks start at PSE&G Plaza, 80 Park Place, Newark, NJ.
Stop by our Farmers Market:
The largest Farmers Market in Newark is back for its 17th season! Our market offers everything from fresh fruits and vegetables, gourmet dried fruits and nuts, and delicious empanadas to homemade body lotion and soap, artisan made jewelry, and exclusive apparel. Bring your friends and family every Thursday from June 1st to October 26th (weather permitting), between 11:00 am – 3:00 pm.
The NDD Common Greens Farmers Market accepts SNAP, WIC, and Senior Citizen Program Vouchers, and is within the Nourishing Newark Farmers Markets network.
Take a stroll around our Pedestrian Mall:
After a very successful pilot program last year, the Newark Downtown District announces June 6th as our pedestrian mall's 2017 debut. Located on Halsey Street, between Raymond Boulevard and Academy Street, the NDD closes the street to lay out tables and chairs and create a welcoming space for you! The pedestrian mall will be held every Tuesday from June 6th to October 10th, between 11:30 am and 3:00 pm. This year, retailers are holding store offers specifically for those who are enjoying the space.
Visit the NDD kiosk located in the center of the pedestrian mall to pick up your offers flyer and enjoy nearby sales and specials.
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Whether you love dance, rap, house or techno, it is important that you get yourself the best headphones for great sounds. Though there are tons of head phones on the market, you need to buy a pair that suits your needs best.
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Good strong bass is a must, with clear treble. If you love house music, buy yourself one of these earphones that are value for money and will enrich your music listening experience.
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Users say that you will not be disappointed buying this fabulous earphones. It has a good fit and rests comfortably on the ears. The bass is mindboggling and these headphones do justice to not just house but also hip hop and other genres of music. They are perfect for iPods, DVD s, and other devices that support surround sound.
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Popular among DJ s this pair of headphones has a 3.5 mm jack and is compatible with varied media deviceslike iPods, and CD players. The construction is robust that makes it durable and worth an investment.
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By the Atican beach shore, sat I
On sands so soft, so silt, so fine
Around me, holes descend like shafts in a gold mine
Where creatures of golden coats dwell and dine.
These creatures are beach crabs, coated with golden plates and armed with able limbs. They move with quick but calculated struts like that of the Ecomog soldier; and with an eye each one watches out for human intruders nearby, while with the other eye they observe the ever transgressing and regressing waves of the Atlantic ocean.
This act seems to have woven itself into the fabric of the beach crab's everyday life. Each time a crab ascends from its dingy hole, to the left and to the right it looks, as if it's about to cross Lagos-Ibadan express way.
Why do they do this all the time?
First, crabs are very very shy and they're always probably thinking "this people wanna catch me for their pepper soup, no way…tufiakwa!"
Second, they're careful not to get unwillingly swept away by the backwash of the approaching ocean waves.
Well, all these I observed with about a hundred crabs at the Atican Beach Resort, as they hurry carefully from hole to hole along the soaked shore sands of the Atlantic coast.
So, the next time you go visiting the Atican beach or any of the beaches in Lagos, don't forget to watch out for those amazing crabs. You'll be so wowed and fascinated you'll definitely have to keep going back.
The photos below tell the short story better:
– Let's say Mr. Crab leaves its hole and is going to another hole some metres away…. then in an instant, the waves from the sea roll ashore onto the beach, and Mr. Crab starts running, hoping to get to its destination before the incoming waves hits and sweeps it off…
– …but it seems it won't be able to make it to its destination on time, so it begins to slow down as the waves approach..
– It quickly stops, settles into the sand and shoves its limbs firmly into the sand, with its two eyes raised high above the foam of the incoming wave.
…the waves are almost at its feet..
– Within a second, the waves inundate the area and the backwash pulls back into the ocean as Mr. Crab is revealed again, crouched at the same point it was when the waves hit it. Afterwards, it quickly rises and begins to run fast towards it destination before the next wave comes in.
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you are good! (at taking pictures) these crabs are so fast even my puppy can't touch them, I barely see them at the elegushi beach just their shadows and loads of their holes. it's so nice to see one of them finally up close in your pics, thanks…
@Ohia girl…awww…ok let me tell you the secret to catching a good view of the crabs…simply carry a camera with a good zoom, then sit and wait patiently by the sea shore (not to close to the water though…loll) then after a while, the crabs will start to come out. You just point your camera to those small creatures moving around you and keep snapping away 😀
@Tim Holt…Thanks Tim 😀
You got good pics of them, when I try, the crabs blend in with the sand 🙂
@Myne Whitman… you need to know how much stress I went through before I could get these few photos…those crabs are soo elusive..they blend quite well with the sand


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A conference entitled "Salaspils Camp, 1941-1944, History and Memory" has been organized in the Latvian city of Salaspils by the local authorities, the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and the Daugava Museum.
According to EADaily, the occasion was Sept 27, 1944, the last day of the Salaspils camp (the shooting down of the last 17 prisoners).
After having read out the message of Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma, representative of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, historian Uldis Neiburgs noted that it was a scientific conference and added that the history of the Salaspils camp had not been studied well before. Most of those present were of the opinion that there were lots of myths about the camp.
It is a fact that during the WWII the Nazis killed over 100,000 people, including 7,000 children in the camp. Those people were not only Soviet citizens but also Czechs, Poles, Austrians, Dutchmen, Frenchmen. The most horrible fact about Salaspils is that its organizers killed lots of child prisoners by taking their blood for wounded German soldiers.
But during the conference some Latvian historians claimed that the figures given by the Soviet sources were exaggerated. The real figure, according to them, is just 3,000. Member of the Latvian President's Historical Committee Karlis Kangris even said that Salaspils was not a death camp as there were no reports about systematic mass annihilations there. The Salaspils camp was not controlled by the SS but was just "an enlarged lock-up."
Kaspars Zellis from the Latvian Institute of Philosophy and Sociology said that in official papers Salaspils was even called a camp of labor nurturing.
Some of the conferees said that the Soviet propaganda machine created lots of myths about Salaspils though there were no grounds for comparing it to Oswiecim or other death camps.
According to Riga-based historian Igor Gusev, the problem with Salaspils is that it has no graves. "So, today we are forced to restore them so as to prove the reality of Nazi atrocities. The Nazis acted as professional criminals – no body no crime. They tried to destroy the graves of those they killed so as to cover up their traces. As a result, some crums now claim that Salaspils was a sanatorium. Recently, we organized a kind of clean-up action. As a result, we exhumed lots of remains. It was a real shock for us to see the bones of those killed here. I was really upset to see a girl's shoe there. It was a young girl! And some monster killed her! We have collected all those bones so as to bury them. Such actions are important as this is also a form of fight against Nazism," Gusev says.


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The true to life obstacle straight out of the Blackriver warehouse.
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ASMK resigns from Malta Motorsport Federation
Posted By Sportinmalta On February 15, 2014 @ 11:27 am In Featured,Motorsport | No Comments
The Executive Committee of 'Assocjazzjoni Sport Muturi u Karozzi' (A.S.M.K.) has decided to resign its 'Malta Motorsports Federation' (MMF) membership completely in the coming days.
During a Referendum in 2011 ASMK members authorised ASMK Administration to take any decision and terminate the MMF membership in the best interests of ASMK.
These measures are being taken due to the introduction of two particular MMF Statute emends which will be negatively effecting ASMK members with the possibility of creating conflicts, division between the Autocross and Motocross members and bring both in a discriminating position with other MMF affiliated club members.
ASMK personnel had contributed and are founder members of MMF since 2007. MMF Statute was set up with 12 (now it has 13) different Commissions to cater for the different motorsport disciplines and more. Each Commission including both Commissions in which ASMK is represented has its own Commissioner and each holds one vote on the MMF Executive committee council.
ASMK has both the Autocross and Motocross clubs affiliated to MMF in the two respective Commissions. Each of the Autocross and the Motocross had one Commissioner on the MMF Executive board as per the MMF Statute and had only one vote as anybody else in any AGM and/or EGM.
With effect of motions forwarded during an EGM on Thursday 30th January 2014 presented by 'Mini Owners Club' and seconded by 'Classic Ford Club' during an EGM, ASMK only is being brought in a position now to have only one Councillor instead of two on the MMF Executive committee to represent both the ASMK Autocross and Motocross which fall in two completely separate Commissions when all other different disciplines are represented by their particular Commissioner. This is an unacceptable decision which also discriminates all ASMK affiliated members in comparison to all other Commissions members within MMF.
Also, a second motion which states that an association can only represent one sporting discipline is completely unacceptable and is a breach to the MMF Statute where it is bound to safe guard and oversee the autonomy of its member club.
Also, due to the fact that ASMK has been affiliated to FIM-Europe and now also affiliated and represents Malta within the FIM for all motorcycle sport Internationally, MMF is closing all doors for ASMK in this regard by the introduction of another Statute emend presented by the same Mini Owners Club. This states that no MMF member club can have other clubs affiliated to it and still hold an MMF membership too.
We understand that these MMF measures are being introduced to force ASMK to terminate its FIM and FIM-Europe membership if we decide to continue with our MMF membership. Besides that these measures are unacceptable they also go against the same MMF Statute which obliges it to oversee its affiliated clubs autonomy.
In these regards ASMK have no other option than to publicly and officially declare its resignation from the 'Malta Motorsport Federation'. An Official resignation letter by ASMK is being addressed to the MMF Secretariat.
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The big clean-up is underway after Storm Desmond ripped through the region over the weekend.
Torrential rain has left its mark on the area, with rivers bursting their banks and drains overwhelmed by the volume of water.
Residents and traders have been left reeling in the aftermath of the storm as the big clean-up begins and the water levels begin to drop.
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