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U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Releases Staff Report on BeiDou
China's development and promotion of its BeiDou satellite navigation system not only has tremendous implications for that country's government and finances, but this alternative to GPS also presents a variety of implications for the United States, according to a staff research report released by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
The report, "China's Alternative to GPS and its Implications for the United States," was written by Jordan Wilson, policy analyst in security and foreign affairs at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and released on January 5, 2017. Congress established the commission in 2000 "to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to Congress for legislative and administrative action." The Commission is composed of 12 members who serve two-year terms, three of whom are selected by each of the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, and the speaker and the minority leader of the House of Representatives.
Although BeiDou is provided for free and therefore is not designed to "compete" with other satellite navigation systems, including GPS, the commission noted that Beijing has implemented a number of domestic policies to promote the adoption of BeiDou-compatible receivers and expand its GNSS industry.
Plenty of reasons exist to believe this expansion will be substantial, Wilson writes. Not only are expectations high for significant economic growth brought on by BeiDou, but the development of one of the world's first satellite navigation systems will also affect diplomatic issues and should also play a big role in providing China with both domestic and international prestige.
The Commission's report states that, according to Davof Xu, GNSS China project manager for the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, more than 14,000 companies and organizations are active in the GNSS-related industry in China, accounting for a total of more than 450,000 employees. Xu's comments came from a commission staff interview last September.
The industry's fast-paced growth along with China's "relatively low current market share, latecomer status, and fragmented market likely indicates to Beijing an opportunity for significant economic benefits down the road," the report states. An earlier report prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, "Planning for Innovation: Understanding China's Plans for Technological, Energy, Industrial, and Defense Development," by the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) on July 28, 2016, said that Chinese GNSS companies are mostly small- and medium-sized in comparison to highly consolidated global providers.
In the commission's January 5 report, commercial implications for both the U.S. and China are addressed. Wilson writes that the global trend toward "product compatibility with multiple constellations may actually create additional opportunities for U.S. companies in China in the near term." He cites both the IGCC report and Qualcomm Inc.'s press releases to support these findings. Qualcomm that provided the GNSS component technology for the first GPS- and BeiDou-compatible smartphone — the China market version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 — in 2013.
China's public release of BeiDou's Open Service interface control document (ICD) as other GNSSs have done indicates a desire for some level of international participation. (The most recent version, BeiDou ICD v2.1, was released last November.) An official with the China Satellite Navigation Office noted in 2014 that "Chinese companies can only grow by engaging in face-to-face competition with the world's top companies in the industry."
The report notes, however, that it takes roughly one to two years to add a new constellation to product software, which can be a disadvantage for foreign companies that have not yet developed BeiDou compatibility. Additionally, Wilson said that China's government has taken steps to advantage domestic companies, which most other GNSS programs have done at some point in their development. These steps include:
• Chinese companies were given early access to BeiDou reference designs and specifications, providing an early advantage in developing BeiDou products.
• China has established certification hurdles seemingly targeting non-Chinese vendors.
• According to the report, Qualcomm was not allowed to join China's GNSS standards committee alongside domestic firms.
Because of these factors, U.S. and other foreign firms will likely need some time to take advantage of the commercial shift toward multi-constellation devices to compete in China's domestic market.
In the international market, U.S. companies will likely be able to configure their products to work with the constellations prevalent in each region and compete with fewer obstacles than in China's domestic market, the report argued. From this perspective, rapid movement towards full interoperability between satellite navigation systems will continue to be in the interests of the United States, the report indicates.
Challenges specific to the downstream satellite navigation industry in China should be included in larger discussions regarding U.S.-China trade and market access issues. As Mr. Xu observes, market access for foreign firms in China is a "general not a particular problem."
More on BeiDou
China's Beidou satellite navigation system is projected to achieve global coverage by 2020, providing position accuracies better than 10 meters (one meter or less with regional augmentation) using a network of 35 satellites. China has sought to field its own satellite navigation system for a variety of reasons.
According to the executive summary in Wilson's report, China's reasons include to: (1) address national security requirements by ending military reliance on GPS; (2) build a commercial downstream satellite navigation industry to take advantage of the quickly expanding market; and (3) achieve domestic and international prestige by fielding one of only four such global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) yet developed, cementing China's status as a leading space power and opening the door to international cooperation opportunities. BeiDou is consistently referenced as one of China's top space projects in its government white papers on space activities, most recently in December 2016.
Without a doubt, Wilson asserted, BeiDou is of foremost importance in allowing China's military to employ Beidou-guided conventional strike weapons if access to GPS were denied. In addition to the open service, BeiDou transmits an encrypted signal intended for military or security use, as most other GNSSs also do.
In terms of specific security issues, the report notes that "concerns have been raised regarding inherent security vulnerabilities in BeiDou-equipped receivers." These included the possibility of tracking users without their knowledge or introducing "malware" into their products, suggestions that Wilson indicated were raised by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, with which mainland China has a problematical relationship. Technical experts interviewed for the report, however, noted that (1) they are not aware of ways to feasibly transmit malware through a navigation signal; and (2) receiver chip manufacturers outside China will be unlikely to include the BeiDou "texting service" due to cost factors.
Jim Mollenkopf, senior director of strategic development for Qualcomm Government Technologies, stated that "Qualcomm's products only use BeiDou for passive reception of navigation signals, and do not use the BeiDou messaging function. We know of no way for the BeiDou system to track users without the messaging function enabled."
Lastly, Wilson states that given that one-third of the smartphones exported from China in the first quarter of 2016 reportedly contained BeiDou receiver chips, U.S. consumers should know that there are no inherent risks involved in a smartphone having BeiDou connectivity if it does not include the satellite communication channel. The report cites Stephen Chen, "China to Massively Increase Accuracy of its GPS Rival, with Benefits for Smartphone Users … and the Military," from the South China Morning Post (June 17, 2016) with providing these figures.
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I know it's taken me a long time to post this, but I received my box of migratory junk on May 10! I got box INTJ-7 which had been shipped out by a nice guy from San Diego. I don't have a lot to say now (and no pictures) but I'd like to share some of what I got out of it. Perhaps my biggest find was right on top: a Hand Held Products IT4410 2D barcode scanner. On the product page I found the manual manual (pdf link) which explains all of its features.
It turns out that the scanner emulates a PS/2 keyboard and will read almost any 1D or 2D barcode symbology. After a few hijinks with a loose ribbon cable and flaky PS/2 support on my computer I got the scanner working perfectly. I was even able to change its configuration by scanning barcodes from the manual displayed on my LCD (though I don't know if it will work with glossy screens — mine is matte).
A solenoid-controlled proportional valve for small pneumatics or hydraulics.
A bag of large rubber grommets, one of which I cut up to replace the feet on a table lamp.
A worm-gearbox connected to a large motor with integrated optical encoder.
A wide variety of IR LED/phototransistor gates.
A pile of 1.8V, 2.5V and 3.3V voltage regulators.
Stay tuned for pictures and more details on what I'm taking and what I'm going to do with it.
I ran into this stencil on the side of a fire extinguisher box at Reed College and thought it was delightful.
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So I had the wonderful experience this weekend of losing over 1,200 words of work on a paper because I forgot to save it regularly. I was really, really sad about that and really bummed that Pages, my word processor of choice (I love the formatting tools), doesn't support either autosaving or document recovery. However, my preference for Pages is strong enough that I didn't jump ship to an auto-saving editor. Instead I went out and found WorkSaver.
Worksaver simply sits in your menubar and, at a definable interval will save every iWork document you have open, provided that it's already been saved once. This means that when I'm writing I don't have to even worry about saving my document after creating it and choosing where to save it. Of course, it's a shame that you have to manually save the file when you create it, but it's a lot better than losing all your work. I can highly recommend WorkSaver if you use iWork simply for the peace of mind it provides. Of course, it's not perfect for everybody, but when I'd rather focus on writing a paper than on making sure my computer doesn't decide to make it all go away, WorkSaver is just what I need.
I've been getting into a mood lately that makes me fiddle around with fun Perl stuff, but sadly school's picking up to the point that writing anything up isn't going to happen. However, I have a couple short scripts that I'm just dying to share.
I'll let you go ahead and figure it out on your own. It's not super-hard, but it's fun.
The code's far from polished and not what I like to publish, but it's a fun thing to look at and offers you some neat abilities to poke things around and fix some pesky problems that just need clear thinking applied to them. It's available here.
So the other day I finally got tired with my (awesome) wallet and decided to make something new. I ended up choosing a money clip. Not only would it be a nice, high quality, metal object living in my pocket, instead of a crummy, dirty wallet, but a money clip is good looking, classy and minimalistic way of keeping a hold of my money and cards. Looking around my room I didn't really get any inspiration, until I saw an old metal fork lying in a box. I cut the head off with my dremel and a fiberglass cutting wheel. A little bit of sanding and bending resulted in a, super-useful money clip. I've been using it for the past few days and it's been serving me really well, looking good, and altogether holding up like a quality product.
If there's interest, I'll put up more information / pictures and maybe put some of these bad boys up for sale.
Update 7-13-11: I've posted an updated set of instructions on getting GPSd to compile on OS X here; this post will remain for archival purposes. For information on installing GPSDrive, see this post.
So I recently picked up a cheap GPS module on Amazon. It was about $30 with shipping, and I got a neat little dongle which connects over USB to my computer and communicates with software. It didn't come with support for OS X (although interestingly enough it shipped with Mac OS 8 and 9 drivers), but it promised to send generic NMEA-0183, so I wasn't too worried.
When it showed up, some quick software probing revealed that it houses a usb to serial adaptor (a Prolific PL-2303, which I'll get to in a bit) and a gps module that's configured to send NMEA strings through the virtual serial port. This sort of information is compatible with a host of software, but most of it is commericial, and only available at a considerable price.
A breed function that allows the best individuals to reproduce.
I ended up implementing a very simple algorithm, but it's fairly fast and very generic – it can be easily adapted to just about any task. Sadly, I have no fascinating application just yet, but if I stumble across one, I'll be sure to post about it.
After the jump, I'll put up some of the code I used and a link to the script, all for your viewing pleasure.


Q: When facing a deliberate player, I can get pretty anxious, even upset. How do you keep your composure and stay in your game?
Lanny P.; Flat Rock, Mich.
A: Installing a pre-shot routine will really help your mind stay on the things that are important, like delivering the perfect swing. Try not to focus on your opponent, but, rather, how you can prepare yourself to perform. It's OK to get nervous before a match. Just make sure you give yourself the chance to play your best pool.
Q: Do you still enjoy the game as much as you did when you started? I seem to go through lulls where I lose a bit of my desire.
A: Absolutely! I love it even more. Pool, just like most sports, the more you know, the more fun it is! Sure, there are times I started to feel lazy, but I know to do something to make sure I moved forward in my game. This means setting new goals or playing in more tournaments. Putting yourself out there really helps you evaluate where you are and what needs work.


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    public $id = 0;

    public $title = '';

    public $user_id = '';

    public function exchangeArray(array $array)
    {
        $this->id = (isset($array['id'])) ? $array['id'] : $this->id;
        $this->title = (isset($array['title'])) ? $array['title'] : $this->title;
        $this->user_id = (isset($array['user_id'])) ? $array['user_id'] : $this->user_id;
    }

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    {
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            'id' => $this->id,
            'title' => $this->title,
            'user_id' => $this->user_id,
        );
        return $data;
    }

    public function getInputFilter()
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            $inputFilter = new InputFilter();

            $inputFilter->add(array(
                'name' => 'title',
                'required' => true,
                'filters' => array(
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                        'name' => 'StringTrim'
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        return $this->inputFilter;
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Butòrides () fou un escriptor grec que escrigué sobre les piràmides d'Egipte. Segons l'ordre en què apareix a la Naturalis Historia de Plini el Vell hauria viscut després d'Alexandre Polihistor i abans que Apió Plistonices, és a dir, al  o una mica abans.

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Heat sugar and water in pan. It will start boiling. Make syrup of one string consistency. Add cardamom powder to it. Keep it aside.
In a mixing bowl, add wheat flour, semolina, and salt. Mix very well. Heat ghee in a saucepan, then pour into the mixing bowl over the flour. Probably make a small dig in the flour and add ghee into it. And then pour flour from sides into the ghee. Add curd and 1 tbsp or more water and knead the dough. The dough should be not too hard or too soft. Keep it for 1/2 in freeze. Take our keep for 15 min. Then knead the dough. Make small portions of dough of 4 inch. Start rolling it, it should not be too thin or thick, make chapati of big size then using cover of small round tiffin make 10-12 puris. Deep fry in oil. Take out on tissue paper to remove excess oil. Deep in hot sugar syrup. Serve hot.
Sugar syrup should be hot when dipping the puris.


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What we're reading: An Ebola analysis and a Senate spending bill
The Ebola Virus is Winning – This comprehensive analysis by J. Stephen Morrison of the Center for Strategic & International Studies explains how with unprecedented advantages of an effective vaccine and now proven treatments the 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to defy control and threaten the region. Continued political and armed conflict fostering "dense and formidable insecurity and chaos," are part of the answer. In addition, he notes are weaknesses in both national government and international responses leading to incoherent and uncoordinated strategies. For all of its complexity the components of the crisis are not unique, and Morrison notes, are likely to come together in similar fashion with similar results where limited resources, international neglect, and failed policies allow them to.
Graham releases FY 2020 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill – The contexts of the ongoing epidemic in the DRC, the real danger of a continued comeback of measles outbreaks across the U.S., the global threat of infections resistant to existing drugs, and the ambitious plan to finally end HIV as an epidemic in America, all highlight the needs cited by Morrison for comprehensive, sustained, and full-force approaches to equipping, coordinating and informing disease control efforts. A budget document, on the other hand, by its nature takes a more piecemeal approach to challenges. While the funding bill released this week by the Senate State and Foreign Operations Appropriations subcommittee is strongly responsive to some of the most pressing health issues confronting health security at home and abroad, including with a 15.6% boost for the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, it also leaves gaps — including with the subtraction of last year's increase to the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — the program's first raise in a decade. The subcommittee's release on the bill also is not without irony, with the section titled "STRENGTHENS GLOBAL HEALTH," directly above a section boasting that the bill "maintains" the expanded "Mexico City Policy" also known as the global gag rule, that a series of studies have determined obstructs access to essential basic health services and public health interventions worldwide. A few lines down the release also notes that "The bill does not include funds for the Green Climate Fund, the UN Human Rights Council, and the UN Relief and Works Agency."
News Releases from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association, which produce this blog, delineated pertinent points of that spending bill, as well as on the bill released by the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations subcommittee this week.
This entry was posted in Budget, What we're reading, U.S. Policy and Funding and tagged CSIS, J. Stephen Morrison, Mexico City Policy, Global Gag Rule, Senate Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, DRC Ebola Outbreak, Senate Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee on September 20, 2019 .
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Buying a programmable thermostat offers you a lot of convenience when it comes to comfort. Not only do they allow for a variety of programs to be set for your needs, they also make it easy to take advantage of a variety of savings if used correctly. Of course the weather in Heflin can be erratic and the temperature swings can seem extreme, but there are steps you can take to ensure you experience total comfort while also saving money month after month.
Enjoying the benefits of your programmable thermostat isn't hard, and one of the easiest ways to maximize those benefits is by understanding the schedule of your home. Every schedule is unique, but taking the time to recognize your needs will allow you to program your thermostat correctly and only be heating and cooling your home when it's needed.
Certainly you can take the approach of toying with it when you leave or get home every day, but why bother with it when you could have it programmed to meet your comfort needs every day? It is a programmable thermostat after all, so why not use it to boost your comfort and energy savings?
Programming your thermostat for large pieces of time allows it to work more efficiently, saving you money and ensuring your comfort level is right where you want it. Programming a schedule for your programmable thermostat will give you greater efficiency and more consistent temperatures, especially when you limit temperature changes to 10 degree differences or less. Maintaining a consistent temperature will also help you resist the urge to constantly walk over to your thermostat and use your "hold" button or make drastic adjustments.
In addition to the basic operation of your programmable thermostat, many host a variety of features that may help you lessen your energy consumption and may potentially reduce your energy costs.
Programmable thermostats usually offer pre-programmed settings, including specific options for work and vacation. Using these regularly help keep your system from working when you're away from Heflin for long periods when the temperature of your home doesn't matter as much.
Programmable thermostats are a cool addition, and when used appropriately, they can ensure maximum comfort is achieved and can potentially save you money as well. There are a number of programmable thermostats available, so give Bain Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc in Heflin a call at 256-270-1196 if you have any questions as to which choice would best suit your needs.


Ches grew up among the hills of Tennessee, and it was there that his great love for the outdoors was first nurtured. At University he pursued an unusual combination – art and physical education – and these two interests became his life's work. Through both runs a common pattern – a strong identification with the outdoors.
While at University, Ches became a champion wrestler. After serving in the United States Marine Corps, he completed his Master's degree in Physical Education, taught and coached for a time, and in 1958 realized a life-long ambition to come to Canada and immerse himself in the wide-open spaces of Saskatchewan. He joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan, teaching physical education and coaching wrestling. During that time, he made an outstanding contribution to education in this province.
It was never Ches' style to wait for someone else to provide the initiative for leadership and action. For many years he promoted outdoor and environmental education through his University classes in outdoor education and recreation. His classes, as well as his personal life, were characterized by integrity and charm, wit and good humor.
Ches had a long affiliation with SOEEA, both as a member, and on the executive. In 1973 he headed the 5th Provincial Outdoor Education Conference in Saskatoon. It attracted close to 500 delegates and extended the influence for outdoor and environmental education throughout the province.
His attraction for the outdoors, his appreciation of nature, and his zest for life were reflected in his art. He was an accomplished artist – his perceptions captured not only the beauty of our environments, but also the unusual, the humorous, the subtle.
Ches also enjoyed the fields and waters of Saskatchewan through his hunting and hiking, canoeing and fishing. But he really could care less whether he got a pheasant or a fish – it was his involvement with the natural world that beckoned and satisfied.
Ches was typically modest about his accomplishments and contributions – he undoubtedly credited Saskatchewan for the opportunities he'd had to realize much of his potential. But also, Saskatchewan is a better place, we are better people, because of his convictions, dedication and service. He was a true craftsman, a true outdoorsman, a man who cares about people and about our environment.
Ches passed away in 2018 at age 90.


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Symphony of Enchanted Lands
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Can a Dark Tower really be 'Of Abyss'? Hmmm.... - 70%
Torwilligous, December 12th, 2008
So here we have Rhapsody of Fire (or, as they were known then, Rhapsody), with their best album. Well the best I've heard at any rate; "Power of the Dragonflame" was rubbish, "Legendary Tales" was decent but too twee, and "Symphony of the Enchanted Lands pt.II" was bloated and snoozetastic, but did at least have Christopher Lee on it, saving the album from my Mighty Runic Axe of the Destruction of the Crappy Bullshit. "Symphony..." part one, however, makes it all the way along the tightrope across the Pits of Suckage with only a few moments along the way.
The style on display here is just dandy, melding renaissance/medieval classicism and grandiose film score music with stock standard power metal, and all of it is very slickly and enjoyably composed. Honestly though, without the keyboards Rhapsody would be absolutely diabolical, as the vast majority of their guitar 'riffs' cannot be honestly called such without encountering near-unprecedented levels of factual inaccuracy. Choosing a note and going 'djuggadjuggadjuggadjugga' relentlessly for two bars before changing chords is not a riff, it's rhythmic support to the main players: the sweeping orchestras and totally ludicrous vocals of Fabio Lione. Seriously, this guy has the fruitiest tone you could ever hear, warbling away in a magma-thick Italian accent that somehow botches "Emerald Sword" to "Eemroe Swaow". This, however, has a hilarious effect that makes him rather enjoyable to listen to.
Highlights? There are good musical moments all over this album. "Emerald Sword" is obviously a romping classic that needs no more said about it, while "Wisdom of the Kings" is in a similar vein and to my mind is just as good. "Eternal Glory" is nice, with a crushing opening brass fanfare that is pretty much the best single part of the entire album. There are also a couple of rather interesting, darker and more intricate tracks; "Beyond the Gates of Infinity" and the excellent and also marvellously titled "The Dark Tower of Abyss", which melds darkly shimmering, Bach-esque baroque ornatery with the usual flower metal proceedings.
However, there are moments of transcendent silliness also, fear not! Key among these are the moments of narration. If you thought Fabio couldn't be out-fruited, you were wrong; this narrator guy is absolute comedy gold, packing so much over-emotion into his lisping little voice it's impossible not to at least give a wry chuckle. His "Fly, mighty Thauros!" speech at the beginning of the title track is just... well, words fail me. All standards of cheesiness have just been blown straight out of the window. Congratulations, Rhapsody! This also brings us round to said title track, which is over-long and dull, and which I've never made it all the way through without wanting to go insane. Whenever it's a chore to finish a song, you know you've taken a wrong turn somewhere along the path.
As a serious band? This is an epic failure, due to two major factors; having a silly grasp of English (not their fault), as well doing too much in general to be majestic, and over-egging the cake somewhat. However, the music itself is on the most part extremely enjoyable, intricate and eminently listenable. Just be prepared to accept ridiculousness beyond expectation.


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Markel Hutchins
stated on February 4, 2013 in an interview:
There are twice as many gun shops as McDonald's in the United States.
Two customers walk inside one of the 14,000 McDonald's restaurants in the country. Atlanta-based civil rights activist, the Rev. Markel Hutchins, says there are twice as many gun stores in the United States than McDonald's.
By Eric Stirgus February 11, 2013
Are there more places to buy a gun than a Big Mac?
So what's easier to find? The golden arches or a gun shop.
The Rev. Markel Hutchins, an Atlanta-based civil rights activist, had an answer during a recent discussion about federal gun legislation on "The Ryan Cameron Show," which airs weekday mornings on V-103 FM in Atlanta.
"There are twice as many gun shops as McDonald's," Hutchins said.
McDonald's eateries are just about everywhere in America. PolitiFact Georgia was listening while stuck in traffic and wanted to find out whether Hutchins' claim is true that there are more places to buy a gun than to grab a Happy Meal.
Hutchins wants laws to restrict the availability of handguns across the country, particularly in urban areas such as Atlanta. He led a rally last week outside the headquarters of gun manufacturer Glock, located in Smyrna, a northern suburb of Atlanta. Hutchins says gun rights advocates are distorting the intent of the Second Amendment, saying it was written to allow Americans to arm themselves to protect the nation.
There had been a spate of high-profile shootings in Atlanta a week before Hutchins' interview. A 14-year-old boy was shot, allegedly by a 15-year-old boy, on the campus of an Atlanta middle school. The student who was wounded was not seriously injured. A day after that shooting, a Morehouse College student was shot inside a gym on the campus. The student was reportedly in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery.
Hutchins said he was indeed claiming that there are more gun shops nationwide than McDonald's restaurants. Hutchins sent us an ABC News article published in mid-December to back up his claim and said he did some additional research because he didn't believe it was true.
"My God, it was right there," he said.
The McDonald's website contains a number of facts and figures, including how many restaurants there are in the country. The latest tally, as of 2011, was 14,098 in the United States. There were 33,510 worldwide, the website shows.
The number on the restaurant's website matched what ABC reported. The news outlet reported there are 51,438 retail gun stores in America. Programs, such as American Public Media's "Marketplace," have reported the total is about 58,000. Some online research we did found others making similar claims that there are twice as many gun stores as McDonald's in America.
Those numbers, however, are more complicated than they first appear.
What Hutchins and some news outlets have referred to as "guns stores" are actually federal permits issued to sell guns. Those could represent retail establishments that primarily sell guns, larger retail vendors (such as Wal-Mart) that sell guns as part of a much larger retail venue or pawnshops that carry guns as part of their inventory. The numbers also refer to people who sell guns at gun shows several times a year and have no bricks-and-mortar store.
We attempted to make an oranges-to-oranges comparison here -- to compare McDonald's locations to free-standing stores that primarily sell guns.
It's hard to find detailed data on actual gun stores online. The U.S. Census Bureau does not keep data on gun stores. Neither does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms keeps a monthly log on its website of how many people and pawnbrokers are licensed to sell guns in the country and its territories. In January, the total was 58,725. About 51,000 of them were gun dealers. The rest were pawnbrokers. In Georgia, the total in January was 1,746.
In 2011, to be consistent with the most recent information we have about the number of McDonald's restaurants nationwide, there were 56,059 federally licensed firearms dealers and pawnbrokers in the country. That's quadruple the number of places to buy Chicken McNuggets.
The ATF does not track how many licensed dealers own a business that they sell guns from as opposed to those who may sell guns at a show. The ATF database has lists of every person licensed to sell guns. In Georgia, most people on the January list say they own a business. There were about 175 people on the list with a license who did not include the name of a business. About 100 of them are retail stores such as Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods and Academy Sports & Outdoors.
In some cases, the list contains the name of the person licensed to sell guns and the business
The leader of an organization of firearms retailers had a lower estimate of how many gun shops there are nationally. Andrew Molchan, president of Professional Gun Retailers Association, believes there are probably 9,000 "real" gun stores in America. His definition of a gun store is a place that regularly sells the weapons year-round. His estimate did not include businesses such as Wal-Mart because some of those stores do not sell any guns.
Molchan said it's tough to come up with a firm number of how many gun stores there are for several reasons. For example, he said some pawnshops sell only a handful of guns year-round.
"It's not hard and crisp," Molchan said of coming up with an actual estimate of how many gun shops there are in the U.S.
When told about Hutchins' claim, Molchan replied, "That's not necessarily wrong."
Some people, he said, may have a license to sell guns, but they don't sell any at all. He believes there are probably as many as 25,000 businesses that sell guns.
To sum up, Hutchins said there were twice as many gun shops than McDonald's restaurants in the United States. There are numbers we found that support his argument.
But this claim, like many we've tackled, is not as simple as it seems. His overall point seems accurate -- there are a lot of places to buy guns in the United States.
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Georgia and other states with weak gun laws have more crime.
By Eric Stirgus • November 9, 2010
Radio interview with Rev. Markel Hutchins on V-103 FM, Feb. 4, 2013.
ABC News, "Guns in America: A Statistical Look," Dec. 14, 2012.
McDonald's 2011 financial highlights, accessed Feb. 6, 2013.
American Public Media's "Marketplace," "Final note: There are more than 58,000 gunshops in the U.S.," Dec. 14, 2012.
Telephone interview with Hutchins, Feb. 6, 2013.
Telephone interview with Andrew Molcham, Feb. 7, 2013.
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms databases of federal firearm licenses.
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms 2012 report on firearms, accessed Feb. 6, 2013.
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Home » Blog » What Can Neuroscience Teach Us to Improve Marketing?
What goes on in a consumer's mind? The answer to that question can have a strong impact on marketers. If we can understand why a consumer takes a specific action, we can help companies better position themselves to reach their desired outcome with the consumer.
Very few marketers would say that their profession is "brain surgery." But looking at discoveries and ideas in neuroscience can help better understand the human mind.
That means being better able to persuade consumers to take interest in your brand.
According to leading neuroscientists, 95 percent of all thought, emotion, and learning occur before we are even aware of it.
In essence, human beings act in certain ways because they're wired to do so. The mind's cognitive biases and inclinations play a role in the marketing process. When it comes to buying behavior, here are some tips from the world of neuroscience that can help improve your marketing.
The brain processes images faster than text.
This isn't news. And any marketer knows that images are one of their greatest marketing assets.
That's because the brain processes visual content faster than text.
Successful marketers take advantage of this fact by amplifying their visual content. Powerful product images and graphically-driven websites tap into this neurological insight.
Our minds associate the color blue with trust.
Designers will tell you that blue is a cool and soothing color. Neuroscience backs this up, as studies have found that our brains associate the color blue with those things that soothe us: trustworthiness; security; fiscal responsibility; and dependability.
Think of websites and brands you might use every day that lean heavily on blue in their design or logos. Facebook is one of them. Blue Cross Blue Shield is one of them.
Visa, Microsoft, Boeing, GM, American Express, Web MD, Bankers Trust, and Bank of America are just a few of the many who lean into blue as a design choice.
An entire branch of psychology focuses solely on color and the emotions it stimulates.
As you begin selecting color for your marketing pieces, it's important to remember that not all brains are the same. That means color doesn't have a universal impact on all minds with culture and context being factors to consider.
Utilizing the power behind words.
Marketers already know that words have a strong impact on an audience. But understanding why those words create those emotions gets into the world of neuroscience.
You – connects with customers because it is personal, people like seeing their own name.
Free – Testing shows people love free stuff so much it will influence their choices. Word of caution–use it only when it makes sense. Some free items will attract more people, but they may not be the right people. Free catalogs, information or courses can go a long way in attracting people interested in your product.
Instantly – Our brains have a trigger for immediate gratification. Reminding customers that someone will be in touch quickly, or that they will receive their product quickly, will go a long way.
New – This holds power in sales and marketing because people are curious about innovation. It is important to note that there are two tribes of people—those that don't like routine and those that resist change. People that embrace change might camp out at the Apple store for the latest and greatest iPhone because they love new things. Then there are those that resist change, like the Coca-Cola loyalist that did not embrace the "New Coke" recipe. It is important to understand your customer and use those insights in determining how and when to introduce new products or services.
Authentic: Authenticity has a ring of truth and power.
Certified: Something that is "certified" has some level of endorsement, presumably by a neutral third-party.
Loyal: Loyalty is seen as a virtue and therefore something valued in a product or service.
Official: This word promotes buttoned-up processes and dependable people. If it's official, it's more likely to be trusted.
Once a brain says "yes," it is more likely to do so again.
Neuroscientists find that getting an agreement to an initial or "smaller" request will have a cumulative impact on future requests, even those that would've been seen as too much of a commitment previously. The small yes creates a bond with the requester and affinity for future yeses.
If you can get a customer to say "yes" to a small request, such as an email sign up, then you can probably get him or her to say yes again—perhaps to a trial or product purchase.
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Anchoring bias in decision making is when people rely on the first piece of information that they see when faced with a decision.
If a customer sees the price of a new grill for $699 their mind will associate that number as the price of grills. When they later see a similar grill priced at $479, they feel like they are getting a good deal.
Every decision is an emotional decision.
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Humans makes decisions based on the input of various cognitive functions, with both rational and emotional factors coming into play during decision-making. Thoughts (motivation) and feelings (emotions) play a major role.
Reciprocation is another factor for marketers to consider. Researcher Robert Cialdini found that when someone did something for someone before asking for the same in return, that second person was more likely to reciprocate and that the favors didn't even need to be equal in magnitude.
The Nielsen Company's infamous marketing strategy of mailing a dollar bill when asking for their prospects' time completing a survey offers a great example of this idea.
Timing on the favor is important – the moment immediately after a favor is granted is the most effective time to ask for one.
Neuromarketing can benefit your business. The more you know about the mind, the better you will be able to market your business.
But it's not psychology alone that can improve your marketing, it's the specific psychology of your target audience. Every niche is different. Something that works for one group may backfire on the next.
Because of that, the best insights also come from your target audience. Research, learn, test and take action based on the results.


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Politics in the European Union (5th edn)
Simon Bulmer, Owen Parker, Ian Bache, Stephen George, and Charlotte Burns
Map of Europe
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Part One Theory
1. Theories of European Integration
2. Theories of EU Governance
3. Theorizing Consequences
4. Critical Perspectives
Part Two History
5. From the End of the War to the Schuman Plan (the Late 1940s to the Early 1950s)
6. The 'Other' European Communities and the Origins of the European Economic Community (the Early 1950s to the 1960s)
7. The First Years of the European Economic Community (the 1960s and into the 1970s)
8. The Revival of European Integration (the Mid-1970s to the Late 1980s)
9. Maastricht and Amsterdam (the Late 1980s to the Late 1990s)
10. From Amsterdam to Lisbon (2000–09)
11. The EU in Crisis (2009–19)
Part Three Institutions
12. The Institutional Architecture
13. The European Commission
14. The European Council and the Council of the European Union (EU)
15. The European Parliament
16. The Court of Justice of the European Union
17. Organized Interests
Part Four Policies
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20. Economic and Monetary Union
21. Agriculture
22. Environment and Climate
23. Freedom, Security, and Justice
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Simon Bulmer, Simon BulmerProfessor of Politics, University of Sheffield
Owen Parker, Owen ParkerLecturer in European Politics, University of Sheffield
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Published online: August 2020
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Stifling Women's Online Speech With Sexual Harassment: Why It Matters To Social Change Movements
Tom Watson Contributor
I write about social entrepreneurship, nonprofits and social causes.
If you live and breathe and are connected to the digital world, you have seen it. Gender bashing, vicious attacks on female voices, efforts to stifle women's intellectual and social agency. Rank sexism. Misogyny.
In a brilliant and widely discussed piece of reporting and commentary at the Pacific Standard site, journalist Amanda Hess chronicled the vile and often violent messages she and other prominent voices online receive just in the course of writing online while female. And then she brought it all together with a stunning set of statistics that revealed just how negative the digital public commons can be for non-males:
A woman doesn't even need to occupy a professional writing perch at a prominent platform to become a target. According to a 2005 report by the Pew Research Center, which has been tracking the online lives of Americans for more than a decade, women and men have been logging on in equal numbers since 2000, but the vilest communications are still disproportionately lobbed at women. We are more likely to report being stalked and harassed on the Internet—of the 3,787 people who reported harassing incidents from 2000 to 2012 to the volunteer organization Working to Halt Online Abuse, 72.5 percent were female. Sometimes, the abuse can get physical: A Pew survey reported that five percent of women who used the Internet said "something happened online" that led them into "physical danger." And it starts young: Teenage girls are significantly more likely to be cyber-bullied than boys. Just appearing as a woman online, it seems, can be enough to inspire abuse. In 2006, researchers from the University of Maryland set up a bunch of fake online accounts and then dispatched them into chat rooms. Accounts with feminine usernames incurred an average of 100 sexually explicit or threatening messages a day. Masculine names received 3.7.
Hess's essay was widely distributed earlier this month, but I've been considering its ramifications more recently in the context of social enterprise. For anyone who works for social enterprise or nonprofit organization, the dominance of women in the workforce is obvious. According to an annual study from the White House Project, 73 percent of the workers in the nonprofit sector are women. But that same survey showed that most of the top management positions (and higher salaries) go to men. Further: as I wrote last week in a commentary on Net Neutrality, the rise of the open Internet - and the digital public commons - has paralleled the explosion in social enterprise in developed nations, especially the United States. In my personal experience - in NYU's graduate programs where I teach, at the Skoll World Forum, at Clinton Global Initiative University, in corporate social responsibility settings, and at other gatherings and conferences - a very large percentage of young people pursuing social change careers are women.
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Tackling the narratives of online harassment, tech journalist and Harvard Law School graduate Sarah Jeong explores the precarious question: How do we filter content from the garbage?
Yet time and again, they face a well poisoned by sexism or worse: threats of sexual violence, stalking, hate speech.
Writing at Talking Points Memo, journalist Jill Filipovic recounts her personal experience with this form of harassment and discusses in blunt terms the toll it took on her day-to-day life.
The only thing I really remember when I returned to school a few days later is my head feeling detached from my body. I had a bizarre mental image of myself walking around with my skull in a fishbowl, separated from my shoulders, like a deranged skeletal astronaut. It was partly the painkillers. But it was also a mental shortcut -- a short-circuit -- to protect my own mind from the trauma that quickly ate away at my confidence, my intelligence and my basic sense of safety.
Like so many independent workers - and so many social entrepreneurs - Filipovic's work space is online. To face the daily equivalent of the leering male predators celebrated in The Wolf of Wall Street every day can sap anyone's strength and will to succeed. To me, that is why the entire social sector - dominated as it is by female workers - should be deeply concerned about harassment. "If we're writers, we research, publish and promote our work online," writes Filipovic. "My office is a corner of my apartment, and my laptop is my portal into my professional world. There's nothing 'virtual' about it."
Yet it's also important to note that this behavior isn't limited to the online world; rather, it's an extension of male behavior into a space where a combination of near-anonymity and what I think of as "technical permission" - which combines software's ease of use with instant access to a conversation (or a fight) - allows already existing social views to poison the online landscape. Journalist Amanda Marcotte made exactly that point in a Daily Beast post:
While Internet harassment is, relatively speaking, a novel and often overwhelming problem, it is hardly a unique problem in the world. It needs to be seen for what it is, an extension of the constant drumbeat of harassment and violence that women around the world face—and have always faced—for no other reason than they are women. Women are abused on the streets, in our workplaces, and in our homes. That we are also abused online shouldn't be surprising at all. The Internet presents new challenges, but the problem of misogyny is the same as it ever was.
The extension of that misogyny into a space where so many professional lives are now based can indeed have a chilling effect on full participation - which is something that should trouble us all. Writes Hess:
No matter how hard we attempt to ignore it, this type of gendered harassment—and the sheer volume of it—has severe implications for women's status on the Internet. Threats of rape, death, and stalking can overpower our emotional bandwidth, take up our time, and cost us money through legal fees, online protection services, and missed wages. I've spent countless hours over the past four years logging the online activity of one particularly committed cyberstalker, just in case. And as the Internet becomes increasingly central to the human experience, the ability of women to live and work freely online will be shaped, and too often limited, by the technology companies that host these threats, the constellation of local and federal law enforcement officers who investigate them, and the popular commentators who dismiss them—all arenas that remain dominated by men, many of whom have little personal understanding of what women face online every day.
For those of us who work on social enterprises and nonprofit causes, this cannot stand. Too much is at stake. Participation free of harassment and the threat of sexual violence is crucial to integrated social change movements in which women feel they can participate - and lead.
I've hung my overcoat at the crossroads of media technology and social change for the last 20 years as a journalist, author, and consultant. That includes a book - Cause...


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South Texas College of Law Houston/About Us/Administration/About Dean Barry
About Dean Barry
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Michael F. Barry
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Yale Law School, J.D.
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Michael F. Barry is the 11th president and dean of Houston's oldest law school, South Texas College of Law Houston.
For more than two decades, he has provided confident leadership, innovative strategies, actionable recommendations, and practical management to Fortune 200 clients, in higher education, and in community service.
Barry joined South Texas in fall 2019 after serving as assistant dean and practitioner in residence at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. Among his responsibilities were developing new programs; increasing outreach to partners, donors, employers, and alumni; supporting and fundraising for initiatives that benefited St. Mary's University and its students and alumni; managing law school operations to support faculty and student needs; and developing and teaching courses and extracurricular programs. Bringing business acumen, budgeting, change management, and leadership skills from his years in legal practice and in business, Barry initially designed St. Mary's University School of Law's comprehensive Law Success academic support program, became a leader in using data to support student success, and directed operations and budget for the School of Law. An engaged teacher, Barry excels at bringing real-world experiences into the legal classroom.
After graduating from the University of Virginia with a double major in English and Religious Studies, Barry received his law degree from Yale Law School. After graduation from Yale, he clerked for the Hon. Royce C. Lamberth, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, and for Chief Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Barry then entered private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, where he litigated and tried cases involving patent infringement, financial services class actions, breach of contract, and Indian law in both federal and state court. He then joined Capital One in Richmond, Virginia, where he created and ran the litigation department. While in Richmond, Barry taught trial and appellate advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond School of Law.
He then served as a senior executive at USAA in San Antonio, Texas, where he was senior vice president and deputy general counsel and led a legal staff of more than 350 people. At USAA, Barry ensured that the legal department established comprehensive and proactive legal and regulatory strategies to enable USAA's insurance and banking businesses. While at USAA, Barry also worked on the business side, overseeing USAA's Corporate Development, Global Service Delivery, and Operational Excellence divisions, as well as USAA's Alliances businesses.
Barry continued his education by earning a Master of Arts in Theology from the University of San Francisco in 2009.
During his time in San Antonio, Barry served on the boards of several community service organizations including the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind, the Alamo Colleges Foundation, and The DoSeum. He also served as a member of the Board of Visitors for Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and on several boards for the Archdiocese of San Antonio. He was a member of Class XII of Masters Leadership Program of San Antonio and Bexar County and directed the RCIA program at St. Anthony de Padua Catholic Church.
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The IV International Conference on the American Literary and Cultural West, The West Travels Beyond Itself: New Spaces, New Voices, New Forms, organized by the REWEST research group (Research in Western American Literature and Culture, www.ehu.eus/rewest), seeks for papers which expose the contemporary revision and revival of the West and as a literary and cultural form of representation, as well as of its global impact. The Conference will privilege transnational and interdisciplinary approaches aiming to understand the artistic production of space and a cultural site whose iconography has moved beyond national limits and literary and artistic borders.
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One night is not enough time to play a game IMO. Trying to rush a game and playing it nonstop all day ruins the experience. I'd rather just pay money and buy a game so that I could play at my own pace.
Or... You could get it right after midnight and basically get 2 days for free. But I mean, sure, you can pay money to play.
The promotion should appear automatically in cart, and only works for select games 1st night rental.
So, if you get it at 12.30 am you can return at 11.pm the next day?
9pm is Redbox's cut off time. If you rent something Tuesday at whatever time, Redbox counts it as one day if you get back there before 9pm Wed. After that it counts as another day.
So if you rent a movie tonight at 12:01, let's say, you are technically renting it on Wednesday so it would need to be back Thursday by 9pm.
I mean, that's not even enough time to beat the average game in this day and age. Most of the time will be spent probably installing a huge update.
I've been playing God of War like this for the past month on and off and as someone already mentioned by going at 12:01 you can basically get two nights ON THIS ONE FREE CODE. But you do you and complain or be entitled or wish that redbox just gave you the game.
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2017 Draft Watch
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Obviously it's very early for this and we don't know where the Leafs will be drafting but I thought it merited a thread at least in part just to mention that it looks like Jeff Marek is sort of being positioned as Sportsnet's Draft Guru. He released a very preliminary Top 31:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/sportsnets-2017-nhl-draft-prospect-rankings-october-jeff-marek/
Nothing new. Patrick #1, Liljegren #2.
Anyways, apparently they'll also be doing a draft-focused podcast so we're definitely going to have a ton of information throughout the year.
Re: 2017 Draft Watch
Nice to see Marek doing these instead of Cox, who I'm pretty sure Sportsnet just threw on the assignment when they got the NHL rights because he was the closest they had to Bob McKenzie.
Speaking of Bob, here's his 2017 early rankings: http://www.tsn.ca/mckenzie-s-pre-season-ranking-the-nolan-patrick-draft-1.567410
We've talked about this here and there before, but not a lot of defencemen present on these lists.
We've started to hear more rumblings about this draft recently, I wonder if it's as weak as is being made out.
I've even seen some people question Patrick's ceiling, for those that have seen him work, is he a franchise level prospect?
Kaberle15
They Did it!
It would be awesome to draft a defenceman...
2. Timothy Liljegren: The Swede is the undisputed top defenceman in this draft and, at this point, it's not even close.
A.K.A Gardiner51, Changed back to Kaberle15 now that he is retired.
mr grieves
Looked up some reports on 2017 class defensemen who were in the mid-1st to mid-2nd round, according to NHL Central Scouting's midterm rankings…. the scouting reports are from the Draft Site (long passages) and shorter takes are from Marek's rankings.
NA9. Juuso Valimaki, D, Tri-City (WHL) — The two-way defenseman has brought more assertiveness to his game in his second WHL season. Valimaki (6-1, 204) has 39 points (12 goals, 27 assists) in 38 games and has shown more offensive drive and confidence in his game… A solid, safe blueliner who excels in all areas... Smart mobile defenseman with excellent feet and feel for the defensive zone. captained the Finnish U-18 team vocally displays his high hockey IQ, keeping his teammates on task. Besides prototypical size, he great puck handling skills to go along with his agility. This season, he has boasted his offensive totals considerably. That would be a signal that he is improving at the offensive end. He even had a hat trick this season against Vancouver in the WHL. He is not a riverboat gambling rocket out of his own end leading the rush type player. On the contrary, he seems to always be the last one out of his end because he plays such a solid and safe defensive game. You will see him make a tape to tape outlet passes in transition, but rarely leads the throops out. He will activate and calmly keep it until he is all the way down low. He will have to continue to get more handles and more time with the puck, to gain more confidence as an offensive generator. It is hard to argue against his point a game pace in the Dub, but he still has to develop a bit more instinct as a confident attacker at the higher levels. It seems a bit harsh on my part to be asking for more, even though I have him on the cusp of the first half of the first round, but there is untapped potential there. Not overly physical, but clears out the front uses his size well down low. Has a big frame that can get bigger. Great vision, puck-handling and accurate will be the bonuses that will come along with his safe, consistent mistake free play play in his own end.
NA10. Cale Makar, D, Brooks (AJHL) — Makar (5-11, 179), winner of the 2015-16 Alberta Junior Hockey League and Canadian Junior Hockey League Rookie of the Year, has continued his stellar play and development. He's a dynamic skater with quickness and elusiveness with or without the puck… This small defender has all the making of a future NHL offenseman. Seems to be in constant motion, and able to intercept pucks and turn them in to quick strikes towards his opponent's net. Very undersized and will need plenty more muscle as he continues his development. Cleary one of the smarter and better offensively talented dee-men in the class. The PP QB on his Alberta Junior League team, and has a quick release of a point shot that he gets off without taking a big backswing. He displays strong wrists take enable him to get strenght on his shots and zip on his passes. After being selected to play in the World junior Challenge it what might have been viewed as a step up in competition compared to the players he faces in the AJHL, he looked dominant in many phases, using his lateral agility and athletic strides to cut through the neutral zone, activating to open space on the give and go, and reading ensuing plays and covering huge areas of the ice with his feet. His speed and good edging work in consort with his ability to handle the puck at top speed. When he is doesn't have the puck, he looks to jump on errant passes or ones sent cross ice changing possessions. Will pinch but always gets back in position in a few strides becuase he so quick. Holds a strong gap. This is a player who creates space and time and plays smart. More of long term development project but he is a player.
NA11. Nicholas Hague, D, Mississauga Steelheads (OHL) -- Evaluating Hague means checking a lot of boxes. A big bodied blueliner (6-foot-6) with a solid first season in the OHL under his belt. Many nights he was Mississauga's best defenceman. Runs the power play, has a nasty streak and won the OHL's academic award last season. Scouts have some concern about his skating while others maintain he's a bona fide top-10 pick and the skating isn't an issue at all. [Marek, Oct] … Potential big defender in more ways than one. NHL teams continue to have their love affair with huge men at the defensive position who have upside to be top four defenders, since in general the dee-men are getting smaller. For a fellow his size, he has excellent mobility and overall strength He puts his long stick in the passing lanes and covers ground pretty quickly. Uses his size along the wall and can throw devastating bodychecks. When on the back pedal, he doesn't pivot as quickly as smaller men, but attackers trying to go wide find out how strong he is and long his stick is. Enjoys playing with an edge. He is growing more of his offensive game, by activated on the rush, and attempting to handle the puck more and more. Still needs work and must hone his carries and be more frugal in the time he holds onto it. Not the finished product, but there will not be a shortage of NHL teams considering him before the bottom third of the first round
NA12. Cal Foote, D, Kelowna Rockets (WHL) -- The defenceman factory in Kelowna is still open for business. Now serving: the son of former NHLer Adam Foote. Cal Foote plays a sound defensive role but can also chip in offensively. He has a bullet from the point, but seems to always default to the pass first. He's loved by his teammates and has captain material... Second generation stud blueliner has improved his skating and does a number of things for the Rockets. He's good with the puck but does he push the pace enough? Scouts wonder. [Marek, Nov]… The 6-3, 213-pound son of former NHL defenseman Adam Foote probably won't be the physical presence his father was, but plays all situations and uses his smarts, reach and strength to contain his opponent and gain position. .. Big defenseman with a big point shot. Not necessarily a polished puck carrier, but is surprisingly agile going East-West, so he is excellent in his own end to cover attackers and space. uses his size to win wall and battle zone possessions and will clear the front. No mean streak, but is a really solid competitor for 60 minutes. Plays on both the penalty kill and the power play. Excellent hockey sense and reads his own end well. Stays square on rushers and takes them outside, using his stick to take way their time and space. Very good on his feet and light on his edging, and able to play strong on the puck. Has a good low shot that he places on the net. Needs to fill out and get stronger. The Kelowna system has developed many NHL defenders so he seems in a good position to improve and get selected fairly early. Great bloodlines with his father Adam Foote.
NA22. Henri Jokiharju, D, Portland (WHL) — In his first season in North America, Jokiharju (6-0, 176) has performed very well, with 31 points (six goals, 25 assists) in 44 games. He's an excellent skater, elusive with the puck and can beat the forecheck with a pass or his feet. He had three assists in seven games to help Finland win the gold medal at the 2016 World U-18 Championship.
EU6. Miro Heiskanen, D, HIFK Helsinki (Fin) — Undersized defenseman who continues to shine impressively in every international showing. Although he is slightly built and in need of beef and more muscle, he is very athletic,and has shown himself an equal to the grown men playing against him in the Finnish pro league. He possesses high end mobility, agility, an excellent skating stride and vision and makes solid defensive zone reads. A four-direction skater who easily transitions to his back pedal and calmly handles the attacker when middle zone turnovers happen. He is very good around his own net,and has a very active stick, clogs lanes and either moves the puck to the right place in transitions, or will skate the puck out, even under pressure. Plays calm and makes good decisions under pressure in his own end. Anticipates well and reads and activates from the defensive position flawlessly, as he carries and passes the puck so well. A power play quarterback who distributes well and gets it on net when he shoots. The negatives is he may not be able to get that much bigger and needs girth and muscle. So he is what he is: a extremely agile puck carrier who simply is not a big man. Hasn't the NHL had room for a few of these?
EU8. Urho Vaakanainen, D, JYP (Liiga) His game includes a strong offensive element that can handle quarterbacking a power play. Solid all-around skills. [Marek, Oct]… An intelligent, two-way defender (6-0, 185) who can read the play well, has good vision and a strong skill set that includes skating, passing and an accurate shot. He is a reliable team player and has a sound defensive game.
EU10. Filip Westerlund, D, Frolunda (SHL) -- After Jacob Larsson found his spot in the Anaheim Ducks organization, Westerlund was given a chance with the Swedish powerhouse and has made the most of it, playing regular minutes in the country's top league—surprising considering the right-hand shot defenceman didn't play big minutes with the U-20 team last season. His development year over year has been described as spectacular. He models his game after Sami Vatanen and has been compared to both Larsson and Erik Karlsson. — His hockey sense, puck control and intelligence stand out the most to scouts. Westerlund (5-11, 179) has poise and makes smart decisions. He averages 12 minutes per game on a strong Frolunda team.
EU16. Erik Brannstrom, D, HV71 (Sweden) — can't find a quick summary on him, but here's an article comparing him to Kimo Timonen.
The above might've been overkill...
A draft thought that fits in a small paragraph:
We often seem to assume that the only drafted defensemen who can move the needle before they hit the traditional "defenseman's prime" (26-27 or so), but, unless we're defining "move the needle" as "be a #1D who'll be a Norris candidate and on the national team by his early 20s," I don't think that's true. There are players drafted in the late-1st and into the mid-3rd who are in NHL lineups and are, by Corsi and GF%, legit top-4s by the time they're 21. Perhaps the Leafs can find one of those.
Not knowing about this thread, I dumped some thoughts into another one titled exactly the same thing last year.
Here's Marek's update:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/sportsnets-2017-nhl-draft-prospect-rankings-march/
Anyway, if we were not landing Liljegren, I hoped we could snag Cale Makar. Unfortunately, it looks like he is rising higher than we are falling in the standings.
My Round 2-3 options:
Artyom Minulin: very smart RHD, excelling despite playing on a weak Swift Current squad, good all-round puck mover
Josh Brook: RHD, smart, smooth skating, distributes well, heavy wrister; points spiked this year compared to last
Conor Timmins: RHD on the SSM Greyhounds, heady, consistent, plays all situations
« Last Edit: March 08, 2017, 02:32:24 PM by herman »
I speak out of near total ignorance but that run on defenseman between 10-17 on Marek's list looks like a place to aim for. Doesn't seem to have much in the homerun-swing department but the chances of emerging with a solid D prospect seems reasonable.
Quote from: Nik the Trik on March 08, 2017, 02:38:30 PM
Spinning a JvR/Bozak into one or two more of these picks would not be too shabby.
Quote from: herman on March 08, 2017, 02:42:14 PM
I'm sure it's wishful thinking on my part but on the Marek/Wyshinski podcast Marek seemed to kind of say that there's a consensus forming on the top 2 with Patrick and Hischier but there's a degree of uncertainty after that.
So if you're wheeling and dealing looking to get into the top 15 it seems like there's a chance to trade into Liljegren territory? Again, wishful thinking on my part probably but I can dream.
It looks like a good year for Swedes and Finns who play defense.
New Jersey and Carolina might be my top teams to target with JvR or Bozak. They're both short on scoring depth, close to turning the corner, need wins next year for $$$, have defensive prospects to work with, both value the relatively cheap deals those two are on.
If the lottery goes poorly for them, they're still in the top 10, but JvR/Bozak will be immediately better than any pick there. Coupled with our likely 14-18th pick, I think we can move up (maybe into Vegas' slot as they're more quantity over quality at this point).
It'll be interesting to see how far Liljegren's stock falls. At the beginning of the season he was seen as going top-2 for sure, maybe even challenging for 1st overall. Now ISS has him ranked 5th. Hockeyprospect.com and Corey Pronman both have him 7th. McKeens has him 8th. Getting mono obviously hurt him and that's not something that he can control, but there's still been more than a few concerns about his hockey sense.
Quote from: mr grieves on March 08, 2017, 03:10:54 PM
Most of them, save for Liljegren, are lefties. I was initially targeting RHD because they're the Left Handed Pitchers of the NHL and I consider that more valuable down the line.
Yeah, that's why I'm hoping for Cal Foote or Cale Makar -- one of whom might be around in the 15-20 range -- and like the looks of Henri Jokiharju and Filip Westerlund in the 2nd round.
The latter sounds promising, based on Marek's November column:
Don't Sleep On
Filip Westerlund, D, Frolunda (SHL) After Jacob Larsson found his spot in the Anaheim Ducks organization, Westerlund was given a chance with the Swedish powerhouse and has made the most of it, playing regular minutes in the country's top league—surprising considering the right-hand shot defenceman didn't play big minutes with the U-20 team last season. His development year over year has been described as spectacular. He models his game after Sami Vatanen and has been compared to both Larsson and Erik Karlsson.


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It's been a year since Spinasse made its much heralded debut. Back then, celebrated pasta-maker Justin Neidermeyer — dubbed "a boyish Pavarotti"— presided in a kitchen built to remind him, and those who came to taste his wares, of his beloved Piedmont. Neidermeyer has since taken his last curtain call, his sights set on a return to Italy, and today Spinasse's kitchen is firmly in the hands of Jason Stratton, who was there in the Capitol Hill cascina at the start.
Jason Stratton: now the creative artist in the kitchen at Spinasse.
When Stratton returned from six months in Spain to take a job at the as-yet-unopened Poppy, Neidermeyer called on his friend to lend a hand. "He asked me to come on as kind of a consultant and set up his kitchen systems," recalls Stratton, 29, who began his career as Bruce Naftaly's dishwasher at Le Gourmand, later worked as a line-cook at the late Avenue One and eventually landed at Holly Smith's Cafe Juanita — where he rose to second-in-command during his nearly five-year tenure in Kirkland.
And when he heard the silent partners who's backed Neidermeyer were looking to replace him, Stratton followed his heart. "I feel like I've won the lottery," he said of his chance to run the kitchen at Spinasse. "For what I've wanted to do, for what I've envisioned for myself, this is exactly what I want." On his friend's leave-taking, he notes, "Justin wasn't really looking to be running a kitchen on a daily basis. He wanted to step out and do some projects on his own." Stepping in to take his place "was a perfect fit for me," said Stratton.
Justin Neidermeyer making agnolotti last summer, at Spinasse.
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Abraham Godijn o Abraham Godyn (ortografía alternativa del apellido: Goddijn y Abraham Goddyn) (1655/56 - después de 1724) fue un pintor flamenco que, tras una estancia en Italia, trabajó durante un tiempo como pintor de la corte en Praga, donde produjo magníficos frescos barrocos. Más tarde regresó a Amberes.

Vida
Los detalles sobre su vida son escasos. Abraham Godijn nació probablemente en 1655 o 1656 en Amberes, donde estudió con el destacado pintor de historia Hendrik Herregouts. En 1681 se convirtió en miembro de la "Sodaliteit van de Bejaerde Jongmans", una fraternidad para solteros establecida por la orden de los jesuitas. Poco después viajó a Italia. Su obra fue bien recibida en Roma, donde se convirtió en pintor de la corte del Papa y recibió el título de "Pintor del Oficio de su Majestad Imperial y Católica".

Se trasladó a Praga en 1690, donde trabajó como pintor de la corte hasta 1698. Recibió un encargo para pintar los frescos del Palacio de Troja en Praga, en el que trabajó con su hermano Izaak. Formaron parte de un grupo de artistas que trabajaron en 1687 para Wenzel Albert, duque de Sternberg, en la decoración del Palacio de Troja de Praga. Este grupo incluía a artistas flamencos como Johann Baptiste Bouttats.

Se le registra de vuelta en Amberes hacia 1711, donde se hizo miembro del gremio local de San Lucas ese mismo año. Trabajó principalmente en encargos decorativos. En 1716 se unió a la Cofradía de Romanistas de Amberes, cuando ésta se reconstituyó por motivos puramente religiosos. La condición para ser miembro de la Cofradía era haber visitado Roma. Él y Jan Pieter van Bredael el Joven fueron los últimos artistas en ser miembros de la Cofradía. En 1723 fue nombrado decano de la Cofradía. Se desconoce la fecha y el lugar de su muerte.

Tuvo muchos alumnos en Praga y en Amberes, el más destacado de los cuales fue Marten Jozef Geeraerts.

Obra
Muy pocas de sus obras han sobrevivido. Fue pintor de historia y encargos decorativos.

Sus obras más conocidas son los frescos que le encargó el conde Sternberk en la sala principal del castillo de Troja. Las pinturas, que realizó en el periodo de 1691 a 1697 con la ayuda de su hermano Izaak, están consideradas como uno de los mejores ejemplos de la pintura barroca al fresco en el norte de Europa. Los frescos utilizan efectos ilusionistas y narran de forma triunfalista la historia de la dinastía de los Habsburgo. El diseño sigue el esquema barroco del simbolismo arquitectónico, según el cual el techo representa el mundo celeste y las paredes el mundo terrestre. El techo está decorado con seres celestiales que se decía que protegían los territorios de los Habsburgo. Bajo las superficies curvas del techo, ángeles y putti flotan ante una arquitectura en trampantojo que muestra escenas de la historia de los Habsburgo. Las paredes representan el mundo terrenal, y una de las escenas de las paredes más cortas celebra la victoria de Leopoldo I, emperador del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico, sobre los turcos. En una de las escenas vemos el efecto de trampantojo de un turco cayendo con los brazos extendidos mientras su sombra se refleja en la pintura (véase la ilustración). La pared más larga contiene estatuas o bustos de los gobernantes de los Habsburgo en grisalla. En el programa de frescos, Abraham Godijn logró una sofisticada y compleja síntesis de pintura ficcionalista de arquitectura y de vivas escenas figuradas.

Pintó una serie de los siete sacramentos para el monasterio de San Martín en Pontoise (ahora en la Catedral de Pontoise ).

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Pintores flamencos del Barroco
Pintores de historia de Flandes


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