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Politics sets out to reclaim the people!Posted: October 2, 2012 Filed under: Eco Politics, Ecology, Politics | Tags: Fossil fuel, Plaid Cymru, Transition towns, Wales 1 Comment
Why are people so suspicious of politics? Not only politicians, but politics too. Political debate is at the heart of democracy. Even our limited democracy, for most confined to an occasional vote, is better than none at all – that way lies the resurgence of slavery and totalitarianism, which are both evident in more of the world than we may imagine.
The idea of politics as a fundamental element of our society has to become strongly rooted again, and this is why Plaid Cymru had a stall at Llandovery's busy Sheep Festival last weekend (Saturday and Sunday September 29 and 30, 2012). Over the two days of this popular festival in east Carmarthenshire, hundreds of people made circuits of the stands in the big striped marquee, in what was just as much a social as a commercial occasion – bumping into friends and neighbours, exchanging news. Our stand was between two enticing ones, selling hand-made wool-topped footstools and woollen clothing hand-spun from sheep with fleeces of many shades.
Lots of passers-by looked at our stand, and on the Saturday – fine and sunny – several children were attracted to the sheep-and-farmyard colouring competition. It was different on Sunday, when the rain was horizontal, the wind tore at the sides of the tent, and the temperature was many degrees lower. Most of the smaller children, swathed in waterproof clothing, looked as though they would rather be at home. The adults seemed readier, on the whole, to talk about the aims of the Transition Town movement than about Plaid's policies (we had Transition Town Llandeilo information sheets on the stand). Is this because Transition Towns are seen as non-political?
The Green agendas of Transition Towns and Plaid Cymru overlap. For both, sustainability into a resource-poor, climate-challenged future is a top priority. Transition Town members work up small-scale practical solutions such as new allotments, community orchards, local currencies, barter systems, and volunteer-led enterprises like village shops that could not survive if left to face supermarket competition on their own.
The World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet Report 2012 tells us (p.44) that "If everyone lived like an average resident of the USA, a total of four earths would be required to regenerate humanity's annual demand on nature". The UK is not quite as profligate, but is still depleting our planet two and a half times faster than it can regenerate, an overshoot that led the Welsh Assembly Government to release One Wales One Planet in 2009, representing "Our new vision of a sustainable Wales, based on using only our fair share of the earth's resources."
As yet unspoken is the detail of how we attain this necessary objective. Many of the people who came to the Sheep Festival were ready to do their bit, by growing their vegetables, recycling more, cutting back on fossil fuel use, but there is still a gap between these individual efforts and the national good intentions.
Different parties, different gaps: Labour at their annual conference this week appear to have ditched green policy in favour of spend, spend, spend and build, build, build. The Conservatives can be green-tongued but their tongues are somewhat severed from their Gradgrind policies. LibDems cast some green splodges on Conservative agendas, but softening the hard Tory edges has become their defining feature, rather than distinctive ideas of their own. That's how it seems from where I sit, at least. No wonder why so many of us look on politics as a disreputable game of trading insults – but as Winston Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time" (House of Commons, November 11 1947).
If we don't plan a rapid reduction in our consumption of resources that are not renewable, the alternative is likely to be a much more uncomfortable rationing by ability to pay, or even by ability to defend your local resources from raiding by others, in ferocious Viking fashion perhaps. We can't create a radically different, more sustainable society without participating in political discussion and planning. So thank you, Sheep Festival, for the opportunity to be there, and here's to next year's event!


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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) recently acquired Jibe Mobile, a cloud communications company for mobile operators, to help introduce a carrier messaging standard known as Rich Communications Services (RCS) to mobile users. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
RCS is a potential replacement for the aging Short Message Service (SMS) standard. Unlike spartan SMS messages, RCS features more modern features like emoticons, location sharing, group chats, and file transfers. RCS has existed for several years, but it's been largely overshadowed by popular OTT (over-the-top) mobile messaging apps like Facebook's (NASDAQ:FB) WhatsApp.
At first glance, investing in a neglected carrier-based messaging standard seems like an odd step back from OTT messaging apps. But if we dig deeper, we can see why Google is adopting this strategy.
How Google fell behind in messaging
Although Google owns the world's largest mobile operating system, it's failed to deliver a powerhouse mobile messaging app to challenge WhatsApp.
Google's core communication app is Google Hangouts, a platform that integrates SMS, Internet calls, video chat, text messages, and instant messaging in a single platform. Google hasn't disclosed how many users regularly use Hangouts, but tech site Tech2 suggested that it's much less popular than Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and other popular messaging apps. That's mainly because Hangouts' core user base is rooted in Google's failed social experiment, Google+.
Facebook Messenger hit 700 million monthly active users in June. WhatsApp reached 900 million in September. It's very likely that most of those users don't send SMS messages or use Hangouts on a regular basis. That's bad news for Google since those OTT apps represent cracks in its ecosystem that it can't monetize via data mining or ads. Facebook's Free Basics (Internet.org) plan for emerging markets is another disruptive development because using Facebook or Messenger doesn't count toward a user's monthly data limit.
How RCS might improve Google's situation
RCS has been widely neglected because carrier-based messaging systems require the unified support of hardware manufacturers and telecom companies. Jibe streamlines that process by delivering RCS messages across the cloud, which means that there's no messy "backend" business for the carriers to handle. Once Google adds RCS integration to the "frontend" on Android, RCS messages can be easily delivered across various handsets and carriers.
Google can then position itself between mobile devices and the carrier, which allows it to intercept (and likely mine) RCS messages. That's the same mining strategy Google used with Gmail and other services to improve its targeted ads. If Google can encourage carriers to widely replace SMS with RCS, it could also replace the archaic SMS component in Hangouts with a more modern messaging interface.
Google's sudden interest in RCS messages doesn't mean much in developed countries, which widely prefer mobile messaging apps. But many developing and emerging countries with spottier Internet connections still rely heavily on SMS. If Google can replace SMS with RCS, it could challenge Facebook's Free Basics initiative and tether more feature phone and first-time smartphone users to its ecosystem.
Big challenges remain
Last year, a survey at IMS World Forum in Barcelona revealed that most mobile operator execs planned to launch RCS initiatives by the end of 2015. However, the biggest concern cited by those executives was the ability to actually monetize RCS, especially when SMS plans have become outdated and OTT apps still have so much momentum.
Google could theoretically subsidize RCS messaging by paying carriers to establish a free OS messaging platform for all Android users. That would be a win-win situation for both parties -- Google collects more data and gains a big messaging platform to challenge Facebook while carriers earn a little extra revenue. But even if Google pulls that off, it's unlikely that people will simply embrace OTT messaging apps, which have a snowball-like ability to accumulate users.
Another leak for Google to plug
Google has sprung a lot of leaks lately. Its attempt to combat Facebook in social media flopped, it hasn't figured out how to compete against Amazon in e-commerce, and Apple threatens to cut off a huge chunk of its mobile ad revenues by enabling ad blocking extensions.
Mobile messaging is yet another weakness, and one that probably can't be easily fixed. Promoting a neglected messaging standard is an interesting approach, but it could be easily killed off by the dominant mobile messaging apps.
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The United Nations Foundation - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - 17 October - has been observed each year since 1993. It promotes people's awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution worldwide.
The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to October 17, 1987. On that date, more than 100,000 people gathered in Paris, France, to honor
the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger. Since that moment,
individuals and organisations worldwide observed October 17 as a day to
renew their commitment in collaborating towards eradicating poverty.
In December, 1992, the UN General Assembly officially declared October 17 as the date for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
October 17th presents an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and
struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their
concerns heard, and a moment to recognise that poor people are the first
ones to fight against poverty.
Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants
- welcomes the initiative to hold governments to account. Poverty is a
leading factor to increased vulnerability and social exclusion.
In today's context when governments are introducing drastic budgetary
austerity measures, it is indispensable to assess their impact on the
daily lives of millions of benefit claimants, disabled & older
people, in particular the most vulnerable groups such as older women,
people living on minimum old-age income, very old persons living alone
or in rural areas, who are particularly affected by the cuts in the
benefits they used to receive such as long-term care, subsidised
transport, housing and winter fuel payments, etc.
International Day Against Poverty, is an opportunity to remind
governments of their duty to protect ALL citizens, those most vulnerable are being persecuted & at best ignored.
We the people demand respect & dignity !
It's the unemployed who are the forgotten victims & who seem to be demonised, patronised & blamed for unemployment within the wider media. In 1995 Labour shadow ministers did give clear indications, if elected, they would tackle some of the worse parts of JSA. They gave assurances & intention to make "speedy and far reaching reforms to eliminate the worse excesses" Not scrapping the "Job Seekers Allowance" is Labours' Betrayal!
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The Seattle Cascades, in their first year as a Division I corps, are turning into one of the surprise hits of the 2002 drum corps season. In Kelso, Wash., last night, the corps scored 74.00, ahead of the Madison Scouts (73.05) and the Pacific Crest (68.85). The Santa Clara Vanguard won the contest with a final score of 79.05."I am surprised. It's beyond my expectations," Cascades corps director Sal Leone said today. "We have the motivation and the attitude to succeed, and that's what makes it happen. We're excited about our start. We're hoping to progress even more," Leone said.In 2000, the Cascades were Division III champions. In 2001 the corps jumped to Division I, came in second place, then advanced to quarterfinals at the world championships (and placed 17th), which earned them Division I status for 2002."I think that over the past three years we've been turning a lot of heads," corps member Melissa Davis, 19, a mallet player from Beaverton, Ore., said today. Davis also said that the corps has been receiving standing ovations from the audience halfway through the show, which she said was unusual. "I think we're going to de really well this year. A lot of people in the Northwest are realizing how good we are. We're improving each day. With each rehearsal we're getting better," Davis said. "We can take this really far this year," Davis said of future Cascade performances. She said that the corps will "Work hard every day, and stay in the game mentally" to keep the Cascades improving. The Cascades' show this season is an all-Leonard Bernstein program consisting of "Our Town" (from the musical "On the Town"), "Profanation" (from "Symphony # 1 – Jeremiah"), "Simple Song" (from "Mass"), "Prelude, Fugue and Riffs" (written for Benny Goodman) and "Make Our Garden Grow" (from the musical "Candide")."We chose a selection of music and a design that was challenging and entertaining. This combination of songs hadn't been done in a long time, and we thought it would work again," Leone said of the Cascades show this year. Leone also described it as "Entertaining and challenging for the kids."Davis agrees with Leone's assessment of the show. "It's really high-energy. 'Prelude, Fugue and Riffs' really works well for the Cascades. The Bernstein stuff is really cool," Davis said.On Saturday night at Husky Stadium in their hometown, the Seattle Cascades came up third with a score of 71.50, behind the Santa Clara Vanguard (77.80) and the Madison Scouts (72.50). Pacific Crest scored 68.20.
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Beware Of *Little* Sins
Luke 19:17: And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
2 Thessalonians 1:3: We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith growth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
In believers, faith may start small but it should grow. In unbelievers, unbelief and sin start small and grow like a plague. When faith grows in the life of a believer, obedience to the Lord and good things (the fruit of the Spirit) will also grow. Unbelief and sin condemn the unbeliever and they stunt the growth of a believer. Faith moves us in the right direction, toward God and His will. Unbelief moves us in the wrong direction, away from God and His will. Whether our steps toward the Lord are little ones or big ones, they are in the right direction. Whether our steps away from the Lord are little ones or big ones, they are in the wrong direction. Little steps toward the Lord make bigger steps toward Him easier. Little steps away from Him also make bigger ones easier. Avalanches start small.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon on Romans 7:13: Sin . . . exceeding sinful.
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1.21: The Times They are a'Changin'
Every day we are confronted with new things. We have just got used to the Zip Code on letters, when we find strange hieroglyphics on the sides of the cornflakes box. Both innovations are, we are told, to make them computer-readable. The computer can read them but we can't. Computer stores and videotape rental stores are appearing all over town. We don't know how to shop in those stores. Suddenly, your ten-year-old son seems more at home on a planet where you have been living for several decades. As stated in one of the items in the test of Computer phobia (see Figure 1-1) traditionally, the arrogance of youth was countered by the arrogance of experience. Now, both arrogances are on the same side. It is not your side.
The confusing array of new things have some of us bewitched, many of us bothered, and most of us bewildered. A useful first step toward making ourselves more at home again on our planet is to recognize those new things as the tip of an iceberg. They are surface symptoms of an underlying syndrome. Understanding the syndrome will make sense of the symptoms. Let us begin to raise the iceberg by grouping some of those unfamiliar things around two familiar pieces of technology in our homes - the telephone and the television set.


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It's early January, and for many part of the U.S. that means snowy weather is in the forecast! Louisville actually had enough snow and ice yesterday to cancel school. If you're looking for some ideas to entertain the kiddos (or yourself), here are some ideas!
Instead of using ribbon to make ornaments, try a magnet on the back to stick on the fridge. Another tip--other lids like from peanut butter and jelly jars would also work. Just use the "top" of the lid as the back of the "frame" for your photos.
If you have children at home, you probably have some wooden blocks that aren't being used. Re-purpose them by cutting shapes out of craft foam and gluing the foam to the block to create a handmade stamp!
Let the kiddos play with their food for once by using small marshmallows and toothpicks to make shapes. My nephew taught me this craft a few years ago. You might even try to make a crown, like we did.
4. Coin tracing
My nephew and I did this craft for Presidents Day one year. It's easy for kids of almost any age, and is a budget friendly way to keep them entertained at home.
As you can see, stamps are popular around here. That's probably because they are such a cheap way to craft with household items! This is another craft easy enough for any skill level. My nephew and I used a Kentucky shaped cookie cutter for some of our stationary.
Hopefully you have enjoyed some of these easy craft ideas for snow days! I know there are always shows or movies to watch or cookies to bake, but sometimes it's nice to entertain yourself or your kids with something crafty!


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There is always something happening in Cornwall whilst you're on holiday with us. Have a look at some local events so you don't miss out! March St Pirans Day 5th March – Celebrations take place across Cornwall to honour St Piran, one of the most popular patron Saints. Be it an open air play, a singalong in a pub or a procession through a town, just look out for a black and white flag. April Cornwall Spring Flower Show (Lostwithiel) 7th – 8th April – A fragrant celebration of Cornish garden mania. Exuberant displays with camellias, daffodils, rhododendrons guaranteeing a colourful spectacle at the Boconnoc Estate. featuring show gardens, horticultural trade stands and competitive class. May Padstow May Day – 1st May – The biggest day in Padstow's calendar. It's not unusual for 30,000 people to flock into this little town on the day when Padstonians from all over the world return to their roots. Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature 12th – 19th May – Exciting programme includes talks, interviews, creative and practical workshops, exhibitions, presentations, theatre, musical concerts, an Art trail, guided walks and river cruises to enjoy, inform, challenge and inspire the imagination. Polo On The Beach (Watergate Bay, Newquay) 9th – 11th September – Aspall Polo on […]
We will be hosting two walking weeks in 2019 one in mid May and the other will be at the end of September. Join like minded guests and explore this wonderful part of the south coast of Cornwall, taking in breathtaking coastline and learning about the history of the Tin mining and China Clay heritage of the area. All walks will begin and finish on circular walks from East Crinnis. Walk 1 – Luxulyan Valley; discover this beautiful hidden gem home of the Treffry Viaduct and now a World heritage site (15miles) Walk 2 – Fowey harbour – South West Coastal Footpath,around Gribbin Head and past Polkerris beach. (17 miles) Walk 3-Eden Project and WheelMartin – explore the wonderful clay trials to the North of St Austell (14 miles) Walk 4 -Pentewan -Southwest Coastal Footpath around Black Head and returning through the Kingswoods trail (15miles) Please contact us for further information.


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Systems of classification, whether described as nested thesauri or ontologies, necessarily take the form of nested lists. This approach is facilitated by the ease of representation in printed texts and the menu structure of standard software applications. Additional requirements and constraints are imposed on any classification that is organized as a matrix. This is a format typical of many academic papers where a list structure is viewed as inadequately modest in its dimensionality. The emphasis here is however on comprehension of psychosocial systems rather than descriptive explanation.
In the light of some use of matrix organizations of categories, the exploration here is extended to the projection of a matrix pattern of categories onto a single torus and onto several intertwined tori. This implies that some distinctions explicit there are only implicit or conflated in any representation in a simpler matrix or list.
The assumption here is that purely descriptive articulations, no matter how sophisticated the language used, lack the requisite variety to encompass the differences characteristic of psychosocial dynamics. However, efforts to "grasp" and "possess" higher-dimensional processes through their lower-dimensional "containers" misunderstand the nature of those processes and their relationship to the understanding vital to sustainability.
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Tom Wolfe, the "new journalist" and famed author whose novels include "The Right Stuff" and "Bonfire of the Vanities," died Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 88.
"It's quite humbling to know that, despite all your aspirations, all of your dreams and all the talents you think you have, you're made of clay," Wolfe once mused in a conversation with Morley Safer on 60 Minutes.
Two years before that interview, Wolfe had suffered a massive heart attack and undergone a quintuple bypass, which both saved his life and changed it. Wolfe told Safer that afterward, he enjoyed every moment "a little more."
"As the Stoic Epictetus used to say, 'You're nothing but a piece of crockery and a quart of blood,'" he told Safer. "And it gives a whole other meaning to the word 'soul.' I think your soul is your relationships with other people. And that's the part of you that really doesn't die."
Safer's 1988 conversation with Wolfe — about life, work, and societal shifts as the last millennium drew to a close — can be watched in the video player above.


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We're coming up on the online group's fifth annual Beach Weekend, where we all decamp to Delaware and spend the weekend playing games. We're now up to half of the games on the docket being continuation games, which frankly would not be my preference, but it is what it is. This came about from a tradition which started a couple years ago of running kickoff and finale games when everyone was together, in person. In some cases, including for the Interface Zero campaign I have been running, it means that the campaign will start at the Beach, and then end at the Beach, one year later.
This means now is a great time to reflect. I've run a game for a year, am ready to stop, and then will have likely about another year before I can run something new. It's a good opportunity to figure out what I aspire to do with my future games, what will make them the most fun for my players and for me.
Interface Zero was not one of my best. And it didn't really have anything to do with the system: Interface Zero is the slickest implementation of Savage Worlds I've played so far, it's probably the only Cyberpunk game I've played with a correctly balanced hacking system, and the strain/cost mechanic for cybernetics was inspired. The game, in my mind, achieved almost everything that Shadowrun did in half the complexity, and achieved more than Cyberpunk 2020 with no house rules. It really is very good.
The issue comes from the world and the worldbuilding. Once again…not the game as written. I quite like the game's world, combining corporate power with fragmenting national politics. There's a lot of detail, it's internally consistent, and it's well done. But my players interacted with only a few parts of it. I dove deep into some corporations and into North American politics, but these groups only started to become characters by the end. And now I'm starting to get it.
I did not easily remember how my first game of 2020 went. There were some great moments, but they were character-driven moments. While I tried to impress upon my players the characterizations of groups like Arasaka and Biotechnica, I don't know how much of that really stuck the first time around.
Second and third time, though…
By the time I ran the Iron City Samurai, my last foray into Cyberpunk 2020 with original characters, everyone knew the setting. They knew what I meant if I said Arasaka, or Militech. They knew core assumptions about flavor, like guns in vending machines and the Body Lotto. The game could jump around a bit more because everyone knew the core characters. So this is one thing that was missing from Interface Zero…but one reason to go back to it later.
Another issue was just an issue of characters. The game was less episodic and at the same time attendance was more sporadic than it ever has been before. This gave me, in reality, one or two protagonists to work with when the game really needed four. For an online group it is what it is, but it's something I'd like to work on. Future games I really see myself as having no choice but to de-emphasize the characters of players who don't show up.
So enough of what I don't want to do or things I want to do better…what do I want to do in my future games? I want to run something where I don't have to give players a lot of direction. I'm not 100% on what this looks like, but I want the characters in the game to be motivated to do things, and move the story along. I want to react to my players, instead of having them react to me. This is a tall order, but not impossible. I think it would require structuring the opening game in a certain way, and it would certainly require a lot of writing…but it would make some of the game more rewarding for me.
I want to run something bottom-up. The Apocalypse World-style games are all incredible at this, and I want it to go further. The AW game I'm running as backup is great, but I'd like to run one of the games as an honest-to-goodness campaign, complete with consistent attendance. And even if it's not an AW spin-off, my next game should feature more worldbuilding and a more consistent pace of exploration and discovery of the world around the characters. The city-hopping of IZ just encouraged a superficial gloss over the locations, without very good sense of place.
On the more specific considerations: as I mentioned, I want to run an AW-spinoff as a campaign with my online group. It's likely to be either The Sprawl or Dungeon World, though I will in no way limit myself to those two. There are other systems I'd like to use as well, though it will all come down to what I'm feeling setting-wise.
On the stretch goal side, especially as the Codex is going to be in print soon, I want to run Burning Wheel. I think it's an incredibly ambitious game and I am in love with the idea of it. I also think running it online will be somewhere around impossible, and my players will not commit to buying the books themselves, which would essentially be required for the game to work. Still, it is one game I deeply want to play, and hopefully will be able to some time in the future.
These are all things to think about over the next year, when I am running fewer games and hopefully writing more. I feel like my desires as a GM have changed a lot since college, but I'm still trying to figure out the most fulfilling ways to run games. I'm going to continue to read, experiment, and explore, and hopefully be in position to start a high-quality, gratifying game around this time next year.


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When Is An Outrage Not An Outrage? Bruce Springsteen And Taylor Swift Get Too Big For Their Britches
"Jesus was so big, why'd they kill him? Because he was still the son of God. Still is not news. Somebody is still the greatest beauty, actor, record producer, you can't put that in the paper. What is news, then? News is that he likes little boys, that he's a thief that he cheats on his wife. Or in the absence of any fault, that he's just too goddamn big for his fucking britches. Which is why they killed Christ."
-David Mamet
The outrage over Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, over, well, nothing, had me wondering why. It hits me as much the same as the words David Mamet put into the mouth of Phil Spector, reported above: Taylor doesn't play the game, Bruce is stuck in a game not of his making, and they are both too big for their britches.
Taylor Swift doesn't have to do anything to cause outrage, she is too white, too blonde, she doesn't get involved in politics, and her refusal to comment on white supremacists or Donald Trump are seen as a sign of acquiescence by a woman whose hip hop bonafides had her singing with T-Pain and adding Kendrick Lamar to a hit single before you knew who he was. The Weeknd was her guest when I caught her at Metlife… This is actually too stupid to write about, she has done zero to deserve this blood libe.
What else has Taylor done? Depeche Mode did the exact same thing (when you bought their album you moved up on the presale code). As Bruce recently proved, Verified Tickets isn't working as planned (I'll get to Bruce soon), but Taylor doesn't need to tell the faithful to buy her merchandize, we do it anyway. I always buy the tee shirt and the deluxe or add ons. Do you think ticket brokers buy 'em? It is a clever idea, and it will help in ways Bruce couldn't.
Marvin Harris in a stupendously misconceived article on Vulture (here) claims Taylor as the poster child for the Trump age. What rubbish, does that make her the poster child of Obama's Presidency when "Blank Space" was a big hit? Has Taylor performed at the White House? Has she endorsed Trump? Has she mentioned him? While Katy Perry is woking everybody to tears of boredom, Taylor HAS DONE NOTHING. You don't like the new single, fine. You want to condemn her for celebrity feuds, why not be quiet? This isn't 2Pac and Biggie, this isn't Big L -people aren't dying. It is pop glamor silliness.The only thing I found iffy is releasing the album on November 10th. This is why people are dubbing Taylor a collaborator and a bitch? Complete nonsense.
For Bruce it is even stupider. I once got great tickets for Adele through her fanclub and had to sell them. HAD TO. I got $1,500 for a $200 ticket. I couldn't afford not to. Sure, Bruce's top ticket is $1K, the top ticket on Stubhub is $19K. There is no price Bruce could have placed them, however cheap, that wouldn't have cost an arm and a league on Stubhub. Hopefully, the people making the money is the fans at least but either way, Springsteen isn't to blame. Broadway is supply and demand made simple, you can buy a ticket for "1984" on Goldstar for less than a 3D movie, why don't people complain about the poor producers losing money and insist on paying top dollar? It is completely ridiculous. I've had at Bruce about his farm taxes in no uncertain terms, but not for selling his tickets something like ten times under value on Ticketmaster. It's not Bruce's fault you can't afford them, he didn't invent poverty. Hell, even Jesus gave up on that one. Most tickets on Broadway sell well under face, big hits, the "Hamiltons" of the world are much more expensive. Bruce did his best but it isn't within his scope to do anything. Maybe he could have held some back for people who write essays on why they love the Boss, but even then the profit is too much for all but the biggest fan to resist. Bruce's only other option was not to do it.
The new standby mode in the US is moral outrage. Everybody is outraged about something, always. You wanna blame Trump for Hurricane Harvey, ok, do it. Be outraged about everything till it has no meaning. I once dated a girl who broke up with me every time we fought. The first couple of times I was worried, after that I ignored her.


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Many moons ago, when I was gainfully employed on Zzap!'s letters pages rather than the numbing series of demeaning half-jobs that now pass through my mundane existence, news reached the Towers of a European version of our humble rag. At first we thought it was idle speculation. Then we glimpsed the evidencea picture of Julian Rignall speaking in a tongue alien to the Ludlovian pub-crawling crowd... So it was true: Zzap! had an Italian cousin! (You can read more about it at the splendidly-designed Progetto Zzap! Italia.) In the years that followed I have often wondered what happened to our Mediterranean friends, though never to the point where I actually did anything about it. However, I was recently contacted in my bedsit on Clee Hill by none other than Paolo BesserZzap!'s last Italian editor, the man responsible for overseeing its transition from a magazine to a website in the 1990s, and now the translator of Zzap!107. Despite my reputation for acerbity and poor personal hygiene, he kindly agreed to an interview...
LM: Tell me the story behind
Zzap! Italia...
It was based in Milan, and started life as a translation of Zzap! with added Italian content. We acquired the rights for the magazine; then, when Newsfield went out of business, we went our own way with exclusively Italian material. The first issue was published in May 1986: the magazine normally had 84 pages, but there were months with more, especially near Christmas. The last "official" issue came out in December 1992; after that it was reduced to a 16-page insert in the best-selling magazine The Games Machine. (This started, like Zzap!, as a translation: it first came out in September 1988 and is still going strong). The insert took the mag through to December 1993, at which point we decided that dwindling interest in the Commodore 64 could no longer sustain it... However, three years later, with the internet market growing, we had the idea to create an e-magazine about PC and Amiga games. We called it Zzap!, and used an html version of the original design. This website lasted until January 1999, when it was closed due to a change in the publisher's editorial policy.
LM: What was your role?
I started as a journalist writing "BovaByte's corner", a funny parody of games magazines. The articles proved popular with the Zzap! staff, and I was invited to join the crew, becoming a fully-fledged reviewer in May 1990. In November 1992 I was elected editor-in-chief by the publisher, but my role was merely to accompany the mag to its grave two months laterits fate had already been decided. I kept the title of editor-in-chief both for the 16-page insert in TGM, and on the website.
LM: What were the major
differences between the UK and Italian Zzap!s?
Overall, the differences weren't huge, but perhaps the greatest was that the Italian Zzap! covered all 8-bit computer platforms, not just the C64. Apart from that, we made our own decisions about design, and the translation was never literal. For example, during the Newsfield era we preserved only the game ratings and the general substance of the commentsthe rest was totally rewritten in a humorous way. On the whole, I think our Zzap! has always been something original.
LM: Are there any websites
devoted to the Italian Zzap!?
There was a project called "Progetto Edicola", which was set up to collect old magazines generally; but I know of no specific collection of old Italian issues on the web. As the Italian publisher still own the rights for our version of Zzap!, it could be that our readers and collectors are a little shy to scan the magazines and put them on the webI don't know anybody involved in a project similar to The Def Guide to Zzap!64. The situation is different for the Italian version of Issue 107: we coordinated the translation directly from our official webpage, TGM Online.
LM: What are your current projects?
Apart from working for The Games Machine, I recently organised the translation of Zzap!107 for an Italian audience. It was designed on Quark Xpress 3.3, using the Basilisk II Mac emulator on my PC... So I created a magazine about emulated games on an emulated Macintosh!
LM: What are your Top 5 C64 games?
Oh... I played so many, and every one is a special memory; I tend to remember games more for the time in which I played them than for the game itself. For example, years and years ago when I was at school, there was a strike by the students (I don't recall why); and at some point during that period, I and my friend Davide Corrado went to a local computer shop and bought a copy of R-Type. We spent the rest of the morning and afternoon playing it... Anyway, these are the games I enjoyed most:
Bubble Bobble (coin-op and C64 conversion)
The Great Giana Sisters
Road Runner
LM: And your Top 5 non-C64 games?
Guitar Freaks (and all Bemanis)
Black & White (PC)
Parappa the Rapper (Playstation)
Turrican (Amiga)
Bomb Jack (coin-op)
LM: Is there anything
you'd like to add about C64 games in general?
Um... Sometimes I think I miss them very much. But I realise I don't actually miss the games themselves, but the things they represented for me in those years. I was a teenager, I went to school, I fell in love for the first time... And I played them with friends, too (and I don't even know if those friends are still alive...)
...On that wistful and slightly melancholy note, it was mutually agreed that my body odour had forced the interview to a close. I thanked Paolo for his time and olfactory endurance, and returned to Clee Hill with half a dozen copies of the Italian Zzap! stashed in my briefcase. It had been an interesting few hours, but I couldn't help wishing that we'd spoken a decade earlier, when I still had all my own hair and was a little more sane... LM


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Tank Unit's Donation Amazes Chaplain
WITH 2D DIV., Korea-The 72d Tank Battalion's chaplain says he "almost fell over" when one tank company alone donated $134 toward caring for Korean war orphans. Chaplain (Capt.) Paul M. Pease, San Jose, Calif., says 72d tankers offered to help the orphanages after he had turned down time and again pleas to adopt Korean waifs as mascots.
"A tank battalion is hardly the place to raise children," Chaplain Pease told his men. But, after getting Eighth Army approval, Chaplain Pease put up his hat in a convenient spot at Sunday services and said any contributions for orphan care would be accepted. He says the response was fine and the $134 from one company nearly floored him.


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What Causes a Faulty Sump Pump?
A sump pump is one of those things that is easy to overlook but that can cause a lot of trouble if it stops working. That familiar "whirrrr…clunk" of most sump pumps becomes just another of those house noises that make up the soundtrack of home ownership and it's easy to take for granted.
Although a sump pump is a pretty simple piece of machinery, there are a number of things that can go wrong with one and a faulty sump pump can very quickly lead to a wet basement and damage to property.
What can go wrong? Let's take a look at the things that can cause a faulty sump pump…and some of the ways they can be prevented.
5 Causes of a Faulty Sump Pump
Stuck Float Switch – High water in the sump basin is what turns on a sump pump and it does so by raising a float that either trips a switch or contains a switch that activates when the float is mostly upright. The former type of float switch, called a vertical switch, is a more reliable device because is it contained within a cage or rides on a rod to reduce the chances of it sticking. The latter, a tether switch, is more likely to become entangled in the power cord or trapped against the basin wall when vibration causes minor movement of the pump.
Insufficient Capacity – A sump pump is a sump pump, right? Well, no. If you look around in the big box hardware store you'll see some pretty inexpensive sump pumps and there's a reason for that. These pumps are not only made of inferior materials but have very low pumping capacity, a problem when the water is running into the sump basin faster than the pump can move it out.
A minimum of a 1/3 horsepower sump pump is recommended for most houses – it can pump 35 gallons of water a minute to the ten-foot height that is common in full-depth basements.
Electrical Power Fails – The best sump pump in the world, packed with power and loaded with features, won't do a thing for your basement if it can't get power to operate. If an overloaded circuit kicks a breaker off – no sump pump. Of course, power outages often occur during thunderstorms so the sump pump can fail just when it's needed most.
Prevent overloads by using a dedicated circuit for your sump pump and install a battery backup sump pump to keep your basement dry during power outrages.
Pump is Plain Worn Out – A sump pump is a mechanical device with moving parts and it will eventually wear out entirely or in part.
Testing a sump pump regularly, say twice a year, can help ensure that it will work when you need it. Also, although many homeowners would apply the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" formula to their sump pumps, we'd suggest "when in doubt, throw it out."
Frozen or Clogged Discharge — Unless your sump pump discharge is tied into a storm sewer, it probably discharges to daylight somewhere outside. If the discharge pipe isn't pitched properly to drain completely, it may collect water that can freeze during the winter months. When this occurs, the newly discharged water has nowhere to go but back into the sump basin, resulting in not only a flooded basement floor but a sump pump that is running and running and running.
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5 Things to Do When You Are In Your Thirties
Some of us spent our twenties having so much fun that the moment we hit the big 3-0 we start wondering what on earth did we spent our time on. Granted, you are one of those twenty-something that just enjoyed life to the fullest, here are five things you definitely should be serious about in your 30s.
A healthy lifestyle. Admit it or not, your twenties were probably spent accumulating a few bad habits, from smoking to eating fast food day in and day out. But in your thirties, metabolism slows down and too much sugar and fatty foods will definitely contribute to that growing gut. But it's not just about being fit and looking good; it is also in our thirties when various diseases and health disorders start to seize the body, from high blood to thyroid problems. So if you are hitting your 30th year, better live healthier and start hitting the gym regularly.
Get serious with money. This does not mean simply having money in the bank although having or building up your savings at this age is very important. Some financial experts suggest that you start preparing for your retirement this early in the game. Other than your savings, UAE Medical Insurance shares that it is also time to get serious with health care insurance plans. As mentioned above, this is the decade when various medical conditions start showing, so getting a health care plan is a must.
Cultivate a sophisticated mind. Now is also the time when you should be able to travel and learn new things. In your twenties travelling probably meant hanging out at the beach and getting drunk at night. Now, you should start cultivating a more sophisticated mind and diverse interests in life. Becoming cultured is very important as you do not want to grow old knowing only a few simple things.
Get on with your life goals. Many of us were not even sure what we want in our twenties. However, once you hit thirty you should have at least a better understanding of what you want to achieve in life. And once you figure it all out, you definitely should start working on it. Life is short after all.
Lastly, you should start being honest with yourself. It's hard to actually figure out who you are when you are younger. So many things happen at the same time and sometimes we do not even know how or why we get into certain things. In your thirties, it's time to be mature and really know yourself — what are your bad habits and weaknesses? By now you should know how to learn from your mistakes and from there start building a better, stronger you.


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This paper reports on results gathered during a case study using a web maintenance tool called Perlbot. The main objective of the study is to observe the history of modifications made on various web documents. Based on selected metrics, we collect data with respect to how such sites are maintained and evolve. The data gathered support our hypothesis that there is a worldwide tendency to accumulate large numbers of stale documents over long periods of time. Moreover, our quantitative results reveal inconsistent web maintenance activities spanning over various international sites.
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November 16, 2014, Sunday
My brother said its costume is like cartoon version of Iron Man, but I guess is the matter of the color, so which makes slightly look like it!!
Since is school holiday, lots of parent brought their children to the cinema so you may see the movie theater is full of kids!! The character of Baymax is so adorable, not even the kids, adults might like it as well!
趁着学校假期的开始,这部电影也成了很多家长都带小朋友到电影院看的首选电影!! Baymax可爱的模样,不但吸引了很多小朋友,就连很多大朋友都很喜欢! 但是电影内的离别痛,不说大人,即使是小孩也能够感受得到的那种痛,我的三侄女在看到他们离别的时候也是哭了!
Hiro is a teenage genius scientist, unfortunately his invention, MiroBot has fall into the bad guy's hand, he and his partners have to gather up and fight over the bad guys!!
故事开始于Hiro为了要得到录取进自己理想的学校而设计发明了MiroBot,但没有想到自己的发明会被坏人用在不挡 的地方。。。。。。
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation
Running Time: 102 minutes (1 hour 42 minutes)
Directed by: Don Hall, Chris Williams
Hiro Hamada is a 14-year-old robotics genius in the futuristic fictional city of San Fransokyo. Raised by his aunt Cass and older brother Tadashi after the death of his parents, he spends his time participating in robot fights, illegally betting money on their outcome. To redirect Hiro, Tadashi takes him to the robotics center at his university, where Hiro meets Tadashi's friends, GoGo, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and Fred, as well as Baymax, the inflatable healthcare companion robot Tadashi created. To enroll in the school, Hiro signs up for the school's science fair and presents microbots, swarms of tiny robots that can link together in any arrangement imaginable. Professor Callaghan, the head of the university's robotics program, is impressed, and grants Hiro entrance to the university. Alastair Krei, renowned entrepreneur and president of Krei Tech, offers to buy the microbots, but Hiro follows Callaghan's warnings about Krei's questionable business practices and declines to sell them. When Tadashi and Hiro later arrive at the university to find it engulfed in flames, Tadashi rushes in to rescue Callaghan, but the building explodes moments later, killing Tadashi.
Weeks later, a depressed Hiro inadvertently activates Baymax, who follows Hiro's only remaining microbot to an abandoned warehouse. There, the two discover that someone has been mass-producing microbots, and are attacked by a man wearing a Kabuki mask and in control of the bots. After they barely escape with their lives, Hiro equips Baymax with armor and a battle chip containing various karate moves, and they track the masked man to the docks. GoGo, Wasabi, Honey, and Fred arrive looking for Hiro, and the masked man attacks the group. The six manage to escape to Fred's mansion, where they begin to form a superhero team, with Hiro creating armor and accessories for his friends to complement each one's area of scientific expertise.
Using Baymax's upgraded scanners, the group tracks the masked man, who they suspect to be Krei, to an abandoned secret Krei Tech laboratory, which they find was researching teleportation technology until a test pilot was lost in an accident. The masked man attacks, but the group manages to knock off his mask, revealing him to be Professor Callaghan, who had stolen Hiro's microbots to shield himself from the explosion and left Tadashi to die. An enraged Hiro removes Baymax's personality/healthcare chip, leaving only the battle chip, and orders him to kill Callaghan, and only Honey re-installing the chip at the last second prevents him from doing so. With Hiro and his friends distracted by their fight over tactics, the villain takes the opportunity to escape. Furious at his friend's intervention, Hiro flies off with Baymax. Once at home, Hiro tries to remove the chip again, but Baymax prevents him, stating that vengeance is not what Tadashi would have wanted. To comfort him, Baymax shows Hiro video recordings of Tadashi running tests during Baymax's development, and his refusal to give up despite many failures. A remorseful Hiro apologizes to his friends, who forgive him since they understand what he's going through, and the team reunites to stop Callaghan.
The group discovers that Krei's test pilot was Callaghan's daughter Abigail, and that Callaghan is seeking revenge. Callaghan interrupts a public Krei event and attempts to kill Krei and destroy his headquarters using a giant teleportation portal, mirroring his daughter's accident. Working together, the team destroys Callaghan's microbots and saves Krei, but the portal remains active and becomes unstable. Baymax detects Abigail inside, alive but in hyper-sleep, and leaps into the portal with Hiro to rescue her. They find Abigail's pod, but Baymax is damaged by debris, leaving them adrift inside the portal's space. Baymax uses his armor's rocket fist to propel Hiro and Abigail back through the portal opening to safety, forcing them to leave him behind. Sometime later, Hiro discovers Baymax's personality chip clenched in the rocket fist. Hiro rebuilds Baymax and the six friends continue their exploits through the city, fulfilling Tadashi's dream of helping those in need.
During the end credits, it is shown through newspaper headlines that Hiro has been awarded a grant from the university, where a building has been dedicated to Tadashi. In a post-credits scene, Fred accidentally opens a secret door in his family mansion and finds superhero gear inside. His father, a retired superhero, arrives stating "We have a lot to talk about" as they embrace each other.
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If, in the fall of the leaves in October,
many of them wither on the boughs and hang there,
it betokens a frosty winter and much snow.
Spring rain damps;
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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There is a harmony in autumn,
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which through the summer is not heard or seen,
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"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
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"Fall has always been my favorite season.
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Jews all over the world will be lighting the first Hanukkah candles this year on Christmas Eve. For interfaith couples and families, this crossover raises important—and sometimes confusing—questions about how to celebrate. Have questions or experiences to share about navigating these two holidays? Join JewishBoston's content manager, Jesse Ulrich, and Rabbi Jillian Cameron, director of InterfaithFamily/Boston, for a Facebook Live discussion.
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The 2018 edition of the Caribbean Premier League will be its sixth season as six of the best teams in the region go head to head in the Caribbean T20 competition. It was first started in 2013 and has seen a steady increase in its following throughout the time it's been there. Buy CPL tickets 2018 on BookMyShow.
This season will see six teams participate in the tournament with the Trinbago Knight Riders starting off as the defending champions after they defeated St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in the final of the previous season of the Caribbean Premier League. That was the second title for the Trinbago side – earlier called the Trinidad & Tobago Knight Riders – while Jamaica Tallawahs are the other side that's won the tournament twice.
Barbados Tridents are the only other team to win the CPL once before this with both St Kitts & Nevis and Guyana Amazon Warriors having having entered the final before this. In fact, Guyana have been the unluckiest side in that they have made the final thrice and never won the title. On the other hand, a team like St Lucia Zouks have had their struggles and they best standing in the competition has been a measely fourth, having also finished at the bottom on two occasions.
This season's Caribbean Premier League will see the six teams take on each other in a two-leg round-robin league that will be played from August 8. The CPL schedule for this season which will go all the way through 39 days to the final that will be played in September. The exact schedule will be out soon.
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Log Walls are Tight Insulators
Wood is an insulator. In each log wall, there are millions of tiny air pockets which insulate home owners from the elements. As an insulation system, log walls can be far more effective at blocking heat transfer for the following reasons: The effectiveness of insulation depends on how well it fits the cavity. Batt insulation will sag over time, creating cold air paths for heat transfer. Insulation can also be damaged by interior condensation penetrating ineffective or damaged vapour barriers, or by failure of external water screens. In either case, the effective R-value of the wall cavity will diminish over time. These problems do not occur in log walls. Air barriers play an important role in keeping heated air inside the house. If constructed properly, log wall systems are more effective air barriers than the polyethylene sheeting found in conventional housing. Air tightness tests on Canadian rectangular-milled log homes have out-performed conventional housing for years. All solid objects have the ability to retain heat and radiate it at a later time. This thermal mass property will reduce utility bills, and is one of the reasons why many log home owners have experienced lower heating bills with their new home. For log home energy efficiency, your best choice is western red cedar. Based on thermal efficiency standards listed in ASHRAE handbooks, it has the highest R-value per inch.
Thicker Wall Systems Are Not Worth Their Investment
As part of developing a national energy code for Canada in 1995, the Canada Codes Centre of the National Research Council sponsored a study on log home energy efficiency entitled: Construction Report for Solid Wood Walls in Houses – Final Report. This study reviewed the cost of building a variety of round and profiled log wall systems in every Canadian province. The results of this study showed that for the coldest Canadian region and the most expensive heating fuel, a four-inch thick wall system was the most energy efficient log wall system. There is no energy pay back in going to a thicker wall system. In 1996, I studied this issue for the North American Home Builders' Log Homes Council. For an average 1,600 square-foot home with pine logs, it would cost about $4,700 to go from 6-inch to 8-inch thick logs. (Note: In 1999 dollars, no less than $US 6500.) If you built with western red cedar or oak, the cost would be higher. No matter where you built this home in North America, you would not save enough energy to get your money back—even if you owned this home for 30 years! As a homeowner, you have to make a very serious decision about how to spend money wisely. It is not wise to spend $6500 on something with no payback. You would be better off to take the money and spend it on maintenance-free materials (metal roof, metal clad windows, tile floor upgrade in high traffic areas, etc), or on features that will enhance the market value of your house (more or bigger windows, Jacuzzis, higher quality kitchen cabinets, landscaping, etc.) If you choose a thicker wall, do so because you like the look. Not because it's a wise investment in energy. Are You Worried About Freezing to Death In Your Log Home? Ironically, most people in the U. S. are more concerned about heating and cooling problems than folks in Canada. Hard to understand why? The bigger problems should occur in northern climates where the heating needs of a structure will be the greatest. But they don't – not even with a western red cedar wall system. Below is a table showing a variety of heating degree day (HDD) readings across North America. HDD readings are used by weather services to determine how often you will heat your home. The higher the HDD, the more often you will have to turn on the heat to keep warm. Ft. Nelson, B. C. is the home of the lodge for Stone Mountain Safaris. An 8700 square foot hunting lodge heated primarily by two wood stoves and a backup propane furnace. The tight lock between logs and the thermal mass of wood keep people warm even on the coldest days.
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