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Links 04/09/2008: Red Hat Buys KVM
Red Hat acquires Qumranet
Red Hat Selects Unanet to Provide Visibility for Project Management Office
Q and A: MRG (Messaging, Real-time, and Grid)
What They're Using: Christian Einfeldt, Producer, the Digital Tipping Point
I have six basic different uses for free, open-source software: 1) my law office practice; 2) managing and editing video for the Digital Tipping Point Project; 3) running a 25-seat Edubuntu lab at a public middle school as a volunteer in San Francisco; 4) placing ACCRC.org Linux computers in classrooms; 5) giving out ACCRC.org Ubuntu computers to friends, neighbors and the children who attend that school; and 6) supporting San Francisco's Tech Connect program by demonstrating Linux boxes at events for nonprofits and low-income individuals.
Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance?
GNU/Linux: General
Why Linux has come of age
Why Linux won the popularity contest and FreeBSD didn't
Evergreen takes root at Kent County Public Library
By migrating to Evergreen, the library was able to buy a $6,000 server running Debian Linux instead of the $32,000 Sun server, and it also saved tens of thousands of dollars in support costs, Collier says.
ZaReason (and Other Independents) Outshine the Big Boys
Ann Arbor's Linux Box grows from start-up to 10-person firm, plans to hire 1-2 more
Ubuntu offers an exciting alternative for the Vista-wary
Windows to Linux
A Simple Arch Review
A very well-made malware installation site
C-DAC Launches BOSS Linux Version 3.0, Signs MoU with NIC
First Linux on Everest
MontaVista Vision gains focus
ATI to Show Linux Some Love
According to recent reports, AMD's graphics subsidiary is set on becoming more Linux-friendly. The company plans to release new Catalyst drivers for Linux-based operating systems, which will allow playback of protected high-definition content on a Linux OS. The new drivers should become available sometime in October 2008, thus enabling the company to address the market of Linux-based computers by bringing to the table a feature currently unavailable.
Marching Penguins: Monitoring Your HPC Cluster
An Open Source Mashup for Amazon EC2
Converting a NSLU2 into an RTorrent appliance
[ANNOUNCE] xserver 1.5.0
Mandriva Linux 2009 RC1 is available
Phoronix Test Suite 1.2 Released
Phoronix Media has announced the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.2 (codenamed "Malvik"), an update to its leading and award-winning benchmarking software, during the 2008 X Developers' Summit. This update incorporates support for new operating systems and features to better aid ISVs, IHVs, ODMs, and OEMs in profiling their hardware and software for optimal performance and compatibility. In total there are more than 250 official changes with many new test profiles and suites since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 in June of 2008.
Amazon to sell one OLPC laptop for the price of two
Small 'n' cheap
While many netbooks are built around Linux operating systems in order to reduce their costs, Asus has loaded the Eee PC 1000H with the Windows XP operating system at Rs 29,900 while the Linux loaded is priced at Rs 18,000.
Hardware Review: Elonex Webbook with Ubuntu 8.04
Overall I really like this little machine and in a way it's opened my eyes as to why the world seems to be going potty for netbooks. I was worried that it wouldn't be fast enough or wouldn't be big enough but it works well. So you're not going to be rendering any large Blender projects on it or running lots of virtual machines but for web surfing, email, multimedia and word processing this can do the job.
My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook
Dell bets on a small laptop
Dell outs Mini 9: Ubuntu Linux netbook for $349
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (Linux)
Dell mini-notebook offers Linux for a premium
A Linux users' guide to Google Chrome
Chromium Build Instructions?
Chromium – Open Source Chrome
Online desktop or desktop online?
Chrome expected on Google's Android mobile software
New Firefox JavaScript engine is faster than Chrome's V8
Does Windows Still Matter?
F/OSS
Fonality Receives $12M to Grow Open Source Communications
snom Joins Fonality Open Source Telephony Ecosystem
Fusis becomes Zimbra EU Partner
SugarCRM Leaps and Bounds and Other Cool Moves
Open Source Repository: Public Launch of the European Open Source Repository
Software Freedom Day 2008
If You Knew Cash Like GnuCash Knows Cash
Open Source Fakers
On stupid mascots and closed source browser plugins
Vivox(R) Announces Vivox Open Initiative to Drive Innovation and Expand Reach
Sun Microsystems Unveils xVM VirtualBox 2.0 and New Enterprise Support Subscription
Sun Microsystems Champions Open Standards to Usher in a New Era in Manufacturing
Thai government tries to shut down 400 websites
Binary Freedom Responds to Thai Censorship
RFID: Your privacy is up for grabs
EDPS confirms the possibility of a 'Soviet Internet'
Phorm: Our business is fine, honest
International Action Day «Freedom not fear – Stop the surveillance mania!» on 11 October 2008
ISP Web Tracking Dead As Net Eavesdropping CEO Resigns
Technology lobbyists gather at Republican convention
[Old] Netroots Nation Keynote
DirecTV and TiVo kiss and make up
Cory Doctorow: The WorldChanging Interview
MS doesn't set world alight with Office Live Workspace
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Larry Augustin, GNU Linux business visionary 02 (2005)
Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.
Patent Shakeup: AT&T Protests, Free Software IP FUD, Microsoft Under siege
Posted in Microsoft, Patents at 4:47 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Junk Patents Du Jour
Here is a new reminder of video/audio patents, which act as a barrier to everyone in this sordid mine field.
"H.324 Annex K (aka MONA) is the only standardized technology that achieves video session setup times close to one second, similar to voice calls…"
Here is another new patent that seems too trivial, abstract, and is pertaining to software. [via Digital Majority]
FatPipe Networks(TM), the inventor and multiple patents holder of WAN optimization, redundancy and security products, announced today that it has successfully secured its sixth patent. The U.S. Patent No. 7,406,048 protects the "tools and techniques for directing packets over multiple parallel disparate networks, based on address and other criteria."
AT&T and a Patent Reform
AT&T is one of the worst-hit companies, but it ultimately flexes it muscle against a reform. It calls for change… for the worse.
Think the current patent process is corrupt, too open to abusive patent-seeking and unduly influenced by corrupt rent-seeking special interests? Well, AT&T is here to disabuse you of that notion…
But wait. It gets worse. According to this, there's some gagging/suppression going on as AT&T sticks to the "you can't make a photograph" insanity.
AT&T patent perpetrator tries to censor a blogger about their "pursuit of more patents". The blogger has published a picture of an advertisement poster paid by "AT&T Intellectual Property" sponsoring the Democratic National Convention in Denver last week.
We wrote about Comcast just a short while ago. Readers are advised to add AT&T to their mental wastebasket. Not only does it support patent abuse, but it also suffocates those who show this to the public.
Patent FUD Against Free Software
There was an exceptional amount of legal FUD against Free software yesterday. This continues today. It comprises outright FUD and implied FUD (links below are rel=nofollowed):
Open Source Software: Your Company's Legal Risks
Intellectual Property – Part 27
Open source software is a unique risk
Book Review: Intellectual Property and Open Source
Is open source software putting businesses at risk?
Where is all that fear-inspiring nonsense coming from? And why now? There is a very high volume of these.
The articles seem to evade the issues of freedom and instead they concentrate on cost. It is, in general, pretty interesting that people seem to forget the values of free (libre) and instead focus only on short-term practical advantages. Both are important, but assassination of software patents is not an issue of lowering cost; it's about a developer's freedom to program to his/her heart's content. Since when does typing down computer programs a possible crime?
FFII's brilliant investigative research has come up with the observation that McCain is advised on the issue of patents by a man who is financed by Microsoft and its proxy. Unsurprisingly, he supports software patents.
McCain is advised by pro-software patent lobbyist Ray Gifford, ex-President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation (a Washington 'think-tank' notably financed by Microsoft lobby proxy CompTIA). Gifford was speaking in a conference Europe about the failed software patent directive with all the pro-software patent lobbyists. Progress & Freedom Foundation runs the IPCentral blog.
The Avestar case was mention here before under [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. The very latest in this case is a good demonstration of what patents are for: lifeblood for dying companies, as opposed to something defensive.
Attempting a turnaround, Avistar Communications Corp. (DEMO 08) is trying to carve out an identity in the video conferencing world for a new marketing concept it calls "unified communications," while fending off hostile actions by Microsoft Corp., which is challenging Avistar's lifeblood – its patents.
Microsoft's unexpected challenge "has caused absolute havoc for us," said Simon Moss, who joined Avistar as CEO last January. "Some of the challenges have absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft technology." Beyond that, Moss sites a mutual confidentiality agreement that the two companies signed, which prevents them from discussing specifics of the challenge. Meanwhile, "we're continuing our dialog," Moss said.
Microsoft must get no sympathy in this case. It is a major part of this problem and it uses its patents offensively [1, 2]. █
"Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria."
Does India Bypass ISO with a New Policy?
Posted in Asia, Formats, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 3:11 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Several officials in several different nations have already called for a possible ISO replacement to serve as a criterion for technical selections. Things appear to be progressing and here are some of the latest reports.
ISO Becomes Irrelevant
The press just can't leave ISO alone after that latest debacle [1, 2, Can ISO Be Still Saved from Microsoft?, 4]. Those who believe that they have seen the worst of it ought to check out ECT and David Berlind.
The move is prompting some members to question the organization's very legitimacy.
My post here isn't to say which ISO standard better or worse: OOXML or ODF. But, with the ISO's approval of OOXML as a standard for the same thing that the ISO-ratified ODF does, the ISO is now getting outted for the way its practices could plunge it into irrelevancy. ArsTechnica recently published a post under the headline ISO: procedural shortcuts OK, OpenXML appeal denied. Pamela Jones over at Groklaw asks why certain provisos in the ISO's own directives document are somehow getting overlooked. And there are tons of other posts about the issue amounting to a collective "What the ?" from the Internet community.
At Linux Journal, consensus and transparency are discussed in this context.
But when countries start questioning the entire standardization process, or worse, as is the case with the fight over Open XML, start accusing the standards body of being unduly influenced by corporate concerns, we then have a real issue that needs to be looked at deeper. Standards bodies cannot afford to be even thought of being driving by a corporate perspective, despite the fact that many standards start out that way. Standards bodies, to be of any value must be independent, and must be willing to consider, up to a reasonable point, objections to the standard. If not, then the whole issue of a standard is moot.
It makes the point that if ISO becomes just a 'front' for a company, then it's hardly more ethical or authoritative than the BSA or the RIAA. it's an illusion of independence and Microsoft's capture of ISO is a known problem.
Indian Policies Become Incompatible with OOXML
Over in India, claims a reader, "it is a happy moment. One of the demands of FSUG — Bangalore's campaign for document freedom — was a national policy for open standards."
"This comes shortly after India's protest and appeal against ISO's decision regarding OOXML."According to the guys who are pushing for change over there, "[t]he government has released a draft version of a Policy on Open standards for e-Governance. It is presently open for Public review."
"The policy seems to have some really good points," they argue, citing as examples the following:
5.1) Mandatory Characteristics:
5.1.1)Selected Standard should be Royalty Free for life time of the standard.
5.1.2)Selected Standard should be developed in a collaborative and consensus manner and not led by a single agency or a small closed group of interested parties
5.1.3)Selected Standard should be recursively open; They shall not use unpublished extensions
Here is the policy document [PDF] in its current form.
It's still open for discussion (here or elsewhere). This comes shortly after India's protest and appeal against ISO's decision regarding OOXML. █
From the Campaign for Document Freedom
Novell Could be Lying to Investors, Still Depends on Microsoft
Posted in Finance, Fraud, GNU/Linux, Interoperability, Marketing, Microsoft, Novell, Ron Hovsepian, SLES/SLED at 2:27 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Novell's financial issues are a subject we have been exploring once again earlier this week. Primarily, past allegations of fraud and other scandals were looked at retrospectively, going months or years back in time to pinpoint events predating the deal with Microsoft. Prior to this, we also saw room for deception and admission of book-cooking.
Groklaw has just done another article which studies Novell's very latest report. To its investors, there is room left for doubt and plenty to be desired. There are inconsistencies. The post is long, but here is a portion of it.
As an investor, I want to consider all possibilities, which means having all material facts available. If I am missing material pieces, it's just guessing. I read conflicting reports about the deal, and I have no way to know which is true. You would need details. For example, we read that Microsoft bought certificates, for which it paid Novell now. So it looks like Novell just made $100 million. But once the vouchers are obtained by customers, then Microsoft gets some of the money the customer pays for the services and support, I'm thinking, or why would they do it? So exactly what is the figure that Novell really gets in the end? I have no idea, and I have no way to find out, unless they file the agreement with the SEC and let me read it.
So, what are the regulations? I had no idea, so I went to look. I hoped to be able to do some research and get a firm understanding, but the truth is, this is a subject that is, for starters, a little squishy in the wording of the regulation and a deep enough subject that lawyers and accountants who specialize in such matters go to conferences to try to keep up with latest developments in this area of speciality, so the odds of me figuring it all out in a couple of days are somewhere between slim to none. So I'll just show you the regulation, and the exception, and let those who understand all this better than I do figure out the answer to my question: why doesn't Novell have to reveal the terms of this agreement in a filing with the SEC? Or Microsoft? I may not know the answer, but I know it's the right question.
There was more relevant material in the news yesterday. According to John Dragoon, Novell continues to bleed cash on SLED, which is defeated by Free (libre and gratis) GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS.
Novell is losing money in the desktop Linux market, but those desktop deals are driving big wins in the server arena, according to Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon.
One might wonder just how, despite Novell's losses in this area, the company is bragging to its investors. There is room for manipulation that we covered here before.
All that Novell has left now are those cash infusions, which are granted in exchange for favours.Novell sold out and became the vassal of Microsoft. Activities continue to revolve around .NET (or Mono), which makes Microsoft very pleased, not threatened.
.Net evangelist praises Mono for Linux
Prior to joining Microsoft about a year ago, Hansleman spent 15 years building banking systems and lived through the Web 1.0 bubble.
If Microsoft thinks Mono for GNU/Linux is good, then it must be advocating defeat for Windows, right? Or is this a trap, which also hurts Java et al along the way?
Another interesting discussion about Novell has been going on at Linux Today where GreyGeek wrote:
The agreement divided FOSS contributors into two groups: those whose contributions made it into Novell's commercial version of SUSE, and the rest of the FOSS community regardless of which distros they contribute to. The first group was proclaimed free from the threat of a Microsoft lawsuit. The second group is under the threat of a Microsoft lawsuit regardless of which distro they contribute too, even if they contribute to openSUSE but Novell doesn't add their contribution to SLES. However, the MAJOR thing Microsoft got out of this deal, AND FOR WHICH they paid Novell about a half a BILLION dollars, is a SIGNED agreement by Hovsepian that "Linux" (i.e., every distro on the planet) contains Microsoft IP, and for which Novell is paying Microsoft a ROYALTY on each and every copy of SLES that it sells. That ROYALTY is what Ballmer called the "IP bridge".
As long as Novell refuses to rescind the agreement they are party to this blatant attempt at hijacking FOSS/Linux, and to their damnable lie about MS IP being in Linux. As long as they keep getting money from Microsoft I doubt they will rescind the agreement. Novell fanbois who refuse to see the plain truth about this agreement are either no friends of FOSS/GPL or, in their misguided loyalties, they refuse to see and keep their heads up their collective rears to avoid the truth.
Novell did not merely sign a deal with Microsoft. It conspired because it needed the money. █
Microsoft in the Media/Cable Industry: Comcast, Globo Relationships
Posted in America, Deception, Finance, Free/Libre Software, Google, Microsoft at 2:09 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
We last wrote about Comcast in the context of its relationship with Microsoft and the Microsoft-style committee stuffing (see links at the very bottom).
Fascinated by Microsoft's virtual control of the media, we recently delved into the situation in Brazil [1, 2]. More information then came through reports from a Brazilian reader, seller_liar, who pointed out this clear relationship between the Brazilian giant Globo and Microsoft Corporation. His observations, which you can find here, give examples of the impact on media coverage. Microsoft turns out to have invested a fortune in Globo, but more interestingly, a transaction of $1 billion (investment) was also made with Comcast.
Microsoft Corp. made its first equity foray into the Latin American cable industry last week, buying a $126 million stake in Globo Cabo S.A., Brazil's leading MSO.
The investment in Globo Cabo is the latest in a series of buys this year that has seen Microsoft plunge full-force into cable. It deepened its U.S. cable presence in May when it agreed to invest $5 billion in AT&T Corp., following a $1 billion investment in Comcast Corp. in 1997.
This last bit may or may not explain Comcast's bias against Free software and net neutrality/Google. The issue was raised by clients, especially recently. Microsoft renewed those ties with Comcast several months ago. █
Comcast, Microsoft team up to serve smaller firms
Comcast Gives Cold-Shoulder To Non-Profit School Running Linux
Bipartisan FCC Majority Condemns Comcast's Illegal Blocking
Comcast faces FCC slap over P2P throttling
FCC's Martin: Comcast blocking was widespread
Comcast Isn't Net Neutral; Are They Liars, Too?
Comcast admits paying attendees at FCC hearing
Comcast stacked Net Neutrality meeting
Allegations fly in FCC hearing aftermath
Is Comcast's BitTorrent filtering violating the law?
Comcast to cap monthly consumer broadband
FCC pelts Comcast with rotten veg
Novell and Microsoft Insecurity a Joint venture
Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Security, Windows at 1:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
How secure is Novell's software? The answer is that it depends on Microsoft, whose insecure-by-design frameworks Novell is embracing. Moreover, as another reminder of an old issue, former Novell staff is now securing Windows and striving to make Windows more secure than GNU/Linux.
So go ahead, make my day: ignore the popularity of AppArmor in the user community, keep blocking AppArmor from inclusion in Linus' kernel. If all I have to do is make Windows security easier and more effective to deploy than SELinux, then my job is practically done for me J
Novell's Achilles heel in security is probably its embrace of Microsoft's ActiveX (not to mention .NET and and XAML) if reports like this one are something to go by.
Security-wise, time is no cure. Microsoft's Windows Vista remains the same overburdened and insecure operating system that it has been from the very start. The hypnosis and the lies continue though, judging by some of the very latest.
Microsoft is downplaying the severity of a password leakage issue in BitLocker, the full disk encryption feature built into Windows Vista, insisting that a real world attack scenario is "very unlikely."
According to an advisory from iViZ, the password checking routine of Microsoft Bitlocker fails to sanitize the BIOS keyboard buffer after reading passwords, resulting in plain text password leakage to unprivileged local users.
It's part of a pattern of patch/flaw hiding. █
IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 3rd, 2008
Posted in IRC Logs at 4:07 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Enter the IRC channel now


Mahr Inc. has expanded its Optimar 100 solution for testing dial and digital indicators, test indicators and dial comparators with image processing to automate the testing of measuring equipment. An upgrade kit with a camera automatically records the values of the test indicators and forwards them to software for processing, increasing the system's safety and speed. The automated procedure saves time and replaces operator readings, which are prone to errors.
The hardware and software add-on package equips existing measuring stations with Optimar 100 for automated testing. The measuring system, including image processing, is also available as a complete package called the Precimar Optimar 100 BV.
The upgrade kit incorporates a USB 3.0 camera for fast image processing. Stable, daylight-independent LED illumination, and secure digital identification and reading of digits. QMSoft software controls the measuring device, evaluates the camera image of the scale or number display of the test object, compares the values with the high-accuracy internal reference scale and automatically completes the process of calibrating the product under test. The software also enables users to create and store test certificates.
The solution is designed to be easy-to-use, so operators can quickly monitor the indicators under test. The vision system's auto-recognition enables users to record more test items and data points faster than conventional, manual methods. Because the inspection system is automated, users can complete other operations while the system automatically completes the calibration process.


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DealBook Briefing: Trump's Latest Trade Enemy Is Europe
5:43am, 16th July, 2018
President Trump has singled out Europe as a trade foe. Some people worry that President Vladimir Putin of Russia might exploit that tension.
From the Sky to Your Home, Plane Parts Get a Second Life
While the average jet's life span is 25 years, a stunning array of art and functional objects made from their remains can be useful far, far longer.
Looking Through the Eyes of China's Surveillance State
A rare chance to try on a tool of a would-be surveillance dystopia gave a glimpse of the wariness that a closely watched populace can't hide.
Goldman Expected to Formally Name Successor to C.E.O. Lloyd Blankfein
10:09pm, 15th July, 2018
David M. Solomon, president of Goldman Sachs, is expected to be named its future chief as soon as Monday, helping him line up his own new team.
After Storm, Foreclosures in Puerto Rico Stopped. They're Starting Again.
7:49pm, 15th July, 2018
Wall Street investors and banks are beginning to file foreclosure cases in the United States territory as several moratoriums come to an end.
Banks Report Earnings, and Google Faces Antitrust Fines
The Fed chairman will testify before panels in the House and Senate, and the Commerce Department will holding hearings on auto tariffs.
Paul Ryan Says His S.U.V. Was 'Eaten by Animals.' Here's How to Protect Your Vehicle From Wildlife.
The House speaker said woodchucks chewed the wiring out from his Chevrolet Suburban: "And so my car was eaten by animals, and it's just dead."
Soon There Will Be Only One Blockbuster Left in the United States
The upcoming closings of two Blockbuster video stores in Alaska will leave one store in central Oregon as the last one in the United States.
Could You Make It Through Dinner Without Checking Your Phone?
In an effort to free people from the phones, if just for a meal, one Manhattan restaurant suggests that diners stash their devices in a box on the table.
The Education of a Brotelier
With the help of a few famous friends, Ben Weprin is developing a chain of boutique hotels in university towns that relies heavily on nostalgia for college life.

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L'UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (ou UK-APC) est un comité du British Antarctic Survey responsable pour la recommandation de noms pour les lieux géographiques du territoire antarctique britannique, de la Géorgie du Sud-et-les Îles Sandwich du Sud.

Histoire

Attributions

Antarctique
Le comité est chargé de l'attribution officielle, pour les pays signataires du traité sur l'Antarctique, des noms pour les lieux géographiques du territoire antarctique britannique. Il intègre ces recommandations dans son index géographique propre — le  — et l'envoie au  (SCAR) pour une harmonisation internationale des noms, maintenus dans l'.

Par ailleurs, il examine les noms proposés dans la zone située entre le 80° ouest et le 150° est, au sud du 60° sud. Dans cette zone, il transmet ses recommandations au SCAR mais ne les intègre pas dans son index géographique propre.

Géorgie du Sud-et-les Îles Sandwich du Sud
Le comité est missionné par le Commissaire pour la Géorgie du Sud-et-les Îles Sandwich du Sud pour l'attribution des noms de lieu pour ces îles.

Lien externe
 Le site de l'UK-APC

Références

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
Commission de toponymie

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Utilizing Gobel Group's accredited Nurses' Role in Philanthropy training program, Peconic Bay Medical Center began developing a successful working relationship with the Chief Nursing Officer and the nursing staff. That relationship led to a number of major gifts and an incredible direct mail campaign.
During this webinar, recorded on April 17, 2018, Helen Poole, Principal Consultant at Gobel Group shares information about the accredited training program that started it all. You will also hear from Peconic Bay's AVP for Foundation and External Affairs, Samantha Vigliotta, and their Chief Nursing Officer, Amy Loeb.


Tonight's gig is a co-headlining one with both bands playing for an hour. First up was Crimson sky, a female fronted prog rock band from Bristol. I did enjoy their set but there was certainly room for improvement - the keyboards were way too high in the mix and at times drowned out the vocals. The guitar work was good and heavy. The singer moved around and used the space well and her voice seemed pretty good, but during one of the old songs that was written when the band had a different singer then she did seem to struggle, which isnt unusualy when singing somethign written for someone elses voice. The band failed to get much engagement with the crowd unfortunately with most people standing well back, but there was still plenty of applause between songs.
Winter in Eden are a band I've seen a few times, but this was my first time since their new drummer joined. I hadnt expected a change of member to make sucha big difference but the band seemed to have been given a new lease of life. Last time I saw them the guys were playing well but there was little enthusiasm evident and they hadly moved. This time however they all seemed to be having a great time and moved around a lot more. The new drummer who joined from Marshall Law, has very exaggerated movements so is constantly moving and his arms are flying in wide arcs whereas some drummers have a very economical style making as little movement as they can while still playing the required strokes.
Vicky did a good job of getting the crowd to come to the front of the venue and keeping them engaged during the set. THey put in a great set, and Vicky certainly deserved a break when they played an instrumental - Windelfell, from the first album.
Both bands did well tonight, but for me Winter in Eden were by far the best band on the night.


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Land Is the Field of Battle in Venezuela
By Carol J. Williams
July 24, 2005 12 AM PT
HATO PINERO, Venezuela —
On an early-morning survey of the sprawling savannas that host his cattle, Alejandro Branger climbs out of his SUV and casts his gaze beyond the macaws squawking in the nearby mango trees and the storks wading in a soggy marsh. He is on the lookout for an elusive blackbird, the yellow-knobbed curassow.
"They make a soup of the pauji. It used to be all over the plains, but now you don't see it," Branger says. "If this land is given to the peasants, we can forget about the fauna."
Miles away, on another part of Branger's 200,000-acre ranch, squatters Ricardo Cortez and Dominga Tovar are too busy trying to eke out a living to have any interest in the pauji or dozens of other endangered species that the Branger family says it protects.
"We don't care about that at all," says Tovar, who has been squatting on Branger property for more than four years with her common-law husband and eight of their 14 children in a shanty of sticks and thatched palm fronds. "They can't come along and send us away from here. We have nowhere else to go."
Branger's pastures and nature park, called Hato Pinero, have become a battlefield as Venezuela's government seeks to narrow the great divide between the country's small landed gentry and a massive underclass lacking education, property and hope.
Almost 90% of Venezuela's 25 million people live in crowded cities, and 70% of the population live in poverty. Many of the poor were drawn to urban areas decades ago by the booming oil industry and the manufacturing jobs that are now disappearing in the face of stiff international competition.
The government of President Hugo Chavez hopes to give the poor a leg up by luring jobless slum dwellers back to the countryside. In a nation where three-fourths of the arable land is owned by less than 5% of the population, officials want to redistribute some property to the needy.
To that end, the National Land Institute recently deemed Hato Pinero "idle" and announced that much of the property, bought by Branger's family in 1951, will be parceled out to people such as Cortez and Tovar.
Allowing the impoverished to farm on land declared idle, the government says, also will help improve "national food security," an elusive goal in Venezuela, which imports 80% of what it eats.
But the Brangers have vowed to fight what they see as Chavez's populist ploy to cast them as elitist enemies of the government's "revolution for the poor." They and other large landowners, as well as conservationists, also say the policy is opening the door to environmental pillage.
Hato Pinero, which includes pastures, forest and swampland within its approximately 310 square miles, is the last known refuge of jaguars and pumas in Venezuela. Although the Brangers have turned the ranch into one of the country's leading beef producers, they also have cultivated the property as an eco-tourist destination.
The Brangers banned hunting after purchasing the parcel, which they say has allowed 850 floral species to flourish and 550 kinds of birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and other wildlife to recover their habitats. About 1,500 visitors -- more than half of them Venezuelan -- come each year to the stately colonial hacienda to enjoy the abundant nature.
The land institute has been reviewing ownership and cultivation records for thousands of large properties to determine whether they are being put to full use. So far, only Hato Pinero and the British-owned cattle ranch Hato el Charcote have been classified as idle.
The head of the institute, Eliezer Otaiza, insists that the government will consider the Brangers' assertions that they are conserving nature and producing food as it seeks to nationalize portions of the ranch based on a 2001 land reform law.
"The environmental aspect will be taken into account, but the idle areas are being measured for other development," said Otaiza, a former military commando and a longtime Chavez ally. "There's a local community that has its needs."
Environmentalists and even many estate owners concede that land is distributed inequitably in Venezuela, a legacy of colonial bequests before 1848, when a constitution codified the nation's independence. But they argue that there is a less disruptive alternative to carving up the remaining large private estates, or latifundios, like Hato Pinero: Distribute land the state already owns.
"It's true that there are some very big properties in the hands of a few people, but the biggest landowner is the state," said Deborah Bigio, a former Environment Ministry official who is now the director of the Foundation for the Defense of Nature, a Caracas-based affiliate of the World Wildlife Fund.
The government holds more than 17 million acres of unplanted land. Some has been made available to new farm cooperatives, said Mateo Jarrin, an analyst with the government's information office in Washington, though he had no figures on the number of acres involved.
Only a few dozen acres have been made available for community housing projects. At the same time, hundreds of landless peasants have moved onto national parkland in Guarico, Falcon and Aragua states.
"The government gives priority to taking care of social needs," Bigio said. "But what the government hasn't been able to see is that it has to reconcile its anti-poverty work with environmental needs."
The Environment and Communications ministries referred all inquiries about property redistribution to Otaiza, whose land institute has the first, last and only word on confiscations.
Otaiza dismisses the notion of distributing state-owned land by pointing out that it is already at the disposal of the revolution. He says the 2001 land law empowers the government to seize property for the common good.
But critics of the law say a major flaw in the redistribution program is that the government does not plan to give title to those who till the land. Almost 7,000 people have been employed on new cooperative farms at the state level, but they have failed to flourish for lack of equipment, fertilizer and financing from banks, which are reluctant to lend to inexperienced farmers who have no title to offer as collateral.
Jarrin said the government might grant title in the future but wanted to begin with a use-permit system to encourage small farmers to "show they can keep the lands productive." Otaiza, however, said granting title was unnecessary because Venezuelan land belongs to "all of the people."
Otaiza said the objective of the land reform was to "end the problem of large estates" as well as provide farmland to peasants. On his weekly television show, Chavez has vowed to "fight big landowners to the death." The land reform law refers to the need to "eliminate the latifundio as a system contrary to justice, general interest and social peace in rural areas."
Such language has led the Brangers and others to conclude that the program is more about attacking the wealthy than helping the poor.
"The government's actions against the latifundios is totally political," said economist Marcello Machado-Allison of the Institute for Higher Administration Studies in Caracas. "This is a game of populism intended to lead the peasants to believe that their poverty is the fault of the landowners."
Jaime Perez Branger, Caracas-based president of the Agropecuaria San Francisco conglomerate, which runs the cattle ranch and nature park, said the government regards his family's conservation claims as "some kind of excuse."
"It's seen as some kind of elitist activity, a clubby activity that can only be carried out by a certain class," said Perez Branger, whose shirts and flawless English are both Oxford.
Equally disregarded, he continued, is "that small issue of due process that we still have here."
The ranch owners have prepared a legal defense of their activities and a rebuttal of the land institute's conclusions that their property is idle and of suspect provenance. Under the land law, property owners must prove legal title transfers back to 1848. The Brangers' legal challenge purports to trace transfers of ownership to 1661.
Perez Branger said about a quarter of the ranch is under floodwater half the year, another quarter is a forest reserve needed to sustain the endangered species, 19% is pasture for the ranch's 12,000 head of cattle and 14% is part of the agriculturally useless El Baul rocky massif.
Since the start of the rainy season, the spongy savannas have recovered their verdant cloaks, spreading a velvety emerald carpet to welcome the soldier storks and glossy ibises and the bird-watchers who come to see them.
Among those visiting recently was Amada Cappellin, a businesswoman from Caracas.
"Protecting animals is something for people who look to the future," she said. "People in Venezuela think only about today. We cut down a tree because we want the wood now, never mind if the sun is burning our heads tomorrow because we have nowhere to shelter."
Cappellin and other visitors pay about $150 a night to stay at Hato Pinero, a sum about equal to what many of the men who squat on Branger property earn in a month. The poor families say the planned land seizures and redistribution are a long-overdue rectification of injustice.
"If he's not using it to the full extent, then he should share it with the rest of us," said Marylou Silva, a mother of five whose family lives in a two-room cinderblock house that the state built four years ago on land the Brangers owned at a nearby ranch called Paraimo.
Although small, dank and shabby, their cement-floored dwelling would be the envy of squatters like Cortez and Tovar, who still live in a single room constructed of palm fronds and branches.
Silva's husband works as a stable hand, and her extended family tends a few acres of crops on Paraimo's fringes. It is an incursion tolerated by the landowners now, but Silva's mother recalls ranch hands running them off the property before Chavez began standing up for the squatters.
"They came and they knocked down the invaders' houses in the beginning," said Juana Rodriguez, who arrived here 18 years ago, when her husband took a job at Paraimo. "Now we feel the government is trying to help us."
Chavez's spending to subsidize staples, end illiteracy and provide medical services in the urban ghettos is difficult to track because the funds come directly from oil revenue rather than the government's published budget.
But independent economists and officials from the state petroleum enterprise have disclosed figures that suggested about $7 billion in annual spending.
Less than $100 million a year has gone to rural development programs, they said. Otaiza said he had no details of past spending.
Of the few agro-industrial projects launched by the government, most are in commodities such as corn, rice and sugar that cost more to produce here than in more efficient and mechanized foreign markets.
Alejandro Branger contends that Chavez is just trying to win votes and has no long-term strategy for development.
"If they bring us down, they can say to the poor people, 'Look how we brought down these oligarchs to help you!' " he said.
But he vowed to stand fast.
"If they can't do it by law, they can do it by sending in 2,000 lanceros," the cattleman said, referring to reservists being trained for civil defense.
"But they'll have to take us away dead from here."
Carol J. Williams
Carol J. Williams is former senior international affairs writer for the Los Angeles Times. A foreign correspondent for 25 years, she has won five Overseas Press Club awards, two Sigma Delta Chi citations and was a 1993 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting. She has served as Times bureau chief in Budapest, Vienna, Moscow, Berlin and the Caribbean. A native of Rhode Island and irrepressible Red Sox fan, Williams speaks Russian, German, French and Spanish, and has reported from more than 80 countries. She left The Times in 2015.


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Xavier Bobés (ES): THINGS EASILY FORGOTTEN
Catalan artist Xavier Bobés arives at the festival with his brief history of Spain in the second half of the twentieth century, for five people!
Around a small table, in an intimate salon setting, a powerful sequence of close-up sensory experiences invokes old memories and invents new ones. Through this miscellany of sights and sounds, objects and photos, a fascinating story unfolds, exploring memory and identity. Like a croupier, or medium at a séance, Bobés deals out history and brings it to life, manipulating both past and future.
Premiered at Barcelona's famous Grec Festival in 2015, and first seen at LIMF in the following year, this exquisite piece of theatre has been acclaimed around the world. Very limited capacity – book now.
Xavier Bobés (Barcelona, 1977) defines himself as a self-taught actor, artist, object manipulator and stage creator. For more than a decade he has explored the poetics of the everyday objects around us, and the symbolic and theatrical content of everything that is apparently banal. In his performances, he works with lighting and audiovisual elements, whilst music also plays an important role. Moreover, he is also interested in the triple artistic dimension of creation, testing and teaching. In 2003, he founded the Playground company.
"Few artists have the ability to conjure visual imagery in such a rich and powerful way. An amazing and brilliant show that penetrates the strange worlds of memory, imagination and childhood" Proscenium and Recomana Magazine


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Fracking Liars
Supporters and leaders of the hydraulic fracturing industry aren't being honest about government support for this new natural gas boom.
As they drill for quick corporate profits deep inside our Earth, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and other titans of the natural gas hydraulic fracturing industry are harming people's health, the environment, and local economies across the country. They're also fracking something essential to a properly functioning democratic society: the truth.
They're hailing themselves both as exemplars of free-market success and as the "virtuous ones" in our society — the producers and makers, as contrasted to the mass of Americans that the far-right corporatists are now openly calling "moochers" and "takers."
Fracking companies and political front groups are selling the public a self-serving narrative. They claim the current natural gas boom is a victory over those wimpy and undeserving producers of wind and solar power who are dependent on government subsidies to get up and running.
The shale gas boom, wrote the oil-and-gas-funded American Enterprise Institute this year, has occurred "away from the greedy grasp of Washington." AEI's laissez-faire fabulists snidely added that "surely Washington would have done something to slow it down, tax it more, or stop it altogether" had the bureaucrats realized that the private enterprise was making such progress. Indeed, crowed an industry PR group, "The free market has worked its magic."
Sheesh — their bull goes deeper than their fracking gas wells. For three decades, the federal government has pumped more than $100 million into research for the frackers, finding ways to make the technique work. And, since 1980, the big bad government they now badmouth has paid frackers more than $10 billion in a subsidy written specifically for them. These oil giants are liars, fracking away at their own integrity.
Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer, and public speaker. He's also editor of the populist newsletter,The Hightower Lowdown.
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Farciot Edouart
Farciot Edouart, ASC (born Alexander Farciot Edouart; November 5, 1894 – March 17, 1980) was a motion picture special effects artist and innovator, a recognized specialist and innovator in the area of "process photography", also known as rear projection.
In a career beginning in 1915, Farciot won a total of ten Academy Awards: two competitive (1942 and 1943), seven technical and scientific awards (1938, 1940, 2 in 1944, 1948, and 2 in 1956), and an honorary award for special effects (1939).
He worked on approximately 350 films, the last one being Rosemary's Baby in 1968. Leonard Maltin wrote "The master of process-screen photography is Farciot Edouart."[1]
Edouart was born in Northern California, the son of a portrait photographer, and began working as a cameraman while still a teenager at the production company of Hobart Bosworth. By way of mergers and acquisitions Edouart became an employee of Paramount Pictures where he started to specialise on optical effects in the mid-1920s.[2] He worked for Paramount until his department was closed on short notice in 1967.[3]
Academy Awards[edit]
in 1939, Edouart shared a special Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, "For outstanding achievement in creating special photographic and sound effects," for the film Spawn of the North
in 1940, nomination for Union Pacific[4]
in 1940, he received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement together with Joseph E. Robbins and William Rudolph for "the design and construction of a quiet portable treadmill"[5]
in 1941, nominations for Dr. Cyclops and Typhoon (both with Gordon Jennings)[6]
in 1942, Edouart won for I Wanted Wings and was nominated for Aloma of the South Seas (both with Gordon Jennings)[7]
in 1943, Edouart won for Reap the Wild Wind (with Jennings and William Pereira)[8]
in 1944, nomination for So Proudly We Hail! (with Jennings)[9]
in 1945, nomination for The Story of Dr. Wassell (with Jennings)[10]
in 1948, nomination for Unconquered (with Devereux Jennings and Gordon Jennings)
^ Maltin, Leonard, The art of the cinematographer: a survey and interviews with five masters, Dover Publications, p. 14, ISBN 0-486-23686-2
^ Blanchard, Walter (June 1942). "Aces of the Camera XVIII: Farciot Edouart, ASC". American Cinematographer. 23 (6): 256, 269–70.
^ "After 52 Years With Paramount: Edouart Given 4 1/2-Days Exit Notice". Variety. 13 October 1967. pp. 1, 4.
^ "The 12th Academy Awards (1940) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
^ Academy Awards 1940
Farciot Edouart on IMDb
Farciot Edouart at Film Reference
Academy Honorary Award
Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
Walt Disney (1932)
Shirley Temple (1934)
D. W. Griffith (1935)
The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel)/ Technicolor Company (1939)
Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
George Pal (1943)
Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
Eddie Cantor (1956)
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
Maurice Chevalier (1958)
Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
William J. Tuttle (1964)
Bob Hope (1965)
Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
Arthur Freed (1967)
John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
Cary Grant (1969)
Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
Charlie Chaplin (1971)
Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
Mary Pickford (1975)
Margaret Booth (1977)
Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
Henry Fonda (1980)
Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
Mickey Rooney (1982)
Hal Roach (1983)
James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
Ralph Bellamy (1986)
Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
Akira Kurosawa (1989)
Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
Satyajit Ray (1991)
Federico Fellini (1992)
Deborah Kerr (1993)
Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
Michael Kidd (1996)
Stanley Donen (1997)
Elia Kazan (1998)
Andrzej Wajda (1999)
Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)
Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
Peter O'Toole (2002)
Blake Edwards (2003)
Sidney Lumet (2004)
Robert Altman (2005)
Ennio Morricone (2006)
Robert F. Boyle (2007)
Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
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Audit sheds light on how San Jose code enforcement officer was allegedly able to abuse power for years
By Ann Rubin
Audit unveils how San Jose code enforcement officer was able to abuse power
KTVU's Ann Rubin reports.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Nearly a year after a San Jose code enforcement officer was charged with sexual misconduct and extortion, an audit attempts to shed light on the system that allowed his alleged actions to go undetected.
San Jose officials are still reeling from the arrest of William Gerry, a city code enforcement officer who was charged with more than a dozen crimes, including sexual assault, extortion, and bribery.
Authorities say he preyed on women at the massage parlors he inspected.
SJ code enforcement officer accused of sexual assault, extortion
A former code enforcement inspector in San Jose is facing criminal charges for extorting and sexually assaulting the business owners he was working with.
"He targeted some of the most vulnerable people in our community, people who don't necessarily trust law enforcement, who don't know how the system works, who feel compelled to submit to authority," Deputy District Attorney Jing-Lan Lee, explained last November.


This excellent film poses some important questions. For instance, is the young man experiencing paranoid delusions, or is he in tune with the premonitions of a forthcoming apocalyptic event? Those of us who appreciate science fiction films, will be aware how often that kind of question is posed.
What's really going in the world?
What are the threats that we face?
How should we define these?
My focus – my perspective – is derived from being a qualified social worker, with over 30 years experience, and having researched risk-based practices in social work, specifically social workers working with vulnerable adults in health settings. Risk assessments are seen as an essential tool for social workers in this field, as in many other areas of social work, and also in many other organisations – the risk –based framework is an all pervasive mechanism of regulation and standard setting. In technical speak – threats are hazards, and the risk is the outcome of the hazard, - the impact should it occur - and the likelihood of it occurring. Risk –management is a cost effective way of managing uncertainty.
So what are the threats? Many writers on risk, e.g. Beck (1992) , talk about the risk society – that life is getting riskier, and that technologies that have been developed to solve life's problems, for us to have a comfortable existence, carry with them many negative consequences (e.g. nuclear power, global warming due to carbon emissions, pesticides, obesity due to cheap processed food). Some of these threats one may seek to measure statistically – a calculation of risk, and respond accordingly. For example, - New Orleans by the Gulf of Mexico is in a main hurricane runway. The levees were built to withstand a category 3 hurricane – however, sooner or later it is likely that the strongest, a category 5 hurricane will hit – which is what happened with hurricane Katrina in 2005 (actually it passed by slightly, but it was near enough to overwhelm New Orleans's defences). So statistical measures are useful, but have their limitations. We have recently heard a lot about exceptional weather events in this country – severe flooding, a very cold winter, and been told that these are something like "1 in 200 year" events, - that cannot be planned for – which I suppose is meant to imply that we will be safe for another 200 years from a repeat! But of course it does not work like that! It may come along next year! Providing defences against certain calamitous events costs a lot, and risk management is a way of managing those costs, by considering a statistical assessment of likelihood.
So we live in a very uncertain, unpredictable, and potentially hazardous world. So how should we respond? Statistical assessments are part of the picture, but there are also important social and psychological perspectives on the risks we face. There is a terrorist threat level in this country – which is considered to be severe? – certainly not low. Prime Minister Tony Blair, when the booklets informing us what to do in the event of a terrorist threat, were sent to all households, said words to the effect: "know where the booklet is, and forget about it". Is that a rational and reasonable way to proceed? Carry on regardless? Should we modify our behaviour in some way. (One has recently become aware of the terrorist threat level here, with the news that during the Olympics more troops are going to be deployed than are currently in Afghanistan!) The link to my research and practice experience of social work here, is that in social work, we tend to encounter, or at least work through in our minds, worse case scenarios - both for planning to support people in very difficult circumstances, but also, it must be said, as back covering! There is a risk that one gets into a state of high alert. This may manifest itself in a number of ways – one of which is to be aware of the limitations of any formalised processes of assessing risk (i.e. the forms and protocols), and look beyond them – be intuitive, look for signs that others may miss. Many risk-based assessments are susceptible, to what Donald Rumsfeld, Defence Secretary in the US, in 2002, at the beginning of the IRAQ war, famously termed "unknown unknowns". These are things that are happen outside the conceptual framework of the risk assessment. An intuitive sense is something that many professionals will describe, and indeed the late Donald Schon, a Harvard professor of some distinction, who researched many professions, noted similarities in the way that many professionals described trusting their "gut instincts" in problematic, complex situations (Schon 1983). Curtis, the husband in the film, conveys a sense of "high alert" – looking for, and reading intuitively "signs" that other people miss or discount. Interestingly, another dimension to the film, given brief reflection, is the young daughter in the film is Deaf (Deaf spelt with a capital D refers to Deaf Culture). Scenes are shown, where the parents are attending classes, learning sign language. Throughout the film, a strong connection is displayed between Curtis and his daughter, - an intuitive understanding.
So to return to the themes of the film, is someone experiencing apocalyptic visions, tuned in , having real premonitions, or are they experiencing mental illness? There is a fine line between the two I would suggest. I have talked about risk being a statistical thing – a measurement – another dimension is its social construction. Risk perception is also borne out of how people describe the world around them - A famous sociologist –Anthony Giddens (1991), Tony Blair's guru – describes the importance of perception, when communicating ideas about risk. However, to rely on a consensus of views as a definitive description of what is going on, is problematic – what if most people are wrong? You could say about the banking crisis that there was a group delusion amongst the bankers, and those engaged in the financial system (note the very recent report by the Financial Services Authority into RBS) – few raised their voices, and fewer still did anything about trying to head off the impeding catastrophic collapse. (One can imagine a similar conversation to that in the film, amongst bankers before the crash – "is anyone else seeing this?" – "no stop being negative and depressing share prices! Everything's fine!"A number of people with 20/20 hindsight are now saying they knew – too late!) So the majority view may be a flawed one. In a house full of people, just because only one smells smoke, that does not mean that the house is not on fire! In such a situation, do you take the group view, or check out closely the minority one? Maybe that one person is just more tuned in.
Unknown unknowns – things we don't know we don't know", and it is these unknown unknowns that to me the film seeks to explore. In some societies – visionaries, prophets, mystics, witch doctors, are seen to have special qualities, gifts, as they tap the unknown unknowns, and we should be cautious about dismissing these perceptions.
This clever film raises many issues and does not fully resolve the question of whether Curtis was experiencing paranoid delusions, or witnessing the forthcoming apocalypse. We are left to make up own conclusions.
Watching the film was a very thought-provoking experience, and very relevant to many of life's modern day dilemmas!
Dr. Colin Young, Lecturer in Social Work Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences. January 2012.


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CWA Requests SEC Investigation of Activision Blizzard, Citing "Inaccurate and Misleading" Disclosures around Unfair Labor Practices and Sexual Harassment Allegation Concerns
On Thursday, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) requested that the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate "inaccurate and misleading disclosures" in filings related to the proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft.
CWA Midwest, Legacy T Members Vote to Extend Contract with AT&T
Communications Workers of America members covered by the AT&T Midwest and national Legacy T agreements have voted to extend their contracts for four years.
Raven Quality Assurance Workers Become First Activision Blizzard Workers to Form a Union with Launch of the Game Workers Alliance with Communications Workers of America
Today workers at Raven Software, a video game studio under Activision Blizzard, announced the launch of their union, Game Workers Alliance Union (CWA), with Communications Workers of America. Game Workers Alliance (CWA) is the first unit within Activision Blizzard to form a union. Microsoft recently announced plans to acquire the company.
Joe Biden is Delivering on His Promises to Working People
During his campaign, Joe Biden pledged to be the most pro-worker president in our country's history and he has spent the last 365 days delivering on that promise.
Republicans Say No to Voters and to Democracy
A minority of the members of the Senate, who represent an even smaller minority of the American population, should not be able to stand between voters and the ballot box.
Federal Indictments in Airport Assault Case Are an Important Step for Worker Safety
Last week's announcement that three Delta Air Lines passengers face federal charges for allegedly assaulting an airline security officer and gate agent is welcome news to airport workers who have faced increased physical and verbal abuse while on the job.
CWA Responds to Proposed Microsoft Acquisition of Activision Blizzard
"The proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft would represent a major change to the gaming industry and significantly strengthen Microsoft's competitive position at a critical time in the industry's evolution."
CWA President Chris Shelton Named to Telecommunications Interagency Working Group
Communications Workers of America President Chris Shelton has been named by Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh as the labor organization representative on the 12-person Telecommunications Interagency Working Group (TIWG). The TIWG was established by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to develop recommendations to address the workforce needs of the telecommunications industry as part of the Act's historic investments in broadband.
Denver-area Lumen Technology Workers Plan Protest at HQ for MLK Day For All
On Monday, workers at Denver-based Lumen Technologies plan to protest a policy giving non-union workers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a paid day off while requiring over 5,000 unionized members to work on the federal holiday.
Communications Workers of America Applauds President Biden's Nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin for Fed Vice Chair
President Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin for Fed Vice Chair of Supervision is a critical step towards creating a financial system that serves all Americans.
CWA Supports President Biden's Call for Action on Voting Rights
In today's powerful speech on voting rights, President Biden sent a clear message to members of the United States Senate: voting rights are essential to our democracy, and failing to act is not acceptable.
CWA President Chris Shelton's Statement on the Anniversary of the January 6 Insurrection
The January 6 attack on our Capitol was a betrayal of our country, not just by the extremists who directly participated in the assault but also by the elected officials who spread lies about the election and encouraged the violence.


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Q: chrome.notifications.update() not change my notification I want my chrome extension can work as follow: once the icon is clicked, it send request to server and write some data into database; after these are done, it will popup a notification says that you track this page successfully.
However, I noticed that it would take some time before the notification pops up(because slow backend processing), so I want that once I click the icon, it firstly pops up a notification says you are tracking the page, after server request complete successfully, the notification updates to saying that you tracked this page successfully.
The problem is currently it only pops up first notification and disappears after sometime. The second notification never shows up. Can someone tell me why?
Here is some of my code related:
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and how to move code clock left in stackoverflow?

A: It happens because by default, these notifications gets disappeared after few seconds, so you can't update the notification which is vanished. In order to persist the notification, add property requireInteraction: true in notification option while creating notification.
Another thing is use callback function in update method for debugging purpose.

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Q: Move div to left on click and back to regular position on click I have a navigation menu with a drop down on click and once the "resources" link is clicked I would like to have it moved to the left in the middle of the container div then once the viewer moves the mouse out of the resources link it goes back to it's regular position.
I tried to add these lines to my mini script//
jQuery( "#RXCLICK" ).animate({
    left: "+=50"
});

but nothing happens.
Here's a fiddle.
My question is,
Why exactly doesn't the animation work?
What am I doing wrong?
Please help.

A: Did you want to animate the round ball instead of the menu?
You either really meant:
// You used a pound to refer to an ID instead of a class...
jQuery( ".RXCLICK" ).animate({
  left: "+=50"
});

Or,
// This would move the menu, not the round ball.
jQuery( ".RXMENU" ).animate({
  left: "+=50"
});


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Difference between revisions of "Talk:Freezing/Archive 1"
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==New Picture 2 weeks==
*From how the guys at Heroes described it I think we might need to insert a new picture in the future! haha. [[User:Jason Garrick|Jason Garrick]] 18:48, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
== I really don't like the sound of: ==
"Ability to remove heat from matter."... I think something like "The ability to spontaneously freeze things" (as rough as that sounds) would be better...although, Sylar uses it in his future-peter fight, so I think there is more to it. Like maybe he was throwing ice. But since that is only speculation we can't use that... but since we DID see him prepare to use it, I think it would be ignorant to say he was going to "remove the heat from Peter." >_<--[[User:Riddler|Riddler]] 10:43, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
**Freezing something is removing heat from it. Heat is a form of energy in matter, and freezing is manipulation of that energy (as in dropping it). Sounds accurate to me.--[[User:Baldbobbo|Bob]] 11:10, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
***Then to keep consistency, we would have to make Pyrokinesis or Induced "The Ability to add heat to matter"... which sounds stupid to me. --[[User:Riddler|Riddler]] 11:25, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
****Pyrokinesis is more along the lines of creating a flame, which isn't just "adding heat" so much as igniting/controlling open flames. Adding heat could be a number of things. But the removal of heat to a certain temperature is known only as freezing.--[[User:Baldbobbo|Bob]] 11:29, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
**How about induced radiactivity then? Though it involves other things, he's melted things and burned things... by adding heat. At the same time, we saw Sylar prepare to use it against future Peter, and beyond that we saw lots of flashing lights behind the door, so I truely think it's not an accurate description of the power. I don't think it's plausible that the whole showdown was Sylar walking up to Peter to freeze him.--[[User:Riddler|Riddler]] 11:32, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
***Again, radioactivity can give off energy in the form of heat, light, etc. It's very specific in its description. With cryokinesis, the only accurate description is the reduction of heat in matter, whether that matter be air, water, asphalt or a sword. I'm not going to speculate over a battle that wasn't even shown on screen. From what has been aired, Sylar can reduce the heat in an object to where it is frozen. Matter that is frozen has lost heat in one form or another. That's as simple as physics and chemistry can make it.--[[User:Baldbobbo|Bob]] 11:48, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
*I don't mind "remove heat from matter" at all, but I don't see anything wrong with simply "freeze things" either. Perhaps we could use one description in the infobox and the other in the article space. They both seem fine to me. — [[User:Ryangibsonstewart|RyanGibsonStewart]] ([[User talk:Ryangibsonstewart|talk]]) 14:01, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
WARNING: Talk:Freezing/Archive 1 is an archive of past messages. New messages should be added to Talk:Freezing.
2 Name of Power
4 Cryokinesis v. Ice Generation: Round Two, Fight!
5 Obtained from whom?
6 New Picture 2 weeks
7 I really don't like the sound of:
I suggest the best definition of "cryokinesis" or "ice generation" is actually "the ability to remove heat from matter, reducing its temperature and possibly causing it to freeze". --Ted C 12:29, 2 January 2007 (EST)
Name of Power
The name of this power (though much is still unknown about it) has come into question. It was called "Cryokinesis", from Greek "cryo-" (cold/freezing) and "kinesis" (movement). This is a fairly logial word creation, though it is just that: a creation. The name of the power was recently changed to "Ice generation". Are there any opinions about the name of the power? Any new suggestions? Personally, I don't really care one way or the other. I thought "Cryokinesis" sounded cool, but "Ice generation" is probably more exact (though I think it also might describe my freezer's superability). Anybody want to weigh in? - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 22:15, 23 December 2006 (EST)
I think it definitely needs a new name at this point since ice is just a side-effect of freezing water... and the power is more likely to be related to freezing in general than being limited to freezing water. At the same time I dont think "cryokinesis" is an actual word. Wikipedia uses "cold manipulation" which I personally think is sufficient for the time being until we hear more about it (and whether it is indeed a separate power and not a side-effect). (Admin 16:37, 26 December 2006 (EST))
Cold manipulation sounds good ... for now. It gets my vote. - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 16:45, 26 December 2006 (EST)
Ice generation would actually be less accurate than cryokinesis, which does not necessarily include the ability to make ice appear. I consider "cryokinesis" to be as real a word as "pyrokinesis", which is not all that unusual; it's usually familiar to the comic book crowd, if not the general public. Cryokinesis is specifically the ability to remotely reduce temperatures, possibly causing objects to freeze. "Ice generation" sounds more like the ability to create ice from nothing. --Ted C 10:08, 28 December 2006 (EST)
I agree that ice generation is less accurate. Unfortunately there's a bit of disagreement on the use of cryokinesis since it doesn't appear to be a real word even if it's commonly used in the comic book crowd. As a result I think the best option at this point is to go with "cold manipulation". While it doesn't have the appeal of a word like cryokinesis it has the benefit of being sufficiently general. Hopefully at some point the show will give a name to this ability and we'll be able to put this to rest. :) (Admin 10:34, 28 December 2006 (EST))
We also have to remember that it's not just the comic book crowd that will be checking out the site. And, really, we need to be as accurate and legitimate as possible (well, as possible as you can be when you're talking about people that can fly, read minds, and manipulate space and time). Cold manipulation is both general and descriptive, and it is a legitimate term. - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 11:14, 28 December 2006 (EST)
<rant>The complaint is that "cryokinesis", "chronokinesis", and "pyrokinesis" are neologisms. Personally, I think worrying overmuch about whether the OED has officially sanctioned a word for public use by allowing it to grace its illustrious pages is a form of small-minded intellectual snobbery that requires that you believe a language consists of what's written in a book and not what comes from the lips of its speakers. The same people seem to think that "standard usage" is the same as "grammar"; it's merely rules worship for the sake of rules worship without any consideration for the fact that a language is a living, breathing, growing entity, and that its speakers are its authors, not its servants. I say this, mind you, as a notorious grammar Nazi whose initial interest in Wikis was that I could at last obsessively correct errors in the text I read. There's no question that these are "real words", since speakers and writers use them and listeners and readers understand them every day. The whole question is whether they are recognized words, which seems a fairly pedantic concern to me at least when describing phenomena that don't actually exist outside of comic books and television. It's like complaining that Elvish isn't composed of "real words". Bear in mind that, unlike Wikipedia, we make no claims of being an encyclopaedia, and our subject matter is innately the product of fantasy.</rant>--Hardvice (talk) 13:07, 28 December 2006 (EST)
How about Freeze or Freezing -Level 18:02, 28 December 2006 (EST)
Just for the sake of argument, I'm going to throw out there one more time the option that we just get rid of Cryokinice generation entirely until we have a better idea who uses it, how it works, and oh yeah, whether it actually exists or not. We're spending a lot of effort worrying about a power we've never seen used.--Hardvice (talk) 12:11, 28 December 2006 (EST)
I think we have reasonable evidence that such a power exists, since I know of no better explanation for how James Walker and a police officer ended up frozen solid without being in a freezer or a tank of liquid nitrogen. Given the circumstances of James Walker's death, I think it's also reasonable to conclude that Sylar has this power. I will cheerfully agree, however, that we're getting excessively wrapped up in semantics. I like "cryokinesis" because it's concise and it fits the comic-book feel of the show, but I'm not going to engage in an editing war over it. --Ted C 15:22, 28 December 2006 (EST)
Honestly, this power (and everything else Sylar has been shown doing) *could* be explained with his telekinesis - in this case, slowing molecules down until they're frozen. I agree that it's very likely Sylar has a seperate cold-related power, but it's not proven yet. Also, the word "cryokinesis" is terrible - it means, literally, "cold movement", which isn't a very accurate phrase. I would suggest "cryogenesis" instead, which means "cold creation". Pyrokinesis is somewhat different, since fire is something that can realistically be moved. unless 19:50, 8 January 2007 (EST)
I've addressed that on the Theories page. --Ted C 09:20, 9 January 2007 (EST)
The suffix -kinesis should only be used on powers that involve the motion of something. Pyrokinesis is fine, since it involves moving flames around through space the way telekinesis works with matter. But cryokinesis doesn't work as well for this power, since what we've seen is the making of cold, not the purposeful movement of it through space. The only movement of cold this power seems to involve is the natural conduction of the cold that is created. Cryogenesis might be a more appropriate word creation.--E rowe 22:10, 1 November 2007 (EDT)
Didn't Sylar freeze and kill Charlie Andrews, it was a sutle touch and I will go back and watch it again to make sure but I am pretty sure she walked in the back and started using the can opener then she was frozen with her head cut open.--Xhadow 00:13, 6 February 2007 (EST)
She didn't appear frozen, however she stopped moving once sylar cut her head open. I believe it was intended to show shock just moments before she collapsed dead. (Admin 00:17, 6 February 2007 (EST))
Yeah, I don't remember any freezing. And in the pictures, she certainly doesn't appear to be frozen. Compare her dead photo with the photos in the gallery on this page of the FBI agent and James Walker. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 00:35, 6 February 2007 (EST)
Cryokinesis v. Ice Generation: Round Two, Fight!
We have this listed as "cryokinesis" some places and "ice generation" others. We should pick one or the other. My money's on "cryokinesis" since "ice generation" just isn't very descriptive in light of James Walker (though it would cover the scene in Road Kill.) Thoughts?--Hardvice (talk) 14:34, 13 February 2007 (EST)
I'm a supporter of "cryokinesis" over "ice generation". It's not the most descriptive term for the power, but it's a heckuva lot better than "ice generation" — that's what my freezer does. So what if it's a neologism? It's a made up power anyway! — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 14:47, 13 February 2007 (EST)
"Cryokinesis" would be a better parallel for "pyrokinesis". If we don't like that, there's always "Freezing". --Ted C 15:39, 13 February 2007 (EST)
I'd take "freezing" over "ice generation", but "cryokinesis" over "freezing".--Hardvice (talk) 15:43, 13 February 2007 (EST)
Should we go ahead and make the move back to "Cryokinesis", then? (I like it better, too.) --Ted C 17:15, 13 February 2007 (EST)
Oh, please, please, please ... — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 17:18, 13 February 2007 (EST)
i support cryo, i dont think that ice is gernerated Theturtleguy 21:24, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
Oops. I put a note above that should be here. I think cryogenesis captures the meaning better than cryokinesis with a word that is just as succinct.--E rowe 22:15, 1 November 2007 (EDT)
Obtained from whom?
Mohinder says nine people from the List are dead, including Charlie and James Walker. This means at most seven people died pre-James, or at most six people between Brian Davis and James Walker. David is only one of them, and the pictures Mr. Bennet shows Eden are only (possibly) two more (they could have been killed after James, after all). It seems speculative to say that Sylar probably got cryokinesis from one of these three. There are at least three and as many as five others he could have obtained it from.--Hardvice (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
I could have sworn he said six people from the list were dead, including Charlie and James. Like, I would have bet money on it. Wandering off to check now.--Leshia 21:24, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
Aaaaaand I'm back, he definately said six people. So he pretty much had to have gotten it from either David or one of the two people in Bennet's pictures.--Leshia 21:27, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
Right, I realized I was wrong right after I posted. Still -- the man in the picture could be David. In any case, this is better off in Notes, where it can be explained, rather than under characters.--Hardvice (talk) 22:37, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
Well, if there were 6 dead from the list, including Walker and Charlie, then that leaves four three candidates (if Brian Davis is indeed on the list). So there's "David", the two people in the pictures (one of which may be David), and at the most one more if David is the pictured fellow in the file Bennet has. --Bob 23:03, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
Even though it's pretty good reasoning and probably true, it's still unknown exactly how many people Sylar has killed. What if he bumped into another evolved human and stole a power? Or what if when Sylar killed Chandra, Chandra was carrying a name in his pocket that wasn't on his list, and Sylar went and killed that person and took his power? I'm just saying we're speculating that we know the final amount of evolved humans that Sylar killed. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 10:27, 1 April 2007 (EDT)
In light of how Sylar killed Claire in Five Years Gone I'm reconsidering if it wasn't indeed James Walker who had this power. He's able to pretty much immobilize people with telekinesis as seen with Future Claire and perhaps even Charlie as she was being killed. I'm not confident Sylar's power can freeze someone quickly enough to stop them mid-bite, but we've seen how quickly he can do it with telekinesis. He may have immobilized James telekinetically, taken the power from him, and then frozen him while testing out his new power. Furthermore James's eyes and facial expression seem to me to look more like he was still able to move his face when he was killed which is more inline with the death being caused by having his head cut open rather than being frozen. Of course I may be jumping to conclusions that weren't being considered when they setup the prop. Also I consider this to be purely speculative, but I just wanted to toss it out here and see if there were any obvious holes in this theory. I find it equally possible and perhaps even a little simpler to believe that he was indeed able to freeze James quickly enough and that the power originated from someone else. Hopefully Molly will set things straight for us! (Admin 17:11, 18 May 2007 (EDT))
I think he definitely could have held him still telekinetically while he froze him to death, but it still seems like a stretch for him to hold him telekinetically the whole time that he's cutting his head open and eating his brain doing whatever he does. Why bother holding his dead body in that pose while stealing his power--just to make a cool frozen stature when you're done? That seems unlikely. If James had had cryokinesis, what more likely would have happened is that he'd grab him telekinetically and cut, drop the body, steal the brain, and then practice cryo. We also have to consider the possibility that Sylar may not have been able to do two TK tricks at once yet ... he hasn't really done that yet in the present, and Future Sylar has five years extra experience with his powers. In any case, I still think it's extremely unlikely that James had cryo, for all the reasons you've stated and more. Not impossible, just extraordinarily unlikely.--Hardvice (talk) 17:19, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
No holes that I see. I think it's always been possible, just highly unlikely. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 17:20, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
This interview seems to imply that it wasn't his power, but their answer is not very clear. -Lөvөl 18:00, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
It would be impossible for James Walker to be the possessor of cryokinesis. His body holds all the proof you need. James Walker was completely clean, in respect to blood . There wasn't any blood on him, unlike his wife, Mrs. Walker. There is a possibility, although slim to none, that he was immobilized by telekinesis. Even if that was the case, there would have been blood all over his body, especially on his skull. Just look at Charlie, Jackie, Dale, Zane, and Peter. However, since there wasn't, it means that Sylar froze James Walker before removing his brain, leaving the victim bloodless because of its frozen state.--Ice Vision 19:54, 18 May 2007 (EDT)
New Picture 2 weeks
From how the guys at Heroes described it I think we might need to insert a new picture in the future! haha. Jason Garrick 18:48, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
I really don't like the sound of:
"Ability to remove heat from matter."... I think something like "The ability to spontaneously freeze things" (as rough as that sounds) would be better...although, Sylar uses it in his future-peter fight, so I think there is more to it. Like maybe he was throwing ice. But since that is only speculation we can't use that... but since we DID see him prepare to use it, I think it would be ignorant to say he was going to "remove the heat from Peter." >_<--Riddler 10:43, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
Freezing something is removing heat from it. Heat is a form of energy in matter, and freezing is manipulation of that energy (as in dropping it). Sounds accurate to me.--Bob 11:10, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
Then to keep consistency, we would have to make Pyrokinesis or Induced "The Ability to add heat to matter"... which sounds stupid to me. --Riddler 11:25, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
Pyrokinesis is more along the lines of creating a flame, which isn't just "adding heat" so much as igniting/controlling open flames. Adding heat could be a number of things. But the removal of heat to a certain temperature is known only as freezing.--Bob 11:29, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
How about induced radiactivity then? Though it involves other things, he's melted things and burned things... by adding heat. At the same time, we saw Sylar prepare to use it against future Peter, and beyond that we saw lots of flashing lights behind the door, so I truely think it's not an accurate description of the power. I don't think it's plausible that the whole showdown was Sylar walking up to Peter to freeze him.--Riddler 11:32, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
Again, radioactivity can give off energy in the form of heat, light, etc. It's very specific in its description. With cryokinesis, the only accurate description is the reduction of heat in matter, whether that matter be air, water, asphalt or a sword. I'm not going to speculate over a battle that wasn't even shown on screen. From what has been aired, Sylar can reduce the heat in an object to where it is frozen. Matter that is frozen has lost heat in one form or another. That's as simple as physics and chemistry can make it.--Bob 11:48, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
I don't mind "remove heat from matter" at all, but I don't see anything wrong with simply "freeze things" either. Perhaps we could use one description in the infobox and the other in the article space. They both seem fine to me. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 14:01, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
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Snow, Weight Out For Islanders – What Else?
As most of Islander fandom already knows, GM Garth Snow and coach Doug Weight have been relieved of their duties.
I can't honestly say it's a huge surprise. Someone was going to pay for the horrible defensive team the Islanders were last season, especially with the addition of Lou Lamariello as President of Hockey Operations. (Now GM too)
Now, of course, everyone wants to know what this means for the pending free agency of John Tavares.
I don't think it means much of anything. You could look at these dismissals as a message to JT that the team is committed to winning, and being a professional organization. You could just as easily make the argument that Tavares enjoyed playing for Weight and wanted him back, and that Lou spent some time talking to him about what he'd like to see the team do and is now doing that, or that he's given up on JT coming back and this is the sign of that.
I don't see any of it, for one simple reason. Lou Lamariello is not the kind of guy who would let a player dictate to him if he really thought someone needed to go. I think he came in, and within a couple of weeks of meetings and discussions decided that the job Garth and Doug did wasn't good enough, and he could find better people to do it. Period.
John Tavares can get on board with that, and come back, or he can not, and leave. He's a free agent, he's earned the right to do whatever he wants. Lou is a longtime professional, and he'll put together a roster either way. I honestly believe that's why he's been rumored to have talked to Ilya Kovulchuk. If Tavares came back, I'm not sure how that would fit under the salary cap, or in the lineup. Without Tavares, it kind of makes sense. (My guess is Bailey moves to center, but that's really just a guess.)
As Islander fans, we may have to get used to a GM who will do things his way, regardless of how the players might feel about it. He's earned that with the success he's had. That will be an adjustment for us.
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A billionaire former associate of Michael Jackson has purchased the pop star's former home, Neverland Ranch.
Ronald W. Burkle, the co-founder of the investment firm Yucaipa Companies, purchased the ranch for $22 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A spokesman for Mr. Burkle, who previously served as a financial adviser for Mr. Jackson, said that he viewed the investment as a land banking opportunity. Mr. Burkle made his initial fortune buying and selling supermarkets in California. He is also a co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey franchise.
Mr. Jackson bought the ranch, a 2,700-acre property in Los Olivos, Calif, about 125 miles northwest of Los Angeles, for about $17 million in 1988. He named it Neverland Ranch, after the mythical island home of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up.
Under Mr. Jackson's direction, the property was transformed at a cost of $35 million into an entertainment complex, complete with a zoo, a train, an amusement park that included a Ferris wheel, and a 50-seat theater.
Ron Burkle in 2016.Credit…Keith Srakocic/Associated Press
The property also includes a 13,000-square-foot French country main house, as well as other buildings.
In 2008, Neverland was nearly foreclosed on after Mr. Jackson defaulted on $24.5 million he owed on the property. A Los Angeles real estate investment company, Colony Capital LLC, put the title for the property into a joint venture with Mr. Jackson.
Before his death in 2009, Mr. Jackson faced several allegations that he molested young boys, with some of the acts occurring at Neverland, according to his accusers. One case went to trial in 2005; he was acquitted after 14 weeks. He died four years later while preparing for a string of concert dates he hoped would revive his career. After the 2005 trial, Mr. Jackson never returned to live at his ranch.
A documentary, "Leaving Neverland," which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019, rekindled speculation about the allegations.
Months after the documentary was shown, a legal dispute between HBO and the Jackson estate intensified over claims that the cable channel, by showing the documentary, had violated an old contract stipulating that it "shall not make any disparaging remarks" about Mr. Jackson.
In December, HBO lost an appeal of a court ruling that granted the estate's motion to take the dispute to arbitration, according to Variety.
The property has been on the market since 2015, despite speculation that it would be used as a memorial to Mr. Jackson, akin to Elvis Presley's Graceland. But the amusement park rides were removed and it was rebranded the Sycamore Valley Ranch, The Journal reported.
In 2016, the asking price was $100 million, but it dropped to $67 million the next year.
Stacy Brown, an author of "Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask," said he used to be close to the Jackson family and visited the ranch several times.
He said Mr. Jackson was hospitable and that the ranch "had it all." A statue of a butler held the ranch's guest book, which many famous people in Hollywood had signed, Mr. Brown said.
"It was a great place, but many will say that it was a place where kids were exposed to abuse, and I don't disagree with that," said Mr. Brown, who was a witness for the prosecution in Mr. Jackson's 2005 case. He said he never witnessed Mr. Jackson do anything malicious.
"What a shame that it came to this, and what a shame that Michael's dead," he said. "The sale of Neverland is a sad day for the Jackson family. It truly ends what was such an amazing legacy."
Christina Morales contributed reporting.
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Q: NodeJS no response on submit I have a local server running and an input form for users. I want when they press submit simply to output a message "Thank you!". Instead when pressing submit, nothing happens and after some time I get the message that the server dropped the connection. Could somebody help me please?
NodeJS:
var fs = require('fs');
const log=require('simple-node-logger').createSimpleLogger();
var express = require('express');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
var port = process.env.PORT || 8000;

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/server'));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

app.use('/images', express.static(__dirname +'/images'));

app.get('/', function(req, res){
    res.sendfile('main.html');
});

//app.listen(port, function(){
//    console.log('server is running on ' + port);
//});

app.post('/submit', function(req, res){
 console.log(req.body.rank);
});

HTML:
<form method="POST" action="/submit"  >

        <select name="rank" size="1" style="width:80px;" required>
          <option value="" selected disabled hidden>Rank</option>
          <option value="1">1</option>
          <option value="2">2</option>
        </select>

          <input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" id="submit"/>

</form>

A: Your post handler does nothing
app.post('/submit', function(req, res){
  console.log(req.body.rank);
});

You can do the following action,
Redirect on another route with res.redirect :
app.post('/submit', function(req, res){
 console.log(req.body.rank);
 // redirect on /
 return res.redirect("/");
});

Render  a success html file:
 app.post('/submit', function(req, res){
 console.log(req.body.rank);
 // render success
 return res.sendfile('success.html');
});

Return json :
 app.post('/submit', function(req, res){
 console.log(req.body.rank);
 // render success
return res.status(200).json({message: "OK"})
});

A: Its happed because you in your post handler never produces any feedback to client, just log to console rank. Try something like
app.post('/submit', function(req, res){
 console.log(req.body.rank);
 res.json(req.body.rank);
});


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