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Gutted
(NOW WITH UPDATES) As improbable as it seems to at least one old fart in the accessibility business who has sent me hate mail in the past, I really and truly have been interested in the field for over 25 years. I think it's actually 27 years, because I can backdate it to receiving a letter from the Caption Center on my birthday in 1979, a day made additionally memorable because it involved a solar eclipse. I had already been watching The Captioned ABC News for up to two years before that time, although I cannot pin it down exactly.
The Caption Center at WGBH claims to be the world's "first" captioning house, and that is surely correct. The problem is that it pretty much does not exist anymore. Between November last year to January this year, WGBH Boston laid off nearly all its captioners at the original Boston office. According to a report, approximately 1½ staff positions remain in offline or prerecorded captioning, down from over a dozen (possibly 16). The online or real-time captioning division has also been gutted.
Why did this happen? Media Access Group at WGBH – which, according to another source, never earned more than 3% to 4% profit margins – simply wasn't making enough money to satisfy WGBH managers. Now, keep this in mind: The operators of a large nonprofit organization forced the gutting of a nonprofit operation allegedly because it wasn't earning enough money.
The result is that the oldest captioner in the world effectively does not exist. All the Boston work will apparently now go to the overworked, flaky, unreliable Los Angeles office. Even though the Media Access Group's current director has actively attempted to harm me in the past, at least since 1989 I've been recommending the Caption Center, sometimes with reservations. For several years I have amended that to recommend people insist on the Boston office only. Now there's nothing to recommend.
(Incidentally, here's something that fans of PBS may wish to note: Now Masterpiece Theatre will be captioned in L.A. Perhaps you'd like a double decaf latte and a rent boy along with your encoded submaster?)
According to a source, the Descriptive Video Service in Boston is unaffected, as is the DVS office in Los Angeles. Boston captioners were offered positions in L.A., an offer that apparently only one person took up. The rest were dispersed into the four winds. This itself causes serious damage to captioning, but I'll talk about that in a minute, because I'm not done yet.
In January, the so-called National Captioning Institute fired its entire unionized captioning workforce in Burbank. This was the result of weeks of tense contract negotiations that are helpfully documented on the union's Web site. What were some of the areas of contention?
NCI management complained that Burbank was losing money. (Once again: A nonprofit corporation complains about profit margins.) One figure cited was $388,000.
Management wished to increase each captioner's quota to 90 program minutes a day, an astronomical and biomechanically impossible figure. (Then they increased the increase to 99 minutes.) Twenty minutes a day is a more rational figure, and one that typical captioning houses will follow. NCI's contract with its caption "editors," available online as a PDF, considers full productivity the production of "a minimum of 28 minutes of programming… and at least a minimum of 500 complete acceptable captions… per shift." I consider that a high figure. (A later estimate lists 42 minutes on average, which I find even more doubtful.)
Of course there are slightly slower and slightly faster captioners, but only slightly. Irrespective of the software used, for captioning of prerecorded programming there is a ceiling to the number of program minutes that can actually be captioned, and that ceiling hasn't changed in a decade, if not two decades. The ceiling has nothing to do with employees slacking off and everything to do with human audio-visual processing and neuroanatomy. There is only so fast you can listen, transcribe, position and shape a caption, and move to the next one. And of course you can speed things up by using scrollup captioning, but that is a problem itself, not a solution.
Management proposed no significant pay increases, but a tiny payment for each incremental average increase over the impossible 90- or 99-minute quota.
Negotiations broke down, NCI fired its unionized captioners, the captioners picketed the office, and the world of accessibility continues to go to shit.
The union and NCI's former employees speculate that all programming sent to NCI Burbank will either be ingested on site and FTPed to NCI's other offices (outside D.C., in Dallas, and, most improbably of all, in London), or tapes will simply be couriered there. Or nonunion staff will do the captioning. Or, it is feared, they'll use outside freelancers. All of this has clear implications for security and piracy, and according to the fired employees, NCI lost the ABC contract because it could not guarantee that captioning would take place in the office that received the tapes. (That was a significant loss. For about the first ten years of U.S. closed captioning, all ABC programming was captioned by NCI.)
WGBH Boston is already sending its work to another city.
A source who refuses to violate a nondisclosure agreement more than a little bit states that two U.K. captioners and one in the U.S. already outsource work to that anglophone powerhouse, Malaysia. (When you think of Malaysia, is the first thing that springs to mind the fluent and untrammelled ability to render U.S. and U.K. English in captions?)
I have direct knowledge that one foreign-owned captioner sends U.S. programming overseas.
Meanwhile, the most expensive captioner in the world, Captions, Inc., lost the Disney contract to Vitac, allegedly over missed deadlines. While I have a lot of little quibbles with Captions, Inc.'s work (documented previously), they are a high-quality shop that took a huge business hit.
So let's recap
The two oldest captioners in the U.S. have just finished gutting one office each. So we've got – let's use round numbers here – 30 people wandering the streets who liked or loved captioning and aren't doing it anymore. Now, tell me, are there so many captioners who love their jobs that we can afford to cut that many loose?
The recent history of accessible media is one of a race to the bottom, where every half-arsed postproduction house and semiliterate mom-'n'-pop decides that captioning or description is "straightforward" and proceeds to undercut the professionals. Suddenly we're confronted with two things:
Captioning atrocities like the use of scrollup captioning for everything ( Macbeth , opera, standup comedy, and captioning added to subtitled programming – everything)
A workforce of disgruntled liberal-arts graduates working as captioners who are already afraid they are washed up. They know they'd really like to be doing something with their English-lit or teaching degrees, but are also pretty sure this isn't it. (And nearly all of them are women in their mid-20s. Why is that kind of monoculture OK while the monoculture of, say, construction foremen, firemen, or policemen isn't? It's OK if a workforce is female-dominated but not male-dominated?)
Captioning and description should be more expensive – everything else in television is expensive; why not this? – if only so that people who actually give a shit will do the work. Of course, deaf people provably don't give a shit themselves, so who are we kidding?
I exercised journalistic responsibility and asked Jay Feinberg of NCI and Mary Watkins of WGBH to answer some questions by E-mail. Neither responded, but they still may do so for attribution, in private or in public. If I'd had a greater taste for high-pressure telephone conversations, I would have called them up, but I anticipate the result would have been the same.
Questions to NCI
Is it true that, in recent contract negotiations concerning Burbank's unionized employees, NCI proposed that each caption editor complete the captioning of approximately 90 program [minutes] per eight-hour shift? Separate from that, is NCI aware of any captioner anywhere whose employees produce more than approximately 30 program minutes per eight-hour day?
If a key issue in the negotiations was NCI Burbank's failure to "make money," why wasn't the nonprofit status of NCI advanced as a reason to reformulate the issue into not losing money? Why must NCI, a nonprofit, "make" money?
Is it true that there was no significant increase in work orders before the negotiations began compared to, say, a few months or a year before?
In percentage terms, how much more or less offline captioning is taking place at NCI Burbank right now compared to, say, December 2005 or January 2006, when the full unionized workforce was present?
Are nonunion staff doing offline captioning work at NCI Burbank? If so, are there more such staff in NCI's employ than there were before February 2006?
Is any work of any kind being transferred to other NCI offices, including the one in England? (Electronically, or by shipping videotapes, or both?)
Is any work being outsourced to third-party operations or individuals? If so, what states (in the U.S.) or countries are they located in?
What comments can NCI give regarding the apparent gutting of the one office of the second-oldest captioner in the United States?
Questions to WGBH
What were the reasons why most or all offline and real-time captioners in the Boston office were terminated, were let go, or retired within the last 90 days?
How many offline or real-time captioners were terminated, were let go, or retired within the last 90 days?
How many captioners of any kind are working in the Boston office at present, and what general kinds of programming do they work on?
Is captioning work – including WGBH Boston's own productions – now being transferred to the Los Angeles office? Does this in fact mean that a program like Masterpiece Theatre is being captioned in L.A.?
If so, how does WGBH square this situation with your published comment that "[w]e think of ourselves as a regional service provider"?
What bearing did the adoption of Swift, at $10,000 or more per seat, have on the Boston staffing actions?
Are additional captioners being hired for Los Angeles?
What staffing changes, if any, have taken place with DVS in Boston and Los Angeles?
What comments can WGBH give regarding the apparent gutting of the oldest captioning office in the world?
Statement by NCI Terminated Workforce
As E-mailed to interested parties 2006.02.03, excerpted here without comment.
From: NCI Workforce nci.terminated.workforce@gmail.com
We, the former editors of the Burbank NCI office, are asking all NCI clients to read the following. Thank you, in advance, for your time.
After a brazen series of union-busting tactics to cover up management ineptitude, the National Captioning Institute terminated 15 captioners and subtitlers this past Tuesday, January 31, 2006, and is left with more work than can be handled by the remaining offices in Vienna, Virginia; Dallas, Texas; and London, England. This means that, in addition to these offices, other companies or independent freelancers will handle your work. So, rather than having your material stay in one office (the conveniently located Burbank office), tapes will be outsourced to other locations, some out of state or even out of country, and video clips will be beamed to servers thousands of miles away.
In short, your creative property is put at exponentially higher risk from hackers and video piracy. Take the example of ABC, who two years ago declined to re-sign with NCI after learning that their work as not being done in-house as the contract specified. Now 15 of NCI's most experienced editors have been canned, and the programming of many television and movie studios is in limbo.
Quest for Pyrrhic victory
A question for everyone in the industry: Are you sure you want to emerge victorious in a race to the bottom?
First, I forgot to mention that it is hard to understand why any U.S. captioning company would reduce staff when the Federal Communications Commission requirement of 100% captioning for a wide range of programming kicked in on 1 January 2006. How does a firm lay off staff when demand increases?
Additionally, it has been suggested to me that the loss of U.S. Department of Education or other government grants played a part in WGBH's decision, if not NCI's, to reduce staff. I invite any facts that anyone might have on that topic.
Second, today (2006.03.08) I received this statement from the Media Access Group at WGBH, provided verbatim:
A letter to address recently-raised concerns about WGBH's Media Access Group
In the fall of 2005, WGBH's Media Access Group consolidated its off-line captioning services by expanding its Los Angeles production facility where the majority of its commercial clients are located. At the same time, staff was reduced at its Boston offline captioning operation.
These changes were made in response to increased competition and the need for greater efficiencies, and are part of a strategic plan that will enable WGBH to continue providing high-quality captioning services to our clients while remaining an organization where talented people can forge access solutions to the challenges posed by new media.
Employees at the Boston facility were given the option of relocating to the Los Angeles office. In addition, the Media Access Group's real-time captioning office also reconfigured its staffing levels and work schedules, to better respond to the demands of live scheduled and emergency or extended event broadcasts while addressing the realities of the competitive marketplace.
WGBH's real-time-captioning operation continues to be based in Boston where it provides thousands of hours per year of live captioning services for local and national clients in every sector of the media. The administrative and research and development activities remain headquartered in Boston while descriptive video will maintain production staffs in both Boston and Los Angeles.
In the future, as in the past, we will continue to serve caption and description users and our clients in the broadcast, cable, home video, DVD, online and theatrical motion picture world with the highest level of service, quality and innovation available anywhere in the world.
– Larry Goldberg, Director, Media Access, WGBH
– Tom Apone, Director/Services, Media Access Group at WGBH
– Linda Idoni, Director/West Coast, Media Access Group at WGBH
(2006.05.27) In May 2006, I had luncheon with some of the gutted captioners of WGBH, which was an honour and a pleasure.
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Q: Get Portlet Session on server My question is:

I have two different Portlets (nothing but war file) deployed in a portal server called first and second; whenever user clicks firstportlet (first) I use the following code to set session object!:
Code in first portlet:
String application="Welcome";
PortletRequest portletRequest = (PortletRequest) webAppAccess
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log.Info("SESSION hole value:---" + portletRequest.getPortletSession(false));

Whenever user clicks secondportlet(second) I am using follwing code to retrieve the session which was set in firstportlet.
Code in second portlet:
PortletRequest portletRequest = (PortletRequest) webAppAccess
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But in second portlet I am always getting null value, please any solution?

A: The portletSession.APPLICATION_SCOPE mechanism makes it possible for portlets to share session data if they are within the same portlet application. If you have two portlets that are not in the same war they are not in the same portlet application and thus, the session data is not shared either.
To solve this you need to put the two portlets into the same portlet application (same war, same portlet.xml but still two different portlets).

A: DanielBarbarian's answer is correct. To share the global session, the portlets need to be in the same war. But there are other ways to share data between portlets on the same page, but not necessarily in the same war. (I'm assuming your portal container supports the JSR286 standard)

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*Use interportlet communication. This can notify other portlets of events. It is a simple publish/subscribe system that is not difficult to set up.

*Use global render parameters.

There are examples on the web for both options.

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Q: How to detect key intersection points on sports court using OpenCV I'm trying to detect the key intersection points of lines on a sports court to allow me to use homography to map a player's position in the camera frame to the corresponding position on a 2D model of the court. The camera position and environment details such as lighting will vary.
My current approach has been to use Canny edge detection and Hough Transform to detect the lines then to use kmeans to group them into horizontal/vertical groups. Once I obtain the key points (court floor corners and intersection points of service lines) I know I can use findHomography to obtain the perspective transform for the court. My problems are:

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*Even if I get the intersection points for all the lines, given the camera position (and therefore frame rotation) is not fixed how can I know which lines/intersection points are which? Is there a technique to take the intersections and try and fit them to a model court? I have the exact dimensions of the court floor which is the area I care about.

*There's lots of "noise" created when using HoughLines and HoughLinesP - see image below. What would be the best way to merge these lines? Or if fitting to a model is that not a problem?

*Is this the best modern approach or would attempting something like training a CV model to do segmentation be a better approach?

Sample output from Input/HoughLines/HoughLinesP (L to R):


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Tales Around the Fireside
by Eve Fisher
I am a short story writer. Yes, I've written two novels, one (The Best is Yet to Be) as part of the Guideposts mystery series, "Mystery and the Minister's Wife", the other a sci-fi/fantasy piece that is still sitting in my closet. I've written plays. I used to write songs for myself and, later, a Southern rock-and-roll band called "Fantasy's Hand." (Those were fun days...) But what I really feel most comfortable with is short stories.
I think a lot of this comes from my childhood. I was an only child, and my parents were 40 when they adopted me; everyone around me was (it seemed) at least 40 years older than me, and back then children were expected to keep their mouths shut and just be there while the adults talked, talked, talked. Luckily for me, most of them were storytellers. A story, told in the night, to make you sigh or smile or shiver... still pretty much the ideal.
And I like reading short stories. I don't understand why so few magazines carry short stories anymore. Why there are so few short-story magazines. (Especially considering that attention spans seem to be growing shorter and shorter all the time, but that's another rant.) I love them. And some of the finest writing anywhere has been done in that format. Here are my picks for some of the greatest short story writers:
John Collier. "Fancies and Goodnights" contains some of his best work. (It won the Edgar Award in 1962.) Read "Bottle Party" to find out what really happens with a genie in the bottle. "The Chaser" - on how tastes change over time. "If Youth Knew What Age Could"... One of my favorites, "The Lady on the Grey." And on and on. Many of his stories were adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Tales of the Unexpected. He also wrote screenplays (including "Sylvia Scarlett", [uncredited] "The African Queen", and "I am A Camera"), and a couple of novels of which my favorite is the mordant, devilish, unforgettable "His Monkey Wife."
Ray Bradbury. There are not enough words in the English language to praise his amazing output of short stories. From "The Fruit in the Bottom of the Bowl" to "I Sing the Body Electric," "April Witch" to "The Veldt", "A Sound of Thunder" to the heartbreaking "There Will Come Soft Rains", "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed", the whole body of "The Martian Chronicles", and on and on, I gobbled each and every one of his stories I could get my hands on. His work inspired me, amazed me, touched me... couldn't get enough of it. And he was primarily a short-story writer: aside from "Fahrenheit 451", his other novels didn't really gel for me. ("The Martian Chronicles" is a collection of short stories, with a narration in between.) He showed what could be done in the medium of short fiction. And, of course, he was a regular writer for "Twilight Zone" and other TV shows...
Somerset Maugham. One of the few who could write both great novels, and great short stories. "The Letter" - made into film twice, most notably with Bette Davis as the cool and collected murderess. "The Lotus Eater" - when Paradise runs out... "Red" - what really happens when you look up your old childhood sweetheart... "The Luncheon" - never ask questions you can't take the answer to... The hilarious "Three Fat Women of Antibes", "The Vessel of Wrath", "The Verger"... and, of course, the "Ashenden" series which practically began secret agent stories. (Alfred Hitchcock combined "The Hairless Mexican" and "The Traitor" into the 1936 movie "Secret Agent" with John Gielgud and Peter Lorre.) Seriously, his short stories are like popcorn at the movies - once I start reading them (I have a four-volume set), I can't quit until I've worked my way through... way too many.
H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and Shirley Jackson. And how do you want to be scared today, my precious? My sweets? By many-tentacled horrors from beyond space, or by crumbling ruins of decay and death, or the quiet malevolence of a quiet house or neighborhood? By the breathing darkness or that strange emptiness? By the sudden creak or that high whistle in the depths? Any of these will leave you wondering what's really going on next door, when you'll be able to turn the lights off again, and what is that sound in the closet or over head or under the floor...
Arthur Conan Doyle. Let us never forget that 90% of the Memoirs of Dr. John H. Watson about his inimitable companion, Sherlock Holmes, are short stories. We all have our favorites. (Sadly, the relentless reinterpretations of Holmes and Adler have reduced my pleasure in "A Scandal in Bohemia".) Among mine are "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches", "The Speckled Band", "The Greek Interpreter", "The Devil's Foot", and "The Norwood Builder". I have spent many a rainy afternoon curled up in a couch with a hot cup of tea and my father's one-volume "Complete Works", reading, reading, reading, time travelling to Victorian/Edwardian London, as Sherlock Holmes - the world's only private consulting detective - solves case after case after case... Ah... Excuse me, I have some reading to do...
NOTE: These are, of course, only a few of the many tremendous short-story writers I've read. Flannery O'Connor, Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Roald Dahl, Daphne du Maurier ("The Birds", yes - but never forget "The Little Photographer"), Nikolai Gogol and Anton Chekhov, Ursula LeGuin and Isaac Asimov, and so many of my esteemed colleagues... I really do have some reading to do!
Posted by Eve Fisher at 00:01
Labels: Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Eve Fisher, H.P. Lovecraft, John Collier, Ray Bradbury, Sherlock Holmes, Shirley Jackson
Fran Rizer 27 February, 2014 06:51
Eve, an appropriate response to your column today would be to say how many of the authors you name are favorites of mine because they were favorites of my dad's and he introduced them to me. Off the wall comment is, "I didn't know you were a songwriter." That puts you in with Rob, Liz, and me. I'd like to know who else among the SSers writes songs and if so, what genre of music. (BTW, Somerset Maugham was one of my father's favorites and I read all of his material. We'd discuss his plots at the dinner table.)
David Dean 27 February, 2014 08:18
Thanks for that, Eve. That was a great line-up of talent. I'm working on a presentation to a writers group about short stories and this provided some inspiration.
Janice Law 27 February, 2014 08:20
I love Bradbury's "The Veldt"!
Another fascinating writer is John Cheever- his The Swimmer is a great story that even Hollywood couldn't kill.
Elizabeth Zelvin 27 February, 2014 09:18
I had completely forgotten about Bradbury's "The Veldt," but when you mentioned it, Eve, the image of that landscape and a slightly blurry recollection of what happened in the story sprang to mind.
Eve Fisher 27 February, 2014 10:08
And there are so many other short-story writers that I had to leave off or (shamefully) forgot at the time! I, too, am interested in how many SSers have been songwriters. Poll, anyone?
Robert Lopresti 27 February, 2014 10:09
You and I are muy simpatico on short stories, which means I should read Maugham. Don't think I ever have.
Most of the authors you list appear on my list of fifty best mystery stories. One of my favorite Collier stories is an absolutely horrifying story about a pedophile. And what is so horrifying is that the guy is so sweet and lovable. That's the point - he couldn't get away with it if he wasn't.
Have you run across Avram Davidson? "The Necessity of His Condition" and "The Lord of Central Park" are two of his masterpieces, although they have nothing else in common. "The Lord of..." would make a great movie, a simple story of the Mafia, the Nafia, a plot to blow up the Broolyn Navy Yard, Hudson River Pirates, and the Lord High Keeper of the Queen's Bears....
Rob, I haven't read much Avram Davison, but I'll check him out. Have you read Cordwainer Smith's short stories? "Scanners Live in Vain" and the whole "Lords of Instrumentality" series? "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell", and "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" are amazing...
David Edgerley Gates 27 February, 2014 20:15
Kipling is of course better at the short than the long. One of the first Maugham stories I ever read was "Red," which has probably colored (no pun intended) my stories ever since. Love this post.
Jeff Baker 27 February, 2014 21:51
The British horror writer Ramsey Campbell has written plenty of short stories. He (and I) would gush over M.R. James and August Derleth.
Leigh Lundin 27 February, 2014 23:56
I agree, Eve. Looking back, I'm amazed my parents let me absorb so much Lovecraft and Shirley Jackson.
I'm afraid I'm a lone voice speaking out against The Speckled Band. That's the one Holmes story I don't care for and yet it's one of his most popular.
That's all right, Leigh - as I said, I can't read "A Scandal in Bohemia" any more.
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There are so many places that we want to visit in the world. Some of these are actually countries that we want to explore, others are hotels, resorts or destinations that just look amazing. I've decided to share our current family travel bucket list, so that we can hopefully tick them off over the years. Although I suspect as one place gets ticked off, another one will get added!
The Maldives – this is probably top on my list. I'm not sure Simon is quite as keen as he worries that he'll get bored. For me though, it looks like the ultimate luxury escape. I think the kids would love swimming and playing in the sea and on the beach all day long. If we went, I'd probably try and stay in Dubai either before or after.
New England – we've been to America quite a bit, although never to New England. We'd obviously go in the fall and is probably one for when the kids are a few years older.
New York – Simon and I have been twice and we love it. I'm really keen to take the kids as I think there's so much we'll be able to do.
Hawaii – Another one where Simon and I have already been. We went for our honeymoon and absolutely loved it, we particularly liked Maui. I'd like to explore some of the other islands and would also love to stay at Aulani, which is a Disney resort in Ko Olina. It looks absolutely amazing!
Venice – probably one for a child-free weekend, so although not strictly family travel, I've never been and is definitely somewhere I want to go.
The Greek Islands/Santorini – I've been to Kos and Rhodes before but I'd love to explore some of the other Greek Islands. Santorini looks particularly picturesque.
Turks and Caicos Islands – TCI looks beautiful and I'd really love to stop at the Beaches resort there. I think we'd all love it.
Japan – This one is high up on Simon and Oscar's list, as they're really keen to go. Although it's not top of my list, I'd definitely like to go.
Australia – I'd love to explore Sydney and the Gold Coast. The only thing holding me back is the long flight time. I'm a nervous flyer and it is such a long flight.
The Atlantis, Bahamas – we've stopped at the Atlantis resort in Dubai a couple of time and both times we absolutely loved it. The Atlantis at the Bahamas looks bigger and I'd love to experience it.
Niagra Falls – quite explanatory really, it's all about the views.
Ranch holiday – I would love to take the kids to stay on a ranch in America. After a quick Google search, I found this place in Arizona, which looks perfect. It's luxurious, has a great kids programme, a good range of activities and a fab pool. I think it would be perfect for all of us.
The Florida Keys – we've been to Miami and Orlando, but we've never been to the Florida Keys and it looks amazing. I'd probably like to do a couple of the Keys. Maybe Key West and one of the others.
African safari – don't get me wrong, I'd be scared as I'm a bit of a whimp and not the most adventurous traveller. However, i'm sure this would be such an amazing experience.
What's on your family travel bucket list?
Ah so many amazing choices that I totally agree with! I think for me it would be Thailand, and I think my boys have a few cricket destinations on their bucket lists, starting with Sri Lanka!


Do you create how-to videos for your YouTube channel, or online course? In this video, I share the 5 biggest mistakes people make when creating how-to videos.
Show the viewer all the parts and tools they're gonna need to complete the task. And do it near the beginning of the video, before you jump into the steps. Doing this will prevent frustrating surprises for your viewer, and help them get in the proper mindset to effectively follow your instructions.
I can't tell you how many how-to videos I've watched where the sound was either too quiet, or too echoey, or just too distorted. Good, clear sound is important to any video, but when it comes to how-to videos, it's vital. The soundtrack (narration, sync sound) carries the bulk of the information. Our brains can work with less-than-perfect visuals, but horrible sound is just way too distracting.
I see this a lot: how-to videos that rush through the information. I get it, you don't want to be boring. But you're doing your viewer a disservice, if they can't follow your video. Slow down your delivery, and pause between complete thoughts to give your viewer a chance to absorb the information. Approach creating your video as if the viewer has only one chance to watch it, and they can't pause it, or rewind it.
I've seen far many how-to videos that consisted solely of one, big wide-shot for the entire video. No close-ups. Without close-ups we can't see the necessary details needed to complete the task. From an instructional point of view, a how-to video like that it essentially useless. So, don't be lazy. Don't rely on the spoken instructions to carry your how-to video. Get in there, reposition the camera, record the close-ups, capture the necessary details of the task. Your viewer will love you for it.
There you have it. Avoid those 5 big mistakes, and you'll be well on your way to creating engaging, and effective how-to videos.
My daughter asked me earlier to help her with a 'How To…' video, so this comes in very handy. Perfect timing!
If I may ask, how do you get the currently playing video (small screen bottom right) to scroll along with the page? Are you using a plug-in?
Excellent advice, Michael, as always– but if I may, I'd like to add a sixth. A musical background on what is basically a tutorial is incongruous. Music is used to set a mood or to enhance an emotion, and mood and emotion are far separated from whatever you're teaching in a tutorial. Worst of all is those producers who insist on ear-blasting rap music which is totally distracting, sometimes even aggravating and it runs completely counter to the learning process. It creates more of an impediment than an aid.


We remember to do things when we are reminded by something; often called a trigger. Like passing a mailbox and remembering you need to get that birthday card sent. Many things that we want to remember we schedule into our week and make them routine. Like what household chores we do when (Wednesday – windows and water plants). Did you know that it is possible to set triggers for yourself to help you remember?
how do we set triggers?
Find something that you do on a regular basis that you can 'tie' a trigger to. What do you do on a regular basis? Driving, making lunches, taking out the garbage… anything that you do over and over will work. Can you think of something that has some connection to what it is you are wanting to remember or pray for? That will make it easier to remember to make that connection. Below I've got the things I am trying to set triggers for, as well as some examples from others. Hopefully you can find some ideas to help you set triggers for what you are wanting to make a habit in your life.
Need help remembering to pray? Learn how to set triggers!
what do I need triggers for?
I need reminders of my goals for N and for me as a parent – printables help, but I am still working on having something to quote to myself when I first feel annoyance or anger rising up. (Is this anger going to help him become the person we want? Will this anger help diffuse the situation? Can this emotion help bring the calm?) Using the feelings as a trigger to remember these ideas will help me remember the bigger picture and keep self-controlled.
Praying for specific things – our kids and some imminent things in their lives, our businesses & finances, requests from friends… Coffee can be a trigger! I usually make myself a cup right after breakfast, and often after lunch. I will use the time the coffee is brewing to pray for my daughter who finishes high school this year and specifically for her plans for the next few years. That will be a great use of that time, and it's something that repeats often. My wallet – what could be a better trigger to pray for our finances than remembering to every time I pull out a card to pay for something? As far as praying for specific people, I have a photo frame over my sewing desk that holds 24 photos. I keep pictures of my nieces and nephews in there and use that as a trigger to pray for them while I'm sewing. I could also add photos of other people or families that I am wanting to pray for.
as the bus goes by – at one point when my daughter was in middle years in school, I would watch her get on the bus every day. As the bus drove away, I would use it as a trigger to pray for her and all of her classmates. I actually blogged a lot of those prayers – you can find them here along with a super cute picture of my kids when they were younger!
I know a businessman who once told me that every morning when he got to work and reached for the door, he would pray for the success of his business. That's a great trigger.
Another friend would set her watch to beep on the hour. She would stop work for 5 minutes, get a glass of water and pray for whoever she had on her list for that hour. I was being coached by her when she told me this and was honored to be one of the people she prayed for on one of her water prayer breaks.
I'd love your input here – can you share what triggers you use or brainstorm with me?
Thanks Carolyn! I find that when days are off schedule it is the hardest to get things back on track. You're right often it is the little things that bring us back to the most important privilege of prayer.
It does take a bit of work to make the associations stick, but so worth it!


Internet activists can have a Facebook group or an email list running or organise a protest before a print paper can go to press.
So why do revolutionaries put so much effort into writing, printing and selling a newspaper like Socialist Worker? Why not drop the paper and use the resources to build a bigger presence on the internet instead?
The internet has created a real crisis for the mainstream media, but socialist papers are trying to achieve something quite different. Our papers are central to organising and creating networks.
For active socialists the interaction with our readers is as important as the number of them. We use the paper to organise.
When someone buys Socialist Worker outside a workplace it helps them to organise at work and shows a commitment to the paper's ideas that is different from sharing comments on an internet site.
Selling the paper identifies Socialist Worker supporters as committed socialists in a way that setting up a blog does not.
Socialist Worker sellers were able to engage with strikers on British Airways picket lines as pickets came to respect the paper because of its consistent support for their struggle.
The web can also atomise the way a paper is read. Socialist Worker selects and brings together articles in the print edition in a way that is hard to repeat online.
This link to organisation and clarifying ideas has existed as long as there have been socialist papers.
The first mass workers' paper was the Northern Star, produced in the mid-19th century by the world's first mass workers' movement, the Chartists.
In a largely illiterate society it was often read out to groups of workers—but meeting together also helped the workers to agree on their ideas and organise.
The Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin ran the most important socialist newspaper, Pravda—the paper of the Bolshevik party.
In the run up to the 1917 Russian revolution its writing and distribution was vital to building the Bolshevik party.
As Lenin put it, "A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser.
"In this respect it may be compared to the scaffolding erected round a building under construction.
And, though sales have declined in Britain, people still buy an average of ten million newspapers every day. The Sun alone sells almost three million a day.
But the fact that the Chartists and the Bolsheviks succeeded using printed papers isn't in itself an argument for continuing to produce a newspaper today.
While we may live in the age of the internet, almost one in three people in Britain still don't have internet access—many of them among the poorest in society.
Beyond this, reading articles online, even revolutionary ones, can be an isolating experience.
We should never underestimate the enormous benefit the growth of the internet has provided revolutionaries—as were the spread of affordable printing, the telephone, the photocopier and mobile phones.
But what we are trying to achieve is different from most newspapers.
While Facebook groups have been very useful in organising protests and bringing people together, without a more solid form of network they are a poor predictor of how many people will actually show up at an event.
Socialist Worker uses the familiar form of a tabloid newspaper, but subverts it to tackle the ideas of the ruling class instead of reinforcing them—giving voice to th e most radical parts of workers' experiences.
Regular face-to-face sales on the street, in a college or to a work colleague allows sellers to establish a political relationship with readers and discuss from week to week about what's going on in the world—and how we can change it.


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Back to: Literary Theory in English Literature
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) was a poet, playwright, and literary critic. He held dual citizenship of the U.K. and America. T. S. Eliot's poetry represented a departure from romanticism. His poetry was marked by cynicism and a modernism questioning of traditional values and norms.
His poetry had modernist expressions. T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), delineated a sense of decay within life which was one major philosophic trait within modernism.
Prufrock symbolized physical and intellectual impotency. Prufrock was an anti-hero. He had insecurities about his physical appearance and he had spiritual pretensions. The poet has also mocked his misplaced sense of pride when Prufrock compared himself with the universe.
T. S. Eliot's "Hollow Men" (1925), represented a hollowness of life and ignominy which cannot be brought down. The poem shows the uneventfulness of life where people don't get any deliverance from their personal hells. The poem is also a reflection of the broken modern life where heroism is absent.
T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (1922), is modernist poetry which is divided into 5 parts. The five parts are as follows –
The Burial of the Dead
A Game of Chess
The Fire Sermon
Death by Water
What the Thunder Said
The poem represented fragmented humanity after the world war. The poem alludes several times to classic literature and tells tales of suffering, damnation, ignominy, death, rebirth, lost ecstasy, pain, etc. The poem also brought in themes related to love, spirituality, infidelity, decay, etc. It is also a diagnosis of the predicament of civilization.
The poem also alluded to "Shanti" to convey a sense of peace. The poem concludes with the sense that destruction leads to regeneration. T.S. Eliot also wrote "Tradition and the Individual Talent". The literary text talks about a sense of balance between tradition and individual talent. It argued that individual genius cannot be divorced from tradition.
He argued that individual acts of artistic creation cannot be created in a void. It thus means that artistic creation has to allude to the past or tradition to establish a lineage within the literature.
He also wrote "Hamlet and His Problems" where he talked about "objective correlative", which establishes a connection between living things and objects. His other notable works include "Ash Wednesday" (1930), Four Quartets (1943), The Cocktail Party (1949), Murder in the Cathedral (1935). T. S. Eliot was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1948.
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Every woman has questions and concerns about her pregnancy. The safety and health of the unborn child is going to be a main concern. The following information should help you to know how to take care of yourself, so that you can take care of the baby that is growing in your tummy.
Try not to gain excessive amounts of weight when pregnant. If you gain more weight than you should, you can negatively impact your own health after pregnancy. An average size woman should only gain between 15 to 30 pounds during a normal pregnancy.
Have someone else fill up the gas tank in your car. Gas fumes can actually have a negative impact on your unborn child. It's always better to ask someone for help than risk it.
Take a break from changing your cat's litter box for awhile. Cat feces may be contaminated with a harmful parasitic infection that can be passed to you through handling the litter. Have your spouse, neighbor, friend or family member change the litter in your home until the baby is born.
Take the time to do a hospital visit before giving birth there. Tour and meet all the staff. This can help set your mind at ease and provide the answers to many of the questions you may have. Bring the father along too since they will communicate with the staff when you're in labor.
Think about getting a doula. Doulas are individuals trained to coach women through the birthing process. They are a wealth of information on pregnancy, as well as a calming presence. They are also a great support for your partner during the delivery.
If you have a medical condition or a cold, try to use non-medical treatments. Over-the-counter medicine can hurt your fetus. Check out information online from Dr. Mercola and similar websites. You can also ask your doctor for any tricks that they have.
Ensure that you understand all of the symptoms and signs of going into labor prematurely. Research as much as possible, so you know when it's time to contact your doctor.
In late pregnancy it's common to experience leg cramps. Be sure that you're stretching your legs before climbing into bed so that you won't have to deal with them. Getting sufficient hydration is also key to warding off cramps, just as increased potassium will also help.
You'll be able to schedule child birthing classes better if you sign up for them early. Don't procrastinate with the dates because you can't always control when the baby decides to arrive.
Your nose might become hypersensitive during pregnancy, so odors you encounter on a daily basis might now cause nausea. If this happens to you often, keep a tissue with some lavender or lemon oil on hand. You can pull out the handkerchief and whiff the oil when passing stinky garbage cans, or other odors that bother you.


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Q: How to detect if UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession is active on device, iOS swift? I know how to put app into Single app mode programmatically, provided that Autonomous single app mode persimmon is granted by MDM server to App.
This link have detail description about how to lock app in single app mode too.
Code to Apply single app mode as below -
UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession(true){
            success in
            completionBlock(success)
        }

My Question/Requirement is, detect if app is running in Autonomous single single app mode or UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession is enabled, if it's enabled then only show alert to user and ask if he wish to disable Single App mode.
I Tried to detect using UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled() but it's of no use, as return value is always false.

A: You can use BOOL UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled(void); to get that information.
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You could also try to add UIGuidedAccessRestrictionDelegate and then react to
func UIGuidedAccessRestrictionStateForIdentifier(_ restrictionIdentifier: String) -> UIGuidedAccessRestrictionState

Remember though, guided access needs to be enabled by the user (triple tap home button). Not from the settings!

A: So @Akaino answer is right, but UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled method wasn't working as expected due to i used to apply code below on didFinishLaunchingWithOptions hence it wasn't working properly
UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession(true){
            success in
            completionBlock(success)
        }

When i applied same code above on viewDidLoad() method, UIAccessibilityIsGuidedAccessEnabled is working as expected.


Go north and east on SR 62 to SR 247 in Yucca Valley. Go left (north).
At 8.0 miles, fork. Go either way as the roads rejoin after 1/4 mile.
At 8.6 miles, fork. Go straight.
At 9.2 miles, fork. Park here.
From the parking area (5320'), hike southwest up the road about 500' to a fork.
Go right at this fork and hike about 1/2 mile, going through a junction to the end of the road at a burned out cabin site.
Continue up the jeep road southwest towards the peak. The peak is in view as a rounded summit with a smaller one to its left (south).
Leave the road wherever convenient and hike directly up to the summit.
Meeks Mountain and the land surrounding it is private property and the owners request that their privacy be respected by using only the existing published route coming in from the North side and to please not enter or exit from the South, West, or East sides.


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package com.github.dwickern;

/**
 * Created by dwickern on 10/28/2016.
 */
public class JavaMain {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello world!");
    }
}

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package org.apache.accumulo.core.util.format;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TimeZone;
import java.util.TreeMap;

import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Key;
import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Value;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class DateStringFormatterTest {
  DateStringFormatter formatter;

  Map<Key,Value> data;

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    formatter = new DateStringFormatter();
    data = new TreeMap<Key,Value>();
    data.put(new Key("", "", "", 0), new Value());
  }

  @Test
  public void testTimestamps() {
    formatter.initialize(data.entrySet(), true);
    formatter.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));

    assertTrue(formatter.hasNext());
    assertTrue(formatter.next().endsWith("1970/01/01 00:00:00.000"));
  }

  @Test
  public void testNoTimestamps() {
    data.put(new Key("", "", "", 1), new Value());

    assertEquals(2, data.size());

    formatter.initialize(data.entrySet(), false);

    assertEquals(formatter.next(), formatter.next());
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}


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Emirates Airline selects UTC Aerospace Systems C.A.R.E. program for A380 maintenance
CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Emirates Airline has selected UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), for asset management and repair services of components and systems on its fleet of Airbus A380 aircraft.
As part of the customized 15-year C.A.R.E. program agreement UTC Aerospace Systems, under its Comprehensive Accessory Repair and Exchange (C.A.R.E.) program, will provide inventory support and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for 115 A380s operated by Emirates. Products covered under the agreement include air management systems, engine and actuations systems components and the supplemental cooling system.
"UTC Aerospace Systems has a long-standing relationship with Emirates, and we're proud to now support the world's largest fleet of A380s through our unique C.A.R.E. program," said Jim Patrick, Vice President of Commercial Aviation for UTC Aerospace Systems Customer Service. "With this program, we are able to provide Emirates with convenient access to assets in Dubai and more predictable maintenance to support their dispatch reliability targets."
UTC Aerospace Systems' C.A.R.E. plans provide flexible component maintenance support and deliver reliable, customer-focused solutions that are supported by 6,000 customer service employees in 60 OEM design, repair, and overhaul facilities around the world.
UTC Aerospace Systems designs, manufactures and services integrated systems and components for the aerospace and defense industries. UTC Aerospace Systems supports a global customer base, with significant worldwide manufacturing and customer service facilities.
United Technologies Corp., based in Farmington, Connecticut, provides high-technology systems and services to the building and aerospace industries. To learn more about UTC, visit the website at www.utc.com or follow the company on Twitter: @UTC.
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How many people died in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? It's complicated. Historian Alex Wellerstein examines the conflicting reports, observing that various numbers are deployed primarily as a form of moral calculus. Read more.
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Many A-bomb survivors have long been working as storytellers at the cost of their emotional pain. Why have the urgings of the victims of the atomic bombings and of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the abolition of nuclear weapons been betrayed for so long? Read the message from Hidehiko Yuzaki, governor of Hiroshima Prefecture. Read more.
The atomic bomb and common security
Since the first use of nuclear weapons in war, 75 years ago today, people concerned with the danger of large-scale nuclear war keep rediscovering a powerful tool for its prevention. Richard Rhodes outlines the "only answer to the clear and present danger of nuclear destruction." Read more.
Statement from the Bulletin's Science and Security Board
On the 75th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin's Science and Security Board calls on all states to use their scientific and technical prowess to reduce rather than increase nuclear risks and refrain from new nuclear weapon capabilities that fuel nuclear arms races. Read more.
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With both COVID-19 and nuclear weapons, we have no choice but to call upon the remarkable capacity of the human species for adaptation. Such adaptation is by no means passive and must combine political will with scientific knowledge. Read more.
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Inside Alan McGee's forthcoming Creation Stories biopic
by Mark Sutherland
August 21st 2020 at 7:00AM
How many of today's label executives will have a biopic made about their career?
That remains to be seen, but Alan McGee – the man who founded the original Creation Records and brought you Oasis, Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine – is about to receive that honour.
Creation Stories – based on McGee's 2013 autobiography of the same name – has been executive produced by Danny Boyle and written by author Irvine Welsh. To cement the Trainspotting links, McGee is played by Ewen Bremner, who played Spud in that film. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels' Nick Moran is directing.
McGee is still in the game with his new label Creation 23 and his artist management company, where he looks after the likes of Happy Mondays, Cast and Glasvegas. While a cinema release date looks uncertain amidst the current coronavirus restrictions, he confirmed to Music Week that the film is almost finished, to the point that he's been showing a rough cut to his current artists.
"I have people round to the flat and I'm showing them," he told Music Week. "I was showing [Creation 23 signing] Cat SFX the film and she said, 'You're not really as manic and dramatic as that'. And I said, 'I maybe was at one point, but I haven't been for a long time…'. But it's artistic licence. There are characters in the film that don't exist [in real life]. But I can see who people are going to think some of them are! It's going to be funny. There are some characters I've never met, but Irvine's created the character."
McGee's story actually needs little enhancement – his recent Music Week Aftershow interview was stuffed with tales of Oasis, drugs and having Bill Clinton as a houseguest, with the heady days of the original Creation resembling a real life Kill Your Friends.
"It's really funny," he said. "The real truth is, I don't know if I'm that dramatic – but the bottom line is, it's a film so that's what it's like. That's the way these things go down. I like John Niven's book but, in my book, it's real. The people actually were fucking insane."
McGee's life is a lot quieter now, but he remains as ambitious for his artists – which include The Clockworks, Shambolics and The K's – as he was when he helped make Oasis the biggest band in the world.
"If that comes to me again, it comes," he said. "When I first started Creation in the '80s, my first record was by The Legend! If I was trying to be fucking massive at that point, it definitely eluded me! I was just putting records out and then, what happens is what I'm sure will end up happening with this: you sign somebody who starts happening, you see the realms of possibility open up, you get a hard-on for it and then you decide to do it.
"At the moment, I'm just putting records out. But I'm not naïve enough to think that something won't break through eventually, because it always does with me."
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The VR-8 Indalo is a Flow Wrapping machine with rotating-head. It is complete with the necessary devices for packaging products without in-line support. It includes a 4-meter conveyor and an innovative "No Product No Bag" system.
The VR-8 Master is the top of the line flow wrapper in the VR-8 line and is our most versatile and flexible Flow Wrapping solution. It is available with multiple upgrades including a wider roller and bigger sealing head. The VR-8 Master is able to handle packages up to 33.5".
The VR-7 are an upper sealing flow wrap system made from tubular steel. Independent motors allow for versatility in packaging speeds and easy material handling. The VR-7 Flow Wrapper is a top sealing flow wrap unit that is ideal for large leaf and round products.
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Flow wrap is a versatile product used to wrap solid products in a protective seal or for unitizing lose products for retail. Available in both automatic and semi-automatic formats Crawford Packaging has the right flow wrap machine to fit your packaging needs.
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A safari with a difference. Spend your days exploring the Selinda Spillway by getting up close to nature in a canoe or on foot.
In 2009 subtle movement of tectonic plates caused the waters of the Okavango River to flow where they had not done for nearly three decades, flowing east along the previously dry Selinda Spillway. This opened the way for an adventurous experience, a canoeing trail along the Spillway. Nature is never predictable here in the Okavango Delta and the waters levels vary each year so we now offer a canoeing and walking trail or a pure walking trail – depending on the water levels – each exciting in their own right.
The canoeing adventure entails a traditional canoe and the walking safari follows the course of the water, exploring side channels of the Selinda Spillway along the way. The experience you are offered will depend on the water levels when you arrive. Either way, it will be an unforgettable adventure which starts at the Selinda Airstrip where you hop off your light aircraft and immediately transfer to a helicopter which will take you to the remote starting point of your trail. If you are walking, you will cover just over 20km in the 5 days and if you are travelling by canoe you will cover about 40km, all the while soaking up the scenery and experiencing the wildlife that you will come across.
All four nights will be spent in fly camps along the Selinda Spillway at pre-arranged sites. You are not expected to erect your own tent or help with the cooking and camp chores as experienced staff are on hand. Walk-in 3m x 2.4m Flex-Bow tents are provided as they are comfortable and large enough for two people. Screened, bucket showers with hot and cold water are also supplied.
If you are canoeing, each canoe has two guests as well as their bed rolls and soft bags. You will paddle your own canoe each day going with the current. No previous paddling, canoeing or walking safari experience is needed but a moderate level of fitness is required.
On the pure walking trail you will be supplied with a day pack which will include water. You will always be accompanied by a qualified, armed walking guide as well as an experieced tracker as you explore the banks of the Spillway water and the more remote areas of the Selinda Reserve.
*canoe is dependent on water levels.
The adventure trail is best suited to children aged 14 and over due to walking distances.
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Push to allow professional athletes took hold in 1968 Olympic Games
Ross Andrews | Monday, Oct. 15, 2018
Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), addresses a meeting of the IOC at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, in 1965. Brundage was against allowing athletes to train for more than four to six weeks or allowing professionals to compete in the Olympics. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the seminal moment of the Mexico City Games, when Americans John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised a black-gloved fist from the medals podium, GlobalSport Matters looks back at the year from a global sporting perspective. From the World Series helping a wounded Detroit heal to athletic innovations that trace their origins to those Olympics, 1968 served as a critical pivot point in the role sports plays in society and introduced the modern era of athlete activism. To see all of our stories, please click here.
The athletes' amateur status was a point of pride for the Olympic movement for decades.
Any participant who accepted financial benefit for their performance was considered professional, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) acted quickly to cast out anyone who attempted to tip-toe that line.
The word amateur is derived from the Latin term, amator, which means lover. Preserving the purity of the games by allowing to compete only those who did so simply because of a love of their craft, allowed the IOC to seemingly be untainted by the culture of cheating and scandal that was deeply entrenched in professional sport in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
That distinction and its enforcement were what made the Olympics, the Olympics. Right?
Even Avery Brundage, the IOC president from 1952-1972 and a staunch supporter of preserving amateurism in the Olympics, said in 1955: "We can only rely on the support of those who believe in the principles of fair play and sportsmanship embodied in the amateur code in our efforts to prevent the games from being used by individuals, organizations or nations for ulterior motives."
So how did regulations regarding sponsorship and amateur code change so significantly from the beginning of the modern Olympic Games to now?
After World War II, the forces that drove the Olympic sports world were drastically different than before the war. The 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, in particular, served as the catalyst for change. They were the first to be broadcast around the world in color and with state-of-the-art technology and expert commentary set the gold standard of coverage of future Olympic Games.
However, while coverage of the Mexico City Games was overshadowed by political statements, arguably the most important development from the games was the clash of beliefs and shockwaves created over the core Olympic philosophy: amateurism.
Pre- 1968
Amateurism at the birth of the modern Olympic Games was of paramount importance.
When Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the ancient institution of international competition in the 1894 Paris Congress, two sub-committees that would govern competition were created: the Olympic committee and the Amateurism committee.
At this point in the history of the games, amateurism was less about the creation of a standard for purity and equality in competition.
According to a 2006 essay written by Simon Fraser University professor Richard Gruneau de Coubertin was primarily concerned about recreating the 'aesthetic' of sport, in addition to simply participating in it, a quality of the origins of the Games in ancient Greece that they placed so much emphasis on.
Gruneau said, "these aesthetics – of classically-sculpted male bodies; mythical flames and torches; flags, ritual ceremonies and mass displays; paintings, sculptures, hymns and poetry; and public incantations of honour and duty – briefly gave amateur sport a cultural status that no form of sport in western life ever had in the past."
While the word amateur at this point was still relatively unknown and undefined, de Coubertin gave it a strong ideological tie to the Olympics that proved very difficult to one day strip away.
The popularity of the Olympics began to grow during the major international conflicts in the early 1900s. The international bragging rights that came along with winning Olympic events on a grand stage gave the IOC an unprecedented amount of publicity.
"These aesthetics – of classically-sculpted male bodies; mythical flames and torches; flags, ritual ceremonies and mass displays; paintings, sculptures, hymns and poetry; and public incantations of honour and duty – briefly gave amateur sport a cultural status that no form of sport in western life ever had in the past." - Simon Fraser University professor Richard Gruneau
Because amateurs were competing, the playing field seemed even when it came to Olympic competition. The battlefield was ruled by the best militaries, but the track could be conquered by anyone who put their mind to it.
The environment brought about feelings of nationalism in every participating country that amateurs – regular athletes who love their craft – could end up being national heroes.
However, issues with the institution of amateurism began to surface throughout the early and middle years of the 1900s.
Competition breeds innovation, so while the national importance and coverage of the Olympics began to grow, so did the hunger and willingness to do what it took to win.
Doping at the Olympic Games began to spread in the 1950s and 60s as technological advancements in medicine allowed it, and as athletes began to realize the edge they could gain by using.
Doping to enhance physical performance in competition was seen historically as something only acceptable in professional competition, doing whatever it takes to win regardless of the consequences. Amateurs using drugs however attacked the purity of the Olympic movement.
It became apparent to Brundage that changes to the IOC Olympic structure and rules were imminent.
Mexico City Games in 1968
The Mexico City Games had other drawbacks than just a rise of rampant illicit drug use for performance enhancement. Athletes and researchers were concerned about the altitude of Mexico City, and it became apparent that change was going to be essential in allowing athletes to properly prepare for how the altitude change would affect their bodies.
When Mexico City bid for the Olympics, the issues regarding competing at altitude existed, but weren't viewed as a major problem. However, as researchers began to look further into the impact of altitude on training and red blood cells, they discovered a big difference between competing at low and high altitudes.
Researchers held pre-Olympic research events every year for the four years leading up to the 1968 games in Mexico City, using around 200-500 athletes from more than 30 countries in their research.
Ernst Joel, one of the doctors that conducted detailed experiments during these events, recommended to the IOC that athletes begin training at high altitude up to three months before the games in order to acclimate the body fully to the rigors of competition at such a high altitude.
"The pros are there for a reason. People will tune in to watch athletes they know. The pro athletes are pre-sold to the public, which means increased viewership." - Journalist Ron Rappoport
Avery Brundage, the IOC president at the time, was faced with a new issue: the amount of time athletes trained for the Olympics. Four weeks of hard training and preparation before the Olympics was the amateur standard for years. Brundage and his predecessors believed an even playing field with amateur athletes meant a limit to the training allowed before competition.
Four weeks was a short enough period that it meant athletes were still considered amateurs by the IOC. It enabled them to work another job and meant no one country could use its resources to support athletes taking off work longer amounts of time.
For Brundage, his staunch belief in amateurism had to be preserved. He and the IOC allotted an extra two weeks of training, bumping the amount from four to six weeks training before the Olympics.
However, the Olympics becoming one of the premier sporting events in history had unintended consequences. Athletes began to be offered more and more money for their services. Adidas and Puma, for example, acted quickly to try and snag Olympic athletes to market their brands, and the marketability of these athletes ballooned as television became more prominent covering the Olympics.
The 1968 Summer Olympics was the threshold of all of these issues: Altitude and scientific research, doping and drug testing, and even the profitability and mass media consumption of premiere Olympic athletes.
How are they connected?
Through the ancient Olympic precedent of amateurism.
Rule 26 of the Olympic charter states an athlete "must observe and abide by' IOC rules and the rules of 'his or her international federation' and must not have 'received any financial rewards or material benefit in connection with his or her sports participation, except as permitted' by the international federation.
Chris Mullin (L), Charles Barkley (M) and Magic Johnson (R) of Team USA, the Dream Team, on the victor's podium after winning the gold medal in the men's basketball competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The change in the amateurism rule allowed professionals like NBA and NHL players to participate in the games. (Photo by Icon Sportswire)
The IOC used Rule 26 as a way of incorporating anti-doping policies into the eligibility for competition component of its rules. Although there were rules in place regarding doping before 1968, it was the Mexico City Games that catapulted issues regarding the rules and regulations put in place by the IOC into prominence among those in the Olympic community.
In the years following the 1968 Mexico City Games, athletes had progressively been fighting against this seemingly outdated charter. Feelings that amateurism was essential in Olympic sport were starting to fade. The revenue generated by the Olympics was great, and sponsors wishing to give huge wealth to stars competing in the games grew tremendously, putting a wrench into the traditions of the Olympic movement.
"The pros are there for a reason," said journalist Ron Rappoport, who has covered six Olympics. "People will tune in to watch athletes they know. The pro athletes are pre-sold to the public, which means increased viewership."
Many countries, such as East Germany and the Soviet Union, were already were operating as de facto professionals anyway, forcing the IOC to make a decision regarding professionalism in the Olympics sooner than later.
By 1980, the move for professionalism was in full swing.
According to a New York Times article published by Dave Anderson in 1984, multiple hockey players were barred from Olympic competition due to their professional level of play, either in the NHL or in other leagues world-wide.
However, three athletes with similar backgrounds were allowed to participate. Two had signed NHL entry-level contracts but had not stepped onto the ice. Another had played in more than 300 career games in the World Hockey Association.
"We indeed have to remove the contradictions and the hypocrisy that exist," said then Secretary of the Treasury and President of the United States Olympic Committee Bill Simon. "We ought to have an eligibility rule that all 151 nations in the Olympic movement can understand, a simple definition. And that definition should be that an amateur is a person who participates without pay. That's a pretty simple step."
In reality, only a few sports such as hockey, figure skating, boxing, basketball, soccer and cycling would be seriously affected by professionals joining the games.
By 1986, the IOC's long fight over amateurism was waning. Rules were put in place that shifted control of determining who could compete in the Olympics from the IOC to the respective sports' international federations.
"I don't want to see the Olympics degenerate into another forum for professional sports," said Robert Helmick, then the president of the United States Olympic Committee and International Swimming Federation (FINA), at the time the rules changes were being contemplated. 'And I don't like the present archaic rules. There's a middle ground. We say each sport should look at itself independently, make its own eligibility rules and enforce them."
It was initially thought the Olympic spirit would be lost once professionals were allowed to participate, and although many favored changing the rules, the change to the institution as a whole was significant.
This led to the influx of individual trust funds to help support amateur athlete competitors in non-traditional sports such as skiing. It opened the door for runners and others to accept prize money, sponsorships and endorsements to fund their training.
It also led to some impactful sports moments and teams, such as the fabled USA's men's basketball "Dream Team" in 1992.
The long history of amateurism as an embodiment of the Olympic spirit was an idea engraved in the roots of the modern Olympics.
By the 1968 Mexico City Olympics however, issues surrounding eligibility, anti-doping and altitude forced a complete revisiting of the ideals of amateurism, one of the more intriguing policies at the Olympics' core and one that couldn't survive the modern era games that Mexico City ushered in.
Ross Andrews is a senior journalism student at Arizona State University
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Biden to meet Democrats Sinema, Manchin on voting rights
Steve Holland and Richard Cowan
President Joe Biden's attempt to rally Democrats on Thursday to alter Senate rules and pass voting-rights laws was stymied even before he arrived at the U.S. Capitol, by opposition from a key moderate lawmaker.
U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said in a speech https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-sinema-defends-filibuster-despite-bidens-plea-reform-it-2022-01-13 on the Senate floor on Thursday – less than an hour before Biden's lunchtime arrival – that the "filibuster rule" that allows a minority of senators to block legislation was necessary to prevent worsening political divisions in the country.
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After Biden left the Capitol following his meeting with Democrats, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin joined Sinema in opposing changes to the filibuster.
Biden is set to continue pressing his case with Sinema and Manchin, who arrived at the White House on Thursday evening, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Yet, as he left the Capitol, the president acknowledged his party may not succeed in getting a voting rights bill passed.
"I hope we can get this done, but I'm not sure," Biden told reporters. "But one thing for certain: With every other major civil rights bill that came along, if we missed the first time, we can come back and try it a second time."
Biden and many fellow Democrats have ratcheted up their campaign to pass voting-rights https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-champion-voting-rights-georgia-clock-ticks-reforms-2022-01-11 legislation after spending much of his first year in office on infrastructure and spending bills focused on COVID-19 relief, infrastructure and social safety-net programs.
They are pushing new legislation that they say would protect access to the ballot, particularly for minority voters, at a time when Republican-controlled states are enacting a wave of new restrictions ahead of the Nov. 8 congressional elections.
Non-white voters disproportionately support Democratic candidates for federal office.
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a voting bill on Thursday. But Democrats cannot overcome universal Republican opposition in the Senate without changing the chamber's filibuster rule https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-senate-democrats-mull-ending-filibuster-pass-voting-rights-reform-2022-01-11, which requires 60 of the 100 senators to agree on most legislation.
"This is a defining moral moment," Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock said. "I was heartened by the words of the president."
Independent Senator Angus King, who caucuses with the Democrats, said he thought Biden made a powerful case.
"It looks like the path forward is very difficult, particularly based on Senator Sinema's statement today," he said. "She believes that the risk of changing the filibuster is greater than the risk of what's going on in the states. I hope profoundly that she's right. I fear that she's wrong."
Democrats, who hold just 50 seats in the Senate, remain divided on how to get around the rule that has hampered them.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-meet-with-senate-democrats-voting-rights-thursday-aide-2022-01-12 outlined a strategy to ensure a Senate floor debate on voting rights, after three separate attempts last year were stymied by Republicans.
The House repackaged and passed two elections-related bills as one, sending it to the Senate under a special procedure preventing Republicans from blocking debate. The bill was approved along party lines.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday reiterated that Republicans oppose Democrats' voting-rights legislation and changes to the filibuster.
Democratic former President Barack Obama wrote in a USA Today opinion piece on Thursday that the filibuster rule has become a common tool for the chamber's minority to obstruct moves supported by the majority of voters.
"We can't allow it to be used to block efforts to protect our democracy," Obama wrote.
(Additional reporting by David Morgan, Jarrett Renshaw and Moira Warburton; Writing by Jarrett Renshaw, Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Mary Milliken, Heather Timmons, Grant McCool, Jonathan Oatis and Cynthia Osterman)


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Dedicated 9–11 October 1994
by Howard W. Hunter
O God, Our Eternal Father, thou Great Elohim, we bow our heads before thee in reverence and love. We are met to dedicate this thy holy house.
We thank thee for this beautiful structure, and for the purposes for which it has been built. We thank thee for the eternal priesthood restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith, which will be exercised herein. We thank thee, above all, for the atonement of thy Beloved Son through whose sacrifice salvation and eternal life are made possible. We thank thee for the ordinances of this house which will be administered in behalf of the dead as well as the living. We thank thee for the great vicarious work which will be carried on within these premises.
Father in Heaven, we note the beauty of this thy temple, and thank thee for the consecrations of thy faithful people throughout the world which have made possible this sacred house of peace and divine love.
Now, acting in the authority of the Holy Priesthood which has come from thee, and in the name of our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, we dedicate this the Orlando Florida Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We dedicate it as thy house and the house of thy Beloved Son, and pray that thou wilt accept it as the consecrated gift of thy people. We pray that it may be acceptable unto thee and unto Him, and that thy Holy Spirit may hallow it at all times. We dedicate the structure from the footings to the statue of Moroni which crowns its steeple. We dedicate all of its facilities, including the dressing rooms, the fixtures and appointments for the washing and anointing ordinances, the endowment rooms, the beautiful celestial room, and the sealing rooms with their sacred altars where under the authority of the Holy Priesthood there will be bound in the heavens that which is bound upon the earth. We dedicate the grounds on which this temple stands with the vegetation growing thereon—the trees, the flowers, the shrubs, the lawns.
We pray that thy watch-care will be over this thy sacred house. Preserve it by thy strong arm from storm and tempest, and above all from the defiling hand of man. To all who look upon it, including those who reside in this area, may it ever present a picture of peace and beauty, a structure partaking of thy divine nature.
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Bless the youth who will be baptized for the dead. May this sacred service instill in their minds a greater understanding of thy divine plan, and a stronger resolution to live worthy of every blessing which eventually may become available to them in this thy holy house.
May those who come to be sealed in marriage kneel at these sacred altars and resolve within their hearts to be ever true and faithful, that the sacred relationships here solemnized may continue with happiness throughout all eternity. May the spirit of the prophet Elijah rest upon thy people that the hearts of the children may turn to their fathers that the earth shall not be wasted, and that thy divine will may be brought to pass for the blessing of thy sons and daughters of all generations.
Our Beloved Father, we pray for all who have responsibility in thy kingdom, including the First Presidency, the Council of the Twelve, the Seventy, the Bishopric, and for all who serve in any capacity throughout the world. May all be faithful and true and work with a spirit of love and dedication. Prosper thy faithful Saints in their temporal affairs. Bless them in their homes and in their hearts with peace and gladness. May they walk in thy divine favor as they walk the paths which thou hast marked for them.
We ask it all, Beloved Father, as thy thankful sons and daughters, and on this day of dedication, we dedicate ourselves anew to thy service through service to our fellow men, both the living and the dead, in the name of our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Moon phase on 6 October 2046 Saturday is First Quarter, 7 days young Moon is in Capricorn.
First Quarter is the lunar phase on 6 October 2046, Saturday . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 46% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 October 2046 at 20:41 UTC.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1865" and ∠1920".
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Length of current 578 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than next lunation 579 length.
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Moon is 384 371 km (238 837 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 316 km (252 473 mi).
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