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Dubai Parks & Resorts Opening Date Delayed
by Jack Rogers
Dubai Parks and Resorts – quite possibly soon to be the coolest theme park in the world, has been in the works for a while.
The multi-theme park destination was meant to open on October 31. However, now only Legoland along with dining and shopping spot Riverland will be.
Bollywood Parks, Legoland Water Park and the Lapita Hotel will open on November 15.
Hollywood-themed park Motiongate will open much later on December 16.
WHAT'S INSIDE DUBAI PARKS & RESORTS?
Dubai Parks and Resorts, a US$2.8 billion project, is not just one theme park, it's four. Including the LEGO Family Park, LEGO Water Park, Hollywood-themed Motiongate Dubai as well as Bollywood Parks Dubai.
There'll be over 100 rides and attractions, including, but not limited, to live shows, 3D motion simulators, roller coasters, drop towers, a water park and family zones. All of that, spread out over 25 million square feet of land.
Located close to the Jebel Ali Palm, the absolute monster of a theme park sits within easy driving distance of both Abu Dhabi and Dubai International Airport.
According to their estimates, the park is looking to bring in over six and a half million visitors in just its first year. That's nearly three times the population of Dubai.
As far as each section of the park goes though, this is what we know:
Motiongate
Split into six zones: Studio Central, Sony Pictures Studios, Smurfs Village, Dreamworks, Lionsgate.
Studio Central takes you behind the scenes and into the Golden Age of Hollywood. Learn all about filmmaking and join in the theatrical opening shows.
Sony Pictures Studios will feature seven attractions, including a roller coaster, white water rapids, a multi-sensory theatre show as well as family-friendly rides. The attractions are based on Hotel Transylvania, The Green Hornet, Zombieland, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Ghostbusters and Underworld.
Smurfs Village will feature a family-friendly rollercoaster for the little smurfs, as well as a play area, theatre show, and a few more rides for the little ones.
Dreamworks will contain 12 different attractions, including roller-coasters, a motion simulator, interactive play areas as well as a theatre show and family-friendly rides. Inspired by Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Shrek and How To Train Your Dragon.
Lionsgate plays home to three attractions, including adrenaline-fuelled rollercoasters, as well as a high-energy acrobatics show. Based on The Hunger Games and Step Up: All In.
Here's a video giving you a 360-degree virtual reality tour of Motiongate (use your mouse to look around, or tilt your phone):
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The park will be split up into six sections, with over 40 LEGO-themed rides, shows and attractions in total, including 15,000 LEGO models made out of a total of over 60 million LEGO bricks.
The sections are: Factory, LEGO City, Imagination, Kingdoms, Adventure and MINILAND.
Factory will give you the chance to see how LEGO bricks are made, and you can receive your very own brand new LEGO brick straight from the production line.
LEGO City allows you to become part of the crew aboard The Shipyard, and you can also learn how to drive an electric car and get your LEGOLAND Driving License amongst other things.
Imagination will get your brain buzzing, with a 4D theatre as well as other stimulating attractions including a LEGO Master Builder Academy.
Kingdoms is a medieval land, containing the King's Castle, along with the dragon that inhabits it.
LEGO Adventure seeks to awaken your inner Indiana Jones, with a Submarine Adventure, Lost Kingdom Adventure, Pharoah's Revenge and the Secret Chamber of Amset-Ra among others.
MINILAND – possibly our favourite zone. An all-indoor, air-conned area with over 20 million LEGO brick's worth of miniatures. Includes Dubai's iconic skyline as well as other key Middle Eastern landmarks.
The 'mini' Lego version of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.
LEGOLAND Water Park will feature over 15 water slides including family rafters, body and tube slides, with a LEGO Wave Pool and a Build-A-Raft-River where you can build your own custom LEGO raft.
Bollywood Parks
Contains five themed zones with over 16 rides and attractions – split up into the Royal Plaza, Bollywood Boulevard, Mumbai Chowk, the Rustic Ravine and the Bollywood Film Studio featuring Hall of Heroes.
Royal Plaza is at the heart of Bollywood Parks. Around it you'll find live shows, including the region's first Broadway-style Bollywood musical.
Bollywood Boulevard is filled with cafes, street style food carts as well as shopping and entertainment. There are plenty of restaurants to choose form, including one inspired by the Bollywood rock musical Rock On!!
Mumbai Chowk takes you to the heart of Mumbai through the famous Victoria Terminus. There's plenty of live entertainmentas well as authentic street food.
Rustic Ravine seeks to replicate rural India, with cricket-themed attractions inspired by blockbuster movie Lagaan, and you can even track notorious bandits, or be held hostage and then rescued like in movies Sholay and Dabangg.
Bollywood Film Studio allows you to get a sneak peak behind the scenes of Bollywood movie Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. You'll also be able to take an aerial tour of India, and jump into a digital adventure while fighting with RA.One.
Related Story: New Dubai Mall To Boast Rooftop Park And A Canal
Riverland serves as the gateway to Dubai Parks and Resorts, split into four different zones:
The French Village is a recreated version of a medieval French town. Expect street performances, outdoor Mediterranean-inspired dining and meandering alleyways.
Boardwalk allows you to relive America in the 1950s, with streets filled with jugglers and live entertainment. You'll find lofty buildings, palm trees and neon signs galore, coupled with plenty of casual dining options.
India Gate plays home to all things Indian, with a blend of casual dining as well as street-style quick service eateries, with plenty of retail and family entertainment facilities to keep you busy.
The Peninsula is the heart of Riverland, with a concert venue set amongst a 19th century architectural theme. Down on the water's edge, you'll find bustling street life with performers, concerts and festivals.
Lapita
Dubai Parks and Resort's Polynesian themed hotel resort, adorned with colourful flowers as well as plenty of modernised Polynesian restaurants. They've got a rooftop bar, a signature spa, and lagoon-style pools to while away the hours in your downtime.
Motiongate Dubai:
One day pass is Dhs280 for children and seniors.
Dhs330 for adults.
Dhs865 for annual pass.
Bollywood Parks:
Legoland Dubai:
Legoland Water Park:
Annual pass for all parks is Dhs2,495.
One-day pass for all parks:
Dhs430 for children and seniors, Dhs480 for adults.
Two-day pass for all parks:
Three-day pass for all parks:
Four-day pass for all parks:
You can get VIP tickets for Dhs1,500 per park per day. VIP Tickets will allow you to queue skip, get you a personal tour guide as well as food, beverage and retail discounts.
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Q: Bash "source" command returns the wrong concatenated string I have a configuration file like this:
//filename : stat.conf
LAS_SERVER="127.0.0.1"
LAS_PORT=3306
LAS_USER=root
LAS_PWD=root
LAS_DB=test
CONN_STR_LAS_DB="-h$LAS_SERVER -P$LAS_PORT -u$LAS_USER -p$LAS_PWD $LAS_DB"

Now I run the source command like this:
$ source ./stat.conf

$ echo $CONN_STR_LAS_DB
testot.0.1

You can see that the result is wrong. not in our expectation.
In contrast, I can get the right result if I run the command in the shell like this:
$ LAS_SERVER="127.0.0.1"
$ LAS_PORT=3306
$ LAS_USER=root
$ LAS_PWD=root
$ LAS_DB=test
$ CONN_STR_LAS_DB="-h$LAS_SERVER -P$LAS_PORT -u$LAS_USER -p$LAS_PWD $LAS_DB"
$ echo $CONN_STR_LAS_DB
-h127.0.0.1 -P3306 -uroot -proot test

This is the right result.
So, my question is: why I got the wrong result when using "source ./stat.conf" ?
I tested the same operation on another computer, I can get the right result. Is there anything that I missed to config on my computer?
My OS is CentOS 5.

A: Your config file has windows-style line endings (\r\n), not unix-style (just \n). You can use the dos2unix command to convert it. Then, switch to a text editor that doesn't create files with weird line endings.

A: I know what's wrong with your shell code.
Thatis the results of environment variables,your $CONN_STR_LAS_DB declared in your shell script can be exist just within the run-time of this script,and of course you can not echo $CONN_STR_LAS_DB outside this scripts.
The way to solve this problem is to "export" your variables ,that is
export $CONN_STR_LAS_DB

in your shell script,and that surely can be done!
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EOA Staff | May 17, 2017, 09:42 AM
Mayor Pantelides names Acting Chief of Police, Major Scott Baker (r), to Chief
Annapolis Mayor Michael Pantelides announced his nomination for Annapolis Police Chief and has requested his confirmation at the Monday, May 22nd City Council meeting.
Mayor Pantelides has appointed Acting Chief Scott Baker to the position. "During the time he has been the acting police chief, he has shown true leadership through the implementation of his 16 initiatives that address violent crime, active community outreach, and the opioid epidemic," Mayor Pantelides said. "There were several outstanding candidates that applied for the position, but Baker's dedication to our citizens, creativity, and work ethic were all determining factors in our decision."
Acting Chief Baker is also working on his long-term initiatives that address citizen input and transparency between the police department and the public, focusing on building mutual trust and respect.
"I am excited to start this new chapter in my life, not only for me personally but for the City of Annapolis and its citizens," Baker said.
Baker retired from the Baltimore Police Department with more than 20 years of service. He was last assigned to the Homicide Section, as a Shift Commander, where he managed 20 detectives. Major Baker joined the Annapolis Police Department in May 2008.
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What Part Of The Cycle Is My Plant In?
My Phal has been blooming for 5 months, and has sent out a new green shoot below and a new leaf. Suddenly, most of the blooms except one fell off and there seems to be some sort of very small bud at the end of the flowering branches. I cannot tell if it is time to cut the plant or fertilize it and see what happens. I have never fertilized the plant and it seemed to be very happy.
Comments for What Part Of The Cycle Is My Plant In?
Hi Nathalie, Thanks for your question.
It is great that your Phal. has been blooming for 5 months and is now sending out a new green shoot below and a new leaf.
It is not unreasonable that all the blossoms have fallen off now and is not worrisome unless for some reason the pot is not draining and the roots are rotting. But I suspect that is not happening as it would not have had flowers for so long.
I suspect that the blossom loss is just the natural course of things. Five months is a long time (though not unheard of) for blossoms on a Phal.
The very small bud at the end of the flowering branches that you describe is the plant setting a new bud. Sometimes this happens.
You can approach the next part of the cycle a couple of ways. You can leave the spike as it is and if it is green and still alive eventually the little bud may make a flower. Or you can cut the spike above one of the nodes and more than likely the plant will eventually push another spike from this node. If it does, then it will possibly shorten the time to bloom by a month or two. Or lastly you can cut the spike off about one half or oe inch above where the spike goes into the plant and let it go through the growth cycle. And then you can see if the conditions are right for it to initiate a spike again.
I am glad that your plant seems happy. Good job!
Since you are new to growing orchids I would suggest that you go to my page on Phalaenopsis Orchid Care http://www.orchids-plus-more.com/phalaenopsis-orchid-care.html and read that page carefully. There is lots of great free information on growing and reblooming Phals. And also a great thread with other peoples questions.
You might consider fertilizing. If you do, do it once a month for a couple of months and use the fertilizer at one quarter to one half strength of the label recommendation. Water your plant first and let the roots swell up a little and then fertilize it.
You are doing a great job and I think you will rebloom this lovely orchid. Just figure out what it needs (and if it was in bloom that long you have a lot of it right) and see what happens.


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Posted on November 6, 2016 by Paul Mirengoff in 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump, Foreign Policy
Is Donald Trump a conventional thinker?
On Friday, Charles Krauthammer wrote what I assume will be his last column before the election. He attacked Hillary Clinton for "shiftiness, paranoia, cynicism, and disdain for playing by the rules."
However, Krauthammer found that Donald Trump's liabilities outweigh Clinton's, especially on foreign policy. He sees Trump as a threat to our open, free international order. He fears that Trump will initiate trade wars and undermine our alliances with countries like Germany, Japan, and South Korea.
Are Krauthammer's fears justified? They might be, and that possibility — among other concerns — should give conservatives pause.
However, I think that Krauthammer, like most other analysts, fails to recognize the extent to which Trump accepts conventional wisdom. If Trump is, as I have come to view him, a conventional thinker, then it's highly unlikely that as president he would pose a threat to the international order.
When asked where he gets the information on which he bases his foreign policy views, Trump famously replied "the shows." He meant the television news shows that do little more than recycle conventional wisdom.
As a presidential nominee, Trump now gets information and advice from a foreign policy team. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a key member of that team. Flynn's foreign policy views aren't conventional in all respects, but they generally do not fall outside the conservative mainstream. He is not for toppling the international order.
Iraq provides a good example of how conventional Trump's thinking tends to be. In the run-up to the 2003 invasion, Trump was very skeptical about going to war. As the invasion approached, he gave it lukewarm support in an interview. As soon as things started to go badly, he became a strong critic.
This was a highly conventional trajectory.
Or consider Trump's position on Israel. His sympathies are with Israel but, like just about every president in recent memory, he wants to broker a big peace deal. To do so, he believes he must adopt a neutral stance.
Unfortunately, you can't get much more conventional than that.
When Trump departs from conventional wisdom, it's almost always in service of opportunism. Immigration is probably the best example. After the 2012 election, Trump espoused the utterly conventional view that Mitt Romney had shot himself in the foot by coming across as too tough on illegal immigrants.
In seeking the Republican nomination, Trump came across as much tougher than Romney. Was this because he had started to think unconventionally about immigration or was it to rile up potential supporters?
We need not guess. As the nominee, Trump says we must secure the borders, deport lawbreakers, and then see what we can do for illegal immigrants who have not caused trouble here.
This is the conventional conservative position.
Trump's talk about making our allies pay more for the security we provide or else defend themselves should, I think, be viewed in the same light as his pre-nomination posture on immigration. Such tough talk plays well and, like his rants on immigration, is based on valid grievances.
But would Trump as president buck the uniform thinking of the foreign policy establishment and pull the plug on our allies? Almost certainly not.
Trade falls into the same category, I think. The tough talk is fundamental to Trump's appeal, and it wouldn't hurt to be somewhat tougher in trade negotiations. But as a businessman and a conventional thinker, there's little reason that Trump will give us trade wars.
Trump's positions on Russia and Syria are portrayed as unconventional, and I find them troubling. But in the case of Syria, his position is nearly indistinguishable from current Obama policy (as opposed to talk).
Trump basically wants Assad to prevail and Russia to be the power behind the dictator. Based on what Obama does (and doesn't do), it seems clear that he wants basically the same thing now. The only difference I can detect is that Obama sees Iran, more than Russia, as the power behind an entrenched Assad in post-civil war Syria (or the key portions of it).
But what about Trump's views on Russia? Isn't his willingness to engage Putin — or as he would characterize it, to take a wait and see approach towards him — unconventional?
At the moment, yes. But six years ago, President Obama and Hillary Clinton were more enthusiastic than Trump now is to embrace Russia. Who can forget the Russian reset?
Is this a fair point, though? Hillary appears to have learned from her mistake; shouldn't Trump have learned from it too?
My answer is yes. But Clinton's embrace of Russia flew in the face of the experience of the Bush years. At the time of the reset, Russia had invaded Georgia. Former President Bush was universally derided for his silly talk about having looked into Putin's soul.
Clinton and Obama, however, attributed our poor relations with Russia to the misguided approach of the predecessor administration. They thought they could do better.
That's basically Trump's position now. He thinks Russia's aggression stems from the weakness Putin perceives in the U.S. (just as Obama and Clinton apparently thought it stemmed from Bush's bellicosity). This view is simplistic, but not entirely wrong.
Nor is it all that unconventional.
Even discounting for bluster, Trump's foreign policy views are disquieting in some cases. But I think Krauthammer's column significantly overstates his case. There's little risk that a President Trump would bring down the international order.
Krauthammer's column also ignores the threat Hillary Clinton poses to our domestic order. Or so I will argue tomorrow.


Paul's message to the Galatians is first and foremost that they are "Christians" – heirs to the promises of God. Paul in implying that they are heirs to all of God's promises. He does not delineate to just a few of them but he implicitly states that as those baptized into Christ they are blessed with all of His promises. This too is our view as contemporary readers of the Bible. We see all of the promises made to Abraham, Moses, … as promises that apply to us as well. Christians are not just a New Testament people, but a people of the whole Bible.
The people of Paul's day felt a little conflicted about the full application of the Law. We too walk this middle ground today. We read and apply some of the Old Testament and the Law, such as tithing and most of the Ten Commandments, but we certainly do not follow all of the Old Testament. For example we do not follow most of the dietary restrictions or the Sabbath laws and we do not celebrate the festival's such as Passover. We hold onto many of the promises and some of the Law however. Those things that Jesus emphasized or instituted are followed – baptism, communion, serving the needy, and the two great commands.
At times our churches and we as individuals can function much like the faithful Jews of Paul's day. We can exclude or be non-welcoming to people who do not fit into our boxes or who do not conform to all of our expectations. For some that's how they dress and for others it is what part of town you're from. For some it is your ethnicity and for others it is your style of worship. Our bottom line, though, is still the same: we are all children of God and therefore heirs to His promises of forgiveness of sins, eternal life, … and all are called to love all as Jesus loves us: unconditionally. May we come to see all as welcome in His kingdom and may we live and love accordingly.
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When we question things, sometimes the answers we find surprise us. Sometimes the answer forces us to wrestle with something and perhaps this, in turn, causes us to grow. The question that the scribe asks Jesus is a genuine and deep question. Jesus' answer is direct and forces the scribe to wrestle a bit. In the end, he at least considers a new reality and that is good.
At times we too must wrestle with our faith. It is essential at times to reflect on how our walk with God is, on how sin is affecting our life, and on our dedication and service to God. Questions about how closely we are following and if we are giving enough of ourselves are great questions to wrestle with.
Jesus' answer to the scribe made him question his definition of loving neighbors, and, in particular, about not exploiting them. It would not have been very hard for the scribe to see all the ways exploitation was occurring. The big question is did it bring about change in behavior.
The same is generally true for us. If we really spend time wrestling with where we are in our faith and with being the hands and feet of Christ, then we often see how we could be or do more. In living a faith that follows Jesus Christ, we are ever on a road towards perfection. Like Paul, may we too press on toward the goal to win the prize of eternal life.
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In a physical sense we are much like all other living creatures. We share much of the same DNA. In addition, some animals have a language, some use tools, and some even have social orders and live in families. All of the living creatures on earth experience illness and death. The feelings of loss and pain associated with death are exhibited by many others species as well.
Two of the things though that separates humanity from other creatures is our superior intellect and our reasoning ability. As time has evolved we have come to understand the intricacies of the human body and have sought means to extend life. To be alive is awesome and amazing so we fight to preserve life. Over time in our society the act of death has developed a fear and has become something to be avoided at almost all cost. For many there is a meaninglessness and an unknown to dying. For those without faith, there is a finality that has no hope and peace in death.
Jesus became incarnate so that ultimately He could experience suffering and death. This sounds so countercultural because it is. Yes, Jesus also come to put a human face and example on God's great love for us. But in the end Jesus came to suffer and die in sacrificial love for us. He willingly bore the cross and the weight of our sins. Through His blood He paid the cost for us to have eternal life.
In Hebrews we are reminded that all of creation is subject to Jesus. Yet out of love for us He allowed Himself to the subject to death. For all who call on Jesus as Lord and Savior, we find grace and forgiveness. In Jesus we know that death does not have the final word. In Him rests our eternal hope and a peace that passes understanding in the midst of death. Jesus is our hope. Thank you Jesus.
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In the Lord's supper we are offered communion with Christ. As the bread is broken and the cup is poured out we remember Jesus' body broken and His blood spilled at the cross. His sacrifice opens the door for us to experience eternal life. In communion we welcome in the life-giving presence of Jesus Christ as we are made new and are restored to a whole and right relationship with our God.
The table we come to is the Lord's. No one person or group has the corner on the market. It belongs to Jesus alone and is extended to all. Each and every person is invited to come into the presence of Jesus as we come to the table. All are welcomed because all are loved by God. He wants all people to come to know Jesus as Lord and Savior.
We certainly come to the table in a variety of states. Some come with a relatively clean slate and a conscience without much burden. Others come so weighed down by their sins that they feel barely able to approach the table of communion. But the good news is that Jesus came for the masses of sinners, not just for the few saints. In reality we are all sinner who all fall short if the glory of God. We are all in need to a Savior. The table is for all.
In communion we not only remember what Jesus Christ did for us but we also look forward to the future. One day all can join Him at the great feast in His new kingdom. In our communion liturgy we say, "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again." We know He will come again one day to make all things new. In this we trust and in this rests our hope.
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Punjabis in the Indian Army
So, it appears that the Punjabification of the Indian Army began apace in the 1870s. At that time the Russians were busy expanding their own empire. The British, having successfully quelled the rebellions of 1857 and decided that they were strong enough to suppress any new internal problems, turned their attention to the north-west frontier.
The Russians had begun their expansion into central Asia in the 1850s; by 1870, they were scarcely four hundred miles from the Punjab. British military policy became geared to keeping the Russians out of Afghanistan, or, failing that, extending British influence over it. This resulted in the disastrous second Afghan war, and showed up the deficiencies of the original native armies of India (and, of course, their incompetent British commanders).
Because most fighting by Indian troops from the mid-nineteenth century onwards was in north-west India, it was thought that troops recruited from amongst the local Kshatriya castes were best suited in those military spheres; further, recruits from the local peasantry were thought to be more impressionable and more easily commanded than the Bengalis and Tamils in the erstwhile Indian armies - higher caste folks with far too many opinions on the ways and means of the world than were good for them.
And, of course, the Sikhs looked martial in their bearing - tall, fair and sturdy on the parade ground. 1
The Commander-in-Chief at the time, Frederick Roberts averred: "no comparison can be made between the martial values of a regiment recruited amongst the Gurkhas of Nepal or the warlike races of northern India, and those recruited from the effeminate peoples of the south." 2
Between 1881 and 1893, the proportion of these martial races went up from 25% to 50% of the entire Indian infantry. Check out this table 3:
And these 3:
Of these, the overwhelming number were Punjabi Muslims and Sikhs.
With Partition, of course, the Punjabis split amongst the regiments of Pakistan and India. But the preponderance of the Punjabis continues to this day in the subcontinental armies.
1. Apurba Kundu, "The Indian Armed Forces' Sikh and Non-Sikh Officers' Opinions of Operation Blue Star", Pacific Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 1, 1994.
2. Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Forty-one Years in India: From Subaltern to COmmander-in-Chief, vol II, p. 442., 1897.
3. R. K. Mazumder, The Indian Army and the Making of Punjab, Orient Blackswan, 2003.
km said...
What we need is a correlation to gallons of sambar consumed since 1870s and voila, we have a socio-ethnic paper.
Fëanor said...
A regression of butter chicken against sambar? A cunning plan.
That sounds even better, actually.
And while we are at it, maybe we can have a control group who are fed both butter chicken and idli/sambar and a group that's served Mysore masala dosa - as a placebo.
All in the name of science, of course.
Also, by introducing a "placebo" into this study, I may have exposed myself as a huckster shilling for Big Pharma.


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APMF: No Levitt Grant Funding But New Initiatives In Place
Series To Continue via support by APP, NJ Gas & Interfaith Neighbors
Asbury Park will not receive Levitt Grant funding in support of its Springwood Avenue Park Summer Concert series, Tom Gilmour, President of the Asbury Park Music Foundation [APMF] announced in news release Monday.
The well attended series launched this summer with support from the Levitt Foundation grant but was voted out of the next round of $25,000 awards.
"Music is the soul of the city and the Asbury Park Music Foundation is all about promoting all the great music that happened in the city and today's very vibrant music scene that is propelling the city's popularity," Gilmour said [at right]. "Seeing all the people enjoying music on the West Side in Springwood Avenue was a testament that Asbury Park is back."
The Levitt grant process included an online public voting component that results in the top 25 vote getters moving onto a second round vetting. Asbury Park ranked 26, Gilmour said. APMF submitted the application on behalf of the city.
"Based on what happened during the very successful Springwood summer concerts last summer, we are extremely disappointed that Asbury Park did not make the final cut," Gilmour said. "We sincerely appreciate all those who voted for Asbury Park."
Gilmour said despite the setback the summer concert series will go on.
"Upon receiving the news, the APMF Board of Trustees met and decided with or without Levitt, the series will continue," Gilmour said.
The funding shortage will be met by 2016 sponsors, the Asbury Park Press, Interfaith Neighbors and New Jersey Natural Gas, he said.
"The historic launch of the Springwood Park this summer was an amazing happening that brought residents from all over the city together," he said "The series produced the first live concerts on Springwood Avenue in over 40 years. It was a statement of how far the city has come and a prelude to what is coming to the Springwood community."
The Asbury Park Music Foundation is a nonprofit with a mission of providing music opportunities for underserved youth and preserving and promoting the city's rich musical heritage.
Among its initiatives are music lessons for children via its Hope Charter Music Academy, operated by the Lakehouse Music Academy at its Lake Avenue venue; an instrument donation program; its Hip Hop Institute at the Boys and Girls Club of Monmouth County, also administered by Lakehouse Music Academy.
Aside from the Springwood Avenue Park Summer Concert Series, APMF conducted the Asbury Park Live free Wednesday night concerts featuring up and coming AP bands on the boardwalk green next to MOGO, and the Thursday night free Asbury Park Concert Band series on the Fifth Avenue boardwalk next to McLoone's.
Last month APMF opened its new administrative offices and performance space the Lakehouse building [above right], located at 621 Lake Avenue. The new venue will house a teen club where youth can perform, produce, retail and learn how the music industry works, Gilmour said.
APMF will be among the ventures featured in the Lakehouse Grand Opening, being held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. For more on the Grand Opening event, click here. For more on APMF, visit asburyparkmusiclives.org.
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NEW: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
HomePerfect Speaker Theory
Perfect Speaker Theory
Written by A.C. Grayling.
One thing we all agree is that meanings do not just fall out of the sky; they were and are at least in important part generated by what users of signs do with them. This suggests that the semantics of natural language is the product of the history of its pragmatics. It does not automatically follow, of course, that therefore the right way to go about giving a theory of meaning is in some sense to do it from the pragmatic end: but in the larger project I wish to suggest a reason for doing so, and I suggest that what increases the plausibility of this thought is evidence that certain problem cases in our understanding of language are amenable to an approach in which pragmatic considerations are given full emphasis.
I do this in this paper by giving a brief sketch of part of a theory I call Perfect Speaker Theory (PST), which, despite its grand name, is a modest attempt to provide a methodological perspective from which to comment on some familiar debates in the philosophy of language and mind. For present purposes, it is the simple and natural way that PST deals with certain well-worn problems in these debates that prompts the suggestion that pragmatic considerations should be treated as irreducibly central to meaning.
At this juncture I should state that by 'pragmatics' I mean what, over and above what is standardly assigned to theories of structure, reference, sense and satisfaction conditions, relates to the use of expressions of the language on given occasions, where what the speaker intends to convey, and the means the speaker employs in conveying it on the occasion, are especially in focus. I want to say that among pragmatic considerations questions of force and point (for my purposes especially point) are central. These facets of linguistic behaviour include, essentially, considerations about interaction between speakers and their audiences.
I found, in working at these ideas, that they afford independent reason for agreeing with some of what Grice says. I can only claim some agreement, because Grice is professedly inclined to accept two things which PST is not, namely, the distinctness of meaning and use, and the privileged role of a notion of truth in any account of natural discourse. PST's commitment to arguing for the dominance of pragmatic considerations is allied to a view that notions of truth (which in my view is not one insubstantial thing but a number of different substantial things for which the expression 'truth' is a homophonic dummy) play roles of a different kind (I argue for this view elsewhere.) A major tension between PST and Grice's theory is that because the former has it that the crux in meaning is point, which is to be explained in terms of speakers' intentions to mean something on an occasion, conventional meaning is to be characterised as the dry residue of speakers' meanings, agreed in the language community under constraints of publicity and stability (another view I argue for elsewhere). Now Grice has given considerable attention to showing that speakers' intentions and conversational maxims are insufficient for a full account. PST aims to suggest that from these resources a satisfying account of meaning can be brought into view without having to import considerations from outside the reach of pragmatics, suitably construed.
There are many debates about language which can be exploited to show how PST pushes us in the indicated direction, but I will advert to just four very familiar examples, and a fifth less familiar one. The problem about using familiar examples is that the literature on them is large, so with no space to review it I have to be unceremonious; and also, everyone has a favourite view about these cases, so doubtless what follows will seem too swift. The cases are (1) the proper understanding of natural language analogues of logical constants, (2) presupposition-failures for certain uses of verbs of doing and trying, where the appropriateness of certain locutions comes into question because some implied condition for their appropriate utterance fails to obtain; (3) some questions about referential uses of definite descriptions, and (4) a certain application of the Twin Earth story. This looks like a heterogeneous collection, but I submit it as a virtue of PST that it identifies some patterns in the aetiology of problems arising in relation to them.
And finally (5) I suggest that PST provides a way of approaching the question whether, for any given natural language, there is something that counts as 'the language', or whether a natural language is a vaguely bounded family of idiolects, perhaps as numerous as their speakers. But first it is necessary to define a Perfect Speaker (PS), and to explain why he is so called. A PS of his language is one who so uses it that whenever he makes an assertion (and mutatis mutandis for other kinds of utterance) he:
(1) expresses his intended meaning as fully as, if not more fully than, his audience needs in the circumstances;
(2) expresses his intended meaning as exactly as, if not more exactly than, his audience etc; and
(3) is as epistemically cautious as the circumstances do or might require, if not more so, with respect to the claims made or presupposed in or by what he says.
Together these conditions make the PS determining or overdetermining in respect of the point and epistemology of his utterances. Note that they do not cover the same ground as Grice's maxims – although there is some overlap – and they do not pretend to be regulative for ordinary communication. Together they make a PS of his language one who is in practice absolved a certain duty, namely, the responsible speaker's duty to stand ready to clarify, qualify or defend what he says if called upon to do so by hearers who have and are exercising anything recognisable as normal competence with the language in use. The PS is absolved the duty of restatement because he is by definition never in a position to have to fulfil it, as long as his audience is as specified.
The PS is of course an idealisation, and one which immediately prompts questions. So it is important to be clear about what kind of idealisation he is. Let us distinguish him from two other possible kinds of idealised speaker whom I shall call the Ideal Speaker and the Optimal Ordinary Speaker. (Strictly, it is only the former who is an idealisation, because there might in fact be Optimal Ordinary Speakers). The Ideal Speaker (IS) satisfies the first two conditions, but for a third has 'is omniscient'. Thus the IS is god or relevantly godlike. One immediate difference between an IS and a PS as I define the latter is that the language of an omniscient speaker would have to be apt for the expression of everything, whatever that means, whereas the language of a speaker who suffers the finitary predicament (is finite in knowledge and powers) cannot be guaranteed to be apt for the expression of everything. So not only does a PS differ from an IS in being subject to finitary constraints, but his language (which is an ordinary natural language after all) carries the mark of that finitude also. This might make it seem that the PS should not be so described, but rather that he should be thought of as an Optimal Ordinary Speaker (OOS), i.e., an ordinary speaker who simply is as careful and precise as he can be, and that is all. We might be trying to be such speakers when we do philosophy or law; so OOS–or 'optimal speaking' by ordinary speakers – might be relatively commonplace. But there are significant differences between OOSs so considered, and the PS I require for my model. One is that an OOS, an ordinary speaker doing his best, must be allowed at times to be in states where the beliefs and intentions that determine the content of what he says are not transparent to himself. This means that an OOS may at times fail to satisfy (1) and (2), and at times all of (1) to (3). But by stipulation a PS is one who always satisfies all three. So his meaning, intentions and beliefs are transparent to himself. Another and consequent reason is that an OOS has the duty of restatement, i.e., he would fail to be doing his best if he did not stand ready to clarify or defend what he said if asked by linguistically competent hearers to do so. But his obligations here are a function of the defeasibility of his attempts to do his best as a speaker. By my definition a PS is one to whom this duty is inapplicable for the reasons given.
So a PS is better than optimal; and he therefore comes between an IS and an OOS, although he is somewhat closer to the latter than the former. A second stab at a definition adds these comments to conditions (1) to (3).
It should be immediately added, if it is not already clear, that the PS is conceived as one whose interlocutors are always ordinarily competent speakers of the same language. He is not a citizen of a kingdom of PSs.
Some comments are needed on the conditions. The third, that the PS is epistemically cautious in the way described, suggests that he is governed by an ethics of epistemic caution which at least imposes an obligation not just to be sensitive, but to articulate or to be ready to articulate sensitivity, to the possibility of epistemic defeat of any claim presupposed or made on its occasion. This condition is vital to resolving certain problems, one of which I consider. But it is not a requirement that a PS should be regressively hedging about his claims, making explicit such protases to his remarks as 'if there is a world at all...' and the like. A PS is not by stipulation absurd, only pedantic. But it is a corollary of this duty of (so to speak) maximal epistemic caution that the PS be as well-informed as is required to fulfil conditions (1) to (2). This is not a demand that the PS be an IS, i.e., omniscient: it is rather that his use of the expressions of the language should be conformable to what I shall later describe as a Best Dictionary for the Language–that is, one which makes use of the best current theories of what use of the language's expressions constitutes talk of.
A comment on the PS himself is prompted by the first two conditions and his correlative freedom from the duty of restatement, and this comment in turn underlines a substantial point often made about a feature of language. In line with (1) to (2), the PS never indulges in metaphor or irony if there is a risk of misunderstanding–which even with normally competent hearers there often enough is; and he never indulges in ambiguity. He is, in short, in danger of being a bore. But his potential boringness is interesting in this respect: that it reveals one of the constraints imposed on him by language (there are plenty of others). For whereas by (1) and (2) he shuns ambiguity, he cannot avoid vagueness, except by stipulative means, which he will not anyway normally wish to resort to. He is of course minimally vague: a major use of certain resources in the language, namely adjectives and adverbs, is the reduction of vagueness, allowing both ordinary speakers and a PS to be maximally specific; maximally but not completely, because vagueness is a built-in feature of language upon which a good deal of its utility turns. But this does not generate an inconsistency with condition (2), which is that the PS expresses exactly his intended meaning, for one can exactly mean to say what cannot be expressed otherwise than by use of a vague expression. For example: suppose the PS says, 'X is bald'. That can be exactly what he intends to convey, independently of questions about the degree to which X has less hair on his head than Y to whom the PS does not apply this predicate. It is of course possible for a non-arbitrary stipulation to be made with respect to some vague expression which precisifies it relative to a certain purpose. One can say that a person n % of whose scalp has a covering of fewer than n hairs per some measure, is bald. Suppose registered bald people by law have to wear a white hat on sunny days. Then the legal instrument which enacts this law would have to be precise: trichological police would need a definition to work to. Just such precisifications in fact obtain in registration of blind people to whom welfare benefits are due.
But as we see, a PS would normally neither need nor desire to go for precisification of vague expressions, however non-arbitrary relative to a purpose: for their vagueness is exactly what from time to time he needs. The constraint they impose is not a limitation.
These comments together give us a second stab at a definition of a PS which will suffice for the present. I shall sometimes speak of the three conditions as rules which bind the PS in his practice. Another important feature of PS-hood, a corollary of the third condition, emerges as the model is applied. I turn to that in a moment. First I will just mention a reason for using the adjective 'perfect' in my label. It is because it is informatively symmetrical with the use of the adjective made by Russell and others in their attempts to define a 'perfect language'. That was a programme aimed at specifying the underlying logical structure of natural language. In addition to the assumption that there is such a thing, there was a further, at least at the outset: that it admits of a uniquely correct representation. The ambition was to set out in algebraic description of logical form something which, like Leibniz's longed-for universal characteristic, would completely and unambiguously represent what is said by any natural languages. And this in turn was held to have exciting metaphysical potential, since the idea was that what there is can be read off from what the language says. Well: all I need say is that I propose we substitute idealisation of the speaker for idealisation of the language: instead of looking for the perfect language, let us try to describe a PS of ordinary language and see where it takes us. I think such a task justifies the assumption upon which it rests, namely, that it is not the language that says things, but its speakers.
I turn now to apply PST to cases. The suggestion is this: application of the theory reveals a certain pattern in what generates the problems, namely, a falling-short, either because of the usual vicissitudes of discourse in an imperfect world, or artificially by hypothesis, of a PS's conditions; and it therefore suggests a solution to them, which is to make explicit appeal to the point of utterance and/or to identify the epistemic deficit requiring remedy.
The first case I consider – and I consider all of them briefly – is that of the natural language analogues of the logical constants, classically interpreted. I assume familiarity with the standard examples, and just register them here. On a certain natural view, one central use of 'and' in English is to convey temporal succession, one central use of 'or' conveys the speaker's ignorance of the truth-value of the disjuncts, and one central use of conditional statements is to assert that accepting an antecedent is a ground for accepting its consequent, and normally that there is anyway uncertainty about whether the situation denoted or described by the antecedent obtains.
The difficulties felt about these natural uses of the natural language operators arise from their divergence from their formal analogues. Their content exceeds that of their formal analogues, and they are therefore more fruitful in implications. Suppose it is given that a particular disjunction is true. We thus know that at least one of the disjuncts is true. But we are not in a position to infer something of a different order, such as that an asserter of this disjunction is either ignorant of the disjuncts' truth-values, or might be dissembling, guessing, joking or some such. The additional content is provided by pragmatic considerations: those specified in terms of the speaker's intentions and certain contextual features.
Faced with questions about these divergences, our inclination is to look for mappings. Strawson, for example, held that the acceptability or truth of a conditional rests on whether acceptance of the antecedent is a ground for accepting the consequent, but that this is not sufficient for a conditional's truth or acceptability, for which the truth of the associated material conditional, entailed by the natural language conditional, is also required. From this it follows that whenever an associated material conditional is false, its associated natural language conditional is false also, and that there is a problem about what to say of natural language conditionals whose associated material conditionals are true but in which it is obviously the case that the antecedent states no ground for acceptance of the consequent, for some such reason as, say, sheer irrelevance of one to the other.
The PST offers the following way with the matter. For a PS, the governing question concerns what the point is of choosing to say things one way rather than another. Consider the conjunction and disjunction cases. Let us accept that the most natural construction to place on someone's saying 'he jumped into the swimming pool and put on his trunks' is that the circumstances were such that the man referred to put on his trunks in the water. And let us likewise accept that if someone says 'he's either in Austria or Switzerland' that the speaker does not know in which of the two countries he is to be found. In the first case, if the reverse temporal order were meant, the situation would have to be regarded as non-standard, or the speaker as not fully competent. Either way, the point of the utterance is at risk of being obscured. In the second case, if the natural implication is false, a different explanation of the speaker's point offers: the speaker dissembles, jokes, or something like. But both in the account to be given of the natural thing to say about what the speaker intends to convey, and in the account to be given of the ways things can go wrong or differently, the key is the point of the utterance. A PS by his rules seeks to convey exactly his point, and so if he chooses to say 'he jumped into the swimming pool and put on his trunks' rather than 'he put on his trunks and jumped into the swimming pool,' or 'he put on his trunks while jumping into the swimming pool,' or any other variation of the temporal relation between the jumping-in and putting-on events, then that is what he means to say. So a PS means the standard implications of saying something a certain way to be present in saying it that way.
The problems (or supposed problems, as this intuitive move suggests) of the divergence between the natural language and formal cases are on this view purely an artefact of taking too seriously the syntactic similarity of 'and' to ampersand, 'or' to the 'if–then' to arrow. The meanings of the second in each pair are determined by their truth-tables, that is, by purely material considerations. But those of the first in each pair cannot be explained without reference to the pragmatic features which determine a speaker's choice of just this rather than that way of saying something: which is to say, his point. This is revealed simply enough by answers to the question, 'why would a PS say it that particular way?'
So the observation is that application of conditions (1) and (2) (the full and exact expression conditions) make choice of a way of saying something wholly deliberate, so that every natural construction to be placed on saying it that way is what saying it that way is intended to convey, so if – and we accept they do – natural language conjunctions, disjunctions and conditionals carry the implicatures identified, then if a PS did not mean them to be taken in what he says, he would say it otherwise. (He would, say, qualify appropriately).
The same analysis in terms of point reduces the problem in the second case I consider, again briefly, namely that of what might be called condition-failure, although it turns out, as I shall claim, that this is a misnomer. The debate in Austin, Searle and Grice is as familiar as the foregoing, and needs as little setting up here as it did. The problem concerns what account should be given of what is implied by saying that–to take two familiar examples – someone omitted to do something or that someone tried to do something. Using those familiar examples from Grice, it is natural to take it that the sentence 'A omitted to turn on the light' implies that A might have been expected to do so, and 'A tried to turn on the light' that some difficulty afflicted A in this matter, and indeed, most likely, that he therefore failed to turn on the light. So it is natural to take as a condition of the appropriateness of saying 'A omitted to turn on the light', rather than saying he did not turn on the light, that in some way there was an obligation on him to do so which he did not fulfil, or that he had intended to do so but forgot, or chose not to, or the like. If none of these things are the case, then it is inappropriate to use the verb 'omit'. If therefore someone says that A omitted to turn on the light, an audience is thereby licensed to make the appropriate inference. Mutatis mutandis the same applies to the 'tried' case. Our inclination would be to put the point by saying that it is a condition of the use of 'omitted' and 'tried' in these cases that the implications hold.
The problem as standardly conceived relates to the truth-evaluation of sentences for which such conditions fail. Suppose it is false that there was an expectation that A would turn on the light, and A did not turn on the light. Then is one to say that the sentence 'A omitted to turn on the light' is false or truth-valueless? Well, consider the PS. According to his rules his choice of ways of saying what he does is governed by the requirement to make his point explicit. If it is standard to use 'omit' and 'try' in given cases because the point of doing so is given by these conditions for their appropriateness, then only if they obtain would the PS use them. This obstructs the alleged problem by stressing the directionality of the dependence: to use 'omit' or 'try' is to say that these conditions obtain. Here I shall restrict the notion of 'saying that' to: expressly conveys. ('Saying that' is not coterminous with asserts – for a liar 'says that' but does not assert – and we must be reasonable about what the utterer intends by way of implication of what he says: he does not consciously have to imply every implication of what he says, given that their number might be unmanageably large). The point of an utterance using these locutions is not given by contraposing, although what the contrapositive says is true (that if not-X then not-A omitted): so in determining choice of expression a PS, as the speaker who is expressly mindful of what one is taken to be saying in saying something in this particular way, uses the expressions in question only if he means to say that the conditions obtain. To say that 'A omitted to do X' is to say that (giving this idiom full weight) there was an expectation that he would. If there is no such expectation, there is at best no point in using 'omit', and at worse it deceives the audience. For the PS, accordingly, the problem cannot arise. I take this to mean that there is no problem and that a moral offers: that the property of evaluation is not truth-value but 'appropriateness', understood as parasitic on point.
The third case is also a straightforward one for the theory: it shows that the appearance of a difference between two kinds of uses of definite descriptions is an artefact of an underlying problem-generator which the theory exposes. Recall the familiar examples: 'Her husband is kind to her', where the man is not her husband, and 'the man drinking champagne is happy tonight', where the man is drinking fizzy water. And we are familiar with Donnellan's view. Now consider the PS in these cases. He intends to say something about someone, and in the example cases what he wishes to say is that someone is kind to her or is happy tonight. In order to fulfil this intention he has to pick out the target of his remark for his audience. The possibility that a description which he believes applies to the referent might get the audience's attention to the target without in fact being true of it is one which falls within the range of epistemic defeats to which the PS is required by his rules to be sensitive and, where doing so is germane, to articulate sensitivity. So he means, and therefore might say, 'The man whom I take to be her husband', 'the man whom I take to be drinking champagne'. Now the descriptions refer by attributing something to the referent by means of which the audience can pick him out. In such practice all descriptions are thus attributive–they attribute to the referents they pick out a property they are believed to have on the basis of which they are successfully identifiable. For this latter purpose, it is sufficient that on the occasion of use there is a presumption shared by speaker and audience that the belief could be true. This is different from Searle's account, given in terms of aspects.
Russell, Experience, and the Roots of SciencePerfect Speaker TheoryUnderstanding RealismRussell's Transcendental Argument in: On The Foundations of GeometryScepticism and JustificationWittgenstein on Scepticism and Certainty
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The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to the Armenian prime minister's recent address in Strasbourg – calling upon the country's top leadership to give up its belligerent rhetoric and repeated threats.
It cited the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, highlighting particularly the principle of "non-use of force or threat of force", Trend News Agency reports.
The Ministry also re-emphasized the call for withdrawing Armenian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) as a precondition for the "maintenance of security in the region".
Pashinyan voiced his call at a news conference held jointly with Council of Europe (PACE) Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland.
The prime Minister is in Strasbourg for a working visit to participate in the Spring Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Also on Thursday, he made a speech at the PACE Plenary Session to urge the top European parliamentary body to give due attention to the democracy strengthening and civil society development of Artsakh.


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VARA bezeichnet eine digitale Betriebsart im Amateurfunkdienst. Es wurde für die Verwendung mit WinLink auf Kurzwelle (VARA HF) und im VHF- und UHF-Bereich (VARA FM) entwickelt und ermöglicht das Übertragen von Daten, z. B. E-Mails, über Funk. Zum Betrieb über den geostationären Amateurfunk-Satelliten QO-100 dient die Variante VARA SAT.

Im WinLink-System bietet VARA eine Alternative zu ARDOP und PACTOR im Kurzwellen-Bereich sowie zu Packet Radio im VHF- und UHF-Bereich. VARA kann mit Zusatzsoftware auch außerhalb von WinLink verwendet werden.

Eigenschaften
VARA arbeitet mit einem proprietären Software-TNC. Ein Computer mit Soundkarte und ein Funkgerät (in der Regel ein Transceiver) sind zum Modulieren und Demodulieren erforderlich. Die Variante VARA HF erreicht bei einer Bandbreite von 2300 Hz eine Datenübertragungsrate von über 5 kBit/s. Mit VARA FM sind Datenübertragungsraten bis zu 25 kBit/s möglich. Diese Werte übertreffen die meisten anderen Datenübertragungsprotokolle, die im Amateurfunkdienst üblich sind. Die Nutzung von VARA ist kostenlos, zur Freischaltung der höheren Geschwindigkeitsstufen muss jedoch eine Lizenzgebühr entrichtet werden.

Geschichte
Der spanische Funkamateur José Alberto Nieto Ros (Amateurfunkrufzeichen EA5HVK), ebenfalls Autor des Protokolls ROS, stellte VARA im Herbst 2017 vor. Da es ohne einen Hardware-TNC auskommt und bezüglich der Datenübertragungsrate den Hardware-Protokollen ebenbürtig ist, erfreut es sich großer Beliebtheit.

Technik
VARA verwendet zur bitgenauen Datenübertragung ein ARQ-Protokoll, welches nach jedem übertragenen Datenblock eine Bestätigung der Gegenstation erfordert. Die Modulation erfolgt durch ein OFDM-Verfahren, indem innerhalb der verfügbaren Bandbreite mehrere phasenmodulierte Träger mit Redundanzinformation gesendet werden. Bei schlechten Übertragungsverhältnissen, z. B. Störungen oder einem niedrigen Signal-Rausch-Verhältnis, kann VARA selbstständig zu einer geringeren Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit umschalten.

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KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821). —Poet, son of the chief servant at an inn in London, who married his master's daughter, and died a man of some substance. He was sent to a school at Enfield, and having meanwhile become an orphan, was in 1810 apprenticed to a surgeon at Edmonton. In 1815 he went to London to walk the hospitals. He was not, however, at all enthusiastic in his profession, and having become acquainted with Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Shelley, and others, he gave himself more and more to literature. His first work—some sonnets—appeared in Hunt's Examiner, and his first book, Poems, came out in 1817. This book, while containing much that gave little promise of what was to come, was not without touches of beauty and music, but it fell quite flat, finding few readers beyond his immediate circle. Endymion, begun during a visit to the Isle of Wight, appeared in 1818, and was savagely attacked in Blackwood and the Quarterly Review. These attacks, though naturally giving pain to the poet, were not, as was alleged at the time, the cause of his health breaking down, as he was possessed of considerable confidence in his own powers, and his claim to immortality as a poet. Symptoms of hereditary consumption, however, began to show themselves and, in the hope of restored health, he made a tour in the Lakes and Scotland, from which he returned to London none the better.
The death soon after of his brother Thomas, whom he had helped to nurse, told upon his spirits, as did also his unrequited passion for Miss Fanny Brawne. In 1820 he published Lamia and Other Poems, containing Isabella, Eve of St. Agnes, Hyperion, and the odes to the Nightingale and The Grecian Urn, all of which had been produced within a period of about 18 months. This book was warmly praised in the Edinburgh Review. His health had by this time completely given way, and he was likewise harassed by narrow means and hopeless love. He had, however, the consolation of possessing many warm friends, by some of whom, the Hunts and the Brawnes, he was tenderly nursed. At last in 1821 he set out, accompanied by his friend Severn, on that journey to Italy from which he never returned. After much suffering he died at Rome, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery there.
The character of Keats was much misunderstood until the publication by R.M. Milnes, afterwards Lord Houghton, of his Life and Letters, which gives an attractive picture of him. This, together with the accounts of other friends, represent him as "eager, enthusiastic, and sensitive, but humorous, reasonable, and free from vanity, affectionate, a good brother and friend, sweet-tempered, and helpful." In his political views he was liberal, in his religious, indefinite. Though in his life-time subjected to much harsh and unappreciative criticism, his place among English poets is now assured. His chief characteristics are intense, sensuous imagination, and love of beauty, rich and picturesque descriptive power, and exquisitely melodious versification.
See also: "Keats," by James Russell Lowell.


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You're Not Paid Based on Your Performance
What actually determines compensation on a systemic level? And what should?
Jake Rosenfeld
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When asked about the rationale for the size of their paycheck, both workers and executives overwhelmingly point to one factor: Individual performance. And yet research shows that this belief is false and largely based on three myths people have about their pay: that you can separate it from the performance of others; that your job has an objective, agreed-upon definition of performance; and that paying for individual performance improves organizational outcomes. Instead, your pay is defined by four organizational forces: power, inertia, mimicry, and equity. The bad news is that these dynamics have reshaped the economy to benefit the few at the expense of the many. The good news is that, if pay isn't some predetermined, rigid reflection of performance, then we can imagine a different world in terms of who is paid what, and how.
Take a moment and think about your salary and wages. Your bonuses. Your stock options. What explains how much (or how little) you make? Is it your education? Your experience or seniority? Your organization's performance, the cost of living in your area, your occupation, or your own individual performance?
Over the past few years, I've surveyed over a thousand full-time workers and over 150 employers and other managers in the United States about what they thought determined wages and salaries. Specifically, I asked how important they believed the above factors are, among others. The results were unambiguous: no factor received as much support as individual performance. In my survey of full-time workers, two-thirds of respondents said it was a very important basis of their pay. Another 20% percent said it was somewhat important. Combined, a full 85% believed their individual performance was an important determinant of the number on their paycheck.
What about those who actually help to decide that number? I surveyed a variety of individuals in managerial and executive positions, all involved in pay-setting at their organizations. I asked them what factors they considered when setting compensation levels for employees. Similar to my survey of workers, the results were clear: no characteristic ranked higher than individual performance. Nearly three-quarters of this group of pay-setters listed it as a very important determinant of compensation.
These results aren't particularly surprising. Americans' belief in the importance of their own performance to their pay reflects a deep-seated cultural sentiment of individualism. It also reflects a longstanding, dominant tradition within academia that likewise views a worker's individual performance as the core determinant of pay. Combined, these understandings reinforce a general tendency among ordinary Americans to locate individual economic success or failure within the self, rather than in broader political and economic structures.
The question is, are they right?
In a word, no. I argue that the individual performance account rests on a set of myths about pay that are widespread, often uncontested, and misleading. And together these beliefs have held back progress fighting rising inequality and all the corrosive effects that flow from it.
There are three myths in particular:
1. You can fully separate your performance from the contributions of others.
Paying you for individual contributions to your organization requires measuring what, exactly, it is that you contributed. For a few select jobs, like door-to-door salespersons, the task is relatively straightforward. Then there are the rest of us. We work in jobs in which our contributions to our workplace are intertwined with the efforts of others. This difficulty in disentangling one's individual contribution to the organization is especially acute in group-centered, white-collar occupations that have grown in size over the past decades. As the journalist Derek Thompson has remarked, "The whiter the collar, the more invisible the product."
There are millions of these jobs spread across the country today: corporate consultants, marketers, and mid-level managers of all kinds. For each of them, distilling individual performance into one quantifiable metric exceeds our capabilities not because we haven't discovered the right measure, but because no such measure actually exists.
2. Your job has an objective, agreed-upon definition of performance.
As ongoing disputes in occupations ranging from policing, teaching, and journalism illuminate, rare is the job in which everyone agrees on what constitutes the core mission. If you can't identify a clear mission, how can you define what a good (or poor) performance is?
Take my own field: academia. In 2010, Texas A&M set about measuring the cost-effectiveness of the Aggie faculty. It emerged with an algorithm that ranked professors according to two variables: number of students in the professor's classes and the amount of grant money the professor generated. But what about the societal value of publishing path-breaking research? Or spending extra time with a struggling student to ensure she graduates? Not a factor, at least according to this analysis.
Even when a definition of performance is clear, it can lead to perverse incentives, and, at the extreme, criminal malfeasance. Wells Fargo once tied a portion of pay to a "performance" measure based on the number of accounts a worker persuaded each customer to open. The incentive system worked extremely well in bringing in cash for the firm. It was also one that encouraged workers to cheat customers leading to massive fines for the San Francisco-based giant.
Ultimately, there are a multitude of ways to define what doing a "good job" means. That's because the definition of performance in any job involves choices and trade-offs, since there isn't one true "objective" measure awaiting discovery.
3. Paying for individual performance leads to positive organizational outcomes.
Rare is the job in which we toil in total isolation, sending the fruits of our labor up the organizational chain at the end of each working day. In well-functioning workplaces, we learn from, cooperate with, and assist those around us. These interactions affect our own performance.
But when an organization allocates pay simply based on some measure of individual productivity, cooperative workplaces can turn competitive, which can lower overall productivity. In the 1980s, for example, Mayer Brown, the giant Chicago-based law firm, shifted away from a seniority-based pay system toward one where the firm paid partners based on the business they brought in. This might seem like a logical way to measure value: calculating how many hours a partner has billed her clients and the value of the business she has generated doesn't take an advanced math degree. Yet few firms allocate pay solely on this simple equation. Why? The infighting, sabotage, and general feelings of inequity such a system spawns among workers.
As the journalist Noam Scheiber documented, Mayer Brown found this out the hard way, after partners stopped cooperating with one another. Given what the compensation system rewarded, this was perfectly rational. Asking a colleague for help trying to land a client meant you'd be splitting the proceeds, discouraging collaboration that might help the firm overall. Further, partners "competed aggressively not just against lawyers at other firms, but against one another," trying to poach clients from their colleagues. Mayer Brown eventually backed away from the system.
What Actually Determines Our Pay
These three common myths blind us to a set of four organizational dynamics that actually shape the number on our paycheck: power, inertia, mimicry, and equity. These forces play out in the organizations in which various actors stake claims to some portion of the organizational revenue.
To start, wage and salary determination involves the exercise of power and represents the outcome of past and sometimes ongoing power struggles. Power has the force to settle claims made in organizations over slices of the pie. Because of this, organizational inertia often prevails: past power struggles legitimize a salary or wage for a particular job over time, which limits our room to negotiate. Organizational inertia is evident when we think of a job as "naturally" paying a certain amount; that of course a developer makes more than a designer.
Mimicry, where firms simply match the wages and salaries of their competitors, simultaneously simplifies the pay-setting process for employers while assuaging core equity concerns. Paying the going rate in a particular labor market helps stave off workers' claims that the salary on offer is unfair. But pay norms change and vary between workers, meaning that employers must always be on alert for disgruntled workers believing they're not receiving their "fair share," which can result in lowered productivity among the demoralized employees. A tried-and-true tactic employers use to avoid equity complaints is to prevent workers from finding out what their colleagues make in the first place. My research finds that roughly half of all employees today are discouraged or outright banned from discussing their co-workers' pay.
Uncovering these organizational dynamics helps us understand the core forces at work in determining wages and salaries. Of course, individual performance matters to a degree. If I were to sneak into an orthopedic surgeons' unit and manage to pass myself off as a physician, my pay would soon plummet to zero based on abysmal performance in a job for which I lack all relevant skills. But once I had the training required to be hired, my skills would be just one potential factor among many influencing what I took home.
The bad news is that, in recent decades, these dynamics have reshaped our economy to benefit the few at the expense of the many, while the prevailing myth about pay and individual performance has helped justify unprecedented levels of inequality. If every dollar a billionaire takes home is seen as "earned," then the low or stagnant pay for millions of hard-working Americans is seen as reflecting their inadequate performance. Attempts to remedy this inequality have been woefully inadequate, resting on an underlying (and, I argue, false) model of pay-setting that view wages and salaries as approximating an individual's contribution to her firm. If what you take home simply mirrors your contribution, then efforts to raise or lower pay distort the workings of the market.
The good news is that, if pay isn't some predetermined, rigid reflection of performance, then we can imagine a different world in which a dominant trend of our current economy — ever-rising inequality, marked by stagnant pay for average workers and runaway salaries for those at the top of the distribution — is reversed.
A fair economy demands three major changes: raising the pay floor, expanding the middle, and lowering the ceiling. Raising the floor requires a minimum wage high enough to live on; the current federal minimum of $7.25 is anything but. Expanding the middle means resuscitating the key organizations that empowers average workers: labor unions. This will require rewriting the nation's labor laws, which have mutated into little more than tools of union suppression. Lowering the ceiling means reining in excessive compensation for the most privileged. The first rather obvious step would be to raise top-end tax rates, including the capital gains rate.
Collectively, these steps represent a straightforward answer to the question of how to ensure the economy works for all hard-working Americans: You pay them more. They deserve it.
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Jake Rosenfeld is a professor of sociology at Washington University-St. Louis and the author of the books What Unions No Longer Do and You're Paid What You're Worth and Other Myths of the Modern Economy.


TOPIC:	Can Hedrick say much more ?
I wouldnt mind some digesting the gains before moving higher.
I wonder if now management can now get their options awarded.
I will miss afternoon trading but what ever happens I think we should take note of something important.
Cytori executed the Azaya deal as stated and within the stated timeframe !!!
Perhaps a miracle in itself, but I wouldn't mind it repeating a lot more.
myownhedgefund wrote: Not sure what more can be said.
I just listened to the event and although the presentation was the usual professional performance, albeit could use more emotion and drive/zeal, it was a bit disappointing that Hedrick only used 20 minutes of his allotted half hour and breezed thru the slides like we all know whats going on. He did not care to explain anything on the cytokines/vesicles i.e. nano- particle technology and all the stuff (speculations) we have gone thru and seem to assume that we all know.
I guess that means that my/our speculations are correct....????
Having digested this all. I feel very comfy and am excited about the future opportunities. Somehow I think they will work out this time.
Hedge- on the options bit- yes, I think they will come now- despite nothing on IDIS and despite nothing on potential CCT partner deals. I know our friends over there. Own pocket first.
The presentation slides are great!
1) The off-the-shelf delivery system of extracellular vesicles (if that is what it is) is PRECLINICAL, so at this point it's not really relevant. However, I view it as Cytori's acknowledgement that the autologous model is commercially a major disadvantage.
2) Slide only showed 3rd quarter cash position of $14.97MM when they surely could have disclosed 12/31 data or current cash balance. No mention of capital raising efforts which is key as $17 MM debt has begun amortizing.
3) They MUST come through with upfront cash for their bio equivalent chemotherapy drug SOON. I still don't understand why any company would go through Cytori to obtain a partner unless they struck out on their own, especially given Cytori's difficult, to put it mildly, financial situation.
4) No mention of IDIS revenues. What happened?
5) I see no partner for OA because the data were weak and the autologous model is still problematic to partnering opportunities.
6) I believe Cytori they will have positive scleroderma results in the STAR trial but monetizing will take time and money. Not sure how they get there without much more damage through dilution.
franshei wrote: The presentation slides are great!
Can I ask you a favor please?
Since you have "grown up" on the pharmacological side of medicine and surely are also conversant with the chemo stuff which Cytori just - finally- acquired from Azaya- could you become the "Champion" of those liposomal compounds?
My personal history with cancer kind of forbids me to even touch the subject- lets say, I am very sensitive towards it.
I could also set up a separate category with you as Moderator- whatever you prefer.
Point #2 of wst's post, the Company under SEC rules cannot disclose its y/e cash balance until the Company releases its y/e results through an SEC filing.
Incorrect. They can disclose approximate year end cash balance as long as they do it publically. Reg FD.
Yes, they can disclose the cash balance, but they would have to file a From 8-K immediately.
After I have listened and gone through the presentation slides, I would say CYTX has acquired a gold mine. The AZA assets on CYTX's book (with the outstanding shares) would worth at least $ 25 per share.
When Fujisawa acquired Lyphomed, there was two highly neglected assets in liposomal technology. One was Ambisome (joined venture with Vestar) and the other is a general A. Rama technology from Georgetown. Amibsome (I was the head honcho on the Lyphomed side) became a major success and Nagimori, the Japanese manager, who took over the project when I left the company to become a cofounder of SuperGen, would finally become the Chairman of Astella. Paul Schmidt, Roger Crossley and Vestar would finally become a part of Gilead.
John Kapoor (owner of Lyphomed) went to Mr. Aoki of Fujisawa and took over the A. Rama's project. With Rama, Kapoor formed a small biotech in Chicago, which became a $40 stock with just liposomal prelaunched products. (John Kapoor and I came out of Buffalo around the same time and I was a student of G. Levy, the father of bioequivalency and pharmacokinetcs).
There are many forms of liposomal technology and microbublles (some forms of corn starch form Janssen) and I filed a IND for SuperGen on MitoExtra (mitomycin C encapsulated generic product) -Joe Rubinfeld's favorite project.
I see great potential in this CYTX-AZA marriage, if it is properly developed. There is so much I can tell from here (in the area of medical oncology, pharmacokinetics and liposomal sciences).
franshei wrote: Amibsome (I was the head honcho on the Lyphomed side) became a major success and Nagimori, the Japanese manager, who took over the project when I left the company to become a cofounder of SuperGen, would finally become the Chairman of Astellas.
Franshei- I was thinking Astellas straight away after the announcement of the asset take-over in January. So - you say Nagimori, as Chairman (CEO I presume) is very knowledgeable in liposomal tech - and since Astellas has done years of research on ADRCs, the new set-up seems to favor a liaison in Japan or even globally on certain indications.
Comments re Hedrick's ATI 0918/BE study and other special requirements.
1. All cytoxic agents are carcinogens. Thus, any BE study has to be done in cancer patients.
2. It is still a crossover design in 12 to 24 cancer patients. It was hard to do so 25 years ago(usually done in cancer centers at $ 500 to $1000 per patient). Now CROs can do this (such as in Rush here in Chicago - higher cost). But, Marino can do this at Lambardi Cancer Center. Duration of study in cancer patients with washout in between: 3 months.
3. Watson Pharma maybe interest in both lipo doxo and docetaxel. Watson took in a similar drug-taxol conjugated albumin, with just limited clinical data for $ 100 million, more than 15 years ago (from a young Chinese physcian/now a billionare). CYTX can easily bringing in up to $ 200 million per liposomal cancer drug.
myownhedgefund wrote: I wonder if now management can now get their options awarded.
We all agree that they have to come up with some deal money soon- maybe they (the BOD) are really waiting before showing the usual generosity after they (the management) accomplished something that is meaningful for shareholders i.e. PPS also.
With AZA initial euphoria gone, let us think where would the cash coming from to support all these programs and obligations?
The Cash need is now. The original cash consumption would last to mid year. Now, the current cash consumption plan is cut short by one Q. Should there be any deals to bring in extra cash, it would take time. BARDA money (now it is $ 10 M per Hedrick, instead of & 7-8 M) is project specific.
Hedrick and Tiago have been very dumb in the past 3 years. Are they continuing to be dumb? All these liposomal encapsulaion projects are long term. The view of everything for the company is short term, otherwise there is no long term.
Mind you, also, that this is a management team who, throughout their history, has never solidified one successful partnership (despite rounds of empty promises); yet, here we are, still listening to Hedrick speak of partnerships in the works, and make definitive statements regarding future partnerships such as "we'll partner that" as if his track record speaks of guaranteed success. It's ironic, to say the very least.
Due to terms of the loan they always have to keep 1 quarter of cash on the books. So even without the Azaya deal they needed cash by end of March or so.
LP Capital deal may have helped.
Another Oxford loan revision possible.
Best solution a true partnership.
As Fas pointed out....the bone study was off the slide show the other day...could that mean something ? Only time will tell.
A strong growth model in a highly growing industry, rife with acquisitions to potentially lead a field, can be disastrous. Off topic, but I'm drawing a correlation to Sunedison here: another huge growth sector, with an overly ambitious, yet under funded, management. Cytori better have a plan in place.
It's actually beginning to appear as if the primary objective is to raise the perceived future value under the Cytori umbrella so to speak, without substantially addressing the obvious financial concerns. This leads me to believe that a buyout - with sweet compensation packages for management (from the acquirer) - may be in their stack of cards. While there appears to be a lot of long term value in this Azaya acquisition, nobody can deny the risk and confusion it presents.
I will acknowledge a point brought up by WST...lack of IDIS revenues left a very big hole. I mentioned delays late last summer and it was August that talks began with Azaya. Perhaps a line could be drawn but I'll stick with my first statement.
How about this...They thought IDIS would make Azaya deal possible...when the revenues didn't come they looked for alternatives ...in steps LP Capital...but even that may have been a back-up if a partnership didn't come in time...now if all the pieces fall into place LP Capital can be used more effectively after all the news is out. Perhaps even post scleroderma news.
In the end none of us know for sure.
They did one thing, on time and as stated, in the 11 years I've been here. I gave credit for that, now I wait for more execution.
March earnings call will give us a treasury update.
Dealing with CYTX (Tiago) one has to be direct and sometimes rude to get them mad and spilling out some truth.
It looks like they know what they are doing to get through some of the obvious financial hurdles. Hedrick and Tiago are on the road talking to investors till next week. In my opinion, when the price is right (with good news such as the STAR data), they may have to raise additional capital, on top of any deals re doxo (which may be enough to cover the AZA load).
I think the other nanomedcine development is in early stages and big money does not need to be spend yet.