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High Water: A Memoir
Richard Spitz
Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 126 Price: (paperback) $13.99 ISBN: 9781532008306 Reviewed: February, 2017 Author Website: Visit »
In High Water: A Memoir, author Richard Spitz recalls his early days, while also offering often-entertaining stories that revolve around people he's met.
In workmanlike prose with occasional issues—names spelled inconsistently, misquoting famous lines, and passages that meander—Spitz describes growing up with an abusive father who wanted him to achieve great things. The story opens with the author and two friends running away from Maine to try and make it in Florida; eventually all three return home. Kicked out of the prep school his dad sent him to for sneaking out at night, he again tries to find his own way, working a variety of jobs and eventually agreeing to attend law school.
After this part, which takes up roughly 50 pages, most stories focus on the people Spitz was surrounded by: a mix of conveniently available women, moonshiners, grifters, and cops.
Many of Spitz's stories take surprising turns. An anecdote about his attendance at a local Elks club dance, for example, leads to the revelation that the bandleader had murdered an entire family: "The police handcuffed and took him right off the bandstand." An innkeeper Spitz knows is involved in a convoluted love triangle and his death is ruled a suicide, but the author suggests it was murder. Such stories are fun to read, but none are explored in detail and they detract from the feeling of reading a memoir. The last chapter is a jarring and aggressive criticism of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Spitz could take three or four of his juicier stories and expand them into a pulpy joyride in which he plays a small part. Or he could focus more on the art of memoir and offer greater insight into his father's temper, his mother's surviving an abusive marriage, and how those things shaped him growing up. Here he tries to do both, to mixed effect. While High Water has its moments, it could be so much more.


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My oh my, your words have gone far and wide. And an interview with the Gettys….there's some gifted folks.
God bless your continued work in the world.
Thanks, Jody. I don't know that I have that much to say or that what I do say has that much value, but I keep plugging away at it just the same.


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INSTAGRAM BACKPEDALS ON HORIZONTAL SCROLLING AFTER USER OUTRAGE
The popular social media app's unannounced refresh, which Instagram has since labeled a bug, took users by surprise Thursday. Instead of scrolling through posts vertically, some people were forced to swipe and tap left and right through their feeds, similar to how the app's "stories" feature works. Users went berserk on social media, with #instagramupdate trending on Twitter. Instagram quickly reverted back to the original top-to-bottom scrolling feature even before everyone had seen the update.
"That was supposed to be a very small test that went broad by accident," Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, tweeted alongside a grimacing emoji. "Should be fixed now."
Earlier this year, a redesign of Snap Inc.'s Snapchat was met with similar outrage and the company has struggled since. The change separated chats and postings of friends from the rest of the app—the content from media organizations that is paired with advertising sold by Snap. The platform has since seen a decline in the number of daily users, a key metric for social media companies.
Facebook is increasingly relying on growth at Instagram, which now has about one billion users, as its flagship social media network has almost reached saturation point. Future revenue growth at the company depends on Facebook's ability to shift marketers' interest to new ads in messaging services and marketing spots in "stories," especially on Instagram.
source: Bloomberg.com
Author perukelPosted on December 31, 2018 Categories NewsTags horizontal, Instagram, outrage, sideways, swipe
Viewers Enjoy Brand Videos on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram
Where are consumers most receptive to commercial videos? Where do viewers not just put up with but actually enjoy brand videos? According to a report from Animoto, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram lead the way.
Ananimoto, a company that helps businesses make videos quickly, released its State of Social Video report today, and the results are useful. One question asked viewers the platforms where they most enjoyed watching social videos from brands. People were allowed to pick up to three answers.
Facebook came it first with 65 percent of those surveyed, YouTube next with 61 percent, and Instagram third with 18 percent. That's a big drop off before the number three spot, and it suggests that there are really only two platforms where people enjoy watching branded video.
If a large number of people really enjoy brand videos on those two platforms, what type of content do they want to see? The top vote-getter was how-to videos (35 percent), followed by sale videos (18 percent), and top 5 lists (13 percent). In this question, those surveyed could only pick one answer.
For the record, the least popular types of brand videos on social platforms are editorial or topical videos (4 percent) and videos featuring the company founder or owner (4 percent).
Other choice stats from the report:
– 46 percent of consumers watch more video ads on social media than on TV.
– 73 percent of consumers say a brand's social media presence has had an impact on a purchase decision.
– 48 percent of consumers say a brand video on Instagram has impacted a purchase decision (compared to 31 percent who said the same in 2017).
read more here: www.onlinevideo.net
Author perukelPosted on October 24, 2018 Categories NewsTags Brand video, Facebook, Instagram, OTT, Youtube
Soon Every Social Media Platform Will Look Like Every Other One
– by David Bloom
If this year's VidCon is any guide, its very busy organizers will soon have a much less difficult time deciding which of the many social-media platforms it should feature in coming editions of the conference. At the rate things are going, all the sites will look alike anyway.
As it was, this year's online influencer gathering featured tens of thousands of fans, dozens of panels and performances, and all the usual big platforms alongside newcomers such as LinkedIn and Twitch. Many platforms had news to tout, but too often, their "news" sounded very familiar.
Video? Check. Long-form video? Check. Disappearing posts? Messaging? Live Video? Monetization tools? Check, check, check. And yes, check.
Call it the Big Schmear. The "cream cheese" of content and services on your favorite big bagel of a social-media platform will soon be festooned with pretty much every ingredient that everyone else has on theirs. And if anyone comes up with a new idea, everyone else will be quick to take a bite, by buying or copying it.
Everyone Wants To Be Everyone Else
That creeping, slightly creepy convergence was a constant source of conversation among those I talked with throughout the show. We were all discussing the implications of recent news like:
– Instagram announced IGTV, a standalone (though tightly integrated) mobile app for video posts of up to an hour. The goal: to be more like YouTube, and because it's a mobile-friendly vertical format, Snapchat.
– YouTube announced more and more widely available monetization tools for its creators, including merchandising, subscription memberships, and event ticketing. The goal: to be more like Twitch. Musical.Ly and others with plentiful ways for creators to cash in on their audiences. .
– Twitch owner Amazon debuted its Merch merchandise fulfillment service, and spotlighted licensed goodies from veteran online stars Hannah Hart and Shane Dawson. Amazon also sponsored an "industry lounge" on the show's top floor that fed and watered many brand and online-video executives. The lounge showed off even more Amazon offerings, like Handmade, a product service that seems a lot like Etsy.
– Snapchat extended its Shows, short-form episodic videos used heretofore by big publishers, to creators such as makeup guru Patrick Starrr. Snapchat also will begin sharing ad revenue with its influencers. The goal: to be more influencer friendly, like YouTube and Instagram.
– Facebook launched FB.GG, which gathers the site's game-related creators and content in one place. The goal: to be more like Twitch and Gaming.YouTube.
These are only the latest lurches toward feature convergence. Most notoriously, of course, Facebook and its various holdings have been shamelessly copying every useful bit of Snapchat. In a minor moment of karmic justice, the copying hasn't forestalled the flight of teens from Facebook.
In the past couple of years, Facebook also launched Watch (to be more like YouTube and Netflix) and Live (to keep up with Twitch, YouNow, LiveMe and similar players). More recently, Facebook commissioned CNN, ABC News, and other traditional media sites to create Watch-specific news shows. This may be another Facebook copycat move, given the notable, if uneven, success of news outlets on Snapchat Discover.
I'm dubious about all these #IAlso initiatives. It doesn't take much innovation to straight copy Snapchat Stories, especially when your version even uses the same name, as on Instagram. Conversely, fans haven't punished Instagram, which announced that it now has 1 billion users, up 200 million just since last fall.
Does More Make You Better?
The bigger question, of course, is whether adding everyone else's features makes your favorite platform any better, or any more of a destination, or for that matter, any better a place for an influencer to ply her trade, or to cut a deal with a brand.
Every successful platform to date was built on its own unique DNA, the user interface and mechanics that made it work for the audience it created and the influencers who rose to prominence there. Doing a Jurassic Park on that DNA, extracting and bolting on the features of another platform to create some bellowing hybrid beast, doesn't automatically translate to new fans or a better experience for anybody.
Now admittedly, not everyone at VidCon was as concerned as I am. One panel of industry notables was asked, "do all the platforms have to evolve to do everything?" Maybe not, some said.
Ivana Kirkbride, GM of OTT for Verizon's Oath unit, insisted that "every platform serves a specific purpose." Even look-alike functions manifest in different ways on different platforms, she said. "Facebook Watch is a very different experience" from YouTube, Netflix, Snapchat, traditional TV or even whatever IG TV becomes.
I'm certainly willing to accord Kirkbride some deference, given her run as a top executive at YouTube and Vessel before taking over Verizon's Go90 unit and now all of its over-the-top video initiatives.
And long-time media critic and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis suggested that we're only beginning to see what's possible with online video, as it transforms nearly every corner of the media business, bringing lots of opportunity for more features and engagement in the future.
Things Are Looking Good For Influencers, But Diversification Still Key
I do expect, however, that the coming convergence means a lot more work for influencers themselves, and probably far less clarity about where they should devote their efforts.
Late on Day 2, I slipped into a standing-room-only workshop on branded content featuring influencer Brent Rivera and WhoSay Executive VP of Talent Harvey Schwartz. The workshop detailed the kinds of clever cross-platform posting and marketing strategies that influencers and advertisers must use in an era where, as Schwartz put it, "organic reach is dead."
The highly technical conversation was not for neophytes. But it reminded me how far the industry has come in just a few years. In a conference room far above the milling crowds of pre-pubescent fans on the first floor of the Anaheim Convention Center, two of online video's more prominent members talked about the science of online influence.
read more here: tubefilter.com
Author perukelPosted on June 28, 2018 June 28, 2018 Categories NewsTags Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, social media, Twitch, Watch
Video On Instagram Goes Pro
Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo and video-sharing app, is going pro. Last week, the company launched IGTV, a new long-form video app, which will also be viewable inside the main Instagram app.
IGTV features much longer videos than those on the main app, with a heavy emphasis on ones from professional creators. As with Snapchat, the videos will be in the vertical format which is increasingly becoming the default on mobile.
Instagram has tremendous scale, but it saw room to grow in the video ad market.
It's hard to ignore the opportunity. According to eMarketer, U.S. digital video ad spending will rise to $17.87 billion this year, up 22% from last year. It is expected to jump 19% again next year. Meanwhile, 181.7 million Americans will watch video on their smartphones at least once per month, up 6% from last year.
"Instagram's new video hub is all about stealing mobile video views away from YouTube and Snapchat, while making Instagram the preferred choice for all creators," Eric Lam, CEO of the influencer marketing platform Revfluence, tells Digital News Daily. "It's in line with Facebook's mission to be king of the hill on mobile video, especially given video's unparalleled importance to brands today and the shift by younger audiences from Facebook to Instagram."
Instagram itself is on an explosive growth streak, and the expansion into long-form video appears designed to keep that going. Per eMarketer, Instagram will generate $5.48 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year, up 70.4% from last year. It has nearly 105 million users, up 13% from last year.
That scale is very appealing to brands, influencers and professional video creators looking to reach that massive audience. A dedicated app for long-form premium content, combined with a vertical for that content in the main app, could provide new prime real estate for marketers looking for a brand-safe place to advertise on the mobile platform.
Of course, influencers, creators and brands should also be ready to jump to another platform should the need arise, Telaria CEO Mark Zagorski tells Digital News Daily.
read more here: mediapost.com
Author perukelPosted on June 27, 2018 Categories NewsTags IGTV, Instagram
Teens leaving Facebook for YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat
Until recently, Facebook had dominated the social media landscape among America's youth – but it is no longer the most popular online platform among teens, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Today, roughly half (51 per cent) of US teens ages 13 to 17 say they use Facebook, notably lower than the shares who use YouTube, Instagram or Snapchat.
This shift in teens' social media use is just one example of how the technology landscape for young people has evolved since the Center's last survey of teens and technology use in 2014-2015. Most notably, smartphone ownership has become a nearly ubiquitous element of teen life: 95 per cent of teens now report they have a smartphone or access to one. These mobile connections are in turn fuelling more-persistent online activities: 45 per cent of teens now say they are online on a near-constant basis.
The survey also finds there is no clear consensus among teens about the effect that social media has on the lives of young people today. Minorities of teens describe that effect as mostly positive (31 per cent) or mostly negative (24 per cent), but the largest share (45 per cent) says that effect has been neither positive nor negative.
These are some of the main findings from the Center's survey of US teens conducted in March and April 2018. Throughout the report, "teens" refers to those ages 13 to 17.
Facebook is no longer the dominant online platform among teens
The social media landscape in which teens reside looks markedly different than it did as recently as three years ago. In the Center's 2014-2015 survey of teen social media use, 71 per cent of teens reported being Facebook users. No other platform was used by a clear majority of teens at the time: Around half (52 per cent) of teens said they used Instagram, while 41 per cent reported using Snapchat.
In 2018, three online platforms other than Facebook – YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat – are used by sizable majorities of this age group. Meanwhile, 51 per cent of teens now say they use Facebook. The shares of teens who use Twitter and Tumblr are largely comparable to the shares who did so in the 2014-2015 survey.
For the most part, teens tend to use similar platforms regardless of their demographic characteristics, but there are exceptions. Notably, lower-income teens are more likely to gravitate toward Facebook than those from higher-income households – a trend consistent with previous Center surveys. Seven-in-ten teens living in households earning less than $30,000 a year say they use Facebook, compared with 36 per cent whose annual family income is $75,000 or more.
It is important to note there were some changes in question wording between Pew Research Center's 2014-2015 and 2018 surveys of teen social media use. YouTube and Reddit were not included as options in the 2014-2015 survey but were included in the current survey. In addition, the 2014-2015 survey required respondents to provide an explicit response for whether or not they used each platform, while the 2018 survey presented respondents with a list of sites and allowed them to select the ones they use. Even so, it is clear the social media environment today revolves less around a single platform than it did three years ago.
When it comes to which one of these online platforms teens use the most, roughly one-third say they visit Snapchat (35 per cent) or YouTube (32 per cent) most often, while 15 per cent say the same of Instagram. By comparison, 10 per cent of teens say Facebook is their most-used online platform, and even fewer cite Twitter, Reddit or Tumblr as the site they visit most often.
Author perukelPosted on June 4, 2018 Categories NewsTags Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, teens, Youtube
Engagement with Instagram Videos Is Surging
Savvy publishers are finding success on Instagram with video, a format the social media platform added to its app back in 2013 in a move that seemed revolutionary at the time—and still may prove to be.
According to new data from social media analytics firm NewsWhip, photos are typically still generating higher engagement levels than videos among Instagram users. (NewsWhip counted a "like" or a comment as engagement, which it also called a "content interaction.")
But engagement numbers for videos posted to top media publisher accounts worldwide increased by 53% year over year in May, surpassing the 46% growth rate seen for photos over the same timeframe.
Some news and media organizations appear to be taking note of video's appeal among Instagram users, and a select few have been adding such content at a furious pace. Sports Illustrated, for example, posted just eight videos to its Instagram account in May 2016, but upped that figure to 325 this May. ESPN, for its part, more than doubled its number of Instagram videos over the same period.
Sports-focused site Bleacher Report outpaced any other publisher by posting 479 videos on Instagram in May 2017. The Turner Broadcasting System-owned site seems to have figured out a winning formula for driving engagement on the platform.
NewsWhip found that Bleacher Report logged more than 74.5 million content interactions in May—more than 10 times the second-place finisher, Fox News, among the platforms it examined. BuzzFeed News also saw an impressive improvement in its content interaction figures, with engagement levels increasing by 687% between May 2016 and May 2017.
There's an obvious reason for the spike in the number of videos posted to these media properties' Instagram accounts: Publishers have increasingly been turning to video ads to bolster their bottom lines. According to a forecast from Dentsu Aegis Network, worldwide ad spending on digital video will jump 25.4% next year.
The trend of increased social video advertising is reflected in sentiments expressed by those overseeing ad budgets. An April survey of marketers in the US carried out by cloud-based video creation company increase spending on Instagram video ads over the coming year.
https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Engagement-with-Instagram-Videos-Surging/1016454
Author perukelPosted on September 12, 2017 Categories NewsTags analytics, engagement, Instagram, Newship
YouTube's Teen Viewers Complain of Too Many Ads
YouTube is accessed daily by more US teens than any other social platform, but these viewers also say it has too many ads.
More than four in 10 teen YouTube users ages 12 to 17 say there are too many ads on the platform, according to a January 2017 survey from Forrester Research. eMarketer projects that 23.2 million 12- to 17-year-olds will watch digital video monthly this year.
Snapchat and Instagram were tied as the two platforms teens were least likely to feel had too many ads. Just over one in 10 teen users of each platform complained about excessive ads.
But a heavy ad load hasn't deterred teens from using YouTube. The study also found that 77% of teens use it daily, compared with 55% who use Facebook, the second most popular social network among the demographic.
Teens appear willing to put up with ads on YouTube, along with other services like Facebook, which 26% of users said had too many ads.
The type of ad being served may have an effect on whether or not teen users notice how plentiful those ads might be.
"Teens might think there are too many ads on YouTube because YouTube ads are pre-roll or sometimes mid-roll video ads that users have to either watch, or click to skip after a few seconds," said Debra Aho Williamson, principal analyst at eMarketer.
"They may be more likely to skim right by ads that appear on Facebook or other social platforms, as the ads are native to the service," she said.
An earlier study by IPG Media Lab and YuMe found that pre-roll ads—the kind commonly served on YouTube—were considered the least interruptive video format by US internet users overall.
https://www.emarketer.com/Article/YouTubes-Teen-Viewers-Complain-of-Too-Many-Ads/1016436
Author perukelPosted on September 8, 2017 Categories NewsTags ads, Instagram, snapchat, Youtube
Will Snapchat's Data Play Fend Off Competition?
Wall Street investors seem undecided about whether Snapchat is indeed the wave of the future or just a flash in the pan.
But one month after its IPO, the messaging app's execs are doggedly focused on broadening Snapchat's appeal to brands—notably direct response-minded companies.
"Snapchat has a perfect opportunity to become a direct response powerhouse, especially for location-based marketing to millennials," said David Deal, digital marketing consultant. "Though Snapchat needs to mine data about millennials more effectively to beat Facebook and Instagram."
To that end, effective April 3, millennial marketers will be able to zero in on Snapchat users who are most likely to download their brand's app, targeting slivers or swaths of the platform's 160 million users who have shown interest in either the brand or the functionality it's offering. These app-install ads allow the marketer to set cost-per-download goals in a measure that's designed to get app marketers of all budgets into Snapchat's business client pool.
Snapchat, part of Snap Inc., has ramped up its machine-learning and audience-segmenting capabilities for app installs since its beta product went live in October—to date, it had offered only rudimentary targeting tools to a select number of brands. The new system charges ad buyers on a cost-per-thousand-impressions scale that's based on auction-style, competitive bidding. "[It's a] cost-efficient way to drive app installs right from Snapchat," explained Peter Sellis, Snap's director of monetization product.
Also today, brands can serve follow-up ads (re-marketing, in industry parlance) to those who have interacted with Snapchat's sponsored lenses, geofilters or videos. Such behavioral data can be employed to reel in everything from a fitness app download, to a test-drive appointment for an automaker to a shoe purchase via ecommerce. The company believes advertisers will want to take aim at consumers in what direct response practitioners call the "consideration stage."
"We've been listening closely to direct response advertisers," Sellis revealed.
He's listening for good reason: eMarketer's latest figures for 2016 had the U.S. app-install advertising space valued at $5.7 billion. Facebook has reportedly, at times, seen up to 20 percent of its ad revenue, which totaled nearly $26.9 billion last year, from app installs. Google is increasingly a huge app-install contender, and Pinterest just last week rolled out its own app-install ads system. So, Snapchat's competition is fierce.
"Right now, Snapchat doesn't move users outside its own environment, so we would expect a longer time for user behavior to adapt," remarked Emmy Spahr, media director at SapientRazorfish. "Pinterest, on the other hand, actively works across other websites and shopping experiences, so users are already engaging with the platform and websites—adding app downloads here would be seen as a value add."
http://www.adweek.com/digital/will-snapchats-data-play-help-fend-off-competition-from-facebook-and-instagram/
Author perukelPosted on April 3, 2017 Categories NewsTags competition, Facebook, Instagram, snapchat

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The university is taking more steps to be carbon-neutral and reduce fossil fuel usage, while also banning the sale of single-use, plastic water bottles on campus
Jenny Hellwig , Staff Writer
The Office of Sustainability and Energy Education rolled out major sustainability initiatives this year including a new solar project, a ban on plastic water bottles on campus, and a move away from fossil-fuel powered heating.
Many of these decisions were made under new leadership. Jane Stewart was named the new director of the office this spring. She has been working on Washington and Lee energy conservation programs since 2011, and co-chairs the University Sustainability Committee.
In 2007, Washington and Lee made a commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050, and the university has already reduced greenhouse gas emissions by over 40% since then, according to the Sustainability website.
Stewart said that she feels really confident that the university will live up to this commitment.
"And I feel pretty confident that we're going to accomplish it a lot sooner than 2050," she said.
This spring, Washington and Lee partnered with solar development company SunEnergy1 to begin construction on an off-site solar array located in North Carolina. Stewart said the array will produce as much electricity that is used by the university in a given year, and will feed into our regional energy grid.
"When we look at our campus carbon footprint, electricity has historically been the biggest piece of our emissions profile," she said. "This project has given us the opportunity to address that aspect of our emissions in a really impactful way."
The solar project is currently under construction, and Stewart is hopeful it will be completed by early next year.
Washington and Lee also ended the sale of plastic, single-use bottled water on campus, beginning this term. The move was accompanied by an increase in the number of bottle-filling stations on campus and a decision to give all first-year students a voucher for a free, reusable Hydro Flask water bottle.
Jules Seay, '24, former class representative for the University Sustainability Committee and current sustainability chairman for Alpha Kappa Alpha, helped draft the report about banning plastic bottles.
Seay explained that although it's easy to compost at Washington and Lee because the university has its own system on campus, recycling plastic in Lexington is more difficult because there are not many recycling centers.
"We should eliminate at least 11 thousand plastic bottles that would otherwise have gone into the waste stream and hopefully—and so far the feedback indicates this is true—we can do that without really having inconvenienced anybody," Stewart said.
Seay said that giving first-years vouchers for Hydro Flasks would benefit the environment without putting strain on students to make big changes in their regular routine.
"It's fun, it's trendy, and people are kind of already doing it," she said. "That's kind of why we targeted it—because it's easy to implement without having to educate a whole bunch of people on science and pollution."
Stewart also said that Washington and Lee is beginning to take steps towards moving off of fossil fuels in their power plant for heating.
She said that the university currently uses a steam-based heating system, which is powered by natural gas. But they are looking to gradually move to a system based on low-temperature hot water, which can be powered by renewable or geothermal energy.
Carole Bailey is the director of Capital Projects, a group that manages Washington and Lee's annual capital budget. She said that this process will begin with the new Master Plan construction. Natural gas use currently contributes to around 35% of our campus emissions, Bailey said.
"We're upgrading our infrastructure to get away from natural gas," she said. "We haven't identified a timeline for full conversion, because that is a couple of decades worth—it's going to take some time to do that."
In the next four to five years, the goal is for there to be at least four or five buildings with heating systems converted from steam to low-temperature hot water, Bailey said.
"It's really transformational that we're even able to begin taking those steps right now," Stewart said. "There are not a lot of campuses our size that are already embarking on that change."
Beyond the changes happening on the administrative level, students are finding unique ways to make a positive environmental impact. For example, last week Seay hosted a t-shirt upcycling event with Alpha Kappa Alpha to combat clothes waste on campus.
"You don't have to be a science major or environmental studies major to speak up," Seay said. "Everyone should have an input on sustainability on campus because it affects all of us one way or another."
Stewart said that her office hopes to help students see how sustainability initiatives can be implemented in real life, along with the challenges surrounding them.
"This solar project that we were finally able to do, there were so many obstacles that seemed insurmountable, and we ended up taking a different approach than we initially even knew existed," Stewart said. "Something that I'm really hopeful that this office will be able to do more of is to make all of our initiatives completely open and transparent for students and professors to use as case studies."


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use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\ParamConverter;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Wallabag\CoreBundle\Entity\User;
use Wallabag\CoreBundle\Entity\Entry;
use Pagerfanta\Adapter\DoctrineORMAdapter;
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class RssController extends Controller
{
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Annmarie Skin Care > DIY > What is a Tincture?
We often talk about tinctures in our articles about herbs and herbal medicines, so we want to make sure that you know exactly what we're talking about.
An easy way to describe it is to say that a tincture is alcohol with concentrated medicinal plant properties in it.
To get a little bit more specific, every type of plant has different sets of alkaloids and water soluble properties in it. The process of creating a tincture pulls those medicinal properties from the inside of the plant and preserves them in a liquid form that we can easily ingest.
Most of the time a Western Herbalist will give you a tincture made with more than one herb. Each of these herbs is first made into a simple tincture, then added to the formula with a very specific number of milliliters. Each formula is designed to work synergistically to treat your ailment.
Infusion – This is just a fancy word for tea. Pouring hot water over an herb and drinking it is, for most of us, our first experience making our own medicine. This is best for leafy/flowery herbs, like when you make your chamomile/mint bedtime tea!
Decoction – If you have ever been to a Chinese Medicine practitioner, they probably gave you a bag of herbs and they probably told you to put them in a pot with water and boil them for 30-60 minutes. You decocted those herbs. This is the best way to extract roots and bark with water.
Extract – This is a very basic term that doesn't have a solvent expressly attached to it. An extract might be made with alcohol, glycerine, honey, oil, or even water.
Glyceride – If you have purchased herbal remedies for kids from a health food store, chances are you purchased a glyceride. It's essentially a tincture made with glycerine instead of alcohol.
Acetum – This is a medicinal vinegar. Fire Cider is an example of an acetum. Vinegar is the best at pulling out minerals, so I often add vinegar to alcohol tinctures for an added mineral boost!
Medicinal Honey – Just your classic raw honey with fresh herbs infused over time. YUM! I like to grind up my herbs into a powder and add them to the honey and just eat it!
Here's how to make a basic folk tincture. Of course, we can make it more complicated (and we can add math) but it's always good to start out with the most basic form of medicine making.
Are you using a fresh herb or a dry herb? Most herbs can be made into wonderful medicine when they're dry, but some are only really effective when they're fresh (like St. John's Wort), so make sure that you know about your medicine.
The alcohol that you use is another important factor. Remember that fresh plants have water in them and dried plants don't, so your water content will increase when you make a fresh plant tincture. Vodka, brandy, your family's moonshine—any type of spirits make beautiful tinctures.
3) Pour your alcohol over your herb so that it is completely covered.
If you're using arial parts of the plant, they might float. I like to put pretty rocks or crystals on top of the plant material to hold it down.
4) Let sit for 2-4 weeks.
Look at it, talk to it, shake it—make sure you give your medicine attention and love.
5) Strain out the alcohol and compost the mark (the spent plant material).
The alcohol has the medicinal properties in it, so that's your tincture!
Note: Some herbs, like reishi, have different constituents that need an additional step for extraction. This goes back to knowing your medicine.
6) Bottle the tincture and keep it in a cool, dark place.
Voilà! You just made your own medicine!
Make sure that you look up the proper dosage of your tincture and make sure that you don't give someone medicine that you haven't tried out yourself.
If you're not interested in using alcohol for your tincture you can always use a different solvent. You would follow the same process, just replace the alcohol with something like glycerin, vinegar, or honey. An alcohol tincture will last indefinitely (if the alcohol content is above 25%) but other types of medicines do have a shelf life, varying from a few months to a few years.
Have you ever made your own medicine? Share your recipe below!
There are two types of Solomon's Seal. Here in the West we have False Solomon's Seal and in the East there is True Solomon's Seal. You're right when you say not many people know about it or use it, but it's a wonderful ally! Unfortunately, it is one of those plants that really needs to be conserved right now and even though it's a great plant to know in case of an emergency, I would suggest working with other plant allies if you can. OR grow your Solomon's Seal! A good reference book to learn more about it is Alf's 300 Herbs.
I've been healing from Lyme, babesia and bartonella infections using herbs. Stephen Buhner's books are a wealth of information, for treating these infections and just on general herbal medicine. He also has a list of suppliers. I've been making my own tinctures for almost a year now, and its worked out pretty well. I've had some slight issues, since a couple herbs Im using would be better fresh but I can only get dried. But the dried herb tinctures work really well. I've been using standardized tinctures, with specific amounts of herb and alcohol/water solution. The folk method described above is perfectly valid, but I went with standardized since I'm treating some nasty infections.
They do need to be shaken daily and stored in a cool, dry, dark place. Also need to make sure the bottle is mostly full, since they can mold if there's too much air.
Mountain Rose Herbs, Monteagle Herbs, Monterey Bay Spice Company, and 1st Chinese Herbs are all good sources for dried herbs. Alchemical Solutions sells organic pure grain alcohol, which you need to dilute to make dried herb tinctures. Everclear is a pure alcohol vodka, but its not organic.
Regarding Herbalism and the various tincture info as well as Carol Tozer's comment(how does one screen the companies which state organic/non-gmo ingredients, etc.? and I believe we're all adults, we do not need, nor want any further gov't regulations).
I say that not for sympathy but for patience with questions I might ask that seem silly or obvious. Thank you for kindness in advance. ????
So, if anyone would recommend books, blogs and suppliers(any trusted resources), please email me at [email protected]. (Yes, the Internet is a treasure trove of incredible info but I do not trust myself and my confidence is zeroed…so many choices out there that I get lost and frustrated). So looking forward to finding myself and my steadiness; having always been interested in a holistic lifestyle but none of this mixed with my former life, so blessed now to have found a Blog which resonates within, thank you Annmarie & company!
I have been making tinctures of all kinds for many years…. very successfully. I recently bought Echinacea root from my regular herb supplier in Toronto, and did my usual routine,,,,, and it began fermenting, I threw it out… Iuse really good quality brandy…. so I called and told the company, so they sent me a powdered version…. same thing.??? I am stunned, why is this..??


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Ben Wheatley is certainly a versatile director. Over a relatively short career, he's given us surreal dark comedy in Sightseers, dystopian sci fi in High-Rise and a bloated snore-fest in the endlessly protracted action movie Free Fire. Now he plunges himself headlong into a remake of Rebecca, clearly undeterred by the fact that many cinephiles regard the 1940 version as Alfred Hitchock's finest hour.
Daphne Du Maurier's source novel is well-regarded but there's little doubt that it's a bit of a potboiler – albeit a brilliantly executed one. Essentially a contemporary riff on Jane Eyre, it has been memorably described as a ghost story without a ghost, which seems about right.
The unnamed protagonist of the story, played here by Lily James, is suffering through the thankless task of being a 'lady's companion' to the extremely unpleasant Mrs Van Hopper (Ann Dowd, being effortlessly loathsome). Mind you, the suffering takes place on the French Riviera, so I can't help feeling that things really could be a lot worse.
When she encounters eligible widower Maxim De Winter (Armie Hammer), she thinks herself to be completely out of his league, but a whirlwind romance duly ensues and it isn't long before she's whisked back to Manderley, his stately home in Cornwall, complete with battalions of servants and a baleful housekeeper, Mrs Danvers (Kristen Scott Thomas). The latter is clearly devoted to her employer but more particularly to the memory of his late wife. The newly married Mrs De Winter soon discovers that Rebecca is a tough act to follow – and that there's something decidedly fishy about her death…
Jane Goldman's screenplay gets quite a few things right and redresses omissions left out of the earlier film, mainly due to pressure from the Hayes Code. This version adheres to Du Maurier's downbeat conclusion, which is a typically reckless move on Wheatley's part, but it pays off.
Lily James nails the heroine's awkward vulnerability, while Hammer gives us a much more likeable De Winter than Laurence Oliver's rather saturnine performance. Furthermore, Scott Thomas is a perfect Mrs Danvers: cool, calculating – and with a prowling sexuality.
There are other good things too. In his sumptuous location photography, Laurie Rose opts for vivid colours rather than the usual muted tones and somehow captures the era perfectly. I also enjoy the inclusion of several traditional folk songs, which really shouldn't work, but do, giving certain sequences a kind of Wicker Man vibe, helping to accentuate the lead character's sense of alienation.
If I've a major criticism, it's that this Rebecca is somewhat lacking in suspense – a quality that Mr Hitchcock knew all about. In the film's latter stretches, where Mrs De Winter has to turn detective in order to save her husband's reputation – and life – she seems to achieve her objective without breaking a sweat. Of course, the fact that she even wants to help him is itself a matter of some controversy.
Du Maurier's story is ultimately nihilistic, as though her primary concern is to give the subject of romance a thoroughly good kicking. Wheatley colludes in this endeavour, and the result is well worth viewing.
Posted in Film and tagged Ann Dowd, Armie Hammer, Ben Wheatley, Daphne Du Maurier, Free Fire, High-Rise, Jane Eyre, Jane Goldman, Kristen Scott Thomas, Laurence Oliver, Laurie Rose, Lily James, Rebecca, Sightseers, The Wicker Man on October 24, 2020 by Bouquets & Brickbats. 1 Comment
Has there ever been a decent video-game movie adaptation? From Super Mario to Assassin's Creed, the concept seems somehow doomed to failure. Tomb Raider has, of course, already been tried before – with middling results and Angelina Jolie in the title role. Now here's Alicia Vikander staking her claim to that fabled bow and arrow, and to be fair to her, she certainly looks the part. She's clearly put in hours down the gym honing the old biceps and triceps. She's also ditched the ridiculous hot pants of her video avatar in favour of clothing more suitable for jungle exploration, which is, I think, a good thing. I'm not sure about the posh boarding school accent, though.
We first meet her in London, where she's earning pennies as a bicycle courier, rather than signing the paperwork that will entitle her to the Croft mansion and its accompanying billions. (Yeah, right, like that would happen.) You see, her father, Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West), has been missing for seven years, but Lara, always a bit of a daddy's girl, isn't quite ready to give up on his possible return, despite her legal guardian, Ana (Kristen Scott Thomas), continually urging her to sign on the dotted line. It seems that Lord Richard has disappeared while looking for a legendary island off the coast of Japan, the last resting place of an evil Empress, reputed to have the power to destroy the world. When Lara discovers her father's secret lair in the cellar of his stately home, she also finds a map of the island and a video of her father urging her to destroy it. Does she follow his advice? Well, it would be a pretty short and dull story if she did…
Instead, she heads to Japan and enlists the help of ship's captain Lu Ren (Daniel Wu) – somebody else with father-issues – to take her to the island. Once there, she discovers that an evil organisation is also looking for the tomb of the Empress and has sent the ruthless (and very sweaty) Mathias Vogel (Walter Goggins) to oversee the operation. But who will reach the tomb first? And what kind of welcome are they likely to receive?
For all the running, leaping, swimming and fighting that Lara is regularly called upon to perform, the film feels curiously turgid and only fizzes into life intermittently. The blend of Indiana Jones-ish high adventure mixed with a touch of the paranormal is probably a fair encapsulation of the original game but, no matter how high the production values employed by director Roar Uthaug, there's a terrible sense of 'seen it all before' hovering over nearly every scene. And… does it really matter that the storyline doesn't make an awful lot of sense? It does to me, anyway. But I'm finicky like that.
This is a thick-eared slab of undemanding light entertainment that never really cooks up the necessary head of steam needed to power its own concept. A post-credits sequence optimistically sets up a possible sequel but, based on this, I certainly won't be the first in the queue to watch it.
And I ask again. Has there ever been a decent video-game movie adaptation? If so, I haven't seen it.
Posted in Film and tagged Alicia Vikander, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Wu, Dominic West, Kristen Scott Thomas, Roar Uthaug, Tomb Raider, Walter Goggins on March 23, 2018 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
Biopics can be a bit like buses. No sooner has Brian Cox's Churchill drifted over the horizon than it's Gary Oldman's turn to don the homburg hat and wave a zeppelin-sized cigar in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour. While Cox made a perfectly good fist of his portrayal of the infamous war leader, Oldman submits a simply astonishing performance, a stellar tub-thumping object lesson in how to act everyone else off the screen. Despite several nominations down the years, he's never won an Academy Award, but this should surely be the role to rectify that situation.
It's May 1940 and the British forces in France are being disastrously defeated by the might of Hitler's Germany. The unpopular (and ailing) Neville Chamberlain (Ronald Pickup) opts to step down from the post of Prime Minister and a coalition government looks around for somebody to take his place. It's a poisoned chalice and nobody on either side makes any secret of the fact that Winston Churchill is not their preferred choice, particularly after his key involvement in the military disaster that was Gallipoli. Nevertheless, he is chosen, and is faced with the almost impossible task of rallying the country to fight on, when most of his colleagues are intent on making a deal with Mr Hitler. Elizabeth Layton (Lily James, looking uncannily like a younger Gemma Arterton) is assigned to be Churchill's secretary and so has an inside view on how he operates, often dictating his famous speeches from the toilet (why not, his initials are on the door?) and explosively losing his temper whenever she gets something wrong. Meanwhile, the British expeditionary force is surrounded and fleeing towards Dunkirk and it's starting to look as though they are about to be completely annihilated…
Wright has already dealt with Dunkirk in Atonement, so that side of things is kept very much in the background – or, more often, glimpsed from aeroplanes as bombs drop on the British forces. Here, the director concentrates on a character study of a complex man, chronicling his struggles with depression, his occasional lapses into bluster and his almost overpowering sense of isolation. Again and again Wright shows him enclosed in small spaces – riding in a tiny elevator, framed by the outline of a window, making important phone calls from the smallest room in the house. As well as that stellar performance, Oldman is aided by an incredible transformation, achieved entirely by ace Japanese prosthetics artist Kazuhiro Tsuji. Even in extreme close up, his efforts are utterly convincing.
If there's a price to pay for such grandstanding, it's inevitably the fact that the rest of the cast – Ben Mendlesohn's turn as King George VI aside – are relegated pretty much to the sidelines. Even the usually dependable Kristin Scott Thomas as Clementine is reduced to wandering on to give her hubby the occasional pep talk; it would have been nice to see her given a little more to do.
But, niggles aside, Darkest Hour is pretty enjoyable, and probably worth the price of admission just to see Oldman give that speech.
Posted in Film and tagged Brian Cox, Churchill, Darkest Hour, Elizabeth Layton, Gary Oldman, Joe Wright, Kristen Scott Thomas, Ronald Pickup on January 13, 2018 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment
Shot in stark (and very unforgiving) black and white and confined pretty much to one set, The Party feels like the kind of thing that Mike Leigh has done so brilliantly in the past – indeed, if it resembles one of his works in particular, it certainly has echoes of Abigail's Party about it. With a sprightly running time of one hour and eleven minutes, this film, written and directed by Sally Potter, canters amiably along but, though it can't be accused of overstaying its welcome, it never entirely manages to blow you away.
Janet (Kristen Scott Thomas) is in the mood to celebrate. She's just been appointed shadow health minister for the 'opposition' and has invited some close friends around for vol au vents and bubbly. They are: her snarky best friend, April (Patricia Clarkson), and her partner, the hippy-dippy faith healer, Gottfried (Bruno Ganz); feminist university lecturer, Martha (Cherry Jones) ,and her wife, Jinny (Emily Mortimer), who is currently expecting the patter of er… little triplets; and, definitely the odd one out at this gathering, handsome young property developer, Tom (Cillian Murphy), who explains that his wife, Marianne, will be 'along later for dessert… or maybe just coffee.' But it's not destined to be a happy occasion, because Janet's morose husband, Bill (Timothy Spall), has something he really needs to get off his chest…
Relentlessly middle class in its themes, the story is mostly about people being unfaithful to one another and, though the performances are generally pretty good, the protagonists cannot seem to help slipping into caricature. April can't open her mouth without insulting somebody, Martha and Jinny say things in public that any rational person would surely save for later on, and Gottfried is so glib it hurts – but then maybe that's entirely the point of him. Only Tom seems to have convincing reasons to act the way he does and, indeed, Murphy's performance is the strongest one here – a man driven by jealousy to do something unspeakable.
Mind you, there's a conclusion that I really don't see coming and, all in all, this film makes a decent antidote to the steady diet of superhero movies we're constantly being offered. I can't help feeling though, that given the same set up and the same cast of characters, Leigh would have knocked this out of the park.
Posted in Film and tagged Abigail's Party, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Cillian Murphy, Emily Mortimer, Kristen Scott Thomas, Mike Leigh, Patricia Clarkson, Sally Potter, The Party on October 27, 2017 by Bouquets & Brickbats. Leave a comment


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Farmerville man dead, woman arrested after Ouachita Parish crash
Amanda Fletcher / Source: OPSO
By Jessica Torricelli, Matthew Segura |
Updated: Mon 4:10 PM, Jan 13, 2020
OUACHITA PARISH, La. (KNOE) - Update: This story has been updated to include the name of the victim.
A West Monroe woman was arrested after a fatal crash on Highway 557 near Red Cut Road in Ouachita Parish, according to state police. This is also near Highway 34.
The crash happened on the night of Jan. 12, 2020, just before 9:00 p.m.
State police say 36-year-old Amanda Fletcher's SUV crossed the center line into the southbound lane crashing into another vehicle. That vehicle was a motorcycle driven by 35-year-old Ronald Smith Jr., of Farmerville. Smith was killed in the crash.
Troopers say Fletcher admitted to drinking one and a half glasses of wine before driving that night and was on prescription Adderall at the time of the crash, according to arrest records.
Police say she performed poorly on a field sobriety test after the crash. Police also say she was subsequently tested using a breath sample. They say the Intoxilyzer locked at .141g% blood alcohol level before showing a warning that another substance was interfering with the reading.
Fletcher was arrested and booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center on charges of vehicular homicide, improper lane use and no seat belt.
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TORONTO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar fell from a two-week high it touched on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it was prepared to keep using unconventional tools to help the economy from deteriorating further.
The Canadian unit traded at C$1.2215 to the U.S. dollar, or 81.87 U.S. cents, down from its session high of C$1.2025 to the U.S. dollar, or 83.16 U.S. cents.
Still, the Canadian dollar held above the C$1.2263 to the U.S. dollar, or 81.55 U.S. cents, level that it finished at on Tuesday.
A statement that followed the Fed's two-day meeting showed the central bank felt interest rates could remain unusually low for some time and that it would be prepared to buy long-term government debt if that would help improve financial markets.


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Хазиман () — деревня в Буздякском районе Республики Башкортостан Российской Федерации. Входит в состав Сабаевского сельсовета.

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Расстояние до:
 районного центра (Буздяк): 50 км,
 центра сельсовета (Сабаево): 5 км,
 ближайшей ж/д станции (Буздяк): 50 км.

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Согласно переписи 2002 года, башкиры являлись преобладающей национальностью и составляли 98 % населения.

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For over 20 years, we've been working with community-led kiwi conservation groups and iwi to protect kiwi and create safe habitat for them.
When we started, kiwi numbers were estimated to be declining at about 4% per year and we were in danger of losing our national icon within our lifetime. Thanks to the dedication and commitment of thousands of volunteers and the generosity of thousands of donors, kiwi reached a turning point. The rate of decline had significantly reduced and, in some heavily managed areas, numbers are even increasing.
Although there have been significant wins for kiwi, they're not out of danger yet. All species of kiwi are still categorised as 'threatened' or 'at risk', apart from little spotted kiwi, which is recovering. Their future relies on the continued intensive management of habitat and breeding programmes. If we stopped what we were doing, their numbers would likely swiftly decline as predator numbers increased.
The Saving the Kiwi strategy is the next leap forward in kiwi conservation. Using the expertise and resources that have been built up, we are shifting the focus from just halting the decline of kiwi to increasing their numbers by using an extended version of ONE™. The full strategy was released in 2017 and can be seen here. The work is being reviewed and amended as we go so it is subject to change.


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Austin cop filmed pepper-spraying handcuffed man suspended 45 days
Katie Hall @Katie_Statesman
Sep 15, 2016 at 12:01 AM Sep 25, 2018 at 9:04 AM
An Austin police officer filmed pepper-spraying a handcuffed man during his arrest downtown in March was suspended for 45 days on Tuesday, city officials said.
Officer Cameron Caldwell could also face criminal charges for the March 17 incident in which he was caught on camera by a Peaceful Streets Project activist using pepper spray on an arrested man in the back of a police van. On Tuesday, the Travis County district attorney's office confirmed that a grand jury will review the incident.
The March 17 incident happened in downtown Austin during South by Southwest. The video, which garnered wide media attention, shows Caldwell interacting with Tyrone Wilson, who had been arrested and placed inside an Austin police van near the downtown booking area at Seventh and Neches streets.
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Wilson kicked the door of the van multiple times and continued to do so after Caldwell ordered him several times to stop, Caldwell's disciplinary memo said. After Wilson disobeyed him again, Caldwell opened the door, sprayed Wilson in the face with pepper spray and shut the door. Wilson was handcuffed and seated at the time.
"In the heat of the moment, when you have a guy kicking and screaming, he made a decision," Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said during a media briefing Tuesday. "He made the wrong decision."
During a disciplinary hearing earlier with Acevedo and Caldwell's chain of command, Caldwell admitted to wrongdoing. Caldwell has no previous history of improper behavior, which Acevedo said contributed to his decision not to fire Caldwell.
The suspension was a negotiated agreement with Acevedo: Caldwell waived his ability to appeal the suspension, and Acevedo agreed to not fire Caldwell.
The suspension places several other conditions on Caldwell, including requiring him to be evaluated by a police psychologist and to have a one-year probationary period. He also could face additional disciplinary action if indicted, the memo says. Failure to meet any of the requirements would result in his termination.
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Despite the reprimand, Acevedo said that Caldwell was right to try to gain compliance from Wilson, noting that Wilson wasn't being cooperative. Acevedo said Caldwell had other options — such as asking other officers for help to pin him down and restrain his legs — but described him as an officer with no previous disciplinary issues who "but for this incident has done a pretty good job."
Peaceful Streets founder Antonio Buehler said that Acevedo only suspended Caldwell because of the large amount of attention the viral video garnered. Acevedo denied that Caldwell's suspension was a result from community or media pressure, saying police officials' disciplinary decisions aren't based "on the direction the wind is blowing."
Acevedo also took the opportunity to defend the tactics of most patrol officers working in an increasingly chaotic and unruly entertainment district, describing Sixth Street as "a problem" and characterizing policing as inherently "ugly."
Buehler said that Caldwell should be fired and charged with assault.
"We've videotaped cops punching people on the ground," Buehler said. "We've videotaped cops hitting people from behind. We've videotaped cops running people over with horses. This is the first time we have taped use of force where there has been any discipline or anyone suspended."
Caldwell's disciplinary memo states that he violated guidelines on the use of pepper spray and general conduct. He won't be paid during the suspension and will return to duty Oct. 14. He has been with the Austin police for three years, police said.
Wilson has a court hearing for a charge of resisting arrest scheduled for Nov. 14.


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Former Texas Correctional Officer Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Offense for Assaulting Inmate
Tavoris Bottley, 34, a former Senior Correctional Officer at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Beaumont, Texas, pleaded guilty in court today to assaulting a federal inmate housed at the facility.
According to documents filed in connection with the guilty plea, on June 8, 2017, Bottley, while on duty as a federal correctional officer at FCC Beaumont, punched A.A, an inmate, in the face and head multiple times without justification. Bottley admitted that he and his supervisor, Lieutenant Khristal Ford, intentionally unlocked and entered the secured cell where A.A. was being held with the intention of assaulting the inmate for being disrespectful and throwing a food tray. Bottley admitted that he then punched A.A., even though the inmate did not pose any threat at the time.
Khristal Ford previously pleaded guilty on May 29, 2019, to aiding and abetting in the assault of A.A., and admitted to submitting written reports that omitted any reference to the assault in an effort to cover up the incident and make it appear justified.
"This conduct by a federal correctional officer erodes public trust," said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Civil Rights Division. "The Department of Justice will continue to vigorously prosecute those who violate the civil rights of inmates."
"Correctional officers have an obligation to be professional" said U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown of the Eastern District of Texas. "Unprovoked violence not only violates the rights of the inmate, but hurts the reputations of law enforcement professionals who do things the right way."
"When Bottley assaulted this inmate, he violated the inmate's civil rights and he betrayed the oath of office he swore to uphold when he became a federal Corrections Officer," said Robert A. Bourbon, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Dallas Field Office.
Bottley faces a maximum statutory penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the U.S. Probation Office.
This case was investigated by the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, and was prosecuted by Trial Attorney Katherine G. DeVar of the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael A. Anderson of the Eastern District of Texas.
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Breeding status
First Record
Last Recorded
Dotterel Charadrius morinellus
Dotterel photographed at Mt. Herault [MHE] on 21/9/2012 Photo: © Adrian Gidney (visit site)
The Dotterel was recorded by Smith as a "rare occasional visitant... occurring, on both spring and autumn migration." Its status is similar today, although more birds have been recorded in autumn.
Autumn migration is spread from the end of August to the beginning of October but virtually all birds arrive in September.
In spring, records are spread over a six week period from mid-April to the end of May, peaking in the first week of May.
Numbers have varied from 0 to 6 birds annually and there seems to have been a peak of records in the mid- to late 1980s. Since 1990, the number of birds recorded each year has fallen to an average of less than one bird per year.
Dotterel photographed at Mt. Herault [MHE] on 21/9/2012. Photo: © Adrian Gidney (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Mt. Herault [MHE] on 21/9/2012. Photo: © Royston Carr� (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Mt. Herault [MHE] on 21/9/2012. Photo: © Anthony Loaring (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Herm [HER] on 6/4/2015. Photo: © Mark Guppy (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at L'Eree [LER] on 8/9/2008. Photo: © Mark Lawlor (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at L'Eree [LER] on 7/9/2008. Photo: © Phil Alexander (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Pleinmont on 9/10/2009. Photo: © B. Tostevin (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Pleinmont [PLE] on 0/9/2008. Photo: © Dave Andrews (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Rue des Hougues, STA [H04] on 11/5/2017. Photo: © Chris Bale (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Rue des Hougues, STA [H04] on 11/5/2017. Photo: © Rockdweller (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Shingle Bank on 7/9/2008. Photo: © Mark Guppy (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Herm [HER] on 7/4/2015. Photo: © Anthony Loaring (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Pleinmont [PLE] on 30/8/2010. Photo: © Mark Guppy (visit site)
Dotterel photographed at Pleinmont [PLE] on 13/8/2011. Photo: © Vic Froome (visit site)
View database records (51)
Dotterel L'Ancresse 10/10/1993 13/10/1993 1
Dotterel Pleinmont 18/9/1994 1
Dotterel L'Ancresse 5/5/1996 10/5/1996 1
Dotterel Pleinmont 19/9/1998 25/9/1998 1-4
Dotterel L'Eree 22/8/1999 23/8/1999 1
Dotterel Herm 21/4/2002 1
Dotterel Pleinmont 5/10/2003 1
Dotterel Pleinmont 1/5/2005 1
Dotterel Golf Course 6/9/2005 7/9/2005 1
Dotterel Mt. Herault [MHE] 17/4/2009 1
Dotterel Pleinmont [PLE] 30/8/2010 1
Dotterel Pleinmont [PLE] 9/9/2010 1
Dotterel Fort Le Marchant [MAR] 15/7/2012 1
Dotterel Rue des Hougues, STA [H04] 7/10/2012 1
Dotterel Herm [HER] 6/4/2015 2
Dotterel Airport [AIR] 25/4/2015 2
Dotterel Rue des Hougues, STA [H04] 11/5/2017 1


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import Posts from './collection.js'
import marked from 'marked';
import Users from 'meteor/nova:users';

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Collection Hooks                                 //
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/**
 * @summary Generate HTML body and excerpt from Markdown on post insert
 */
Posts.before.insert(function (userId, doc) {
  if(!!doc.body) {
    const htmlBody = Telescope.utils.sanitize(marked(doc.body));
    doc.htmlBody = htmlBody;
    doc.excerpt = Telescope.utils.trimHTML(htmlBody,30);
  }
});

/**
 * @summary Generate HTML body and excerpt from Markdown when post body is updated
 */
Posts.before.update(function (userId, doc, fieldNames, modifier) {
  // if body is being modified or $unset, update htmlBody too
  if (Meteor.isServer && modifier.$set && modifier.$set.body) {
    const htmlBody = Telescope.utils.sanitize(marked(modifier.$set.body));
    modifier.$set.htmlBody = htmlBody;
    modifier.$set.excerpt = Telescope.utils.trimHTML(htmlBody,30);
  }
  if (Meteor.isServer && modifier.$unset && (typeof modifier.$unset.body !== "undefined")) {
    modifier.$unset.htmlBody = "";
    modifier.$unset.excerpt = "";
  }
});

/**
 * @summary Generate slug when post title is updated
 */
Posts.before.update(function (userId, doc, fieldNames, modifier) {
  // if title is being modified, update slug too
  if (Meteor.isServer && modifier.$set && modifier.$set.title) {
    modifier.$set.slug = Telescope.utils.slugify(modifier.$set.title);
  }
});

/**
 * @summary Disallow $rename
 */
Posts.before.update(function (userId, doc, fieldNames, modifier) {
  if (!!modifier.$rename) {
    throw new Meteor.Error("illegal $rename operator detected!");
  }
});

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Callbacks                                        //
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/*

### posts.new.method

- PostsNewUserCheck
- PostsNewRateLimit
- PostsNewSubmittedPropertiesCheck

### posts.new.sync

- PostsNewDuplicateLinksCheck
- PostsNewRequiredPropertiesCheck

### posts.new.async

- PostsNewIncrementPostCount
- PostsNewUpvoteOwnPost
- PostsNewNotifications

### posts.edit.method

- PostsEditUserCheck
- PostsEditSubmittedPropertiesCheck

### posts.edit.sync

- PostsEditForceStickyToFalse

### posts.edit.async

- PostsEditSetPostedAt
- PostsEditRunPostApprovedCallbacks

### posts.approve.async

- PostsApprovedNotification

### users.remove.async

- UsersRemoveDeletePosts

*/

// ------------------------------------- posts.new.method -------------------------------- //

/**
 * @summary Check that the current user can post
 */
function PostsNewUserCheck (post, user) {
  // check that user can post
  if (!user || !Users.canDo(user, "posts.new"))
    throw new Meteor.Error(601, 'you_need_to_login_or_be_invited_to_post_new_stories');
  return post;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.method", PostsNewUserCheck);

/**
 * @summary Rate limiting
 */
function PostsNewRateLimit (post, user) {

  if(!Users.isAdmin(user)){

    var timeSinceLastPost = Users.timeSinceLast(user, Posts),
      numberOfPostsInPast24Hours = Users.numberOfItemsInPast24Hours(user, Posts),
      postInterval = Math.abs(parseInt(Telescope.settings.get('postInterval', 30))),
      maxPostsPer24Hours = Math.abs(parseInt(Telescope.settings.get('maxPostsPerDay', 30)));

    // check that user waits more than X seconds between posts
    if(timeSinceLastPost < postInterval)
      throw new Meteor.Error(604, 'please_wait'+(postInterval-timeSinceLastPost)+'seconds_before_posting_again');

    // check that the user doesn't post more than Y posts per day
    if(numberOfPostsInPast24Hours > maxPostsPer24Hours)
      throw new Meteor.Error(605, 'sorry_you_cannot_submit_more_than'+maxPostsPer24Hours+'posts_per_day');

  }

  return post;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.method", PostsNewRateLimit);

/**
 * @summary Properties
 */
function PostsNewSubmittedPropertiesCheck (post, user) {

  // admin-only properties
  // status
  // postedAt
  // userId
  // sticky (default to false)

  const schema = Posts.simpleSchema()._schema;

  // go over each schema field and throw an error if it's not editable
  _.keys(post).forEach(function (fieldName) {

    var field = schema[fieldName];
    if (!Users.canSubmitField (user, field)) {
      throw new Meteor.Error("disallowed_property", 'disallowed_property_detected' + ": " + fieldName);
    }

  });
  // note: not needed there anymore, this is already set in the next callback 'posts.new.sync' with other related properties (status, createdAt)
  // if no post status has been set, set it now
  // if (!post.status) {
  //   post.status = Posts.getDefaultStatus(user);
  // }

  // if no userId has been set, default to current user id
  if (!post.userId) {
    post.userId = user._id;
  }

  return post;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.method", PostsNewSubmittedPropertiesCheck);

// ------------------------------------- posts.new.sync -------------------------------- //

/**
 * @summary Check for duplicate links
 */
function PostsNewDuplicateLinksCheck (post, user) {
  if(!!post.url) {
    Posts.checkForSameUrl(post.url, user);
  }
  return post;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.sync", PostsNewDuplicateLinksCheck);

/**
 * @summary Check for necessary properties
 */
function PostsNewRequiredPropertiesCheck (post, user) {

  // initialize default properties
  const defaultProperties = {
    createdAt: new Date(),
    author: Users.getDisplayNameById(post.userId),
    status: Posts.getDefaultStatus(user)
  };

  post = _.extend(defaultProperties, post);

  // generate slug
  post.slug = Telescope.utils.slugify(post.title);

  // post is not pending and has been scheduled to be posted in the future by a moderator/admin
  if (post.status !== Posts.config.STATUS_PENDING && post.postedAt && post.postedAt > post.createdAt) {
    post.status = Posts.config.STATUS_SCHEDULED;
  }

  // if post is approved but doesn't have a postedAt date, give it a default date
  // note: pending posts get their postedAt date only once theyre approved
  if (Posts.isApproved(post) && !post.postedAt) {
    post.postedAt = new Date();
  }

  return post;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.sync", PostsNewRequiredPropertiesCheck);

/**
 * @summary Set the post's isFuture to true if necessary
 */
function PostsNewSetFuture (post, user) {
  post.isFuture = post.postedAt.getTime() > post.createdAt.getTime() + 1000; // round up to the second
  return post;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.sync", PostsNewSetFuture);

// ------------------------------------- posts.new.async -------------------------------- //

/**
 * @summary Increment the user's post count
 */
function PostsNewIncrementPostCount (post) {
  var userId = post.userId;
  Meteor.users.update({_id: userId}, {$inc: {"telescope.postCount": 1}});
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.async", PostsNewIncrementPostCount);

/**
 * @summary Make users upvote their own new posts
 */
function PostsNewUpvoteOwnPost (post) {
  if (typeof Telescope.operateOnItem !== "undefined") {
    var postAuthor = Meteor.users.findOne(post.userId);
    Telescope.operateOnItem(Posts, post._id, postAuthor, "upvote");
  }
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.async", PostsNewUpvoteOwnPost);

/**
 * @summary Add new post notification callback on post submit
 */
function PostsNewNotifications (post) {

  if (typeof Telescope.notifications !== "undefined") {

    var adminIds = _.pluck(Users.adminUsers({fields: {_id:1}}), '_id');
    var notifiedUserIds = _.pluck(Users.find({'telescope.notifications_posts': true}, {fields: {_id:1}}).fetch(), '_id');
    var notificationData = {
      post: _.pick(post, '_id', 'userId', 'title', 'url')
    };

    // remove post author ID from arrays
    adminIds = _.without(adminIds, post.userId);
    notifiedUserIds = _.without(notifiedUserIds, post.userId);

    if (post.status === Posts.config.STATUS_PENDING && !!adminIds.length) {
      // if post is pending, only notify admins
      Telescope.notifications.create(adminIds, 'newPendingPost', notificationData);
    } else if (!!notifiedUserIds.length) {
      // if post is approved, notify everybody
      Telescope.notifications.create(notifiedUserIds, 'newPost', notificationData);
    }
  }
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.new.async", PostsNewNotifications);

// ------------------------------------- posts.edit.method -------------------------------- //

function PostsEditUserCheck (modifier, post, user) {
  // check that user can edit document
  if (!user || !Users.canEdit(user, post)) {
    throw new Meteor.Error(601, 'sorry_you_cannot_edit_this_post');
  }
  return modifier;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.edit.method", PostsEditUserCheck);

function PostsEditSubmittedPropertiesCheck (modifier, post, user) {
  const schema = Posts.simpleSchema()._schema;
  // go over each field and throw an error if it's not editable
  // loop over each operation ($set, $unset, etc.)
  _.each(modifier, function (operation) {
    // loop over each property being operated on
    _.keys(operation).forEach(function (fieldName) {

      var field = schema[fieldName];
      if (!Users.canEditField(user, field, post)) {
        throw new Meteor.Error("disallowed_property", 'disallowed_property_detected' + ": " + fieldName);
      }

    });
  });
  return modifier;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.edit.method", PostsEditSubmittedPropertiesCheck);

// ------------------------------------- posts.edit.sync -------------------------------- //

/**
 * @summary Force sticky to default to false when it's not specified
 * (simpleSchema's defaultValue does not work on edit, so do it manually in callback)
 */
function PostsEditForceStickyToFalse (modifier, post) {
  if (!modifier.$set.sticky) {
    if (modifier.$unset && modifier.$unset.sticky) {
      delete modifier.$unset.sticky;
    }
    modifier.$set.sticky = false;
  }
  return modifier;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.edit.sync", PostsEditForceStickyToFalse);

/**
 * @summary Set status
 */
function PostsEditSetIsFuture (modifier, post) {
  // if a post's postedAt date is in the future, set isFuture to true
  modifier.$set.isFuture = modifier.$set.postedAt.getTime() > new Date().getTime() + 1000;
  return modifier;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.edit.sync", PostsEditSetIsFuture);

/**
 * @summary Set postedAt date
 */
function PostsEditSetPostedAt (modifier, post) {
  // if post is approved but doesn't have a postedAt date, give it a default date
  // note: pending posts get their postedAt date only once theyre approved
  if (Posts.isApproved(post) && !post.postedAt) {
    modifier.$set.postedAt = new Date();
  }
  return modifier;
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.edit.sync", PostsEditSetPostedAt);

// ------------------------------------- posts.edit.async -------------------------------- //

function PostsEditRunPostApprovedCallbacks (post, oldPost) {
  var now = new Date();

  if (Posts.isApproved(post) && !Posts.isApproved(oldPost)) {
    Telescope.callbacks.runAsync("posts.approve.async", post);
  }
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.edit.async", PostsEditRunPostApprovedCallbacks);

// ------------------------------------- posts.approve.async -------------------------------- //

/**
 * @summary Add notification callback when a post is approved
 */
function PostsApprovedNotification (post) {
  if (typeof Telescope.notifications !== "undefined") {
    var notificationData = {
      post: _.pick(post, '_id', 'userId', 'title', 'url')
    };

    Telescope.notifications.create(post.userId, 'postApproved', notificationData);
  }
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("posts.approve.async", PostsApprovedNotification);

// ------------------------------------- users.remove.async -------------------------------- //

function UsersRemoveDeletePosts (user, options) {
  if (options.deletePosts) {
    var deletedPosts = Posts.remove({userId: userId});
  } else {
    // not sure if anything should be done in that scenario yet
    // Posts.update({userId: userId}, {$set: {author: "\[deleted\]"}}, {multi: true});
  }
}
Telescope.callbacks.add("users.remove.async", UsersRemoveDeletePosts);


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Q: How to create an output that triggers at a certain point in a loop without stopping the loop? I'm trying to sort out the correct code to an assignment I got back from an OOJ class, we are using Java.
I'm struggling with two issues. First, I need the program to calculate compounding growth using the rate provided (6%) and print to console each month's production with each iteration over the course of 24 months. Second, I need to display the month when production passes 7000.I was told by my professor production should pass 7000 on month 10, mine is showing it sooner.
Something is off in my calculation and I'm not sure what I'm overlooking. I'd appreciate any input and general advice on how to improve the code.

The Freemont Automobile Factory has discovered that the longer a worker has been on the job,
the more parts the worker can produce. Write an application that computes and displays
a worker's anticipated output each month for 24 months assuming the worker starts by producing
4,000 parts and increases production by 6 percent each month. Also display the month in which
production exceeds 7,000 parts (when the worker deserves a raise!).

public class IncreasedProduction {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //declare variables

        double rate = .06;
        double production = 4;

        //column titles
        System.out.println("(Parts produced measured in thousands)\n\n"+ "Month" + "   " + "Parts Produced\n");

            //counts the number of each iterations
            for(int month = 1; month > 0; month++)
            {
                production = production*Math.pow(1.0 + rate, month);

                //displays the monthly total parts produced
                if( month < 25 )
                {
                    //Displays monthly total
                    System.out.println("  " + month + "      " + String.format("%.2f",production) + "\n");

                    //calculates the moment when 7000 parts are first produced and displays a message
                    if( production >= 7 && (production/1.06) < 7) {
                        System.out.println(">>>  You produced 7000 parts in " + month + " months, you deserve a raise. <<<\n");
                }}
                else
                {   //displays number of month and total parts produced at the end of 24 months

                    System.out.println("\nIn " + month + " months you produced " + String.format("%.2f",production) + " parts!");
                    //break
                    month = -1;

                }
            }
    }
}

A: Calculation of the increase of the production does not seem to be correct:
production = production*Math.pow(1.0 + rate, month);

as it is multiplying the increase twice:

*

*K = (1 + r)^month

*production = production * K

So the monthly production increase grows significantly after the first month, which is evident after adding the delta and increase calculation to the output:
delta=240 -> 6.00%    1      4240.00
delta=524 -> 12.36%    2      4764.06
delta=910 -> 19.10%    3      5674.08
delta=1489 -> 26.25%    4      7163.39
>>>  You produced 7000 parts in 4 months, you deserve a raise. <<<

This is resolved by correction to count the increase only one time:
 production = Math.round(production*(1.0 + rate));
// or equivalent
// production = Math.round(4000*Math.pow(1.0 + rate, month));

output
Month   Parts Produced

  1      4240.00
  2      4494.00
  3      4764.00
  4      5050.00
  5      5353.00
  6      5674.00
  7      6014.00
  8      6375.00
  9      6758.00
  10      7163.00

>>>  You produced 7000 parts in 10 months, you deserve a raise. <<<

  11      7593.00

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