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A large petrochemical plant in Western Europe was experiencing bearing failures in its cryogenic pumps. The high RPM pumps were submerged in and used to pump –100 °C liquid ethylene through start-stop cycles, 24/7. Poor lubrication was causing severe damage to bearing components, leading inevitably to failure.
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Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore was a wizard who later became a headless ghost. He is playful and charismatic, and likes to show off in front of other ghosts. He may be related to Order of the Phoenix member Sturgis Podmore.
Little is known about Sir Patrick's life other than that he died by beheading.
As Head of the Headless Hunt
Sir Patrick is in charge of the Headless Hunt. He doesn't make any exceptions to the rules - a ghost must be completely headless to join. This came as a terrible blow to the ego of Nearly Headless Nick, who was denied entrance to the Headless Hunt because his head is still attached to his body (albeit barely). Because of this rejection, Sir Nicholas mockingly calls him Sir Properly-Decapitated Podmore.
Sir Nicholas 500th Deathday Party
Sir Patrick appeared at Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington's five-hundredth Deathday Party in 1992[1], where he stole much of Sir Nicholas' thunder by cracking jokes and making light of the sombre atmosphere.
The Battle of Hogwarts
The Headless Hunt fought in the Battle of Hogwarts.[2] Therefore Sir Patrick most likely defended the school the best as a ghost could.
The name "Patrick" comes from the Latin name Patricius, which meant "nobleman". This name was adopted in the 5th-century by Saint Patrick, whose birth name was Sucat. He was a Romanized Briton who was captured and enslaved in his youth by Irish raiders. After six years of servitude he escaped home, but he eventually became a bishop and went back to Ireland as a missionary. He is traditionally credited with Christianizing the island, and is regarded as Ireland's patron saint.
Behind the scenes
- Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore was featured on a piece of conceptual art, by Dermot Power, for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He was not, however, featured in the actual film.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - The Battle of Hogwarts

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After Microsoft has aquired Yammer, there has been a number of high profile defections and complaints, regarding service reliability. Yammer status page itself shows there's at least one serious outage/tech issue each month with Yammer/Microsoft which is unacceptable to most businesses. The good news there are a number of Yammer alternatives that you can use - and some even offer more features, while costing much less (or being entirely free), so let's take a look at them.
1. Bitrix24.com
Bitrix24 is often considered the best among Yammer alternatives on the grounds that it's 100% free for small companies/departments and that it comes with a number of features unavailable in Yammer itself - namely really powerfull CRM, Dropbox-like Bitrix24.Drive, Project Management, File Sharing and 30+ enterprise tools. Another important advantage over other Yammer alternatives is the fact that with Bitrix24 you can choose between a cloud based SaaS option or host Bitrix24 on your own server (which is critical for having full control over your data). Finally, mobile apps for Bitrix 24 in Appstore and Google Play have higher ratings than Yammer mobile app. Definitely your first try on a post-Yammer journey.
2. WhatsApp
Lots of folks use Yammer only for their mobile app that act as an instant messenger and just like with Bitrix24, WhatApp does a better job while costing only a dollar (or free, in some instances). WhatsApp major advantage is that it works on ALL mobile platforms - iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and even supports Nokia S40 and S60. Chances are most of your friends and collagues already have WhatsApp installed on their phones.
3. Zoho
Zoho is a suite of small business tools that sometimes falls short on actual collaboration features, but is nevertheless is generally a better fit for small businesses than Yammer ever was. Zoho is very stingy on free offers (3 free users max) and suffers from whats known as 'Indian code syndrome' among programmers (when things don't work how they are supposed to or have really weird internal logic) and does not let you use mobile apps until you switch to a paid plan. Still, Zoho has been improving slowly over time and you should at least consider taking a peek at the website.
4. ZenDesk
If you used Yammer inside customer service department, I suggest you make a switch to ZenDesk or FreshDesk (which are nearly identical in every single respect). Not only these two make working on customer complaints much easier and faster, for the moment their integration with Microsoft products, like Dynamics (CRM) is done at a much better level.
5. SalesForce Chatter
Finally, if you are working for a big company that's unhappy with a solution from a big company, but want to switch only to another big company, SalesForce Chatter is your most logical choice. While quite expensive and compicated by the standards of most businesses, it comes with almost 200 apps from AppExchange that work with SalesForce Chatter, some of which you are probably already using. Importantly, while Yammer CEO seems to have given up on tyring to improve his product, Marc Benioff has consistently put the money where his mouth is, investing over a billion dollars in acquisitions that give more work options to both SalesForce CRM and Chatter users.


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The bombings in Reyhanli, which killed 50 people on Saturday, and activists' reports of a massacre of Sunni Muslims in a Syrian coastal town have incensed Tayyip Erdogan, already critical of the slow international response to the conflict.
The risk of Syria's chaos spreading will top the agenda in Erdogan's talks with Obama on Thursday, but the wide-ranging meeting with one of Washington's Middle Eastern allies is also expected to cover Turkey's nascent reconciliation with Israel and its deepening energy ties with Iraqi Kurdistan.
Turkey has thrown its weight heavily behind the two-year uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, allowing the rebels to organize on its soil and sheltering 400,000 refugees.
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posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 7:11 am
Hello, I am Jin and have a quick question about the log-transformation method in Mplus.
My path model has a count variable as a DV. It has more than 90% of 0s and I fit the model with zero-inflated poisson model.
Given the log transformation is not available for 0, does Mplus log-transform this kind of DV after adding 1 by default? Or 0.1, 0.5 or any other value?
I need this info for calculation of meditational effect size according to Preacher & Kelley (2011)'s method.
As the Mplus presents path coefficients based on log-transformation, I think I have to use variance and covariance with the log-transformed DV.
Any tips would be really really appreciated.
Best regards,
Jin Lee
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 9:10 am
No transformation is made of the DV when it is specified as count. Zero-inflated Poisson is a model for the raw counts, not transformed counts. I don't think the Preacher-Kelley paper is applicable to counts because they talk about linear models for continuous outcomes.
Rather than focusing on effect size representation by standardization and other means, it is important to get the effect itself expressed in a meaningful way and that calls for the causally-defined approach to mediation for a count DV shown in the new paper
posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 10:38 am
Thanks much for your answer. Your paper will be really helpful for my further analyses. It was my misundersanding that the counts variables should be log-transformed for path estimation.
With the path coefficients from a model whose variables were not log-transformed, does the X-->Y coefficient indicate the amount of Y change followed by 1 unit change in x?
Plus, could you recommend me any readings, materials, or web site about how the estimation can be made without log transformation for a model with a count outcome?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 10:59 am
Q1. No, that path coefficient indicates the expected change in the log mean of the count variable Y. To get at the expected change in Y, you will have to use the formulas in my paper.
Q2. Look at our video and handout for Topic 2 on our web site, covering count regression. And also the book by Hilbe that we refer to there (second edition).
posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 11:17 am
Thanks again, Dr. Muthen. For clarification, doen't your answer in Q1 imply that the count Y was log-transformed?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 11:43 am
No, but I can see how you would think so. You don't first log transform Y and then do linear regression of that new DV on x's. Instead, you keep the original count and apply the Poisson model. The probability for a certain count (0, 1, 2, ...) is a function of exp(-mu), where mu is the mean of the count variable. It is the log of the mean that has a linear regression on x's. So the model is nonlinear. That doesn't mean that we have to transform the count into a new DV.
Perhaps it is easier to understand this in terms of logistic regression describing the probability of a 0/1 outcome. That is also a non-linear model. The "logit" has a linear regression on x. But that doesn't mean that we first transform the 0/1 DV into sample logits and then do linear regression (although in the old days that was how it was done).
posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 - 11:50 am
Now everything's crystal clear. Thanks so much for your help!
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PHOENIX -- A swarm of bees in center field halted Thursday's game between the D-backs and Giants one batter into the first inning at Chase Field.
Giants leadoff hitter Angel Pagan lifted a fly ball toward the swarm on the warning track that was hauled down by D-backs center fielder A.J. Pollock, who high-tailed it back to the middle of the outfield after backtracking to make the catch.
Pollock swatted away the bees as he one-handed the ball.
"Now that's focus and concentration right there," D-backs analyst Bob Brenly said while describing the play on the team's telecast.
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Hallion went out to short center where the D-backs' three outfielders had gathered to impart some wisdom to Pollock, and the game resumed. The Giants eventually won, 8-5, behind a five-run eighth inning.
"I could see Pollack was uncomfortable," Gibson said. "You could see the bees moving over. In fact, the fly ball Pagan hit was basically right into the bees. I think the last thing you want do with the bees is disrupt them, get them ticked off. They seem to be OK if you let them settle. We've seen a lot of them between here and Salt River [Fields]. We just wanted to wait until they move out a little bit. So [the umpires] were fine with that."
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Annual to shrubs, generally glandular, some green root-parasites
Stem generally round
Leaves generally alternate, simple, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 12 in axils
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed); stamens generally 4 in 2 pairs, generally included, a 5th (generally uppermost) sometimes present as a staminode; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2
Fruit: capsule, generally ± ovoid, loculicidal or septicidal
Seed: coat sculpture often characteristic
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 3000 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Antirrhinum, Mimulus, Penstemon ) or medicinal (Digitalis )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include only Buddleja, Scrophularia, and Verbascum in CA; other genera moved to Orobanchaceae (Castilleja, Cordylanthus, Orthocarpus, Pedicularis, Triphysaria), Phrymaceae (Mimulus), and Plantaginaceae (= Veronicaceae sensu Olmstead et al.)
Key to genera by Elizabeth Chase Neese & Margriet Wetherwax.
Annual, green root-parasites
Leaves sessile, ± linear; upper finely divided
Inflorescence: spike; bracts generally leaf-like
Flower: calyx ± equally 4-lobed; corolla club-shaped (except T. pusilla ), lips nearly equal, upper lip beak-like, tip open, lower lip deeply 3-pouched, 3-toothed, throat abruptly indented forming a fold; stamens 4, anther sac 1; stigma generally slightly enlarged, entire to slightly 2-lobed
Fruit loculicidal, ± ovoid
Seeds many, 0.81.2 mm, ovoid, attached at base; coat netted, generally tight-fitting
Species in genus: 5 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: 3 bladders, from lower lip pouches)
Reference: [Chuang & Heckard 1991 Syst Bot 16:644666]
Hybrids common. Related to Castilleja and Orthocarpus but isolated reproductively
Horticultural information: TRY with host; DFCLT
Plant 1060 cm, green to yellow-brown, ± glabrous
Leaf 2080 mm, 59-lobed
Inflorescence 520 cm, dense above; bracts 818 mm, 35-lobed, lobes lanceolate
Flower: calyx 510 mm, divided ± 1/3; corolla 1222 mm, white or yellow, tube >> calyx, slender, densely puberulent, beak yellowish, lower lip ± 1 mm < beak, pouches 24 mm deep, margins purple-dotted; stamens included
Fruit 69 mm
Seeds 3050, dark brown
Chromosomes: 2n=22 (both subspp.)
Ecology: Grassland
Elevation: < 500 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, North Coast Ranges, Sacramento Valley (Solano Co.), Central Coast
Distribution outside California: sw Oregon
Flower: corolla yellow
Habitats and elevations of sp.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, Sacramento Valley (Solano Co.), Central Coast
Synonyms: Orthocarpus f. A. Gray


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If You're Going to Stare ...
Last night at the gym, I put my bag in the locker and took off my sweatshirt. Wearing my black yoga pants, sports bra, and a tank top, I went into the bathroom section of the locker room to put my hair in a ponytail.
Two other women were at the sinks, chatting in Spanish and washing their hands. They were standing to my left and as I raised my arm to put the elastic in my hair, I noticed that both women had stopped talking for a minute and were staring at my arm. Staring like I had moldy peach stuck to my arm, or maybe one of those bizarre happy spiders.
Then I remembered that the Dexcom sensor is comfortably resting on the back of my left arm. Facing them.
I had a quick surge of "Grrrrr," as in "What are you staring at, woman? Never seen a CGM sensor before?" ... then I had to check my attitude. No, they probably haven't ever seen a continuous glucose monitoring sensor before. Just because it's something I'm used to doesn't mean it's something they are used to. After yesterday's post purge and your wonderful and inspiring comments, I felt ready to cast off some of this anger and try, instead, to help.
So I decided to smile instead.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to notice that you're staring." Gestured to my arm. "This thing - it's for my type 1 diabetes. It's a glucose monitor."
"Oh my goodness, I did not mean to stare," said the woman in the green shirt. "I was like, 'Is that an iPod thing or something?' I have never seen that kind of thing before."
Her friend with the glasses leaned in. "For diabetes?"
"Yeah. I know it doesn't look completely natural, and I would stare, too, if it wasn't something I was used to." Glasses and Green Shirt smiled back. "It's cool. I just didn't want you wondering if I was some kind of cyborg or something."
Green Shirt laughed. "Cyborg? No, chica. It's interesting looking. I was waiting for, like, the music to come out of it or something. But I didn't mean to stare. Lo siento, my friend."
"Not a problem at all. Have a good workout!"
I left the locker room and went to do my workout. After I was done, I went back in to grab my sweatshirt and saw Glasses and Green Shirt getting their gear together. Flashed them a quick smile. Glasses smiled back. Green Shirt tapped her left arm and gave me a knowing nod.
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It is tough being James Franco (Pineapple Express). The poor guy has to spend time in Florida with the likes of Selena Gomez (Monte Carlo), Vanessa Hudgens (Sucker Punch), Rachel Korine (Trash Humpers) and Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars) running around barely clothed. While the following images simply look like some paparazzi shots of Hollywood celebs on Spring Break, the cast is actually shooting the aptly named Spring Breakers. The latest feature from director Harmony Korine (Gummo), Spring Breakers follows four college girls who rob a fast food joint so can they afford to go on spring break in Florida. When the girls invariably get arrested, they're bailed out by Franco's character, "Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer who bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch." Hit the jump to see Franco and the girls going wild.
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Republicans began licking their chops when organizers for the Democratic convention in Charlotte announced that Elizabeth Warren would get a plum speaking slot in prime time — just before Bill Clinton's formal nomination of Barack Obama as the party's nominee. That bolsters the Republican strategy of tying Obama to Warren's anti-business tirade in Massachusetts, roughly equivalent in argument if not in tone with Obama's "you didn't build that" gaffe last month. Politico's headline for an analysis of this choice asks whether Warren will be a plus or minus for Democrats in that sense, but the better question comes further into the article, which is whether Warren and her class-warfare rhetoric represents the modern Democratic Party better than anyone who believes in free enterprise:
After Obama opted not to nominate her to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the face of strong Republican opposition, Warren became a hero to the progressive left, which already talks about her for national office in 2016. Long before she ever launched her Senate run, the liberal base was drafting her.
More important, she represents a growing force within the party — a progressive agenda coupled with disdain for the type of transactional politicking that former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and his colleagues in the Clinton administration were known for.
To some extent, that's what progressives thought they were buying in 2008 with Obama. Their disappointment with Obama for not being more leftward in governing philosophy is partly what animates the momentum for Warren within the party. However, as one analyst points out, what sells in Massachusetts might be a lot more limiting nationwide:
Warren has "that one elusive quality that we all want in our leaders, but can't ever seem to get — freshness. Few people can combine newness with competence — Palin demonstrates the obvious pitfall — but she's one of them. That was obviously a big part of Obama's allure in 2008," said former Democratic Governors Association executive director Nathan Daschle.
"At the same time, her anti-Wall Street message is powerful but limiting. As Obama learned, what works in Massachusetts isn't necessarily what will work nationally," he added.
"Most Americans are optimists, not pessimists. They don't see themselves as victims. They see themselves as upwardly mobile, and that's the product of their own sweat and labor. They work so hard to provide for their families that they naturally resent anyone they perceive as taking credit away. What they hear is 'You didn't work hard enough to deserve what you have.'"
The real question about Warren's momentum is whether the Democratic Party will shift even further to the extreme Left, both in policy and in tone — especially with Warren, whose recent campaign ad wondered why the US didn't spend more like China on its infrastructure. That kind of argument works well with the Tom Friedmans and Paul Krugmans of the world, who have openly admired China's authoritarian efficiency without noting that (a) China has a very long way to go to catch up to American infrastructure, (b) China uses slave labor on a lot of those projects, and (c) Beijing has been burned on a number of occasions on overbuilding without demand. The argument that China's policies are somehow better than the US might make for interesting cocktail conversation at faculty meet-and-greets, but it's going to flop badly if used on the campaign stump.
Over the weekend, Martin Peretz — the former publisher of the center-left The New Republic — lamented the takeover of the Democratic Party by the "McGovernites," a trend he says he tried to stop with his purchase of TNR:
'I bought the New Republic to take back the Democratic Party from the McGovernites," the legendary editor and publisher Martin Peretz says. Now, he fears, George McGovern's ideas may be back in vogue within the party. …
"You know, I disagreed with Bill Clinton on some things and I didn't disagree with him on others," Mr. Peretz recalls. But Mr. Clinton's administration "was in the deep tradition of the Roosevelt-Truman idea." He concludes: "In any case, I think the Democratic Party was restored to a center role. Yes, it took a lot for the Clinton administration to rescue Bosnia. And it took a lot for the Democrats to admit to a mistake in Somalia." But they eventually did both.
"We're now in a new era," Mr. Peretz warns. "I think that Obama is a child, or maybe let's say a grandchild, of the New Left, with casual moral judgments made about very intricate ethical alternatives." Later he thunders: "Leading by following—it's really a sick phrase."
One case in point for Peretz' narrative of shifting to the extreme was the criticism leveled at Romney last week for what Peretz believes is an objective truth:
To Mr. Peretz, the notion that Arab cultures are beset with endemic pathologies is noncontroversial, almost a banal point. "[Mitt] Romney was said to have made a tremendous faux pas when he said that the difference between the Palestinians and the Israelis is a matter of culture," alluding to historian David Landes's book, "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations."
"Mostly David discusses their social cooping up of women as a factor in Arab poverty, backwardness, et cetera," Mr. Peretz explains. "Now, this would be, if you were talking generally, a very acceptable and progressive critique." Indeed, "one of the reasons that you have economic backwardness is that women do not work and women do not get education."
That Mr. Romney should have to go on the defensive over his remarks, Mr. Peretz thinks, has to do with the fact that "the magazines and the websites that are popular among the liberal, semi-intelligent, semi-intellectual readership of America have their own ideological blinders."
Indeed. So while Warren gives the Republicans a very easy way to link Obama to her class-warfare rants, her prime-time speaking slot may be the most honest way that the Democratic Party can represent itself to voters. That's also good news for Republicans.


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Welcome to Pierce County Family Court
Pierce County Family Court consists of two judicial departments, three commissioners and a case coordinator. It is a team dedicated to implementing the plan for Family Court while putting into practice learned lessons to reduce conflict and timely resolve disputes involving the custody of children.
Main Goals
The main goals of Family Court include:
- Identify, segregate and prioritize cases involving the custody of children
- Provide consistent and timely judicial decision-making with intensive case management, settlement conferences and education to litigants using Impact on Children seminars to speed case resolution and reduce conflict
- Provide early judicial intervention
Main Types of Cases
The types of cases that are in Family Court:
- Modification of custody
- Non-parental custody
- Relocations
- When a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) is authorized in a matter involving parenting plans (dissolutions, legal separations, petition for residential schedule) and there is at least 90 days until the original trial date
Helpful Resources
Use the links below to help your understanding of Family Court procedures and processes.
Specific to Pierce County
- Neighborhood Legal and Family Law Clinics - This is a local listing of available clinics and is provided by Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association Volunteer Legal Services.
- Activity Book - Here is an activity book for children going to court.
- Noncompliance Order and Hearings - How to respond to a noncompliance order and links to documents and other sites to answer your questions.
- Parenting Seminars - Here are details regarding the approved Impact on Children Seminar required for dissolutions, modifications of custody, non-parental custody and establishment of residential schedules filed in Pierce County.
- Reuniting Your Family: You Can Make It Happen - This is a video by Pierce County Juvenile Court.
- Top Ten Ways to Protect Your Kids During your Break Up - This is a helpful book written by Dr. Joan Kelly.
- Trial Overview - Learn about going to trial without an attorney.
- Uncontested Dissolutions - Find out how you can finalize your dissolution without a trial.
- What You Need for a Family Law Trial - Read trial information for family law cases.


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Hometown? Forked River, NJ
Favorite Movie? The Mummy
Favorite Color? Green
Most Memorable Experience at WC: Participating in the Model United Nations simulation in Canada at McGill University. I got to meet a lot of new people from other colleges, and made new friends here at Washington College!
Favorite Quotation? "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic."
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- Concentration: Latin American studies
- Internships: Summer 2010 in Tanzania
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by Paul Seamus Ryan
January 10, 2019
According to a court filing earlier this week, former 2016 Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort shared presidential campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian citizen with ties to Russian intelligence. If the data Manafort shared with Kilimnik was used to materially guide spending by Russian nationals to influence the 2016 presidential election, then the Trump campaign seemingly received an in-kind contribution from the Russian nationals in the form of coordinated expenditures in violation of multiple federal campaign finance laws. A key link in the coordination here is the revelation of Manaforts actions.
U.S. campaign finance law for decades has provided that any expenditure made by any person in cooperation, consultation, or concert, with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, his authorized political committees, or their agents is considered a contribution to such candidate subject to contribution limits.
Federal law further provides that a political communication, including any Internet communications placed for a fee on another persons website, is coordinated with a candidate campaign committee when:
- The communication is paid for, in whole or in part, by a person other than that candidate committee;
- The communication contains specified content, including reference to a clearly identified presidential candidate during the period beginning 120 days before the candidates primary up to and including the day of the general election; and
- The candidates campaign committee requested or suggested the communication be created, produced or distributed; or (let me emphasize: or, not and)
- The candidates campaign committee was materially involved in decisions regarding the content of the communication, the intended audience of the communication or the timing of the communication.
U.S. law prohibits foreign nationals from directly or indirectly making contributions to U.S. candidate campaigns, and likewise prohibits candidate campaigns (and any person, for that matter) from soliciting or receiving such contributions from a foreign national. And federal law defines solicit to mean explicitly or implicitly asking, suggesting or recommending that another person make a contribution.
Finally, U.S. law requires a federal candidate campaign committee to report to the Federal Election Commission the identification of each person that makes a contribution to the committee with an aggregate value in excess of $200 within an election cycle. If a communication is paid for by another person in coordination with a candidate campaign, the campaign committee must report the value of the communication as an in-kind contribution received by the candidate.
Early in 2017, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that the Russian government had conducted an influence campaign in the U.S. 2016 presidential election, including through overt propaganda.
This week, lawyers for Paul Manafort accidently revealed through an improperly redacted court document that in 2016 Manafort had shared political polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian business associate with active ties to Russian intelligence at the time. (Kilimnik, who has also been indicted by Mueller for obstruction, now lives in Russia.) Reportedly, both Manafort and Rick Gates, the deputy campaign manager, transferred the data to Mr. Kilimnik in the spring of 2016 as Mr. Trump clinched the Republican presidential nomination. . . . Most of the data was public, but some of it was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign.
If Manafort and Gates did in fact share campaign data with Kilimnik, and Kilimnik and/or any other Russians used that data to materially guide Russian political expenditures in support of the 2016 Trump campaign, then the Russian expenditures would be coordinated with the Trump campaign under campaign finance law.
More precisely, if Russians used data obtained from Manafort and/or Gates to inform their decisions about paid advertising mentioning Trump or Clintondecisions about the content of the ads, the timing of the ads, the intended audience of the ads, etc.then the ads would likely meet the federal law definition of coordinated communications.
Funds paid by Russians to distribute or promote such ads on social or traditional media platforms would be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign under federal campaign finance law meaning the Trump campaign would have violated the federal law ban on receiving foreign national contributions and related disclosure requirements.
In fact, any request, suggestion or recommendation by Manafort or Gates to Kilimnik or other Russians to run ads supporting Trump based on the polling data Manafort and Gates provided would violate federal law, even if the Russians didnt follow through on the request. Such a request or suggestion by Manafort or Gates would amount to an illegal solicitation of a coordinated communication i.e., in-kind contribution from a foreign national.
Whether such violations of federal campaign finance law by the Trump campaign would be criminal violations, or merely civil violations, would depend on whether Manafort and any other involved campaign personnel acted knowingly and willfully. As explained in the Department of Justice manual, Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses, campaign finance law violations become potential crimes when they are committed knowingly and willfully, that is, by an offender who knew what the law forbade and violated it notwithstanding that knowledge. This was Manaforts fifth presidential campaign, and he appears to have a disregard for legal rules. It is fair to presume he knew what the law forbade and pursued the clandestine course of action in any case.
Any way you cut it, illegal coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia undermines American democracy. But the accidental revelation this week from the Manafort court document suggests special counsel Mueller is digging deep and following the facts wherever they lead. The American people are entitled to answers and accountability, so the Mueller investigation must be allowed to continue to its conclusion.


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During a recent ceremony, Brian Kaspar, PhD, was named the first recipient of the Grant Morrow, III, MD, Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital. This endowed chair is supported by Arthur E. Shepard and Dorothy D. Shepard, who chose to fund the chair to honor the tire¬less service and long commitment of Grant Morrow, III, MD, to research at Nationwide Children's. For clinicians and researchers working in academic-medical institutions like Nationwide Children's, endowed chairs represent the most prestigious and significant recognition of their work.
Dr. Kaspar, is a principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's and an associate professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Neuroscience at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is a recognized national expert in the discovery of new therapies for spinal muscular atrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
He completed postdoctoral studies at University of California San Diego specializing in molecular pathology and at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., in the laboratory of Dr. Fred H. Gage, where he pioneered various methodologies in viral gene transfer for neurological disorders.
In 2004, he moved to Nationwide Children's to start a laboratory focused on understanding and developing treatments for severe neuromuscular disorders. In 2009, Dr. Kaspar's group identified the first viral vector capable of traversing the blood brain barrier and utilized these findings to treat various neurological disorders, including spinal muscular atrophy. Clinical trials for this therapy are slated to begin later this year.
A muscle-enhancing gene therapy, developed by Dr. Kaspar and colleagues in the center, is currently being tested in patients for Becker muscular dystrophy and inclusion body myositis patients, with the potential to increase muscle mass and size in these debilitating disorders.
The endowed chair's namesake, Grant Morrow, III, MD, is a member of the Molecular and Human Genetics Section at Nationwide Children's and a professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He has served a number of national organization leadership assignments, including chairman of the Pediatric Residence Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education; member of the Executive Committee of the American Board of Medical Subspecialists; and chairman of the American Board of Pediatrics, among others.
Dr. Morrow's major commitment to research is perhaps most visible through the legacy he leaves for pediatric research on the Nationwide Children's campus: the Wexner Institute for Pediatric Research, constructed during his tenure as medical director and pediatric department chairman. He also serves as vice chair of the Nationwide Children's Institutional Review Board.
Mr. and Mrs. Shepard, lifelong residents of Columbus, are long-time donors to Nationwide Children's and have been generous supporters for research. In 1989, they established the Arthur & Dorothy Shepard Research Endowment. Mr. Shepard is 101 years old and Mrs. Shepard passed away in November at the age of 98.
NOTE TO EDITOR: Dr. Kaspar is a resident of area code 43054.
Brian Kaspar, PhD, principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's


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In the fall of 2002, the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America charged a committee to develop an action plan for bolstering the research capabilities and impact of the ecological sciences. Over a 2-year period, the "Visions Committee" consulted ESA members and many organizations and individuals outside ESA as they developed this action plan. The action plan, "Ecological Science and Sustainability for a Crowded Planet," articulated a core position as follows: "Ecological knowledge can and must play a central role in helping achieve a world in which human populations exist within sustainable ecological systems."
Building on this core, the action plan develops on three visions with associated action areas:
Vision 1: Inform decisions with ecological knowledge
Vision Statement: The science of ecology is poised to provide the scientific insights crucial to the sustainable management of our planet and its resources. To meet this challenge, ecological knowledge must underpin the decisions that affect ecological sustainability and this integration must occur at all levels of society worldwide.
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Area A: Integrate advances in ecological knowledge
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Area B: Promote a thoughtful public today and educate generations so that the public c an use the best ecological knowledge when making individual choices about sustainability
Vision 2: Advance innovative and anticipatory research
Vision Statement: Broadly innovative and effective ecological research in the 21st Century will require proactive research in which ecologists anticipate problems and needs, develop creative and sometimes high-risk ideas, employ novel methods, and are willing to work at unprecedented scales and levels of coordination. Within this decade, steps must be taken to develop, implement, synthesize, and apply new conceptual approaches, analytical methods, and technological tools. The aim here is to quantify, explain, and predict ecological phenomena critical to the sustainability of the biosphere.
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Area B. Create new incentives to recognize and encourage anticipatory and innovative research
Area C. Promote the standardization of data collection, data documentation, and data sharing
Vision 3: Stimulate cultural changes for a forward-looking and international ecology
Vision Statement : Advancing ecological science for global sustainability requires that ecological science become more international in scope, that ecologists develop advanced expertise in the collaborative process, create new partnerships, and build diversity within the discipline. The culture of ecology must be transformed to influence how we think both individually and institutionally so that we can accomplish these goals and so that reward systems promote rather than hinder collaborations, partner ships, and diversity.
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Sony appoints new chief financial officer as Kato departs role
Sony has appointed a new chief financial officer to replace current CFO Masaru Kato, who departs the firm on April 1.
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PS4: speed of console's spread "quite encouraging," Sony tells investors
PlayStation 4 earned pride of place during Sony's financial report this morning, and the uptake of its next-gen console has proved "quite encouraging" to the format holder.
Sony "not planning a major loss" with PS4 launch
PlayStation 3 launch was a monetary blood-bath for Sony, with the launch of the high definition machine very costly indeed. As part of today's earnings call to investors, the company has committed to keeping costs down for PS4 launch.
Sony says it needs to do "a better job in promoting" Vita, PS3 "still has a long life"
Sony CFO Masaru Kato told investors during a call discussing the firm's Q3 2012 results that it needs to do "a better job in promoting" Vita.
Sony: Vita had a very "good start" in Japan
Sony feels Vita has had "a good start" in Japan, and doesn't feel the handheld is experiencing any "problems" in the marketplace.
Sony: Work on "future platform" is "already underway"
Sony has said work is"already under way" on a "future platform," despite Kaz Hirai stating a few months back the firm hadn't even started discussing a successor to PS3.
Sony will announce new PSP product when "timing is right" as new PS Phone shots emerge
Sony has told investors today during discussions on its latest financial report that it will announce a new PSP product "when the timing is right". However, Sony's silence on the matter of a PS Phone or a new PSP hasn't stop Engadget from posting more shots. At least of the phone anyway.
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Article by: Andy Johns: Employees who spend most of their time tied to a desk need to take steps to avoid health problems, according to experts in the emerging "science of sitting down."
Dr. Tim Church, of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., called inactivity at work "a big player in the obesity epidemic," and if a recent experiment by the Chattanooga Times Free Press is any indication, a person's walk of life has a lot to do with that level of activity.
Office jobs, the number of which has soared in the last 30 years, can pin people to desks and create a sedentary pattern for half of a waking day, Dr. Church explained.
"Back in the day exercise was kind of silly because everybody got so much exercise in the workplace," Dr. Church said. "Our bodies are evolved to be physically active."
Steve Bordley, CEO of Trek Desk Inc., which sells desks designed so users can walk on a treadmill while doing their work, said his product and others like it are designed based on the "caveman theory."
Over thousands of years of evolution, the human body was designed to walk 30 to 35 miles a day, but in the last 100 years steps have been engineered out of modern life, he said. Without the movement, the body can't work the way it is designed to.
"Every function in our body is predicated on movement, and we've taken that away," Mr. Bordley said. "When you sit, there are a lot of things that happened to your body and none of them are good."
He cited studies linking everything from obesity to back problems with constantly sitting in chairs.
"The basic message is chairs are the enemy," he said.
For those well-acquainted with their phones, computer screens and office chairs, squeezing recommended amounts of physical activity into each day can be a challenge, according to Tina Lankford, who works in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Physical Activity and Health Branch. Other workers, including letter carriers and manual laborers, might not have a problem meeting the guidelines, she said.
"I would think there are certain occupations where people meet the guidelines and other occupations where people don't," she said.
Chattanooga letter carrier Norm Knott is a testament to that. He's dropped about 10 pounds since he took over a walking route downtown a year ago. The Dunlap, Tenn., resident said not all of his loss has been from the job, but some of it surely has been.
"I've probably lost two or three pounds because of the job," said the trim postman, who walks an estimated nine miles each day on the job.
For those with low activity at work, Ms. Lankford advised extra exercise outside of work. The Rev. Pauline Pezzino said she takes a 10- to 15-mile bicycle ride once a week that helps make up for a sedentary work routine.
"It seems like I move around a lot, but maybe I don't," Mrs. Pezzino said after learning she took the fewest steps of the participants. "I'm moving a lot of steps but in a small area of space."
No perfect number
Dr. Catrine Tudor-Locke, director of the Walking Behavior Laboratory at Pennington, is on the cutting edge of "the science of sitting down" and has worked extensively with step-counting devices called pedometers.
She said there is no universally endorsed ideal number of steps per day, but there is a "general acceptance" within the scientific community of a 10,000-step daily goal. Most people in the United States take around 6,000 per day, though few if any studies have been done to determine how many of those are taken at work, she said.
When told the results of the Times Free Press experiment, Dr. Tudor-Locke said the comparisons coincided with what she would expect, but she was surprised at how many steps the walkers took. Some of the numbers could have been inflated because of extraneous movements or vibrations, she theorized, explaining consumer grade pedometers are not as precise as their more scientific cousins.
"There's nothing shocking," she said.
surprising result
Before finding out the results, Joan Randall, director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism guessed landscapers, mail carriers and construction workers would have high step counts, while teachers, drivers and engineers would have low counts. She was surprised to see attorney Jonathan Turner average more than 8,000 steps a day.
"My guess is that's an attorney that chooses to be active," Ms. Randall said.
Mr. Turner said he'd never thought about the number of steps he takes but chooses to walk to lunch most days and walks the three blocks from his office to the courthouse at least twice daily. Once at the courthouse he takes the stairs rather than the elevator.
"I'm just constantly walking all over from court to court," Mr. Turner said. "I'm not the kind of attorney who sits in an office."
The good news for desk dwellers is that little decisions like Mr. Turner's can make a difference, according to Ms. Randall, who has a stand-up desk similar to the Trek Desk. Taking the stairs or walking over to someone's desk rather than e-mailing can are classic examples of such decisions, she explained.
"People can have the same jobs and one can burn 2,000 more calories just by how they choose to do it," she said.
Employers are beginning to take steps to promote activity, according to Ms. Lankford.
Many worksites offer amenities for "alternative commutes" including bike racks and showers for those cycling into work, she said. Others subsidize gym memberships or provide on-site rec rooms. Even without a treadmill desk, every decision can be a small step toward a healthier lifestyle, Ms. Lankford said.
"All the active living things add up," she said.
Twenty five local people were asked to wear step counters during their eight-hour work days. The totals from a few days were averaged and adjusted for overtime before being compared with other participants.
Results ranged from 19,391 steps by letter carrier Norm Knott to 2,951 steps by Rev. Pauline Pezzino.
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About London Film Festival
The London Film Festival, officially called the BFI London Film Festival is organised annually by the British Film Institute (BFI) since 1953. It is the UK's largest public Festival of its kind and is visited by thousands of film enthusiasts who have the the ability to see over 300 films, documentaries and shorts from all over the world.
The Festival is run in the second half of October and shows the most exciting and original films by internationally established film-makers as well as the emerging ones, while the Festival's visitors also have the ability to see restored archive films. With each year, the London Film Festival also attracts more and more celebrities from the world of motion pictures, some of which take part of the answers and questions sessions. These enable the visitors of the Festival to learn more about the screened films and the art of film making.
London Film Festival Awards
The London Film Festival is above all a public event and it is intended to enable the British public to see films that otherwise may not be seen in the British cinemas. But it also awards the most original and creative film-makers. Four types of awards are presented annually:
- Best Film Award; it is presented to the most original, imaginative and creative motion picture
- Best British Newcomer Award; it is presented to emerging British talents
- The Sutherland Trophy; the award (named after George Sutherland-Leverson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland) is presented to the most original film that is screened during the Festival
- The Grierson Award; it is presented to the best documentary screened during the Festival
The London Film Festival also recognises achievements and work of prominent individuals by awarding them the title of the BFI Fellowship. This award, however, is not presented every year. The honour of the BFI Fellowship may also be awarded to more than one individual. In 1983, when the BFI Fellowship was awarded for the first time there were as many as six recipients of the title.
London Film Festival's Place among Notable Film Festivals
The London Film Festival cannot rival film festivals such as those held in Cannes and Venice which can partly be attributed to the fact that it was established relatively late. Venice Film Festival for instance is held since 1932 which makes it the world's oldest international film festival. But London Film Festival is gaining rapidly in prestige and importance as well which also indicate the growing number of film celebrities that can be seen on the red carpet each year.


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HOW TO do the Triangle Pose
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Records of Zook Funeral Home, Converse Indiana 1904-1922
Found this book at the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana some time ago and just now getting around to extracting the data.
Under the headings for funerals for 1907, I found the following record:
July 21 - Sarah Albright.
Sarah was Sarah Beals (1828-1907), daughter of Nathan C. and Elizabeth (Chew) Beals and the wife of Daniel S. Albright. Sarah was my maternal 4th-great grandaunt.


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Synopsis from Linucon program book: Wanting to build a costume? Grab a seat for some tips and tricks from those who know.
Panelists: Kim Kofmel, Jay Maynard, Cathy Raymond
My impression. There are several ways you can win a costume award at a masquerade. By making audience laugh, for example. By being original. There is also a fairly self-explanatory "workmanship" category. This panel devoted quite a bit of space to the tips and tricks of how to make a costume, and they managed to be quite entertaining while doing that. Far from being tedious, their discussion was enlivened with all kinds of titillating details from the costume history. The panelists also spoke about the psychology of wearing a costume, and the motivation for making one in the first place. All in all, an interesting panel even for those who, like myself, have only a marginal interest in costuming.
Pictures from Linucon 2004 can be found in my photo gallery.
Read more about The Tron Guy in my blog.
Wil McCarthy, a scientist and science fiction author, was the Guest of Honor at ApolloCon 2009. He gave a talk on the work he's been doing in programmable matter. He started off by showing the audience a piece of clear glass. Then he heated the glass with a hair dryer. An irregularly shaped reflective blob grew on the glass -- the heat turned the glass reflective. This was McCarthy's demonstration of materials he's working on in his startup.
Definitions and discussion of programmable matter can be found elsewhere on the web, and McCarthy did not dwell on the theory, but talked about his work in this area. His practical work in programmable matter developed from his nonfiction book "Hacking Matter", which it turn was born from his fiction. He talked about the events that lead to writing of "Hacking Matter", and how it attracted investors' interest, leading to creation of programmable matter startup. McCarthy talked about his company's journey to discovery of viable commercial applications for these materials, and why he avoids the word "nanotechnology" for marketing this technology to investors. He briefly discussed weapon potential and security issues of programmable matter with the audience. Finally, he talked about balancing his science and writing careers, or rather, impossibility thereof.
Pictures from ApolloCon 2009 are available in my photo gallery.
Read more about ApolloCon 2009 in my blog
Science fiction writer and physics professor Gregory Benford was the Guest of Honor at Fencon 2008. On several occasions during convention he shared his thoughts on topics such as American dominance in the world and its role to play in the technological future. Having been in science fiction fandom for four decades, Benford is proud of American science fiction and fandom influence on the world, which he puts in such blunt terms as "We own the future". At the same time he acknowledges that the future is not all rosy, and that science fiction may be the proverbial canary in the coal mine, signaling of darker times to come. Benford's keynote speech on Saturday was the problems facing the world and what can be done about them. Of those, global climate change was the most significant issue. He assured us that whatever is being done to counter it isn't working, because global warming is typically viewed as a moral problem (excessive consumption), when it needs to be seen as an engineering problem. To that end he proposed an unconventional -- or perhaps little known -- approach. At the end of his speech he spent some time on space travel and overpopulation.
Gregory Benford also appeared in the "Science -- fact or crap?" game at Fencon, where two teams of players competed regarding their knowledge of science facts. Read more about it in my blog.
Panelists discuss the process of self-editing. And no, we don't mean just chucking it out the window and starting over. How can you honestly and dispassionately proof and edit your writing? Start with the ending and write toward the beginning; kill your darlings; summarize a scene in one sentence. Finally, funny tales from editors' trenches.
Panelists: Rosemary Clement-Moore, Melanie Miller Fletcher, Alexis Glynn Latner, Julia Mandala, Barbara Winter
Pictures from ApolloCon 2007 are in my photo gallery.
More blog posts from ApolloCon 2007 (in my blog)
More blog posts from other ApolloCons (in my blog)
On September 25, 2005, Book People, an independent bookstore in Austin, TX, hosted a meeting with Neil Gaiman, a phenomenally popular author. Gaiman read an excerpt from his new novel "Anansi Boys", answered questions and signed books.
Gaiman is so funny it's suspicious. Each of his answers to the audience's questions was like a mini stand-up comedy. He cracks a joke in every other sentence. Can he really improvise that well? Or did his agents plant people in the audience with pre-approved questions? :-)
More pictures from this event can be found in this photo album.
On October 4, 2004 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he read an excerpt from his latest book, "The System of the World" (the third and the last one in The Baroque Cycle), gave a talk and signed books. Here are the questions the audience asked him, and his answers:
Q1. How do you your historical research?
Q2. Can you comment briefly on your perception of status of science and philosophy in the current education system?
Q3. Do you have any plans to write more nonfiction?
Q5. The future of metaweb, and is it a good forum to explore how can we get Enlightenment to start again?
Q6. Now that you've been through this process, do you see yourself engaging in the long, long form again?
Q7. You spend that much time just setting the stage for the final conflict. Your prose, your writing style alone is what keeps people coming back. Is that daunting to your publisher?
Q8. When you were here last October, you talked about how you explored history for Cryptonomicon, and the Baroque Cycle. Do you think you reached the end of that?
Q9. Some people are dissatisfied with endings of Neal Stephenson's books...
Q10. Can you talk about Waterhouse and Shaftoe characters, why they appeal to you and why they showed up in the last 4 books?
Q11. I was just wondering if < some author of historical fiction and/or his book> caught your eye while you were writing this.
Q12. Did you develop a lot of material for "Cryptonomicon" and the Baroque Cycle that's not included in the final versions?
Q13. What are your favorite books of all time?
Q14. Are you still a speed metal fan?
Q15. On Neal Stephenson's view of history and how it informs his understanding of current events; and how come current political realities don't play a significant part in his fiction?
On September 25, 2008 Neal Stephenson gave a reading from his latest novel Anathem, signed books and answered audience's questions. This is Stephenson's third reading and Q/A at Book People over the last 4 years. Some of the questions haven't changed much from year to year. Are his projects getting bigger and bigger? Is he ever going to write something short? Which is the favorite of the novels he has written? Why does he prefer to do his research in books, as opposed to search engines? Hint: serendipity. Are there new technologies he is excited about? Other questions are new. Does he have any ideas on posthumanism? Has he been making something cool in the workshop lately? Why is Anathem set on an imaginary world, not Earth?
Panelists at this event are supposed to come up with mundane and science-fictional uses for objects supplied by the audience. They can also use objects they brought themselves. This year's team is C. J. Mills, Steve Wilson, and Chris Roberson. You may never look the same way again at a neti pot, metallic squirrel, or a USB hub.
William Gibson gave a reading, answered audience's questions and signed books in Barnes & Noble on June 11, 2008. He started by saying he was glad to be back in Austin, a city that 14 years ago was ground zero for the "so-called" cyberpunk movement. Then the microphone failed. The irony of this happening right before the speech of a writer who pioneered a new attitude towards technology in science fiction did not escape the audience. After a few attempts by B&N staff to fix the microphone, Gibson gave up and said he'll do a reading a capella. "I don't let technology get in my way," he said. "People have been reading books aloud for centuries. I'm gonna do it the way Byron did it, the way Dylan Thomas did it, except sober." And he read part of the first chapter of his latest novel, "Spook Country".
Then Gibson answered audience's questions. A few of those questions were specifically about "Spook Country", and they didn't make much sense without having read the novel. Others were about writing and Gibson's view of the world in general. Here are a few questions and Gibson's answers. Does he consider his works to be dystopian? Does he create his characters deliberately, or do they spontaneously generate themselves? The latter is definitely the case, as in an example of a character that grew out of a white room. Is there really such a cultural phenomenon as cyberpunk? Last, not knowing much about technology can enable a SF writer to see the forest for the trees.
Pictures available in my photo gallery.
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book: Why have the cyberpunks abandoned the future? Do William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" and Bruce Sterling's "The Zenith Angle" evidence a trend? (And don't forget the pre-2001 "Cryptonomicon" of Neal Stephenson and "Zeitgeist" of Sterling) Are they science fiction? What makes them different from more mainstream techno-thrillers? What does it mean for the future of SF?
Panelists: Chris Nakashima-Brown (moderator), Lawrence Person, Kurt Baty


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Georgia Crisis & Access Line
For access to services and immediate crisis help, call the Georgia Crisis & Access Line (GCAL) at 1-800-715-4225, available 24/7.
DBHDD celebrates DD Day at the Capitol
ATLANTA - More than 1200 supporters gathered at the Capitol steps to celebrate the 15th Annual Disability Day at the Capitol. Frank Berry, Commissioner for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD), joined the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities (GCDD) as well as Governor Nathan Deal and other advocates to address this year's theme, "What's Your Connection?"
Commissioner Berry acknowledged supporters holding signs that read, "We are just people," and stated, "You know I disagree. You are not just people. You are awesome people." He also praised DBHDD's team for moving more than 900 people off the short-term planning list since July 1, 2012. The short-term planning list is comprised of individuals with developmental disabilities who are waiting for supports through the NOW and COMP waivers.
"People who were in desperate need of services have gotten services, but we will do better," said Commissioner Berry. "Your voices are being heard, but we need to do even more in that building behind me," he said referring to the Capitol. "We have never had a governor and a legislature that have been more supportive of what we are trying to accomplish. We need to take advantage of this day."
For more information about DBHDD services, please visit www.dbhdd.georgia.gov.
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