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'Oh yes he is', 'Oh no he isn't'
By Danny Pugsley Nov 10, 2009, 8:32pm GMT
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Pantomime season is almost upon us, but the contradictory stories over the future of Robinho continue apace.
There have been a series of reports in today's press with regard to his future, and with many seemingly different angles taken.
AS reported Joan Laporta as indicating the club would back the management at Barcelona should Robinho be a target for them:
"We are not going to close any door or end any plan because, although the squad is competitive, as was shown against Mallorca, if the coaches want to strengthen in the winter market and they recommend a player to us, I am sure we can make a move."
More intriguingly though is a report from ESPN that suggests Barca do not have the wherewithal to buy Robinho outright, hence the suggestion of an extended loan deal:
"Barcelona have made it clear they are talking about a loan deal only and it is hard to believe that will happen."
"Barcelona were, at one time, very interested in Mascherano, but no longer. At one stage I would have said 'yes' that deal could happen, but now I would have to say 'no'.
"I would say that Barcelona do not have the sort of funds to buy either Robinho or Mascherano."
These were suggestions that were dismissed though by Mark Hughes:
"I am quite clear and Robinho should be quite clear that his future is very much with City," said Hughes.There is no reason to think that will change any time soon.
"All those stories do not originate from anyone from City. It is people on the outside taking a view on the situation with Robinho which they have no real insight into."
And later, and more unequivocally by Garry Cook:
"There are no plans to meet Barcelona here this week to talk about Robinho," stressed CEO Garry Cook after the forward helped open the club's new training facility in Abu Dhabi.
"I think some people are trying to make mischief when they talk about him leaving. I don't know where these things are coming from. They're not coming from us. We want to talk to him this week but only about getting him fit to play for us again."
I suppose in years gone by, an outright dismissal of these types of reports by a manager and CEO would be enough to kill them, but clubs (including ourselves it has to be said) are known to operate differently in more modern times, and know that a drip feed of insinuation or suggestion to the right areas of the press will have a big impact.
What has been interesting to note is that the recent struggles in terms of results has seen a slight change in approach from a lot of fans in their view of quite how expendable Robinho is, with a lack of creativity in the side being cited as one of the current problems his return could solve - as opposed to luxury the side does not necessarily need.
With a return to full fitness now imminent, it will hopefully put the constant speculation onthe backburner - although you sense with Robinho it may never quite go away completely.
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Q: Do I have to define the connection info in the Ibconfig file for Ideablade Devforce Classic 3.8.5? We are using Ideablade Devforce Classic 3.8.5.
I would like to use a separate file (not ibconfig) to define all connection strings, and then read those strings and set Ideablade to use them when connecting to the DB.
The connection strings may be for Oracle/SQL Server/Access.
Can I dynamically build and use these separate connection strings on startup of my app? Or do I always need to have them defined in ibconfig? Thanks.

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The Andy Greenwald Podcast: Dennis Lehane
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by Andy Greenwald
Dennis Lehane is a master of crime fiction in any medium. Or perhaps it's better to say in every medium. Since rising to fame on the back of his (excellent!) novels — I'm partial to the early Kenzie & Gennaro series, but there are those who swear by Mystic River — he's taken his talents to television, contributing to The Wire and Boardwalk Empire. Now he's penned his first original screenplay, The Drop; the film hits theaters today and stars Tom Hardy and, in his last performance, the great James Gandolfini. (This isn't even taking into account the hugely successful films others have made from Lehane's books, including the aforementioned Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, and Shutter Island.)
As a longtime fan, I was thrilled to host Lehane in the New York studio. Though he was fresh off a few days of heavy movie promotion at the Toronto Film Festival, I found him to be game to discuss almost anything, from his decision to re-adapt his screenplay as a novel (also called The Drop; it's great) to the frustrations of the American underclass. There was time, too, to talk about his brilliant 2012 book, Live by Night (soon to be a movie itself, thanks to Ben Affleck), war stories from his time in West Baltimore with David Simon and George Pelecanos, and his three upcoming television projects of his own. I could have kept the conversation going all afternoon. It's probably a good thing that, after 45 minutes, the busy Lehane, unsurprisingly, had somewhere else to be.
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As the wind howls and the snow falls it might not feel like it, but spring is just around the corner – really.
And by the time the snow melts and the temperatures warm up, three dozen additional campsites will be open at Walker River State Recreation Area.
Nevada's newest recreation area officially opened in September of 2018, missing most of the summer camping season.
A half-dozen cabins are also set for construction in the park and should be open by the fall, he said.
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Denter said the park service is undertaking a river trail enhancement project to clear invasive Russian Olive from the banks of the river to make the waterway easier to navigate. The cleared plants will be replaced with native species.
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By necessity, any scenario for global improvement in digital ad experiences has to include the biggest ad seller in the world. Because of this, Google is forced to assume a massive role in leading this process. A significant limiting factor to this, however, is that today's internet distribution systems distort the flow of economic value derived from good reporting. Google (along with Facebook) dominate web traffic and more specifically online ad income. Combined, they spent 73 billion last year in digital advertising alone, making up ~70% of all digital spend.
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Welcome back to the 12 days of Freebies! We have had so much fun coming up with ideas for this years freebies, and I'm so excited to share this adorable apron pattern with you all! The Annie Apron pattern is perfect for your favorite little chef. It features both a gathered skirt and a non-gathered skirt option, making it perfect for both girls and boys alike!
Print your pattern pieces at 100% or no scaling. Your pattern pieces will go together like a bingo card- 1A, 1B, 1C, next row 2A, 2B, 2C. After you put your pieces together, cut your pieces out. This pattern features LAYERS, allowing you to print only the size(s) you need! In Adobe reader, open the file, then click on the layers icon on the left. Click on the eyeball to turn size layers on or off. Be sure to leave the bottom layer that says Leave checked, on. If you have more questions about how the pages go together or printing issues check my faqs and troubleshooting page here. When cutting out your pattern pieces, remember that you will only need 1 gathered skirt OR 1 ungathered skirt, not both!!
Free Pattern Pieces can be found HERE.
The small apron with roughly fit sizes 1-4, the medium apron sizes 5-7, and the large apron sizes 8-14. These are all rectangle measurements, so if you don't want to print out the pieces, the measurements are below to cut with a rotary cutter and cutting mat. Choose from a gathered skirt or an ungathered skirt.
*Fabric Requirements – Intended for light to medium weight wovens: quilters cotton, chambray, corduroy. Based on 44″ wide woven fabric.
Now, let's get started! You will use 1/2″ seam allowances throughout (they are included, you don't need to add them).
Cut 2 Bodices (1 front, 1 lining), 1 skirt, 2 sash centers (1 front, 1 lining), 4 sash pieces, and 2 ribbon straps.
We need to finish the raw edge of your ribbon. You can either heat seal the edge to prevent fraying, or fold one raw edge in 1/4″, and then fold again another 1/4″. Edge stitch to enclose raw edge.
Lay your bodice front right side up. Place the raw edge of the ribbon straps 1/2″ from bodice side, with right sides together. Baste or pin in place.
Place the bodice lining on top of bodice, sandwiching straps in between. Sew around the two bodice sides and the bodice top. Make sure you do NOT catch your ribbon in the side seam allowance!!
Clip corners, making sure not to clip through your stitching. Turn bodice right side out and press. Don't skip pressing your pieces! This will help your project look much more professional ;).
Since I'm making a Gingerbread inspired apron, I'm going to be adding ric rac trim to my bodice front. Stitch ric rac around the edge of the bodice to secure.
Lay your sash center front piece face up.
Fold in half width-wise to find center.
Lay your finished bodice right side up and find the center.
Matching the center points, place the sash center front on top of the bodice, right sides together. The TOP raw edge of the sash center should be flush with the BOTTOM raw edge of the bodice.
Flip bodice/sash center over so that the wrong side of the bodice is face up. Place the sash center lining piece on top of the sash center front, sandwiching the bodice in between. Stitch along the bottom edge only.
Press seam open, and then down.
Open the center sash back up.
Press the bottom edge of the center sash lining 1/2″ towards wrong side.
Fold center sash front back over and set bodice aside.
Lay your skirt wrong side up. Fold each short edge and bottom raw edge towards wrong side 1/4″, and then again another 1/4″. Edge stitch hem in place. Tip: I like to serge those edges first, then use the serged edge to easily turn my hem 1/4″ and again 1/4″!
If you are making the ungathered skirt version, skip to step 6. Otherwise, run two lines of gathering stitches at 3/8″ and 5/8″ from top edge. Pull your bobbin threads to gather skirt top.
Grab your bodice and open the center sash pieces back up, so that the lining is up and out of the way. Measure in 1/2″ along the bottom edge of center sash and mark with a pin or marking tool.
Gathered Skirt – If you gathered your skirt, distribute skirt gathers to fit evenly between your markings/pins. Flip skirt upside down and pin in place along the bottom of the sash center, right sides together. Pin and stitch in place.
Ungathered Skirt – If making the ungathered skirt version, your skirt should fit in between the two markings perfectly. Pin and stitch in place.
*For both versions, the top raw edge of the skirt should be pinned to the bottom raw edge of the sash center front piece only (do NOT pin to center sash lining).
Remove the gathering stitches (if you have them) and press seam up.
Grab 2 of your side sash pieces and lay them face up. Place 1 on top of the other, right sides together and pin in place.
Stitch along both long raw edges and 1 short edge. Clip corners and turn right side out. Press. Top stitch if desired. Repeat with other 2 sash side pieces.
Place the raw edge of one side sash flush against the raw edge of the center sash. It should fit evenly in between the top (lining) seam and the bottom (skirt) seam. If not, DON'T PANIC! Just pleat your sash slightly to fit. Repeat with other sash/side.
Fold bodice down and center sash lining down, and pin along the center sash side seams. Make sure that the bottom of the lining edge is still folded 1/2″ towards wrong side. Stitch along the center sash side seams.
Pull sashes out, and bodice back up. We are almost done, woohoo!
Turn your apron around so that the wrong side is facing up. Pin your sash lining in place.
I like to use a fusible hem tape here, it is so much easier than pinning and the result is a nice, professional finish! To do so, Lift the sash lining up and press your hem tape in place. Follow the instructions on your hem tape to attach. For mine, that means pressing with an iron, peeling the backing off, and pressing the lining back in place.
Flip bodice back over so that the right side is now facing up. Top stitch along the entire center sash, catching the lining you just pinned (or fused) in place.
You are DONE with your apron construction! Add any trims/Heat Transfer Vinyl that you would like! Since we love to #vinvylallthethings , we have several FREE Heat Trasnfer Vinyl Images for you to add to your apron (both .png images and .svg images)!
We can't wait to see what you create with this! As always, I would love for you to share in our Made for Mermaids Facebook Group and tag us on instagram #madeformermaids #madeformermaidspatterns  Join us tomorrow for the last day of freebies! Check out our adorable little chefs below!!


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RIPPLE: BEER'S WINEY NEIGHBOR
I can't tell you how surprised I am to find out that ripple, that supposedly generic ghetto libation often referenced in "Sanford and Son" and other 1970s sitcoms, was actually real:
Quite the marketing angle, placing this wine (product) "in the same crowd" as beer, while simultaneously showing upscale consumers imbibing the recreational rotgut. All white people, I might add.
I assume this was the last-gasp attempt to push Ripple-with-a-capital-R, before putting it out of its snub-nose-bottle misery. I'm guessing the modern-day E.&J. Gallo Winery is denying and disowning any association with this bygone beverage.
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EMBEDDED CHECKING-ACCOUNT ADS
It's a given that an ad's purpose is to pry money out of your pocket. So where better for a marketer to place an ad but right in your online wallet?
As banks test new ways to make money and attract customers, they are tucking ads onto the list of recent purchases on consumers' online bank statements. The charge for your breakfast at McDonald's, for example, might be followed with an offer for 10 percent cash back on your next meal at the Golden Arches. There's no need to print a coupon — just click the link, and the chain will recognize your debit card the next time it is swiped.
"The one thing these debit programs have is a significant amount of transaction and behavioral data," said Mark Johnson, president and chief executive of Loyalty 360, a trade group for marketers. "You're going to see a big push to make that insight more sellable."
Behavioral datamining at the source. Might as well direct-deposit your paycheck straight into your favorite retailers' coffers. Unless you're laboring under the delusion that you're making a conscious choice most of the time…
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NIGERIAN 419I.NG
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Whilst it will be great for companies within the country to advertise shorter domains and work with an easy suffix, the real value is going to come from internet startups and established internet services that which to turn their company names into verbs.
Oo Nwoye, a Nigerian entrepreneur, spotted the domain registration, proposing that companies like Facebook and Google will move quickly to register domains like Googli.ng and Facebooki.ng.
Good to know that the registration land-rush will predictably proceed. I'm sure that the established Nigerian association with the Internet won't dissuade anyone from signing up for the online verbi-dot-ng…
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FONTS OF WISDOM
Villainize that Comic Sans all you want, but it may have an educational-retention advantage over prettier typefaces:
[Princeton University] researchers found that, on average, those given the harder-to-read fonts actually recalled 14% more.
They believe that presenting information in a way that is hard to digest means a person has to concentrate more, and this leads to "deeper processing" and then "better retrieval" afterwards. It is an example of the positive effects of what scientists call "disfluency".
"Disfluency is just a subjective feeling of difficulty associated with any mental task," explained psychology professor Daniel Oppenheimer, one of the co-authors of the study. "So if something is hard to see or hear, it feels disfluent… We'd found that disfluency led people to think harder about things.
Along with Comic Sans, the other intense-comprehension fonts tested were Bodoni, Haettenschweiler, and Monotype Corsiva. All these were versus the "easy" Arial — admittedly, as generic a baseline font as there is.
The concept makes sense: If you expend more mental energy toward something, you're likelier to remember it, just due to the effort. The biggest challenge is achieving balance — using a font that's distinctive enough to stick in memory, but not so stylistically out-there that it's an indecipherable chore to read.
And while this information delivery method is ideal for receptive learning, it's not a good idea for other media messaging:
The traditional strategy is to design all of the information you're presenting in a way that is as clear and easy to read as possible. This makes sense, I think, because most often designers are tasked with delivering information to an audience that is assumed to be at worst hostile and at best indifferent to the message. But this policy may be self-defeating in non-advertising contexts.
So if the message is meant to be rapid-fire and not particularly deep, then clean font design is the way to play it. For deeper mental penetration, the funkier designs work. I'm not sure all advertising needs to adhere to the former; you want the sales pitch to stick, after all. If anything, the "easy" fonts are best applied to video-based delivery, where just getting the exposure counts. Anything meant to be more lasting, like print and archived text, can go with the complex serifs/sans serifs.
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CONSTANTLY STRUMMING FOR BULLETIN-BOARD MATERIAL
My eyes were wandering this morning as I sipped my tea, and they landed on the coffee shop's bulletin board. And the first thing I noticed? Of course — a couple of side-by-side fliers for guitar lessons.
Seems like you can't hang up a corkboard without someone populating it with an offer for six-string musical instruction. There's no escaping this fixture. I bet I've never come across a public bulletin board that didn't have at least one such ad. Heck, the community pin-up section is a much-recommended venue for promoting a "guitar lesson business" (whatever that is, beyond an out-of-work band member scrounging for a few bucks).
The practice is so commonplace now that I doubt anyone thinks to look anywhere else for this service. It's straight to the local market or shop to scan the thumbtacked pieces of paper, and call the grooviest-looking guitar guru. Provided his (it's always "his", right?) ad has easy-tear-off paper tabs with phone number for convenience. And it's a given that the "first lesson is free".
Category: Advert./Mktg., Society
ICING THE ATLANTA BLACKBIRDS
Not accounting for injuries, healthy scratches, or minor-league demotions, on any given gamenight the Atlanta Thrashers could have as many as five black players suited up. In a traditionally white-man's sport, that's raised some eyebrows:
The trend is made more unusual because of geography: The City of Atlanta is more than 50 percent black and [has an African-American population total that is] the second largest in the U.S. behind New York; and it's a population that, traditionally, isn't watching the Stanley Cup Finals every season.
So the speculation began that this roster was being put together by design, in order for a team struggling to fill seats to reach an untapped audience for hockey. Pass It To Bulis (Mainstream Media: "The blogosphere") published a well-received post about the trend, noting that by having six players hovering near the NHL level, the Thrashers had roughly 20 percent of the active black players in the NHL.
The Thrashers plead talent-first colorblindness, even though they are maximizing the situation by targeting Atlanta's black media market.
I'll point out another National Hockey League city that's predominately black: Detroit. To date, the Red Wings haven't gone out of their way to either insert a African-American (or, more probably, African-Canadian) player into their roster, or court the inner-city sports fan. Of course, it's a different situation: Detroit's hockey club is a nearly a century old, and — the key thing — has been a consistent winner for a long while now. Still, if any NHL team were to aggressively market itself in this direction, the Wings would be in the prime position to do so.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Hockey, Society
15 SECONDS OF SELL
Thanks to DVRs, the Web, and mobile media — along with the overarching shrinking of attention spans — the length of the optimal TV commercial is now down to a mere quarter-minute.
That's a downward progression from the formerly-standard 30-second spot. Of course, that half-minute supplanted the original full minute of airtime that advertisers wanted/had to buy. So a new standard of 15 seconds was inevitable, regardless of the specific delivery technologies that fostered it.
And talk about hitting the viewer on the neuron level:
Shorter ads can be just as effective as longer ones. Viewers can form new associations — say, knowing about a discount — in a few seconds and then recall that information in just one second, [branding specialist Deborah] Mitchell says. People can't help soaking up the message.
"When things are working that fast, you can't tell yourself, 'No, I'm not going to think about that,'" she says. "Your brain lights up so you don't have a choice."
When you're dealing with such a brief rapid-fire window of opportunity, you're targeting reaction more than comprehension. That'll do for now, until our brains catch up and 5-second spots become necessary…
Category: Advert./Mktg., Society, TV
BEWITCHED BY BEARDED CONAN PROMOS
With a little over two weeks before the premiere of Conan O'Brien's new TBS show, the marketing as ramped up, as huge billboards sporting O'Brien's mug have cropped up all over Manhattan.
He's permanently wearing a beard these days. It's a good look for him. Still, I can't shake my initial impression, from two years ago, of those ginger whiskers:
He looks like a guest-starring warlock character from the old 1960s sitcom "Bewitched".
Seriously, he should get ahold of the show's old theme music, wave his arms around at the audience "casting spells", ham it up with a mock Edwardian English accent, the whole thing. I don't know if he can actually use these suggestions under WGA rules, but here's hoping.
So, if one of the first skits on the new talkshow involves Conan doing sitcom-grade magic, you'll know where he got the idea from. I fully expect to see it on opening night.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Celebrity, Comedy, TV
TV TIMEOUTS: 4TH AND PROLONG
It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that National Football League coaches are routinely pressured to burn timeouts late in games, just so more TV commercials can be squeezed in:
"At the two-minute warning in every game in the fourth quarter, there are conversations that go by. There's conversations that take place at the two-minute warning before the first half. But there's conversations that take place, and it's the official's responsibility to give the head coach a status of commercials and TV timeouts," [Tennessee Titan head coach Jeff] Fisher said. "Yesterday, I was told that they were two short. And they looked at me and smiled, and I said, 'Sorry, I can't help you.' [Referee] Mike Carey came across and said, 'Here's the deal. We're two short.' And I said, 'Mike, I can't help you. I'm trying to get a first down and I'm gonna kneel on it.'"
It's clearly obtrusive, and it makes for an unsettling in-game situation:
Perhaps the most disconcerting thing about this story — the part that made it so hard to believe at first — is the idea of a television network, and the need for ad revenue, deciding the pace of a game (no matter how awful it may be). That Carey would break away from his responsibility as a supposedly objective arbiter of the on-field action to try and wrangle timeouts from coaches in the name of commercial breaks — well, this is where we truly have gone down the rabbit hole. And judging from Fisher's comments, this happens all the time.
It's always pointed out how well-suited football, particularly NFL football, is to television. Clearly-delineated windows of action provide an ideal vehicle for injecting commercial breaks. So it's disheartening to think that, even with this perfect set-up, the league and its partners (in this case, ESPN) feel the need to tamper with gameplay integrity to jam in even more advertising.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Football, TV
EA SPORTS NHL 11′S HEAD SHOT
This TV commercial for Electronic Arts Sports title "NHL 11″ has been out for at least a month now, so I'm surprised no one else has mentioned the questionable imagery at the 0:17 second mark:
That moment features a pixelated headshot-hit against the boards on Chicago Blackhawks player Number 88, who would be Patrick Kane. This, despite the ongoing hand-wringing over concussion injuries in hockey.
I would think that the National Hockey League would raise some red flags over this little detail, in the marketing of a premier piece of merchandise connected with the game. Granted, it's not like the EA commercial lingers on the hit; but still, it's a prominent highlight in the ad. Why would they include it, given the sensitivity on the issue? A solid body-check in its place would be just as effective in selling the videogame.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Hockey, Videogames
HIDDEN FRIENDS, IN PLAIN SIGHT
It's not like there's anything unique about an outdoor advertisement being defaced by a sticker decal. But the cameraphoned example above (Flickr-embiggened here) displays a streak of creativity: Pretty model's face, already fairly anonymous in a fashion-advertising sense, made even more anonymous by blocking out her eyes. For a slapdash application of street art/promotion, it's well done.
The quasi-conspiratorial Hidden Friends label definitely adds to the effect. It appears to be a loose artists collective, that may or may not have acquired its name from a common Facebook user setting. Applying the phrase offline heightens the almost oxymoronic meaning…
I snapped this photo near the corner of 42nd Street and Madison Avenue. If it was eyecatching enough to make me pause in my usual mid-day running around, then you know it's got impact.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Creative, Fashion, New Yorkin', Photography, Social Media Online
DIRECTV'S FUNNY-TALKING MARKETING ANGLE
I'm detecting a pattern in DirecTV's latest television commercials:
Mangled grammar + heavy accents = satellite subscription sales!
Exhibit A is this aptly-nicknamed "Opulence — I Has It" spot:
It seems this silly Russian millionaire with the broken English was the prototype. After that spot debuted, DirecTV applied the same formula to its late-summer-to-fall NFL Sunday Ticket push:
The TV spots, from Deutsch, New York, center on the fact sports fans can enjoy watching their favorite teams no matter where they reside. One ad, "Cheeseheads," shows a Green Bay Packers fan talking in a Fargo-like accent to a priest on her couch at home… In another ad, a trophy wife from Dallas vents her anger at a local Redskins fan by letting her dog chew up his welcome mat, knock over the flowers and pee on the rug. In still another, a pair of "Masshole" Patriots fans sneer at a local follower of the Dolphins and toss some snow at his door.
Again, all those spots feature characters with exaggerated regional accents: East Texas twangs, Midwestern lilts, New England nasality, etc. It's a common theme that's hard to miss.
I can only assume that market research uncovered that distinct speech patterns resonate with prospective customers of higher-end television services. That, or the braintrust at DirecTV likes to make fun of a broad swath of the American population…
Category: Advert./Mktg., TV
THE RADICAL AND BEWITCHING FUTURE OF "MAD MEN"
Here's one woman's vision of where the decade-long plotlines in "Mad Men" are headed:
@amychozick: Hope #MadMen runs 'till at least 1969 when Sally Draper will drop acid, burn her bra and join the Weather Underground. #poorsallydraper
Not bad. But, television being television, and based on the medium's previous depiction of the advertising industry during the '60s, I couldn't help but retort with:
@popstat: nah, by '69 she'll learn witchcraft, have a daughter named Tabitha, & Don will be played by a different actor #Bewitched
I think January Jones would make a swell Samantha Stephens. And Jon Hamm can be replaced, Darrin-style, by Neil Patrick Harris. Meanwhile, Roger Sterling gets a pizza named after him…
Category: Advert./Mktg., Social Media Online, TV
A CORNY REBRANDING
Deeming that the phrase "high fructose corn syrup" is too toxic to redeem, the Corn Refiners Association is going for a name change for its prized product, to "corn sugar".
When trying to decide on a new name, the refiners group surveyed more than 1,200 consumers to see which they liked better. The other options were "corn sweetener" and "corn nectar."
Corn sugar "best communicates that consumers understand it has the same calories as sugar, the same sweetness as sugar and about the same fructose level," said trade group president Audrae Erickson. The decision to offer manufacturers an alternative name to use was prompted by consumers, not consumer product makers, but she acknowledged approval from the FDA would have a "spillover benefit" for food companies.
My initial thought: Does the corn industry really think that the "syrup" part of HFCS is the problem? People are shying away from sweeteners and the empty calories they bring, regardless of origin. I don't see how calling it "sugar" (or "nectar" or whatever) is going to help.
Although I commend the trade group for coming up with a kernel of an idea for product rehabilitation. (Hey, when I write a corny post, I go all the way.)
Category: Advert./Mktg., Business, Food
UNCORK THE KRAKEN
As much as I like to believe that I'm immune to alcoholic beverage marketing — chiefly though my distaste for the infinite iterations of beer commercials — the truth is that I'm a sucker for any product packaging in this space that even hints of uniqueness.
Exhibit A would be the image accompanying this post. The Kraken Rum comes in a distinctive bottle design, with those two neck-level rounded handles. I'm guessing that's reminiscent of this spirit's theme: The kraken, a mythical multi-legged sea monster. The label is lovingly crafted as an oldtime woodcut placard. All of this is a good tie-together for a dark spiced rum, a traditional ancient mariner type of booze that'll knock you out with 94 proof of potency.
Of course, I bought it as soon as I saw it on the liquor store shelf. The relatively cheap $20 pricetag didn't hurt, but really, it was the kitschy-ness that had me reaching for it. The flavor and drinkability is practically secondary.
Although my sampling found that a basic Kraken and Coke makes for a fine libation. So I guess I lucked out that my consumerist impulse netted me a quality addition to my booze collection.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Creative, Food
LAPTOP STICKER-CLUTTER
You know all those perma-stick decals lurking under the lid of every new Windows PC laptop computer? Despite their garishness, they're there for a reason:
A.M.D.'s research shows that consumers hate the stickers (duh). But they're not going away, for one simple reason: There's big money involved. Intel, Microsoft, Skype and whoever else is represented by the stickers actually pay the computer companies for the billboard space. That's why H.P., for example, would tolerate gumming up its laptops' good looks with crass ads. (Apple refuses to put Intel stickers on its computers, even though there's Intel inside. In doing so, it leaves millions of dollars a year on the table.)
I actually remember one of these labels serving a useful purpose on one of my old Wintel notebooks. The details are fuzzy, but the bullet-point specs printed on this particular sticker were handy enough that I appreciated having the machine's technical details constantly within sight. The alternative would have been to dive through a bunch of Windows menus and submenus to gather the same basic information. That's why I never removed it for the 3-4 years I used the thing.
But that was just one single stickie. I'm surprised it took so long for third-party providers to exploit that front-and-center computer-user territory (is it really on anybody's "laptop" anymore?) as advertising space. The next step is for computermakers to substitute that bare metal or plastic into LED or some other dynamic-display material, and rotate through a neverending parade of ads for the life of the machine…
Category: Advert./Mktg., Business, Tech
MY ONLINE-LIFESTREAM MONETIZATION FALLS FLAT
Early last week, I received a couple of unsolicited offers for revenue generation from the content I've generated on the Web:
- D2, a newspaper-insert magazine-lette akin to the New York Times' T Magazine, requested permission to use a long-ago photo I took of the former American Apparel billboard adspace on Manhattan's Houston Street (a crop of which is featured above).
- The same day, someone at vectorTrap asked to place a text ad on the index page of this blog. Something to do with wireless phone service, I think.
The common thread? Both offers flaked out. I might have scared them off. I asked for a relatively hefty sum from vectorTrap ("hefty" if you consider that I'm sure these outfits usually pay out only a couple of bucks to more naive bloggers), while I told D2 that I'd expect accreditation and some sort of compensation. I didn't hear back from either after relaying that information. I know D2′s request was time-sensitive, hinging on the production deadline for their next issue, so I assume they moved on.
No big loss, although I'd gladly take the money/credit if it was offered up. Part of my ulterior motive was to avoid going out of my way for such non-spam inquiries, so in that sense, I got what I wanted. The micro-monetization of user-generated Web content doesn't seem well-structured for substantial cash outlays.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Bloggin', Photography
THE GREYING OF TELEVISION
It's been the mass medium of choice for the past half-century-plus. So it's only appropriate that TV is now showing its age, demographically:
The median age for viewers at [CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox] is now 51. The broadcasters' audience has aged at twice the rate of the general population during the past two decades, according to a new report. It's a quiet trend with a real impact on the way they do business.
"It should be a concern, but it doesn't seem to be a concern at the moment," said Steve Sternberg, who wrote the report for Baseline Inc., an information source for the film and TV industries that is owned by The New York Times Co. "You don't want to have CBS, ABC and NBC all having median ages in their mid-50s."
The risk in having a rapidly aging audience is the networks becoming less relevant to advertisers, the backbone of their business. Increasingly, that's a way of thinking that itself is getting old…
A young audience has always been the holy grail for networks, but that's changing, said Alan Wurtzel, research chief at NBC. Not only are more older viewers available, advertisers are starting to recognize that they spend money and are receptive to their messages.
"But that's changing" has been the supposed trend for the past couple of decades now. When the chips are down, though, advertisers still skew their pitches to the younger end of the spectrum. The fact is, there's a cachet in tailoring marketing messages to young adults, because it appeals to older demos and their aspirations to identify themselves as "still young" or "not that old". That's not going to change — in fact, I've argued that it's a societal trend that's only going to get more pronounced.
That doesn't mean that television will be part of that persistent process. The aging of the boob tube audience is a testament to how fragmented the media landscape has become, especially to youngsters who never experienced a world of TV as the primary media outlet. Without that force-of-habit viewership, we are indeed seeing a fundamental shift in media consumption:
Does TV begin a decade-long transformation, similar to what radio went through in the 1950s, with various shows and other programming migrating online, leaving behind… What? Infomercials and pharmaceutical ads on the boob tube, branding it as something that only "old people" watch?
I think that question, which I asked only a little over a year ago, has been answered by these numbers. Welcome to the end of the Television Age.
THE CURIOUSNESS OF RADIO STATION NAMES
I don't listen to enough radio to give much of a damn about the medium. But one trend has me puzzled: What's with applying identity-like brandnames to individual stations?
Many radio station names are basically mnemonic devices for remembering the call letters — stations like KROQ in Los Angeles ("K-Rock") or New York's WHTZ ("W-Hits") — and some even manage to turn the mnemonic into a brand, as did San Francisco's KLLC, known as "Alice," a name that goes beyond the call letters to effectively evoke its "chick rock" brand identity as well as referencing Lewis Carroll's famous Alice (their in-studio webcam is called the "Looking Glass") and the lyrics of "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane ("Go ask Alice…").
A growing trend, I think, is that more and more radio stations are beginning to realize that there's no law requiring them to be named after their call letters, so you get stations like San Francisco's KSAN calling themselves "The Bone," a name related more to their hard classic rock format and brand identity than their call letters (which, typically, just relate to the local area). When a station has an evocative name, it has more than just call letters or a handy way to remember the call letters — it has a brand. And since radio is now such a competitive big media business, brands are more important than ever. So The Bone's listeners are called "Boneheads" and KFOG's are called "Fogheads," and all kinds of promotion is done playing-off the names.
The local New York examples that come to mind: The Breeze 107.1 (hardly unique, as I'm betting there are a few hundred easy listening stations across the land that use the same name); The Peak 107.1 (Adult Album Alternative format, whatever that's supposed to be); and The Wolf 94.3 (upstate-oriented country music). The trend is probably more prevalent on non-music format stations, chiefly news and talk.
Music stations are so homogenized, with the same songs on virtual repeat for days/months/years, that some kind of station-based branding is the only way to build listener loyalty. What makes it unique is how it's applied strictly on the local level — by necessity, but still. Television networks do the same thing, especially when they're niche (Spike TV, Cooking Channel, etc.); but they have the additional advantage of exclusive content to distinguish themselves. With radio, outside of format restrictions, the same song can be heard on a range of stations.
The big constraint in communicating these brands: They're always accompanied by the station frequency. That's another necessity, because the goal is to have people know where to tune in. But it's an awkward pitch. To me, it sounds goofy: "Music festival sponsored by one-oh-two-point-five The Sound!".
But again, radio is largely dead to me, so maybe I'm immune to this marketing angle. The charms of station-monikering escape me.
Category: Advert./Mktg., Business, Radio


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Armin Septiexan (Nusa Tenggara Timur)
Armin Septiexan is an artist who lives in Kupang City, East Nusa Tenggara, on Timor Island. He is interested in post-colonial stories and historical memories that form in urban culture. Since 2011, he has joined the SkolMus community (The Multimedia School for All- Sekolah Multimedia Untuk Semua) that focuses on photography, videography, and cultural revitalization through visual archiving. Since 2019, he and the Kupang Film Community have worked on their first long documentary movie.
Link: http://instagram.com
Bombo (Sulawesi Selatan)
Bombo is an audio-visual duo made up of Reza Enem and Rais Rice, that was established in Makassar in 2015. Their first collaboration was exhibited in Makassar's 2nd BERDIKARI event. Social, political, and cultural themes are topics heavily featured in their works. In 2016, Bombo exhibited its' work in the Roaming Assembly #6: intraACTION: transCOLONIALISM that was a part of the SONSBEEK 2016 and DAI (Dutch Art Institute) in the Netherlands. Bombo was also a Water Connection Resident Artist at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in England with their resident's artist program, with their work later presented in the 2017 UK/ID Festival in Indonesia.
Deny Renanda Putra (Jawa Tengah)
Deny was born in Wonosobo, 31 March 1994 and graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Visual Art from Semarang State University (Universitas Negeri Semarang). Since he was four years old, Deny has shown a strong interest in art, especially traditional art such as puppetry, Jaran Kepang (Kuda Lumping is a traditional Javanese Dance depicting a group of horsemen from East Java, Indonesia), and mask dances. Currently, Deny works using many techniques from drawing and installation to performance art.
Toma & Kako (DKI Jakarta)
Toma & Kako is a creative studio that works in the design graphics and film industry; this creative studio was conceived by two friends, Dian Tamara and Dhiwangkara Seta at the end of 2017 in Jakarta. When making their work, Toma & Kako sourced direction from personal experience or social issues to create authentic works. Several music videos they have created include Sunshine (The Panturas), Putih (Glaskaca), Ironi (Kelompok Penerbang Roket), Ruang Kecil (Bilal Indrajaya), Semburat Silang Warna (Upstairs), Tell Me What To Do (Indische Party) and many others.
Fat Velvet (Jawa Barat)
Fat Velvet is the only visual art collective in Bandung, West Java consisting of all women members. The members formed this collective because of their shared frustration regarding the position of women in the arts and creative industry in Bandung. Until now, Fat Velvet had been actively working for more than 3 years. Based on their extensive artistic works, this collective does not confine themselves in any one artistic concept or medium. Fat Velvet focuses on voicing women's concerns and perspectives on issues, and hopes that equality in the industry is not only attainable through campaigning, but also through representation and performance. Several of Fat Velvet's works have been previously exhibited in ARTJOG MMXIX Daily Performance, Art Jakarta 2019, Kaya Indonesia Gallery, and Lawangwangi Creative Space.
Ika Vantiani
Ika Vantiani is a self-taught artist, curator and crafter. She mostly discusses women, media and consumerism in her works. Before working as an artist, Ika used to work in the communications industry for more than 13 years after she graduated from The London School of Public Relations, Jakarta. Today, apart from being an exhibiting artist, workshop organizer and tutor, she has also curated some youth, fashion, and humanity themed exhibitions. Ika works and lives in Jakarta.
Link: http://instagram.com/vantiani
Fasilitators
Agung Seldy Arimsyah
Seldy was born in Batangmata, Selayar Islands. He is currently studying at the Faculty of Law through Indonesia's Unversitas Terbuka (Open University, Jakarta). For more than six years, he was active in many events as an event organizer, facilitator for the ganara.art focusing on social inclusivity, diversity, and tolerance. Now, Agung is volunteering at the Sulawesi Commission for the Missing People and Victim of Violence (KontraS Sulawesi). For the last year, he had participated as an Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) Humanity's Program facilitator regarding the issue of Stolen Children. Outside of his roles at KonstraS and AJAR, Agung is currently also volunteering in Allewai and working as a teaching assistant for children in the Jeneberang River region.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/seldyarimsyah/
Rezki Ameliyah Arief
Amel, born in 1997, is a graduate from the Department of International Relations of the Hasanuddin University (UNHAS) with a special focus in Social and Political Studies. Rezki began to delve into human right's issues in 2015, in line with his membership with the student body. Rezki's roles include Advocacy and Strategic Research Coordinator at HIMAHI FISIP UNHAS Advocacy 2017/2018, member of the UNHAS Student Press Research Division 2018, volunteer in the Sabang Urban Social Forum in Makassar, 2020, facilitator at AJAR, and a supporter for KontraS Sulawesi since 2019. Rezki is interested in gender, urban, environment and humanistic issues especially women and children's advocacy.
Link: http://medium.com/@ameliyaharief
Yohanes Kornelius Ethelbert
Et finished his Bachelor Degree in Philosophy at Widya Mandira Catholic University, Kupang. In 2014, he continued his studies in Public Administration in Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta and graduated in 2017. In 2018, he joined the Humanitarian Volunteer Network (Jaringan Relawan untuk Kemanusiaan- JRUK) around issues of human rights and trafficking. He has collaborated with JPIT and Humanity Project on human trafficking- sponsored by Asia Justice and Rights.
Agustin Selbard Zacharias
Tin has known about humanistic issues ever since they were in college. In 2012, they attended the book launch of forbidden memories in the Theological Faculty at their university. In 2015, Agustin attended a discussion on the publication of research into human trafficking. This research looked at Indonesian Migrant Workers from the East Nusa Tenggara region. As a volunteer in the East Indonesian Women Network (JPIT) Agustin has assisted with victims of human trafficking between 2017 – 2019. Now, Agustin has become a JPIT staff member in the assistance of victims of past human right's violations. This experience of mentoring and assisting victims and survivors will strengthen Agustins understanding of comprehensive service provision, especially in their church environment.
Wisnu Primason
Wisnu studied at the Pasundan University, Bandung, in 2013 and joined the Universitas Pasundan International Relation Student's Academic Circle in 2014. In 2016, Wisnu created a zine named "Cikudapapers" to report on the Rojava Revolution in Syria and the Dago Elos people's struggle against eviction. Wisnu joined the Legal Aid Institution in the Civil and Political Department in 2018 and has been involved in LBH Bandung (Legal Aid, Bandung) mapping of West Java labourers migration abroad in 2019. Wisnu has been actively involved in the Indonesian migrant workers' return from Saudi Arabia. He has paid great attention to social movements and issues, and documented techniques in human rights violations.
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wisnuprima/
Hana Kurniasih
Hana Kurniasih, whose zodiac is Capricorn from her birth until this very moment, lived in Bandung. While finishing her bachelor degree in law in the Padjadjaran University, she was active in the Bandung Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Bandung). During her time in the LBH Bandung, she has had the opportunity to learn many human right's issues, such as learning about women's issues and past human right's abuses, specifically, the Timor Leste Stolen Children's issue. Recently, she was preoccupied with many deadlines, working on several accompaniment modules.
Gloria Caeli
Glo born in Jakarta in 1998 is now a digital artist who works from her home in Bandung, West Java. From 2018 – 2019, she has had the opportunity of being involved with LBH Bandung (Legal Aid, Bandung) and AJAR, learning about and advocating for Timor Leste's Stolen Children. Before being involved in these issues, she was preoccupied with her illustrated work, training to play music, and reading books. She is interested in issues of domestic violence and human rights violations.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/gloria.caeli
Rehza Pratama Eka Nanda
Azher was born in Bandung. He currently works at in local media, and is a contributor to labour media. In 2019, he was active in documenting Timor Leste's Stolen Children in West Java along with AJAR and LBH Bandung. He is interested in audio-visual and digital campaigns.
Link: https://twitter.com/kontenesa
Adiyat Jati Wicaksono
Alongside the Kendeng Mountains Community Care Network (Jaringan Masyarakat Peduli Pegunungan Kendeng- JMPPK), Adiyat actively engages in the rescue movement in the Kendeng mountains. Aditya has also made several music illustrations for a contemporary art group in Semarang called "Wayang Tenda Nanda Wuyung", he also plays bass in "Serambi", a musical group that advocates for social and humanitarian issues. In 2019, with AJAR and IKOHI in the Humanity Project, he accompanied the survivors of the '65 Incident in several areas in Central Java. Environmental and Human Rights abuses that have never been resolved continue to inspire Adiyat to learn and work in the area.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/adiyatjatiw/
M. Sholekan
Sholekan, born in Grobogan, East Java, now works as a journalist in regional media. He is currently studying Law at Semarang State University (UNNES). In 2019 (when he was a college student), he had the chance to learn about past human rights violations with the '65 Incident survivors in several East Java areas, along with the aid from the Semarang colleagues. Recently, he has intensely followed the COVID-19 development in East Java, especially in Semarang. In his spare time, he frequently listens to the Deddy Corbuzier's podcast.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/muhammad.sholekan/
Albertus Arga Yuda Prasetya
Arga is currently in the process of graduating from the Department of History, at Diponegoro University's Faculty of Cultural Studies (UNDIP). Between 2016 – 2018 he was an active volunteer in Indonesia's Greenpeace, especially for the Batang's Electric-Steam Power Station development. Along with a few of his friends, he also formed an art event, with freestyle musical improvisation under the name "Majelis Improvisasi" which has been going since 2018. In 2019, he was engaged in AJAR's Humanity Project, specifically on the 1965 incident in East Java. In his spare time, he occasionally holds film screenings, discussions, art performances, and music.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/argayudap/
Alhilyatuz Zakiyah Fillaily
Hilya, studied at the State Islamic University of Walisongo (UIN) majoring in Islamic Penal Law, graduating in 2018. Alhilyatuz was active in the Community Empowerment Institution (LPM) Justitia, as a Editor in Chief in Liksa (Literary Academic Circle/ Lingkar Kajian Sastra). Currently, they have dedicated their career to supporting the Insitute for Social and Religious Studies (Yayasan eLSA), Semarang as the Coordinator for Gender Research and Study of issues of Freedom of Religion and Faith (Kebebasan Beragama dan Berkeyakinan) in East Java. She is also involved in Semarang's Gusdurian Community, and recently joined AJARs Humanity Project focusing on the '65 Incident in East Java. In 2019, Alhilyatuz founded a women's collective, named "Voicing Young Women" that actively advocates for sexual violence cases on campus. She is intrigued in humanitarian and womens issues.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/alhilyatuz.zakiyah/
Julinta Moreng Bungan
Moreng, was born in Morotai. In 2019, she officially graduated from Indonesian Chrisitian University (UKI), with a degree in International Relations. Her experience as an intern / volunteer in AJAR in 2018 strengthened her knowledge about Human Rights, and she became interested in similar issues. From this experience, she had the opportunity to meet with the Stolen Children victims from Timor living in Jakarta, and understand the effects of what they went through. Moreng is interested in child rights, in particular violations experienced by children, such as sexual violence, underage marriages, and dropping out of school.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/litamoreng
Rizky Lani Permata
Kicay was born in Jakarta 25 years ago. She works part-time as an educator in an educational start-up company. In 2019, she had the opportunity to join the Humanity program, and in the process, she learnt about the experiences of Stolen Children and other Human Rights issues. In her spare time, she avidly reads classical novels that she owns but rarely had the time to read. She has an interest in women's issues, human rights, and history.
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Going by the name Molan, Ma'ul, or Mul, he was born about a month after the devastating massacre of Santa Cruz in Timor Leste, 1991. However, the two events are completely unrelated, and he credits his birth purely due to the love between his father and mother. In 2019, he joined the Humanity program where he then met face to face, and had a direct dialogue with the survivors of Stolen Children in the wider Jakarta area. Currently, he works for a law firm in Jakarta to assist the public in seeking justice and is also writing a book on the theme of the tax law series.
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Aswin
Born in Jeneponto, 23 years ago, Aswin is currently a student in the Law Department of Indonesia's Open University (Universitas Terbuka). He is currently volunteering for KontraS Sulawesi. In 2016, he had the opportunity to learn about the Timor Leste's Stolen Children issue in KontraS Sulawesi and was frequently involved in the search and documentation process. Aswin enjoys listening to podcasts in his spare time. He is interested in law and human rights issues and the opportunities to translate the human right's victim narration into various mediums.
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Juan currently works in the Eastern Indonesian Women Network (Jaringan Perempuan Indonesia Timur- JPIT) as the Head of the Anti- Human Trafficking Criminal Act Division (TPPO). She joined JPIT in 2017, after she finished her bachelor's from the Theological Faculty in Artha Wacana Christian University (UKAW) in Kupang. She has accompanied victims and their families, specifically in economic development, and is now involved as one of the facilitators in the Humanity program in collaboration between AJAR and JPIT. She is interested in humanitarian issues, especially human trafficking, women's and children's issues, and gender.
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          - (int) endCopyAndAccept2:

          (BOOL)
          accept

          errorMessage:

          (NSString *)
          localErrorMessage

          messageWhenDone:

          (BOOL)
          messageWhenDone

Finish the COPY command

Parameters

accept	Accept the copying

errorMessage	Custom error message, may be nil

messageWhenDone	Whether to send the results to the delegate

Extends class PGTSConnection.

          - (NSArray *) pendingResultSets

Block and retrieve all pending results If no command is active, nil will be returned

Extends class PGTSConnection.

          - (void) retrieveResultsAndSendToDelegate

Retrieve the pending results and send them to the delegate

Extends class PGTSConnection.

          - (int) sendCopyData2:

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          packetSize:

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          messageWhenDone:

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Methods associated with the COPY command

Extends class PGTSConnection.

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Send the query without retrieving the result The caller must retrieve the result afterwards. This will not be enforced by the framework

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Briefing Encounters
Bodger at 9:46 am April 12, 2018
Former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan at the PAC with then Garda Press Officer Supt Dave Taylor (behind left) and Director of Communications at AGS Andrew McLindon (behind right)
At the Disclosures Tribunal which is examining allegations of a smear campaign against Sgt Maurice McCabe.
Solicitor Gerard Kean will be the first witness up to give evidence from 10am.
Mr Kean will be followed by Noel Brett, who was the CEO of the Road Safety Authority for eight years until October 2013.
[Readers should note it was reported in 2014 that Mr Brett and AA's Conor Faughnan were questioned by gardai over their dealings with Sgt McCabe in August 2013].
It's understood questions put to Mr Kean will centre on events before and after his contribution to RTÉ Radio One's Marian Finucane Show on Sunday, January 26, 2014.
During the show, Mr Kean emphatically, and repeatedly, alleged that Sgt McCabe and former Garda John Wilson didn't cooperate with an internal Garda investigation into the quashing of penalty points by Assistant Commissioner John O'Mahoney in 2013.
Sgt McCabe and Mr Wilson later sued over the comments.
A transcript of the interview can be read here.
To sum up what the tribunal has heard so far…
As it stands, five people have told the tribunal of specific instances where they claim to have witnessed former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan give a negative briefing about Sgt McCabe.
Mr Callinan denies all the allegations.
Fianna Fail TD and former Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness claims Mr Callinan alleged Sgt McCabe "fiddles with kids" after a meeting of the PAC on Thursday, January 23, 2014 – at which Mr Callinan appeared and made his "disgusting" remark – and referred to both Sgt McCabe and former Garda John Wilson as "fucking headbangers".
Although he hasn't given evidence yet, the tribunal has heard that Supt Dave Taylor has told the tribunal that he also heard Mr Callinan make the "fiddles with kids" comment about Sgt McCabe.
Mr McGuinness also claims that, during a meeting in a car park of Bewley's Hotel on the Naas Road, Dublin, on Friday, January 24, 2014, Mr Callinan told him that Sgt McCabe sexually abused his children and nieces.
Fine Gael TD John Deasy has told the tribunal that on the way to the PAC meeting – on Thursday, January 23, 2014 – he stopped to get a coffee in the coffee dock close the committee room when he had a brief conversation with Mr Callinan.
He said they chatted after then Deputy Commissioner Noirin O'Sullivan introduced the two men.
Mr Deasy claims Mr Callinan told him that Sgt McCabe was not to be believed or trusted with anything.
The Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy – whose report into the quashing of penalty points was being discussed at that PAC meeting on that Thursday, January 23, 2014 – is scheduled to give evidence tomorrow.
But the tribunal's opening statement from last summer shows that Mr McCarthy claims that he also had a short conversation with Mr Callinan outside the committee room and that Mr Callinan "made statements to the effect that Sergeant McCabe was not to be trusted, that he had questions to answer, and that there were allegations of sexual offences against him".
RTE journalist Philip Boucher Hayes has also not given evidence yet but the tribunal's opening statement says Mr Boucher Hayes claims that, on December 17, 2013, in RTE, Mr Hayes had a private conversation with Mr Callinan.
This came about after there was a row with RTE producers over whether Mr Boucher Hayes could ask Mr Callinan about the penalty point allegations made by Sgt McCabe on Crimecall.
Mr Boucher Hayes claims Mr Callinan told him Sgt McCabe was not to be trusted and that he was a "troubled individual" with a "lot of psychological issues and psychiatric issues".
Mr Boucher Hayes claims Mr Callinan said Sgt McCabe was famous in An Garda Siochana for a set of grievances he had against Garda management and that there were other things he could tell Mr Boucher Hayes about him – "horrific things, the worst kind of thing" – but he didn't elaborate further.
The journalist also alleges that Mr Callinan told him that if he wanted to know about Sgt McCabe or the penalty points issue, to contact Supt Dave Taylor. Mr Boucher Hayes claims, after this, Supt Taylor immediately "buttonholed" him and said: "Now do you understand what the problem with Maurice McCabe and the penalty points is?"
Separately…
Both the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and the former Labour leader Pat Rabbitte have given statements to the tribunal to say what they had heard about Sgt McCabe.
Mr Rabbitte, who is scheduled to give evidence next Monday, has told the tribunal:
"Some time, I think, in 2014, my encounters in 2007 with Maurice McCabe were ventilated in an RTÉ interview. That same evening, in a prearranged meeting with a friend of mine, who is a former garda, he raised with me the content of the interview as it related to Sergeant McCabe. He said that he was unaware that I had any involvement with Sergeant McCabe, but I thought that I should be aware of what was being said 'on the grapevine'. I took it that he was referring to the Garda grapevine and the matter that he wanted to warn me about was that there were rumours of alleged child abuse against Sergeant McCabe."
Mr Varadkar has told the tribunal, in a statement:
"With regard to the innuendo and rumours, I was informed of these by Mr. Noel Brett, then CEO of the Road Safety Authority, which fell under my remit as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. I don't recall the exact detail of the rumours, but I do recall they related to his character and motivation, that he was untrustworthy and had other grievances unrelated to road safety. I specifically recall a rumour about a computer* with evidence of criminality on it being lost by Sergeant McCabe."
"While I was aware of innuendo and rumours circulating about Sergeant McCabe, I did not believe them to be true and, in any case, they did not take away from the evidence-based case he was making in relation to penalty points having been squared."
*Sgt McCabe was subject to a disciplinary proceedings after the computer of Cavan priest Fr Michael Molloy – who went on to plead guilty to defilement of a child under 15, defilement of a child under 17, and child pornography – went missing in 2007.
The O'Higgins Commission of Investigation would later find:
"It is difficult to understand why Sergeant McCabe was the only person subjected to disciplinary proceedings for the loss of the computer…He was, quite rightly, exonerated…The commission has been told that disciplinary proceedings are measures of last resort. This makes the use of such proceedings against Sergeant McCabe all the more difficult to understand."
Yesterday: Enter Gerald
Previously: The Commissioner, The 'Knacker', And The Two Headbangers
How Did He Get Here?
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Meanwhile, At The Disclosures Tribunal 'Lest I Be Accused Of False Imprisonment' Disclosures Tribunal: Day Two 'There Isn't An Error In His Favour'
Posted in Misc and tagged Disclosures Tribunal at 9:46 am on April 12, 2018 by Bodger.
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Dhaughton99 April 12, 2018 at 10:20 am
"Caroline Murphy, who is the wife of RTÉ presenter Sean O'Rourke, will now be advising Mr Flanagan how best to handle the many media storms surrounding the embattled Department of Justice.
The one-time series producer of 'The Sunday Game' was the regular voice of 'It Says In The Papers' on 'Morning Ireland'."
"However, she told the Irish Independent her work at the national broadcaster has been "marginal" in recent years."
80 grand a year to read the papers to Charlie in the morn.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/rt-stalwart-leaves-to-advise-justice-minister-36799190.html
realPolithicks April 12, 2018 at 5:12 pm
The golden circle taking care of its own, as usual.
Frilly Keane April 12, 2018 at 11:26 am
I don't usually comment on these strings
'cause ya know
but lads
that statement from Leosocks
Squirmy
I'm leaving it at that
Catherine costelloe April 12, 2018 at 7:53 pm
God Almighty, Justice is in freefall. Is Charlie now blind as well as deaf?


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Bishop Jason Nelson Releases 'The Answer' on RCA Inspiration
by WI Guest Author May 30, 2018 October 31, 2020
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"When I first started writing I was just writing. What came out of it was organic," Bishop Jason Nelson said about his newly-released album "The Answer" on RCA Inspiration, home of Kirk Franklin, Michelle Williams and Marvin Sapp.
"I was just writing good music that was relevant to my walk, to the producer's walk and discovered 'The Answer' is what we should be talking about."
Nelson's fifth album, "The Answer," was recorded live at his church The Tabernacle at Greater Bethlehem Temple in Randallstown, Md.
Released on May 18, the album was led by the first single titled "Forever" co-written by his wife Tonya Nelson.
"I can't thank anyone but God for putting that in my wife's head," Nelson said about the concept for the song.
His wife Tonya came into a room, where Jason and his music partner worked, singing a hook she made up. Nelson said that he and his music partner both looked at each other and instantly knew it was a song.
"Once it was written she wanted credit," Jason laughed.
When asked if he gave his wife the songwriting credit she asked for he answered, "Of course!"
He noted that his wife wouldn't call herself a singer but that she "can sing."
Bishop Nelson's last album, "Jesus Revealed," debuted at number one on the Billboard "Gospel Albums Chart" and its single "I Am" remained at number one for 20 weeks.
His first album titled, "I Shall Live," debuted in 2005. Since then his career as a songwriter has led him to work with and write songs for label mate Marvin Sapp and Donald Lawrence.
For the last 11 years, Nelson has served as the head pastor of his father's church, The Tabernacle at Greater Bethlehem Temple.
At one point in his life Bishop Nelson did not want to follow in his father's footsteps to be a pastor, but that's exactly what he did in 2007 when his father retired.
"It's just about me being open to instruction," Bishop Nelson said about the big turn-around that led to him accepting the call to lead his father's church.
"I was open. It just didn't happen overnight though. I really wasn't having it, but he turned it around. I've been 15 years active in the ministry. What we are called to do is not always easy."
Serving as pastor at The Tabernacle hasn't been an easy road for Nelson whose career was deep into music by the time his father retired.
"It takes effort, time, intuition . . . trusting in God," he said.
"The Answer" offers 14 songs with featured vocalists Dove Award nominee Jonathan Nelson [Bishop Jason Nelson's brother], Maranda Curtis and Naomi Raine.
You can learn more about Bishop Jason Nelson, his church, or his new project "The Answer" by logging onto his website at www.JNelsonOnline.com.
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Q: Hydrogen atom in 2 spatial dimensions with logarithmic potential I was trying to solve for the wave function of an electron in a hydrogen atom confined to only two dimensions (in flatland). First of all I figured out the electrostatic potential energy in flatland. This came out to be
$$U=-\frac{Ze^2}{2\pi\epsilon_0}\log{r}.$$
Here I have chosen $r=1$ as the surface of zero potential.
The Schrödinger equation in two dimensions is
$$-(\frac{1}{r}\partial_r(r\partial_{r}\Psi)+\frac{1}{r^2}\partial^{2}_{\theta}\Psi) + U\Psi=E\Psi.$$
To avoid excessive typing I have decided to set $\hbar/2\mu$ to one. Using $\Psi=R(r)Y(\theta)$ the equation can be separated into radial and angular equations.
The angular equation is
$$\partial^{2}_{\theta}Y=-m^2Y$$
and the radial equation is
$$\frac{1}{r}\partial_r(r\partial_{r}R)+(E+\frac{Ze^2}{2\pi\epsilon_0}\log{r}-\frac{m^2}{r^2})R=0.$$
I am able to easily solve and quantise the angular equation but I have been stuck on the radial equation for days now. I do not know how to solve the radial differential equation (I am not very good at solving second order DE). I am also not able to figure out how to  quantise the total energy of the electron.
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*How to solve the radial wave function equation and how does the energy quantise in such an atom?

*When I looked for online sources for help I found that everyone considered the potential energy to be of the form $1/r$ instead of $\log(r)$. According to Gauss law the electrostatic potential will be logarithmic in two dimensions. Why do they consider the potential to be of the form $1/r$?

A: I agree that this equation probably does not admit a solution in terms of elementary functions. However, with a little digging I found this paper: Atabek et. al. Phys. Rev. A 1974 covering your questions (they use a logarithmic 2D potential and they discuss the spectrum of energy eigenvalues).
One useful thing they do is substitute $R_m = r^{-½}f_m$ to eliminate the term proportional to $R^\prime$ in the equation and to generate an equation of the form: $f^{\prime \prime}_m = g(r,m) f_m$ which is nicer to work with.
Regarding a numerical solution:
What you have here is a "2-point boundary value problem (BVP)" (since you specify the value of $R_m$, or equivalently $f_m$, at $r = 0$ and you want it to vanish as $r \rightarrow \infty$) which are often treated with so-called "Shooting Codes".
If you are familiar with simpler (1-step, explicit) numerical methods such as RK4, one simple thing to do is iterate over values of $E$ with a guess for $R^\prime(0)$ and check the value of solution ($R$) at some large, final value of $r$. Depending on your units, even something like $r_f = 10$ seems to suffice. Then you can manually adjust your search-grid of $E$'s until this final value, $R(r_f)$, is approximately zero.
I coded-up this RK4-iterative scheme just to check the qualitative shape of the radial wave functions (with $m = 0$) reported in the linked paper from 1974 and they seem to agree (c.f. Fig. 4 of the paper).
One caveat: don't pay attention to the numerical values of $E$ or $R_{m=0}$ in the following figure, the units are probably a bit confused. Also, I normalized the peaks of $R_m$ to 1 for comparison across $m$'s.
Nevertheless, for qualitative inspection, here are three eigenfunctions of the equation, one for $m = 0$, and two for $m = 1$. These were found using the iterative RK4 method.

A: I doubt that this equation is solvable, although it would be wise to check in a book on special functions, such as Abramovitz&Stegun or Gradshtein &Ryzhik.
Your equation seems to be correct for a flatland. Many problems however deal with real 3D world where the motion is confined to two or even one dimensions. In this case the potential remains 3D: $1/r$. One-dimensional case is notable, since the binding energy diverges, which long posed a problem for analyzing excitons in carbon nanotubes.


I can't stop thinking about this movie. Doubt, directed by John Patrick Shanley is a simple and chilling (literally) film that, unapologetically, exposes the hearts and minds of us all, warns us against pride and dogmatic practices, and pleads with us to be men and women defined by grace and kindness, not certainty.
The story of Doubt is guided by a few choice sermons given by Philip Seymour Hoffman's character, Father Brendan Flynn. In or out of context, they are powerful and worth a watch.
Reminds me of the passage in Mark 9:24, "I believe; help my unbelief!"
At the root of all humanity, doubt unites us all and should drive us toward a heart of compassion, not arrogance and piety.
We all doubt. That's why faith is called, "faith," not certainty.
"I know none of you have ever done this."
And may it never be.


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