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This new CR-V marks the first time Honda has sold a turbocharged crossover in Canada.
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA – We first saw the Honda CR-V in North America in 1996 as a 1997 model year vehicle. Excluding the brief Honda-Isuzu collaboration that brought us the Honda Passport and Acura SLX, the CR-V was Honda's first sport-utility vehicle sold in Canada. It sold well, and continued to increase in popularity significantly over the next two decades. The 2017 model year marks the 20th anniversary of the original CR-V, and Honda saw it fit to debut the all-new fifth generation model, which debuted in October. We flew to Victoria, B.C. to sample the 2017 Honda CR-V lineup, a crossover that we know Canadians will be lining up in herds to buy.
Honda has been on a roll, holding the number one position in retail sales in four major segments. This includes the Civic, Accord, HR-V, and of course, the CR-V. The CR-V is the third bestseller in its segment currently, beaten out by the Ford Escape (reviewed here) and the Toyota RAV4. Over twenty years on the market, over 450,000 CR-Vs have been sold to Canadians, with 2016 year-to-date sales boasting over 40,000 units alone. When addressing challenges to try and get that number one position in its segment, Honda has implemented aggressive design, a more dynamic and sporty driving experience, and more premium interior materials – all of this while bringing more value to the table.
Longer than its predecessor by 1.5 inches, the new CR-V also boasts a larger wheelbase, up by 1.6". The last CR-V did the job exactly as asked, and was a reliable, safe choice, but it was never very exciting. Rivals like the Mazda CX-5 (reviewed here) and Hyundai Tucson (reviewed here) surpassed it in style or tech, leaving the CR-V behind in these regards. The expanded dimensions of the CR-V work to ensure interior space is maximized where it's needed. Rear seat legroom is more usable, and the flat floor in the cargo area (with the seats folded down) has a two-level removable floor system and provides 1.8 meters of flat cargo space.
The new model implements fresh styling, reflective of the new Honda design language we have seen on the new Civic and HR-V (reviewed here), and also shares the same global platform as the award-winning Civic. All trim levels of CR-V get LED daytime running lights, turn signals, and taillights, while the top-trim Touring model gets full LED headlights as standard equipment. The design is a bolder move from the previous generation, using more flared fenders and a fascia that's more pronounced and modern looking. The daytime running lights outlines the fascia in a similar manner to the new Pilot and Ridgeline.
Built in Canada, the base CR-V LX still gets a 2.4L inline four-cylinder that carries over from the outgoing model, but not in our market. The really huge news here is the implementation of the Earth Dreams 1.5L turbocharged inline four that's shared with the Civic – standard on all Canadian models of the CR-V. This marks the first time Honda has sold a turbocharged crossover (excluding the first-generation Acura RDX) in Canada. Up in power significantly from the Civic, the CR-V's powerplant is good for 190 horsepower at 5,600RPM and 179 lb-ft of torque, available between 2,000 and 5,000RPM.
Something we have come to fully expect from Honda, the steering precision is some of the best in the segment. It's still electric power steering, but there's a surprising amount of feel through the wheel, which has a relatively small diameter and is easy to flick from side to side. The car handles with ease and technologies like Vehicle Stability Assist are right there to help in case intervention is needed. Stability control systems are standard on all trim levels of CR-V.
The sole transmission choice offered to Canadians is the continuously variable transmission with G-Shift control. Honda was later to the CVT game than some other manufacturers, but their unit is one of the best in the industry right now. It offers immediate response, complements the character of each car, and has a sport mode that holds RPMs for spirited driving. No paddle shifters or manual shifting modes are available on the CR-V.
Honda has rated the 2017 CR-V at 8.7L/100km city, 7.2L/100km highway, and a combined estimate of 8.0L/100km. These numbers are for the four-wheel-drive model that most will buy, and the FWD LX is rated at 8.4, 7.0, and 7.8L/100km respectively. These numbers are on regular 87-octane fuel, and there is no recommendation for premium regardless of turbocharging. The increase in efficiency is thanks to an overall weight reduction of 35 kilograms over the previous vehicle.
Save for the base LX, all CR-Vs get a next-generation Real Time All-Wheel-Drive system. It's able to send up to 40% of available torque to the rear wheels, weighs less, and has new electronic mechanism for the hydraulic pump. The system is pretty sophisticated and is right up there with Subaru's Symmetrical all-wheel-drive system. Canadians upgrading from their existing Civic or Accord to get the peace of mind that comes with all-wheel-drive will not be disappointed. Real Time AWD is an automatic system that's activated when it detects slip – there's no option to leave the vehicle in 2WD mode when AWD is not necessary. There's added capability to venture off the beaten path thanks to a 34mm increase in ground clearance.
On the inside, Honda has used a floating rear sub frame and added liquid-filled compliance bushing for the suspension to improve noise insulation. The CR-V also gets Active Noise Control (ANC), more sound insulating materials, and improved aerodynamics for quietness. Even with the winter tires equipped on our test vehicles, the new car is notably quieter than the outgoing one, and feels smoother in overall operation. Effortlessness and comfort is key here, as the enthusiast is not the target market for the CR-V – this is a car targeted squarely at the mainstream buyer seeking versatility.
Interior ergonomics have been enhanced significantly, including a larger sized storage tray that can hold up to a 5.5" smart phone. The interior is quite similar to the one in the new Civic, which is a very good thing. Dash materials are all soft touch, with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto standard right across the line. After tons of criticism when the volume knob was replaced with clumsy sliders, Honda has brought back the volume knob on the CR-V's Display Audio system! The Touring model gets a nine-speaker 331W audio system. The panel where the screen sits is quite large, though the screen itself is substantially smaller – this discrepancy bothered me a bit and made the dash look a bit awkward.
All models get push button start, remote start, and a front wiper de-icer. Rear passengers get access to two 2.5A USB ports to charge devices (EX and up). Those who opt for higher trim levels will get access to things like a heated steering wheel and rear seats (standard on EX-L and Touring), and a panoramic sunroof. The seats have been completely redesigned, and are far more supportive for longer distances. Over our extensive drive route, we remarked on how little fatigue our bodies were experiencing thanks to this.
The Honda Sensing suite of driver assist features is standard on all models with AWD. This includes Collision Mitigating Braking System (CMBS), Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) with low-speed follow, Road Departure Mitigation (RDM), and Lane Keeping Assist (LKAS). New for the 2017 model is a blind spot information monitor (Touring only), rear cross traffic alert, and a driver attention level monitor. The attention level monitor is connected to the steering wheel and warns you to take a break when it senses fatigue. All of this has earned the CR-V an IIHS Top Safety Pick+ rating.
Pricing for the CR-V starts at $26,690 for the LX FWD model, and the entry-level AWD model is $29,490. The base car still comes nicely equipped with 17" alloy wheels, automatic climate control, electronic parking brake, smartphone integration, Display Audio system, and the AWD model gets Honda Sensing tech. Also available is $32,990 EX, the $35,290 EX-L, and of course, the range-topping $38,090 Touring. Highlighted features on the Touring include navigation, panoramic sunroof, dual chrome exhaust, chrome exterior trim, exclusive wheel designs, ambient lighting, and blind spot indicators.
With unique new colour offerings such as Molten Lava and Dark Olive, the 2017 Honda CR-V sets aside the boringness of the old car and makes a leap toward earning the number one sales position in Canada within its segment. Honda has a stellar reputation for reliability, and delivering an engaging driving experience. Boasting added versatility, plenty of new features across the lineup, a punchy new engine, and of course, a volume knob, the new CR-V should have no issues climbing up the sales ladder. The new CR-V goes on sale to Canadians on December 21 of this year.
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The mood swings of people with bipolar disorder are influenced by their thoughts according to researchers.
A study by Lancaster University showed that how people interpret everyday experience affects their behavior and hence mood.
They found that positive thoughts like "I will excel in whatever I'm doing" or negative like "I'm going to have a breakdown" influence mood in a way in which a more neutral thought such as "I have a lot on and need to wind down" does not.
The study found that both thoughts and ascent behaviors predicted bipolar risk, characterized by a hypomanic personality style, while negative thoughts and descent behaviors were associated with depression.


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Is The Market Rational? No, say the experts. But neither are you--so don't go thinking you can outsmart it. - December 9, 2002: Buy and hold. Diversify. Put your money in index funds. Pay attention to the one thing you can control--costs--and keep them as low as possible. Today that is pretty standard, if often unheeded, investment advice. Forty years ago it was revolutionary. The revolution started on college campuses, in particular at the University of Chicago, and it went by the unrevolutionary-sounding name "efficient markets."
"In an efficient market," wrote Chicago professor Eugene Fama in a landmark paper he delivered at the 1969 annual meeting of the American Finance Association, "prices 'fully reflect' available information." That is, in an efficient market you can't beat the market unless you have inside information. So why bother trying?
That logic led, among other things, to the creation of index funds that aim to mimic, not beat, the likes of the S&P 500 and the Wilshire 5000. Today such funds account for about 10% of total U.S. stock market capitalization, as well as 60% of what little money has flowed into equity mutual funds so far this year. But millions of small investors have continued to ignore the advice derived from efficient-markets theory, preferring instead to trade stocks and pile in and out of mutual funds in search of elusive market-beating returns (blowing much of their money on fees and commissions in the process).
Meanwhile, back on campus, a new generation of finance professors has been ripping Fama's teachings to shreds. The organizing principle for this new breed of scholars is not efficient markets but something called behavioral finance. Behavioral finance teaches that stock market investors are irrational, that future stock price movements are at least partly predictable from past behavior, and that careful analysis of past trends and financial reports can pay off. Which happens to be the way most investors see the market already.
[L]et us document the behavioralists' triumph. Half of this year's economics Nobel went to their patron saint, Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman (the other half went to Vernon Smith of George Mason, whose economic experiments have also shot holes in efficient-markets dogma). Then there's the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded by the American Economic Association every two years to the most important U.S. economist under 40: The 1999 and 2001 editions both went to behavioralists. On the pop-culture front, Yale efficient-markets skeptic Robert Shiller's 2000 bestseller Irrational Exuberance was the most talked-about book by an economist in years.
Thaler, who was working on a Ph.D. in economics at Rochester in the early 1970s. His dissertation was an attempt to put a value on human life.... Thaler decided to ask a few friends how much they'd be willing to pay to eliminate a one-in-1,000 chance of immediate death and how much they would have to be paid to willingly accept an extra one-in-1,000 chance of immediate death. What he found was that they wouldn't pay much for the extra margin of safety but demanded huge sums to accept added risk--which isn't, strictly speaking, rational. "I came to two conclusions about these answers," Thaler wrote years later. "(1) I had better get back to running regressions if I want to graduate, and (2) the disparity between buying and selling prices was very interesting."... to be a newly minted psychology Ph.D., who sent Thaler a copy of a 1974 article by Israeli psychology professors Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman... argued that in making decisions involving probability and risk, people rely on mental shortcuts that "are highly economical and usually effective but ... lead to systematic and predictable errors."
It was that last part that was so significant. That people make judgment errors wasn't news, but if those errors were "systematic and predictable," well, that was something an equation-wielding economist could get up and run with..... The efficient-markets guys, meanwhile, not only had come to occupy the academic mainstream but also had moved in on Wall Street. Not surprisingly, their initial relations with the Street had been hostile. What the professors were saying, after all, was that highly paid fund managers and analysts were not worth a dime. Some of the professors clearly reveled in that: In one famous mid-1960s exchange, a money manager asked MIT's Paul Cootner, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" To which Cootner replied, "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?"
[W]hile Sharpe believes in efficient markets, he has also spent much of his career helping investors make choices. That, it turns out, makes him a big fan of behavioral finance. "As a practical matter, I still think it's prudent to assume that the market is pretty close to efficient in terms of pricing and risk and return and all that," Sharpe says. "On the other hand, we've certainly learned from cognitive psychology that ordinary human beings need to have alternatives framed in ways that can help them make right decisions rather than wrong decisions."
[T]he argument of modern behavioralists includes a crucial observation that wasn't in Keynes--that professional investors are now under so much pressure from their customers that they cannot make the kind of long-term bets that might beat the market. If they do, as was the case with a lot of value-oriented mutual funds in the late 1990s, they can soon find themselves without any customers' money to invest. That gets us to a world in which an investor with enough staying power and contrarian gumption can beat the market, but the vast majority of mutual funds and hedge funds don't. In other words, the behavioralists have reconciled the success of a Warren Buffett (which efficient-markets purists have absurdly termed dumb luck) with the overwhelmingly empirical evidence that most professional money managers fail to beat the market.
This is, we posit, a major intellectual accomplishment. What does it mean for you? That's easy: Buy and hold. Diversify. Put your money in index funds. Pay attention to the one thing you can control--costs--and keep them as low as possible.


TOPEKA, Kan. (May 20, 2017) – A win at the NHRA Heartland Nationals is a one that will mean a little more than most to driver Tommy Johnson Jr. and his crew chief John Collins.
Johnson and Collins grew up in Ottumwa, Iowa, about three hours from Topeka where the eighth NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series event is being held at Heartland Park. It's one of his home tracks.
"It's kind of like going home for me," Johnson said.
The driving forces for Terry Chandler's Make-A-Wish 2017 Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car team will enter race day on Sunday as the No. 5 qualifier.
Johnson qualified with a best time of 3.847 seconds at a career-best speed of 331.61 mph on his last run Saturday.
On Friday, Johnson ran a lap of 3.990 seconds at 323.43 mph. Later, NHRA cancelled the second session because of storms in the Topeka area.
"We didn't run the big speeds or the low ETs like a couple of them did but we're very close. We're in the same zip code at least now. I feel good going into tomorrow. John and Rip (Reynolds, assistant crew chief) are liking what they see on the tune-up and they're going the right direction every time.


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are you there google? it's me margaret Dec. 13, 2010
Google Doesn't Sound Very Sorry It Pushed Down Competitors' Search Results
By Nitasha Tiku
In recent months, Google has gotten more aggressive with highlighting its own content over competitors'. Its rivals, like Yelp and TripAdvisor, aren't very happy about it. Where do you go if you have a beef with Google? The Rupert Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal, of course. In the paper, those companies, along with WebMD and Citysearch, say they've noticed their links being pushed lower and lower on the results page in recent weeks. Indeed, Google has been trying to develop more of its own content or specialized-search sites, like Google Maps or Google Health or Google Finance, in order to increase revenue. And what better way to promote that content than to display it prominently on its very popular search engine? Google is currently under antitrust investigation in Europe for doing the same thing. For example, searching for businesses on a Google map might point users to "Places" pages for a specific businesses, rather than the local business's website or, say, a (typically more helpful) Yelp result. How did Google respond? Not very contritely.
Google said that it didn't intend to hurt competitors, but pointed out that the complaints in the E.U.'s investigation came from rivals who had ties to Microsoft. A Google spokesperson explained that its "quick answers" format at the top of the page tries to figure out what users are searching for.
And sometimes the most useful answer is the one that makes my bosses the most money.
As Google builds its business rating site, Hotpot, and Boutiques.com, its shopping site — not to mention its much-contested travel portal to rival Kayak — the search giant is more likely to keep manipulating traffic in its favor, at great peril.
For all of the public's instinctual backlash against Google, it's managed to get its own verb by establishing itself as some kind of natural-language order over the Internet. Google's algorithms may not be transparent to us, but its search results usually get us where we're trying to go. As Google continues to try to promote its unchecked diversification into every corner of the Internet, it risks messing up its core business: search and advertising based on the fact that people use it for search. There are plenty of alternative search engines out there. But, thus far, little incentive to stray for very long. If Google is going to show visitors its own sub-par content first, however, consumers are likely to either tune out those initial results just like they do banner ads, or go somewhere else.
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Back in the mid-'90s, when Chris Funk taught guitar and booked acts at Front Porch Music in Valparaiso, he fell in love with bluegrass bands -- specifically, the bands on Sugar Hill Records. Now, Funk is in one of those bands. Earlier this year, Black Prairie released its debut album, "Feast of the Hunters' Moon" on Sugar Hill. And tomorrow, Black Prairie brings Funk back to his old place of work -- and his hometown -- for an 8 p.m. show. "I'm really excited to come back, considering it's the place that basically introduced me to that sort of music," he says. As for getting signed to Sugar Hill, Funk says, "It's like a fantasy come true." Of course, Funk also has ties to another label -- a little-known imprint called Capitol Records -- through his involvement with Portland, Ore., indie-rock darlings The Decemberists. Funk provides the guitar backing (and banjo backing, and mandolin backing, and bouzouki backing, and the list goes on) to bandleader Colin Meloy's catchy, anachronistic pop songs. But where The Decemberists are known for Meloy's hyper-literate lyrics, Black Prairie is all about the strings. In fact, only four of the songs on "Feast" even have words; the rest are instrumentals. "We're identified with indie rock or modern rock, (but) it wasn't designed to be on the radio," Funk says. "Not that we designed The Decemberists to be on the radio." (Regardless, their latest album, "The Hazards of Love" -- a full-blown, "Tommy"-style rock opera -- reached No. 14 on The Billboard 200.) Funk and Decemberists bassist Nate Query first kicked around the idea of an instrumental acoustic band in 2007 during downtime from their primary gig. Their plans started small. "(I thought) we could maybe play backstage," Funk says. Soon after, fellow Decemberist Jenny Conlee brought her accordion into the (mostly) wordless mix. "I've always been interested in writing instrumental stuff -- Jenny as well, even though we've been singing in the band a little bit more," Funk says. Two more non-Decemberist Portland musicians round out Black Prairie's lineup: violinist Annalisa Tornfelt, who grew up playing in the Alaska bluegrass band Barefoot, and guitarist Jon Neufeld, a member of bluegrass outfit Jackstraw. He also plays in a gypsy-jazz combo called The Kung Pao Chickens. "I had known of Jon and Annalisa, and they're both, like, the real deal," Funk says. Tornfelt also sings lead on the album's noninstrumental tracks, such as the spooky "Red Rocking Chair." When Tornfelt joined Black Prairie, Funk says, she wanted to focus exclusively on the fiddle. She agreed to sing after some friendly nudging from the band and the label. A&E BRIEFS STAFF REPORTS Holiday Roundup published Nov. 21 SOUTH BEND -- The holiday season will soon be upon us. An assortment of entertainment events, such as musicals, theater performances, dances, concerts and more, will be published Nov. 21. Deadline to get your group's listing published is Nov. 12. Send information (event title, time, date, place with exact address, phone number for publication and cost) to Holiday Roundup, South Bend Tribune, 225 W. Colfax Ave., South Bend, IN 46626; fax: 574-236-1765 or e-mail: Krallo@sbtinfo.com. Events posted to inthebend.com also will be included in the roundup. Information will not be taken over the phone. The Cult at Club Fever Nov. 18 SOUTH BEND -- The Cult performs with The Black Ryder at 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at Club Fever, 222 S. Michigan St. Led by original members Ian Astbury on vocals and Billy Duffy on guitar, The Cult was formed in England in 1983 and gained a following with such singles as "Fire Woman," "Sweet Soul Sister" and "She Sells Sanctuary." In recent years, The Cult was on hiatus while Astbury toured with surviving members of The Doors. Tickets are $35 (with a limit of eight per person) and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Club Fever/The Backstage Grill, Audio Specialists, and the Morris Performing Arts Center, all in South Bend; Orbit Music in Mishawaka; and Karma Records in Plymouth and Warsaw; by phone at 574-235-9190; and online at morriscenter.org and ticketmaster.com. Admission is $39 day of show. Must be 21 or older, and smoking will be prohibited. Glass jewelry focus of solo exhibition LAPORTE -- "Kristin Perkins: Limited Engagement Solo-Exhibition," featuring fine art jewelry by the glass artist, opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at The Thaddeus C. Gallery, 822 Lincolnway. Perkins will be on hand for the reception. Her works will be available exclusively at the gallery throughout the holiday season. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CDT Wednesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Visit thaddeusc.com to learn more. El-Amin releases play on DVD BENTON HARBOR -- Filmmaker, poet and playwright Kareemah El-Amin will host a DVD release party for her play "Lockdown Legacy" at 5 p.m. Friday at the Transformation Center, 88 W. Main St. "Lockdown Legacy" tells the story of how the incarceration of one man impacts his entire family. El-Amin, an Adams High School graduate, wrote the play in 2004, and "Lockdown Legacy" had its debut in January 2005. The footage used in the DVD was filmed during a 2008 performance at Lake Michigan College. El-Amin used four cameras, which allowed her to film the play from multiple angles. There is no charge to attend the release party. Copies of the DVD are $20, and can be purchased by visiting lockdown legacy.miiduu.com. Studebaker opens new exhibit Friday SOUTH BEND -- The exhibit "Stars and the Cars: Television, Movie & Celebrity Cars" opens Friday and continues through April 20 at Studebaker National Museum, 201 S. Chapin St. Vehicles that appeared on the big and small screens, as well as those owned by celebrities will be on display. Along with a wide variety of vehicles and artifacts, the museum's own 1951 Studebaker Commander, used in "The Muppet Movie," and the General Lee from the popular television series "The Dukes of Hazzard" will be exhibited. Additional vehicles scheduled to appear include Herbie, the 1963 Volkswagen Beetle featured in "The Love Bug," the Shagmobile from "Austin Powers II: The Spy Who Shagged Me," Elvis Presley's Mongrel-T from "Easy Come, Easy Go," rock 'n' roll musician Roy Orbison's 1967 Corvette Sting Ray and Sir Elton John's 1948 Delahaye Type 170 Drophead Coupe. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $8-$5. Call 574-235-9714 or 888-391-5600 or visit studebakermuseum.org to learn more. With all the classic blues songs that Pierre Lacocque can cover, why does he choose to create original material? Lacocque, leader of the blues band Mississippi Heat, ponders that for a moment. "That's a very good question," the harmonica player says. "First of all, some covers in the blues world have been have been so overdone, and in many ways, my job is to stay fresh. I lean toward trying to be original with profound respect for the traditions of the blues." That fusion of originality and respect for tradition can be heard on Mississippi Heat's latest recording, "Let's Live It Up." The album also includes covers of Sugar Pie DeSanto's "I Want to Know" and John Primer's "I Got Some News Today." Lacocque wrote 11 of the 13 original tracks on "Let's Live It Up." Longtime Mississippi Heat vocalist Inetta Visor co-wrote the song "She Died From a Broken Heart." "What I tried to do with this (album) is go back home to Chicago to the traditional blues sound," Lacocque says. The band's previous album, "Hattiesburg Blues," had what Lacocque calls more of a Latin blues approach. Some listeners might also hear the blues/R&B fusion sound that is known as Southern soul on tunes such as "Soft Hearted Woman" and "Forgot You Had a Home." Lacocque says the band embraces the musical sound that attracted him to the blues when he came to Chicago with his father more than 40 years ago. Lacocque's father was a biblical scholar who came to teach at the University of Chicago. At that time, Lacocque was a teenager who received a harmonica as a gift when he was 2 years old. Lacocque, the son of a minister and theologian, was being groomed for the scholarly life. Lacocque was born in Israel. His family moved to Germany and France before settling for a while in the family's home country of Belgium. Lacocque says his father, an Old Testament scholar, placed his children in a Jewish school where they learned Hebrew and studied Old Testament history. Lacocque says he spent nearly all of his time studying. He also says he tried to figure out what to make of the harmonica his father gave to him as a toddler. "I knew in my soul that the harmonica was an instrument that (I could) use to (express) my feelings," Lacocque says. "I didn't know what to play (on) it." Lacocque says the inability to express what he felt inside filled him with a profound sense of sadness. "I used to cry -- tears coming down my face -- blowing in and out on a plastic harmonica at 2 1/2 years old," he says. Lacocque says that he knows now that he had the blues, but he didn't know the blues existed until fate -- and a teaching position for his father -- brought the family to Chicago in the late 1960s. He decided to attend a blues concert, and what Lacocque heard changed his life. "I heard the harmonica player playing the blues, and the sounds and depths of the notes was a religious experience to me." Lacocque heard the classic Chicago-style electrified blues that day. That music, created and refined in the 1950s and '60s, became the key building block for rock music. It also started Lacocque on a journey that would end with him mastering the "blues harp" and forming the band Mississippi Heat. Lacocque says "Let's Live It Up" is an album that seeks to capture the spirit of the kind of blues fans would have heard from artists such as Muddy Waters back in the '50s. For Lacocque, capturing the spirit of blues music means expressing all of the emotions that can be heard in that music. He notes that many people incorrectly think that blues music is always sad. However, the music talks about the human experience, which can be happy or sad. That is why Lacocque sees the blues as a spiritual music even if it is not always religious. "The genius of the African-American tradition with the blues is understanding what it is to feel," Lacocque says. "To feel life."Staff writer Howard Dukes: hdukes@sbtinfo.com 574-235-6369 "We tease her and call her our lead singer, which she doesn't like to be called," Funk says. "Which is hilarious, because she is indeed a great lead singer." The full Black Prairie lineup began playing together in late 2007 and early 2008, another period of Decemberists downtime. As he did in the past, Funk decided to fill the gap in his schedule by making more music. "I consider myself a Decemberist, but I still consider myself a musician, period," he says. "You get holes and windows. I remember coming back after my first tour. I quit my day job. I realized, 'I'm just partying and flushing away money.' "I took the opportunity to play music and be active. I felt it wasn't really a work ethic; I was compelled to keep creating." Besides, Black Prairie gives Funk a chance to pick up his square-necked Dobro guitar, an instrument that doesn't quite fit into The Decemberists' sonic palette. Which is not to say that the Dobro really fits into traditional bluegrass, either. "In my experience, at real bluegrass festivals, the accordion wouldn't be allowed. The Dobro wouldn't be allowed. I think a better term (for us) is 'string band with an accordion.' " In 2009, Funk was delighted to discover that Sugar Hill artist Sarah Jarosz had recorded a cover of The Decemberists' "Shankill Butchers." "I wrote the label: 'Tell her I said hello, the song sounds great.' I snuck in there, 'Oh, I play Dobro, I have a bluegrass band,' " Funk says. "We cut some rough demos, never ever thinking they'd want to play ball with us." By the end of 2009, Black Prairie had recorded "Feast of the Hunters' Moon" for Sugar Hill with Tucker Martine, who also produced The Decemberists' "The Crane Wife" and "The Hazards of Love." Black Prairie's debut shares its title with that of an annual historical re-enactment held outside of West Lafayette, Ind. "It was like, French fur traders crossed the river and have to deal with Native Americans. I went as a kid," Funk says. "That's my shout-out to Indiana." Black Prairie will continue to tour throughout the fall. Funk says they have enough new songs worked up to justify a trip back into the studio this winter, though other commitments will likely take hold after Feb. 1, when the new Decemberists album drops. Regardless, Black Prairie has already come a lot further than Funk thought it would. "If we didn't have a label," he says, "we'd still be in the living room, cranking them out."


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Kohli denies team got complacent after taking lead
Source: ANI
Last updated on: December 19, 2020 17:13 IST
'There is no comfort zone at the international level, there is no comfort zone in training, there is no comfort zone in preparation. So, people who want to relate this to comfort zone should really have a reality check that it's pressure, not a comfort zone.'
IMAGE: A general view of the scoreboard after India's second innings on Day 3 of the first Test at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on Saturday. Photograph: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images
After stumbling to an eight-wicket loss in the first Test of the four-match series against Australia, India skipper Virat Kohli on Saturday said there is no comfort zone in international cricket.
Kohli's remarks came after he was asked whether the 62-run lead in the first innings put India in a comfort zone.
"It's very hard to put (my) feelings into words. We had a lead of 60 when we arrived today and just collapsed completely," said Kohli, who lost for the first time in 26 Tests where he had won the toss.
"When you work hard for two days... to get yourself in a good position and then literally in an hour, you put yourself in a position where it's impossible to win, it really hurts."
"There is no comfort zone at the international level, there is no comfort zone in training, there is no comfort zone in preparation. So, people who want to relate this to comfort zone should really have a reality check that it's pressure, not a comfort zone. Having played for so long I can definitely tell you straight up," Kohli said.
On the third day of the first Test, India was bundled out for 36 in the second innings and Australia was given a mediocre target of 90 runs. Australia chased down the total comfortably inside 21 overs with eight wickets in hand.
Kohli added that the side will bounce back in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as he feels players will step-up in his absence.
IMAGE: Virat Kohli calls for a review on Day 3 of the first Test. Photograph: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images
Ajinkya Rahane is set to take on the role of stand-in captain in the remaining three games of the series as Kohli will return home after being granted paternity leave by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
"Leaving with a victory would have been great. Having said that this is Test cricket anything can happen at any stage. I'm pretty confident that the team is going to bounce back strongly in Melbourne. Few of the guys are going realise their true characters and how they can step-up for the team. I'm very, very confident that we'll definitely learn from this. I don't think we ever had a worse batting performance so it only goes upwards from here," Kohli added.
The Virat Kohli-led side might have had a 62-run lead entering the third day of the first Test, but the side squandered the advantage as the batsmen failed to rise to the occasion and Australia made light work of the visitors.
India were bundled out for 36 in the second innings. For Australia, Hazelwood scalped five wickets while Pat Cummins took four wickets.
36 is India's lowest-ever score in Test cricket. Before this, India's lowest score was 42 in Test cricket against England in 1974.
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BNN's The Disruptors: Disrupting the traditional media tour with social savvy
by Brett Serjeantson | Apr 24, 2015 | Social Media
Now that The Disruptors' maiden episode is out of the way, BNN's latest business show on disruptive companies and technology can now concentrate on building its following.
Before last week's premiere, co-hosts Bruce Croxon and Amber Kanwar did the traditional media tours to promote the show, visiting media outlets such as CTV's Canada AM and talk radio station CFRB in Toronto.
But what other ways did they use to promote the show?
The emerging bellwether for gauging a show's success is social media, and more specifically, Twitter. The social platform has quickly established itself as the mainstay for not only gauging the popularity of a show, but it also allows for audience participation and for the producers to draw the audience into the show.
As broadcast shows compete for eyeballs, social media interaction is crucial. And in this regard, The Disruptors hosts have been doing all the right things.
Both Croxon and Kanwar's personal Twitter accounts had over 100 mentions on the day of the show, and both co-hosts actively engaged with fans. The co-hosts' tweets were regularly retweeted.
Before last week's premiere, even though the show had a Twitter hashtag (#theDisruptors), it actually didn't have a Twitter account. It does now, though, and viewers are now also engaging with the show itself.
Tuned in to @BNN's new tech show, The Disruptors? Tweet us your comments with the hashtag #TheDisruptors!
— The Disruptors (@DisruptorsBNN) April 23, 2015
This is a great example of how social media has established itself as a disruptor in terms of the traditional methods for getting the word out about a show: The Disruptors and its hosts are demonstrating that every day, with their active participation in social media, which increases fan engagement and helps win new fans of the show along the way.
To date, the show has had over 300 mentions on Twitter and that activity is trending upwards. This has partially been partially nurtured by the show's new Twitter account, along with the efforts of Croxon and Kanwar.
Don't get me wrong — traditional media still has a very big role to play here. I know this personally, because that's where I originally heard about the show. But I think it's fair to say that the show and co-hosts have now transitioned from a traditional media tour to a social media tour.
Not only does it perpetuate the momentum of the show, but it's also low cost.
Maybe in The Disruptors' next episode, they could focus on the effect of social media in show business — it's something they seem to know something about.
Just saying.
BNN's The Disruptors airs every Thursday night at 8:30 PM EST. You can catch the latest episode on its home page.
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REVIEW: Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us by Danielle Cadena Deulen
We are never "at home": we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope impel us toward the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more.
These words serve as an epigraph into Danielle Cadena Deulen's second collection, Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us, and lay down the framework for a set of poems whose emotional lexicon is able to navigate through narratives of personal experience as well as those drawn from literature and philosophy (the essays of Michel de Montaigne are referenced often; their titles serving as titles for a number of poems, including the title poem). Throughout this collection, the self becomes again and again a moment of awareness and interpolation. Poetry, Deulen's book argues, is where those who are never 'at home' do their living.
Towards the end of the poem "Dirge with a Love Song in it," dedicated to the poet's grandmother, an example of what I mean by awareness and interpolation plays out in a scene of driving while thinking about the past:
…I am ashamed to say
I never thanked you for driving toward a future
into which I would someday be born. The radio plays
and I turn it up, a bridge blaring like the slow
explosions that fill my dreams: I run and run and turn
the corner of an unfamiliar hallway, an unclasped door
opening to an aisle. See how the light enters the dirge,
the stillness in the field beyond the sill? See how
your family standing on the hill beneath the pine
lines up to let the loose earth slip through
their fingers back to you? See the green, sorrowed air
where I'm not, where I couldn't bear to be –
how I've driven so long thinking of you that you have
become the song, the mirror, the prayer, and the road
just past the reach of headlights.
The poem works through the momentum of voice and memory; the speaker's act of driving and its implication of being in motion parallel the motion of memory and feeling. The urgency of the direct address is heightened by the command to "See" which is repeated three times until it is broken off as the speaker presents themselves "where I'm not." The simultaneous narratives of the drive and funeral finally cascade into each other in the final lines, leaving the reader and speaker in motion, "carried away beyond" what there are words for.
This pointing towards "where I'm not" is one of the major themes explored in this collection. In "Winter Inversion," a meditation on a winter in Salt Lake City plays out both in terms of landscape as well a relationship:
displaced from coastal
cities cry poison over
the desert plains. We
pretend not to live
where we do, that we
don't turn away from
each other with regret.
I try to avoid breathing
in your scent…
This comment on displacement colors the admissions of regret that follow and points us back to the Montaigne epigraph, which here translates literally into deliberate not wanting to be 'at home.' The statement on breathing, however, places the speaker back in their body, their center of awareness and interpolation. Like poetry, which exists somewhere between the poem and the reader, one's life is made up of acts of interpretation, reflection, and understanding, all of which occur in the mind and, thus, elsewhere.
Not every exploration of the "where I'm not" theme happens in terms of evasion or displacement, however. In "Revision," the hands-on task of shelling crabs is pushed on for the memory it could be:
If I could reverse it and reassemble
the cracked bodies of the crabs – their shells
no longer a lovely, silent red – restore
their frantic language of clicks and gestures…
In these lines, the speaker is taking the hypotheticals of philosophy and applying them to physical actions and their family narrative. The fact that one can no easier put a crab back together as reverse one's life seems obvious; it is where the speaker takes the reader through pushing on this scene and concept that transforms this meditation into compelling art. "If I could reverse" the fate of one creature, the speaker states:
then I don't have to write about what
came after. We can all live here, in this day,
forward and backward, listening to
the cold-blue sea rock softly against
our metal hull, watch the gray world slowly
take on color, shadows separating
from form, the tide rushing in,
our father's real smile like a white magnolia
opening over us as we cross the bight
vibrating with light so brilliant
I have to close my eyes against it.
In defining a memory through what it could have been – in this case, the mess the hands make and the mess one's family feels like is revised into a whole creature and a whole, blinding memory – the speaker reaches after reconciliation. Yet, it is in this revision's imagery that the poem points to the ongoing futility and struggle of reconciliation. We find the speaker revising, yes, but revising to blindness, a blindness that parallels the reality of knowing; when one knows the ugly truth, one closes eyes against it too, but is left with the work of reconciliation regardless. Here, "where I'm not" points back to where one is, which is the place where one is actively trying to understand better.
This is a searching kind of empathy played out here. If, as Montaigne's epigraph notes, "Fear, desire, hope impel us toward the future [and] rob us of feelings and concern for what now is," then poetry becomes a kind of anchor not for the poet but for the experiences and understanding of the poet. In the poem, "Remedy," the story of a girl whose doctors
[don't] know
why her brain swelled, only that she'd brought
them to the end of their knowledge, … the only
course for keeping her alive: a hole in the head…
this searching empathy takes place via an anti-rite of passage. A girl's medical condition, and her doctors' bewilderment, leave her to work out her own knowledge and understanding:
Days stretch out now with nothing in them,
her adolescent summers like bleached sheets
hanging on the line. She wonders if this is
what it is to be a woman; her body mutinous,
burrowed into. Moths beat wildly at her smudged
window and she closes her eyes, too tired to
watch them suffer. She runs her fingers along
countertops, the edges of unopened books, slowly,
because she has nothing to hurry toward. She is
waiting, she thinks, for someone to heal her.
It makes her angry, but she doesn't know why.
Her shoulders tighten. Sweat beads at her hairline,
rolls down her face. She imagines herself as
a flower deep in a swamp, which, once found,
will be ground into paste, rubbed into the body
of a fevered stranger, used as a cure for pain.
From the imagery tied to the girl's "adolescent summers" to the imagined life of a swamp flower made into a paste, this particular arch of "where I'm not" evokes the territory of "what it is to be a woman" from the perspective of someone given no alternative but to carry on without answers. In the same way that the speaker of "Revision" sought after a method to restore the crab's "frantic language of clicks and gestures," the girl of this poem is deciphering her life via a troubled, persistent sense of reconciliation.
Ultimately, this being without answers becomes a central note rung throughout this collection. As these poems prove time and again, when one is without answers, one is left with questions and the emotions around questions. Even Sigmund Freud, a figure that can be seen as providing answers (at times unasked for) for society's ills, is portrayed in the poem "Freud at the Laundromat" as just another human being lost in the cycle of their own cascading narratives:
a circle that turns within a box and slots
where the money goes and goes transparent
door that opens to anonymous red panties
oh if only undergarments could speak he'd
analyze the fuck out of them but suffices
with pressing his ear to each hot door…
…he dreams of his wife's
younger sister Minna, Minna and their apartment
at 19 Berggasse – the lie they conceived that
also had to be cut out oh now he is too old
his penis alone in his grey, wrinkled slacks
he wants to take them off, throw them in with
a stranger's clothes watch the legs wrap around
the other unfilled pants a psychosomatic twitch
controls his left wrist he clears his throat again
again what will it take to be rid of this constant
vertigo aching he imagines that death is like
a long dose of morphine but is still terrified
oh to awaken inside another body perhaps be
the child Minna canceled this time around kept
Freud's cycling of narratives carries us back to the theme of "where I'm not." Here, where Freud is not is a place of satisfaction or control, which is what Montaigne's epigraph points to as being our constant and only condition. In Deulen's poems, however, this condition is translated away from being defined by fear, and sees our lives as being carried by the momentum of hope and awareness.
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Your Demands Will Be Met In Four Weeks, Gbajabiamila Assures Resident Doctors
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has assured Resident Doctors that their demands will be met in four weeks time after visiting their Abuja Secretariat on April 13, 2021.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has assured the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) that their demands would be met in four weeks' time.
He gave this assurance on Tuesday when he visited the NARD headquarters in Abuja, the nation's capital.
NARD President, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, had on April 12 asked the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the union, warning that should the government fail to honour its agreement in the next four weeks, they would be forced to declare another indefinite nationwide industrial action.
"We have been given a leap of faith to believe in the system and we hope and pray that the system does not fail us," he said during his appearance on the Channels Television's Sunrise Daily.
But the Speaker, after listening to their demands, promised that the government is doing all within its power to ensure the doctors do not down their tools.
"We have made some progress, headway. We have been talking, this is not the first. The Chairman of the Health Committee is here and he has been briefing us," he said.
He explained that the Federal Government appreciated their efforts in saving lives and the importance of their profession and is doing everything possible to avert another industrial action.
The Speaker added, "That has led to the suspension of the strike for four weeks. I believe that before the four weeks is up, we will be able to cement the deal.
"There is a Memorandum of Action signed between the Resident Doctors and the Government. We will make sure that is followed as best as we can. You understand the importance of these guys, we can't afford to let them lay down their tools."
On his part, the association's President told Gbajabiamila that he is confident that their demands will be met within the 4-week grace period given before they embark on another strike.
Okhuaihesuyi said, "With the Honourable Speaker coming to the Secretariat, we have been able to achieve some more commitments in response to why we called off the strike.
"As it stands, most of the House Officers are getting paid their salaries. The ones left are those that have some bank failures and are being treated on as we speak."
The resident doctors commenced an indefinite strike on April 1 after a meeting with a government delegation on March 31 ended in a deadlock.
The strike had crippled activities in tertiary hospitals across the country and left many patients and their relatives stranded.
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Homeownership is one of the most powerful tax savings vehicles available in America today.
With the extension of the mortgage insurance tax deduction through 2016, the benefits of owning a home are piled high for at least the next couple of years.
When trying to determine if it's better to rent or own, taking into consideration the tax savings that are inherent with home ownership is a very important part of that conversation.
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For this example, let's say that your gross income before taxes is $50,000 a year. We are also assuming that you own, or will buy a home with a 3.5% down payment, and carry a $300,000 mortgage loan. Here is how homeownership will impact your tax liability.
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The most common tax credit available to home buyers today is called a Mortgage Credit Certificate, and is available to first time homebuyers that meet the income, and purchase price limits set by the program.
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Mortgage insurance is a forced insurance policy that you are required to pay the premiums on to protect the lender in the event that you default on your mortgage loan. Mortgage insurance is typically required anytime you have less than a 20% down payment when purchasing your home.
In December 2015, Congress extended the ability to treat mortgage insurance as a tax deduction for the 2015, and 2016 tax years. This deduction is available to anyone that has mortgage insurance, and net taxable income of $109,000 or less.
Once this tax deduction expires, or if your taxable income exceeds the qualifying limits, you always have the ability to explore "lender paid mortgage insurance" which essentially adds the mortgage insurance payment to your payment in the form of a slightly higher interest rate.
By taking a higher interest rate, you convert non-deductible mortgage insurance into tax deductible mortgage interest.
The most common tax savings practice that all new homeowners should do is to adjust the withholdings taken out by your employer on every pay check you receive. The form you used to set up your withholdings is Tax Form W-4.
It is a best practice to review your new home purchase with your CPA, accountant or tax preparer and determine how your withholdings can be changed so that you are not over paying your income taxes at the end of the year.
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International Trade Commission Cases (ITC Cases)
1. About The United States International Trade Commission (ITC)
2. Section 337 Investigations at the ITC
3. Advantages of Filing Cases at the ITC
4. Law Firms Specializing in ITC Cases
5. Chinese Translators and Mandarin Interpreters Specializing in ITC Patent Cases
About The United States International Trade Commission (ITC)
The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) is an independent, bi-partisan, quasi-judicial, federal agency of the United States with broad investigative responsibilities on a variety of matters of trade such as the effects of dumped and subsidized imports on domestic industries. While the ITC conducts global safeguard investigations, it has increasingly adjudicated cases involving certain unfair trade practices, such as subsidies, dumping, patent, trademark, and copyright infringement, as well as patent infringement cases.
Section 337 Investigations at the ITC
Section 337 investigations at the ITC look into allegations of certain unfair practices in import trade, such as the infringement of certain statutory intellectual property rights and other forms of unfair competition in import trade. Today, most Section 337 investigations involve allegations of patent or registered trademark infringement, while it also covers other forms of unfair competition, such as misappropriation of trade secrets, trade dress infringement, passing off, false advertising, and violations of the antitrust laws.
The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) is an independent, bi-partisan, quasi-judicial, federal agency of the United States that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches. Further, the agency determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such as subsidies, dumping, patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.
Advantages of Filing Cases at the ITC
ITC's Section 337 is a unique tool that patent owners can use to bar infringing imported products from entry into the United States and prohibit the products' sale in the United States.
Favorable judgments in Section 337 proceedings are especially important to because rulings place the winning party in a strong position over their competitors when it comes to licensing and royalty issues—not to mention the complete elimination of competitors that infringe a U.S. patent in the U.S. market.
ITC proceedings also offer advantages for the filing party as well. First, ITC proceedings are much more streamlined and fast-tracked than federal court litigation, as its responses to discovery requests and motions are generally due within 10 days of service compared to 30 days of the district courts. Thus, with its tight deadlines, the complete the process of discovery, hearing, initial Administrative Law Judge "ALJ" determination and the final ITC determination are normally done in 15 months, reducing legal fees and costs as a result of an expedited proceeding.
Second, the ITC's jurisdiction is established nationwide as has in rem jurisdiction over imported products accused of infringing U.S. IP rights, no matter where the allegedly infringing products or parts are imported into the United States. Failure to respond may result in default, and the defaulting party waives its right to participate in the investigation but is subject to any remedy issued by the ITC.
Third, ITC investigations may have unlimited discoveries with few limitations, compared to 25 interrogatories of the federal courts. More over, ITC's nationwide jurisdiction permits the ALJs to issue subpoenas throughout the United States, and the ITC jurisdiction on imports allows it effectively to compel discovery throughout the world against any named party, greatly facilitating
discovery for the complainants.
Last, the remedies provided by the ITC also yield significant benefits, as they are enforceable by U.S. Customs and the ITC with little need for input by the complaining party. Although the ITC does not provide for monetary remedies, a positive result in a Section 337 investigation for a complainant can have devastating consequences for respondents that import infringing goods into the United States as the ITC may issue either a "limited" exclusion order or a "general" exclusion order upon determining that there is a violation of Section 337. A limited exclusion order prevents importation into the United States of infringing goods manufactured by enumerated respondent foreign producers. A general exclusion order prevents the importation of
all infringing goods irrespective of the foreign source. Moreover, downstream products containing a component or part found to violate Section 337 can be covered by a limited exclusion order, effectively extending relief against a third party that exports the downstream product to the United States.
Law Firms Specializing in ITC Cases
In the United States, there are about a few dozen law firms that specialize in ITC cases. We will introduce them to you and provide you with insightful information in the future.
Chinese Translators and Mandarin Interpreters Specializing in ITC Patent Cases
Because of the seriousness of ITC cases, the requirements on the accuracies of the document translations and oral interpretations are the most demanding in the translation and interpretation industry. Only a handful of certified Chinese translators and interpreters have had good reputation for translating and interpreting for ITC cases. Please see Professional Certified Court Interpreters with Intellectual Property ITC Case Experiences and US Office of Chinese Patent and Intellectual Property Law Firm: JiaQuan IP Law Firm for details.


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Tech at Night: Susan Collins, Queen of Denial
By Neil Stevens | Jan 31, 2011 11:30 PM ET
Wow, my Tech at Night graphic is now out of date. I was already late to the iPhone 4 party because of the iPad and because I had waited for the legendary White iPhone 4. But now that I have an iPhone 4, having the 3GS in the graphic seems wrong somehow. Time for a new one if I get a good idea. Comments welcome.
Anyway, I want to be very clear about the Internet Kill Switch plan. The plan by Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman has now passed the Democrat-controlled Senate Committee claims to be a grand venture for "Cybersecurity," but the plain fact is the plan as written is unworkable as a security venture, but only works as a tool to let the government control or even destroy the internet.
Yes, just like in Egypt.
Susan Collins, Queen of Denial, claims her plan is nothing like what's going on in Egypt because her motives are pure. I believe her motives are pure, but I also believe she simply doesn't understand the issues at hand. Look at any map of the Internet and it becomes clear that the Internet is a huge network of networks, interconnected in countless ways. The Internet is designed to be robust and able to route around broken connections. That's its job.
Susan "Cleopatra" Collins and Joementum would have us believe that it's workable to give the President the authority to control every single link between the US and the rest of the world and in fact the authority to hit the kill switch upon a claim of emergency powers. They'd also have us believe that it's nothing like what the President of Egypt did when, in fact, it's exactly happened there. Hosni Mubarak declared an emergency threatening national security, and hit the kill switch. And now they want to give our own Barack the same powers.
Of course, the immediate threat in America isn't some dictatorial coup. Much more likely is a simple mistake. America lived for decades quite uncomfortably under the threat of a hair trigger launch of the Soviet Union's ICBMs. Do all of us who rely upon the global Internet to make our livings really want to live under the threat of a hair trigger cyberattack by our own government?
The fact is, pulling the plug is not a substitute for security. If we want to secure our networks then let us secure our networks. Replace legacy Microsoft Windows systems with hardened SELinux boxes. After all, we paid for the development of SELinux by the NSA. Audit all code running on government networks, and release that code to encourage the private sector to follow the government's lead in security.
But giving the President of the United States the power to emulate a tyrant like Hugo Chavez or Hosni Mubarak is simply not an option in a free society that depends on the Internet as much as we do in America.
Anyway, it's not like cybersecurity is something we're having trouble dealing with now. Bayshore Networks points out that the so-called Anonymous thugs (who use 4chan as their mouthpiece and made Wikileaks their cause) are particularly easy to catch, even in other countries. We just need to up our efforts to start catching state-backed attackers, such as those that hit Google.
And speaking of Google, the chickens continue to come home to roost there as Search Neutrality lives on. I categorically oppose… [snicker] I mean, I absolutely denounce the idea of regulators [hee hee] imposing [ha ha] neutrality upon Google. I think [heh heh] Google would agree that the market should decide.
OK yes, we're all going to get a great laugh at Google getting blowback from the Net Neutrality fight, in the form of more Search Neutrality fighting. But in the end we have to hope Google gets away without regulation, learns it lesson, and starts fighting innovation-killing regulation from now on.
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Q: PostgreSQL query from csv file What is the easiest way to query from .csv file ?
Ex: I have a list of 1000 email addresses in emails.csv file.
I want to query all users with emails that are in emails.csv file
ex:
SELECT *
FROM users
WHERE email IN (emails.csv)

Is there a way to do like this something or I need to create a script. If some script is needed, can you please provide some example.

A: you need to create a table and copy it from csv, smth like:
t=# create table csv(i int,email text);
CREATE TABLE
t=# copy csv(email) from stdin;
Enter data to be copied followed by a newline.
End with a backslash and a period on a line by itself, or an EOF signal.
>> q
>> w
>> \.
COPY 2
t=# select * from csv;
 i | email
---+-------
   | q
   | w
(2 rows)

but In your case you copy from file, not STDIN, eg
copy csv(email) from '/path/to/file';

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The Federal Government has reacted to a statement issued by the Government of the United States of America warning its citizens not to go to 20 states of the country.The Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in a statement issued on Thursday said the US itself has been a subject of attacks as no week passes bye without recorded incidences of violent crimes.
The US Embassy had on Friday listed Bauchi, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Zamfara, Adamawa, Borno and Yobe as states to be avoided by its nationals.
"The ability of the Mission to provide assistance to U.S. citizens in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states remains severely limited. The Department recommends against all but essential travel to the following states due to the risk of kidnappings, robberies, and other armed attacks.
"The U.S. Mission advises all U.S. citizens to be particularly vigilant around government security facilities; churches, mosques, and other places of worship; locations where large crowds may gather, such as hotels, clubs, bars, restaurants, markets, shopping malls; and other areas frequented by expatriates and foreign travelers." A statement from the Embassy read.
Reacting however, Mohammed in the statement noted that US itself has been the subject of terrorism attacks, as there is no week when a killing is not recorded.
"Recently, all the newspapers carried the negative story that 20 states in Nigeria are not safe, according to a US report.
"We are in Nigeria, how can we believe the claim that 20 states in Nigeria are not safe? That is not correct. There is no state in Nigeria that is not safe today.
"Is there any week they are not killing people in the US by either shooting in schools or driveways, or people committing suicide or mass bombing?


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Connecticut College rethinks general education with new approach to curriculum
Published May 06. 2016 9:04PM | Updated May 07. 2016 5:24PM
By Lindsay Boyle
New London — For about 40 years, many Connecticut College students selected their courses like those at most universities, taking classes outside their majors mostly at random in an attempt to complete a mandatory general education checklist.
It's what Dean of the College Jefferson Singer calls the "checkbox problem."
"They're checking off the boxes to fulfill the requirements without any great thought as to why they're taking those courses or how they relate to each other," he explained.
But come the fall semester — and with it the Class of 2020 — Singer and other officials are hoping "Connections," the college's first newly designed curriculum in 40 years, will change that.
In short, the new curriculum asks students to choose an interdisciplinary "pathway," such as social justice and sustainability, in addition to their major by their sophomore year.
Then, with guidance from an individualized team of faculty, staff and peer advisers, the students would work to choose courses, internships or study-away opportunities and, eventually, senior projects that reflect the pathway they chose.
To prepare students to make those connections, Singer said, the curriculum also boasts new "ConnCourses" — revised courses that still introduce each major but now also help students see how that major is connected to other disciplines.
Because workers increasingly have to incorporate aspects of multiple fields into their jobs while working with people whose backgrounds are different from their own, the changes couldn't come at a better time, Conn College President Katherine Bergeron said.
"It's so clear that this new generation of students really needs a new kind of education," Bergeron said, adding that the need for characteristics such as curiosity, creativity, tolerance and empathy is "greater than ever before."
"We need students who will have more of these capacities and therefore more courage to address the complex issues that divide us," she said.
Weston Stephens, a sophomore and U.S. history major, said he almost wishes he was two years younger so he could be part of the new curriculum.
Still, Stephens said he's been able, with his adviser's help, to exemplify how Connections will work by deliberately choosing courses and projects that relate to his interest in peace and conflict.
Recently, he said, he used the pathway mindset to pick a topic for a map project in his geographic information systems class.
He could've randomly chosen census or other widely available data to use for the project, he explained, but instead dug up old texts and maps about a World War I battle that interested him.
Armed with that research, he's working to create and analyze a new, more comprehensive map.
"Anyone can do a major and go along with that," Stephens said. "But this, it really involves you with your classes and makes you think in a very different way."
Singer, who said he went through dozens of university websites while working on the development of Connections, said he hasn't seen anything quite like it elsewhere.
"There simply is not another curriculum that has the same degree of integration across four years," Singer said. "Many have elements of it and do those beautifully, but the ambitiousness of our curriculum is that we put the pieces together into a coherent whole."
Conn College, Bergeron and Singer noted, has been doing something similar to the Connections curriculum for some of its students for about 20 years.
By choosing to work with one of the college's four applicable centers for interdisciplinary scholarship, students have been able to earn certificates in areas including international studies, the environment, arts/technology and public policy/community action to complement their majors.
The issue, Singer said, is that the centers have been highly selective, catering to only about 320 of the college's more than 1,900 undergraduate students at any given time.
"We had an integrated program that was reaching 80 students (per class) that we knew was better than what was being offered to everyone else," Singer said. "We had to figure out a way to bring that experience to every student."
Despite having an outline in place, Singer said it took faculty, staff and students almost four years to hammer out the details, and there is still work to be done.
Because some faculty will see an increased workload in terms of advisees and others will need to adapt to their redesigned courses, officials have pursued a "substantial" grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help train faculty to teach more effectively.
Singer said the application will be reviewed in June.
In addition to helping students "master the art of complex problem solving," Bergeron said she expects the curriculum to increase students' involvement in New London, whether they're taking new community-based courses or working in local schools and nonprofits to complete internships and other projects.
"The notion that we live in a global society is something we can experience in our community because of the diversity of perspectives that exists in New London," Bergeron said.
"There are some wonderful opportunities, especially with the pathway curriculum and the magnet school concept in New London, to develop some things together," she said.
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Honors continue for late Stonington police Captain Jerry Desmond
On Jan. 10, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, read a statement describing Desmonds' life and service into the Congressional Record, and a small road behind the high school gym has been designated as Desmond Way with a memorial.
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